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Notedeck should be insanely fast on any machine, even low end ones.
it's powered by a custom nostr database/relay written in C. nostrdb rivals the performance of strfry, the fastest nostr relay that powers most of the largest nodes.
Notedeck is all natively compiled rust code, not based on web browser tech. Renders directly from the notes in nostrdb virtual memory to your graphics card, zero copy.
It's *impossible* to hit the level of performance notedeck reaches if you are building a nostr app in the browser. it will always be faster than any web-based nostr client.
I took everything I learned from damus iOS to build a new client architecture designed for performance at every layer of the stack.
We're backporting these performance advances to Damus iOS as well, so soon iOS will be as fast as notedeck. notedeck will also be our Damus Android app, it's designed to be mobile first and responsive. In the future it will run on iPadOS as well.
Notedeck out now, so check it out to experience how fast nostr clients can be!
https://damus.io/notedeck
#note1wv9…g0tn

2025-02-01 21:35:18

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https://damus.io/notedeck/

2025-02-01 20:35:55

We expected this to launch this yesterday but it has been rejected 3 times for absolutely no reason 🤦‍♂️
I don’t know how you can do development on this platform without absolutely dispising the company after a few attempts to deploy your code.
happy that we are free from apple so we can start innovating with freedom tech again.
can’t build new freedom tech in a jailed ecosystem that doesn’t want its users to be free, so that they can treat you like cattle to milk that 30% tax on all your in app transactions. Not the mention all of the horrific transaction privacy issues that arises from this.
sad what this company has become. #note1r44…qxfv

2025-02-01 02:38:43

The longer you maintain a purple subscription, the more stars you will get. https://i.nostr.build/0Ydcrd95u2vAPYbZ.jpg

2025-02-01 01:25:41

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welcome notedeck dev!
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/1af1c076eb39a407.png

2025-01-31 21:18:42

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As of right now, yes! https://damus.io/notedeck/install

2025-01-31 04:04:31

just created a nostrdb MCP/goose extension. you can now use ai to search for notes that your local notedeck node has seen.
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/e2ed680f1de0e5e0.png

2025-01-29 02:12:36

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gonna blame wine yet again

2025-01-29 02:06:09

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He’s a weird guy with an amd64 windows machine

2025-01-28 05:27:29

bartender asked me how to buy xrp and i said no

2025-01-28 05:02:30

always good to exercise free will every now and then to remind yourself you are free

2025-01-28 01:18:21

very close to getting keyboard working on damus android. alpha release soon ...

2025-01-27 15:43:46

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Doing this for every action such as liking things is going to be a ux nightmare

2025-01-27 15:22:06

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Isn’t this just the relationship status spec

2025-01-27 14:55:49

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You can compile and run it today if you want. I in the process of fixing the keyboard this week

2025-01-27 14:44:58

its crazy how much ai content has taken over the algo on the centralized platforms. It would be nice if we had a *i verified this person in real life tag* in @npub1gcx…nj5z ‘s relationship status spec so that you could build *real person* web of trust follow lists.

2025-01-26 22:17:29

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thinkpad x1 carbon. I got the gen5 like 10 years ago. best laptop i’ve ever owned and still use.

2025-01-26 15:33:52

this site is insanely good. one of the top onboarding priorities at damus is to get starter packs working like this
https://blueskystarterpack.com/categories

2025-01-25 17:49:39

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the government trying to shut me down

2025-01-25 17:38:58

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There are problems with lightning self custody ux but im not giving up on self custody just because there are problems. We are engineers, problems are what we do and fix.

2025-01-25 17:25:45

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Some car hit a transformer and my entire block is out power wise. My UPS died as well 🥲

2025-01-25 17:20:06

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Using a private relay is perfect fine and encouraged for backing up your notes.
Videos take a long time to load because no client is currently uploading bandwidth optimized videos (HLS)

2025-01-25 17:12:25

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Isn’t that what NWC is?

