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Ian Carroll 11 months ago
Decentralization is the only solution to tyranny.

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I posted a short history video on tik tok about the US war of independence and was banned. Don’t know why. I created a new account, kept it to ‘Bitcoin’ but then had a video about Julian Assange and it was censored 🙄 total communist control freaky.
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Lucid 11 months ago
What about voting your way out of tyranny?
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npub1svv7...tf7r 11 months ago
I ve had nostr for a few yrs but never really used it. I hope it takes off. FYI nostro means 'ours' in italiano
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Corban 11 months ago
Welcome to nostr! And thank you for all the good journalism and other work you’ve done.
So this guy was the only person on x that could rag on jews and never get banned or shut down and you idiots trust him he's and fuckn fraud... they stold everything from Lucasl Gage but let this guy slide thru.. you idiot can't see.. #nostr #asknostr
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Decentralization is the only solution to tyranny.
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npub1hej5...w4mn 11 months ago
Welcome to Nostr. I enjoyed your podcast with Sam yesterday while I was at work. Stay humble. Stack sats.
Primal has a built in wallet. On iOS, you can only use the Primal wallet. On Android, you can disable the Primal wallet and use other wallets, but you cannot get rid of the built in wallet icon in the middle of the app. So, you either use the Primal wallet, or you use another app such as Amethyst for Android or Damus for iOS that allows you a tiny bit more freedom of choice for your Lightning wallet. Primal's built in wallet is very nice though. As for "crypto wallets", Nostr only supports Bitcoin Lightning because everything else is a scam.
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muu 11 months ago
Welcome truth seeker
if you want a Primal.net address, you need to purchase Primal premium. You can setup your own or use a service provider, such as my service, If you have a website, you can set this up yourself so you can be found and identified by your website that you're know by.
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muu 11 months ago
It's very cool you are encouraging ppl to find alternative to centralized social media. Ty Bring back the old internets.. Big Decentralized Internet Energy
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PlaceOfHawks 11 months ago
Bro. How tf does any of this work. 💀 This is going to be a serious learning curve. I can't even figure out how to upload a pfp
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Kyfro 11 months ago
Thanks for the recommendation!
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npub1g0g5...tnkf 11 months ago
Primal seems to be well done, but I really don't like, how they cozy-up with standard fiat-world mentality... this is not our goal guys! image
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Jev 11 months ago
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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npub1g0g5...tnkf 11 months ago
that would be cool... but then one day they change their rules and you suddenly need the fake email (which of course you don't have anymore) as 2nd factor to access the wallet or whatever... it's just stupid and unnecessary imho 😭
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npub1g0g5...tnkf 11 months ago
💯 Very much agree! Great to hear a similar opinion on this 🔥 Primal should think about what they want to accomplish!
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npub1g0g5...tnkf 11 months ago
My X account was just suspended, bc I causally joked that it would be kind of entertaining if Biden fell down the Airplane stairs on his last flight. And I don't even care very much... X is nice, but it's a pipe dream when it comes to freedom of speech. It forces me to use the real deal and by that contribute to make it big! Nostr I love you, you were made for me 💗
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Mutiny Brewing 11 months ago
This is a great introduction to nostr. Thanks. Like you said, Nostr is much more than a social media, it is your own social internet facilitating grass roots discovery by seeing what your friends like. There is even an app store where developers can write code and publish it with their cryptographic identity proving that exact code was written by them. You can see which of your friends also follow the developer to make sure you are not getting scammed. This frees apps from the control of app stores.
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B 11 months ago
Using it now. Seems alot better. Thank you
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SeedOilHysteria 11 months ago
I was hoping tiktok would die for many reasons. Chief reason is China uses it to spy on us. A close second is it popularized these shitty videos of fast talking 'influencers' doing the unsteady handheld camera against green screen schtick.
