Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

Your observation is accurate. Almost all early adopters had strong interest in Bitcoin... and Bitcoin is great, but there are a lot of underexplored possibilities across Nostr because the early users' needs were essentially met very early on. I'd be happy to answer questions as you explore, if you need. We have available many, many ways to explore and interact that aren't possible with anything else. Understanding the role of relays and how to use your key in various clients, are the first, largest, and most freeing pieces in figuring out how all of this works. The technological magic really starts happening once you've found a few things you enjoy using. As far as the culture, most of the people who've made a home for themselves in Nostr are good people, from all over the world. If you're looking to make meaningful connections, you're in the right place. There are a few jerks and scammers around, but that's everywhere, so just stay vigilant as you would in any new situation. Welcome to #thenostr .

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Dawn dawn@spatia-arcana.com 2 weeks ago

It's okay. I'm not an IT person either. That is how I have ended up in this position as a white rabbit. 😅 I guess the most basic Nostr thought experiment would be: When you write and post a note, where does it go? It obviously leaves your phone or computer, since other people are seeing it. Clearly, the answer is servers. In Nostr, those server are called relays. They are simple and light weight. Anyone can run one with minimal tech knowledge and no expensive hardware. Thousands exist and you can write your notes to almost any of them, as long as you have permission. Some of them host all content from anyone. Some are small, like a place for friends to hang out and chat. Others specialize in hosting very specific types of content, like blogs or music. Being new and beginning in Primal, you are probably sending your notes to 2 random relays + Primal's own relay right now. You didn't choose these, they were randomly chosen for you. Now, what if you can take a peek at what else is published to these relays? Do you want to talk to other people who use particular ones and send your notes there, too? Maybe some of these relays specialize in hosting content that you really love to browse? Maybe you'd like to create your own collection of posts that you think others would enjoy browsing? That is some of the stuff that I find interesting and under-explored. The concept spread so far that it's hard to capture in a single explanation. Many clients enable viewing relays directly as feeds, though in some it is not a showcased feature. I've seen Yakihonne suggested to you. It does a nice job on this task. Primal doesn't support it at all. If you make your way into Yakihonne, here are a few suggestions to browse: wss://aquaticchickentheory.nostr1.com wss://theforest.nostr1.com wss://spatia-arcana.com/favorites wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com/popular These all surface users and content a little differently. You might notice some overlap, because users & their notes can live anywhere. With no algorithms, this is how we can discover and organize content. (It's also how we keep the scammers and spammers out of our replies, but that is for a different day.)

Jumble

A user-friendly Nostr client for exploring relay feeds

is very good for this, too, and it's not overwhelmed with features.

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Kayne kayne@kayneapproved.me 2 weeks ago

Definitely try a few different apps / web clients. The trending feed on primal is always the same 25 people, the people who pay money for primal subscriptions. Also primal is heavily censored (they don't censor illegal content like childporn but they censor people who complain about it or even just a random political disagreement with their Devs will get you completely hidden from primal users. Yakihonne is a good alternative to primal if you want the trending feed and inbuilt lightning wallet.