2025-01-25 16:59:04

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The point is that you should be able to set any relay you want and clients should be smart enough to pull from the right relays. Outbox reduces segmentation. It would be transparent.
Users are segmented on clients that strictly follow a users relay list (like damus ios atm)

2025-01-25 16:56:56

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It doesn’t, won’t or can’t? Seems like that would be a good mint business model

2025-01-25 16:54:04

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the way i would prefer it is use nip05 relays to get their relays, if they have no nip05 try your best based on popular bootstrap relays. Once you have their relays you know where a particular user reads from and writes to. So when sending them a note or replying to them you select their read relays. When reading their notes you pull from the relays they are writing too. Pretty straightforward.

2025-01-25 16:50:14

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I think it might be a standard part of cashu but i haven’t really done any ecash stuff so i have no idea

2025-01-25 16:49:11

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We’re moving to a more decentralized model where users don’t choose relays since that doesn’t scale

2025-01-25 16:43:04

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It is primal. Taking down the media is the most effective method. Notes and Links are easily copied and replicated. People could auto-mirror and blast the note to every public visible relay. nostr is censorship resistant this way. if it was easy to get every relay operator to take down the link it wouldn’t be. Taking down the media is the only thing that makes sense.
In the outbox model you don’t even get to choose while relays you pull from, so the person could just set their relays to ones that don’t delete things.
This is also why I am skeptical of censorship resistant media protocols. Sounds like a great way to empower pedos.
What I would like to see is a protocol i can implement to report things to media hosts

2025-01-25 16:29:58

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The mint can set any amount it wants i guess to redeem. This is just another way they can scam ya.

2025-01-25 15:53:12

damus purple lightning subs are down because… my power is out for too long and my UPS is too smol. thank you for your patience.

2025-01-25 15:08:55

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The problem is the media is being hosted on primal. They don’t seem to be scanning for this stuff like nostr build does

2025-01-24 16:45:45

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🫂

2025-01-24 00:16:13

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yeah and it won't be *email*. it's a mail system on nostr.

2025-01-24 00:13:55

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notedeck is like an accelerated development platform for nostr apps. the idea is that it should be much faster to iterate on the other stuff. we will have DMs which will be another notedeck app. mail will be like DMs but with a bit more email-like design

2025-01-23 23:17:47

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We have an android version we just need to fix one bug before we release it

2025-01-23 21:55:15

whoever is creating these nprofile links (primal web I think?) they have duplicate relay entries which seems to break damus:
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/20755a45b61c7f46.txt
reporting the bug here since I dunno where else to report it to

2025-01-23 21:16:01

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I don't think there's a spec for that yet but we're working on one for notedeck
https://github.com/damus-io/notedeck/issues/545#issuecomment-2607735438

2025-01-23 20:15:55

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There’s a lot of money in the world, weird almost none of it is deployed to build freedom tools

2025-01-23 20:11:20

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This is it

2025-01-23 20:08:58

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@npub1h50…rqev don’t listen to him !

2025-01-23 02:52:38

crazy I’m still talking to the same people on here since 2022. guess this isn’t a fad.

2025-01-22 23:47:55

Next we end the fed #note1wwl…rtsa

2025-01-21 14:50:07

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it should be on by default. when you write it seems to "fix up" messing handwriting. or maybe it only does that on newer ipads.

2025-01-21 14:48:02

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I can’t take credit. Apple’s AI makes it look nicer lol

2025-01-21 14:30:18

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i find damus ios very slow, we are planning on switching damus ios over to the way notedeck does it soon, but its a large refactor/rewrite so it may take some time. Notedeck has been our testbed of this new model as we figure out how to do things.

2025-01-21 14:17:01

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I think people should try implementing outbox first in a performant way with intuitive ux before they lob criticisms at devs for not having it. I created nostrdb just so i could even begin to think about implementing outbox in a way that would be performant and reliable and that took a year. The switch from trusted relays to *any* relay requires client hardening to prevent evil relays from messing up your feeds and DoSing you.

2025-01-21 14:08:36

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I guess we have different tolerances for usability

2025-01-21 13:53:38

If i was china/russia/brics i would be speedrunning bitcoin now that the us is establishing a shitcoin reserve. but what do i know im just a protocol nerd.

