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What issues do you encounter when using nostr?
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Feature not a bug
When I follow people, the follows don’t stick unless I reset the network setting?
Would be great to have mnemonic nsecs
I miss Positive feedback when you help people/devs and much hate in my DM. Thats all 🤣👌 Here we go ☝️
I don't have such issue on X/Twitter on my Android device, they polished their UI/UX quite well.
Some clients already provide this option, such as @Amethyst editing feature.
🧠 🤕 at the speed we could be signing each post manually with a BBQr on a ColdCardQ vs pasting nsec _everywhere_ 😭 🤦♂️ it’s a wallet now man haha 🤪 #cashu #npub
(oh jinx #nip46 external iOS signer chat on now 👍 #Fountain )
Yup. You can also request deletion but not all relays support it.
A few Normie friends joined, saw the horrid uncensored chaos that is the global feed and quit immediately. If you aren’t a decentralization, privacy, or BTC maxi before joining it’s a really jarring transition that will immediately repel a lot of normies.
This.
At the moment NOSTR (as much as I love it) is a Freedom/Bitcoin/privacy circle jerk.
Wheres the nostr for normies client? Filter out all. Of our awesomeness that they arent ready for
Would be good if clients displayed a warning before heading into global and suggest to users that they should get a paid relay and filter global to only notes from that paid relay
No organic reach, if you are not already popular, it feels like your notes are going straight to /dev/null
Sometimes, that's exactly what I want.
This is 100% on the user. You have to follow folks and hashtags and actually interact to really get the most out of it. No one will serve content to you.
I was interacting with well known npubs within a week of being on Nostr. It's all about what you put into it. There is no algorithm to feed you content that the big wigs want you to see.
We need more divergence here. With only ancap kids #nostr gonna die faster than G+.
This all day.
They're a few ways to handle that depending on what current client and OS you are using.
I get that and I am sure it is better than having the almighty algorithm deciding what and who to promote. However what I don't like about this approach is that it feels like going door to door throwing your opinion on everything just to try to "promote" yourself in a way. There must be a better way. Maybe there is, I haven't explored all of the possibilities of Nostr but some kind of Explore feed would be nice for new accounts, especially if it is served by paid relays to reduce the spam.
Follow hashtags. Post content you want to see.
I do this and it works well.
I'm not popular but gosh I have a lot of fun here. It took a while to get to that point, though.
Your reach is about as organic as it gets. Meeting people, getting involved, and getting people involved requires participation. I know that sentence sounds redundant but it really is that simple. 😊
Cristiano Ronaldo gained 20M+ followers in 24h on YouTube, I am not expecting that of course, but at least half of it.
I use amethyst. I have no experience with other Android clients and have really only used nostrudel to any extent otherwise.
No keyboard shortcuts - in popular clients !
We must import idiocracy from Tiktok:-)
That is a feature :-)
That is what twitter is .. sorry X 😭 ..
Same case for me, but the reason for that is probably the fact that the amount of people here is orders of magnitude less, which makes your replies more likely to be seen/interacted with. I get that. But if Nostr is destined to scale to tens/hundreds of millions of people, it will be harder and harder for small accounts to even get any interactions and the incentive for them to stay wouldn't be here, the whole comment section will be filled with people begging to be noticed and the content would suck. If that is the case it will either implode because people would give up on trying to share their thoughts or it will become just a message board where popular accounts are interacting with each other and everyone else will be nothing but a content consumer.
Early chapters are often rough, but it's in these formative pages that the greatest stories are written. Needs PoW!
needs #PoW - and BTW “popular” is not that popular in here ;)
the Grand Filter! 🧡
Good point with the "drowning in the sea" for bigger overall user numbers.
I still think that - just as with now in the bitcoin subculture - there will be genres and groups that may be very interactive.
But I think people will either need to learn to find these betters (search, hashtags etc).
Or some opt in algos based on interest need to be developed in the future, I think.
Yeah, I might be wrong but at some point there will be a need for having an algorithm for some specific optional feeds, e.g. "Explore" as long as it is completely open source. I know the current paradigm is smart client/dumb server, but maybe some "smart" relays serving you notes after some some algorithmic (again, open sourced) processing could be useful, after all you are either interested in reading from them or not.
Commies are in bluesky, but seems they are more down-to-earth than the naive libertarians here. Imagine believing Microstrategy, Tesla, blackrock and wall street bringing "freedom" 🤡
Just a few thoughts from the last few days and not meant as criticism. I'm not a developer myself, so I don't want to complain too much :D
- When I go to relays, strange things happen (nostrudel). Why are random relays simply added?
- likes don't work sometimes, I need to reload the page.
