sondreb
SondreB

I'm one of the founders of Liberstad https://www.liberstad.com/ and currently live in Montenegro close to the Montelibero City https://montelibero.org/ and going to Liberland https://liberland.org/ this week to check that out for the first time.
I'm also a Free Cities Ambassador https://free-cities.org/about-us/ a program by the Free Cities Foundation.
If you want to have a interview I'm up for it 👍Probably best while I'm in Liberland or after.

2026-07-14 18:00:38 UTC

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If you know nothing about Voluntaryism, a dry introduction can be read here:
https://grokipedia.com/page/Voluntaryism
On the Liberstad blog, you can read more practical about it:
https://www.liberstad.com/blog

2026-07-14 09:36:32 UTC

Viking explains Voluntaryism:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BTXSnHWsc2s

2026-07-09 19:12:29 UTC

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Which specific changes you'd like to see in @nprofile…m0xe that would make it better for you?

2026-06-14 08:18:52 UTC

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You made this? Search doesn't appear to do anything? @nprofile…m0xe doesn't do RSS music fully yet, you want that?

2026-06-14 08:08:19 UTC

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I might be able to help, what are you looking for?

2026-06-08 17:22:46 UTC

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Here is the NIP draft we made a while back: https://github.com/block-core/nips/blob/peer-to-peer-decentralized-funding/3030.md

2026-06-07 20:48:44 UTC

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* Accidental reactions has been fixed.
* New toggle in General settings to disable interaction sounds.
* Long-press on mobile devices to open the quick-selection of latest used emojis, click the "..." button to open full emoji picker which has search. You can press and hold in the full emoji dialog to make it "most recent" or "make default". Default is then what happens with a quick-tap.
* Note editor has been a long process to improve and get working well. There is an "experimental editor" toggle in the settings, this will go away soon as the new editor has been working well. This issue you reported though, is same in both new and old editor - is fixed now.
* "incoherent mix of rectangular and rounded elements" - I really love to make a polished UI, though I can't make it perfect everywhere as I have limited time on this.
* Avatar disappearing - Made a fix for this, need to test in production to see if it works.
* Settings have been improved with proper sub-routing for each section.
* Notifications has changed: Previously it would show counter for all notifications, also after you started interacting with them and making some "read", and if you scrolled down and loaded older ones, it would include that in the counter. Now it will only show counters for anything that is new, after the initial interactions in notifications. So after an initial login, a user can run "Mark all as read" to reset the counter, and it will not increase counter when scrolling down looking at old notifications.
The Nostria button on the top can be configured to either go: "Feeds" or "Home" or "First Menu Item". This means you can configure it to go anywhere, like "Music" by making Music the first menu option. You can re-arrange the menu items in the settings.
Thanks for feedback on the new icon/login, was an interesting journey to come up with it.
Version 3.1.46 has all these fixes, it has been released on GitHub, Zapstore and web server.

2026-06-06 15:28:56 UTC

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Primal Web doesn't support images properly? It links to a png without any protocol prefix, perhaps it was your own fault?
https://mibo.nostria.app/493511edd4e95523845470598a0577412b389ea619b28b41dad18effb4b828d3.webp

2026-06-06 14:08:10 UTC

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APK download link available on website: https://www.nostria.app/
Which links to the GitHub repo: https://github.com/nostria-app/nostria

2026-06-06 12:04:15 UTC

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It ain't perfect, but I'm quick to do fixes for those who use it. It works very well on both desktop and mobile. I don't have any funding and less than 10 paying users, but I'll keep improving it but not at the rate as I did for the last year.
I logged in as you in read-only mode and found a few improvements I'm adding already.

2026-06-06 11:01:55 UTC

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Have you tried out mine, @nprofile…m0xe?
https://zapstore.dev/apps/app.nostria

2026-05-05 17:04:33 UTC

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Let me know if there is any modifications I can add to make it render better, does the comics have a common tag or something I could trigger on?

2026-05-05 17:01:50 UTC

#nevent1q…vanh
Before of this, I used daemon tools all the time back in the day. I'm sure there are plenty other software that is infected, and always consider every single closed-source software to be infected due to the government regulations in many countries allows covertly forcing employees to put backdoors into their software.

2026-05-05 17:00:42 UTC

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I used daemon tools all the time back in the day. Thanks for sharing!

