Announcing "subreddits" on Nostr
Hey everyone — my initial implementation of the NIP-172 draft proposal for Reddit-style moderated communities is now live on Satellite!
Want to see an example?
Check out n/satellite - a nostr community I've just created for Satellite-specific questions, feature requests, etc.
Do you have an idea for a community for which you'd be willing to take on the role of founder/moderator?
You just need to decide on a name and fill out the info for banner image, description, and rules. I'm working on creating a directory of communities, but for now, please drop a link to your new community as a reply to this post.
If we can position nostr as a credible alternative to reddit it could be huge.
Here's some screenshots:
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Looks like everyone is implementing communities by me 😅
Gotta catch up..
View quoted note →Interesting
It’s a great idea
consider a NIP-31 `alt` tag here,
@Stuart Bowman
love what you're doing here!
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12 hours later......
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More censorship coming your way
Look at the beauty about building on the same protocol, clients are just views.
I wasn’t aware of NIP-31, that’s interesting…
It’s definitely important for discoverability that kind 1 clients are able to display notes posted in communities - the way I handled it in the current implementation is to prepend the title/link to the content string, and to automatically insert inline references to events when posting a link to another Nostr web client so that they appear as quoted notes.
I wonder what the current client support is for NIP-31? Could I just put the text with the prepended elements in an alt tag and count on clients displaying that as if it were a kind 1 event?
Definitely want to make sure that these communities don’t lead to a fragmented UX between Twitter-like clients and Reddit-like clients.
Hopefully we can have a twitter-like feed with notes that show up properly and have references like “posted in this community”
Awesome!
🔥🔥🔥
I would like to be a founder/moderator for n/ITYSL, a community for fans of there Netflix show I Think You Should Leave.
Do it
Fine! I will! When I get home later...
😂
Perhaps a dumb question, but how does one navigate to n/satellite ?
doesn’t seem to do the trick. Searching for satellite or n/satellite doesn’t pull up the community because they’re not valid names or npubs. Clicking the + button in communities pulls up the option to create a new community, not follow a current one.
Nostr Communities are so hot right now.
View quoted note →Amazing. Thank you for your work on this. Millions of Redditors are looking for a good home.
I can't find the create a community button?
Nostr evolves fast.
I can't find where the option is to create a community. Is it suppose to be on the communities tab of my profile?
Not a dumb question at all!
Currently there is no good way of discovering communities. I'm working on fixing that — tomorrow I'm pushing an update which includes a directory of communities on the front page of Satellite
In the communities tab there’s a gold “New Community” button at the top right
Ok fixed! It should be visible now. It was a bug caused by me not testing on a widescreen layout. Thanks for pointing that out!
Sorry there was a bug that caused the button to not be visible on widescreen layouts 🤦
Just pushed a fix
Cool. So I created a community, n/itysl, and made my first post. It got a spam reply immediately. Will I be able to remove comments eventually?
Other thoughts: This seems like a much better potential Reddit clone that zapddit. One of the charms of Reddit is that each community is curated by moderators that keep things on topic and civil. As much as everyone hates on Reddit mods, they do cultivate a certain vibe in their communities that makes Reddit more fun and usable. It's nice to be able to go into a niche subreddit and find very specific discussion and memes about the topic at hand. That doesn't work without a moderator to curate the community. I know you're just getting started, but it looks great so far and I'm really excited to see how this develops.
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Comunidades al estilo de Reddit en satellite.earth. 👏🏼
#hispano #mexico #ñostr
love it. i've been waiting to see something like this
Thanks! Yes, adding the ability to block pubkeys is #1 on my todo
Hi, I just created a community about overland travel:
Thank you for your work.!
This is literally saying "I want more censorship, let's join here where one person decides the law for everyone in the sub."
The ones making sub want the power and control over others to decide what they can say and share.
Pathetic.
Ill be blocking anyone involved with this as I see it.
I think the most successful communities will be those that keep its rules stupidly simple, just like El Salvador did with the bitcoin and subsequent laws (Bitcoin is money, everything else is a security).
What do you think about it?
Their rules*
Yeah. I got to the part about white lists and it just confirms what I'm saying...
No thanks.
Again, one person or a small grp of people should not be controlling what is posted or who can post in say... n/weed....
You are for freedom, or not.
Can already start your own community with a hashtag on nostr.
Shouting into the void with my own hashtag and letting folks join in as they please is better than letting some folks decide if my content is worthy enough to be in n/weed...
That’s the great thing about #nostr, you have the choice and freedom to choose many client options for features and functionality, and choice is freedom 🤙
Yep.
I just never choose letting others dictate my content, like admins and mods do in subs.
There's alot of "one way thinking" in subs...
Prolly why I'm on profile and random email number 23 for reddit...
Something you might not be aware of - if you create a nostr community it’s “namespaced” to your pubkey as the admin. So there’s no single “r/weed” that you can get banned from. There may be multiple versions of each community competing on the basis of which admin does the best job moderating, which is exactly analogous to the situation that already exists with relays and relay operators
Fuck me
How to do satellite?
It may be some hoe shit, but it's a hoe bridge from reddit to satellite. Not necessarily a cure all, but maybe a step forward
Block me 🫡
Wish granted.
YES. *Competing moderation* this is exactly how I envisioned a Reddit-style Nostr! Thank you thank you!! Will follow this closely.
No
Stuart , this is fucking rad man.
