Forgive the ignorant question, but what’s the best way to follow news here? Do I create lists? Which functions are the best to use?
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Nostr Files....
nostr.directory
Nostr public keys of Twitter Accounts
Find people you know on other social media sites on nostr
Start following good Profiles that hopefully will lead you to them.
I suggest you to follow #[2] and look in his "follows" list and start following them. Ofc I am #Bitcoin biased.
Your followers would determine
Which app are you using? There are lots of different app choices.
This is a list. Scroll down to the clients. I've been using Damus also as well as Iris on my browser. 
GitHub
GitHub - aljazceru/awesome-nostr: nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things
nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things - GitHub - aljazce...
you are the news!
#[2] is here and now you. Bring us some news!
I don't know if you're in the minority, but you aren't alone in the want.
Everything is political to someone. Have you ever listened to old ladies arguing about recipes? It gets as intense as a gun control debate.
There are no stupid questions Matt.
I'm sure a lot of us still endure Twitter (despite the anguish) to follow news feeds which are not yet here. Hope Matt will help us #grownostr in this area.
🙏 #[2]
We have #[2] and #[3] take your pick
You can follow RSS feeds here via https://rsslay.nostr.moe/
Yes search needs to improve, and is on roadmap. Try using nos.today for search.
You can search for the topics you are interested in without hashtags there.
I prefer lists first, I follow a bunch of people that probably use nostr very little, but when they do, I want to see what they post separate from the feed
Lots of things still being worked.
https://nostr.watch/relays/find
This shows you relays to connect to. Some have a small fee in bitcoin. This is how you connect beyond default relays. I don't think AP or Reuters or any company have accounts.
My bar is extremely low. Limbo not possible.
Sorry. I can can irritate you if it makes you feel more at home.
What the hell is wrong with you?
Hope that helps.
Unfortunatly they'll probably come around as the network matures so enjoy the growth period while we're here!
Nostr is gonna change the world.
You probably won’t get the large engagement you got on Twitter, but everyone who engages will be a real person and nostr is full of the coolest people in the world. Plus you’re gonna get Bitcoin and shakas instead of worthless likes 🤙⚡️
Take my profile for example, i host my verification on my own domain and through Github which is maintained with a cost.
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Welcome Matt!
OK, I didn't see this one coming so soon.
#nostrwelcome Matthew, glad to see you here... outside of walled gardens of corporate social media networks.
If you are wondering if Nostr has legs, this thread should remove all doubt. #[1]
#grownostr
#newstr
#[0]
Actually hoping you would bring a bit of that 😉
😮 what is that from? Twitter?
Oh you weren’t responding to me 😂 Damus showed me as the first person you were talking to
There are a few bots here, but they’re actually pretty cool. It’s early enough to tell the difference, but I’m sure the bots are coming.
You don't, really...yet.
Eventually brands will pay users sats to consume advertising content.
Have you tried nostr.wine’s filter? It works very well. I have a few paid relays and keep my global on paid only.
You absolutely have to be on only paid relays to use global.
#grownostr has been popular for non btc stuff
💯 worth every sat
Hmm... Looks neat, but I'm not sure I would use it as much as a list. Maybe if I selected a list, it would also switch relay sets, that might be more useful.
So new, not familiar with what you mean by filter in this instance on here.
Welcome Matt! I love your work and I'm happy to find you here.
Okay, I'll bite. What exactly is pissing off all the people about Bud Light? Are they really so outraged that there's a trans woman in one of their ads? There must be more to it.
I don't drink factory swill, so I guess I've been boycotting for decades, but I really don't get what's up Kid Rock's ass.
Are you using Damus? I think other clients allow you to filter global too.
Basically, you add some relays like nostr.land and nostr.wine, and you can filter the global feed by only viewing notes submitted to those paid relays.
However, in order for me to see your notes in global, you would have to pay for the relays.
If I follow you (I am) then I will see your notes regardless, because your regular feed pulls from all the relays you’re connected to.
You probably need to add some more relays though. I’m only seeing 4 on your profile. You can visit my profile and just copy my relays.
