I’m recording a Nostr Talks pod next week with a repeat guest. A lot to catch up in including some profound thinking on the overall architecture of Nostr apps. I can’t wait for the conversation and can’t wait to share it with you! 🤙

laid down some musical tracks in my attempt to become the Weird Al of tech:

digital scarcity

Starlink across the night sky 💫

anything nostr can do specifically to support scientific publishing/collaboration? thinking arxiv.org, sci-hub, etc.

Nostr Talks: @hodlbod on Christianity, Relay commoditization, and Subreddit-like things on Nostr I got a chance to catch up with Hodlbod, one of the original client developers on Nostr. We started by talking about how he sees his work on Nostr through the lens of Christianity (and his new podcast Thank God For Nostr which goes deeper on that). We also went deeper to discuss how much relay selection should be visible to users and how relay commoditization and competition might work in the future. Finally we did a deep brainstorm around relays and how they could fit into a Subreddit-like/Zine-like thing on Nostr. YouTube: Podcast:

Nostr Talks: Hodlbod round 2

Christianity in Nostr, Commoditization of relays, Subreddit-like things on Nostr

Hodlbod’s new pod “Thank God For Nostr”: https://tgfb.com/podcasts/thank-god-for-nostr/

this is great advice. everyone developing a new feature/app/service should make a video explaining the purpose/problem/demoing the current software. don’t worry about polish/editing. just get something out! each time you add a new feature make a new short video to demo/explain View quoted note →

a beautiful vision for the future of the Internet 🤩👇 View quoted note →

PV! 🤙 I just heard the good news that one of my fav Nostr developers and one of my fav Nostr designers might be collaborating to bring a radical new product to life. let’s think more about a post-App-Store world 💫

🫂 just landed 🤙 View quoted note →

Nostr Talks: @ottman@minds.com and Mark Harding on building Minds.com Minds.com is one of the original approaches to building a social networking service that seeks to empower users with more freedom (e.g., free speech, portable identities, etc.). Beginning over 10 years ago they’ve evolved the service to play a role in the modern architecture we’re exploring with Nostr. After Bill’s recent appearance talking about Nostr on Joe Rogan’s podcast we got a chance to dig deeper on the key philosophical and technical principles behind their work and how they think about Nostr. We were also lucky to include Mark Harding who is CTO of Minds. YouTube: Podcast:

Nostr Talks: Bill Ottman and Mark Harding on building Minds.com

We caught up with Bill and Mark to learn how they're thinking about the future of Minds.com and the principles they focus on while seeking to decen...

@ottman@minds.com CEO of Minds.com on why Nostr will succeed (full episode drops tomorrow)

zapplepay is a rad idea

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data live on relays or in a private db? @JeffG

Nostr News - Jul 13 - @Max and @David King + Nostr Documentary + is Threads good for “team open”? + Nostr, Lightning, AI + OpenSats congrats/roll call! YouTube: Podcast:

Nostr News - Jul 13 - Max Webster & DK

Nostr documentary, is Threads good for "team open"?, more AI topics

Threads is really well executed. I don’t love anything about the architecture (or the company that runs it), but I’m hopeful that they won’t backpedal on the “fediverse” commitment and that’s just a rhyme away from Nostr. So it could prove to be a good gateway to decentralization for a wider audience.

we already have the solution to bots and spam. we have digital scarcity. it’s just not evenly distributed

Primal took their leading client UX and open sourced the whole web app. Kudos to @miljan and team on this move. I love how Nostr enables us to explore different UX/decentralization tradeoffs. We’ll find better paths and serve more users this way. View quoted note →

stacker.news inspired a generation @k00b 🤙