Vitor Pamplona

It's hard to imagine how sharing in a different kind would scale to different apps.
Let's say, I have follows on Amethyst, on my Blog and on Olas. They are different follows. One sees my kind 1s, the other my kind 20s.
If I want to share the podcast, I might want to share with both. For Amethyst, I need to prepare a short post. For my Blog, I need to write a little longer and provide more content. For Olas, I need to prepare a picture that would say the same thing.
If there is a TikTok-like app, then I need a video of me inviting people to the podcast. Or maybe a way to quickly make a video clip out of the podcast with my Olas picture + the podcast audio.
It's going to be hard for Fountain to offer sharing on all of these different types of media. And the amount of options will grow over time.

2024-12-20 16:59:19 GMT

Getting more and more convinced that a Nostr app store should do the user onboarding.
I just want to say: "Want to use Nostr? Just install @nprofile…tdq0 and follow the steps". The store helps them figure out which apps are available for their platform and which ones their friends are using.
I want to onboard to an ecosystem. Not to a specific app.

2024-12-20 01:26:09 GMT

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Nip 01 is mandatory. Which means kind 1s are mandatory. If you think it is optional, the text is wrong.
All other use cases were using kind1 for replies but now they are all moving to use nip22. Kind 1 is really only for Twitter-like clients. 90% of nostr doesn't need to bother by kind1.

2024-12-19 18:39:44 GMT

WHAT?
> Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.), floated the idea of installing Musk as speaker of the House, as the Constitution doesn’t require that the post be held by an elected official.

2024-12-19 14:33:23 GMT

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Looks good. After the Edits proposal, I am becoming more a fan of non-destructive replaceables. :)

2024-12-19 10:10:13 GMT

Was I wrong?
I always assumed that specialty clients should be able to easily outperform Amethyst on the quality of the features related to their specialty. Users would gradually move away from Amethyst as more and more specialty clients move forward. This culminates with a slow death of Amethyst, but towards a more exciting and decentralized future for Nostr. I have accepted this fate since the early days of the super app project.
This assumption was based on the fact that our development team would simply not have the resources to dedicate the same level of attention and support to every single specialty within Amethyst.
It has been one year and I am sad to report that I have been proven wrong over and over again.
For some reason, developing specialty clients is harder than developing the same features inside of Amethyst.
And that is a loss for decentralization.

2024-12-19 04:42:18 GMT

A genie can materialize a million dollars in front of you but cannot create more Bitcoins in your wallet.

2024-12-19 03:53:51 GMT

I use nostr. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/0f7e16ca1e18d28f9cf01afe50ffb7385a7eeecc919dbc56d9fec15f7b116c27.jpeg

2024-12-17 20:18:27 GMT

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0xChat, Coracle, Nostrudel and Amethyst. Next version of Gossip will have it as well I believe. Primal has it, but you can only use with their servers I believe.

2024-12-17 03:45:10 GMT

Nostr apps 2024
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/c87a87381632a1ea9873be4e5c2c4a20a0f2d1cadbfc1d9a5f2a3dbf7154a6e4.mp4

2024-12-16 21:39:08 GMT

I was today years old when I found out you can buy uncut dollars from the US mint. 4x $2 notes goes for $22.50... + shipping... lol.
https://www.usmint.gov/2-four-note-sheet-B9491.html

2024-12-16 16:21:53 GMT

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It might be a graphene thing.

2024-12-16 16:20:47 GMT

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I don't see the random r or t you are mentioning. What OS are you using?

2024-12-14 22:51:25 GMT

My medical records are not connected with either my Google or Samsung Health accounts. Both apps show a clean slate for health data.
Yet, my Galaxy Watch's Medication widget thumbnail shows precisely the only medication I am currently taking. And it is not a common medication people would recognize to make a good thumbnail.
Your health data is being sold behind your back.

2024-12-14 16:19:57 GMT

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Same thing could happen. The user could set that up and then uninstall Signal/SimpleX and never see your message.
We may add yet another preference per user to keep on nip04 after you disable it. But since many nostr clients are now deleting nip04, the opposite can also happen. Your friend could delete primal and then not see any of your nip04 messages in a new client.

2024-12-14 10:31:23 GMT

Self-custody doesn't mean trustless. You have to trust yourself to not fuck up. And many users do not trust themselves.
If you ask a regular user who can secure their money better, a bank or their house, they will say the bank 99% of the time.
Trust is always there. The best way to onboard users into self custody is to give them the tools to trust themselves.

2024-12-13 18:46:30 GMT

We are graduating from experimental to quality.
Moving forward, buggy and shitty apps will be less tolerated.
Amethyst included.

