and this goes for Nostr relays as well. View quoted note →

By far one of the more annoying things about #ActivityPub/#Mastodon, the fact that instance admins can have so much impact on something as fundamental as who you can follow/find, not because the instance has illegal/explicit content, but because they want to be petty and block bridged profiles from Twitter. View quoted note →

As with most things, it seems like the optimal way to go about this is somewhere in between. - Completely obfuscating any mention of Nostr from users makes it so that they won't know the decentralized/censorship-resistant benefits of the protocol that a client like Flare is built on, and it just becomes another video sharing service. - On the other extreme, throwing a bunch of Nostr terminology at a user with the expectation that they'll just go google it and read through Nostr documentation is simply delusional from a UX perspective. A nostr client needs to decide whether it wants to cater to the average user, and make the UX intuitive, or focus on a specific enthusiast userbase that will understand the terminology and have the understanding and willingness to do their own digging to understand the guts of the protocol. You can't have it both ways. For a client that wants to cater to average users, this is what onboarding should look like for a first time Nostr user: - A signup button that simply generates a nostr account, and then tells the user: - "think of this first string as the user ID people can find you with" - "think of this second string as your password, only you should know it and it can't be changed" - Whether it's a webapp or a native app, it's super beneficial for the app to then signal that the npub is a username, and the nsec is a password, so that the respective OS/browser asks whether the user wants to save that login to their autofill, and they then never need to worry about their npub and nsec again. - This way, if they ever need to log back in to their account, their browser or OS can just offer to autofill their login. On web, there could/should of course still be an option to login with extension, for users who understand how those work and why they're beneficial. - However, as much as login with extension is more secure for web clients, it should never be the only way to log in >>**if the client aims to cater to the average user**<< As for content discovery/curation/etc after this step, that entirely depends on what kind of app it is. View quoted note →

Great to see mostr.pub works with threads now! View quoted note →

While the mostr.pub bridge isn't fully recognizing the account yet, we can now say that @npub1vx0d...ku9p is the first Threads account that's bridged over to Nostr! @rabble @Alex Gleason View quoted note →

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Surprised so few of the popular relays have implemented NIP-50 keyword search. Seems ideal to have NIP-50 search on as many relays as possible, so that the few that do have it (like nostr.band) aren’t having to shoulder the load of user search.

Checking in from #Boston with the first snowfall of the season #snow #christmas

oooo new Snort design is crispy

Wow, quite a 4D chess move by Nadella for this to end up with @npub1wmjr...667d and @npub1385h...2uan as semi acqui-hires View quoted note →

@PABLOF7z is highlighter.com still open source? The only repo I could find hasn't been updated since May, so I figured this obv isn't the current one. I was hoping to do some tinkering with the source code of the latest (and super awesome) highlighter.com!

GitHub

GitHub - pablof7z/highlighter: Highlighter.com repo

Highlighter.com repo. Contribute to pablof7z/highlighter development by creating an account on GitHub.

The “for you” tab is a straight cancer View quoted note →

https://primus.news Been wanting to get this project live for a while! Primus News aims to focus on news with two qualities: 1. Actionable: news that you can act on in your daily life, things that have a meaningful answer to the question "what can I do with this information?" 2. Direct from the source: when news comes directly from the primary source, you get the most accurate picture of the information, rather than getting a version that's been manipulated to fit a news agency's financial/ideological goals. My aim is to source this news directly from the RSS feeds of the entity that's reporting it. This is also a Progressive Web App, so it can be installed on your phone by: iOS: tapping the share button in the browser and tapping "add to home screen" Android: tapping the 3 dot menu and tapping "install"