2026-05-04 23:23:19 UTC

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https://mibo.nostria.app/6db113c09d2befa64f856e52220cd895483538a36b4418705740bcf2c9c85f56.webp https://mibo.nostria.app/a36517761d730b25d995145e878810374d12971b7c7c1abc82aa3b24403566cd.webp
Added to the latest release, available for desktop and web apps. Not in Zapstore yet.

2026-05-03 16:58:18 UTC

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Web Bookmarks, which Amethyst supports, they appear on the left here, also if you click your profile here, you will see all your bookmarks and can edit all of them.
https://mibo.nostria.app/ea1d459640e449d008fa831755a663c18ced7f48929e37afc4b9743686aaadd4.webp

2026-05-03 16:57:05 UTC

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Are you saying these website bookmarks disappear? I did test with Amethyst, and it did not remove them for me. These website bookmarks is not supported in Amethyst.
https://mibo.nostria.app/52ebbd8c507dee06c5681d4bd783198390f6cfbe6c6b61fc8a398609b194205c.webp

2026-05-03 13:30:42 UTC

https://mibo.nostria.app/552d41bdd24b16473ce5d34ae568937a3b8fbeda092ad8cc4232ed1bfc85dd24.mp4
It's time to start sharing more web bookmarks! #Nostria

2026-05-03 07:14:07 UTC

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We'll have more public info soon, here is some videos about and from Liberstad:
https://youtu.be/7D44a_203sI
https://youtu.be/P1ljjYrclRw
https://youtu.be/yNsM8scN--w
https://youtu.be/YeQDtYrCWL4

2026-05-02 19:46:31 UTC

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Yes. This was top of our minds when we first established Liberstad, but it's unfortunately not that easy. Though we have opportunities, need to grow the market (residents).

2026-05-02 17:50:17 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/RYsxqtcgt-4

2026-05-01 15:37:22 UTC

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When you first use it, it read system and sets. You want it to be an option to be system/auto always? Guess I can do that, change from toggle to dropdown then.

2026-04-25 18:12:38 UTC

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That's where that "lost found in toilet" clip is from! I remembered this ad and always wondered where this "oh really" clip was from. This is exactly the problem today, too much on our phones - not enough in real life.

2026-04-25 18:04:07 UTC

Last Days of Loki - The Sixteen Chapters of Norse Mythology
https://youtu.be/vh7Ur_wgZcE
#naddr1qv…y38s
#music #musicvideo #musicstr

2026-04-24 19:14:33 UTC

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Have you tried @nprofile…m0xe?
https://www.nostria.app/

2026-04-22 00:21:05 UTC

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@nprofile…m0xe now has these cards that appear randomly in the feed and it picked two of your tunes for me: https://mibo.nostria.app/aa0e004cc88b6d3e48e7d7d98c45d8e7ec71c9349e95f78faa0b145887fdb22f.webp

2026-04-21 11:06:50 UTC

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I just released update on Zapstore that makes Nostria awesome for background music playback on Android. Please give it a try!

2026-04-19 21:04:05 UTC

Everyone should be free to build their own home. #FreeToBuild
https://youtube.com/shorts/O5Z6BNy9pOQ

2026-04-18 18:11:39 UTC

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@nprofile…m0xe should work fine in the background, playing in car, etc.
Though it was working fine, it stopped working properly to change tracks, but I'm working on getting it fixed again. It also have ability to download tracks for offline playback.

2026-04-13 21:01:05 UTC

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The delete itself in Sunami and Nostria is basically the same, has to either be that the delete not being sent to all relays that the music was on, or perhaps some relays have issues with "k" tag on delete events? @nprofile…pz5f doesn't set "k" tag, but the NIP-09 says it "SHOULD" do so, but I highly doubt that is the reason.
Also if you delete a music track, for any existing user that have the music cached, they must open each track individually and then it will disappear from their album.
I'll implement some logic in the future sometime where it will go through all cached music and attempt to retrieve any delete events that exists for them and remove from cache.
There is still a a couple tracks that does not disappear fully Henrik, they appear in both Sunami and Nostria, I will send the IDs to you in a DM so you can delete those too.
If some of your delete tracks still is listed in Nostria on your device, just open their details page, wait a few seconds while it gets the delete event and this should appear, and it will be gone. Understand this is frustrating and slow process to clean up locally, will get better in the future.
https://mibo.nostria.app/c751cabd09b84b0796c410c51ba985068363dfb40d121cba11cdd4d9f3142f25.webp

2026-04-12 19:44:17 UTC

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Just be careful out there. I don't have much advice other than if anyone has a job, hang on to it.

