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I’m a creator, high on my list are: 1. Ability to schedule posts (including image uploads) 2. easier way to collect metrics like follower count, engagement, post views. 3. Tools for media editing

'just' function as well as apps funded with millions if not billions is no easy feat though

1. Easy 2. Easy within a #communikey (with its own main relay + blossom server) 3. Hard but high priority

It's not... And that's where we are at now.

portable digital social ID

Also, since there’s no algo. If you guys would Repost my work/Follow that would be amazing 🙏🏼

Bingo. The biggest hurdle isn’t convincing people why they should use Nostr—it’s making sure they can use it without friction. Most people don’t care about decentralization, censorship resistance, or sovereignty; they just want things to work. Right now, onboarding is a nightmare for the average user. Private keys? Relays? Wallet integration? It’s all second nature to the tech-savvy, but a brick wall for normies. The moment they hit friction, they bounce right back to the platforms they know. The game-changer isn’t building something better—it’s building something equivalent but sovereign. The second it feels as seamless as its legacy counterparts, the advantages of self-ownership will do the selling. Until then, we’re just preaching to the choir.

Creator communities 👀

"...they just need to function as well as what Nostr is attempting to replace..." I'm with this. Though I don't think we're setting people for failure. I have failed myself, a lot, when it comes to using what few clients & apps I have the time & brain to use; but I feel this is a journey, an undertaking that many in this community have been very helpful with. There has been times I've been the one to pause the "receiving of the help" because I need to catch up, or my non-Nostr life has decided to get in the way. I am in agreement that user-friendliness does need to be a priority. If you are in your late 30s now, you need to think of how would your 80+ grandma/grandpa use this, why, & with how much ease. Why? Because the old ones still have a lot good sh*t to offer that many young'uns have no idea of its yuuuuge value. I'm not saying let's cater to octogenarians, but when solving a problem from the perspective of your least capable participant, you solve it for everybody!!!! I feel like I may be contradicting myself. I think I should, we all have yin & yang in us. But while the user-friendliness of Nostr remains "questionable", we may need to focus on our community and help each other out to learn to use it with its current hurdles, as this creates new neurological connections. Challenge is good for our brains, while the work is done to smooth as many kinks to onboard EVERYONE. As in... No vulnerable member of our human specie left behind. Solving all the problems is a paradox, cuz new problems and challenges will always show up.

Agree…one barrier I’ve noticed is some sort of cultural resistance to anything other than Bitcoins/Sats which makes it a bit discouraging to help build the necessary infra knowing it’ll be poorly received.

Those should be implemented as ‘layer 2’ client or server features rather than additions to the NOSTR protocol itself.

let's give the devs a 2 week soon tm deadline 🫂🤙

Because the current clients' search bars are really unhelpful

https://search.chakany.systems is probably the closest thing for now. you can search semantically

Tried it 😬 Anything better? 😅

I searched for two common keywords and I am getting back some language I don’t know

can i see the query?

yeah, will make improvements this weekend. events need to be posted to wss://relay.chakany.systems so that's the main limitation

“romania” “community”

What distance metric are you using?

I will drop in on it later

peep the similarity metric the sample size right now is low because events need to be posted to relay.chakany.systems additionally we don't support quotes or anything like that it's a similarity check between embeded pieces of text

the value of the text embedding of the query compared to kind1s in the db

some examples

Like cosine vs euclidean or others. If its cosine, a negative value could be "opposite" meaning in semantic space. Wheras regular texts would typically be positive

euclidean distance

Negative euclidean distances?! Sir, unless you're working with (literal) imaginary numbers the math isn't mathing 🫠

But in any case, cosine is typically used for semantic distances

i guess it's called "L2 Distance" will fix when i get home tdy

Yea I see that as a feature not a bug. Would much rather know that an account is just that one person (since they wouldn't give out their private key to someone to post on their behalf)

That’s a cool perspective 😍 so Nostr really forces / supports true P2P convos

5225 make you holla - but you like the new account 🤷‍♀️

I'm not sure login with nostr for agents is a problem. Agent will probably have direct access to it's own nsec and could sign whichever event they need after reading some NIPs (instead of delegating that to some app). HTTP-auth can be done with nip98 which again agent could do directly. The thing that seems to be useful is delegating access to your own key to the agent - here nip46 seems like a working solution.

This is an awesome contribution to the community if true. I would use it for our meetup.

Awesome, glad to hear you’d find good use in it. Make sure to watch the repo and follow for progress 🤝 perhaps we could help you set up earlier than others and you can help by providing feedback during the process so we can refine?