Trying the Gossip nostr client. This thing is ugly as sin but the developer in me is loving it so far 😁

Just released the code for our Nos.social client under the MPL 2. The app is completely basic and not exciting yet but the potential is!

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GitHub - planetary-social/nos: nos.social social media for all of us, using nostr

nos.social social media for all of us, using nostr - planetary-social/nos

I'm reflecting this morning on how life works and how I came to join this network a few days before #[0]. When Snowden went public I was a computer science student just figuring out who I was and what I wanted to do with my life. His story gripped me, both because of the truth he exposed and because of his radical sacrifice to make a better world for the rest of us. His heroism imbued me with a sense of responsibility to use my craft to build a better digital world for my friends and family. To encrypt what we can, and decentralize what we can't. Here I am 10 years later getting paid to do exactly that. It's such a privilege. Seeing him join nostr around the same time feels like in some small way we are walking this path more in parallel and less in sequence. Less like I am watching and more like I am a fellow laborer. I can only imagine how many thousands or millions of people have a similar story. Ed, I just want to say *thank you*, from the bottom of my heart.

I just set up my NIP-05 verification (https://mattlorentz.com/.well-known/nostr.json) using an underscore for the name described in the spec. It doesn't appear to be working in Damus or Iris. I think I have it correct, because I checked #[0]'s profile where he does the same thing and he also doesn't get a verified checkmark. Happy to open GitHub tickets if you'd like #[1] #[2].

#[0] have you thought about wrapping iris in Tauri?

Published my first Nostr event from our little

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client last night. It also displays the last 100 events from whatever relays you add. It's not much to look at, but the fact that I got to this point in ~7 hours and 684 lines of code gives you a good idea of how easy it is for developers to get started in this ecosystem. I didn't use any existing Nostr libraries, just a library for the secp256k1 cryptography and another library for websockets. I did reference the Damus code at key points which was super useful.

#[0] how is the App Store Review process going?

I’m sure this has been discussed before, but why are we relying on DNS/nip-05 to lookup a set of relays for a pub key and not a DHT?

Dreamed last night of merkle trees and Nostr relays. Somebody is working on this right? I think I saw it somewhere but now I can’t find the link.

Spent today on our company retreat talking a lot about Nostr. The team seems very keen to build something in this space. It’s exciting to be opening our minds to so many possibilities after being deep in the Scuttlebutt world for so long.

#[0] here is my hot take on Nostr vs. SSB: https://mattlorentz.com/weblog/2023/01/18/nostr-v-ssb.html