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Start following way more plebs, check out their notes. Pick what you like. And remember, this place isn't finished, using Nostr now is like moving into a house while it's under construction. There's a plumber in the kitchen, there's a carpenter in your roof, there's a plaster doing the drywall if your bedroom.
With a half-charged phone, content especially on Damus (for me still the best client) loads forever. Maybe you use the Damus Desktop App?
Maybe we should get him in a #nostrnest and walk him through it.
💯
It gets better, just a little learning curve. What client are you using?
Good relays help, follow some folks, post some cool notes and your experience will improve a ton. The decentralized nature means it's tough until you have enough connections.
And if you want to see your own notes, follow yourself. Sounds odd, but it makes it easier to find your own shit.
You’ll get it. Delete Twitter. You need to end your relationship with it before Nostr will work.
⚡️Zapped ⚡️
💜 Followed 💜
🙏 ₿oosted 🙏
🤙 #plebchain 🤙
Not that hard, Peter 😂😂
Make yourself zappable⚡😉
The more you learn the more you'll fall in love 🫂💜
Nostr has a slight learning curve, but it's possibilites are endless.
Welcome friend. 😄
View quoted note →There is nothing to figure out. You just don’t get a badge. That’s all. 😆
the client matters. (i like damus)
make sure you have good relays.
paid ones are often best.
See #[5] actionable recommendations on getting a LN address
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Once you set up your LN address successfully, you should see a ⚡️ icon on the bottom right of all your notes. This means that you can be zapped by other nostriches for the content you share here.
Unlike twitter, there is no middleman to take ad money that your content generates by way of views.
Let’s see you get the #zap!
Also see this note:
View quoted note →This is great, and if we have to show this to new users in order for them to understand zapping it probably means onboarding remains an uphill battle
I wrote this after I saw a lot of so-called “professional” bitcoiners coming here and sticking on-chain addresses or invoices in their zap field. 🤦🏻♂️
Got a lot of phenomenally good resources suggested already, can also add my own public bookmarks on my profile page.
I'll follow you as your journey will help me onboard others.
Oh and welcome aboard.
Yeah, it’s indicative of a rough onboarding. If the pros got it wrong, expectations for pre-coiners could be lower.
Looks like people are taking the time to give you direct & helpful advice. Good luck— you are blessed because it appears you are amongst friends.
Maybe, but I’ve seen noobs come here and get it pretty quickly. It could just be a degree of curiosity and humility vs. the Dunning–Kruger effect.
🤔 great point
why do you hate #nostr ?
I use Alby. It’s also possible to connect it with your own node. Sadly they don’t have a mobile UI, but I connected it to Blue Wallet for that.
Wallet of Satoshi is the easiest imo. You can also use it only for receiving sats and some other wallet for storing & sending.
#[4] is the best mobile UI for #[5]
I hear they are working on their own mobile app now as well.
people who hate nostr, hate it for what it is, people who love nostr, love it for what it can be
I tried connecting Alby with Zeus and it was slow af. Had the worst #zapathon ever that day 😅
Welcome back! Remember that nostr isn’t an app, it’s the protocol. It’s also getting better every day but it takes time to build great UX and devs need constant feedback on the stuff they build.
Maybe it was configured wrong? It’s super fast for me. I also use Alby with one-tap zaps on #[6] and it works great.
Isn’t one-tap-zaps available only in testflight for now? I have only regular Damus
You'll be fine I promise. 🫂 It was weird for me at first as well, but when you start to get it, you won't go back you'll see.
The fact is It's still early and bugs are unavoidable.
but it's fast work in progress. The protocol is evolving rapidly.
Your guide to the world of Nostr - UseLessShit.co
Yeah, hope it gets rolled out to the muggles soon.
There are many different apps to use. Take a look at
to get an idea. I'm sure you'll find one of them easy to use.
I'm using more-speech. You can download a copy at
GitHub
Home
A Nostr browser in Clojure. . Contribute to unclebob/more-speech development by creating an account on GitHub.
