Derek Ross

The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.

Developer Relations at Soapbox.

🪺 NostrNests.com
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🖼️ Zappix.app
🗓️ Plektos.app
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Last Notes

2026-03-27 03:07:02 UTC

Goodnight and wabi sabi, Nostr 🫂💜🤙🏻
Tonight I told my AI agent: "Clone the #MKStack template and build me something that provokes nostalgia."
It did. In one evening.
That's the move. Nostalgia is a cheat code for product market fit. People already know they miss these apps. You're not pitching a vision here. What you're doing is handing them back something they lost.
The more ideas you ship, the more chances something sticks. #DigitalSpaghetti
What app from the past do YOU wish existed on Nostr?

2026-03-27 01:39:03 UTC

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Putting in the work. 🫂🫂🫂

2026-03-27 01:38:02 UTC

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You're not my boss. https://blossom.primal.net/912f33eddaee20cc1ca0c580616ff21717f834692fb059f216bbb79f9b4335f8.png

2026-03-27 01:18:29 UTC

You can just mute angry people that want to infiltrate your bloomscrolling with doomscrolling.

2026-03-27 01:17:26 UTC

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I'm going to mute you now since you're not adding anything of value. Good luck out there.

2026-03-27 00:40:44 UTC

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You don't have room for the message. It's pretty clear. Make more room.

2026-03-27 00:39:10 UTC

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https://ditto.pub

2026-03-27 00:06:11 UTC

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It's an open protocol. He's allowed to be wrong.

2026-03-26 23:37:25 UTC

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I have all of my Google Buzz data and Google+ data. Maybe I should build a Nostr importer for it? 🤓

2026-03-26 23:35:58 UTC

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Lots of fun. Need to add #gamestr support 🥹

2026-03-26 23:32:30 UTC

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Generally speaking, Google lets you export all of your data though.

2026-03-26 23:25:23 UTC

If you're a fan of Gemini, you can now important your data from other tools. https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-gemini-now-lets-you-import-your-chats-and-data-from-other-ai-apps-225711015.html?src=rss&guccounter=1

2026-03-26 23:23:17 UTC

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Sir. Am I a joke to you?

2026-03-26 23:23:05 UTC

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That's a different app.

2026-03-26 23:22:57 UTC

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Okay.

2026-03-26 22:58:41 UTC

There will be signs. https://esawebb.org/news/weic2606/
https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/4da758a37ac218ed0df4870e7727e2db292bc888261abf63327aa97504c9a6eb.jpg

2026-03-26 17:39:58 UTC

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@nprofile…jejf failed you gif

2026-03-26 17:39:29 UTC

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*kinds
Dammit. Wisp even has an "oh fuck typo" feature and I just yolo smashed right through it.

2026-03-26 01:19:45 UTC

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Yes, Android. Can you show me what you saw?

2026-03-26 01:18:54 UTC

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Nightmare fuel.

2026-03-26 01:18:35 UTC

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DMs on Nostr are effectively broken.

2026-03-26 00:51:53 UTC

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No. We must go weirder.

2026-03-26 00:51:15 UTC

Meta + YouTube found liable for designing addictive platforms. Jury said "malice, oppression, or fraud." $6M damages, 1,600 more cases coming. The fix isn't better regulation of broken incentives. The fix isn't age verification (which most likely will happen). The fix is protocols that eliminate the incentive to exploit users entirely. That's Nostr. No algorithm farming your attention. No company profiting from your misery.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c747x7gz249o

2026-03-26 00:36:38 UTC

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I read the article without being forced to download anything.

2026-03-26 00:29:04 UTC

Update your iOS devices. Darksword is no joke.
https://mashable.com/article/iphone-exploit-darksword-spyware-released-in-the-wild

2026-03-25 23:03:40 UTC

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It's an open protocol.

2026-03-25 23:01:51 UTC

Gigi, I sent you a DM.
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/0aeb7560c271bbb1cef00760989acd9dd3f37bdc42b37852eecb0d0b70a3e862.jpg

2026-03-25 20:53:13 UTC

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Yes.

