fiatjaf

I really don't get the people that complain that they don't get followers on Nostr because there is no algorithm.
I never got any followers in any of these platforms with algorithms (even though I used them actively for years), except when by some unexplicable hit of luck some people started using @lntxbot on Telegram and by word-of-mouth it got to Alex Bosworth and he mentioned it on tweet and then my follower count slowly grew from 50 to like 5000 over a 3-year period.
Is there a magic trick that allows you to go from 0 to 100000 by gaming the algorithm these days and then scam your followers a high-ticket course about how to get followers and become a millionaire? Or what are these people talking about? Why do they even want followers in the first place?

2024-09-03 23:04:01

Why is the Strike logo a middle finger?

2024-09-03 01:09:49

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OK, already answered here: #nevent1q…vglz
But is it really that slow? It's hard for me to believe it is that slow since on my terminal it runs so fast!

2024-09-03 01:06:04

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What about doing a `git clone --depth 1`? I don't know how to do that on a JS library in the browser, but should be possible. Seems to be a pure client-side thing since it worked on 'song' (from the CLI) without me having to do anything on the server side.

2024-09-03 00:57:48

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I was thinking that exposing files at exact commits would be simpler, but then I realized that to get the exact commit you would need an API that returns all references and HEAD (separate from the repository state event) and then I realized that to build a GitHub-like way to browse files on gitworkshop you'll also need all these things, plus a history of commits, metadata about all commits and so on, right?
Which brings me back to: why not do a full repository clone on the browser and get all that data at once? Is it just the big size of things?

2024-09-02 16:07:56

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But if we can't get the archive stuff to work then we could standardize an HTTP API thing that returns raw files maybe.

2024-09-02 15:52:36

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Instead of running to try to catch up with a bunch of proprietary git servers we should have a standard first, then I would gladly accept it or implement it myself on song.
That native git feature you mentioned would be my first candidate for such a standard, but last time I tried to implement it on song I failed.

2024-09-01 14:14:33

Instead of rushing to get a VPN just so you can lock yourself inside Elon's prison now, what Brazilians should be doing is to beg for screenshots every time someone sends an x.com link, annoying the maximum possible number of people on every step and making them aware.

2024-09-01 13:20:37

I think by the time this happens there will be already another pseudo-decentralized social network around with big funding and cool marketing that will attract most people.
I have no idea of what to do.
#nevent1q…ykkm

2024-09-01 10:57:34

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@nprofile…9j6c por favor, faça uma conta lá.

2024-09-01 10:55:30

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they are dead inside

2024-09-01 10:41:09

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No. Nostr is for everybody, we want everybody and we need everybody. It doesn't work if Nostr is just full of people who agree with each other all the time.

2024-09-01 10:17:06

How can we get Bluesky banned in Brazil now?

2024-08-31 16:19:49

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https://lnvps.net/

2024-08-31 15:31:38

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RSS is kinda bad.

2024-08-31 15:31:20

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Thank you for finding the bugs.

2024-08-31 15:29:17

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Portuguese translations are an abomination, please don't.

2024-08-31 15:27:21

Complexity leads to capture.
#nevent1q…wmhk

2024-08-31 15:26:55

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Nostr is simpel.

2024-08-31 11:15:58

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@npub1vxd…rs50 is the big influencer you want to talk to.

2024-08-31 11:15:09

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How is fanfares.io doing Lightning-gated content? Is it a platform-specific proprietary thing or a supposedly-interoperable Nostr thing?

2024-08-31 11:14:37

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Kind 31338 is vastly underspecified.
"Audio events" is super generic. An audio message is completely different from a podcast episode and both are even more different than a song. I think it's awful that these things got lumped together in the same NIP.

2024-08-31 11:12:59

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I see, so the answer is the kind 31338? Both fanfares.io and npub.pro could both become RSS bridges sourcing from people's 31338 events instead of kind 1, and publishing a podcast could become a thing that doesn't require a platform, you just publish events and later you use any bridge out there to provide an RSS feed -- until podcast players start connecting to relays directly instead of using RSS (there is a PR to AntennaPod already, we just have to change the kind number and event format).
I'm not interested in the Lightning-gated stuff for now, and I think that will be the last thing someone publishing a podcast will worry about, since podcast players won't support it, but I think in the future that could become interesting too.

2024-08-30 22:51:18

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I don't have a clear answer because many ideas of how to handle this come to my mind, many of which can probably be used together depending on the user and the circumstance. I'll elaborate on this a bit more and reach back to you.

2024-08-30 20:45:00

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Should have used https://khatru.nostr.technology/

2024-08-30 20:44:46

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Thank you, I'll look into that.

2024-08-30 20:43:51

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@npub16c0…6nvr bug report or something

2024-08-30 20:43:02

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It translates offline, mr Kevin Loaec got angry too fast.

2024-08-30 09:59:32

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Drivechain.
Statechains.

2024-08-30 03:41:09

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Should be fixed. Can you test it with a new profile, @npub16zs…92l7?

2024-08-29 22:29:35

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You don't need to run a relay to participate, but if you want a relay just for you $20 is definitely too expensive, you can get away with $3.5 (that's the cheapest VPS I could find). $20 buys you a relay for at a handful of thousands.

