#BudaBit has a plugin system that has a built-in market for plugins thanks to nostr but there is another twist: BudaBit is community-first so plugin discovery works with community-focused web of trust and curation. Each community can declare its trusted plugins and you can develop extensions that are aware of the specific moderation rules of your community. E.g. this home page bound 'featured community event' widget can only be edited by a moderator of the BudaBit group: The repo of this plugin is curated into the community repo collection for anyone to inspect: This is the power of community curation and discovery. #communikey

It's so tiring to argue on definitions. We need to focus more on solutions to problems. No perfect solution of course but we improve current solutions by understanding the world better and introduce more desirable tradeoffs. Progress relies on more on the practical than the abstract. Both matter but we tend to overtheorize nowadays I think.

Am I missing something here what do yall think? View quoted note → #asknostr #gitvianostr #ngit #devstr

Gradually then... @Matt Corallo many have moved to forgejo / Codeberg for the forge and CI e.g. Zig and Ghostty I think. Nostr-git should work better for a public facing open project though, at least in the long run. If you want to experiment with a moderated social development experience I am keen to hear feedback on #BudaBit :

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BudaBit - Sovereign software communities

BudaBit helps sovereign software communities ship the future with community chat, issues, pull requests, and repo workflows built on Nostr.

We plan to roll out CI over nostr soon, each community providing for their members for free or for ecash. Then releases signed with nostr keys. #gitvianostr

Gotta love setting repos free from Github: #gitvianostr #budabit

@Max @npub1kuy0...kdj8 I was listening to Presidio if you want to check out a Discord - Github replacement on nostr take a look at:

BudaBit

BudaBit - Sovereign software communities

BudaBit helps sovereign software communities ship the future with community chat, issues, pull requests, and repo workflows built on Nostr.

BudaBit has community features like Chat rooms, Forum threads, calendar events and community-fundraising, with deeply integrated nostr-native git collaboration and sophisticated content-level moderation features. You can click through in minutes to create your own test group (use a dedicated test keypair) or visit the budabit group. We have been polishing this project for some time now for open source developer communities wanting more freedom from platforms like Discord Slack or Github. Soon nostr-based CI coming too. We deserve sovereign software to develop freedom tech based fully on open protocols. #gitvianostr

"Social media" was invented eons ago. Panem et circenses, bread and circus of the Roman era. Its purpose has always been to distract the masses from important topics possibly questioning the authority of the time. This way they could effectively control the population with a small circle of rulers. It relies on the fact that people act differently in masses, they blend into the collective consciousness because it feels like we're part of the group and part of something important. It's actually a powerful way to co-opt real communities into a mass of sheep with convenience and entertainment. In today's mass societies this is even further enhanced with technology. As we fell for traps of the state co-opting all important aspects of society, social media is just another arm of the state to keep us controlled. "Decentralization of social media" is an oxymoron. It will never happen. People love to go to the circus everyone else does, they don't want to ne left out of the gossiping. PSA: Your identity doesn't matter in social media, only the narrative of the mass collective matters. In short, you don't matter. Period. If we ever going to challenge the state and do real grassroots adoption of nostr, it's going to be in strong communities forming a network. Thinking that cryptography applied to social media will somehow decentralize it is like believing that if we create a bunch of empty stadiums and keep the gates of circus maximus open then people will somehow listen to it and spread out. You have to be delusional to think this is ever going to happen. People in the empty arenas are just sobering up to this fact, that is alright. I have no objections to entertainment, not even convenience on its own. I just hope some of us learned a lesson and can move on to doing real cypherpunk grassroot stuff instead of this farce.

#BudaBit is coming nicely together: - Create repos on any platform or forge, control on nostr. One primary remote, any number of mirrors, automatic fallback, health checks and backfilling - Import repos: Import with or without the social data: PRs, issues, comments. Get started easily - Full fledged repo browsing and collaboration - Your community, your fine-grained rules: Add new members and moderators or create forms to fill in. - Event or person moderation, reporting to moderators for review - Rooms, Forum threads, Calendar events - Community-first Web of trust and discovery -... And much more! However I am going to increasingly put more effort into building BudaBit the community in physical as well as in Cyberspace rather than spending most of my time with development as it is now. We must build the future in meatspace just as much, and now that this is usable enough we need to fill it with people who care. Care for freedom and the future of freedom tech. I will strive to nurture this ecosystem through running my own community and help others run theirs. So reach out if you're building sth interesting and want to be part of this new community-driven development experience, or want to start your own group! Share with people who are eager to jump into the wilderness to leave the big tech dependence behind. Cheers

