Stuart Bowman

Building Satellite

https://satellite.earth 🏴

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npub1lunaq893u4hmtpvqxpk8hfmtkqmm7ggutdtnc4hyuux2skr4ttcqr827lj

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christpill.nostr1.com

relay.nostr.bg

nostr.bitcoiner.social

relay.damus.io

relay.primal.net

atlas.nostr.land

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2024-10-05 04:29:52 GMT

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Thanks for the heads up. We’re in the process of switching lightning providers. Should be sorted by tomorrow

2024-10-05 04:28:34 GMT

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Sorry, we’re in the process of switching lighting providers. Will have to sorted by tomorrow

2024-09-25 02:23:58 GMT

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Maybe in the same way that there are “original” sha256 hashes..

2024-09-25 02:09:35 GMT

Would love to say it was an original thought but I remember talking with @npub16fh…n62p at the Riga conf who told me that apparently some bitcoin OG was already blogging about this in like 2012 or something
#note1mm2…y7qw

2024-09-13 23:07:46 GMT

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I know it's killing me! Been working on a whole new thing and it's almost ready :)

2024-09-13 23:06:24 GMT

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That was a great conversation

2024-09-02 07:26:50 GMT

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Really? I’ll look into it

2024-08-15 20:31:26 GMT

👀
#note1jj7…th2r

2024-08-12 20:24:52 GMT

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Correct

2024-08-07 22:50:46 GMT

Really excited about @npub1lt6…p8hj !
I’ve been saying for a while now that someone should make couchsurfing on nostr…Couchsurfing around 2010 was like the greatest thing ever, and it was such a tragedy when the admins sold out and rugged everyone who had built up connections. Building it on nostr is a great use case showing how we can preserve social capital.
#note1jp4…c6sk

2024-08-07 22:38:03 GMT

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Not deployed on live yet. Got some more (non breaking) changes in the works and will probably deploy it along with those and proper documentation for how to migrate

2024-08-06 22:42:16 GMT

Just fixed an extremely subtle bug on Satellite CDN caused by cache settings. The blossom /list endpoint would sometimes return metadata for files that were deleted. Thanks to @npub1klr…7gxc for helping me discover this!

2024-06-30 20:27:42 GMT

Industrial tech capable of driving the basic cost of living to near zero has existed for over a century.
Social tech to prevent politicians from funneling all the gains toward warfare has existed only since 2008.
Forget about UBI.
This is the humanitarian case for hard money.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/b00e3dfa85e45119a1a13f79467110e58b30b3ee01cb3c4543e108d7acf9bb8c.png

2024-06-25 20:07:58 GMT

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It does not support NIP-96. It does support Blossom though. @npub1n0s…lahe

2024-05-11 16:50:47 GMT

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Iran.
Sucks as an American not being able to for bullshit political reasons

2024-05-11 16:16:09 GMT

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Yeah, north of SF

2024-05-11 06:51:56 GMT

I can see the northern lights from California right now
https://m.primal.net/IFaT.jpg

2024-05-03 02:58:06 GMT

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For sure! I'm just thinking through this as a thought experiment

2024-05-03 02:52:09 GMT

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Yeah if it happened literally overnight the rate of btc being produced would increase temporarily until the difficulty adjustment kicked in. This is just a thought experiment though.

2024-05-02 05:53:11 GMT

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Oh really what’s it called?

2024-04-26 20:34:27 GMT

It seems like everything is always falling apart because everything *is* always falling apart.
What’s less obvious is that everything is also always coming into being.
Death is just more obvious than birth. We notice the absence of things we were used to more than the presence of things we weren’t, and this creates the perceptual bias that the world is out of balance.

2024-04-24 19:46:04 GMT

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"A Swiss bank account is like having your bitcoin on an exchange"

2024-04-17 01:37:23 GMT

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Me and @npub1ye5…knpr are building it

2024-04-13 05:28:33 GMT

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That's really cool, I didn't realize they were geographically distributed like that. I like how it shows the latency from each location

2024-04-13 05:13:11 GMT

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Yes and that the moment of the new moon is objectively simultaneous for every person on earth

2024-04-13 03:58:50 GMT

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Wait so are you running monitors in all those cities?