2024-08-29 19:05:28

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What happens is that olympics2024.nos.social is not answering the REQ -- it sends a CLOSED message, but with the wrong subscription id --, so my code keeps waiting for it to send EOSE or an event and then the entire thing times out and my initial attempt to fetch the profile fails.
The second time it does work apparently, I think because that relay is filtered out, but in the meantime njump caches the non-existence of a profile for 6 hours.
So it's a bug on my side but I didn't die without taking at least one other bug with me.

2024-08-29 18:53:29

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Yes.

2024-08-29 15:56:21

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But about npub.pro, will it take the content of media URLs and serve them in the correct RSS fields that podcast readers will get it?

2024-08-29 15:56:07

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I'm asking for the ideal solution, not something that "works for now" (I'm not saying that kind:1s with URLs on them aren't the ideal solution), so I'm interested in what @npub1ark…h43w is doing. Do you have more information?

2024-08-29 15:50:05

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Canada is just a province of the Cuban empire to be fair.

2024-08-29 15:48:51

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Since a radio station is a live thing and not a feed of discrete episodes NIP-53 (livestream) sounds ideal. It's supported by zap.stream, Amethyst, Nostrudel, Nostur and maybe Coracle. There is an always on radio by @npub12hc…rdp4 there already.

2024-08-29 15:46:04

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Are you just throwing app names at me?

2024-08-29 15:44:59

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Indeed I haven't seen one Nostr-native answer yet.

2024-08-29 15:00:14

If one wanted to launch a new podcast today and make it Nostr-native what would be the best way?

2024-08-29 14:57:01

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OK, thank you, I will debug this now.

2024-08-29 14:38:34

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Did you wait 6 hours? Maybe the NIP-05 server was offline when we tried?

2024-08-29 14:33:08

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What is the fiatjaf?
https://t.me/nostr_protocol/145349
https://cdn.satellite.earth/f99074852f2b69c67813a82e7172ff95db5001cdb5a1dff71bdd9736c5644319.png

2024-08-29 14:29:27

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No, it should work without a NIP-65 relay list.
And indeed it seems to work. The kind 0 that is being displayed on njump.me is the same that is on relay.nos.social. The name is rendering correctly and the picture is set to the string "Me", so it renders as a broken image.
I also can't find any kind:1s from that pubkey in any of those relays.

2024-08-29 13:40:45

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What relay config? We have relay.nos.social hardcoded as a default fallback for fetching relay lists and metadata in https://github.com/nbd-wtf/nostr-sdk, together with purplepag.es and user.kindpag.es, but aside from that we use an internal outbox-model thingie to fetch posts.
Why do you ask? Is njump failing for some profiles?

2024-08-29 12:38:28

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They scale because they have relay hints (trackers).

2024-08-29 12:37:21

Is there a malicious Safari web extension called "nos2x"?

2024-08-29 10:33:24

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That's basically it.

2024-08-29 10:31:55

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Lightning is a waste of time.

2024-08-29 00:24:36

Computers were a mistake: https://cdn.satellite.earth/25a4bc5c9fd7617cdcba309a552d227283fb2d36aa75f47b12c0b83510c4de88.png

2024-08-29 00:17:39

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I'm even using a suit as I write this.

2024-08-29 00:16:28

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It's not relays for specific communities, although that is also possible. It's just following people wherever they are.

2024-08-29 00:15:23

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What is NDS?

2024-08-29 00:14:39

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I think it's even faster, more efficient and uses less bandwidth, but try https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip or https://coracle.social/ and tell me if it's unreasonable.

2024-08-29 00:11:48

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I agree, $20/mo is absurdly expensive.

2024-08-28 22:20:21

One common complaint we hear from Nostr haters is that there is no economic incentive to run relays or that the network will be centralized in a few central big relays. These claims often come from confusion or misunderstandings.
I think this 40s video will clear all the matters and answer all the criticisms: https://cdn.satellite.earth/8e48f90f4889d6d8def300e9d843b9b353375426212f6b6253a8ee6aaaefcf07.mp4
If anyone doesn't understand or has a problem with this answer, please, I would like to hear it.

2024-08-28 15:54:12

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Yes, better have a new kind 10017 or something like that with just the git relays -- but having a way to recommend other git relays in it wouldn't be bad.
In any case, I think for now just having the relay as a hint in the naddr or "a" tag reference is probably enough.

2024-08-28 15:52:18

This is now implemented in https://git.fiatjaf.com/song and its companion pre-push hook:
#nevent1q…e7qw
Hopefully it will work with ngit soon, but it works without ngit now using just the pre-push hook:
mkdir flower
cd flower
git init
git remote add origin http://yoursongrelayandserver.com/flower
ln -s (which song-pre-push) .git/hooks/pre-push
git config song.signer '<nsec-or-bunker-url>'
echo 'peony' > name
git add .
git commit -m 'add name'
git push origin master -u
And the pre-push hook will sign a kind:30618 and push it to the server. The server will check that it comes from you and store it if it does, and will create a repository on its side upon receiving the event (named "flower"). Then the git push will proceed and since the kind:30618 has the correct branch name and the commit id in it, it will be authorized.
The next time you have a commit you can just git push and it should work normally.
Later you can publish a kind:30617 with more metadata if you want, and if that includes a "maintainers" tag then those maintainers can also create branches and push to your 'flower' repo.
I guess I should write this in the song README file.
@npub1myg…sn5p @npub1upl…sfek @npub1xts…kk5s @npub1use…k5ks you might be interested or have criticisms.
@npub15qy…yejr please let me know if I got this right.