2026-04-12 19:29:03 UTC

There has been a lot of large lay-offs in the IT-industry recently and I believe more will come. The market for individuals looking for jobs will get harder and more difficult. I'm currently looking for a job and I was almost scammed just like the guy explains in this video (in comment). The scammers is extremely elaborate, creating realistic looking social media accounts, with AI-generated content combined with real content. Their websites and descriptions is perfect, no flaws like the silly spam e-mails we're used to getting. They combine real profiles with fake content, tricking people who are getting more and more desperate for opportunities.
Spent last year building an amazing social network app, @nprofile…m0xe, that I'd love to turn into a SaaS for enterprise/business. Next version adds a feature rich AI chat with local and cloud inference. Though I can't do this alone anymore, so I'm looking for potential partners. If anyone is interested, reach out to me.
Doubt that will happen, so I'm still looking for new job opportunities (remote), focused on product manager, development lead, developer experience - I have very extensive experience on AI/LLM that I can bring into your organization, combined with wide industry experience and developer competency.
Either way, be safe out there - the scammers will only get better, make sure you explain this to your kids, family and colleagues.
https://mibo.nostria.app/7fb61ee056e0797072e9c30eef4c13b95b47fbdde03531c479b2e58cad8c8075.webp

2026-04-12 19:27:03 UTC

What it feels like applying for a software developer position in 2026:https://mibo.nostria.app/43d1ce14420bdd3546e694e931fab013c39f80d64f3773abbd276fcdbb5d2c27.mp4

2026-04-10 20:31:37 UTC

Did a similar journey a few years back on my motorcycle, just amazing. Worlds longest road tunnel, stave churches and amazing fjords. 😍
https://youtu.be/jtL4wHGUv-c

2026-04-10 15:11:02 UTC

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SSS has been on my list for a long time, got a draft to share?

2026-04-10 14:17:22 UTC

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https://mibo.nostria.app/efffd4358ae0b8846b2c017b6737502355550620ca44776c5023bc0b75460436.webp

2026-04-07 18:08:09 UTC

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Remember Mixer? Microsoft attempted to buy Twitch, got a no, ended up buying Beam, renaming it to Mixer - throwing millions at big streamers to move over to their platform, only to shut it down with massive losses.
The bandwidth costs is the real issue for decentralized alternatives, though I think it can be done if we make some easy to setup software and have people open their firewalls and host it.
Nostria will do live streaming (stream from your phone) as soon as I have a provider for cheap TURN server.

2026-04-07 10:20:21 UTC

First day of my new life: Went for a swim 🥰
https://mibo.nostria.app/d00285e75c0b49acaef07067248b9df58dcb22b40e1b4eba8f6abf83194bbb02.jpeg https://mibo.nostria.app/2e2c8407bfb23443ae9f026537e532e52a89b92a8f795c94626a3c9e9b8bef56.jpeg https://mibo.nostria.app/0d8dcfc5fce96ac7a48b184672ed7db4eccb629a18dd3522b8aa8f3514b3a4ad.jpeg https://mibo.nostria.app/62df13eabdaaa74a7c218408686a2337affe33522d45a6a79a33374e47395213.jpeg
#beach #montenegro #photography #picstr

2026-04-07 09:21:34 UTC

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Inside the app you mean? I guess that could be removed now, it's been working very stable. It has been removed now and app is updated.

2026-04-07 08:42:13 UTC

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No, that award goes to the F-40.
https://mibo.nostria.app/ca27e8b939d45813bff8db81f015178e8ca68c5afbd82d3f7c4d975790a1f965.jpeg https://mibo.nostria.app/f9a379da57e59505c7b5b54ce36b720c518f8f1f51d142d16c8e056cc7907691.jpeg https://mibo.nostria.app/546a674a5bf625c332d4eae245e2e1c8677ded189f4522e1f571384dd3bb7ed0.jpeg https://mibo.nostria.app/8815382d7336a304fba25503ffd4eeee7848cbc77e79d9d4256101f6eeb61de0.jpeg https://mibo.nostria.app/bf5295eda7acd755ea009d69f9bf49a331d660a1f7abd854ee4dcd49b789a7bb.jpeg https://mibo.nostria.app/d231fad652596f0be211411cd7d6cab55ba4637c39a78b059bef4575c6d8bc9d.jpeg

2026-04-06 18:43:45 UTC

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You're a real person? :-) After a little while being active on Nostr, you'll increase your Web of Trust, which is a mechanism to reduce the amount of spam on the network.

