#13: The Linux of Social Media w/ hzrd149 — No Solutions

"The identity should be outside of the computer."

hzrd149 & Gigi contemplate local relays.

Libraries & apps mentioned:

In this dialogue:

Automation & robot armies
If this than that (IFTTT)
Permissioned vs permissionless automation
Self-hosting and the local-first people
"The identity should be outside of the computer"
Private vs public, local vs remote
DRM and other nonsense
Private means encrypted with my key
Nostr apps should be local-first, thanks to local relays
All nostr apps should work in flight mode, somewhat
Outbox model, writing, and reading
Search & NIP-50
Ants & thisishowyougetants.com
6 degrees of separation & FoaF
WoT
Friend list curation & "circles"
"Don't touch my follow list"
Bootstrapping a network by saying GM a lot
Recommendations usually suck
Nostr can shine
Vertex & figuring out who John is
NIP-05 & realness
Root-level domains & realness (e.g. @dergigi.com)
Zaps & realness
Nutzaps & realness
Local-first & local algorithms
nostrdb VS local relays
Local data & relevancy
noDNS, locality, local preference, and "good enough"
Mostly online vs mostly offline
"Servers aren't bad. Getting rugpulled is bad."
"Information is easy to spread but hard to stifle"
Local hubs, community hubs, global hubs
"nostr was built for broadcasting"
Building stuff badly & nerd-sniping people
Gigi's ants video
Walking in circles
DM metadata leakage
"It shouldn't matter where the data comes from"
"Deleting data is a lie"
The impossibility of proving deletion
Bitrot & data loss
Fighting bitrot with duplication & rebroadcasting
Bouquet, blossom, and self-healing links
Local-first vs local-also
Left-side of the bellcurve CDN
The one whale relay
Topic-based relays
fiatjaf's pyramid relay
Torrents, early video content, game installers
fiatjaf’s take on IPFS
Why not rebuild Cloudflare?
Censorship-resistance = 100% uptime = no rugpulls
Getting offered weed on the streets
Every app works in flight mode
No developer needs an API key
"The data accumulates where it needs to accumulate"
Browser history as an example of local data & user interests
WoT is kinda local
wot.dergigi.com
Blossom is different; blobs are heavy
American HODL's vlogs
"Step 1 is to build a shitty version"
HAVEN
Nostr Repair Kit (Nostr pacemaker)
Shout-out to Pablo's highlighter (fucking hell)
Open-source & scratching your own itch
Applesauce v4
"It's almost done" - famous last words!
Outbox in applesauce, and how it makes everything more difficult
Waves, routstr, Pete, Justin, Paul, Gzuuus
Hzrd's SEC-05 highlights
noDNS
Wally & Cashu Wallet Connect
Crazy idea => Consensus => Implementation
Difference between idea & implementation
"Domains are shitcoins"
We've been living in a post-domain world for a while
Independent browsers & project Ladybird
Nostr-native browser - who will build it?
"A different way of doing internet infrastructure"
Is a world without APIs possible?
Mainframe => Personal Computer => Smartphones
Online sometimes => Offline sometimes
Local LLMs
Nostr allows you to build less
Thin layers & special-purpose apps
NIP-60 and finding spare change under the couch
Does negentropy fix NIP-60 synchronization?
Nostr is synergistic
The beauty of nostr-relay-tray
Nostr works. We've come far!
It's all coming together
Boris
"You can always go back and build it right"
Just begin again.
Just begin again.
Just begin again.

Recorded at 917,886.