2026-03-25 14:56:09 UTC

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thanks for reporting these, man. we also have a ditto user group if you want to come in report them there too. here is fine though, we'll create issues and get them fixed asap :)

2026-03-25 14:48:18 UTC

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they're all nostr developers...

2026-03-25 14:47:57 UTC

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no, but i sent several NIP-04 DMs. feel free to comment on them.

2026-03-25 14:47:32 UTC

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sometimes you have to do this too. it's so bad :(

2026-03-25 14:45:33 UTC

can confirm. paul is cool.
#nevent1q…sz8x

2026-03-25 14:19:13 UTC

the state of nostr DMs: i have to DM 50 people. 75% were DMed on Signal. the other 25% i need to DM via nostr and im afraid they won't see it, so i am going to DM them on both NIP-04 and NIP-17 DMs.

2026-03-25 13:35:56 UTC

sometimes the man makes sense.
#nevent1q…j3j3

2026-03-25 13:35:42 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/F6sPuHut52gAAAAC/jbtzxclsv-you.gif

2026-03-25 13:34:55 UTC

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always be makin' moves.

2026-03-25 13:33:56 UTC

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oh really... now that's an interesting take... i must ponder.

2026-03-25 13:18:52 UTC

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I'm honestly not sure how that works.

2026-03-25 13:18:13 UTC

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It's literally a screenshot from my phone from me attempting to have a conversation and reply to it.

2026-03-25 13:10:14 UTC

AUTH!
#nevent1q…8tgf

2026-03-25 13:08:47 UTC

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Aww Arnie 🫂🫂🫂 GM!

2026-03-25 03:28:51 UTC

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Yes! It was a great show IMO.

2026-03-25 03:26:27 UTC

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@nprofile…tkue probably. He's weird.

2026-03-25 03:25:53 UTC

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I know, I know. That's what I shared it. It's a good feature that has use cases.

2026-03-25 03:21:54 UTC

That's a bad ass feature that will definitely not be used to troll your friends.
#nevent1q…05k6

2026-03-25 01:04:04 UTC

Baller.
#nevent1q…88et

2026-03-25 00:44:48 UTC

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thank you. ill add this to an existing related issue.

2026-03-24 23:14:36 UTC

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woot. flow was the name i voted for lol

2026-03-24 22:39:01 UTC

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yes. nostrnests.com was the place to be. many long lasting relationships were forged there. including marriages :)

2026-03-24 22:33:16 UTC

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Nests used to have 50-100 people on them every single night back in the day. We had live podcasts with 150+ people. The largest was 171 I believe.

2026-03-24 22:31:21 UTC

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I've been trying to get @nprofile…ae9u to merge them. You're like the 6th person that's asked me. Hopefully after my recent changes and migrations he will 🥹

2026-03-24 22:30:26 UTC

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Coincidentally I have been working on Nests the last week. Huge things are coming.

2026-03-24 21:16:35 UTC

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Perhaps some day 🥹

2026-03-24 20:46:28 UTC

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Well that's cool to know.

2026-03-24 18:31:08 UTC

Ditto has a built in GIF picker.
https://media.tenor.com/sQbyUA1N_UIAAAAC/the-office-hide.gif
#nevent1q…0fxe

2026-03-24 18:12:27 UTC

Ditto is your home for the decentralized web, including those protocols that aren't truly decentralized. Want to see what's going on with Bluesky? You can. https://ditto.pub/bluesky

2026-03-24 16:45:14 UTC

See you there!
#nevent1q…43d8

2026-03-24 15:16:29 UTC

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Looks great!

2026-03-24 14:30:59 UTC

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it's not a nostr.world conference, but it's a rebirth or a reimagining of it happening in about 2 months.

2026-03-24 14:20:11 UTC

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i think reactions are an easy one to nuke.

2026-03-24 14:19:00 UTC

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which is THE premier, yearly, nostr event.
honestly, nostr valley and nostrville are leading the charge here for yearly nostr events.

2026-03-24 14:17:48 UTC

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quake or tfc. either or. im down.

2026-03-24 14:01:55 UTC

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sorry, i don't use X

2026-03-24 14:00:50 UTC

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enjoy!

2026-03-24 13:59:41 UTC

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awesome lol. what are you building?