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jb55 _@jb55.com 11 months ago
primal can remove it for their users but they can't remove it from the network. you can always switch to another client if they ban you. clients like damus and amethyst can't remove it for their users, because the client itself talks to multiple relays directly.
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B 11 months ago
What do you use Instead?
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B 11 months ago
Cool thanks for the recommendations
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Max ⬡ 11 months ago
welcome to the nostr! you had a big part in me joining too check out Richard Heart and PulseChain when you get a chance, guy is fighting the SEC for freedom and decentralization ✨
What's good bro? You gonna run a relay? How tech'd out you wanna tech out with the techy stuff? BC with your situation you might have to be really savvy and invest in this stuff.... Dont just like post like its Twitter all over again. But gotta run your own hardware and software baby!
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Scoundrel 11 months ago
Hey, I just checked. Security filters don't mute you anymore, even when you enable filtering spam from strangers and even when I unfollow you.
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Altay 11 months ago
Thanks for ur x post. I was thinking the need for such an app for a while.
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HeyItsMontseD 11 months ago
Here for you - you are one of my new favorite communicator of this year year so far, keep going we are with you
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Drakosophos 11 months ago
Thanks for this tip, bro. Been watching your content since early TikTok days when it was just about bread and black rock and stuff. lol. Glad to be here!
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Old Mate Jake 11 months ago
Thanks for letting me know. It’ll take a while for adaptation because it’s a learning curve, but I’m on. I’d send you some sats but I’m broke as all hell, the system has put my family and I through the wringer 😂 I stay humble and hopeful. Things will look up eventually for us. One day I’ll spin up my own space when I can afford to, that’ll be cool. I’ll enjoy the internet before they pull the plug on us plebs.
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npub1wuhe...h6ym 11 months ago
If I understand correctly, the events contain text and are stored and sent by relays, and so are less censorable because those events are available via many relays. The non-text media forms are sent as links in the events or links in the text and clients load them from their respective URLs. I cannot find a citation but I think this was a deliberate design decision because much problematic content is in images and videos, so by not directly relaying images and videos it lowers the risk (as well as resource requirements) for those who run relays. A lower burden to run a relay means more relays, more relays means a lower chance of censorship. Can anyone point us to the link for the why? Maybe I'll find it later.
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proof of god 11 months ago
Welcome! We could use a nostr ambassador like you who can explain in non-tech language why nostr is the future to the tictok and X normies
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npub1c0wk...rnk0 11 months ago
What I don’t get is how do I know that if I sign into Primal.net or any other place, how do I know that I didn’t send my private key to a fisher?
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Ggernaught1980 11 months ago
I just saw your post and joined! Couldn’t reply to thank (my account got suspended for unknown reason on X). Cheers! I’m all for decentralisation protocol! This works! Can you reply with some good news/ decent accounts to follow?
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Condor 11 months ago
Here you are free to talk
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dankswoops 11 months ago
Ian could I show you my human rights software patent via signal or simplex?
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Flow 11 months ago
Welcome to Nostr! You’re finally here! 🤙🏼
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SenditMike 11 months ago
Great explanation of NOSTR! Very impressive for just being introduced.
One of the few, using damus and holy i’m in love with the color palette 🤤
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sidestep 11 months ago
Great work Ian. Thanks for this decentralized recommendation. To avoid Google age verification, can download Amethyst universal APK from Github without having to register.
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Him 11 months ago
Thanks for the link in Ian!
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Mike 11 months ago
Let’s fucking go!! Give us some other people to follow on here
It’s stored locally most of the time. You do need to be careful where you use it to login. Doing your own research and trusting the application developer is key. Security for that type of concern is under development
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MaxPower 11 months ago
I just joined. Can someone explain- what are zaps?
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Tiny Tim 11 months ago
Thanks for the discovery. The B.I.Stander
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Quantum 11 months ago
Are you cool with people reposting your vids?