There's also a set if videos that might help.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx461OFj6hkhe5ci8bwRk3w
Good luck. Nostr is still in its infancy and may require a bit more persitence and patience than some others; but nostr is worth the effort. It is the only social network that nobody owns, nor ever can own.
From: dud-595789<-mazin at 06/06/23 07:44:20 on wss://relay.nostriches.org
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>Look I’ll be honest. I’ve been a HUGE Nostr hater.
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>I honestly can’t fucking use this damn app and it makes me feel like an idiot. I have NO IDEA why you guys like it
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>I follow people that I never end up following, I write messages I can’t see, and the only advice I get is to do a bunch of random technical hoo-ha
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>But yesterdays Twitter hack was a BIG wake-up call. I got almost no help from centralized Twitter
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>So I’m going to commit to spending 30 minutes a day to try to figure Nostr out, okay? 🤝
>
>Day 1. Let’s go ⚡️
Yes, and support for pasting nostr wallet connect setup string is pending
GitHub
Add NWC paste button. by suhailsaqan · Pull Request #1235 · damus-io/damus
thanks to #[4]
This enables on phone wallets, such as non custodial #[5]
First thing to realize is that it's a protocol, like Bitcoin, so there isn't "the app", but rather many clients, some of which might be better or worse than what you're used to.
Try more clients. I write coracle.social, I invite you to give it a go.
good move. Bitcoin user experience took years to become what we take for granted now. Both still have a long way to go for mainstream onboarding
It can be difficult at first, but well worth it in my opinion. 🙏💫💜
As a newcomer myself, I'm asking myself two questions:
1. is it vulnerable to DDos? Anyone could simply create a gigantic amount of pub keys that would post gigantic number of comments, masking any "genuine" message in a flood of bot-generated noise
2. is there any kind of gossip in place between relays? Or do you just have to hope that relevant content will be posted to the relays you are subscribed to
Is there any kind of gossip in place between relays? Or do you just have to hope that relevant content will be posted to the relays you are subscribed to
I was told to cut back on my relays. I originally had like 15. What’s the right way?
Not that easy. Though this Damus app is pretty good. I don’t know what I was using before but it was bad
There is no right way. Look at who you follow and add relays they have to your list so you can interact with them and vise versa when they post notes.
Stick with Damus then, that’s what I’m using.
Ask for help when needed 🤙
There’s no 1-size-fits-all solution. All depends on your device, bandwidth and your expectations. Generally 8-15 is what fits most. There are some relays which read info from multiple sources and filter it, thus taking the load off your device, such as nostr.wine and nostrich.land.
My guide elaborates on that:
https://lnshort.it/nostr-relaysWelcome 🫂 You're going to make it, please be careful. #nostr is highly addictive.
🤝
noted
Brother, what Nostr client are you using? It's gotten so, so much better over the last 6 months. If you're sticking to one client, you shouldn't have issues like you're describing. Now, hopping around the different clients, that can cause issues like you're mentioning. Stick to Damus, Amethyst, Snort, Primal, or Iris for now. Everything else is a bit experimental or not ready for prime time, just yet.
Then you'll want to make sure you're using good relays. You can look at my list of relays. I'll recommend all of them. (Minus my personal one, it won't work for you.) My relays have a good mix of paid relays and private relays.
Fuck Twitter. Nostr devs and users will help you no matter what. Just ask.
Just don't shill shitcoins here okay?
Ye, I guess it depends on your standard.
Damus is great! (I used it once for 60 seconds in Costa Rica 😆)
15 is a good number. Let me look at which ones you're using.
Welcome!
It does have a learning curve … but it’s very worth it.
3 is probably a bit too little. I like to recommend somewhere around a dozen. I have too many and need to nuke a few. I'm sitting at 20. They keep creeping up on you. Though, I'm not experiencing any problems so I may just keep it that way. Once I start having issues, I'll nuke it back down to a dozen or so.
Welcome. Many plebs here to help.
