Excited to release our first album in January not only on Tidal and Bandcamp but on @Fountain and @Wavlake too! #music #tunestr

After a month of heavy use on iOS, I’m pretty conflicted about the current state of Nostr clients. From a product and UX perspective, three apps stand out: @primal , @Damus and @YakiHonne — but in a strangely inverted way. First, @primal : Widely used, well known, active on Nostr, many reviews and coverage on YouTube, its creators, @miljan and @paul keating are all behind it, super nice people. Yet: • Direct Messages are unreliable, especially cross-client • No built-in translation (a real adoption blocker beyond English) • UI is functional, but not visually appealing Then @YakiHonne : The opposite. Little known, few reviews, almost no coverage on YouTube, no visible developers or founder(s), only a Malaysian tech company in the background… JustHonne Technologies… with no CEO or any person behind it… Their website doesn’t link to real LinkedIn/X profiles, and YakiHonne isn’t even clearly presented as a flagship product. And yet: • The UI is beautiful • Customization is deep and thoughtful • Built-in translation works • DM relays and content relays can be finely controlled (read vs write) • Overall: it feels the most mature and carefully designed Now, @Damus sits between these two: There is a well known and well-respected developer behind it, @jb55 who not at least invented zapping ❤️ It offers many settings, features, and customization options, and translation works — which is a big plus for non-English users. However: • The UI is not visually appealing • The DM experience is still weak, cross-client messaging often fails here as well So the core contradiction remains: Why do the transparent, community-facing clients ( @primal and @Damus ) feel less refined in UX and messaging, while the most opaque one ( @YakiHonne ) has the best UX, features and customisation? Am I missing protocol constraints, historical reasons, or design trade-offs? Genuinely asking, and with respect for every dev behind these growing gems of Nostr social — I only would like to understand this better and help development. (I do leave test and bug reports on all the three clients’ github.) #asknostr

Great article(s)! Could you review @YakiHonne please :)

Bitcoin is missing the good old #bit (=100 sats) between #bitcoin and #sat for everyday pricing. @jack was pushing it for a while, but it never spread wide. Without bits, a coffee at 5,000 sats and a cold wallet at 150,000 create a weird hyper-inflation vibe… the opposite what #bitcoin is meant to represent. How yall feel about that? Or sats just make us all billionaires? 😎 #asknostr

Primal is iOS too. I would also highlight @YakiHonne, the UX is exceptional.

well said!

Hazaértünk Stuttgart/Köln/Brüsszelből ✨ Amíg összeválogatjuk a mesélnivalókat, szólunk, hogy most hétvégén (dec. 13. 16:00) Kismaroson a Présház Lakásszínházban tartunk adventi családos koncertet (gyertek gyerekekkel, délután 4-kor kezdünk), majd dec. 20-án szombaton este az Everness Winternessen, zenekari felállásban! 🎄 #music #advent #xmas #christmas

A main thing still missing is album view for music. Someone posted this on Nostr lately but after opening the app, album view is still not appearing + there’s still no release year written next to the album. when shall we expect this to be fixed? ❤️ The other missing feature is “Trending Artists” and “Playlists”. Can the actual RSS solve these? ❤️ Love Fountain!

A main thing still missing is album view for music. Someone posted this on Nostr lately but after opening the app, album view is still not appearing + there’s still no release year written next to the album. when shall we expect this to be fixed? ❤️ The other missing feature is “Trending Artists” and “Playlists”. Can the actual RSS solve these? ❤️ Love Fountain!

Music never got its own open standard. Podcasts had RSS — musicians got platforms. Spotify won not because it’s fair, but because it delivers the full listening experience that RSS could never solve. @Fountain and @Wavlake push the limits of podcast infrastructure, but without a true music-native feed format, discovery layer, and creator economy, they can only get “almost there.” Could RSS 3.0 be the missing piece? An open, portable, creator-owned protocol for albums, tracks, metadata, payments, and discovery — a music platform we simply never built? #music #musicstr #streaming #nostr #rss #rss3.0 View article →