hodlbod

Christian Bitcoiner and developer of the coracle.social nostr client.
Learn more at https://coracle.tools

Public Key

npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn

NIP-05 Address

hodlbod@coracle.social

NIP-57 Address

hodlbod@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgspr9mhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5q3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7lk4m4v

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pyramid.fiatjaf.com

relay.damus.io

directory.yabu.me

Author Public Key

npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn

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Last Notes

2024-09-20 00:36:32

I spent a few hours today learning about Capacitor plugins, AndroidManifest.xml, and the Intents API.
https://media1.tenor.com/m/7QhoA9wcstgAAAAd/confused-no.gif
I now have a 500k sat bounty open for getting NIP 55 signing working in Coracle for Android:
https://github.com/coracle-social/coracle/issues/421
Be sure to check out the "bounties" section of the contributing guidelines: https://github.com/coracle-social/coracle/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#bounties
#nevent1q…zgyy

2024-09-19 19:15:40

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Amber doesn't currently work

2024-09-19 16:52:57

NOW
https://github.com/coracle-social/coracle/releases/tag/0.4.10
#nevent1q…vjay

2024-09-19 16:39:01

Hello from Coracle Android

2024-09-18 23:29:29

The spam replies to this note are absolutely surreal
#nevent1q…tkse

2024-09-18 23:23:06

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Me too

2024-09-17 23:45:52

Check it out, HRF just announced their list of grantees, and Coracle is on it!
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/hrf-bitcoin-development-fund-grants-10-btc-to-20-projects-worldwide/
Related: I'm looking for a contractor to help me push Coracle's development forward. Please get in touch via my job posting if you're interested in working together!
https://bitcoinerjobs.com/job/1561575-web-application-developer

2024-09-17 21:03:10

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@nprofile…s3nl

2024-09-17 21:02:39

Trying to put together a T-shirt design for Coracle, any designers/illustrators want to take a stab? Will pay/zap.
Here are a few AI-generated images that approximate what I'm going for.
https://image.nostr.build/35c6ff139a65e1154a55658cda0247659388d0f79830aceb1f545aa47b1b0c7d.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/3b44f69152d5a00f449a832af4bee520a4ae5256ecca7d2718fd5251cf12f785.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/eb4d9384935d6504ed2da4dfe8cc337bbbc69cb1df157239f7b151ca6e9d7914.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/3a8906581680e614a9cb8a16cbe688118cf7d9d3dd6f6dd6d721f634feef73d0.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/37d4d9299fabaddcdcf922f9429daf8ace08bb1876136bfbe7d1139bd7c2ca78.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/826f5baf82a7da159d3f932842c3e9e4248da094872571728d8918ec3e41e802.jpg

2024-09-16 20:50:28

Finally migrated to AlbyHub today, and I have to say it was a really good experience, even self-hosted.

2024-09-16 15:40:57

My DMs this morning 😂
https://image.nostr.build/2ab329a501e0bfc6ef92d54b9913843dcff0fbbdadc81e60d010435e2cae6ba8.png

2024-09-14 23:15:51

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Hmmm should be follows by default. Can you send a screenshot of the filter edit dialog after a refresh?

2024-09-13 15:46:34

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Guess I'll have to build my own

2024-09-13 15:43:28

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Sounds like my kind of gym

2024-09-13 03:41:20

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Nature is healing

2024-09-12 02:42:41

9/11 has become my favorite day to be on nostr for. So many people here get it. I felt very alone for a very long time. Maybe it should actually be a holiday: Truth Day or something.

2024-09-11 04:07:40

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lol

2024-09-09 22:09:30

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In a sense, but crafting events specifically to change the behavior of other clients just devolves into antagonism, it doesn't fix anything.

2024-09-09 21:43:26

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I use the word hijacking because of what you said. "I always side with letting people know, even when their client doesn't want them to know." implies you're bypassing the design decisions of other clients on purpose.

2024-09-09 21:31:59

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How am I forcing anything? I'm asking you to make a change I think serves your (and my) users.

2024-09-09 20:34:16

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Having diverse clients is good because it supports user choice. Implementing certain features in such a way that it hijacks other clients' feature set to support your opinions about how they should be built seems antithetical to user choice and an open protocol.

2024-09-09 16:26:21

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I've never been able to get a straight answer on this — why not use the one on your keyboard?