2026-04-06 17:10:18 UTC

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Thanks! Find the direct apk under "Android" option on the main page here: https://www.nostria.app/

2026-04-06 16:48:03 UTC

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Had my phone like that for 10+ years, longer than I remember. So important for a happy life to control yourself and not be controlled by others.
https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/aa13abf99c07bf2f4f342087834c5c34492c08f8d5fe41c5c80b3bdf018b3333.webp

2026-04-06 16:16:37 UTC

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Here you go, it's not fully tested yet, but available for download if you go for the .apk directly. After a couple of days, I'll publish to Zapstore if everything is good.
#nevent1q…5n3t

2026-04-06 16:12:47 UTC

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The installer (apk) on website is now a completely different package than before (v3.1.11 or newer). Needs more testers before I publish to Zapstore. It now includes full native signer support.
https://mibo.nostria.app/3eb0a28fed6df605da97f23f108fd8e0733b056a7e2c950bf1ce1c42150abeec.mp4

2026-04-06 07:35:42 UTC

Today is the first anniversary of @nprofile…m0xe, a Nostr client I have built, which I have poured my energy and soul into. It's taken a lot of effort to get here and the people who have started using it, is enjoying it a lot, I think you will too. Now I need your help with one small thing: Please support #Nostria on ProductHunt! Thank you all!
https://www.producthunt.com/products/nostria

2026-04-04 20:30:07 UTC

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Great app!
It's one of the reasons why I had to implement an image proxy for @nprofile…m0xe, many Nostr clients has not been good at image optimization before uploading. Biggest I'm following has an 17.16 MB, yet the thumbnail shown in Nostria for him is only 1.16 KB. Saves bandwidth, processing, memory and battery.

2026-04-04 20:15:13 UTC

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Just don't try to use Reddit to support your users in any shape or form.
https://mibo.nostria.app/77ecb4aa5ab82d4c34b5967e04c3d62498b73f87d899e10e6363af42df2764f8.webp

2026-04-04 19:41:21 UTC

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Nostria has been showing it like this since the beginning a year ago 🤙It's also very useful for developers who have to work on compatibility across clients, makes it easier to know where to report issues.
https://mibo.nostria.app/51240c3b11713ff9128b51709d4bf6ec88c3841497911a257dcb45457ab7aa86.webp

2026-04-04 19:02:27 UTC

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There has been links to Play Store and APK for a long time, thanks for mentioning this though it made me add link to Zapstore as well.
https://mibo.nostria.app/e31d2da2574e2fe7cd4d1b2e7e2edf66f86d5796c081813d78445c5fa04483dc.webp
There will soon be fully packages for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iOS for Nostria, and not just "web-shells" that are installable. That also means native Amber (local signer) support is arriving soon.

2026-04-03 12:34:23 UTC

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You don't need to try it, up to you 🤙
https://mibo.nostria.app/aa6cc22883a6640647277b9041cbf12025e3fe0d061a9a229d734285c1537a9e.mp4

2026-04-03 12:31:56 UTC

If you're a photographer on the go, you'll have a great experience publishing your shots using @Nostria on your phone. Get it on ZapStore or Play Store!
https://mibo.nostria.app/91473a6386562b254b8c1e46087f1d0cb6a97a1398b465494be52287813d95ca.mp4
#photography #photostr #picstr #nostria #zapstore

2026-04-03 12:01:07 UTC

If you're a photographer on Nostr, you'll have a great experience publishing your shots using @nprofile…whtr. PS: This video is not sped up.
https://mibo.nostria.app/aa6cc22883a6640647277b9041cbf12025e3fe0d061a9a229d734285c1537a9e.mp4
#photography #photostr #picstr #nostria

2026-04-02 19:17:19 UTC

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Have you tried out @nprofile…m0xe yet? It has some good features for publishing media. Works on both desktop and mobile.
#nevent1q…edye

2026-03-31 23:35:31 UTC

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https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/22b0df9bbc2ba2bad8936cf71e51d8342798908d713710b32a1cd7907865265a.webp

2026-03-31 04:03:04 UTC

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Ok thanks for sharing, I'll give it a go on an older Android phone I have. I noticed you have 13 relays, with the outbox model you really don't need more than 3-4. By having 13, everyone who likes or replies to you, is publishing events to all of those relays. It will be better for you and better for others if you reduce the amount of relays.