- Zaps sometimes don't work and I have to reconnect my wallet (getalby).
- Damus has been the best client for me so far, unfortunately only available on apple. It also lacks a setting option like "trending," "latest," etc.. or I haven't found the setting yet.
- What's the benefit of paid relays, and why are they simply added, causing me to receive an error?
- nostrudel shows me that only "2/10" relays have registered my action, why?
Is this agorism serious?
Is that topic very esoteric? Obscure?
Thanks! I will try to copy it!
Clients can be glitchy. Sometimes the follow button will just not work.
can’t delete my own posts… sometimes people over speak or over react, then a need to erase the wrongs strikes, leaving you with a sense of frustration when there’s nothing you can do to right your wrongs 🤷🏻♂️
💯🎯
To be more specific since I phrased poorly and most are misunderstanding my intent:
If you have a raw global feed you get vile insane shit like borderline CSAM, animal torture, etc; stuff that I would bet 99.9999% of people all do not want to see. Unless you are a super freedom oriented person with at least rough knowledge of how nostr works, if that’s the very first thing you see I understand why nostr seems unappealing.
To be specific: I do not see being an echo chamber as an issue at all. That’s just the initial crowd the platform most appeals too.
Luckily I think most people onboard to Primal, learn and then try other clients, and thus don’t have this problem, but it does happen on some other clients.
Here are my suggestions for shortcuts - feel free to fork ..
Attaching a keyboard to #Amethyst - opens up a pandora of desires - keyboard shortcuts ! @Vitor Pamplona
Here are the bare minimum for #modalAmethyst
Normal Mode : esc
- j : scroll down to the next post
- k : scroll up a post
- l : open left side bar
- h : go to home feed
- m : go to messages
- n : go to notifications
- i : enter insert mode to write a new short note
- r : reply a note
- q : quote a note
- f : fork a note
- / : enter search in insert mode
Edit mode : i , r , q , f , /
open vim with user configuration ..
:w close vim to dump the message in Amethyst dialog box .. back in normal mode.
Command mode - :
: Select the message under cursor and wait for the command
: p - post the message
: d - delete the message
: r - repost the message
: b - bookmark a mesage - :bp ( public bookmark)
: f - follow the npub of selected message
: k - block the npub of selected message - :kp (block publically)
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imbecile
you think there is any organic growth on twitter?
you don't get followers there either unless you're already famous or a girl or friends with famous people, otherwise you must produce intelligent content and be lucky as hell and wait many years
you don't even know how these things work drama queen
global doesn't exist
You can call it whatever you want. We call it global.
theres a lot actually due to the reduction in censorship, twitter isnt perfect but if nostr is more censorious than twitter its a FAILURE
Well you can’t unsay something you say out loud, treat nostr like real speech
This would be a good feature
A lot of people are saying they want to delete posts. I actually like that you can’t delete things.
Hello, fren. Let's build the network together 🤝
not my issue but a partner of mine find it slow 😩 aside from the fact he has a learning curve to adjust from it LOL 🤣
Welcome fren.
No so many issues as I have wish-lists.
This biggest are:
bip47 and bolt12 zaps.
Would also like to burn All the bots and find a DMV that can tailor note discovery from a GUI .
No gif button in popular clients still
If I take a photo in Landscape mode on my phone..when I post it turns upside down…almost every time. My workaround is screenshotting, then posting (if I remember)
Gif pfp doesn't act as gif across clients.
slow for everything... cant upload or post...
In order to access /var/tmp you need to start aiming for interesting conversations instead of marketing metrics. Interact instead of throwing statements, send love & wisdom and the system will reward you.
Lots of nostriches posting GM and GN, but nobody posting GE. Absolute travesty.
My first profile wouldn’t let me follow anyone. Even though I clicked the follow button my profile said 0 following
You are on social media ... and worried about wasting time, uh? 😉
Not knowing if a post went out so you redraft it.
Only to realize you’ve now posted it twice.
🤦♂️
eats up data when not on wifi
closed-mindedness
Use zapstore, to see if members of your WoT are using the same app.
Yeah, this is a common problem. People often give advice thinking it's just a matter of not being able to find the topics, or laziness in trying to find the topics. Maybe if you follow more people it will help your feed? When in reality there just aren't many or sometimes any notes about lots of topics. Never mind a bustling group of people speaking meaningfully about it. And yes, not even talking about esoteric interests lol.
Nostr in various (often unintentional?) ways incestivises and cements a dominant (mono)topic / community.
@primal has stopped loading on iOS so my feed is frozen in time..
Amethyst logs off and loses my settings when using Amber for logging in.
