nostr has its issues. but for those who figure it out, it’s the most powerful network that exists today. challenge is helping more people figure it out.
likely most of that won’t come from social use cases, but rather the microapps that #[0] originally envisioned and folks like #[1] are focused on building.
the power of this thing is the ecosystem part. it’s permission-less, meaning anyone can build whatever they want, and it has a permission-less global payment system readily available through bitcoin. but neither will sell people on joining it.
if the apps built on top of nostr do valuable things, like
https://highlighter.com does, then every nostr app and use case benefits, including the social clients.
this is going to be a long road, but one that fundamentally changes the way people experience the internet. if it doesn’t succeed itself, it will certainly inspire the thing that does.
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Freedom will drive the markets until freedom no longer exists...
well said 🫂
nostr is still just a baby 👶 excited to see it grow up! ✨
The key is to spread #nostr everywhere like wildfire on mainstream channels and keep on pushing it.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ask me how I reposted this 8 times
The killer app is just the same identity across everything.
Imagine using letterboxd, twitter, and goodreads, but you only need one account
Def one part of it
Why not 9?
Is it possible to also integrate other blockchains?
Just joined yesterday and have to say nostr looks like what other blockchain communities are missing, too.
Where do you start if you're interested in development?
Nostr has no relationship with any blockchains.
Why are you so against relationships?
What’s best way to keep up w the micro apps being built
😂😂😂
It's a beautiful thing to be a part of the future
#plebchain
View quoted note →Pablo actually now has 48 hours in a day.
relationships are the key to success in all dev - even if it's difficult.
just like a woman, she (nostr etc) absolutely will need some fancy feathers. she absolutely has no patience for being told what to do - hence permission-less.
thank gods
Appreciate all you do for this community#[3] !
Pablo has Hermione's time-turner 😉
Grasping and understanding the little documentation there was for Nostr development felt like the early days of the Internet but once you get it, you get it. Afterward, this made it really easy to spin up my trivia for sats apps I built #[4] #[5]
Agreed. I'm not a tech smart person but I want to bring people here and enhance my experience.
The revolution will not be televised, the revolution is here on nostr.
So what about bluesky? Is atprotocol a dead end if nostr is the most powerful network that exists today? And what about twitter/Musk? Where do you stand on all these exactly? I know nobody here criticises you because they want your money. But I'm curious, do you ever want to be accountable to yourself at least?
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agree. clear the decks for focus.
We are team bitcoin
check out NostrDevs we do it monthly at the lab
Can anyone recommend a good podcast explaining these micro apps and the potential of nostr? Curious to learn more
If #[4] is on board I think we’re good
¿Cómo se puede ayudar a seguir mejorando?
I did a talk at nostrica about this.
😂😂😂😂 I wish!
I didn’t know about this 👀
Yeah, that’s a big part of it.
Another big part of it is kind-independent floating links and the in-protocol, transparent discoverability that can be built because of it.
View quoted note →Concise inspirational views easy to share thank you
Are these micro apps similar to the mini-programs, WeChat has in its ecosystem?
But then of course completely decentralized and permission less ? Or do I understand wrong?
マイクロアプリいっぱいつくるといいよってことだろうか
View quoted note →Agree. Future best use for Nostr protocol is utility. Not a focus on building social network.
the social graph transcends the social network though, which is absolute magic
I can't fathom what's downstream from this and that's kinda the fun in building all this stuff
Yeah, and with the NIP I’m proposing app discoverability happens transparently/automatically based on what apps your follows recommend/use
View quoted note →Hi - I am not a programmer but hope that I understood more or less how it works and would like to know - is it - and if so how - possible to run an own - hows it called instance or server with own domain and if so - how can one manage this and how much does it cost (the script is free but what does it need to run - ) ??
Thanks a lot in advance
Btw -- friends with smartphones get error messages when signing up - I used a laptop and had no problems
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I dont have an input field for own posts -- is this not free ?
Developers like you get to have the fun of building it. End users like me just give feedback.
But even from my point of view I can see potential beyond legacy social media.
Good morning 🌞
All of it.
What I’m saying I’d that the social graph you construct also improves the non-social media use cases 😊
I understand that.
Remember geocities.com?
HTML broadened the developer base…this massively helped the internet to grow.
I don’t know if there can be an equivalent for nostr apps, but having everyone and their brother able to build something fast is a massive advantage.
This is what I’m working on with #[5]
Highlighter is awesome. I was able to highlight things from substack and the LA times. I still haven't wrapped my head around what this means for the future of publishing.
That’s an interesting perspective Pablo. If I’m getting this right, the entire finance system on a larger scale can be a different model than those in the market for fiat or smart contracts
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Inspirational, and made a lot of sense
highlighter's so cool it made me feel high and lighter 🫂
Did you eat it?
How do I find it? Can you send a link?
just stumbled upon on it:
Thank you. Looking forward to checking it out
Good Morning #[5] ☀️🫂💜
Good morning 🌞
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nostr is not only a replacement of twitter, but also a replacement of pinterest, pinboard, and raindrop:
Pinstr
Pinstr
A decentralized, free, and open-source social network for curating and sharing interests with the world.
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Ya Super Testnet and Captain Stacks have been doing it every month in Austin at PlebLab the attendence is growing
Can nostr be used for smart home devices?
When I say it I sound like a nut
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This is probably the greatest project ever worked on. I absolutely love nostr!
View quoted note →Now that I've used it a few weeks I can say thank you..👍
well said
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Ok so here is the thing. If you prefix it with "nostr:" it would work. Without the "nostr:" it is hard to tell if this is supposed to be linkified or if it is a part of some url. In this case it's not hard to tell, but in other cases it is. I think we probably went too far when we fixed our breakage of things like <EventCard id=\"note194n247lecqgcskk5rmmfgrapt4jx7ppq64xec0eca3s4ta3hwkrsex7pxa\" /> and
https://habla.news/a/naddr1qq2hsjmsgc64sjzk89vyka2pwgu8y6pnt98rjq3qf4zygwf8c0330t3n32c8het2u7vya2fzyj0wf9s0e7mt7lkjgk9sxpqqqp65w6kduhcI got plenty of time to watch it play out. The alternative is dogshit
Nostr feels like it will replace the internet as we know it. If that is the case nostr feels like ~1995ish to me.
Lots to build. Incredibly bullish on nostr.
yup
This is what made Facebook Login so popular. Now, with the emergence of the #DigitalIdentity State, folks are starting to understand what's at stake.
The ideas behind it certainly will.
