I think Nostr would be probably 200% better if we had someone to test apps reliably. I'm not talking about a "QA engineer" whatever, just someone that isn't a programmer but can install things, click buttons and report bugs. I have the impression that this is a role that died in the industry of software development, but it is much needed now, and much more in the age of AI code.

I just wanted proof that NIP-17 could work reliably, and now I got it. View quoted note → However the two clients cited above are nsec-only. This tells me that we definitely need some NIP-4E juice in order to allow bunker-powered clients to have good and fast DMs. Another thing we definitely need are that clients are ready to perform AUTH with the user main key to relays when publishing, that allows relays to filter out spam.

the fiatjaf pyramid

is an example of a relay that filters out blocked people and people not in the relay unified WoT.

nospeak

is the first NIP-17 chat app that I saw that works very reliably since

Wisp

Wisp — Social that's actually fun again

Your group chat, your favorite creators, your money — in one app. Download Wisp free for Android.

It is amazing, if you don't have a problem with pasting your nsec you should definitely try it. By the way, two people can chat one using Wisp and the other Nospeak. Mindblowing!, a slap in the face of everybody who said Nostr DMs would never work As @Gigi said recently: "if you know what you're doing NIP-17 works really well". (I also don't know who makes it, so don't trust it with your nsec!)

I've seen a video here some weeks ago and now I can't find it. It was a dramatic voice reading something like a big tweet, the phrases were being shown as they were read. The entire tweet was a list of complaints about the current state of the internet, how annoying is to make logins on websites, do phone verification, KYC, and then everything is full of spam and so on. I think it was an old video that someone reposted, something like that. If you know what I'm talking about please help.

Of all the dystopian things in the current world, this is probably the one that causes me most direct pain: View quoted note →

Sparrow should have a "publish note from address" feature, right? View quoted note →

I've used 'nak key combine <pubkey1> <pubkey2>' to confirm that @{(Constant-Archon)} is really the merge of @Constant and @High Templar and you should do that too! View quoted note →

I've been noticing and saying this for months. Most centralized apps out there have horrible flaws and are broken in disgusting ways. Nostr UX is among the best possible in the world. View quoted note → Some people think Nostr just isn't massively successful because of UX, but that isn't true, can't be true. They completely overlook network effect and status quo bias. We don't need more rounded corners or a smoother feed, we need creative new ways to breach into the network effect properties of other social networks.

Ugly memes and LLM slop. View quoted note →

Another example of a thing that could have been a Nostr closed community that forced its members to use Nostr against their will:

Handmade Network

Handmade Network

A community of low-level programmers with high-level goals, working to correct the course of the software industry.

View quoted note → Do you know of other examples?

Fevela

A Nostr social client that give you back full control of your attention and time with an innovative interface

has draft/pending posts now. You can save for later: And later you can publish (as previously signed, with old timestamp) or edit and resign and republish -- or discard and delete. Notes that fail to publish (because you're offline or your relays are offline) are automatically saved. The "Pending" menu only shows up if you have anything pending.

Who said Nostr doesn't have valuable original content? View quoted note →

Here, for example:

Lobsters

What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet) (2023)

48 comments

A group of technology enthusiasts clamoring for an open DM protocol and no one telling them about the great news of NIP-17 privacy-preserving messaging that works + user-chosen relays for maximum decentralization. View quoted note →

There will come the day in which people will have to pay others to look at their AI-generated websites with lots of gradients, many words but completely void of any useful content whatsoever.

Is Nostr a DDoS machine?