Took a pass at doing a weekly summary of what's going on in Nostr. Hoping to make it a regular thing so feedback is welcome 😃 I wrote is as a long-form note so it's not showing up in many clients as many clients don't yet support those kinds of events yet. Here's a publicly accessible link:

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This Week in Nostr - July 29, 2023 - Greg

Weekly summary of what's going on in Nostr.

Anyone have a sense for how many relays are advertising community preferences in their NIP 11 relay info doc?

Built a simple relay explorer client:

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GitHub - gregorygmwhite/nostr-relay-explorer: A basic UI for exploring events within relays

A basic UI for exploring events within relays. Contribute to gregorygmwhite/nostr-relay-explorer development by creating an account on GitHub.

It runs on the user's browser so it'll also respect their access to relays thar are\ behind a VPN or other network-based access control. Currently it's pretty simple, just allows you to enter a relay, an author's pubkey (optional), and a selection of kinds of events (optional). I wanted to have this so I could see more about what's in my private relay and see what's missing from before I set up my private relay. Hoping to clean it up a bit and host it for folks to use if anyone is interested. But for now you can run it locally pretty easily (instructions in the readme). Feedback and contributions welcome! Future plans: 1. Add support for better handling of limits for filter results. 2. Support filtering by tags (answering questions like "who have I been in threads with) 3. Add utilities/options to take on events that come back from a query (like being able to select one of the events and broadcast them to a specific relay, like my private one 😉)

Has anyone written a script to pull all events for a public key from a list of relays and copy them to another relay? I wanna take what I’ve posted before I had my own private relay and copy it to my private relay so I have a complete backup. I imagine this may be a common utility and if no one has written it I think I’ll do that today.

Testing to see if this gets stored on my umbrel personal relay

Hoping to start contributing to Nostr projects. Anyone have a small-medium size projects they need doing? I can do backend and DevOps work (im shit at typescript, and know nothing of mobile dev) If not I saw some issues on snort’s repo I’d start with, but wondering if there’s any recommendations.

@fiatjaf I’m trying to understand the whole nostr protocol in depth (reading all the NIPs and reading the code for common open source clients and relays) One thing I’m wondering is, at some point in the adoption curve of Nostr wont it be difficult to be subscribed to enough relays to know all the conversations that may mention you? Especially if paid relays become the default (which makes sense), wont we have to subscribe to a large cross section to make sure we get alerted to all @ mentions? PS if there are people to follow or podcasts / blogs that talk about Nostr at a technical level I’d love to do my own research, but I’m not sure where to go.

I feel dumb for asking but I thought we fought the block wars to keep block sizes at 1MB How are people making multiple megabyte blocks by adding NFTs? Is there a paper or article I can read about it?

#[0]​ just watched your 10 tips for using Nostr from YouTube and the part about “growing your following” on Nostr made me think Nostr is kinda like the pre-search-engine internet because no one is creating an algorithmic feed to discover people like in traditional social media. (Feature not a bug) I dunno if people remember this but before search engines (believe it or not) people would publish magazines of websites to check out. People would subscribe to the zine because the topic-specific zine was the best curation of great new sites. I wonder if you (or anyone else) could curate a Nostr “zine” for a niche of Nostr accounts. This pattern helped get the internet off the ground and might be a great way for growing everyone’s following. 🤔

Anyone know of folks writing about the rights of digital persons? Since AGI feels less than 20 years away for the first time ever, I wonder if the discussion is happening yet.