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A signer app for Android. You can find it on zap store

At the risk of sounding retarded, what's zapstore?

Our own app store: https://zapstore.dev/

Some AppStore alternative for Nostr/Bitcoin apps, i think. I've never used it, and i don't know what are the pros of using it over Obtanium(with Github repo links).

Dis is hooje mah bruddah 🙏

Obtainium works like Twitter. You can access a lot of content - but it lives on a centralized platform and it's not cryptographically signed. Zapstore brings the concept of nostr-signing software releases, so you can verify them just like your client verifies regular notes. And... you can zap them.

lol

Huh?! Obtainium doesn't work like Twitter. You mean the source code of Obtainium is on a centralized platform, like the source code of Zapstore? Obtainium is signed and you can verify it with AppVerifier (like Zapstore).

No, I did not mean that. I am talking about the content.

I missed the «it» — sorry for that!

I will be full time zapstore when I can (automatically) export my app list to a file like obtanium does. I have automation that backs up that file to my next cloud server and then mirrors the repo on my Gitea instance. But it's purely my personal opinion that mirroring is more important than signed apps at this exact moment in time with microsofts bs github policies.

That will come with

GitHub

Privately bookmarked apps · Issue #160 · zapstore/zapstore

button to favourite apps without installing them yet

as private bookmarks with all user's installed apps. You could then use nak in your automation to pull the event, decrypt and grab the repositories

Lit, tried to zap but I think the WiFi here is blocking it.

No worries! Thanks for the patience

Even better

Yep, not a big fan. They do a bunch of things without creating any NIPs that we can integrate with. I prefer 0xchat.

I meant as a browser for mini web apps? They support nip07 which makes it extremely easy to test out a lot of web apps without the inconvenience of bunkers. They have gone a long way from just a messaging app

I would never insert my nsec in any app that has a browser inside of it. Ever.

You could test it out with a test nsec to actually see how it works. We all inserted our nsecs in amethyst before amber became the norm. They are actually moving in the right direction

They support amber as well.

Cool, then you don't need the inner browser. You can just run it on a regular browser if they support nip55

This is just to create an identity. The identity is what is used with the mini apps with nip07. Again it would be great if you tested it out to see what they have been cooking

Will do some tests.

Extensions don't work on mobile browsers. They have to support nip55 to get Amber to sign.

Try out #keychat. One app to test all the mini web apps with support for multiple accounts and different login methods.

Kiwi browser did it before it shut down. Lemur browser has extensions but never pops up to sign on. Hopefully they fix that.

Let's hope they can do it. iOS is not the best place for app to app communication. :(

Very cool.. too bad that it is multiplatform.

Sim. We do too many things on Amethyst. Amber has a flavor that it can't even connect to the Internet.

Amber is not a Nostr client that you use to browse content. Amber helps secure your nsec so no one gets access to it. Let's say you download several Nostr clients (one for browsing written content, one for video, one for voice chat, etc etc). Withoug Amber you would have to give each of those clients youe nsec so that the client can use it to sign the events (posts) that you post through it (that way people know it's from you). What if one of more of those clients is malicious and shares your nsec with others? What if it's insecurily voded and hackers get access to your nsec through it. The more clients you give your nsec to, the larger the risk. With Amber (and clients that support it) you DON'T give your nsec to any other client to sign into it. Instead you tell the client to use Amber to sign your posts/events with. So Amber is the ONLY app that knows your nsec. Other apps get hacked, they still can't give hackers your nsec because they don't have it. Makes sense? #nostr #grownostr #amber

Apple doesn't allow anything like that.

Sucks to be using the iPhone

Stop using it.

That works as well.

Most devs don't have the knowledge and/or time and resources to protect your keys well. This is especially true if they are shipping apps to all operating systems. Amber focuses only on that and doesn't do anything else. There is a version of Amber isn't even authorized by Android to use the Internet.