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Ever since I started designing #SatShoot back in 2023 I've been thinking about how markets come alive and what makes them flourish from first principles. All I saw back then is that most commerce was happening on big corporate platforms whether it be digital or physical products. Amazon. Ebay. Facebook Marketplace. Etsy. Fiverr. Upwork. And probably dozens more. I was not satisfied with this in the least: I myself ran a business on Shopify for a while so I had hands on experience what it means to be on the small merchant side of these platforms. Constant grinding on the latest algos, trying to manage multiple distribution and advertising channels, while trying to make a new and exciting product that stands out. It's almost impossible to keep up. But anytime someone came up to our shop we provided an excellent customer experience, and we had good relationships with a couple of important figures in our industry. They spread the word around. This contributed to most of our sales and recognition. - NOT the algo - NOT the shiny Shopify theme with optimized SEO - NOT that new Facebook campaign that had X amount of impressions and "funneled" people in. Sorry guys but this is a fucking myth and you better face the fact that these platforms don't want you to succeed. They want to milk you and your connections and your ideas and innovations as long as they can, then throw you away. How to break the network effects of these fiat platforms? The answer is very simple but not easy at all: We must recreate bottom-up organic markets from grassroots communities based on authentic relationships. NO platform will do this. NO politician can make this happen. NO social media viral bullshit circus will help you. It might give you the dopamine hit of 15-minutes fame then scam you into building your life on their walled garden. Nostr *can* achieve this but not by default: If you think technology will bring you salvation on its own you will be sorely mistaken and disappointed. It's always the people. The ones who care. The thousand true fans. YOUR thousand true fans. Not the number of clicks, shares, impressions, and views. Nostr has the right elements to build on but currently it still lacks authentic connections and grassroots communities. It's fun to shitpost memes and fight over petty protocol minutiae but who's going to put in real effort to make real communities happen? We're still playing the game of big tech overlords until we do. Individuals make communities that form markets. There's no other way. View quoted note →

Want to build your own sovereign community around your software project? Tired of having to use GitHub with a separate set of social tools like Discord, Telegram or Matrix? Take a look at

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BudaBit - Sovereign software communities

BudaBit helps sovereign software communities ship the future with community chat, issues, pull requests, and repo workflows built on Nostr.

BudaBit takes a community-first approach to software development unifying public collaboration with deep nostr-git integration and community-curation as a first-class feature: - Create and manage Git Repos existing on GitHub, Gitlab, Gitea/Forgejo and self-hosted servers. Import your existing ones with ease! Keep projects mirrored on multiple servers powered by Nostr nip34! - Code browsing, Issues and PR workflow - Full-fledged Moderation UX with fine-grained content-scoped permissions - Chat rooms, Forum Threads, Event Calendar and Fundraiser goals. Everything to keep your contributors and fans engaged! Get funding support from the thousand true fans and reward them with your own bespoke badges! - The community can curate important Repos and code snippets to its own collections. Admin and moderators can grant access to members to distribute the effort - Running Community infrastructure is optional but a good opportunity to monetize your efforts with a paid #blossom server, relay or git remote - No special relay needed like with NIP29 groups! ... Soon Nostr-based CI! Anyone will be able to offer CI via nostr offering it free for selected people or for #Cashu ecash! There's no real reason to stay locked into platforms now! Join the developer community network, running exclusively on Open Protocols! #openprotocoldevelopment #opd #BudaBit

Creating communities with content-level moderation and curation options is really hard. But I do think it is worth the effort because your role in the group as a member or moderator actually matters and comes with responsibilities. Mirrors real life so much better! If you want to see how real communities are made have a look at https://budabit.club. Peek in the BudaBit community or create your own test group to witness what I mean. Feedback appreciated! #budabit

A platform is highly stable but very much trusted to one entity. Freedom tech is an attempt to introduce multiple user-facing entities to solve the same user need: A marketplace app can offer remote signing, relay choices, ecash mints, Lightning services and blossom servers for media - none of those he is responsible for. This reduces stability but offers optionality - more freedom. The key is designing a system that is flexible but stable enough. The missing piece in Nostr to become usable freedom tech is communities. They are pillars of stabilization without capturing the user in a platform that packages everything into one product. Communities are not faceless companies and provide a much stronger model for nostr to not be a completely chaotic mess neither a platform. Look at the client app you are using right now: Try to count how many pieces it contains that you use directly. You can ask your agent if the source code is available. And then count how many people you actually exchanged words or messages with, that are responsible for those pieces. The number of user-facing entites a solution contains has a practical minimum and maximum. I cannot call Freedom tech where this entity number is one. That is a platform. But usable software has an upper limit as well and this is something we still have to explore. Software following protocols like Nostr can increase this number and still be usable. They are "APIs over APIs". But realistically we can hardly agree globally about almost anything and the NIPs repo is the proof of that. A community bundles the choices of the leader - someone who truly cares and has taste. They reduce the burden of choice in freedom tech. This models nature best and I can hardly imagine "sovereign identities" without any community association at this point. Not even for communities. They can form relationships with others as well, and they should.

Cryptography doesn't eliminate the need for trust. It merely lowers the cost of verification. It's a huge difference. Some people think they can somehow completely eliminate the need for trust once their new cryptographic scheme will prove sound or their new system be implemented. It's a red herring. If you take for granted that there are no perfect solutions just tradeoffs, you will design it right because you know you must distribute trust in the system *somewhere*. In other words: verification has a cost, and in real life you always have oracles asserting things you cannot fully verify. We live in a fundamentally uncertain world. What we can do is accept some fundamental limitations and get the most out of the rest.