Too many GM posts
no one zaps hard enough
My Nostr Relay is seemingly never connected according to Settings in Primal GUI of Nostr.....red/green is always red 😢
The relay is running on UmbrelOS v1.2.2 on a Raspberry Pi 4 along with my Bitcoin node.
Thank you. I'll check it out.
i shouldnt complain cuz nostr is made for rich 1st world country b1tc0n3rs that travel the world to attend conferences, i should just go back to twitter or maybe bsky with all the brazilians refugees
They are. Try replying to or quoting other people's stuff, so that you appear in their notifications and they feel motivated to respond. Some of them will eventually click on your profile and maybe even follow you back or boost one of your notes.
No supermodel followers
Yess
LOL...
I take offense to that
Be billionaire 🥶
Just followed you. Problem solved. Unless you wanted female supermodels.
😂
now following you. So all good
Searching for users
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you can filter out GM, even if it is beautiful
fuyoooo🥸
People don’t seem to like me or my posts. How do I fix this?
Dr., put a smile on that laser eye pic! You’ll be everyone’s friend, at least that’s what grandma said.
There’s no algorithm 😱😱🔥🔥 we are lost in deep internet 😎🔥
I feel the same as a photographer and filmmaker. That's why I try to post something every single day. "It ain't much but it's honest work."
How should we follow people? What should be nostr follow etiquette?
Quit all other social media and double down...
I already did. Now what?
follow everyone 🤙
Agreed. So many “big accounts” don’t follow a lot of people.
Just mute any you don’t like. Simple.
you haven't even posted a 100 notes yet. low time preference and #proofofwork required here. 🤙
This is what I meant, using the reply approach would probably lead to a flood of low quality content that tries to capture someone's attention
Satoshi Fun
I am aware that the current paradigm for Nostr is smart client/dumb server. However do you think it might be useful to have some open-sou...
focus on the adds, not the subtractors, helped me. i feel what your saying & have run into this before(bad interpretations & neg.). it does seem shitposting gets more play than constructive guidance imo
Maybe there’s a way to “stack” things like this so the second one in the set is seen as “the new version.”
I was actually just messing around.
u got me, only because I like U lol
should have scrolled down first, look what U have started (o_O) nostr!
Replying to a previous posted note with clarification is a way of adding context. I enjoy screen captures of posts that big shots put out on x and later deleted. Shows the character of the people influencing others. Your notes can be saved by anyone with or without the memory hole button.
'no delete' as a feature not a bug.
"We" ? Did you either Primal, Umbrel or Nostr ? Did you expect an error message from a piece of software I mentioned in my post regarding the apparent lack of connection of my relay?
Please explain your message...
Yeah, that sounds great until you realize that your reply is lost in the replies and doesn't really add context for that reason. This has already been written about by @rabble and he makes better points.
It's neither a feature nor a bug.
you can use DVMs. they're available in Amethyst or on the web with noStrudel or Coracle just to name a few options.
noStrudel
A simple nostr web client focused on exploring nostr
oops looks like the link changed
noStrudel
A simple nostr web client focused on exploring nostr
Hello
it was a joke :)
I don't have famous bitcoiners/investors following me.
Sorry.
That's what SHE said
You have won the #nostr 🏆
My wallet is on one app (alby) and my nostr client is a different app (amethyst). And it's hard to tell what my sats balance is.
Also sometimes they get disconnected.
nothing yet
Yeah what gives?
It’s ok. I’m not famous but, I follow you! So you for that going for you, which is nice.
cuase you don't have your wallet set up, fella. 🐒
freedom me harder, daddy.
I can't help you with that, but now you have another fellow pleb following you
Very nice work, actually !
yes, annoying, meanwhile is implemented we have a workaround:
GitHub
GitHub - happylemonprogramming/gifbuddy: A gif companion app for nostr clients
A gif companion app for nostr clients. Contribute to happylemonprogramming/gifbuddy development by creating an account on GitHub.
GIF Buddy🫂
Happy to connect 🫡
Seriously now:
- very hard to tag people, even those I follow;
- I often see "events" and they don't load;
- I see a lot of "yes", "agreed", "totally" one after the other because the time-line is chronically order of follows, which is OK, but get no context unless I click on it.
Another thing that I just remembered: if someone sends a nostr note link, it's hard to get that to open in an app so I can engage with the note (reply, boost, like, etc), the same with a nostr profile.
Which app?
I'm using primal and amethyst.
Every app has its own peculiarities. If you are observing a behavior that you believe shouldnt be happening, tag the dev of the app (i.e. Vitor for amethyst, and Miljan for primal). You can use a basic rubric:
-what happens
-what I think should happen
-steps to recreate
-relevant noteID, neventID
-screenshots, or ideally screen recordings
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