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Hey! This morning we released version 0.1.17 of Nos. It's got a handful of quality-of-life changes: - Added support for opening njump.me content in Nos. - Implemented NIP-96 and NIP-98 for photo and video uploads. - Fixed a bug where some profiles wouldn't load old notes. - Fixed an issue where NIP-05 could appear as invalid. - Fixed a crash on logout

📢 📢 Announcing Cohort 2 of the Creator Residency and Journalism Accelerator! 📢 👏👏We’re excited to welcome a mix of existing Nostr users, some returning, as well as some new to Nostr folks. Check out their profiles below and give them a follow! 👏 👏 🎮 🕹️GAMING 🖥️ @Lou Our first game streamer - and a regular on Zap.stream. Follow him to catch his next live stream of V Rising, Monster Hunter and more! 🎨 ARTISTS 📸 Photographers join the creator residency this round as well as a returning Nostr user / artist. @BTCPhoto Travel and nature photographer posting daily photos of his work. @samhain Self-taught artist experimenting with drawing, painting and more. @Josh Brown Nature photographer capturing birds and nature. 🎤 MUSICIANS 🥁 @npub1rt5h...5k94 Hiphop artist and capoeirista. Follow to hear latest releases! ⛑️HEALTH 🌱 @Johanna Women’s health educator curating the latest in hormonal health research with an eye towards practical use. One of the most insightful sources on the topic! 🗞️ JOURNALISTS / PUBLICATIONS ✍️ @npub1w9wu...k403 In-depth reporting on decentralized technologies from people who’ve written open source code.

✈️ Nos 0.1.15 has been released on TestFlight! ✈️ To join the beta, follow the instructions on our website: nos.social/install Updates: - New accounts added to the Discover tab! - Redesigned the Profile header to reduce prevalence of counts - Introducing the Tagr bot for content labeling Bug Fixes - Fixed an issue where deleted notes still appear in the Profile's Notes view - Reduced CPU usage of certain functions to speed up app performance

🚀WELCOME THE FIRST CREATOR RESIDENCY COHORT! We’re excited to amplify a mix of existing Nostr creators and new to Nostr creators to the Creator Residency. Join us in welcoming the first cohort of creators and show them some love by following them, engaging with their content or zapping their posts! Check out their bios below and click through to follow them and support the effort to #grownostr ! 🎥 ARTISTS 🎨 Both of these Creators are bypassing the doom scroll model to share content that entices people to engage! @Nela 🎥 An active Nostr user focused on film noir and art, you can follow her to check out experimental films and art or participate in bi-monthly challenges. @🦄Onigirl🐹🐉 🖼️ Combines AI generated images and AI prompt writing to tell stories of magic and engineering. ⚾️SPORTS ⚽️ Keep up with the latest in sports news with two passionate sports curators and one determined lifeguard committed to teaching people to swim. @Global Sports Central ⚽️⚾️🏀 Curating the latest sports news from around the world, this account is perfect for those who want to keep current with your favorite sport from abroad (wherever your abroad may be!) @Waves of Resilience Podcast 🏊‍♀️ Read the latest news on Black swimmers and efforts to increase swimming knowledge amongst the Black community. @npub1dwhr...qfxe ⚾️ 🏈 Get the insider take on US based teams and players from someone who spent decades working in the industry. 🎸MUSICIANS 🎤 Music has taken off in Nostr and we’re excited to feature a few favorites and introduce you to some new to Nostr talent. @Ainsley Costello 🎤 Pop/Rock Artist based in Nashville. Follow to hear Ainsley’s latest releases and see behind the scenes into the lives of today’s musicians. @Alicia Stockman 🎤 🎸 Americana-roots singer / songwriter based in the Rockies. @npub1jvt2...wh74 🥁 High powered rockers with a blues edge. 🪧ACTIVISTS ✊ This is one group that has felt the pain of ever-changing algorithmic feeds. Nos is excited to welcome them to Nostr and help them build a network they can have forever. @miggymofongo ☆彡 🇵🇷 An organizer based on Puerto Rico helping to co create strategies and experiences for a better future. (1 of 3)