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npub15x5h...qtf9 11 months ago
Ian! Damn, I was about to arrogantly reply to this post on x that.. duh, NOSTR! But you beat me to it man. Cudos! If you ever come to Norway (for whatever f-uped reason) I’ll host you. I’ll make you dinner.. rain deer? Moose? Al pastor? It’s on me! Love you brah 🤓
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cinta 11 months ago
i am joining nostr , they said it is the future of social media . i want to be in it. i want to earn money with my posting . digital money like sats or bitcoin . 😁
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Vin 11 months ago
Can someone explain, as I understand, a uniquely different thing with Nostr is that a user cannot delete content depending on how certain relay policies work?
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CaceresNB 11 months ago
Hi, can you point me to a tutorial on how to set it up if I have a website?
Glad to see you over here, now where’s the GameStop videos on why these markets are broken. 🤣🚀🚀🚀
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Scott Severt 11 months ago
I just joined a moment ago. You're my first follow (except for whatever was suggested during onboarding).
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Spiderman 11 months ago
Spiderman officially joining NOSTR!
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npub1n7nd...hx54 11 months ago
Im happy to see you here, dude 🌸 I follow you on TikTok I cross my fingers so Nostr can become the new social media ✨
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RealEyes 11 months ago
Does meta own tiktok now? Maybe this will blow up sooner than we can imagine.
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Christian 11 months ago
So true! Found you on X, happy you are here too! You are great, man!
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npub12sl6...7s5r 11 months ago
Heads up! This is really sad and has been happening to alot of people lately, also had same issue and it was really frustrating send a direct Message to LEX CYBER TECH on telegram for help xx t.me/lexcybertech Or reach out to them through their email lexcybertech@gmail.com
Would love to hear how "zap monetization" aka us sending sats p2p compares toward your average typical monetization of other videos on x or TikTok. Would great to get other content creators here as well and your feedback would go a long way!
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B 11 months ago
Can someone explain this to me? Who enforces this if we report someone's account? "Hateful speech"? Is this via Amethyst? Why are all the providers so pro censorship? #asknostr
Welcome to nostr. Nice video. I suggest using Get Alby's extention to login. I use the extention with the Kiwi browser on Android. Spring Browser is also good, but I only use the Android Open Source Project. I don't know much about iPhones. Extensions make it easier to login to multiple clients. Here's a great list Nostr is a new Internet that's more like the old web. There are video clients like flare pub and you can talk to people on corny chat. You can even use HiveTalk as a replacement for Zoom.
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ZapVibe 11 months ago
Welcome man! Glad to see you here. I like your YouTube content.
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Heavy D 11 months ago
Welcome mate. Love you insights
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Test 11 months ago
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 🗞️ The Latest the Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap - 27 January 2025 🚀 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ================== 🧠 Quote of the Week ================== “Decentralization is the only solution to tyranny.” For more details, please check the Most zaps or Most sats section (#1 item) ===================== 🔥 Community Highlights ===================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1. @Geyser community support: Bringing nostr to @FOSDEM 2025 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - nostr:nevent1qqs2fkld kep2aj3kkskac0etf9e6 5ej663trrpy2k8430mp ckj5t5wspzemhxue69u hhyetvv9ujumn0wd68yt nzv9hxgq3qqe3e5wrvnsg pggtkytxteaqfprz0rgxr8c3 l34kk3a9t7e2l3acshgmlw8 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. Gratitude for 30000 followers from @🟠 isolabellart - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - View quoted note → - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ================== 🌱 Ecosystem Growth ================== Nostr is growing fast! There are now over 45 Nostr clients, and relays are running in more than 40 countries around the globe. According to there are overall 75 Nostr apps for now. During this week: Total zaps: 68,468, compared to 49,216 zaps the week before image Total events: 5,767,121, compared to 4,983,788 events the week before image Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by @brugeman for providing these insights. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ================== 🎓 Educational Guide ================== No updates this week. If you have some input for the next recap about recent nostr educational resources, please share it and I will add it in the next recap. ==================== 📅 Upcoming Events ==================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1. FOSDEM 2025 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 📅 Date: Saturday, Sunday, February 1–2, 2025 - CET 📍 Location: Brussels, Belgium 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Sebastix, @Jurjen de Vries, @Tanja , @Cypher, @laoc42 🔗 FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of open-source developers and enthusiasts in the world, which happens every year in Brussels. It's a free, community-organized event where thousands of developers, innovators, and Free and Open Source Software contributors come together to demo projects, host talks, and share ideas. It's a key place for making meaningful connections, learning from each other, and pushing open-source tech forward. For NOSTR, it makes perfect sense to be at FOSDEM. It is the perfect podium to introduce the greater FOSS world that Nostr provides a potential to really replace centralized social platforms, actually give back to users true ownership of data, and foster a much more resilient and open internet. The interactions at FOSDEM with other free and open-source projects and respective developers help Nostr grow its ecosystem, foster new collaborations, and gain much-valued feedback. It's all about grassroots development, community contributions, and evolving without the constraints of centralized platforms; in other words, just about perfect for FOSDEM's collaborative spirit. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. Nostrich Meetup in Konstanz, Germany - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 📅 Date: Saturday, March 15th, 2025 📍 Location: Konstanz, near Lake Constance (Bodensee), Germany 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Purple Konnektiv 🔗 Event: View quoted note → Join with @Purple Konnektiv for the next Nostrich meetup in Konstanz! They are renting a room for the day to foster conversation, with snacks, drinks, and plenty of opportunities to connect. Interested in attending? Reach out, and they'll create a Simplex group for details. If you'd like to organize a talk or workshop, let them know! They’re excited to bring the community together! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3. FediForum April 2025 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 📅 Date: April 1-2, 2025, 8:30 PM IST to 1:30 AM IST 📍 Location: Online Event 🔗 Join @FediForum to discuss the future of social media, including Fediverse, Bluesky, Nostr, and Mastodon. New technologies, funding models, and ways of governance with a focus on an open, trust-driven, and interoperable social web. Connect with your peers and help build the next generation of social media. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4. Nostr.World Community Event - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 📅 Date: Q4 2025 📍 Location: Argentina 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Nostriga 🔗 Event: View quoted note → A community-driven event is in the making; early planning is going on to bring the Nostr fam together in Argentina to celebrate community and collaborate on the future of Nostr. This is an exciting event because your input is shaping it. Share your thoughts on how to make it even better. More details to come. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ================== 📰 Nostr in the Media ================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1. @Max ⬡ discusses about nostr with @cryptokong - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Max says that Nostr is not like traditional platforms; Nostr doesn't rely on centralized servers but instead works through relays to keep the protocol going. Users create profiles with a generated key pair, so their privacy and security are ensured without traditional signups. It's a bit like Twitter in that posts, videos, and images can be reposted, and it also natively incorporates Bitcoin's Lightning Network for seamless micropayments. Among the clients like @npub1nz64...0w5y. Nostr has picked up in traction lately, particularly with the Bitcoin community, promising an unstoppable open alternative to online communications. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ========================= ⚡ Most Zapped Last Week ========================= Nostr’s Value4Value (V4V) model is all about plebs directly rewarding creators for the value they receive—no middlemen fees, no ads, just pure community-driven support using sats via the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Thanks to by @PABLOF7z for providing this data. Here are the top zapped posts from last week, showcasing creators who received the most engagement: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 🔥 Top 3: Most Zaps - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1. Zaps Received: 621 Sats Earned: 748k View quoted note → - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. Zaps Received: 261 Sats Earned: 62k View quoted note → - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3. Zaps Received: 142 Sats Earned: 43k View quoted note → - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 💰 Top 3: Most Sats - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1. Sats Earned: 748k Zaps Received: 621 View quoted note → - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. Sats Earned: 62k Zaps Received: 261 View quoted note → - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3. Sats Earned: 43k Zaps Received: 142 View quoted note → - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - =========================== 🛠️ Tools, Updates, and Releases =========================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1. Nostrmo - 2.9.5 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nostrmo is a Flutter-based Nostr client for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Web, and