2026-03-31 03:45:01 UTC

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Having issues with the new encrypted media viewing, or in general?
If in general, what doesn't work well? There was a very aggressive optimization of relay subscriptions that has been improved, and many other quality improvements recently.

2026-03-31 03:40:29 UTC

If you're like me and don't have time to doom scroll the feeds all day long, then you'll find the Summary on @nprofile…m0xe to be very handy. It will get much improvements soon, to include more content such as public chats, communities and more.
https://media.openresist.com/935501ff74a61894a60b8ff82668c8cc0a2a5eb63b2d2dade03afeb4957f1d1b.mp4

2026-03-31 01:35:40 UTC

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The free cities?
Liberstad is currently updating website, so not much information available there right now: https://www.liberstad.com/
Here is a quick introduction to Montelibero: https://montelibero.net/en/
The official site has the most information, there is an auto-translate option here from Russian to English: https://montelibero.org/

2026-03-30 19:17:16 UTC

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Have you looked into Free Cities?
I founded Liberstad and live in Montelibero City during winter, Liberstad in summer.
https://free-communities.org/

2026-03-30 19:04:49 UTC

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This client is actually pretty sweet!

2026-03-30 01:49:50 UTC

https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/a1454f20c7944930a6607770d63051747a4065db7f993daafc8c2a5f4c56dd69.mp4

2026-03-30 01:38:43 UTC

In one week from today, @nprofile…m0xe is one year old. I have almost 8000 contributions to GitHub, majority of those is on #Nostria.
https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/14eb5893e05297e7164927c826180ca6751d8db6910c5c79786eef8fe090afbe.webp
Since 2020, I have made more than 1000 open-source contributions a year. I got into open-source in 2012. Last year was obviously boosted by the ability to use AI, which is incredible.
Though AI is not healthy to use. It's an addiction, you get a productivity boost that is just too much. I probably should be spending more time posting on social media as oppose to building Nostria, to get more adoption and exposure. Up late every night to add yet another feature, is not sustainable.
The rat-race is real, spending extremely late nights churning and building is not healthy in the long run. Especially when all of this effort goes towards value for others, with little value in return. I do appreciate and love every sats I've received, though much more has been given away than ever received. ❤️
Before Nostria, I built Ariton - Community Super App, months of hard effort that was dead when @nprofile…3r3l's Block shut down TBD.
I had to pivot, started building some small apps, then went back to my Blockcore Notes - a Nostr client I built way back in the day. Not maintained over the years, so decided to build a new one, and then Nostria was born.
I had a hope that people would be willing to pay for premium app and services, and maybe they are, but I'm delusional to think I can be successful by simply building something great without proper marketing resources.
No other Nostr client comes close to Nostria in rich features and capabilities, that doesn't help when nobody knows about it. There are so many minute details that you don't notice, which makes it delightful to use. People who start using it, love it, which in turn I love to please by getting feedback and improving. I'm so grateful for those who have been early adopters and given incredible feedback that has for most part been integrated into the app, and the services that Nostria provide.
Last two years I've worked exclusively on open-source, mostly by burning my own savings. First building Ariton, and now building Nostria.
Most of you might not know this, but I founded @nprofile…6hgp, a free city in Norway, together with my friend John. I'm also active in @nprofile…5v05, which is similar free city project in Montenegro. That is where my true passion lays, yet I have not been able to do as much as I really wanted to. My goal is that Nostria will be an important tool for all free cities, because these places is where something like Nostr and Nostria is truly needed. We're building new societies where government services must be replaced with voluntary solutions.
"in a crypto-anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary." - Wei Dai
Very few people can predict what the future holds. I have made many predictions in my life and many of those have come true, yet with AI, the consequences and changes is very hard to see. Even when you know what is coming, most people will ignore it because the realization of the potential consequences is hard to bear.
https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/9c180a63262abcfb3bbc48f9df6eec855b0a96e31999ae615cce2c0044cbba93.jpeg
I took this photo today, such incredible beauty just around the corner, yet as the nerd I am, I don't get out enough. It's because I'm caught in this race to have success, to create something that matters more than the electricity cost of executing an AI model.
I don't think I can participate much more in this race against the machine.
My CV was impressive, my experience in the field of software engineering is very deep and broad, yet all of that is worth much less today. 28 years of professional experience, combined with years of computer skills, programming and graphics design before that as a young kid, reduce to the cost of electricity and accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
I hope I have brought some true innovation to Nostr, there is a lot of true innovation within Nostria, many unique experiences to be had by those who dare to venture deep into it.
Go out, touch some grass. Thanks! ❤️

