Half of the internet is down today, but Nostr is unaffected. None of the ContextVM ecosystem is down either. Some clients and relays might be down if they are behind Cloudflare, but the protocol itself is not affected. A protocol cannot be taken down; it will find a way. If a client is down, you can switch to another client or, even better, run one locally. Jumble and Nostrudel are already good options for this. If a relay is down, you can go to nostr.watch, pick a new one, and use it to communicate. Even better, you can run your own relay. It can be as easy as running Citrine on your phone and exposing the relay through Tor. No domain is needed; just a couple of apps on your phone and voilà, you can still communicate with your peers. Be your own infra provider. This is why ContextVM. View quoted note →

This is quite cool! Why limit yourself to a single WoT provider when you can use multiple and present the results? The more perspectives, the better. After testing Profilestr, we noticed that Profilestr, Vertex, and Relatr tend to output very similar scores, with only slight variations. This indicates that they are quite solid, even with different approaches to compute the trust scores. Relatr and Vertex can be used without leaving the nostr. Relatr uses CVM, Vertex uses a DVM-like API, Profilestr offers a REST API endpoint, so there's no excuse not to integrate some of these options into your client. Fight spam, protect your users from impersonators, and increase the value. View quoted note →

Thanks to @hzrd149 for contributing Umbrel support for Relatr. Now everyone can deploy their own instance from home without hassle. You just need to add the hzrd's community store by following the instructions here

GitHub

GitHub - hzrd149/umbrel-community-app-store: My Umbrel Community App Store for noStrudel

My Umbrel Community App Store for noStrudel. Contribute to hzrd149/umbrel-community-app-store development by creating an account on GitHub.

, install Relatr, and you'll be up and running. We are so excited to keep working and improving this to truly democratize WoT and foster a healthier ecosystem 💛 View quoted note →

YES #YESTRView quoted note →

Do you know about Wavefunc? It's a neat Nostr project that lets you listen to, discover, and share radio stations, and so much more. With ContextVM, Wavefunc can search for music metadata and show you what's currently playing in the radio stations. Plus, you can use their music metadata server on its own. Swing by

Wavefunc

to see what it's all about. If you want to dive straight into the music metadata server, head over to https://contextvm.org/s/bb0707242a17a4be881919b3dcfea63f42aacedc3ff898a66be30af195ff32b2.

During the process, we removed the persistent database where we were storing some CVM announcements. If you are running a CVM server, please rebroadcast or republish your announcements to our relay. This can be done by simply restarting the server.View quoted note →

We use Rely for the contextvm relay, and it has been quite stable and performant. We just upgraded to v1 🚀View quoted note →