Thanks. Had to read that a few times to grasp it, but makes sense.
Sorry 😂😂 it’s a lot. I’ve been here since mid December, and was slowly introduced to all this stuff. If you need help, let me know
that’s the neat part, you don’t
Feeling the off list vibes.
😭🤣😂🤣😭🤣
😭🤣😂🤣😭🤣
Love that you’re here!
I use it how I used to use Twitter. Find people, look at the list of people they follow and then follow based on interests and topics.
Keep in mind that bitcoin twitter moved here first, but others are arriving daily because this is the best free speech platform. As you get into it, you’ll also discover that nostr is more than just free speech.
I just started using nostr an hour ago and have the same question.
#[2]
has its Twitter feed fed to Nostr.
Some fintwit people like #[3] are here
You need to find a client that suits you best, they are all under heavy construction still and none of them are perfect.
This could be your thing on nostr. Also, second what other people said in the thread. I do like #[2] for finance and economic topics.
How do you auto send your Twitter feed to #Nostr?
Zerohedge feed works
npub1z7eqn5603ltuxr77w70t3sasep8hyngzr6lxqpa9hfcqjwe9wmdqhw0qhv
Unpopular opinion, there is not a lot of signal here (yet). The protocol IS the signal.
Follow me 😅
I do!
But could you please add sources to the news updates. 🙏 That would be awesome! ✌️
Followed #plebchain
good
smooth app too
thanks for pointing to the platform - wouldn't have found it without your email saying yes this is you
You too
You should look into running your own relay and post everything you write to there and multiple other relays like damus. This way you will always have a backup of your own data and can move it somewhere else quickly in case you'll ever need that. Just tell ppl your relay address and they can pull information directly from the source and also from other places 🙂
If it’ll help you adjust I can offer some whataboutism or random attacks 😜
Lol no, just image search. It was a attempt at a joke
Just sent you a zap of sats. Thanks for all you do.
Followed and Zapped ⚡✌️
Same. It’ll happen.
💎
We need a news relay for people who wanna read news 🤔🤔
I heard #[2] is a good profile to follow :)
For context, I used a tool called rsslay (https://rsslay.nostr.moe) that generates nostr profiles for rss feeds
The last feature.
The killer feature.
It’s not ignorant. There’s a lot of potential, but using this app is puzzling.
Yeah I got it once I realized who you were responding to 😂🤣 I haven’t been on Twitter so I thought this was real 😝
I don't know how familiar you are with public key cryptography but it can be tempting to think about your private key like a password, BUT YOU SHOULD NOT.
It's actually more like your entire identity because if someone else gets control of it, there is no "authority" to appeal to to regain control of your "account". In fact, you have no account - just the identity conferred by that private key.
You are going to be a target, so before you build a big following which would be painful to have to rebuild from scratch, if you are not an opsec person you might want to get some basic security tips from someone you know who knows their way around (maybe @jack or Ed Snowden).
#[4]
Follow zerohedge
That's right! No news. Why have news? It's depressing and pulls us down rabbit holes. Just be, we love like that.
Can’t answer better than that! The News is here. 😆
$BITF cashtags
Set the relay as needed to follow the trend on the nostr .
That’s better, thanks!
For years now I’ve been conflicted about Twitter. The experience was mostly not fun at all, but the functionality was still very high for my job. The manipulation has started to outweigh the benefits by a lot I think.
And a fine job you do sir and very thankful for it. Just catching up on the happenings of the last week, and excited to read your latest on Substack.
I'm in same position and I totally agree
Platform scalability is and will always be terrible for the social media end user experience. Most of the issues I see is the lack of real time interaction like we had with IRC. A user shouldn’t be able to jump into a conversation on their lunch break 6 hours later because they see a post they don’t agree with. Users should be forced to respond in real time or lose access to the conversation.
Hi Matt, hope you are enjoying the morning sun here in LA!!
Each service is going to have its own character. There may be a place for "platforms" like Notes, Locals and Twitter but decentralized services are badly needed.