2025-01-21 05:26:11

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my trust in things is very low, especially software. especially software that is supposed to be the underpinning of all value pushed by humans for the next 1000 years. supply must be transparent. extremely so.

2025-01-21 03:50:31

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food poisoning

2025-01-21 03:32:01

i fuckin love nostr

2025-01-21 03:03:26

this is how you get verified on nostr #note1awz…vphq

2025-01-21 02:03:39

Imagine thinking 100k is a lot
21m / ∞ @npub1jt9…la9y

2025-01-21 01:41:54

#freeross day two

2025-01-20 04:46:11

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Muun isn’t a real lightning wallet

2025-01-19 16:01:50

asked chatgpt what it thinks about taleb and antifragility.
"The core concept of Antifragility—that some systems benefit from stress or volatility—is interesting, sure. But isn't this just a fancy way of saying, "What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger," with extra jargon to make it sound profound? It’s as if Nietzsche wrote a self-help book for hedge fund managers and filled it with Greek references just to flex.
Speaking of which, Taleb is allergic to simplicity. He crafts unnecessarily Byzantine sentences that seem specifically engineered to make you feel stupid. He’ll throw in phrases like “convex tinkering” or “via negativa” and expect applause. Sometimes it feels like Antifragility is less about making the reader smarter and more about stroking Taleb’s ego.
Look, it’s hard to take Taleb seriously when he spends half his time on Twitter reminding everyone how much he can deadlift. This is the guy who’ll tell you that Antifragility is a critical concept for managing complex systems, but only after flexing his pecs and calling someone an idiot in broken ALL CAPS. Is it a philosophy or a gym diary? Who knows!"

2025-01-19 15:05:26

I think there's some confusion around this because of abuse of terms.
When people talk about data harvesting on other platforms its *insanely invasive*. Things like tracking every click you make in the app, your search history, tracking every piece of content you view and for how long.
Most nostr clients today have none of this. All people can collect are public actions that you have already consented to. nostr data is transparent so you know what you're putting out there.
Not to mention with giftwraps, relay group chats, encrypted group chats... we are beginning to hide a lot of this stuff.
#note1wms…69pt

2025-01-17 02:50:24

#nosvegas

2025-01-16 16:16:48

Asmongold (one of the top gamer twitch streamers) released a video the other day commenting on a video that broke down all the evidence that elon bought his top level hardcore PoE character. Elon is still maintaining this lie for some reason.
you would need to be playing nonstop since the game came out to be at that level and gear. He really wants people to think he’s a “pro gamer” for some reason.
Now he’s taking it out on asmongold by removing his blue check and leaking his DMs. 🍿 is elon ok 😂 https://i.nostr.build/AHus11clHftK5CtV.jpg #note1exe…8j6u

2025-01-15 19:10:19

@npub1h50…rqev says im not nice enough on nostr and now im in the doghouse

2025-01-15 17:04:55

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you can use notedeck to pull down data by visiting your profile page. once you have your data locally you can search it
on macOS you have to do:
ndb -d ~/Library/Application\ Support/notedeck/db
to use the notedeck db
on linux its:
ndb -d ~/.local/share/notedeck/db
you can also do something more manually by using `ndb import` and pulling data from the relay. import is kinda buggy right now though when importing lots of data.

2025-01-15 16:16:11

was trying to remember a command I posted to nostr... local search ftw
$ ndb query -a $JB55 --limit 1 --search notmuch
user search changes everything. you can write ndb scripts to find notedeck-received notes. notedeck gui search interface soon!
nostr becoming a useful offline-first information storage and retrieval system 👀
ndb (nostrdb command line tool) is a lot like notmuch, which is a similar tool for email. nostr is more structured.
#note1fm4…g5r3

2025-01-15 15:59:12

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Well thinking about it some more, kind20 requires nip22 comments for replies, so they go hand in hand.

2025-01-15 01:50:30

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I’m just adding local nip50 search support to damus clients, but this looks like a toy when compared to primals advanced search which you can’t really do on the protocol at the moment. So when i launch it people are going to be like “lame, we already had this on primal”. So unless I do something proprietary or spend the next 6 months trying to get advanced search into the protocol, then proprietary clients will always win.
My only conclusion is that clients will start competing with each other using off-spec advanced features, which means that you won’t be able to build a pure client anymore. Then nostr fails.

