Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr! Finding interesting people to follow has always been one of the biggest challenges for new users on Nostr. Even experienced users often struggle to discover new communities and voices. Following._ makes it easy to curate lists of users and share them with anyone on the web. Whether you're helping newcomers get started or building a niche community, Following._ allows you to grow connections on Nostr. You can create your own follow pack in minutes and share it anywhere. Here’s an example: https://following.space/d/d27a91a4-6155-4089-b4de-377e24dde08d I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are. I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it. Peace image

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nostr村のグループを作りたい衝動にかられるけど、全員を知っているわけではないし、厳密に言えば私は村の一員ではないので、作るべきではない🚫
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Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr! Finding interesting people to follow has always been one of the biggest challenges for new users on Nostr. Even experienced users often struggle to discover new communities and voices. Following._ makes it easy to curate lists of users and share them with anyone on the web. Whether you're helping newcomers get started or building a niche community, Following._ allows you to grow connections on Nostr. You can create your own follow pack in minutes and share it anywhere. Here’s an example: https://following.space/d/d27a91a4-6155-4089-b4de-377e24dde08d I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are. I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it. Peace image
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The power fish has largely been recognized as a symbol of oppressed people fighting for their rights. Commies coopting it makes it mean no less than it ever has. They're just using it wrong, like so many other things.
Vibe code in that amber login for mobile plz. 🫂💜
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Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr! Finding interesting people to follow has always been one of the biggest challenges for new users on Nostr. Even experienced users often struggle to discover new communities and voices. Following._ makes it easy to curate lists of users and share them with anyone on the web. Whether you're helping newcomers get started or building a niche community, Following._ allows you to grow connections on Nostr. You can create your own follow pack in minutes and share it anywhere. Here’s an example: https://following.space/d/d27a91a4-6155-4089-b4de-377e24dde08d I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are. I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it. Peace image
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Let's interop! image ``` ~ » nak req --id 9b319e7eb86cd7cdbee9c0cf8666f7ecdf064ca154add69b12d66cd737609ff1 wss://relay.damus.io | jq cc@ddd-2 connecting to wss://relay.damus.io... ok. { "kind": 39089, "id": "9b319e7eb86cd7cdbee9c0cf8666f7ecdf064ca154add69b12d66cd737609ff1", "pubkey": "50d94fc2d8580c682b071a542f8b1e31a200b0508bab95a33bef0855df281d63", "created_at": 1745952167, "tags": [ [ "title", "Bitcoin devs" ], [ "d", "acc8bfac-7b00-4c07-b607-d38b8e53bf0f" ], [ "image", "https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6192808c25837d3716982433/62113f494ad9edeec083a0b9_blog-3.png" ], [ "p", "8685ebef665338dd6931e2ccdf3c19d9f0e5a1067c918f22e7081c2558f8faf8" ], [ "p", "50d94fc2d8580c682b071a542f8b1e31a200b0508bab95a33bef0855df281d63" ], [ "p", "ccaa58e37c99c85bc5e754028a718bd46485e5d3cb3345691ecab83c755d48cc" ], [ "p", "3d2e51508699f98f0f2bdbe7a45b673c687fe6420f466dc296d90b908d51d594" ] ], "content": "", "sig": "b2c635d9308dbe0df89921f8f3a1c09bfad416c66aef870fd387fa87fbbb744852586465fc43faf2941998de7eb185af64e6a67fefb01c0b93c124a77981f686" } ```
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Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr! Finding interesting people to follow has always been one of the biggest challenges for new users on Nostr. Even experienced users often struggle to discover new communities and voices. Following._ makes it easy to curate lists of users and share them with anyone on the web. Whether you're helping newcomers get started or building a niche community, Following._ allows you to grow connections on Nostr. You can create your own follow pack in minutes and share it anywhere. Here’s an example: https://following.space/d/d27a91a4-6155-4089-b4de-377e24dde08d I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are. I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it. Peace image
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Building an API for various clients to integrate against (in a gracefully degrading way) would be excellent.