2024-12-13 17:44:05 GMT

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I tested 5 cashu wallets. I have lost funds in all of them. Mints have disappeared on me. NIP-60 events have disappeared as well.
It's nothing against cashu, but the operators themselves that need to ship better software and to secure people's sats. We know it is custodial. But that doesn't mean people can just run off with our sats just because they are bored. That's not cool.
My point is that NO one should EVER lose ANY money from a custodial system. Not a single sat. Regardless of how new things are.

2024-12-12 19:34:23 GMT

1. Twitter is down.
2. Teens use Facebook more than Twitter.
3. WhatsApp 👀
4. YouTube is winning.
5. Hispanics and Blacks use Instagram and TikTok way to more than Whites
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/84b4bcbeab373ce9c2b072979db95165d26f8d2bbbbe8297c6298cfc00d59bfd.png
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/3bc2a92ea7b5c7e7d567f6dd07a424bbef5bec0f1eee9c27d04930b948258bfe.png
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6d15b82a046f89f757c9b36c0966d2bed687dfbe7e0b7e20cdb025cb9e33dcb7.png
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/93baffe6aed08a34645712521d76c1e33f380b081b2cb5841b0b3f1dab5e409d.png
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/3338c9dc0e46ef02a3e925c8817fb9992f29ca001837f3f8dc1a16aa94ff405b.png

2024-12-12 04:48:08 GMT

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On amethyst everyone is an OG.

2024-12-11 14:48:50 GMT

Who is building the next zap store?
#nevent1q…dqx5

2024-12-11 14:14:10 GMT

Dr. Glaucomflecken's thoughts on the CEO killer and its social media reaction.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/b83cb671db145ec4f0d4c6d0909d85103ad5a1818573f84a6d37b94af3d1c56c.mp4

2024-12-10 16:34:25 GMT

The capitalism young people know is about fast fashion, social media influencing, subscription bait-and-switch, data harvesting and exploitation, hidden fees, exploitative gig work, unpaid internships, student debt, housing shortages, broken healthcare, and, more recently, the AI bullshit generator. If all you know is this, you would think capitalism is the worst thing ever. No wonder everyone is pissed with the label.
The free market needs to do better or it will hinder generations to come and destroy itself little by little.

2024-12-10 15:21:56 GMT

SAT FLOW POSITIVE, @nprofile…fslc
#nevent1q…6wyl

2024-12-10 15:09:21 GMT

"We fundraised!!"
521 ♥️ 122 🔄 129 🗨️
"We became cash-flow positive"
4 ♥️ 0 🔄 6 🗨️

2024-12-09 18:35:51 GMT

Holy shit. "Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (that is, 10^25) years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe."
https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/

2024-12-07 23:09:42 GMT

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I agree. It could be a profitable business. So much that there is a possibility for VC investment, depending on the model.
Opensats can grant 1BTC/yr. You just need to start and apply. I think there is a pitch for the HRF as well to make sure comms are uncensorable and to know when activists are being censored.
But I didn't meant that people will help kickstart it. You will have to show some proof of work before anyone invests in.

2024-12-07 14:44:54 GMT

I want a phone with a 1TB of ram.

2024-12-06 03:57:35 GMT

Blue Cross Blue Shield had just introduced the policy for covering anesthesia only to a pre fixed number of hours they defined in a big table. If surgery too long, it would not be covered. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/418a1264e758266d2faaae9db125493e763641567e125025d7ec128dc66d7b68

2024-12-05 22:35:25 GMT

Substack writers... I never want to subscribe. I just want a quick "pay 1000 SATs to read". Don't collect my info. Don't make me your recurrent revenue. I just want to pay for the thing that is in front of me. I don't care about your other stuff.

2024-12-05 15:10:03 GMT

I just want to thank Andreas Antonopoulos for orange pilling me.

2024-12-03 23:04:05 GMT

Took some time today to see how far up on my family tree I can go. I found the first Pamplona from 1370, linking the names of 17 grand parents up.
< 1370 in Pamplona, Spain
1370 in Porto, Portugal
1530 in Azores, Portugal
1770 in Florianopolis, Brazil
It's weird how many old documents you can just find on the web...
I guess I should add Boston to the list... 🚀

2024-12-03 03:27:40 GMT

The secret to life is to realize no one knows what they are doing.
The secret to good products is to make it work in spite of that.
https://image.nostr.build/8b104f864cede8cd75d138c8f3e332363f7105dfd42a203543351279afbf77b1.jpg

2024-12-03 03:19:00 GMT

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It has been fixed. It will be in the next version.

2024-12-03 00:40:50 GMT

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Yep, bug has been found and fixed. It will be in the next version.