2026-03-30 00:36:33 UTC

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It used to be a tiny version of the Nostria logo, now it's a sperm. It's like it's going in reverse 😂Eventually the Wisp logo will be the black hole that happens right before the big bang?

2026-03-30 00:02:55 UTC

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I found it funny, Wisp was the little-brother of Nostria. It's good he's finding a new logo though, was very similar.

2026-03-29 23:55:29 UTC

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It shows music that has been published to Nostr. There are many clients that supports this protocol and can both show and upload the music. Nostria supports importing your music RSS feed from Wavlake and other services.

2026-03-29 20:31:58 UTC

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Would love it if you tried out @nprofile…dmep and gave some feedback what you think. It's for all screens and devices, same single app.
https://www.nostria.app/

2026-03-29 19:22:32 UTC

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I touched grass, and snow today. Went on a motorcycle trip up the mountain with a couple of friends, best therapy you can ever get. https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/090b5dc0b71b185e74ae35173806be70dd456db52bd270a574fcc49a01266d6d.jpeg

2026-03-29 19:02:51 UTC

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You never explained it to begin with, so you didn't do it again. Thanks for clarifying.
There will be plenty (spammers, stalkers, attackers, bots) who will send 21 sats for friend requests and the advertisements will be in the profile names and profile pictures. Also will be a lot of fakes, attempting to infiltrate friends lists. Many will succeed. Many will loose their private keys to scammers. Those people will "call the support center". Did you know that a large part of Facebooks ad revenue is from scammers?
Mitigating these things costs a lot of money.
Nobody is willing to pay the actual cost of the services they use. Everything is subsidized by VC money or ads.
Exactly what you want has already been attempted, "Lotus" it was called. The only difference was that you could set the cost of your inbox ourself, which would be better than a fixed 21 sats. The concept is that if you are attractive for some reason and people want your attention, they will pay more. You can also make it 1 million sats, but you "pay it forward" or "pay it back", depending on the scheme.
So your family already knows you, so they don't have a problem sending 1 million sats in a friend request to you, they know they will get it back.
This exact concept has already been done in traditional social media apps, I don't believe it had any long term success.

2026-03-29 18:13:24 UTC

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#nevent1q…cfzt

2026-03-29 18:11:56 UTC

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It's easy to make what you want, it won't be Nostr-native, but it will use Nostr identities (keys) for accounts.
Spam-attacks (friends requests) can still happen, but can rely on Web of Trust to filter out, giving a similar experience as Facebook/X.
For what purpose though? Why not use Facebook instead? Building this, won't be decentralized in architecture, as you "can't" have decentralized and private at the same time.
Could build it on Nostria, but I doubt there are any market for this (people willing to pay or revenue through advertisement with few users is worth little) and I would just be providing yet another service for free.
What are your thoughts on the financial nature of such a social network?