2024-09-09 16:11:33

I have a question for #amethyst users. I'm not asking this to dish on @nprofile…2dqr , but only because his users are my users, and I care about my users' (for lack of a better word) "safety" on nostr.
Currently, when you report something, Amethyst does two things:
- Publishes a kind 1984 report event
- Reacts on your behalf with a ⚠️ kind 7 reaction
TLDR; do you find the emoji reaction to be a problem? Full background below.
I've always been skeptical of public reports, because regardless of intent, they publicly and permanently associate your public key with objectionable content. This may be as harmless as reporting spam, which is fine to do publicly, or as sensitive as reporting directed abuse (sharing additional information about your associations), or reporting CSAM (which is a legal gray area in some jurisdictions, since it may constitute "advertising" the content).
I personally use @nprofile…7u7y 's @nprofile…3ch8 to anonymously and privately process reports in Coracle, because I want to protect my users as much as possible. But I'll admit that use of kind 1984 is nuanced and open to debate.
Much worse than using kind 1984 though, which semantically fits the concept of "reporting", is using reactions to signal reports. First of all, this doesn't really add any new information that kind 1984 doesn't already contain. It also has the effect of generating content on behalf of a user that they may not know they're consenting to.
In many clients (formerly including Coracle), "likes" are not filtered down by emoji, and so these kind 7 "reports" end up showing up as "likes". Completely fixing this problem is impossible, because it requires mapping a high-fidelity subjective medium (emojis) to a low-fidelity objective medium (up/down vote) in order to show likes. This can only be done with a reasonable degree of reliability for a very few emojis. This creates a problem for like-based clients in that lots of reactions can't be included in like tallies, resulting in lower social signal.
At any rate, I implemented the partial fix of whitelisting "obviously positive" emojis when calculating "likes" a long time ago, because reactions can be negative. I however didn't apply this to the "likes" tab on user profile pages, which was brought to my attention earlier this year when an Amethyst user asked me why a bunch of CSAM was showing up under his "likes". He wasn't aware that "reporting" in Amethyst created a public record of his consumption (unintentional or otherwise) of illegal porn.
This problem has since been fixed in Coracle, but likely still occurs in other clients that haven't yet addressed this problem, "trending" algorithms, and coracle custom feeds based on retrieving kind 7 (since kind 7 sentiment can't be filtered against on the relay side).
This is a Really Bad Thing, because it results clients advertising content as connected with the person who had intended to dissociate themselves with it. While clients processing reactions can mitigate this, the root issue is that a field for user-generated content is being overloaded for use in an application-specific context.
So, that's my opinion. What do you think? Do you find it surprising that reports in Amethyst may be treated as "likes" in other clients? Is it Amethyst's fault for creating the reactions, or other clients' fault for not filtering them out?
For more discussion, see the thread on github: https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability/issues/88

2024-09-07 18:25:44

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That's great to hear, I loved that presentation but figure it was probably pretty arcane for most people. The above note is just my way of saying I'm way in over my head. And I wouldn't have it any other way 😂

2024-09-06 23:31:07

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Yeah, that's a super good point. It could end up going that direction. I would hope that issuers would be kept accountable by the people trusting them, and get bad reviews if they didn't do their job, like anything else. That would allow for a decentralized system without a deep and brittle hierarchy like with CAs.
One problem with root CAs is probably that they're baked in to the OS/Browser at a low level, and need to be trustworthy for every request, rather than being a bootstrapping mechanism. The moment a root CA gets compromised everyone using a certificate downstream is in trouble. The same would be true of a WoT bootstrapping service, but the duration the certificate needs to be valid would be days or weeks, not years (taking renewals into account).

2024-09-06 23:00:31

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I think the bootstrapping should be more open-ended, and I'm skeptical of stuff that tries to put things on bitcoin. OTS is a neat idea, but it's centralized in practice, and isn't long-term economical. This seems similar.
That said, it could be one good way to do it, although my ideal would be to use the web of trust to validate bootstrapped-trust providers, who would vouch for new pubkeys (using a badge or something). How the new pubkey gets that badge would be completely open-ended — it could be a captcha, payment, proof of work, KYC check, whatever. The badge would then expire after a short period of time, during which the new user would want to gain followers to get into the web.

