It doesn't need an email to use Buzz, it needs an email to use a Block / Buzz hosted relay. You can use someone else's relay or host your own without email.

You have to agree to age verification, too. That’s fine, it’s their policy as a company. But if I were going to use this for actual work (which it doesn’t seem ready for yet), I’d definitely run my own relay.

And I run my own Buzz relay for my workspace 🫂

"Centralized sign-ups undermine decentralization, a key nostr principle."

Oh. I did not see that during the onboarding process. It was the first thing it asked me for when I opened it. I’ll double check. Thanks.

Yeah it’s not ready, very slow and buggy right now on Linux. Also agents did allow me to use Ollama no matter what I tried.

My take: This will be great in a year once it’s had some time to get the bugs worked out. But trying to use it in its current form cost me actual money in wasted tokens and I had to undo all its weird worktrees to go back to my regular IDE setup when I got fed up with it. The multi-agent chat thread sounds like a good idea until you actually try to get them to delegate the work. Then it falls apart fast.

Yeah, I had the same reaction in general. I like new tools, I get that it will be better in the future. It’s not there yet.