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0x80085 7 months ago
McLovin' it! Wish I could login to ot on mobile, maybe Im too dense skulled to figure out how. Some pack suggestions: Streamer pack Per language packs Foodstr pack Alt-news pack Obligatory cats pack
It's only been recognized like that by socialists. For over 100+ years everyone else has seen it as a symbol of tyrannical regimes. The raised socialist fist became famous in Germany through the Roter Frontkämpferbund (Alliance of Red Front-Fighters), a far-left paramilitary communist organization founded during the Weimar Republic in the 1920s. This group used the clenched fist as their symbol on all insignia, and the gesture later became a worldwide symbol for anti-fascist pro-communist groups. In Americs the Socialist Party of America made the raised fist symbol famous. This symbol became prominent during the labor and socialist movements in the early 20th century, representing solidarity and resistance It's always has been THE symbol for communism.
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Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr! Finding interesting people to follow has always been one of the biggest challenges for new users on Nostr. Even experienced users often struggle to discover new communities and voices. Following._ makes it easy to curate lists of users and share them with anyone on the web. Whether you're helping newcomers get started or building a niche community, Following._ allows you to grow connections on Nostr. You can create your own follow pack in minutes and share it anywhere. Here’s an example: https://following.space/d/d27a91a4-6155-4089-b4de-377e24dde08d I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are. I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it. Peace image
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Yea. I think there's an under utilization of NIP05 as a graph of connections. And having multiple could be interesting for some people. I.e. gary@shenandoahbitcoin.club gary@bitcoinveterans.org gary@virginiafreedom.tech all resolve to my npub.
For the #nostrWelcomePack this new website could be very helpful : nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq5xeflpdskqvdq4swxj59793uvdzqzc9pzatjk3nhmcg2h0js8trqyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpzemhxue69uhks6tnwshxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyqv3tqt7u5fayd778ugfqmtscdnunpkk68vm0g4tq73gcc972epvjcwezqz npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg did a really very great job ! Perhaps we can add a follow pack about people that want #grownostr and have ideas about that. What you think about that @𝙰𝚂𝙲𝙾𝚃 ↯ ?
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0x80085 7 months ago
Alas it doesn't work yet on mobile, even with the nos2x extension for mobile browser.
I've been wanting a tool like this for a very long while. This should make my on-boarding initiatives all that much easier. Application developers can even add this to their apps. We all benefit. I'll be adding a #GrowNostr pack here soon, one that focuses those building communities, hosting events, meetups, and really pushing Nostr adoption.
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Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr! Finding interesting people to follow has always been one of the biggest challenges for new users on Nostr. Even experienced users often struggle to discover new communities and voices. Following._ makes it easy to curate lists of users and share them with anyone on the web. Whether you're helping newcomers get started or building a niche community, Following._ allows you to grow connections on Nostr. You can create your own follow pack in minutes and share it anywhere. Here’s an example: https://following.space/d/d27a91a4-6155-4089-b4de-377e24dde08d I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are. I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it. Peace image
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k03rader 7 months ago
Any plans to generate the clusters automatically using vertex?
even if I have nos2x installed (and working) on a desktop browser... this site still acts like it's not installed. It's a installed and activated on the browser and that site. " Please install a NIP-07 compatible browser extension like Alby or nos2x "
Even with the extension? Do you get a message that the extension hasn't been found?
Waiting for the client that will let me encrypt my notes to certain follow lists and we have a solid Google+ Circles replacement
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Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr! Finding interesting people to follow has always been one of the biggest challenges for new users on Nostr. Even experienced users often struggle to discover new communities and voices. Following._ makes it easy to curate lists of users and share them with anyone on the web. Whether you're helping newcomers get started or building a niche community, Following._ allows you to grow connections on Nostr. You can create your own follow pack in minutes and share it anywhere. Here’s an example: https://following.space/d/d27a91a4-6155-4089-b4de-377e24dde08d I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are. I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it. Peace image
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karo 7 months ago
@calle did
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Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr! Finding interesting people to follow has always been one of the biggest challenges for new users on Nostr. Even experienced users often struggle to discover new communities and voices. Following._ makes it easy to curate lists of users and share them with anyone on the web. Whether you're helping newcomers get started or building a niche community, Following._ allows you to grow connections on Nostr. You can create your own follow pack in minutes and share it anywhere. Here’s an example: https://following.space/d/d27a91a4-6155-4089-b4de-377e24dde08d I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are. I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it. Peace image
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Guessing this is the green check you're referencing.
