Testing publishing from my new remote signer.

So I've been fascinated by Shamir's secret key sharing algorithm for several years, and I'm pretty convinced that self sovereign identity, while cool, is not actually the best option for decentralized social networks. Especially the incarnation of self-sovereign identity that relies on you keeping a secret, and also that secret must be stored on a computer. Like instead fully custodial or non-custodial keys I would rather my friends and family being the ultimate authority on which key is mine. I would do this with my Bitcoin wallet and other keys but *especially* my Nostr key because Nostr is a social network, so the real value is in the social connections we have on here. So in the worst failure mode where all my friends and family betray me and steal my identity... my social network is already dead. There was a group of folks who built a tool for breaking your key into shards and backing it up your peers on Secure Scuttlebutt several years back (https://darkcrystal.pw/). I've always wanted a version of it for Nostr and now that I'm a free agent I'm going to give it a shot. If you're interested in helping or trying it out when it's ready let me know in a reply or DM.

DWeb Camp is in Canada this year. Will I see any of you there?

DWeb Vancouver

DWeb Camp Cascadia, Aug 8-10th, Salt Spring Island

DWeb Camp Cascadia takes place August 8th to 10th, 2025, at the Salt Spring Island Farmers' Institute in the Southern Gulf Islands, BC, Canada. Jo...

If you are checking socials because your internet things are broken, you are not alone. Google Cloud is basically down.

It's been about 1 month since I started my solopreneurship journey aiming to do six product experiments in six months. I launched

SpoilerFree.gg

SpoilerFree.gg - CS2 Tournaments Without Spoilers

Watch CS2 tournaments without knowing the results beforehand. The best spoiler-free experience for Counter-Strike 2 esports fans.

about 10 days ago and have been monitoring the metrics on it since then. So far I haven't met my target of a 5% conversion rate, so I'm moving onto the next thing! I wrote some rough notes about it on my weblog. If you have any advice, thoughts, or questions I'd love to discuss! https://mattlorentz.com/weblog/2025/05/27/spoiler-free-gg-retro.html

Last week I wrapped up my employment with @rabble and the gang at Verse Communications. Over the past 3 years I got to work on https://planetary.social, https:/nos.social, and more recently a communities-focused social app codenamed Plur. Working to build healthier social media with such a diverse team and community was such a transformative opportunity for me, and I'm sure I'll always look back on it as an inflection point. For now I'm taking some time to work on my own projects. Probably not Nostr-related for starters, but I’ll share more when there is more to share :)

Passkey update: Bitwarden, Firefox, and Safari all seem to play nicely together now when it comes to passkeys. I’ve been creating and saving passkeys into Bitwarden whenever a site prompts me to set one up. Signing in with them works how I would expect. It’s not really a different UX from signing in with a username and password using a password manager. And I think I’m defeating the purpose of passkeys by storing them in a central vault, but hey if websites won’t log me out or ask for 2FA so often that’s a trade I will happily make. The accounts I really need secured get the Yubikey.

@cmd frostr is so cool. Is it possible to recover your key from the bifrost if you lose it?

What even is the gossip model in a NIP-29 context? Is it important? It seems like idea of a user-defined relay list is somewhat moot. The group needs to more or less say "we're using this relays" and unless you want to migrate or fork the group you maybe only need to read from one and publish to all of them? Have you thought about this yet? @fiatjaf @hodlbod @Stuart Bowman @hzrd149