They came after you hard for Twitter files but don’t hide—come here for the quiet—stay there for the engagement 🤷🏻♂️
Welcome to Nostr #[1]
It’s mostly Bitcoin news around here, so this could be your next nostr note…
Only way rn is to follow the #[2] regurgitator, so there’s a good opportunity for you to become the news here
Should have a choice between static and dynamic engagement, but perhaps when the algorithms are completely removed, more of the dynamic is allowed to foster.
Matt you suck! Totally fake reporter…. Just kidding. Thank you for being the lightning rod in the TwitterFiles. You should be proud of the role you’ve played so far in the #GreatAwakening
Keep up the good work 👊🏻
I’m totally going to agree with you later this week sometime…
i clicked on this Habla Mews link and it took me out of the Damus client and on to a web page where most of the news was about Nostr. Hmm…. had an easier time finding sources on Mastodon. also, there’s no indicator under a post showing the number of replies it has gotten, so having to click on every post to see of it’s been commented on is kinda sorta…not fun. will keep experimenting here but for now, very tepid reaction.
Hey Matt, just throwing this out there….a semi-autobiographical book accounting the lead up, revelations and aftermath of your Twitter/Musk experience would make for a very interesting read, and a thoughtful Christmas present 😉
I am right there with you Matt. I have been on twitter a very long time, it is a important source of news, but with the plethora of trolls, bots, and seemingly much more angry people in general. I am always wrestling with the benefit vs reward ratio.
I speak only for myself, as I only have been on Nostr a couple of weeks or so. Here is my personal summary of this platform called Nostr, so far:
1. Very friendly and most try very hard to keep it this way. (I like this a lot) kind of like tribal in a way. This makes it so pleasant to be here.
2. Bitcoin Maxi here. Bitcoin seems to be a primary core here. As well as privacy (somewhat). I realize a lot of folks may not be so crypto freedom focused but this is core here. (I like all the freedom I can get) The lightning network is wonderful and integrated here, which is huge, I just wonder what will happen when the gov. tries to regulate and demand full kyc here. I will watch. (I hope people resist more gov. regulation)
3. News here is lacking big time.. but Nostr is growing very fast I believe, and hopefully it will keep its zen like happiness for a long time. While adding news.
Serious respect to you.
The nostr protocol should integrate something that allow Discord-like "channels" - maybe call them doors - tied to public keys. It would be a great integration for dynamic chat rooms and a great harkening back to mIRC. Let the naming convention for channels be whatever is typed between double hashtags, i.e. ##first door## for instance. The user/public key can carry these "doors" or "channels" with them, allow other public keys in, moderate them, remove them, etc.
##firstdoor##
Imagine the user interface possibilities with that.
People have trained to trust their silos and truth doesn’t matter to most. I spend a little defending you and TF. People’s arguments and spun descriptions to trash you. They just repeat the same stuff. I’ve been following you off and on since ‘04. Right now your podcast is the only news I follow.
Ça me touche beaucoup je valide avec un Grand A 😍
The a key's permission to a note with 4 hashtags indicate a message only to those allowed to them.
Def remember a few mornings coming down off acid while my roommate and I would take turns reading aloud articles from the exile and the great shark hunt. Ames signed a copy of my roommates book with “stay mean” and I think that fits rn. The paranoid side of me thinks the CIA is gonna dose you with the California Sunshine.
Came here from twitter because you tweeted the link. Anyone else?
So very true. I keep using it but I feel forced by some social pressure to maintain it. Slowly starting to not give a F 😅
This is an interesting thought. I have been thinking a lot about how to use nostr like IRC. We need a nostrChat client...
1. client allows user to invtive npubs starting a chat
2. the user that starts the chat hosts it peer to peer: no relay needed, anyone can be invited
3. everyone that joins the chat is direct connected to the starting user's session (database)
4. database can be cleared after the chat ends, or the session can be passed off to any other user in the chat for them to host it.
Not sure if the protocol supports all that, but it should not be too much to add a nip. My idea of doing this peer to peer keeps from adding cost to the relays. Best way to code this would be an api that could be added to any client.
