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El 2 weeks ago
Thank you for taking the time to explain all of this! I like your observation that Nostr is what you make of it, and I think “find your weird” is a philosophy I can comfortably get behind. I think I needed it for a while now. And yes, I would love to hear more about relays and how you use them to shape your experience here. I don’t know if it matters, but I have an iPhone and I’m not in IT. Which client would you recommend? Also, what kind of stuff do you write, and is any of your work available somewhere I could read it? And thank you for being one of the first people to engage with me here! It’s made my introduction to this strange little corner of the internet considerably more interesting.

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I genuinelly love the nature of the nostr protocol. It is simple, versatile, useful, and all sorts of other things. Many people were patient with me when I was a much more bumbling n00b when I first landed in this strange place. You can blame yourself for my reply since it was much better than the standard introduction note. You have a viewpoint that is unique and you express yourself very well. Finding your weird is a very layered concept, and I am glad that it has tickled your fancy. I would pont you to Wisp (what I currently prefer, though I am in an android device) or Damus. Either of which will, initially provide a fairly substantial increase in reliability of standard functions. I won't get into why I detest primal in at the moment, as I honestly wish you to find your own opinions through experience. The only disaster is losing control of your nsec (the private key of the pair of keys that everything in your current instantiation of identity rideson). Relays are the data servers that your client collects information from in order to put together what you see and read. Clients are the apps or services that allow the wild variety of things to happen via the protocol itself. Choosing different relays is a transformative experience. Some are intentionally clean. Some are very, very disgusting. This is because of the permissionless nature of the protocol. Everything of humanity is present, from the best to the very worst. I have my preferences based on my experiences and my efforts. (I test a lot of things, and am afforded access to things that some can't access or would otherwise have to pay to access. I am happily privileged!) I am writing a fantasy novel, an homage to my favorite genre of Japanese pop culture, Isekai. I have not published any parts of it on the protocol yet, but, I am always looking for test readers. I would welcome your feedback as a reader (but not an editor, as that's something best left to someone who is paid to do so, in my opinion, and only after the basics are fixed by my self-hosted agent @It's Headly! (The Bot) ). You only have yourself to blame for my intervention. You write well. I was interested enough to engage and my effort has been rewarded. 😁
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