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Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr! Finding interesting people to follow has always been one of the biggest challenges for new users on Nostr. Even experienced users often struggle to discover new communities and voices. Following._ makes it easy to curate lists of users and share them with anyone on the web. Whether you're helping newcomers get started or building a niche community, Following._ allows you to grow connections on Nostr. You can create your own follow pack in minutes and share it anywhere. Here’s an example: https://following.space/d/d27a91a4-6155-4089-b4de-377e24dde08d I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are. I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it. Peace image
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Is there a way to use a pre-existing list so I dot have to repopulate ones. I've made a few lists like this already:)
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Sovereign Ron 7 months ago
Boom.
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Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr! Finding interesting people to follow has always been one of the biggest challenges for new users on Nostr. Even experienced users often struggle to discover new communities and voices. Following._ makes it easy to curate lists of users and share them with anyone on the web. Whether you're helping newcomers get started or building a niche community, Following._ allows you to grow connections on Nostr. You can create your own follow pack in minutes and share it anywhere. Here’s an example: https://following.space/d/d27a91a4-6155-4089-b4de-377e24dde08d I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are. I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it. Peace image
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One of the coolest things about nostr is that you can make something for free and if people find it valuable, they can zap you. I recommend zapping the absolute shit out of Calle‘s post. To encourage and reward him, and to encourage more development of similar things on nostr. View quoted note →
Whats the main difference between this and the k:3000 follow sets? and how should an app implement both? The app is built really well but this feels like duplicate event kinds 😕
these have a slightly different purpose. to quote fiatjaf, and why I chose a different kind: a "categorized list of people I follow" is different from "this starter pack I made for others"
okay, so they should be implemented as a starter pack. so probably shown in the signup flow 👍
Great for onboarding
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Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr! Finding interesting people to follow has always been one of the biggest challenges for new users on Nostr. Even experienced users often struggle to discover new communities and voices. Following._ makes it easy to curate lists of users and share them with anyone on the web. Whether you're helping newcomers get started or building a niche community, Following._ allows you to grow connections on Nostr. You can create your own follow pack in minutes and share it anywhere. Here’s an example: https://following.space/d/d27a91a4-6155-4089-b4de-377e24dde08d I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are. I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it. Peace image
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To be honest that was just my ex post facto rationalization of your choice to use a new kind. 30000 would have worked well, but an argument can be made for both sides.
no it does make sense. People create lists of npubs for many different reasons. These are supposed to be short lists specifically for onboarding, not for categorizing personal lists.
It is way better than communities ! And groups , and rooms .. and teams
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Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr! Finding interesting people to follow has always been one of the biggest challenges for new users on Nostr. Even experienced users often struggle to discover new communities and voices. Following._ makes it easy to curate lists of users and share them with anyone on the web. Whether you're helping newcomers get started or building a niche community, Following._ allows you to grow connections on Nostr. You can create your own follow pack in minutes and share it anywhere. Here’s an example: https://following.space/d/d27a91a4-6155-4089-b4de-377e24dde08d I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are. I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it. Peace image
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"follow lists" can also be private (encrypted) where as follow packs should only be public What said I'm worried apps will start mixing them and users will get confused what is a follow pack and whats a list
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Joe 7 months ago
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#Nostr seems unstoppable #grownostr #freedom nevent1qqspj9vp0mj3853hmcl3pyrdwrpk0jvx6mgandaz4vr69rrqhety9jgmlxx43
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KryptoMarto 7 months ago
I was thinking what I need. And it was Following_
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Let's interop! image ``` ~ » nak req --id 9b319e7eb86cd7cdbee9c0cf8666f7ecdf064ca154add69b12d66cd737609ff1 wss://relay.damus.io | jq cc@ddd-2 connecting to wss://relay.damus.io... ok. { "kind": 39089, "id": "9b319e7eb86cd7cdbee9c0cf8666f7ecdf064ca154add69b12d66cd737609ff1", "pubkey": "50d94fc2d8580c682b071a542f8b1e31a200b0508bab95a33bef0855df281d63", "created_at": 1745952167, "tags": [ [ "title", "Bitcoin devs" ], [ "d", "acc8bfac-7b00-4c07-b607-d38b8e53bf0f" ], [ "image", "https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6192808c25837d3716982433/62113f494ad9edeec083a0b9_blog-3.png" ], [ "p", "8685ebef665338dd6931e2ccdf3c19d9f0e5a1067c918f22e7081c2558f8faf8" ], [ "p", "50d94fc2d8580c682b071a542f8b1e31a200b0508bab95a33bef0855df281d63" ], [ "p", "ccaa58e37c99c85bc5e754028a718bd46485e5d3cb3345691ecab83c755d48cc" ], [ "p", "3d2e51508699f98f0f2bdbe7a45b673c687fe6420f466dc296d90b908d51d594" ] ], "content": "", "sig": "b2c635d9308dbe0df89921f8f3a1c09bfad416c66aef870fd387fa87fbbb744852586465fc43faf2941998de7eb185af64e6a67fefb01c0b93c124a77981f686" } ``` View quoted note →
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Really cool. In the nostr-follow-list readme it says that follow lists events are "parameterized replaceable events". Therefore a client that implements follow packs should track the list's UUID (d tag) and ignore older events with the same UUID i suppose ?