Linux. This release adds PC tray and notification support, Linux package compatibility (AppImage, DEB, RPM), recoded group pages, configurable client tags, note tail support, and direct navigation to jumble.social, along with various bug fixes. Developed by: @DASHU Source: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. Amber - v3.1.9 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android, providing secure event signing for the Nostr network. This release adds missing logs for relay errors and updates the button text and icons for listening to new connections. This release enhances the user experience and troubleshooting capabilities for secure event signing on Android. Developed by: @greenart7c3 Source: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3. BTCPay Server - v2.0.6 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BTCPay Server is a free, open-source Bitcoin payment processor for fee-free, intermediary-free transactions. This release brings a critical security fix for on-chain refunds and pull payments besides features like customizable HTML meta tags and manual payout transitions. It also fixes all of the migration issues and UI bugs, improves the display of Lightning Balance, among other fixes. Merchants are recommended to update to this release as soon as possible to enjoy better security and functionality. Created by: @Dennis @Nicolas Dorier @Nisaba @npub1x70e...u76e Source: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ================================== 🎁 Developer Tools, updates and Guides ================================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1. Servus - v0.1.8 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Servus is a minimalistic all-in-one social media server that acts as a CMS, personal Nostr relay with support for both Blossom and NIP-96, and file server. This release is statically linked for ease of deployment, making it more user-friendly by managing content more effectively, securely hosting a relay, and effortlessly sharing files. Developed by: @npub1xvdg...am9l Source: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. Notemine - wrapper@v0.1.3 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Notemine is a Rust-based tool for mining Nostr notes, designed to target the web and compile to WebAssembly (WASM). This prerelease includes a fix for package.json and updated dependencies, improving its functionality and compatibility for developers working with web-based Nostr integrations. This is the latest prerelease, and there was the prerelease core@v0.4.3 too this week. Developed by: @dskvr Source: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3. Nostr-spring-boot-starter - v0.2.0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nostr-spring-boot-starter is a Spring Boot starter projects for building Nostr applications. This release includes breaking changes like method renames and removals in MoreEvents, MoreIdentities, and Nip40, new methods added in Nip40: findExpiration and expire, nostr-proto modules externalized, and Gradle upgraded to v8.12. Developed by: @theborakompanioni Source: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4. Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) - v0.2.6 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dart Nostr Development Kit is a Nostr Development Kit for Dart applications. This release introduces support for Blossom and updated documentation. This release improves resources for developers working with Nostr in the Dart environment. Developed by: @leolox Source: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5. Bostr 2 - v1.1.1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Bostr 2 is a Nostr bouncer relay aggregator proxy implemented in Go. This release adds a client IP forwarder and fixes some user agent changer issues to make the agent more functional and robust for efficient relay management. Developed by: @Yonle Source: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ========================== 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases ========================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1. Citrine - v0.7.1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Citrine is an Android-based Nostr relay that makes it really easy to transmit as well as receive events from Nostr clients on Android. This version brings back the "restore follows" button, database backup notifications, and more importantly, it allows listening to pokey broadcasts. The following updates make life easier and more reliable for Nostr clients depending on Citrine. 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Psilocyberbull 10 months ago
It basically reacts to the post with ⚠️ and comments that you reported it. Different clients could treat that different ways
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Rld 10 months ago
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Unplausible 10 months ago
...it explains amongs other things that followers can miss user's note if they simply aren't connected to the right relay. Which is quite a big flaw in the system. Maybe it could be reworked, by making the relays communicating with each other and to complete what they need. Or something like that...
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npub1wuhe...h6ym 10 months ago
The gossip client I use seems to proactively seek out folks' relays as it goes, so I am connected to sixty plus relays at a time even though I only configured less than half that. It works well enough most of the time.