Damus
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daniele
@dtonon

Working on Gossip, Coracle, Njump and other inspiring nostr projects. I love to build helpful things that people are pleased to use, mixing tech, design, usability and accessibility.

Relays (5)
  • wss://chronicle.dtonon.com/ – read & write
  • wss://nos.lol/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.wine/ – read & write
  • wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com/ – write
  • wss://lang.relays.land/it – write

Recent Notes

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(Also) for this reason I have a 5 years old smartphone with 4G, a cheap operator and a small screen (that is an important point for UX testing).

The others reasons are that 1) a slightly slower connection create a beneficial friction reducing the use of the phone and 2) only old phones are small enough to fit in your pocket 3) It's crazy to throw so much money at something that breaks when dropped, when it should be treated as an everyday tool without excessive concern.
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I obviously agree about the importance of a good UX. But it cannot replace knowing and picking the right values (=features) in the first place.
A great UX should alleviate the pain that necessarily a new protocol introduce, and we should treat users with respect creating a dialogue around these values, don't just try to attract them with easy and appealing solutions. We win explaining what matters, why it matters, and offering good software that makes that obvious and enjoyable.
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This is true if all server are equally well managed, otherwise you risk to create a worse experience with random (and repeated, if the load balancer has no memory) failures.
Btw, today Njump has been updated with several fixes and now njump.me seems quite solid.
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> Most people still trust display names over cryptographic identity.

People don't distinguish between domains with slight differences, and having little tools, and knowledge, to verify the related cryptographically identity, they tend to trust visual evidences.

The missing of NIP-05 verification in this context is just a silly error by the scammers, they could just add the NIP-05 using their damusish domains, and actually offer a more credible appearance.
In fact, NIP-05 verification usually doesn't mean *nothing*, and it's not a verification, if you don't know exactly the correct domain the user should be associated with.

The solution? Probably the simplest and most effective one is to display a WoT indicator near the profile, as @npub13myx4... cleverly does; the signal is clear: high number = trustworthy.
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It could unlock some interesting use cases. But I fear that the need to create an event for each recipient could be a problem.
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New Year's gift: hopefully, some major bottleneck issues in Njump have been resolved, and it should now run more smoothly.
Let me know if you experience any problem with specific profiles/notes.