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matevz 7 months ago
I don't get it. Why not just use hashtag?
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Manuel 7 months ago
@calle Hi! What's your current go to AI for coding and building? Do you pay any license?
This is one way. When you think of the better way, build it or suggest someone builds it. In the mean time we have these great ideas as improvements
Given that these are intended to assist new users with onboarding, or existing users with finding people worth following, I'd imagine adding something into the onboarding flow that pulled in these follow sets would be the way to go, and adding in a "Discovery" page within the client where these follow sets can be found would be another. I envision that if a new user knows someone on Nostr already, they could type in their NIP-05 during onboarding and be presented with follow sets created by that existing user and those within their web-of-trust. That would likely be more than enough to keep the new user from being too overwhelmed by options. Meanwhile, a "Discovery" page within the client could allow the user to view ALL follow sets in a "global" feed, "popular" follow sets based on some standard of popularity (pagerank maybe?), or "network" follow sets created by those within the user's web-of-trust.
Awesome! You wanna help me build this out? Working on MVP for Las Vegas conf RN : “scan QR for instant account and anon (gift wrapped) DM thread with me on Nostr.” Would be great to have follow sets integrated (for new accounts to browse, and event for QR invites to “recommend). @Derek Ross and I plan to onboard tons of folks at the LV conf! I’ll be integrating GrapeRank shortly after the conf, to generate “automatic” recommendations of follows and follow sets and other stuff. I’ve already built the algo engine:
Already on it! This is pretty nice! Is the QR code on the invite screen supposed to be scannable, or is that still a WIP? My phone didn't pick up that it was a QR code. It's much better looking than the old onboardstr.vercel.app or nostr.do (now dead). It's also nice that it creates an ncryptsec, rather than bare nsec, for the new user that they can then import into a compatible client, or into Amber. Obviously a lot of things that aren't up and running yet, but I like where this is going!
Yup. QR code is at the bare edge of scannable … due to image overlay and other styles … easily tweakable once I get to this. I’ve put a lot of thought into this app … it’s my baby. Ncryptsec is bare minimum of what an onboard app SHOULD provide. You nailed it with your ideas above … so thought you’d enjoy taking a look.
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twofish 7 months ago
@RedTailHawk I think we should do this eventually.
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Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr! Finding interesting people to follow has always been one of the biggest challenges for new users on Nostr. Even experienced users often struggle to discover new communities and voices. Following._ makes it easy to curate lists of users and share them with anyone on the web. Whether you're helping newcomers get started or building a niche community, Following._ allows you to grow connections on Nostr. You can create your own follow pack in minutes and share it anywhere. Here’s an example: https://following.space/d/d27a91a4-6155-4089-b4de-377e24dde08d I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are. I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it. Peace image
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k03rader 7 months ago
@calle how about creating block pack for blockong bots? I think it's safe to say that almost all the reactions to here are bots:
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Who is joining us at Pizza Day in Prague? I heard that the organizers are struggling because of the increasing running costs of operating such a co-working space (second culture). Hopefully this event will help them to stay afloat! https://2025.pizzaday.cz/ @npub1e85m...v9em 10000
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Beau 7 months ago
How can I learn more about this and what’s a bunker? image
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0x80085 7 months ago
I realized I forgot to log into the extension, which is why the login button didn't work. After logging in, it's now functioning properly. Tldr i was dumb
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