🗞️WELCOMING JOURNALISTS TO NOSTR 🎥 We’re excited to welcome journalists and publications to Nostr! If there is one group of people who has suffered at the whims of corporate social media, it’s journalists. We believe Nostr’s decentralized architecture and addiction-free app ecosystem provide a unique set of tools to help them thrive. Please join us in welcoming them by following them, reading their work and zapping their content! PUBLICATIONS @The Conversation U.S. In-depth reporting on topics ranging from cybersecurity to books to politics. Written by academics who are experts in their field. JOURNALISTS @npub157pk...ngev Founder and editor at Scoop.nz focused on climate journalism and the future of news. (1 of 2)

Hidden Feature Friday  This is the first in a series of notes about the hidden features of Nos and Nostr. With so many developers and applications it's easy to lose track of what exists across the network. During the next couple of months, we’ll feature often requested, but little known features on Fridays! EXPIRING POSTS  Yes, Nostr supports expiring posts as does the Nos.social app. To see it in action, watch this video of creating a time-limited note in Nos. 

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Want to work on Nos with us? We’re looking for a remote DevOps person to join our team. Get paid to work on open source and setting up Nostr servers and services. https://www.nos.social/career/devops

We're excited to announce a new initiative to get creators and journalists on to Nostr. This is a project organized by nos.social with @primal, @npub1w0rt...cu4x, @Coracle, @Damus, and @YakiHonne. The goal is to get a diversity of content on to nostr and show those creators and journalists that the nostr model of zaps and the new subscription content over nostr is a better alternative to centralized advertising driven platforms. #value4value Please share this with creators and journalists you know who are already on Nostr and also those who might want to join. This will include both getting these folks on to the nostr apps which make sense for them, setting them up with a wallet, teaching them how to be successful on nostr, and importantly promoting them through a bunch of channels on nostr so they can build and audience. We don't have the deep pockets of meta and tiktok, nor their powerful AI driven algorithms, but we've got something that can be more powerful, people. Creators and Journalists know they're stuck sharecropping on centralized platforms that can demonetize or delete or just shadow ban their accounts. One day their content gets broadcast to the world, the next the algorithm doesn't even show it to their followers. Their revenue is dependent on getting a cut from an opaque and arbitrary advertising system. So, share these links, if you're a creator or journalist sign up, and when we start promoting these folks on nostr, check out what they're doing and if you like it, send them zaps. This is open to both existing nostr creators and journalists and new ones we'll onboard. https://www.nos.social/creator-residency https://www.nos.social/journalism-accelerator

nos.social 0.1.8 released! This release allows you to reply to messages attaching images and setting an expiration date! Release Notes: * Updated dark theme colors for card backgrounds, primary texts, and secondary texts. * Added a new UI for replying to messages that allows attaching images and setting an expiration date. * Fixed an issue where Profile pages could display little or no content. Join the testflight on nos.social: https://testflight.apple.com/join/YBBlRWc8

nos.social 0.1.7 released! This release improves the stability of the app and updates the design so that threads are more readable! Release Notes: * Fix issue in Profile title bar that displayed NIP-05 incorrectly. * Update font styles on Thread, Edit Profile, and Settings screens. * Fix issue with uploading photos on Mac. * Re-design the confirmation dialog that appears when you delete your NIP-05. * Fixed a bug where liking a note could cause other notes to appear liked. Join the testflight on nos.social: https://testflight.apple.com/join/YBBlRWc8

nos.social 0.1.6 released! This release adds the option to claim your @username and stand out on the decentralized world! Release Notes: * Added option to register nos.social usernames! * Parse links and mentions in Profile's about (or bios) * Show “Post a reply” field at the proper height initially, and allow it to expand as more text is entered. * Tap the Like button on a note you’ve already liked to remove the Like. * Display NIP-05 identifier in the Profile screen title bar. * Fixed issue where search results sometimes don’t appear. * Disabled link to nip-05 server / url on author cards. * Fixed issue where paste menu did not appear when tapping in the Post Note view. * Fixed intermittent crash when tapping Done after editing your profile. * Fixed URL detection of raw domain names, such as “nos.social” (without the “http” prefix). * Fixed the sort order of gallery media to match the order in the note. * While composing a note, a space is now automatically inserted after any mention of a user or note to ensure it’s formatted correctly. Join the testflight on nos.social: https://testflight.apple.com/join/YBBlRWc8

nos.social 0.1.5 released! This release is mostly focused on bug fixes. Release Notes: * Fixed an issue where tapping the Feed tab did not scroll to the top of the Feed. * Fixed an issue where tapping the Profile tab did not scroll to the top of the Profile. * Search now starts automatically after entering three characters instead of one. Join the testflight on nos.social: https://testflight.apple.com/join/YBBlRWc8