Hey Matt. Good to see you here. I must say that as a non technical type my confusion about this platform is … high. Twitter I understand. This app makes me feel as if I was airdropped into a very foreign country. If you figure it out please enlighten the rest of us. :)
Its your own responsibility to connect to interesting people that you want to follow, what relays to follow (would suggest a few paid and a few free) and from there you will discover and grow your wider social network.
https://nostr.band has some trends if you want to check out.
Still waiting for lists on Amythest (android). Shouldn't have to wait long as features are added at an incredible pace.
Just start to familiarize yourself with the decentralized project first to get your head around how big a disruptor this project will be. Here is a good place to start. Resources:
GitHub
GitHub - aljazceru/awesome-nostr: nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things
nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things - GitHub - aljazce...
I am not familiar with the protocol nor a programmer and do not know if nostr can be modulated, but would there be any interest in seeing a development where keys can create channels or chatrooms and send certain notes to joined key channel guests, with moderation options and such if desired? Perhaps the channels could be created and represented by text between double hashtags.
Absolutely love your work and will follow and repost your posts.
#newstr
This thing has got me confused, too, Matt.
Great 💜 thoughts. I’d lie to zap ⚡️ you for this but your wallet isn’t setup. Let me know if you need help.
Welcome!
People seem to go on twitter with the intention to pick fights and read things in the least charitable way possible. At one point one could read twitter replies and get some value from them, but nowadays it's just an endless stream of attempts at "sick burns".
You’re rather on NOSTR (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays). NOSTR is an open protocol, designed to create a censorship-resistant social network.
There’re 2 components: clients and relays. Each user runs a client. Anyone can run a relay.
Clients fetch data from relays of their choice and publish data to other relays of their choice.
Everybody runs a client. It can be a native client, a web client, etc.
Damus happens to be a client for iOS/MacOS, and other people using different clients for their devices OS can access and engage with your Notes/postings on the NOSTR.
List of clients:
note1xa2g33fh3hf2p7rn27xumkrcmp457jp6qvgrq8sj8fcl48skv2usgtsll4
This may help you, but it’s still early days. With that said, with a bright future I’m sure.
こんにちは 😃👋🇯🇵
Please also stay on Twitter!
Tried this for a few months…your audience needs both for a while
Search or stumble upon someone you like, then go to their profile and check who they follow, then follow some of them?
I hope you are right , your job is very important for a lot of people
You’re getting paid to post on Nostr 🤯
You can follow a hash tag, at least with Amethyst client for Android. That isn't a full solution but one tool currently available.
Hi Matt,
same with me.
Just got my other Twitter account suspended because I sent a DM to a person.
I should authenticate my account with a phone number.
No, I will not do that.
Rather switch to Nostr...
Hi Sasha,
I am a starter here on Nostr.
But I like it from the very beginning.
For me, the things I need are now available.
Uncensored social media and being my own bank with bitcoin.
This is the revolution I was dreaming of for so many years...
We are being each other news paper
So long as you have the great RSS feed and comments section at Substack, I'm 👍
https://rsslay.nostr.moe/
This ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
Depends which client you use. So far there aren’t many who offer list functionality. I go by hashtags or sometimes there are bots who share stuff from Twitter on here as well. Most of them are Bitcoin focused though. Kinda like most content on here 😅 Hope for more normal news bots or functionality though.
To stay up to date about the #Nostr development follow #[3]
🤣🤣🤣
DissentWatch seems similar to zerohedge, think this is the public key. They do post a lot
npub1mxq4j8sw5c2nhp58k2hdvu9t0kdkcwksrz3kpv5zpv70pa7q4cmsqgfcal
What happened to Matt Taibbi? #asknostr
Did he go back to twitter / bsky / matrix?
Remember that wave of new users? Did anyone stay from that?
@Bac0t this was last year lol!
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Forgive the ignorant question, but what’s the best way to follow news here? Do I create lists? Which functions are the best to use?
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and he's gone 👀