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2023-07-01 21:41:30

Hello??

2023-03-10 02:29:21

Who can see my new profile photo?

2023-02-17 01:19:18

Hey nostr. Haven't been active in 2 weeks. Whats new?

2023-02-09 19:50:57

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I think it had the right idea, but broken because of the shortness of life of servers, and non transferrable identities between them
Something like a cross between nostr and mastodon would be interesting to see.

2023-02-08 01:11:45

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No. Relays do not currently communicate to each other.

2023-02-07 21:45:34

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Having an aggregation layer is also much better than having relays communicate directly, since there's already so much traffic happening on the relay layer.
An aggregation layer would help distribute traffic between relays and reduce the load.
This also reduces the need for "popular relays"
You could also host your own independent relay, only be connected to it, and still be connected to the network.

2023-02-07 21:42:20

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Yeah. You wouldn't transmit everything.

2023-02-07 21:39:45

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Yes. That's the idea. If users don't share relays there should still be a way to connect on the network.
I think it's necessary to have this kind of layer, and it would help distribute the load on clients and relays better if you do it correctly.

2023-02-07 21:29:37

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Please boost to spread. I feel this is a discussion we should be having

2023-02-07 20:59:19

If relays are like switches that connect multiple users together within a relay network
Relays should have aggregators, the functional equivalent of a router, to connect relays together.

2023-02-07 20:32:52

The question is how can you build a system to connect Alice and Bob, if Alice and Bob do not share any relays?
I'm working on an idea for an aggregation layer for nostr that could potentially be built to solve this problem.
Aggregators would connect to relays.
Aggregators would then communicate between each other to find out which relay a user is connected to, and then find the best optimal path between Alice and Bob.
If they don't have any relays in common, the relay would send it to an aggregator, which is connected to a network of aggregators that are connected to every other relay.
The aggregators would communicate until the requested user is found, and then distribute the information between the two users.
The load on the aggregator should be minimal, and be functionally similar to the ways that relays work for users.

2023-02-07 18:02:27

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I didn't have any either. Just ask around and someone generous might send you some. They did for me 🙏

2023-02-07 15:33:18

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This is the way!

2023-02-07 15:33:05

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Black coffee is all you need!

2023-02-07 00:43:53

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Got it! Thanks!

2023-02-07 00:40:28

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What version of Amethyst are you using? I don't see any of those features.

2023-02-06 15:49:54

What's the one thing that separates Nostr from something like Mastodon?

2023-02-06 15:28:51

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Hopefully all is well!

2023-02-06 04:39:16

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That's what I'm saying. The relays don't need to be big.
Most people only care about a handful of celebrities, and then whatever smaller communities they actively participate in.
There will be very large relays. But I'm willing to bet that those will be hosted by organizations, news outlets, telecom providers,,that can already afford to run them.

2023-02-06 04:16:25

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Yes, but isn't the point of nostr that millions of users will not be using the same relays? The goal is decentralization. Not centralization.

2023-02-06 04:02:41

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Like, relays are just websites. It's the same idea.
Most people don't make people pay to use websites. You can go to a website for free and they work just fine

2023-02-06 04:00:11

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I think that most relays will be ran by people who are just generous.
How much would it cost to run a relay? Like $15 a month?
And If it's an exceedingly popular relay, it wouldn't be hard to just ask for donations.

2023-02-06 03:24:30

Nostr brings back the "town square" vibe of the internet.
Not just one, centralized, global town square
But many independent town squares each with their own culture.
You can travel between them just like you would travel to a new city and find people talking about different things in each city.
Nostr brings back a locality to the internet.

2023-02-06 03:09:40

I think nostr works best not as a twitter clone but as something else...
Not sure what that is though yet ...

2023-02-05 20:45:58

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We'd love to see them

2023-02-05 19:20:42

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Me :)

2023-02-05 18:53:12

I wonder if pinned profile posts would be possible? 🤔

2023-02-05 18:50:19

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Did you change your relays at all?

2023-02-05 18:48:07

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Same businesses that make website hosting easy.
You charge to easily host Nostr relays.

2023-02-05 18:45:41

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Here is a guide!
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2023-02-05 18:43:29

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I imagine as nostr becomes more popular, it will become much easier to host relays.
Could be a new business model.