2024-04-13 03:57:48 GMT

Looks great!
#note1pwc…dc8k

2024-04-12 22:58:03 GMT

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🤝

2024-04-12 22:49:25 GMT

Honored to be in such company
#note1z3u…2cg6

2024-04-12 04:24:07 GMT

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Interesting

2024-04-08 21:08:41 GMT

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Yeah the past and the future are an abstraction. Which isn’t to say they aren’t real. Abstractions are real.
Still it’s an odd feeling to realize that there never has been, and never will, anything other than the present moment. That there really is no “whenelse” to be. Not even like as a metaphor, but like *actually*
I can perceive this only fleetingly. Sometimes I wonder what it would feel like to be able maintain this awareness- maybe some people can.

2024-04-08 17:47:22 GMT

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The siren song of ecash schemes 🤣

2024-04-08 17:40:44 GMT

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I sense a rabbit hole. This one goes deep.

2024-04-07 03:41:32 GMT

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Exactly

2024-04-06 19:57:21 GMT

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> Feel moderation should happen at the relay level rather than at the message level
You are 100% correct. Building communities on top of the protocol is too complicated. Communities should be based on relays, like how nostr was supposed to work all along.
Me and @npub1ye5…knpr are building this right now.

2024-04-05 19:33:16 GMT

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Yeah I need to make it auto refresh to show that the credit was updated. Thanks

2024-04-05 18:54:04 GMT

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So totally working now? What was the issue? If it's a bug I want to know about it!

2024-04-01 21:16:09 GMT

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Haha yes 🤣

2024-03-09 01:02:53 GMT

This was a fun conversation! #note1m8f…xe0x

2024-02-08 21:34:51 GMT

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Great work man!

2024-02-01 14:09:51 GMT

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I'm rebuilding the communities around dedicated relays you can run yourself

2024-02-01 13:56:13 GMT

Coming soon to a Satellite near you #note1yxa…rfc9

2024-01-06 17:36:28 GMT

Landed in Madeira
https://cdn.satellite.earth/e353dd682ec84ec2ab87d822a33fecb60a25ae3ff4f721755bf1d3bde921fade.jpg

2023-12-30 20:22:36 GMT

Test!

2023-12-15 06:46:10 GMT

I've been quiet lately, working on something. Looking forward to showing you all very soon

2023-11-20 21:32:28 GMT

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Because a market is a computer that takes time to discover what the viable niches are, and when you change some macro-variable (such as the purchasing power represented by a unit of currency), the model of what those niches has to get recomputed.
The analogy to biological evolution would be changing the value of a joule.
(I think)

2023-11-20 21:23:02 GMT

Something less obvious about inflation is that it also destroys information

2023-11-12 01:14:36 GMT

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Definitely a relay level issue. Aside from per-user or per-community mute lists there’s not much clients can do. Community-specific relays seem like the most natural solution.

2023-11-03 06:45:08 GMT

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Hahaha

2023-11-01 23:14:03 GMT

So I don't miss any clients for my "subcommunites of nostr" talk - what are the clients that have at least some support for NIP-72, other than Satellite? So far I have:
- nostrudel by @npub1ye5…knpr
- nostr.kiwi by @npub1alp…6dsn
- zapddit by @npub1ltx…z40t
- Amethyst by @npub1gcx…nj5z
Who else?

2023-10-25 05:50:04 GMT

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Coming in next update

2023-10-18 20:18:56 GMT

So I’m not making this up - I specifically remember seeing this tweet last year and being like hmm what’s Nostr?
Now I’m working on it full time.
Honestly huge thanks to Twitter support 👊 #note17ud…kywl

2023-10-18 19:55:04 GMT

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> I think the way to solve that is to have a global cross-community feed and to surface active communities.
The default sort is already "last active" for communities on Satellite.
But I still agree with you discovery needs to be a LOT better

2023-10-02 22:49:05 GMT

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RSS - and yes I'm working on it

2023-10-01 22:02:53 GMT

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The UX is super important, but I'm starting to think this is a physics problem

2023-09-15 17:36:56 GMT

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Awesome! Looking forward to checking out your code - a while ago I tried but couldn’t find any resources on how to implement this

2023-09-15 17:28:05 GMT

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It will probably take me a couple weeks to get to this but I’ll get it done

2023-09-15 17:21:07 GMT

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This has been on my todo for a while! Specifically for communities, a really cool use case would be admins/mods automatically receiving a portion of zap upvotes

2023-09-02 04:40:55 GMT

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That will be fixed soon!

