This is very true: View quoted note → I remember that some time ago someone asked random people to look into some buried settings page of some app that showed a list of relay URLs with cryptic icons in front of each. Since the random people didn't understand a thing, the general conclusion was that relays should be even more hidden from users, never to see the light of day. Of course that conclusion came from a confirmation bias. In fact an equally valid conclusion (and, well, the only acceptable conclusion unless you want to discard Nostr as a failed idea completely, in which I wouldn't blame you) is that relays have to be displayed more, not hidden, in some way that allows users to somehow, perhaps slowly, learn about them. More experiments have to be made. See, for example, this comment: View quoted note →

If you have nothing better to do in this fine day of August I would like some help to test

impromptu

You can do so by going on wss://imp.relays.land/ using Jumble or Nostur (I'm not sure what other clients allow publishing to a single relay using "-") and replying to a note you can see or writing some very important note there. If you don't understand anything that's expected.

What about something like this:

GitHub

registry-of-kinds/schema.yaml at master · nostr-protocol/registry-of-kinds

Contribute to nostr-protocol/registry-of-kinds development by creating an account on GitHub.

(mostly broken and vastly incomplete)? With an accompanying stupid website for easier reading:

Nostr Event Kinds Registry

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I just saw many worthwhile pictures by accident on the "media" feed while carelessly browsing through

nosotros.app

A decentralized social network based on nostr protocol

(it's weird how fast this app is, and seems to have all the good features presented in a nice way).

Contact cards are great:

GitHub

Contact Cards by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #761 · nostr-protocol/nips

Uses unbound lists to create events that define the relationship between two pubkeys in a public or private manner. Read here

But as you can see the entire "NIP" is actually just an event schema definition. It doesn't say what relays to use or give any implementation examples or UX suggestions. Another argument for doing this: View article →

The new Amethyst is great and if you are complaining you are wrong. No, I didn't try it.

Please let me know what you think about this (but only if you agree): View article →

Honestly, if you are a programmer and you like Nostr, what is preventing you from trying out https://ngit.dev/ in your next project?

Why do English speakers waste so much time on these pronunciation quibbles? English must be a uniquely stupid language. View quoted note →