2026-03-29 10:12:02 UTC

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Nostr became popular because of "dumb" relays, Nostr using centralized gate-keeping relays defeats the original ethos of Nostr, and just makes it a very bad protocol (due to all its issues) to use for such purposes.
I fully understand the desire to have a Facebook-style locked down experience, the way to do that is not through filtering on who is allowed into a relay, but what a client decides to load.
Nostria does client-side filtering for threads, there is no problem doing a filtered query that relies on your following, or following lists - which will give you partially what you're after, though doesn't stop anyone from seeing the posts and photos. I could implement a following list with a known "d" tag which is your approved Friends list - which you populate only from friend request DMs. I built a social network on decentralized web nodes (Web5) a couple of years ago and that relied on an incoming friend request event. I might just implement this in Nostria when I think of it.
Nostr is not a privacy protocol, some people believe that. It's an extremely leaky protocol and there is nothing anyone can do about that. It's a decentralized and distributed protocol.
X became popular because it reduced the jumps from you to anyone in the world, to 1. You could engage directly with anyone without needing to be "accepted" first. You could get response from people who you found interesting, people who you normally would never be able to get access to. I wrote a lot about this in a blog years ago. It is the primary difference between X and Facebook.
This is also why Nostr became popular, developers could build code that published events without anyone needing to accept them first. Nostr would never be where it is today, without this.
NIP-42 (Auth) came almost a year after the protocol was first announced by @nprofile…cy6q. NIP-70 (Protected Events) just two years ago. NIP-70 is just a tiny little hack to reduce spreading events to the major relays, it doesn't add any real privacy or protection. Anyone with access to that relay can in a few minutes publish everything to the public. As as you mention, it's not really possible to do private on Nostr and if people want that, they should use something else. Implementing a new protocol based upon Nostr identities for this purpose, can be a very good idea and is fully possible to do.
This can be solved on the client and that's the only place it should be solved. Attempting to solve this on relays is going down the wrong path, it's attempting to use bad tools to achieve a goal.
Pure spam is a different topic and relays need to fight that, and it's a hard challenge. The person responsible for fighting spam on X has basically capitulated few days ago and said from now on we're all toast.
Just as you can't stop anyone from talking about you in their own home, you shouldn't think about stopping someone from commenting on your posts, instead the mindset should change towards not retreiving those events to begin with. You can ask the relay to not get what others are saying about you, or to you. It's like avoiding going into your neighbor's house if you don't want to hear what they have to say about you. You can choose to not go there, but you can't stop them from talking about you in their own home (I don't consider each home to be a relay, but a relay is the neighbourhood or the world, we share the space, just as we share the space on a relay).
Private group chats is the only way to do private on Nostr (until Marmot Protocol becomes more widely available and used). If people want to share photos of their family and kids, they can do that in a private group chat.
What people post, they should consider public. The legal system (not that anyone should care about that) in many countries even considers private groups as public, talking bad about someone in a private Facebook group, can get you in legal trouble as it's considered public. These centralized apps reduced the consquences, at least before, to tedious data gathering done by humans (screenshots, copy-paste), on Nostr it's super fast due to the protocol to gather all the data. With AI tools, this data gathering from "private" groups is going to be even easier.
Implementing a "Friends only" mode is a good idea (as long as it's not considered a "private mode"), the protocol does support it, but it requires to reason about the protocol in the right way, as I have explained above. Though of course, it does not stop anyone from seeing your posts (and media).

2026-03-29 09:19:43 UTC

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https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/7fea43eb15c5c0844d4b537e63773fdd8b9f9fafe9d2a1cd26ff37815212860d.webp

2026-03-29 09:19:11 UTC

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Are you saying there is something I don't understand? What would that be?

2026-03-29 01:09:46 UTC

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strfry is probably the biggest culprit, it didn't do "a" based deletes before now. Hopefully everyone upgrades to 1.1.0 soon!

2026-03-28 22:12:13 UTC

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I have verified with @nprofile…pt5w that Amethyst only lists actual media event and that's great.
Primal still lists all media that users have ever uploaded, even if they uploaded anything by mistake and never went back and deleted it.

2026-03-28 21:52:15 UTC

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Nostria has a good media library where you can manage it, including delete.
I really hope all clients stops using the listing APIs on media servers, even if it's enabled on the server. The default setting for the software should be off.

2026-03-28 17:36:16 UTC

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Sending files (encrypted) has been added, I sent you one 🤙

2026-03-27 20:33:08 UTC

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Of those 7, did you try @nprofile…dmep?
DMs is important focus for Nostria, the social aspect of sharing content on DMs is important to me personally, it's what I do all the time on other platforms. So I focus on improving DMs all the time (I'm the developer of #Nostria).
https://www.nostria.app/

2026-03-27 19:59:12 UTC

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Oh man, we're truly getting into "Her" (movie) territory now!
"OS1" is being built by the AI providers, now we got letters... as foreseen by Spike Jonze in 2013.

