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Matt Lorentz
@mplorentz

Wannabe solarpunk, gamer, backpacker, climber, gardener in meatspace and cypherspace. CTO at https://nos.social, building a social media commons centered around trust, freedom of listening, and self-organization.

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Relays (5)
  • wss://relay.damus.io – read & write
  • wss://nostr.lorentz.is – write
  • wss://nos.lol – read & write
  • wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com – write
  • wss://relay.nos.social – write

Recent Notes

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Ok hodlbod has been COOKING on his frost signer thing with email login. I just got a demo from him and it has me more excited about Nostr than I have been in a long time.

- users can sign into Nostr apps via email (or someday any other identity system they like. Phone? Facebook? snail mail? Āhau?) but behind the scenes they still have a private key
- no server or company ever needs a full copy of their private key
- at any point they can extract their Nostr key from the system to use another one (like a bunker, hardware signer, or just a different group of signing servers, etc.)

The big problem with Nostr onboarding is that people need to put in a significant amount of work to understand and manage keys before they even get a chance to get any value out of the software. But pomade enables someone to join without thinking about keys, *and later* start caring and still be able to take full custody of their key. It is the second part that nobody has really done before, on Nostr or anywhere else that I know of. It's not bulletproof, but it combines all the best tech we have to balance ease-of-use, security, and user control.
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@npub1jlrs5... I think at some point I heard you say you get a summary of recent Nostr events every day. Is that from a DVM? Have you written about this somewhere? I would like to try something similar.
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I wrote up some instructions for running a promenade signer, if that's something that interests you. Promenade creates a cluster of servers that cooperatively sign of Nostr events without any of them knowing your Nostr secret key. Bleeding edge identity tech. Join us! @naddr1qvzq...
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This would require an overhaul of clients and any relays that use wot, auth, or similar features, correct?