Always watch out for which key signer you're using. Not all of them are equally secure. View quoted note →

Controversial opinion: People have always organized themselves into clans. Like big extended families or groups of those families and neighborhoods. That has always been our natural way of setting up society. It's been like that for thousands of years. This modern hyper-individualism is unnatural and it has just made us all lonelier. Lonelier, poorer, powerless, dependent on government welfare and institutional help. We've traded away our security and power, in the form of sovereignty, for our egos that are so vulnerable to temporary trends. What a crappy deal. View quoted note →

You know what I also love about Nostr? There are all these different bubbles here, like various friend circles or groups. If you sketch them out schematically, they're basically these clusters of users who interact a ton with each other. If you really keep an eye out, you'll notice that every now and then, two big bubbles merge together. You can totally see it happening. A pack leader from one bubble connects with the pack leader from another, and all of a sudden, new followers from Bubble A start following folks from Bubble B, and the other way around. I always find that kinda stuff fascinating. It's like in ancient Arabia, two tribes teaming up because two people from different ones got married. 😄

I'll be showcasing some of the #NoorNote features over there every now and then. And if you have questions about NoorNote, feel free to send them that way too. View quoted note →

People are waking up. View quoted note →

How it started: View quoted note → ... and how it ended: View quoted note →

It's finally here! I've been nagging you guys about this like forever, now it's out and ready to download. Ladies and gentlemen... 💫 #NoorNote! Together with #NoorSigner! 💫

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Here's a snippet from the feature list: 🌟 Spotlight-like search - Search by Event, Username, npub and full-text. With built-in browsing history. Quick access to anything with CMD+K/CTRL+K 🌟 Search in npub - Search for keywords within a specific user's posts 🌟 Rich Bookmarks - Drag & drop sortable lists with folder organization 🌟 Custom Bookmarks - Bookmark any URL, just like in a browser 🌟 Mute Threads - Say bye to hell threads 🌟 Follow lists - With mutual badges and zap balances 🌟 Quoted reposts - Shown in note's replies 🌟 Article notifications - Get notified on new articles per user 🌟 Analytics per note - See who liked, reposted, quoted, replied, or zapped 🌟 Thread mention alerts - Get notified when someone replies to a note you were mentioned in 🌟 Local list backups - Manual NIP-51 list management, never lose your follows, bookmarks, or mutes again 🌟 Multiple NIP-05 support - Add multiple verified addresses to your profile 🌟 Safe NWC string storage - Stored in keychain (macOS) or Secret Service (Linux) And here are a few screenshots: First release, let me know about any bugs. Hit me up right here on Nostr or on GitHub, whatever. I'm gonna go party first. Jumu'ah Mubārak! جمعة مباركة

I decided to drop Windows support for #NoorNote/#NoorSigner after all. I know I bragged about making it work, but I've got technical, economic, and moral reasons for it. 1. Technical friction: For communication between NoorSigner and NoorNote, Windows needs separate code paths for IPC (named pipes versus Unix sockets), file system handling, and media uploads (WebView2 CORS restrictions). Every platform difference brings in potential bugs that are tough to reproduce and debug. 2. Code signing costs: Without a paid certificate (around 300 to 400 bucks a year per app), Windows users get "Unknown Publisher" warnings that scare them off from installing. That expense just isn't worth it for an open source niche app. 3. Target audience: Nostr draws in tech savvy early adopters who are mostly on macOS and Linux. The average Windows user who wants a one click install is probably going to find the setup (key management, Zap/Lightning wallet etc.) way too complicated anyway. And NoorNote has (and will have, insh'Allah) A LOT OF features normies are unfamiliar with. 4. Maintenance burden: Every Windows specific bug takes 3 to 4 times longer to fix because of VM testing and long feedback loops between builds. The moral reasons are: It spies on its users like crazy. I mean, screenshots of your whole desktop every few seconds and telemetry you can't even turn off? That's way over the line. That's actually unacceptable. It's totally incompatible with NoorNote's privacy promise. With NoorNote, I don't store any data on my side, I don't even run it on a server so I'm not even subject to Europe's GDPR, I'm don't even ship it with a relay (I leave that to other, way more intelligent folks) and I secure everything as best I can... only to ship it for Windows? That would be a joke, that'd be a huge contradiction. That just doesn't work, I can't do that. MacOS is still kinda shaky on the edge. It has some crappy defaults, but you can turn off all the integrated AI and cloud stuff pretty easily. Not as bad and controlling as Windows. If that changes for the worse down the line, then no more MacOS support either. Simple as that. The IT and Internet landscape is shifting hard right now. Its users are at a crossroads. Either the cyberpunk path (Bitcoin payments, Linux, GrapheneOS, open source, and Nostr) or the old fiat path (Instagram/YouTube, AI slop, fiat payments, Android and iOS, KYC, and proprietary systems like Windows). The middle ground is disappearing more and more. MacOS (the desktop OS) survives technically thanks to its FreeBSD base, even if it's not 100% GNU/Linux. But it at least allows GNU tools. Even if the business side seems different, they leave a door open at least. We'll see how long Apple can keep up this balancing act.