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Andrew
@Andrew

Software Engineer by day, aspiring beet farmer by night. ☦️💻⚽🏥📷📈💪☕️🇺🇸🇪🇬

Things I like:
- #P2P/#decentralized/#opensource stuff
- #History (esp Rome/Greece/Egypt)
- #Transit oriented city design
- #Gadgets/#ElectricVehicles/#Solar Power
- #Space exploration
- #Videogames (especially #GTA)

Things I've Built:
- Agora: Follow your favorite topics across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads
https://agorasocial.app
- Chronicl: Decentralized web archiver that distributes archives across Nostr relays
https://chronicl.vercel.app/

“Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor”
- Roman poet Theocritus

🐦Twitter: https://twitter.com/Coptic_Chad
🐘Mastodon: https://andrew.masto.host/@andrew

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[email protected]nip05
[email protected]lnurl
Relays (21)
  • wss://a.nos.lol – read & write
  • wss://e.nos.lol – read & write
  • wss://relay.mostr.pub – read & write
  • wss://relay.noswhere.com – read & write
  • wss://nos.lol – read & write
  • wss://relay.nostr.bg – read & write
  • wss://relay.primal.net – read & write
  • wss://nostr.mom – read & write
  • wss://relay.nostr.band – read & write
  • wss://purplepag.es – read & write
  • wss://nostr-relay.app – read & write
  • wss://hist.nostr.land – read & write
  • wss://nostrue.com – read & write
  • wss://relay.damus.io – read & write
  • wss://relay.momostr.pink – read & write
  • wss://relay.nostrplebs.com – read & write
  • wss://nostr.oxtr.dev – read & write
  • wss://feeds.nostr.band/popular – read & write
  • wss://offchain.pub – read & write
  • wss://search.nos.today – read & write
  • wss://relay.nos.social – read & write

Recent Notes

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that’s exactly my point, it’s important to expand on things like NIP-65 to efficiently distribute content across many smaller relays. As it currently stands, the way apps find content across relays doesnt even fully make use of NIP-65, especially big apps like @nprofile1q... that still haven’t prioritized that at all.
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Well that was always something the nostr protocol was going to have to handle if its supposed to be a true alternative to Twitter.

If the protocol can't scale to that size without a few massive relays doing all the work, then it's Bluesky with extra steps and a muuuuuuuuch shittier UX. That means it's not a serious global social network IMO, moreso one for niche communities only, just like Mastodon is looking to be.
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In light of recent events with Internet Archive, I figured we could really use a decentralized Internet Archive to have a resilient backup.

Having said that, introducing Chronicl - Decentralized Internet Archive distributed across Nostr relays

https://chronicl.vercel.app/