We've been conducting user research in to Nostr in order to make the apps and community more accessible. Here's the results of our first round of research. There's lots about nostr and user perspectives. One big one to jump out was that normies found copying and pasting nsec keys to login to be just fine, it was folks who thought of them as being similar to a bitcoin wallet who were worried about it. This lines up with how many people consider phone numbers, email accounts, and social media accounts to be disposable, sure you might lose them, but you just inform the folks who you care about of your new address and move on. This wasn't what we were expecting to hear! Check out the full report:

Google Docs

Social Media Use Discovery Research Findings

Social Media Use Discovery Research Early Jan 2024

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nos.social 1.4 released! This release is mostly focused on performance and bug fixes, the app should feel snappier. This is the first release we've put out since welcoming our newest team member working on nos.social: @Josh Brown Release Notes: * Show a message when we’re not finding search results. * Fixed an issue where bad data in the contact list could break the home feed. * Fixed a bug where the margins of root notes appeared incorrectly on Mac and iPad. * Fixed a date localization issue. * Optimized loading of the Notifications tab * Updated suggested users for discovery tab. * Show the profile view when a search matches a valid User ID (npub). * Added tabs to Profiles to filter posts. * Fixed a bug that could cause the out of network warning to be shown on reposts in the stories view. * Fixed a bug that prevented notes that failed to be published to be re-published again. * Added pagination to the home feed. * Fixed a bug that prevented reposted notes from loading sometimes. * Fixed a bug that prevented profile photos and names from being downloaded. Join the testflight on nos.social: https://testflight.apple.com/join/YBBlRWc8

Version 0.1.1 of Nos is out on TestFlight! This one has the following fixes: - Fixed a crash when opening the note composer. - Fix localization of warning message when a note has been reported. (thanks @L!) - Fixed contact list bug where unfollows from other clients would sometimes not be processed.

Due to an unfortunate error we lost current registrations on our Nostr-to-Twitter crossposting service. If you had already registered, please visit

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and log in again. And if you haven't and this sounds interesting please check it out and let us know what you think!

The nos.social app has a pre-loaded list of users we think new users might want to follow. Some are people publishing directly on nostr, some are bridged in to nostr via mostr.pub. The goal is to present to users a bunch of kinds of content they might find interesting. There aren't many bitcoiners on the list because we feel it's already pretty easy to find those folks on nostr. We feel there should be many lists like this, and also that a suggested followers list isn't a long term solution. Perhaps an interim solution would be for there to be many lists for users to choose from, say, environmentalists or free software hackers or uruguayans, etc... Longer term we need contact discovery and algorithmic recommendations of follow suggestions. For folks interested, we've published these identities on nostr itself as a list. Here it is on listr:

Listr

Listr is the best way to curate, organize, and discover everything that Nostr has to offer. Build new lists, stay organized, and browse collections.

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We're still looking for somebody to join nos.social as a full time paid nostr iOS developer. Ideally somebody who actually uses nostr and has open source swift experience. https://forms.gle/tVGV8T8xJNumTaTK7

Come work with us on Nos! Nos is looking to hire an iOS developer. We are looking for an experienced iOS developer to work on our social media app, Nos.social. This is a full-time position available to anyone who can work core hours of 18:00-22:00 UTC, but we are open to working with contractors as well. Nos is an open-source application part of the emerging social media commons built on the Nostr protocol. Nos is our attempt to build healthier social media by flipping the traditional power dynamics of social media on their head, giving users ultimate control over their accounts, balancing freedom of speech with freedom of listening. You’ll be joining a small team distributed around the globe. This role will include collaborating with team members in other timezones and attending weekly planning meetings and daily standups. We’re a team that highly values relationships, humility, and a growth mindset. We resonate strongly with the DWeb principles: https://getdweb.net/principles/ You should have a strong working knowledge of iOS frameworks and be proficient with the Swift programming language. We are looking for someone who is fairly independent and can work with our designer and product lead to take a feature from an idea to a polished product. Familiarity with the following tools and libraries is ideal: * SwiftUI* Core Data* Combine* Structured Concurrency (async/await)* git/gitflow* Nostr or other p2p protocols * Test Driven Development* Slack* Figma Apply here: https://forms.gle/WMRrVU1zyVRw3FhV7