2023-02-05 18:42:57

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It's a little more complicated, but it's essentially like hosting a website...
There are a couple of guides out there

2023-02-05 18:35:39

Attention NOSTR users.
If you have any kind of community event that you would normally make a discord server for...
Make a relay instead!
Provide instructions on how to download a client and connect to the relay for the people in your community.
It helps spread the word and make use of Nostr in very practical ways! :)

2023-02-05 18:31:42

On twitter, you tweet to a void if you have no followers.
On Nostr, anyone in a relay can see you!

2023-02-05 18:30:53

What is Tidal?

2023-02-05 18:29:28

In the future the cool kids will be the ones who run relays for their peer group

2023-02-05 17:29:52

The brainstorming is going off the charts today

2023-02-05 17:28:40

Nostr is like a search engine for social media networks.
Clients are like the browsers.
Nostr = Google??

2023-02-05 17:25:10

Imagine relays for colleges and highschools 🤔🤔🤔

2023-02-05 17:24:48

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Yep. Definitely, you can create a relay for anything you want.
Your own private social network if you want.

2023-02-05 17:24:05

You download a nostr client
"Hey there. Welcome to the Nostr platform. What topics are you interested in?"
*Lists off topics you're interested in*
"Great! Here's a list of relays for each topic!"
*Later, while browsing nostr, you see someone talking about some cool stuff happening on another relay, with a link to the relay server."
*You click the link.*
"Hi! Welcome to the relay. If you like what you see. Dont forget to subscribe!"

2023-02-05 17:17:52

Relay groups should definitely become a thing
A user experience where you can swap between relay groups would be awesome

2023-02-05 17:13:46

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I'm sending messages to unpaid relays but I turn the receiving end off periodically so that I can have a functioning global feed!
I'm on Eden and Wine relays now if you want to pay a few sats and hop over!

2023-02-05 17:11:52

I want to develop a nostr client so bad now haha

2023-02-05 17:11:30

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Any unpaid relay completely nukes my global feed with spam

2023-02-05 17:09:47

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This is what I was thinking. Relays should be considered like shbreddits or discord server. Each relay is its own community with established topics
Of course, you can have very general relays as well.

2023-02-05 17:06:54

Nostr will become the new internet

2023-02-05 17:06:05

A lot of things could be done to make relays much smarter and much useful

2023-02-05 17:05:00

A relay for trending topics 🤔🤔

2023-02-05 16:53:32

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Think of each relay as a website you can post to.
Literally, that's all a relay is.
You have 150 followers on one website(relay) but 0 on another.

2023-02-05 16:48:40

Lost all my followers after switching to paid relays lol

2023-02-05 16:26:05

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You're awesome. Thank you 🫡🫡

2023-02-05 16:24:35

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I would really appreciate it!! 🙏🫡
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2023-02-05 16:22:43

Posting to Nostr relays is essentially the same as posting to websites.
Except now with clients, many different websites can come together under one platform.

2023-02-05 16:11:48

Are there any plans in the work to have a kind of relay aggregation layer? I heard someone mention it, but no idea if anyone is actually working on it or not

2023-02-05 16:10:31

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For paid relays, it's very nice experience in global

2023-02-04 22:42:20

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Incredibly so

2023-02-04 22:19:38

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Wen 34,000 Sats / month paid relay 😁

2023-02-04 21:52:14

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That's awesome. Thanks

2023-02-04 20:48:51

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I could use some sats to help pay for a relay 🙏
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2023-02-04 20:39:43

If someone would like to help me pay for a relay it would be most appreciated
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2023-02-04 14:18:23

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Takes some getting used to

2023-02-04 13:44:10

2023-02-04 13:38:08

Despite all of nostrs problems, I really feel that this is what the web was meant to be.
People, all around the globe, coming together to build something amazing.

2023-02-04 13:30:18

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Probably the most profound one, and easiest to explain:
I had been reading a lot about "manifesting" and synchronicity and trying to grapple with the ideas.
I sat down one afternoon and did a little experiment, and I said to myself, "If thoughts alone can cause experiences in the outer world, then I should see something about memento mori before the end of the day, not on social media." Then I did my best to stop thinking about it. Just that one little thought, and no more.
I chose memento mori because it's a very meaningful concept to me and my philosophy, and also because I had thought it would be very rare to see it in my day-to-day outside of social media.
Well, I walked into work about 3 hours later, and low and behold, one of my coworkers was talking about a memento mori tattoo they had gotten recently.
It's been over a year and I've not seen anything about memento mori in my day to day since then.
I've had a few others, but very personal and difficult to explain.

