Anyone want to test @0xchat with me? Not sure who else is using messaging that works with the new NIP-104 MLS

Granted, I am all for the movement to get rid of smartphones. Maybe that will pick up traction and web apps will become popular again. Sounds like a miracle, but we can pray. View quoted note →

The elephant in the room with decentralized social / messaging is that nobody will ever use a web app. A web app will *never* gain significant adoption. Better to have a severely limited and ugly native mobile app than to have an incredibly polished and robust web app.

The lack of user-owned compute will forever be the problem with Nostr. I’m bullish on Urbit again… can’t believe I’m saying it View quoted note →

I do love Rostra (and other P2P social things), but you will always run into this issue of compute. People want a feeling of security and safety. They want Access Control Lists, friend requests, permissions. You need compute for that. It’s why I still believe in Urbit. It’s the closest thing to a digital home we have. P2P social + safety and security. Users actually have their own compute. And it’s understandable where data lives (at my house, at your house, etc)

Extrapolating this out, why aren’t the biggest free relays showing us ads in our notifications? It’s simple. When a user queries for notes, every so often, present notes that they didn’t ask for. Maybe even base the ads you show them on their existing activity. You now have a rival to Google/Meta ads. View quoted note →

If the relay isn’t paid, it should be run by an existing business. It should be like a Pizza Planet relay that advertises pizza to you every so often in your notifications. That would be an honest and sustainable business model.

“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.” - Matt 10:34 View quoted note →

Has anyone tried to integrate something like

Proof of Humanity

Proof of Humanity - Registry of Verified Humans

Join the world's first registry of verified humans. Prove your humanity with decentralized identity verification.

or

BrightID

BrightID is a privacy-first social identity network that allows you to prove to applications that you are accessing them fairly with only one account.

to a Nostr app? I know linking secondary IDs has been done, but proving you’re not a bot in a way that maintains privacy seems genuinely useful and not just a secondary thing. @hodlbod @rabble

This is exactly the attitude that makes Nostr suck. The idea that everyone needs to be a creator is what *creates* the noise to begin with. Most people just want to simply hang out and be in community with others. You have value even if people are not paying for your time. The Libertarian mind is disgusting. View quoted note →

It’s a mode that only works for influencers. Two regular friends are not sending each other money like “hell yeah bro!” Attaching a monetary cost to every interaction is bizarre and unnatural. A “like” is essentially a high five or thumbs up. Acknowledgement from peers just like you get in real life. Nostr devs need to figure out if Nostr is for regular people or not. As of now it’s pretty much only workable for influencers with pre-existing audiences. View quoted note →

> Rostra utilizes Pkarr as a sovereign distributed naming/identy system, and iroh-net as a p2p transport layer. Awesome

GitHub

rostra/ARCHITECTURE.md at master · dpc/rostra

Rostra is a p2p (f2f) social network. Contribute to dpc/rostra development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just do a hardfork of the identity portion of Nostr. If you think nostr is “too big” to do that right now, you’re only kidding yourself. This place is a ghost down. Just re-do it from scratch. View quoted note →

Now imagine Delta Chat, but replacing the email components with Nostr View quoted note →