2024-09-06 17:32:55

I'm a pretty poor philosopher, but it's ok, I'm also a pretty poor developer so it all evens out

2024-09-05 22:41:38

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Unfortunately there are so many of them that someone in your network would have had to mute each one for that to work (unless you're going to set your wot threshold above 0, which is probably not that common)

2024-09-04 21:08:24

Just got my copy of Dreamkeeper Saga, thanks @Jordan Eskovitz! https://image.nostr.build/ad2806aab282fff17b8b09f44c4ab8ee047d38495ed35ad4f080da124127e9e7.jpg

2024-09-04 18:49:37

The most annoying bugs are big bugs that are the confluence of many smaller, interrelated bugs that look similar

2024-09-04 16:35:25

Over-promise, under-deliver, that's what I always say

2024-09-04 16:18:34

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PESTO https://image.nostr.build/261ad84c74d69846d416d06dd3c9cf3cc472d8cdecb6c81cf69e9f5665237112.jpg
Honestly embarrassing, my excuse is it's fall, time to fill it up with beef and venison.

2024-09-04 16:16:46

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Usually it's stored in the app/browser, hopefully never on the server. You can also use extensions like nos2x or alby to protect your key from the app, or you can use NIP 46 signers like nsec.app or Amber to hold your own keys and sign remotely.

2024-09-04 13:17:48

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Bang for buck

2024-09-04 13:09:38

I'm a podcaster dur hur https://image.nostr.build/0a986e49c117e37a205b4c169914d09578ecc7bf8e5ec9eaccfca8e76486d30b.jpg

2024-09-03 20:40:32

True https://image.nostr.build/963ad0630b411781192cdd680116bb9aac614ed5a229640f1f7b860b348630ff.jpg

2024-09-03 19:09:48

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I've heard good things about rsync

2024-09-03 16:15:49

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Someday I'll sit down and singlehandedly solve social key rotation

2024-09-03 13:50:37

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Key delegation and revokation (or even better, rotation) are badly needed, but NIP 26 isn't it.
Some recent discussion on the topic: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1452
I'm sure your perspective on the problem would be very welcome.

2024-09-02 22:27:53

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Just prayed for her. Lord, have mercy.

2024-09-02 17:33:28

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Cool, that was part of my vision with nip 32 originally, so that makes total sense. You could incorporate 10003s into that too, just with less granularity.

2024-09-02 16:48:07

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I think that looks fine, although is there a reason you're not using kind 10003 bookmarks with `r` tags?

2024-09-01 19:35:06

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@nprofile…7vp8 he's joking, it's a joke

2024-09-01 14:20:53

Anyone have tips and tricks to help this pleb recover his friend's stash?
#nevent1q…j68z

2024-09-01 14:17:08

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Dag, hand-typed link
https://github.com/coracle-social

2024-09-01 14:16:38

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Yeah, it totally is
https://github com/coracle-social

2024-09-01 14:14:49

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I don't follow my own advice, but here are my recommendations:
- only use nceyptsec to store and transfer keys
- Host your own bunker and relay and log in with nip 46
Both of those are easier said than done currently.

2024-08-31 15:09:58

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Out of band backups will eventually be a huge part of nostr

2024-08-31 13:53:00

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Ah, ok I will look at upgrading, thanks

2024-08-31 13:47:13

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Thank you sirs

2024-08-31 03:38:28

Could someone ACK this PR so we can merge it?
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1333
@nprofile…vnvj @nprofile…ul9r @nprofile…g5cd

2024-08-31 00:37:44

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Just found the issue, it looks like bitcoin-connect is trying to download fonts. @nprofile…nryl @nprofile…fv6h any way you can fix that for us?

2024-08-30 12:59:34

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That is super annoying, I'll see if I can track it down

2024-08-30 02:14:28

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I honestly forgot about that setting, but yes, that would be a great way to handle it

2024-08-29 21:34:33

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Humans are amazing

2024-08-29 20:24:49

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"vegan hotel"

2024-08-29 16:00:21

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Post it and I'll see if I can make it

2024-08-29 16:00:00

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lol

2024-08-29 15:39:59

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😂 fair

2024-08-29 15:26:02

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🫂 nostr will always accept your pepes

2024-08-29 15:25:32

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My favorite part was when you compared yourself to Mao

2024-08-29 15:25:07

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The more I consider the problem of user relay selection, the more interested I am in nip 66

2024-08-29 15:24:22

Explain this
https://image.nostr.build/c520ee387681ea0a4fe0d9a3b4745bc81f6a48b7c732e7f4009bb130b80a2990.png

2024-08-29 14:28:15

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nostr didn't always have a high-quality group chat experience
oh wait

2024-08-29 14:26:32

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Death, Taxes, and Melvin calling @nprofile…2kfz a tyrant

2024-08-29 13:31:28

The nostr telegram channel is so off the rails it's not even funny

2024-08-29 12:43:34

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I would be cool to chain compression and upload with callback urls or dvms or something so users only have to transfer the file once

2024-08-29 12:39:42

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This explains why I have to constantly fill out captchas. I had not considered it quite that way. I guess captchas are basically useless if you don't want to degrade ux.

