I've seen a video here some weeks ago and now I can't find it. It was a dramatic voice reading something like a big tweet, the phrases were being shown as they were read. The entire tweet was a list of complaints about the current state of the internet, how annoying is to make logins on websites, do phone verification, KYC, and then everything is full of spam and so on. I think it was an old video that someone reposted, something like that. If you know what I'm talking about please help.

Of all the dystopian things in the current world, this is probably the one that causes me most direct pain: View quoted note →

Sparrow should have a "publish note from address" feature, right? View quoted note →

I've used 'nak key combine <pubkey1> <pubkey2>' to confirm that @{(Constant-Archon)} is really the merge of @Constant and @High Templar and you should do that too! View quoted note →

I've been noticing and saying this for months. Most centralized apps out there have horrible flaws and are broken in disgusting ways. Nostr UX is among the best possible in the world. View quoted note → Some people think Nostr just isn't massively successful because of UX, but that isn't true, can't be true. They completely overlook network effect and status quo bias. We don't need more rounded corners or a smoother feed, we need creative new ways to breach into the network effect properties of other social networks.

Ugly memes and LLM slop. View quoted note →

Another example of a thing that could have been a Nostr closed community that forced its members to use Nostr against their will:

Handmade Network

Handmade Network

A community of low-level programmers with high-level goals, working to correct the course of the software industry.

View quoted note → Do you know of other examples?

Fevela

A Nostr social client that give you back full control of your attention and time with an innovative interface

has draft/pending posts now. You can save for later: And later you can publish (as previously signed, with old timestamp) or edit and resign and republish -- or discard and delete. Notes that fail to publish (because you're offline or your relays are offline) are automatically saved. The "Pending" menu only shows up if you have anything pending.

I was trying to scrape a website briefly for research purposes. Fetching the HTML with curl using the correct combination of headers worked fine, but when I tried to do it from inside my program it returned an error 403, exact same headers, same IP, same URL. Eventually I found out that the website had Cloudflare in front and Cloudflare did client fingerprinting based on the TLS algorithms advertised or something like that, such that curl and browsers were allowed but not anything else. It worked when I switched my code to using libcurl. This is both stupid and dystopic. How did we get to this situation?

This is good. Clients should make different choices and be opinionated instead of trying to please everybody. View quoted note → As long as they all talk the same protocol.

Two immediate use-cases that came to my mind now are @Kieran's zap.stream server publishing stream announcements on behalf of users, and @DanConwayDev's git servers that can be controlled directly via ssh and still get repository announcements published under the correct user. View quoted note →

Satellites continue to be useless except for the governments that want to surveil, enslave and control you. View quoted note →

If we had server-side Nostr services that could seamlessly and safely sign stuff on behalf of users what are some useful things that could be built?

Time to fix this:

GitHub

just have a single "heart" emoji everywhere by fiatjaf · Pull Request #103 · dtonon/fevela

Before: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e708aa8b-c164-4f1b-ac39-5ddd58ad31df After: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/771e21a6-...

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Why are all Nostr clients trying to copy X, and yet they have a thousand emojis to select reactions from when X only has 1? Who decided that more is always better than 1 and making the user choose is always better than simplifying things?

Who said Nostr doesn't have valuable original content? View quoted note →

Here, for example:

Lobsters

What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet) (2023)

48 comments

A group of technology enthusiasts clamoring for an open DM protocol and no one telling them about the great news of NIP-17 privacy-preserving messaging that works + user-chosen relays for maximum decentralization. View quoted note →

There will come the day in which people will have to pay others to look at their AI-generated websites with lots of gradients, many words but completely void of any useful content whatsoever.

Is Nostr a DDoS machine?