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If you’re a journalist who wants more freedom to write and a higher income, then publish directly on this platform!

@jack @fiatjaf thinking aloud but is there a way, if we bought and created the .npub tld that we could set up a wildcard domain registrar with some kind of dns redirect so that whenever someone pumped in any random npub string it would show as an http link and open their Nostr client, similar to the way clicking any other link opens a browser? The thought is that this would make it much easier to share npubs, could just drop a ".npub" at the end of the string and then—if this method is possible—the TLD server would handle the rest? What does it take to get apps to recognize TLDs as hyperlinks? Is there a protocol for this or does it have to be added manually by the developers?

@Vitor Pamplona, is there a technical reason why the clients don't cache posts and follows/followers on the device, then cross check the relays after login? Would make the app immediately fully usable rather than having to wait for it to catch-up. Granted some of the cached content will be phantoms after the relays are surveyed but probably not much. Thinking there must be a technical reason this is not how it's done?

@Vitor Pamplona amethyst has a weird UX quirk if we use three button nav where, from some notes displays, pressing the back button exits the app rather than going back to the main feed. Expected function on back button is to return to the previous display until finally landing in home feed. I never expect to leave the app with back button, but this is what happens.

We need to normalize the idea that, in a decentralized technology universe, we will have to pay for digital services. But we will have an opt-in choice to pay by sacrificing autonomy and identity, or with money. But we will have to pay with something.

Pro tip for nostr devs—learn to think about engagement in different ways than "likes" — imagine a new ontology for the UX. At a fundamental level, users want to participate in the construction of a worldview via the social layer. How can we present an opportunity for people to do this in a way that is healthy for the society and the individual, a way that maximizes autonomy and further distributes the values we subscribe to most?

Something I have wished for on Twitter is a way to bring tweets into the Google maps experience. When someone I follow mentions a place, maybe a restaurant or an interesting historical place, it would be neat to be able to access that information layer when I'm inside Google maps to provide some extra context. "Hey, I wonder if there's anything good to eat around here? Oh look, that guy from XYZ that I follow on nostr says the french fries at ABC are great." What's the best open source maps platform? Does nostr have a way baked into the protocol that would make it feasible to deploy this kind of feature? @jb55 @Vitor Pamplona @PA₿LO F7z

Friends on Nostr, a really big political moment is taking shape in Thailand. It occurred to me that, unlike the Arab Spring movement that used Twitter to grow its international exposure, the conservative changes recently made to the information distribution algorithm on Twitter will make that platform less helpful to the democracy activists and protesters. But now we have Nostr, maybe right now is a good opportunity to work as a community to bring this protocol to the attention of Thai people and their allies so we can try to attract attention frim a worldwide audience and international media who should be paying attention to what's happening in Thailand. Let's start paying attention to this. Help amplify and keep the conversation going. #MilkTeaAlliance 👀👀 @Nostriga @unclebobmartin @jack @jack mallers @rabble Read this article as a quick summary 👇

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With the parliament to reconvene on July 3 Some prominent junta-appointed senators continue to claim that Pita Limjaroenrat

Would it make more sense to think about private keys and public keys as a "lock and key" ? A public key is your "lock" in that it stays open and public facing, everyone can see it, people can mess with it but to do anything useful with it you need the "key", your private key, needed to "open" the lock. I dunno, maybe that language just makes things more complicated than they already are. Naming is such an important part of knowing.

Nobody reads my posts so this is more of a thought bookmark than anything else, but: as Threads exploits the momentum of its existing network, a useful reminder to nostr advocates to pay close, strategic attention to the adoption paradigm. Nostr is starting from 0, whereas Threads starts at 9 on a scale of 10. Aside from all the ideological and technical reasons nostr is the superior offer, inertia matters for the adoption cycle. If we want nostr to succeed, we should not only make onboarding more simple and straightforward, we need to be building footholds for influential users to join. Who are these potential users? What benefits can we offer them here that they can't find anywhere else? How to convince them to join and become platform ambassadors? These problems are easier to solve when you have a team of growth hackers and marketers on payroll with lots of spend. How are we going to match that as a decentralized community? My suggestion on this is to focus on journalists. If nostr can become the "go-to" channel for journalism distribution and monetization, if journalists choose to join and anchor themselves to the nostr ecosystem, everyday users will adopt. We need to make it beneficial for journos to join. How do we do this? @jack @fiatjaf @rabble @Nostriga @jb55 @PA₿LO F7z @Vitor Pamplona

Are there any apps for nostr that facilitate this same groups type function?

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They’ve nailed the narrowcasting use case. But it can be taken away. Lots of opportunity here.

How will nostr deal with this reality? One answer is that it cannot, that open information systems necessarily means that the information will be, uh, open. Another answer is that, if we build with network resilience in mind, it won't matter, because a truly open and distributed ecosystem should present such a diverse array of surfaces that the impact of any centralized attack actor is constrained. If we build in a way that emphasizes the wide diversity of the network, we will diminish the impacts of any nefarious campaigns, because the number of targets will be too costly.

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Some people asked me to share what I just shared in a space about the rate limits. I don't work for Twitter but, I do architect IT cloud solutions...

Just booked my hotel for @Nostriga. See you all in November. What are you going to be for Halloween?

What's happening to RFK is nauseating. But folks have to factor in the political reality that the establishment and professional class are more worried about Trump winning than they are concerned about RFK's policy positioning. The worry is that he might run as a second candidate on the left and bleed votes from Biden. With what is more or less a 50-50 split in the body politic, neither side can afford competition. This is why the wagons have circled so completely on RFK, with plenty of entrenched special interests getting more mileage out of their PR than they normally would because the mainstream media is happy to push it along.

Can anyone who sees this note and has a moment to spare explain to me like I'm 5yo how the Nostr relays work? Or share a link to an overview? When I open Amethyst, why do some of my mentions show instantly while some take minutes to load? What's the rhyme and reason to the collection of the data? When I post a note—especially one with images—sometimes they disappear after a day or few hours even. Are they gone forever because none of the relays I am using were willing to accept them? Is there anywhere in the Nostr universe that my request to post the note exists? Or maybe its metadata? Do notes have metadata? I suppose this is all in the documentation but is there a one pager somewhere?

Would love to hear how folks are thinking about the variety of possible "world building" paradigms that exist for a #Nostr based future. As we transition to the decentralized universe, how are we imagining user experiences and business opportunities to look like? What are people imagining the ecosystem will become? How will we verify "official" communications? How will we circumvent proliferation of spam and abuse? How will we monetize? How will capital and commerce try to exploit the system and what resources and constraints will exist for the people to resist? Maybe a session at #Nostrasia? @mcshane Maybe a hashtag? #NostrFuture?

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