Okay, today I learned that if you put a long link into a note, #amethyst attaches it as a r-tag leading to 'tag value too long' rejection across most relays.

🌍 Earthly is becoming much more than a web map. Over the past few weeks, we have made a big step towards an open geographic workspace that can be used on the web, installed on your devices, shared privately, and carried into places without reliable internet. The most important new features are: 🧭 A new tour page 📱 The Earthly app 🔒 Private groups — public alpha 🏕️ Offline-capable Field sessions ✨ A massively improved AI map editor 🧭 A new tour page The new Earthly tour introduces the project through real workflows: drafting operational maps, asking spatial questions, collaborating across devices, publishing map-backed stories, and drawing offline from a phone. Take the tour to get a better understanding of Earthly, its features, and its capabilities:

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Earthly — Collaborative Maps on Nostr

Collaborative geographic mapping on Nostr. Create, share, and explore GeoJSON datasets on a decentralized network.

📱 Earthly is now an app The Android app contains the complete Earthly workspace, adapted for touch, plus capabilities browsers cannot reliably provide: an embedded local node, Nostr relay, #Blossom server, saved offline regions, nearby Field sessions, and a durable delivery queue. All built on #nostr technology. Android on Zapstore:

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Earthly — Zapstore

Earthly is a touch-first collaborative mapping app for creating, discussing, and sharing geographic datasets over Nostr. Draw points, lines, and po...

macOS preview for Apple silicon: https://github.com/zeSchlausKwab/earthly/releases/latest/download/earthly-macos-aarch64.dmg ⚠️ The macOS build is currently an unsigned, unnotarized preview. 🔒 Private groups — public alpha Private groups combine encrypted chat, comments, maps, and shared geometry in one workspace. Earthly uses MLS — Messaging Layer Security — to encrypt group records and update the cryptographic epoch whenever membership changes. Cordn coordinates membership and orders delivery through @ContextVM over Nostr, but only receives opaque MLS records. It does not receive plaintext messages or maps. Invitations are signed, joining requires an MLS key package, and an administrator must approve new members. 👋 Join our Earthly test group -> the link is at the bottom of this post! ⚠️ Private groups are still alpha. The MLS implementation is release-candidate software and has not received an independent professional security audit. Please experiment with us, report problems, and do not yet rely on it for highly sensitive or safety-critical coordination. ✨ A much more capable AI mapping assistant Earthly’s AI chat can now inspect the current map, research places, query geographic sources, create and revise structured geometry, and turn the resulting Dataset into an article with inline map references. Tip: Try Kimi 2.7 code highspeed via the moonshot API. - ITS FUCKING FACEMELTING 🚀 Its actions remain inspectable, and everything it creates becomes editable GeoJSON — not a screenshot or a closed AI artifact. 🧠 Technically, the assistant combines typed editor tools, a bounded QuickJS geospatial sandbox, and remote ContextVM/MCP tools. Geographic research is federated across OpenStreetMap and Overpass, Wikipedia, Wikidata, and our private SearXNG service. 🌏 Belt and Road map plus referenced article: 🚢 Persian Gulf ports and global shipping routes: 🏕️ Offline maps and nearby Field sessions The native app embeds its own Nostr relay and Blossom file service. Saved regions can keep map tiles and referenced resources on the device, verify them by hash, and load them locally. Signed publications enter a durable SQLite outbox before the first network attempt and can be delivered byte-for-byte when connectivity returns. 📡 Field sessions are a separate nearby collaboration mode. A host creates a signed, expiring, single-use invitation. Another phone joins over shared Wi-Fi or a hotspot, signs the pairing claim, and waits for explicit host approval. The resulting permission is capability- and session-scoped. Devices can then exchange verified Nostr records and hash-verified Blossom files without depending on an internet connection or central relay. 🛠️ And many smaller improvements Earthly now has proper multi-step drawing for rectangles, circles, triangles, and arrows; scaling controls with meaningful handles; larger arrowheads; real dashed lines; centered line labels; deletion for Private groups and Field sessions; a cleaner and collapsible AI configuration interface; better toast placement; model switching; and a swipeable mobile tour slider. 🌱 Earthly remains open source and built around open geography, open protocols, and user-controlled data. 🗺️ Open Earthly:

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Earthly

Collaborative geographic mapping on Nostr. Create, share, and explore GeoJSON datasets with a decentralized community.

Amazing things are happening in America.

GM Reading butthurt posts about Chinese models on HN has become part of my morning ritual.

"Oh god, make it stop." View quoted note →

Me: When I'm at home I'd like to constantly feel like that guy who died in the nutty putty cave in his last hours. Architect: say no moe fam

Magazine - The light pours out of me

Bullish for #nostr - this will double active users on the network to at least 200 🚀 View quoted note →

I hear people telling about how they never run out of allowance with the 100$ open ai plan despite heavy usage. Can anybody share experiences? I'm considering migration. #asknostr

"Bypass permissions" on Claude

How is this a bad day? This is like carnivores complaining about vegans. Vegans are the best thing ever. You are on #nostr and are lucky enough to know, own and be able to use: - freedom/privacy tech - freedom money ...and hopefully have a sovereign mindset. What are we complaining about here? They'll get around it someday but we will never be able to convince the cattle in time to "save democracy". Why not just lean back and enjoy the show? View quoted note →

Acid Row

> No Claude, 3 companion apps on the phone won't hurt adoption. We are expecting a user base of sophisticated enthusiasts.

GM We can pinpoint the exact time and place where the empire ended. 🤣🤣🤣

It's save to say that software development changed recently.

GM 🌞 Me with fable rn:

Luckily the presidential office of Ukraine proposed an alternative which is more aligned with western values and reflects Kyivs struggle for independence: View quoted note →