2024-12-02 19:10:13 GMT

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Did you add a post? It's a new NIP. There is no one ANYWHERE.

2024-12-02 02:13:11 GMT

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I am sure the "Trump is not a politician" crowd would love it.

2024-12-02 00:25:26 GMT

👀
#nevent1q…gqm7

2024-12-01 14:55:00 GMT

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Hum.. nesse caso o servidor do destino rejeitou a conexão. Não há nada que o Amethyst possa fazer. :(

2024-12-01 03:12:55 GMT

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Gnome is the only serious desktop for Linux. The others are just enhanced crud interfaces.

2024-11-30 04:21:11 GMT

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Usually for the @s, but each client does a different thing. :(

2024-11-30 04:15:27 GMT

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We had username and display name, maybe we should add username back 🤔
We are also going to have nicknames that you can add to each of your follows. So, you can customize people's names at will.

2024-11-30 04:00:46 GMT

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Feel free to do that.

2024-11-30 03:34:45 GMT

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Cashu and lightning will have support for multiple coins soon via Taproot assets. If that happens, and gets enough usage, we will integrate them. It all depends how many users ask for.
The Garnet one was just poorly made. I don't really know if there is a market need for Monero because, quite literally, no one has ever asked me to do it. Monero was a fun experiment, but I don't think anyone really wants to link a privacy coin with a public identity. It doesn't make much sense.

2024-11-30 03:30:55 GMT

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We will keep adding fields. It all depends on what people ask for.

2024-11-30 02:17:20 GMT

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Come on people. People should be free do add whatever they want to their profile. Or are you against letting people free?
If it is dumb, no one will use it. Let's see how it goes.

2024-11-29 22:35:14 GMT

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Funny thing is that I cannot take a screen shot. The screen shot looks good. :)

2024-11-29 21:51:53 GMT

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Yep, but they only show to those in the same location.

2024-11-29 21:18:45 GMT

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Post a message on the Around me feed. Usually no one is there but somebody has to start the feed in each location (every 5km)

2024-11-29 19:03:15 GMT

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sure

2024-11-29 18:56:17 GMT

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Agree

2024-11-29 18:47:33 GMT

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Does "all follows" load?

2024-11-29 18:43:54 GMT

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Make your own Foundation/Bounty to collect sats from more people and do this because 50K sats is not enough. 50K sats is a good price, but no developer will do anything without knowing they could make at least 50 million sats on it.
#nevent1q…e4w4

2024-11-29 18:35:39 GMT

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Does it load any other page?

2024-11-29 18:32:42 GMT

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A simple app to check where your posts are and sync them when they are missing, watch for deletes etc can be developed.

2024-11-29 18:25:27 GMT

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Yep, I still think we can easily get a Blossom server on the phone.

2024-11-29 18:23:26 GMT

Most people on Nostr today don't know where their Nostr stuff is. That's a huge problem.
Nostr is only censorship resistant if you know where ALL of your stuff is and who can get, use, limit and delete them. If you don't know where your stuff is, and if your stuff is indeed ALL there, then you can be controlled just like centralized big tech.
If we can bring it all to the phone and use that as a source of truth to start easily testing which relays are accepting or deleting some of your stuff, with some good/easy UIs, we can change this dynamic.

2024-11-29 18:06:01 GMT

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The question is, do we want them integrated or not? Maybe both?

2024-11-29 18:00:15 GMT

No candidates yet. But hopefully a new dev shows up with an amazing sync machine. If you are out there, start the project, make it open source, release the first versions and apply to OpenSats. You might get 1BTC worth of grants and zaps right away.
#nevent1q…e0js

2024-11-28 23:53:21 GMT

I am grateful for this verifiable web

2024-11-28 22:32:11 GMT

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Ohh that makes sense. You probably need to change it to have your own relays and your zap service connected to your wallet. AlbyHub only does the NWC part, you still need to the zap service and the lightning address from other apps.

2024-11-28 22:16:42 GMT

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Ok, so that means it is sending to the same place it was sending before (same key and same relay). Are you in control of that relay or using something common?

2024-11-28 22:12:16 GMT

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Hum.. you can try deleting the bottom 3 fields of that screen and then scanning the QR to see if the information is being filled correctly. The 3 fields should have values after reading the qr.

2024-11-28 20:16:52 GMT

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Each user has the right to and is free to write whatever they want in their own profile.

2024-11-28 14:53:28 GMT

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FDroid is blocking the update since we added Tor. Just loose Obtainium or @nprofile…tdq0

2024-11-28 14:52:38 GMT

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He doesn't like edits and wants to force everyone to not use it.

