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#13: The Linux of Social Media

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"The identity should be outside of the computer."

hzrd149 & Gigi contemplate local relays.

Libraries & apps mentioned:

  • Applesauce
  • Boris
  • Citrine
  • nostr-relay-tray

    • In this dialogue:

    • Automation & robot armies
    • If this than that (IFTTT)
    • Permissioned vs permissionless automation
    • Self-hosting and the local-first people
    • "The identity should be outside of the computer"
    • Private vs public, local vs remote
    • DRM and other nonsense
    • Private means encrypted with my key
    • Nostr apps should be local-first, thanks to local relays
    • All nostr apps should work in flight mode, somewhat
    • Outbox model, writing, and reading 
    • Search & NIP-50 
    • Ants & thisishowyougetants.com 
    • 6 degrees of separation & FoaF
    • WoT 
    • Friend list curation & "circles" 
    • "Don't touch my follow list"
    • Bootstrapping a network by saying GM a lot
    • Recommendations usually suck
    • Nostr can shine
    • Vertex & figuring out who John is
    • NIP-05 & realness
    • Root-level domains & realness (e.g. @dergigi.com)
    • Zaps & realness
    • Nutzaps & realness 
    • Local-first & local algorithms 
    • nostrdb VS local relays 
    • Local data & relevancy 
    • noDNS, locality, local preference, and "good enough" 
    • Mostly online vs mostly offline 
    • "Servers aren't bad. Getting rugpulled is bad."
    • "Information is easy to spread but hard to stifle" 
    • Local hubs, community hubs, global hubs
    • "nostr was built for broadcasting" 
    • Building stuff badly & nerd-sniping people
    • Gigi's ants video 
    • Walking in circles 
    • DM metadata leakage 
    • "It shouldn't matter where the data comes from" 
    • "Deleting data is a lie" 
    • The impossibility of proving deletion 
    • Bitrot & data loss
    • Fighting bitrot with duplication & rebroadcasting 
    • Bouquet, blossom, and self-healing links
    • Local-first vs local-also 
    • Left-side of the bellcurve CDN 
    • The one whale relay 
    • Topic-based relays 
    • fiatjaf's pyramid relay
    • Torrents, early video content, game installers 
    • fiatjaf’s take on IPFS 
    • Why not rebuild Cloudflare? 
    • Censorship-resistance = 100% uptime = no rugpulls 
    • Getting offered weed on the streets 
    • Every app works in flight mode
    • No developer needs an API key 
    • "The data accumulates where it needs to accumulate" 
    • Browser history as an example of local data & user interests 
    • WoT is kinda local 
    • wot.dergigi.com 
    • Blossom is different; blobs are heavy 
    • American HODL's vlogs 
    • "Step 1 is to build a shitty version" 
    • HAVEN 
    • Nostr Repair Kit (Nostr pacemaker) 
    • Shout-out to Pablo's highlighter (fucking hell) 
    • Open-source & scratching your own itch 
    • Applesauce v4
    • "It's almost done" - famous last words! 
    • Outbox in applesauce, and how it makes everything more difficult 
    • Waves, routstr, Pete, Justin, Paul, Gzuuus 
    • Hzrd's SEC-05 highlights 
    • noDNS
    • Wally & Cashu Wallet Connect 
    • Crazy idea => Consensus => Implementation 
    • Difference between idea & implementation
    • "Domains are shitcoins" 
    • We've been living in a post-domain world for a while 
    • Independent browsers & project Ladybird 
    • Nostr-native browser - who will build it? 
    • "A different way of doing internet infrastructure" 
    • Is a world without APIs possible? 
    • Mainframe => Personal Computer => Smartphones 
    • Online sometimes => Offline sometimes 
    • Local LLMs
    • Nostr allows you to build less
    • Thin layers & special-purpose apps 
    • NIP-60 and finding spare change under the couch 
    • Does negentropy fix NIP-60 synchronization? 
    • Nostr is synergistic 
    • The beauty of nostr-relay-tray
    • Nostr works. We've come far!
    • It's all coming together
    • Boris
    • "You can always go back and build it right"
    • Just begin again.
    • Just begin again.
    • Just begin again.

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