2026-03-27 14:21:53 UTC

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You're not actually listening to music though, are you? No music status.
https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/93fa9e3e2613bbcfa1fd1efb051dc609e6f2109e5ecc82074c7c0455b8e32308.webp

2026-03-27 14:06:36 UTC

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Nostria?

2026-03-27 13:46:22 UTC

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It filters before rendering, so they just disappear. Try out the current "People list" filter and you'll see how filtering works on Nostria.

2026-03-27 10:09:49 UTC

@nprofile…dmep supports a "friends only" filter for threads, it's "self-enforcing" obviously, but it does restrict participation in threads to those the original poster is following. The idea here is that this might end up in a NIP where the event might have a tag indicating that this behavior should be applied or not, and then enforced by clients.
It effectively removes all spam, but also shows replies in the social network of the person you are looking at. Maybe it shouldn't disable interactions though, but this is an alternative to "Your Following", because "Your Following" is a different social graph than someone elses, and you don't want to filter out valuable interactions in threads by applying "Your Following" to someone else.
#nevent1q…un80

2026-03-27 08:42:23 UTC

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Thanks for contributing with music natively on Nostr!
Tip for next time you share, include the music track reference directly in the post, so Nostr clients that support music, can show the music directly without external links.
Love that you included music video! Also, please try out @nprofile…m0xe as a client for Nostr Music, it's a full featured client that also does Music very well that I've developed.

2026-03-27 02:41:14 UTC

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The PoW filter was just filtering on the client after events had been loaded.

2026-03-26 23:26:12 UTC

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We should focus on Jupiter...
https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/035a9e3f11444b75969bbf8ad6878c4aa0892542fd8f9d79444d68e9207bcd56.webp

2026-03-26 18:43:25 UTC

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That's a good idea, let me know what you end up doing and I'll probably follow lead.

2026-03-26 18:36:13 UTC

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Ok, what would be the community metadata event which NIP-22 comments would attach to? 🤙

2026-03-26 18:32:48 UTC

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You mean NIP-72?
I added moderated communities to @Nostria recently, it needs more work, but sad lack of communities on Nostr at the moment, so more clients supporting it will definitely help!
https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/4342798acbe5dad3eb3646fa9c44b95fb805c5216287511ed3b76119f16be998.webp

2026-03-26 14:54:19 UTC

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@nprofile…dmep does both, I removed the Proof of Work filter long time ago, since there was so few notes published with it anyway - and the relays don't support prefix id filtering to get only events with PoW. Now there are more clients that does PoW though, so I might re-introduce this filter for threads.

2026-03-26 14:52:42 UTC

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All it takes is a reply or repost by someone, then their post and profile is shown, even with people list or trust filter enabled.
In @nprofile…m0xe when you apply either of these filters in a thread, it will show the parents, making them visible even without any Web of Trust scoring.
I don't think it takes much engagement to get visibility for new accounts.

2026-03-26 14:45:44 UTC

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Have you tried @nprofile…m0xe? Could you check if it works as you expect? If not, I'll get it fixed right away.
Also which clients are you referring too? Primal and Yakihonne is doing some custom indexing and rendering, so they might show older articles I think, but not 100% sure. I know at least they render expired events.
https://www.nostria.app/

2026-03-26 13:01:52 UTC

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I'll get that added, you can verify publish status in System Notifications. Nostria will attempt automatic retries if it fails. You can manually trigger retries from there.
https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/a2a7ca82bbc5ebbf0a41f034ebc9464932e5483b7caf44999e22a0696ed73c9f.webp

2026-03-25 15:29:23 UTC

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I don't fully understand your request here, is this what you want:
- A notification feed for all events (like kind 1 posts) where you are mentioned?
Or is it something else? The Messages feature (NIP-04/NIP-17) doesn't make sense to only show incoming?
There is also public chats and private group chats (NIP-17).

2026-03-25 00:24:51 UTC

https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/4fe8a8e05d4452b459ac2c59fbea81154adaa58f1e2c776768a8b81092f7428d.mp4
The desktop experience for #Nostria #Music.

2026-03-24 23:23:53 UTC

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I found the issue, the events from that bridge is marked "Protected Event (NIP-70) and Nostria didn't allow repost/quote of those. This is more of a relay NIP than client, it has been fixed now and deployed.
Sorry for late fix, I had some other improvements to finish first.
I also noticed that one of your comments in this thread renders as JSON, I'll get that fixed too tomorrow.