2023-02-04 13:22:27

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I've read the kybalion but I don't consider myself a student of it.
I'm consider myself a Christian mystic, at best.

2023-02-04 13:19:48

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Followed you as well

2023-02-04 06:19:11

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Exactly

2023-02-04 06:17:10

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If Nostr devs can't solve this problem then the hope for this being anything on the scale of centralized competitors seems bleak

2023-02-04 06:08:08

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Most are not implemented into clients

2023-02-04 06:07:22

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Yeah, that's not going to sell for public individuals and corporations who have millions of followers
Any single compromise and you risk irreparable damage to your reputation.
They have access to your account forever

2023-02-04 06:04:20

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What do you mean migrate?

2023-02-04 05:51:59

Imagine a family member or ex gets a hold of your nostr key.
Game over

2023-02-04 05:25:32

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I sent that two days ago! How are you just seeing it?

2023-02-04 05:00:59

I just realized there's no such thing as changing a nostr password lmao

2023-02-04 03:56:46

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Jung write a short book called "Synchronicity" where he coined the term and gave examples. You can find an audiobook on YouTube.
Most people in the new age circles try to associate it with things like angel numbers, or numerology codes that are messages from the universe. But I think looking Synchronicity only in those terms cheapens the idea and honestly isn't very useful.
I could see the number 333 seventy times in a day, but unless that number in particular already had some very specific, special meaning for my life, I think there's no reason to assume that the universe is sending messages.
For Jung, a synchronistic event was a moment of alignment between the inner processes of the soul, and the outer world, that would assist a person's personal growth or healing. Essentially, in short, a miracle.
It is a moment of an inner alchemical transformation that (operating on the principle of "as above, so below. As within, so without") causes an outer transformation in the world. Or, perhaps sometimes it is vice versa 🤔
But the point is that the symbol or event in question must be meaningful to the individual in question. Not a universal meaning. That's why looking up the meaning of angel numbers, or 369, or universal dream interpretations, in my opinion, is not very useful.
It's really a deep idea and if you really read and understand Jung it's amazing some of the ideas you can come to surrounding it.
I've had a few synchronicities myself that I still have no idea how they could have possibly happened.

2023-02-04 02:09:56

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Blocking > Banning

2023-02-04 01:55:24

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Also password managers are a must have.
Especially with Nostr, you can easily store your private keys and never forget

2023-02-04 01:14:56

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Hello there seth

2023-02-04 00:38:01

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That's awesome hahaha

2023-02-03 23:34:40

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That'd make being anonymous difficult

2023-02-03 22:54:41

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The other thing is that innovations come more rapidly. Someone has a cool idea? All they have to do is build a client or push updates to an existing client.
The network infrastructure already exists.
You just have to build a front end.

2023-02-03 22:00:51

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The term was coined by swiss psychologist Carl Jung. You may find his work interesting. I'm at work right now so I'm busy, but I can give a rundown later if you'd like. One of my favorite topics.

2023-02-03 21:38:58

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Are you familiar with the origin of the term synchronicity?

2023-02-03 20:11:21

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You could also link steam accounts for games and have status posts.
Similar to discord.

2023-02-03 20:08:15

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I think I'm too autistic to understand the 3,6,9 thing
I see it every day but no one offers any coherent explanation other than adding a bunch of cherry picked numbers together.
Might be me though 🤷‍♂️

2023-02-03 20:02:01

If Nostr sees widespread internet usage, Bitcoin goes to 10million USD

2023-02-03 19:28:44

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Yeah. That's the concern I have. How do you delete or edit the notes if you make a critical typo or something. You can't even unlike or unboost anything at the moment.

2023-02-03 19:15:25

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2023-02-03 18:31:18

A few things ive noticed that I hope get improved soon!
❌ Follower counts seem to be fairly inaccurate or doesn't load at all
❌ You can't unlike a note
❌ You can't delete notes
❌ You can't edit notes
❌ Note / user search is far from twitters standard
❌ There's not a way to easily find new, popular relays
I hope all of these things can be improved. If so, twitter and every other platforms has serious decentralized competition ahead of it!

2023-02-03 18:11:00

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Don't let them get you!
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2023-02-03 18:02:19

I almost want to host my own relay

2023-02-03 17:56:24

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I imagine that as clients develop, they should all have a relay search function to find the best relays.

2023-02-03 17:45:33

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🫡

2023-02-03 17:36:28