2024-11-28 04:27:14 GMT

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And you can see their thumbnails in the Files app? Very interesting

2024-11-28 04:16:02 GMT

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Hum.. maybe the thumbnail generator is not working for these video types. 🤔

2024-11-28 03:37:35 GMT

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Thank you for the report. Do you have google services enabled?

2024-11-28 03:03:29 GMT

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Probably not. I am not sure how @nprofile…34p3 handles their location services.
I will need to make an option for folks to manually insert.

2024-11-28 02:39:31 GMT

Some folks are just killing with these pictures.
https://image.nostr.build/d5898ab8b0459f37665601b17269ab2a019d528633d2329d5b2b8c98478b471b.jpg

2024-11-27 18:17:07 GMT

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Just delete those posts and you are back

2024-11-27 17:30:10 GMT

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Yep, posts will only show if they mark the location you are in. Those location-exclusive posts will not show in any other feed.
This is the new NIP-22. So, there is literally no posts anywhere yet.

2024-11-26 19:35:06 GMT

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> Whatever happened to "permissionless decentralized network"?
You tell me. You are trying to tell not only me as dev but all my users what they can and cannot use.
Amethyst is working great even with the attacks. And yes, many people are blocking those that are trying these attacks.
Most importantly, everybody is learning who is here to impose their will on users and who is here to figure out what users want to do and support them.

2024-11-25 22:50:03 GMT

This is going to be fun. I just made it so that stories can be developed over time by multiple people. Worlds can merge and authors can add more and more detail over time.
Next:
- Collect secrets from certain rooms in the reader's stash
- Rooms that react to secrets in the stash and open more options
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1606

2024-11-24 22:12:37 GMT

@nprofile…c9z9 is determined to find all of Amethyst's easter eggs. I need to add more. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/1c03271f6697b3e47ed90b0f0fda1070013299528f25d257bb6fabc422a95096

2024-11-24 00:32:45 GMT

Let the games begin https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1606

2024-11-23 20:03:17 GMT

Yes, I will keep using the word tweet even on Nostr.
That's my way to give credit to @nprofile…67ea for everything he did, and is doing, for social media.

2024-11-21 18:29:04 GMT

NIP-29 all the things! 🚀
#nevent1q…kluq

2024-11-19 22:23:35 GMT

In your opinion, which app has the BEST chat rendering on mobile? (starting to hate these bubbles)
Send screenshots.

2024-11-19 19:52:52 GMT

Devs, we are on relay.nostrtalk.org on flotilla.social or nostrtalk.org

2024-11-18 23:16:02 GMT

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If you get used to posting your cool pictures to something like Instagram or Flickr, you can a lot about your pictures and your picture-based presence on social media.
Opensource app devs have gone wild before and there is a chance of repo hacking by a third party.
You can't revert deletions.
Yes, it's way less trust. But there is still a lot of trust. Especially for users that are just running the apps with default relay sets that can disappear at any moment.

2024-11-16 13:05:59 GMT

The things I find when I can't sleep https://image.nostr.build/06bd7a609c2544f14159f61b954096b109f0271de7e18ac17cff107385628840.jpg

2024-11-16 05:44:16 GMT

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Git is already decentralized, but the GitHub stuff (issues/merges) is already on nostr: https://gitworkshop.dev/r/naddr1qvzqqqrhnypzq3svyhng9ld8sv44950j957j9vchdktj7cxumsep9mvvjthc2pjuqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqqsctdv46xs7tnwsuwyheg

2024-11-16 05:14:35 GMT

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Have you tried to publish apps there? You can also just download the APK directly if you want... FDroid is always weeks late anyway...

2024-11-16 05:04:39 GMT

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I gave up on FDroid last year. They are worse than the Play Store in terms of centralized control and app censorship.
Use Obtainium or @nprofile…tdq0 if you truly care about freedom.

2024-11-16 04:01:13 GMT

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? You know it doesn't do anything if you do t click on that link right?
And if you use Tor, that link is also protected by Tor.

2024-11-15 23:17:59 GMT

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That no one cares about censorship resistance.

2024-11-15 22:03:03 GMT

When people migrate from Twitter to.. say... Threads, they are not looking for a new tech stack or a new app. They are looking for a new **community**. There is a fundamental misunderstanding that people care about the apps. No. They care about the communities. And they so happen to be using specific app brands.
Communities make the apps. Not the other way around.

2024-11-15 16:04:11 GMT

Feed algorithms on Nostr should not only be signed, open source and free to choose, but those running those algorithms must provide cryptographic proofs they are running them without any changes.
Trustless feeds for the win.

2024-11-14 03:53:48 GMT

Do we all agree that X is now state-"owned" media again?