I've got a pretty good handle on bitcoin and Nostr in just 3 months, you can do it too. Lots of people to help you out here! 🫂💜
I’m sure I’m not the first person to say this but First step, set up lightning wallet for ⚡️⚡️⚡️🤙🫡
Don’t forget about those “dumb tinkockers”
That’s me 👆👆😂
I have no idea why people like bird app but there u go...
View quoted note →If you can set up your LNURL we’ll zap ya. 😎⚡️🙏
First figure out how to enable zaps
nice. nos.lol does that oo. and then there's the two blastr relays, either pablo's or mutiny's.
I didn't realize nos.lol was similar, that's badass
- Reduce the number of relays for better performance
- Follow yourself if you want to see your posts in your main feed.
Been following you for awhile. Good to see you’re going to try again.
This note deserves a lot of Zaps⚡️
It’s not that bad, just have to work on a low time preference for social media dopamine hits given some tech hiccups and absence of algos
You're right🫂 💯 I'm following you :)
Might keep track of your quotes ✍🏻 :)
@Rizzo have Richard hook you up with the B.TC domain.
I can help you as well if you need it.
Hell yeah. 👊🏻
Let's do it rizzo! Learning is the way.
Look at nostr through Gigi's eyes on primal.
I do agree. There should be ways to do more content filtering. Only thing I have found is primals trending. That's how I found for example this post. On the main page there is only some random shit and due to timezone differences between US and europe, mostly in chinese XD
Welcome! Wishing you an awesome journey. ⚡️⚡️
Technical hoo-ha 😂😂😂
View quoted note →the tech is cool and powerful and a little abrasive. but it's a net good for speech and freedom, and is already interoperable with the internet of money ₿ at the user's discretion.
nostr is the way.
#plebchain
1. Add your Wallet of Satoshi lightning address (looks like an email address) to your nostr profile.
2. There is no step 2
PoW 🤝
i watched your live in btc2023, you speak fast like a machine gun
THERE IS NO SECOND STEP!!
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furiousevent68@walletofsatoshi.com
Great! Welcome to #nostr 🫂
If you don't want to follow people, follow hashtags instead at either zapddit.com or agorasocial.com (by
@Andrew)
Do you know RSS? Nostr is basically a reimplementation of RSS.
Or maybe this will help. Think of damus as a web browser. Its not a platform. It just grabs content from other websites (relays)
So "how do I work this app" is kinda like "how do I work my web browser" not to say that its as easy as a web browser, but that on a technical level that's what's going on.
It also makes for fun comments from people on other platforms being like "I went on nostr and saw someone have this insane take" but that's like "I went on the internet and saw someone have this insane take" like okay, were you on 4chan or? Like which website? (On nostr you'd ask, "which relays?")
Use a performant paid relay like filter.nostr.wine and nostr.wine (not the same!) & well developed client like Amethyst on Android or Damus on iOS and the UX is great
Excellent advice.
Wen day 2?
Thanks for this message. I feel like you. I'm here since only 3 weeks. But I want to understand and I learn something new everyday day that I come on #Nostr. One day, we'll not be an idiot anymore 😁
Try PLEBSTR
🫂
In this link
Nostr Basics
Resources for the Nostr ecosystem
you will find many Nostr resources to help you figure the shit out.
Start with one of the 5 minute guides at the top. All the other links contain all the info you need. The uselessshit link has a very exhaustive list. PV 🤙⚡️ #plebchain
Definitely a learning curve that I'm sure will be abstracted away as clients and the protocol improve. But definitely worth it.
เป็นไปได้มั้ยที่คุณจะทำให้ WoS เชื่อมกับ Amethyst ได้เช่นเดียวกับ Alby ทำ ฉันชอบใช้ WoS และจะใช้มันไปตลอด แต่ครั้งนี้ฉันจำเป็นต้องแบ่งเงินมาใส่ Alby เพื่อความสะดวกในการ Zaps
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Lol. we've come a long way
View quoted note →There was a twitter hack yesterday ?!?
Ha! You’ll do well here. Set up your lightning wallet
The op is a year old
That’s alright dude we welcome you back with open arms anyway
Funfact: There is no nostr app.
Maybe just use another client and everything is good?
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