Iris July 2025 Update. If you last used Iris in 2023, give it a retry! https://iris.to New features: - Feed editor! Edit feeds and create your own. - Relay-based feeds - Real-time updating feeds - Show which relays an event came from - Read-only mode (view as user / pubkey login) - Improved popular feed, calculated locally (no more API calls) - Performance Optimizations - Significant feed rendering and caching improvements - Encrypted uploads in private chats - Notification feed functional and visual fixes - Configurable imgproxy - Swipable image / video carousel - Setting to disable specific reactions or the whole reaction bar for faster & calmer experience - Lots of small fixes and UI improvements - Binary serialization of social graph — 55% reduction in size. Distributed with a dataset of 30K users, 200K follows and 2K mutes in 1.4MB. Double ratchet group chat & multi-device support WIP. Zaps not working great atm, fixing. Want to add nutzaps. Tauri Android & desktop app available if you don't want to depend on iris.to, DNS, cloudflare, your ISP etc.

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We need some standard for chunking of videos and other large files. That enables 1) verifying what you're getting before you've downloaded the entire large file, 2) downloading simultaneously from multiple servers or peers and 3) saved and scrollable livestreams — just publish the updated merkle root to your stream file every few seconds. While we're at it, why not use blossom-compatible (sha-256) Bittorrent v2 merkle-trees

» BitTorrent v2

— or maybe @HORNETS soon? View quoted note →

Combining local LLMs and search indexes (such as Nostr databases) will be powerful. Like Grok, but sovereign and private. Collective conscious of humanity should not be controlled by CEOs and governments.