Damus
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If I remember correctly they contacted me and I had a call with a guy from Twitter where he told me Bluesky's goals were to build a protocol for which Twitter could become a client in the future, to which I said Nostr was a perfect match, then he asked me if I would consider becoming the lead Bluesky person they would pick for leading the effort, and I said ok but asked if it would be acceptable if I just used Nostr as it was as "the Bluesky" without considering the other proposals and he didn't know what to say. Then he put me in a secret group chat with some other people including SSB people, Mastodon people, the GUN guy and people from a bunch of useless IPFS projects. Supposedly the group was gathered to work together in creating this Bluesky protocol, but I read the entire conversation and it was 100% people just shilling their own projects, so I talked a little about Nostr and the first feedback I got was: "how do we ban people? it looks like it would be very hard to ban", so I said that was the idea and the conversation ended. Maybe Jay Graber was in this chat, but I don't remember reading any messages from her. Some time after that supposedly this group produced a "report" containing all decentralized protocols in existence and a comparison between them, but it didn't include Nostr. I think the group didn't produce anything and this was likely a solo effort from Jay. The group continued its useless, sparse conversation and Bluesky the company was created through some other means of communication.
A Nostr client with no concept of "follows", you just get shown some content from selected relays, then if you like -- or if you read (your local client would know by your clicking or how much time your spent on each thread, no one else) -- that person gets added to a dynamic ranking of possible interests, so you start to softly "follow" them (by which I mean the client fetches their notes specifically from their relays). As you interact with new notes and new people that dynamic list changes.
Today I am releasing "narr", a lightweight RSS and Nostr longform reader for the desktop: https://github.com/fiatjaf/narr It supports all sorts of RSS feed discovery from HTTP URLs and renders them beautifully in a simple straightforward interface, you can also paste nostr:... URIs, including nip05, npub and nprofile codes (they should also work without the nostr: prefix). If you install narr and use it in the next 2 hours you'll be entitled to our special bonus offer: you'll get one free complaint and one free feature request, which you can write as a reply to this note -- but only if you include a screenshot of your setup. https://cdn.satellite.earth/79794529f2d5778a911d59d98fa7b330654e45edc3d0c4eec2b6579ab510b7bd.png