2024-08-28 12:18:15

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I have no idea but that would be ridiculous. I don't even believe in "intelectual property".

2024-08-28 12:16:16

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Wrong, we don't have a huge database, we fetch events at request time and cache them for some days at most.

2024-08-28 12:14:48

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I can't give you an exact date, but it will be fixed.

2024-08-28 02:44:00

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Someone is just blasting them to all relays and then it works, that's why it "takes a little".

2024-08-28 02:43:09

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I think the context would take away much of the comedy, so I decided to not include it.
But you can use GitHub search to find them if you really want. The notes are timestamped at the exact time of the commit.

2024-08-28 01:39:35

People not able to resolve these quoted events:
#nevent1q…y297

2024-08-28 01:36:38

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Version of your bookmarklet.
It was a joke.

2024-08-28 01:35:09

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Amethyst doesn't support outbox, I believe Vitor is working on it.

2024-08-28 01:32:15

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Do you have a version that uses Tailwind instead of direct styles?

2024-08-28 01:28:00

Don't try this at home:
#nevent1q…eq06

2024-08-28 01:27:43

Next time someone complains about Nostr not being optimized for this or that:
#nevent1q…684r

2024-08-27 21:31:17

New x.com users got here just in time for the movie, it has started just 4 minutes ago.
#nevent1q…3fhz

2024-08-27 21:30:00

Normal people looking at a Rust repository:
#nevent1q…dvqc

2024-08-27 21:27:09

A reference to @npub1zh8…5aww:
#nevent1q…sn0e

2024-08-27 20:14:10

New users choosing a Nostr client:
#nevent1q…nh7l
(see following frames)

2024-08-27 20:13:12

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https://nak.nostr.com/

2024-08-27 20:09:28

@npub1q3s…d26p recommending a Nostr client:
#nevent1q…0zkc

2024-08-27 20:08:26

People arriving on Nostr from x.com for the first time today: #nevent1q…jt23

2024-08-27 16:52:00

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But who does these checks? git-remote-nostr or the git server itself? Or both?

2024-08-27 16:16:09

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You mean a state event should exist on the server? Or the code should be available on the server? Does git-remote-nostr try to fetch the remote refs before pushing?
Let's suppose a remote state exists on the server, it says the branch "master" points to commit "01010202". Why is that useful if I just want to say "master" now points to "11112222"? Won't it be replaced?

2024-08-27 16:05:35

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What do you mean by "exist"? I had never pushed it.

2024-08-27 15:56:44

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I'm trying this but it's not working.
There are no state events but it is not trying to create any, just pushing.

2024-08-27 15:54:33

NIP-34 is too good.

2024-08-27 15:03:49

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I am running it now, but the work is 99% his.

2024-08-27 14:49:01

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That is @npub1r0r…q9ac's work.

2024-08-27 14:13:47

https://www.whynostr.com/

2024-08-26 19:21:18

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How do you discover these relays automatically?

2024-08-26 19:20:35

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OK, great, let's do that then. I guess I can fit that into song easily and then one will be able to just push to song using the ngit remote helper already?

2024-08-26 18:42:42

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What is the state announcement?

2024-08-26 18:41:39

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What happens if the the top 5 big relays censor anyone publishing events with Bitcoin code in it?

2024-08-26 15:16:39

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I'm not sure about this app, but merged anyway.
Also merged yours, @npub17jl…825x.

2024-08-26 15:10:37

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Relay lists yes, I agree. But relays that do git things? I don't think my git repos should necessarily be in the same place as publish notes about random topics. Maybe we should have a special kind for "lists of recommended relays that do git things" like we have for "lists of recommended relays that do wiki things". What do you think? We just add that to NIP-51.
So you can figure out my outbox relays, fetch my recommended lists of relays that do git things (which may gives us a nice way to discover other git repos from other people while also having some spam-filtering in place) and search for my repos in those.

2024-08-26 15:07:04

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Also this one: @npub1zh8…5aww

2024-08-26 15:04:30

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I have this bot: @npub1l8w…6m2c
Also this one: @npub1u3j…q7na

2024-08-26 15:02:22

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I don't have any bot that shows pictures, what are you talking about?

2024-08-26 14:41:20

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Indeed it looks like some buggy app has deleted my 10002. Nostr is so bad.

2024-08-26 14:39:06

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I've deleted my 10002 relay list? I don't remember doing that.
But yes, blasting everything works in the short term but doesn't scale and promotes a misunderstanding of what Nostr really is.

2024-08-26 14:23:19

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I'm pretty sure Snort has it.