I don't follow you, not even privately, but I catch almost everything you write and post. Yeah, even better than if I just followed you, because then you'd have to compete for attention with the 380 other people I just follow. But you're in a timeline with only a handful of other people. So your notes stand out, no matter when you wrote them, whether 10 minutes ago or 6 hours ago. I'm the boss of how I distribute my attention, not the feed. I decide who I want to listen to. That's Tribes. That's Nostr. Follower counts ain't shit.

The fiat world is unbearable these days. The amount of conformity it demands just to handle the most basic tasks is totally out of proportion to any benefit. Simple example: My booking got canceled. Just like that. I didn't even get a notification email about it. Makes you wonder why you even bother registering with the booking provider in the first place. Apparently, they don't want to use the user's email for their own good at all. A notification about the status change from booked to canceled would be the bare minimum a system could send out. Especially from a big, well-known provider. So I randomly check the app and see my booking isn't there anymore; instead, it's landed under the canceled bookings tab. I hunt around for reasons, even emailed them, but I doubt they'll reply. Wrong credit card entered? Which one's even the "right" one? The Turkish one? The Islamic one that doesn't give interest on your balance? Or the crypto card that's known for letting you spend Bitcoin directly? Or was it my email address I used to register with the booking provider? Because it didn't look like larryschmidt@gmail.com, but more like a disposable one such as clamshell.frown401@4wrd.cc? Is somebody offended because I don't trust them? Whatever it is this time, the fiat world and its conformity expectations are really getting on my nerves again, and they can all go screw themselves.

Yeah, that's interesting, isn't it? For years, we didn't give an axe about what's going on in Iran. Same as we didn't care about what's happening on the Fiji Islands or how folks in Benin are doing. But all of a sudden, everyone's super interested in Iran? Are you guys that into Fiji or Benin too?

New #NoorNote! Major architecture refactoring, cut down on relay loads, sped up the app's behavior with already fetched data, fixed a ton of bugs, and tribes are now stable and integrated into the timeline view. Go get it. View quoted note →

Low retention rates are either a sign of bad user experience or way too many bots and machine-created npubs. If you think about it, only a quarter of the published notes come from accounts that have profiles and follows... what does that tell us? Absolutely nothing. Excluding all those lonely newcomers through various Web of Trust methods, the ones who are just trying to build a circle right in the middle of the adaptation phase, isn't a solution either. So what's left? Zaps per account. Whoever regularly zaps at least two digits is a real user. Mostly. Almost always. Value for value. So it sticks to the old rule: If everything is free and there's no advertising, the user has to pay. Somehow. No way around it. And I think that's good.

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Tribes are now fully integrated into the timeline view in #NoorNote. One timeline for each tribe under its own tab. Never miss notes from the people who matter to you anymore.

What if a client showed notes of the people you interact most with (your inner circle, your tribe) to your followers? View quoted note →