2026-03-24 13:37:24 UTC

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lookin' good!

2026-03-24 13:36:43 UTC

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#skills

2026-03-24 13:23:46 UTC

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2026-03-24 13:23:21 UTC

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it actually is beautiful. great work on this.

2026-03-24 12:14:33 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/lNMyjjSWLYcAAAAd/my-man-my-man-denzel.gif

2026-03-24 12:13:46 UTC

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PV 🤙🏻

2026-03-24 12:12:47 UTC

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Thank you sir. Making some coffee at the moment. It's time to get cracking!

2026-03-24 12:02:47 UTC

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Good morning 🌄

2026-03-24 12:02:24 UTC

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What a good bot. Letting us know that his post fit the Twitter constraints.

2026-03-24 12:00:55 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, kind 1 purists. It's time to use other kinds and have fun. 💜🫂🤙🏻

2026-03-24 11:57:45 UTC

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GM PV 🤙🏻🫂💜

2026-03-24 11:54:30 UTC

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Always be zapping. Though I can't zap right now on Ditto because I was building debug apks testing and I didn't set up zaps again. Zaps need to be easier.

2026-03-24 11:51:56 UTC

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Years of practice.

2026-03-24 11:51:37 UTC

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Thank you. Are you a fellow enthusiast of the weird?

2026-03-24 11:51:10 UTC

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Absolutely. Nostr puts you in charge of your attention. Nostr doesn't capture your attention. Nostr allows you to be in control of your attention.

2026-03-24 11:50:13 UTC

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I don't think this is a horrible idea, but I do think that clients themselves need to be better at onboarding. Maybe this is part of the onboarding process.

2026-03-24 11:48:37 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/JTqjaPpNpdMAAAAC/ace-shaq.gif

2026-03-24 11:47:00 UTC

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Cool and depressing that it's so small 😂😭

2026-03-24 11:42:40 UTC

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Woot. Thanks.

2026-03-24 03:38:10 UTC

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👀

2026-03-23 21:48:25 UTC

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RIP

2026-03-23 21:43:12 UTC

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Very true. And it's our greatest strength and our greatest weakness. From your point of view, what are some of Ditto's shortcomings?

2026-03-23 21:09:41 UTC

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Would you want to use it to create posts? Create images? Summarize posts? I'm not sure how it's used on X.

2026-03-23 20:56:30 UTC

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Working on it.

2026-03-23 20:55:46 UTC

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What?

2026-03-23 20:51:13 UTC

Ditto allows you to send Zap messages, but doesn't show you Zap messages received. We must remediate this crime against the protocol.

2026-03-23 20:43:52 UTC

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She doesn't use Nostr and she's no longer the boss 😬

2026-03-23 20:14:43 UTC

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yes, it's on zapstore and ios testflight right now.

2026-03-23 19:42:51 UTC

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i think that some of the executives were not working remotely and were still going into the office. i think it was out of jealously to be honest.

2026-03-23 19:42:06 UTC

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i could completely understand that and then the solution would have been to just go inside when making phone calls. very dumb.

2026-03-23 19:32:31 UTC

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bros should have understood.

2026-03-23 19:31:17 UTC

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awesome. thanks rabble!

2026-03-23 19:28:46 UTC

back during the covid times, when many of us were forced to work from home, my wife was forced to work from home too, and during nice days, she would sit outside and work on our back deck. we would do this together.
her boss lived in our neighborhood at the time. one day, her boss went for a walk over her lunch break. when she walked past our house, she heard my wife talking on the phone. (katie always talks loud when wearing a headset and we live in a quiet neighborhood. you probably wouldn't have been able to understand what she was saying from the road, but you would have heard someone talking and been able to tell it was her.)
the next day my wife was reprimanded for working outside as "not everyone in the company had the ability to sit outside" and this was "not a vacation". the company made people work remotely, but they dictated where employees could sit and work?
c'mon.
actual clown world.
anyways... i just randomly thought of that as i sit inside today wishing the weather was warmer like it was over the weekend so i can begin working outside on my deck again.

2026-03-23 19:07:23 UTC

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the fuck? i've been using amethyst for 3 years and i've never owned an iphone. begone troll.