2024-08-29 12:22:47

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Thanks for the mention! Worth noting, Coracle also allows you to share feeds as nostr notes, as well as search and bookmark ones created by other people. It's rough right now, but I think really promising.

2024-08-29 02:23:31

"Money: The Poor Man's Credit Card"

2024-08-29 00:52:58

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Wrote something up after seeing this: naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp978pfzrv6n9xhq5tvenl9e74pklmskh4xw6vxxyp3j8qkke3cezqq2nskt2w9vx6dznfdvj64rpw4mk5nmxf3v9xsd0gdy
Let me know if it suits the purpose, or whether it's too technical.

2024-08-29 00:52:09

I've seen a lot of people asking for an explainer on the outbox model lately, so I went ahead and wrote something up. Take a read and let me know if there's anything missing so I can go back and improve it.
naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp978pfzrv6n9xhq5tvenl9e74pklmskh4xw6vxxyp3j8qkke3cezqq2nskt2w9vx6dznfdvj64rpw4mk5nmxf3v9xsd0gdy

2024-08-28 14:11:03

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No, but if you have em use em. I've always been skeptical of 1984s because there are risks associated with publicly reporting certain things/people.

2024-08-27 23:15:22

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Use coracle.social for custom feeds 🫡

2024-08-27 22:53:04

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it's going to zero

2024-08-27 21:39:09

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I'm critical of nostr too, but only because I want it to succeed

2024-08-27 20:27:31

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🎉

2024-08-27 19:59:10

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Coracle has a searchable list of relays, sorted by WoT and with reviews/ratings. Very rough, but it's start

2024-08-27 19:49:45

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Awesome, found the problem and I'm pushing a fix now. Give it a hard refresh in ten minutes or so and you should be good.

2024-08-27 18:15:06

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I just mean that the Bible already has this. Talking about the Bible on nostr creates new content that is atomic, but putting the Bible on nostr doesn't really add any granularity to the document.

2024-08-27 17:12:36

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Nice! This looks like a good buy for my kids.

2024-08-27 17:08:00

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Yep, should be fine

2024-08-27 16:44:20

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These all seem like UX things, not so much nostr things. I mean, I see how you could do it on nostr, but for example NIP 32 would allow you to anchor your discussion in particular verses/translations without having to host the whole thing on relays

2024-08-27 16:27:17

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You mean clearing indexeddb/localstorage? And you're still getting the CSP error?

2024-08-27 16:16:52

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I'm not sure how to replicate the problem yet. Can you open the dev tools, go to "Console" and take a screenshot for me?
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/open

2024-08-27 16:14:32

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Ah, no, just an instance of the word in something I'm reading for the podcast this week. The origin comes from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, where Reepicheep sails into the East in a coracle.

2024-08-27 16:11:46

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That's quite strange, Coracle doesn't use Inter, and it doesn't load any fonts from Google. Do you maybe have a browser extension installed that's getting tripped up?

2024-08-27 15:45:18

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Yes sir right away sir 😰

2024-08-27 14:51:39

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That's not to say it wouldn't still be cool

2024-08-27 14:08:53

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I don't actually think that makes much sense. The Bible isn't any better authenticated or indexed by being on nostr

2024-08-27 13:29:31

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Not sure what you're asking

2024-08-27 13:17:13

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What did I do?

2024-08-27 13:15:58

"Man must serve his electric technology with the same servo-mechanistic fidelity with which he served his coracle, his canoe, his typography, and all other extensions of his physical organs."
- Marshal McLuhan

2024-08-27 12:57:31

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Yeah, Coracle only counts direct children. Designing threads is weird and tricky. There are some nice things about them, but I don't feel a need to imitate twitter completely

2024-08-27 12:54:51

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Yeah, I just know noyhing about zk anything. Being able to piblish stuff only to your network would be really really cool.

2024-08-27 12:53:05

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No, but you can install it as a PWA (add to desktop)

2024-08-27 12:21:51

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My npub is my best friend, it is my life

2024-08-27 00:45:00

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I believe coracle is trying to leave the content of your follow list intact in a stupid way. I'll remove that

2024-08-26 20:30:51

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I would have loved to, but gotta ration my travel. Hopefully next one I'll be there!

2024-08-26 19:40:30

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Yep, currently integrating nostr-editor into flotilla.coracle.social (WIP). I'll have some stuff to push upstream soon, but I'm sure your contributions would be more than welcome.