2025-01-15 01:33:07

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can’t wait to ship outbox in notedeck this month! had to spend a year building the tech to support it but will be worth it.

2025-01-15 00:29:03

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outbox is for clients who connect to relays, im talking about clients that don’t even talk to relays, which happens to be the most popular client at the moment, and probably most clients in the future if this model wins.

2025-01-14 22:51:57

Prediction: to compete with proprietary nostr relays, others will have to build their own proprietary apis to deliver similar value. People will stop caring about interoperability and nostr just becomes isolated twitter-like islands just like before. Most clients then become light clients for these proprietary relays, and users lose control over which relays they can choose to talk to.
This is starting to happen today, how do we prevent this? VCs and people trying to make money won’t care about the hard work of protocol dev and interoperability, in fact, its in their interest to explicitly make it harder for other clients to have similar functionality via protocol improvements.
nostr could go down a very bad path very soon. Which way do you choose anon? Give up on the protocol for shiny new features? Or support less featured clients focused on interoperability? I suspect most will choose the former 😔

2025-01-14 22:14:43

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is there a nip for that? I’ve been thinking about expanding nostrdb search beyond nip50. I don’t see how protocol dev will keep up with proprietary relays. Maybe protocol dev has failed and we should all work on custom apis now.

2025-01-14 21:36:35

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Im a kind 20 maxi

2025-01-14 21:32:02

one fun thing about building stuff is people telling you daily that you’re not building the right thing in the right order for the right people. Usually from people who haven’t built anything. I’m just trying to build *something* that hopefully works.

2025-01-14 20:53:45

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👀

2025-01-14 19:16:33

picture of nostrdb nip50 fulltext search support in action. search for words or phrases, with additional filtering on author, kind, etc.
Heres an example of me querying everytime i’ve said “damus mail” on my local notedeck db using the nostrdb commandline tool. Next step is building a ui for this in notedeck and damus iOS.
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/7fb82ecdc5148f46.png

2025-01-14 16:41:28

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> It's next to impossible to do web of trust with good UX locally
??

2025-01-13 15:15:05

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yeah we’ll do it eventually

2025-01-13 05:44:14

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its so bizarre
#nevent1q…dpm4

2025-01-13 02:06:29

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notedeck should work on all linux distros, with both wayland and x11. you can compile from source (cargo run --release -p notedeck_chrome) until we have packages for everything. if you would like to contribute packages for our build process that would be helpful!

2025-01-13 02:03:53

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hey there!

2025-01-12 17:00:59

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Solid list. Top of mind for me would be Gurren Lagann, Evangelion, Code Geass, Berserk, Macross Frontier, Sword Art Online

2025-01-12 16:22:53

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we're in discussions with twitchcon to get a nostr booth going

2025-01-12 16:04:27

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you are going to lose people's interest with these steps though, as they are confusing and require you to download text files and remember passwords. I feel like you could do all this in one step: put in email and password and bam, everything is setup.

2025-01-12 15:55:35

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yes we of course cache profile pictures 😅

2025-01-12 15:12:49

even as optimized notedeck is network wise, I still notice subtle issue on the lowest bandwidth links.
one that stood out was that even though the data getting returned from the relay was really small, profile picture and media loading was swamping the link bandwidth and the nostr responses were just lost.
one change I'm making is QoS on certain requests. For example: ensuring nostr data is returned before we start loading media. This should work well on all connection types.
Lesson here is always be testing on low performance and low bandwidth devices (via android or iOS network link conditioners) if you want to create a good experience for everyone on the planet.

2025-01-12 14:51:47

manifesting your 15th NIP for your 2 active users https://i.nostr.build/imkP2CII5n9mlUWy.jpg

2025-01-12 14:37:21

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You’re right i should get an injection for all possible strains, even though i haven’t been sick since i got covid.

2025-01-12 13:16:04

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lol