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Ryan
@ursuscamp

Father. Husband. Bitcoiner. Developer. In that order.

Nostore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nostore/id1666553677
Nomen: https://nomenexplorer.com

Relays (6)
  • wss://nostr-relay.derekross.me – read & write
  • wss://nostr.oxtr.dev – read & write
  • wss://relay.damus.io – read & write
  • wss://eden.nostr.land – read & write
  • wss://relay.snort.social – read & write
  • wss://brb.io – read & write

Recent Notes

Terry Yiu · 104w
Thanks for explaining! Would you be able to add an open source license to the GitHub repository? It’ll help whoever forks it.
Ryan · 104w
But that’s really more of a nice to have. Honestly, the app is feature complete and in maintenance mode at this point.
Luxas · 104w
Curious, why dropping off from Nostr? What are your criticisms of it and/or how could it improve to retain you using it?
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I only have so much room in my life for social media apps. Twitter takes up most of my SM brain power.

Unlike most Nostr users, I actually like having a server and an algorithm. My entire Nostr feed is just stuff about Bitcoin and Nostr. I don’t even know if there is anything else on Nostr. Algorithms show me a wider variety of content, and I don’t want everything to be done in the client.

I am not quitting Nostr, it just doesn’t command a large amount of my attention and I haven’t maintained the same passion for it as I did early
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Luxas · 104w
Fair enough! Hopefully, content discovery will become more refined over time.
Hoshi · 104w
you could follow hashtags to get other topics in your feed
Crash Test Dummy · 104w
I do not support Twitter, but you make a good point about there being too much bitcoin pushing here.
Sebastix · 102w
This really depends who you follow. So put some work into that, your feed is at this moment really your own curated list of people with their content. It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure.
Ryan profile picture
I renewed my Apple developer account to keep Nostore on the App Store for another year. However I am not a heavy Nostr user these days so I will likely not renew again next year.

If anyone is interested in forking it at some point, I would support that.
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Luxas · 104w
Curious, why dropping off from Nostr? What are your criticisms of it and/or how could it improve to retain you using it?
Terry Yiu · 104w
That’s too bad. Nostore has worked great for me. Are there any issues or improvements with Nostore that you are aware of that you would have liked to address if you were still interested?
Nice and Kind Vic · 93w
Can you (1) provide a link to the git repo (2) add a license file to the repo to denote it as open source if that is your choice? Im looking to open a bounty issue as Id like to see nip44 support for users
debasedghost · 85w
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Shawn · 106w
Thanks for wading back in, Ryan. nostr:npub1mhcr4j594hsrnen594d7700n2t03n8gdx83zhxzculk6sh9nhwlq7uc226 can fill you in.
Freakoverse · 108w
Yoo welcome back. There's now a youtube thing (https://www.flare.pub/ ) and a patreon thing (https://getfaaans.com/explore broken atm for some reason), and a discord/matrix thing (https://denny.denostr.com/ ) . Aside from that, making content on here whenever i can =3
nostrich · 116w
Wasn't a huge IRC guy, but do you essentially mean, text group chats? Servers, and channels within servers?
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Yes that is what I mean. Instead of trying to squeeze group chats into the current way relays work, there would be a new relay structure focused on this use case.

In essence, a server is a meta-relay, and each channel is an individual relay (unique message stream). server.com/bitcoin, server.com/sports, etc are each technically a separate relay. Instead of amalgamating text notes from all relays into a one transparent feed, a client would segregate the feeds based on channel.

There would also be “admin” type events for channel creation, moderation, etc.

In summary, opinionated relays + a tweaked client experience to create a clean chat experience, while still allowing you to build with the Nostr ecosystem of libraries and extensions
nostrich · 116w
Wasn't a huge IRC guy, but do you essentially mean, text group chats? Servers, and channels within servers?
node · 116w
ICQstr ! I would give it a try
cloud fodder · 116w
yes 💯 I've been doing some work relay side to hopefully facilitate this at relay.tools Hoping some new clients start to come out that aren't focused on being a Twitter.
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New version of the Nomen Explorer out: 0.4.0. The biggest change is it now implements NOM-04, which means the indexer publishes its names to Nostr relays. If anyone wants to build tooling around Nomen names, there is no need to call external APIs, you can just use the same Nostr client libraries.

- Nomen Explorer: https://nomenexplorer.com
- Release Notes: https://github.com/ursuscamp/nomen/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md
- NOM-04: https://github.com/ursuscamp/noms/blob/master/nom-04.md#nom-04