2023-08-22 22:33:40 GMT

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On Satellite you can make **bold** and *italic* text using markdown — for the posts with pictures displaying as previews, by design Satellite does not automatically render the photo full-width unless you follow the person

2023-08-08 22:01:18 GMT

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Cool

2023-08-07 19:48:08 GMT

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Oh I see, like breaking up an essay into a bunch of parts that you can individually reply to. I'm pretty sure Twitter got rid of the char limit (or maybe just for blue checks, not sure...)
I'm open to increasing the "surface area" for reactions on longer pieces of content. Perhaps the right approach for nostr would be working this into long-form content with a UI where you can respond to highlights

2023-07-21 03:11:03 GMT

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@npub1ltx…z40t So I’ve been thinking about this.
To keep things simple, for Satellite, I’m going to go ahead and use kind 4549 as a direct clone of kind 1 as @npub1gcx…nj5z suggested. So the content string of 4549 will be text just like kind 1.
My initial concern was that having a single kind defined as a “community post” would preclude the reuse of other event kinds, which is why I suggested “wrapping” the events.
I still intend to use kind 4549 as a wrapper to post non-kind-1 events into communities. When a non-kind-1 event is posted, the 4549 event will include a “k” tag indicating the kind of event that was wrapped.
But for 4549 events that do not have a “k” tag (or a “k” tag equal to 1), Satellite will assume that they should be treated like kind 1 and render the content directly.
I like this cause it’s just doing the simple “clone kind 1 thing” but adding the “k” tag allows me to do also do the wrapping thing so I can support other event types on Satellite. If other apps only care about kind 1 that’s fine.
I’m also implementing this weekend and writing up some documentation. Lmk if you wanna collab 🤙

2023-07-19 18:36:12 GMT

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Awesome

2023-07-19 18:24:30 GMT

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Link https://satellite.earth/n/Art/npub17nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgqf6950x

2023-07-19 18:22:31 GMT

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@npub17nd…950x 's n/Art community is quite active.
But yeah, most of the communities are just sort of "there" without much activity. I think that's to be expected at this point. I'm working on a couple things that I think may start the flywheel moving

2023-07-17 01:23:16 GMT

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But don't you think it would be boring if communities were only compatible with basic text notes?

2023-07-16 18:23:52 GMT

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@npub1gcx…nj5z So here's an idea:
Instead of tagging a post with an 'a' tag to request that it goes into a community, the user publishes a new event that contains (stringified in the content field) the event he wants to post into the community, like how reposts work. This community post event would contain 'a' tags of all the communities the user wants to post into, as well as the 'e' and 'k' tags for the stringified event (just like kind 4550). For the sake of discussion, we can call this a "kind 4549 post request"
When mods create a 4550 post approval event, they can just copy the content string of 4549 post request event. All the tags are the same, so the person who created the request can still get notified that the post was approved.
If a user only wants his post to show up in communities, he creates whatever kind of event but does not publish that event directly — rather it gets posted as the content of a new 4549 event
If the user wants the post to show up in the main feed as well, he can publish the original event as well.
I like this solution it means event existing event kind can be posted into a community, not just text notes. (like long form, media, ect.) Communities would just have a modqueue of 4549 events.

2023-07-10 19:53:59 GMT

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Notifications are the biggest thing missing right now, I think.
I'm working on rolling that out later this week, in addition to a quote post function and relay management functions as soon as possible.
Are there other features you'd like to see prioritized? Would appreciate your perspective

2023-07-07 16:36:05 GMT

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Hey there
> Can there be multiple communities with the same name?
Sort of. Communities are "namespaced" to the pubkey of the person who founded them. So for example, there is not a single, global n/<name>. Rather, I can start a community like n/<name>/<my_pubkey> and you can start another community like n/AI/<your_pubkey>. This allows competition among moderators and prevents people from squatting valuable names (unlike reddit where the first person to register a name owns that name globally, forever).
> Is there a way to change the community "metadata" (name, logo, description, rules, mods) after creation?
Yes. On https://satellite.earth, you'll see a list of all the communities that you've founded or are a moderator of in the 'Communities' section when signed in. If you click 'Settings' next to one of your communities it will bring up a form where you can edit its metadata.
> Anyone building a way to check the size and health of each community (number of followers, number of posts)?
I'm working on that right now actually! (assume others are as well)

2023-07-03 16:10:28 GMT

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AI Powered Mod Tools for Nostr Communities on Satellite
Hey everyone, I want to tell you about something I've been working on — I wasn't planning to post about this today because it's not ready quite yet, but I noticed that @npub1l2v…ajft had created a new nostr community n/AI this morning — and it just fits too perfectly.
So here goes: I'm working on a feature that will allow community founders to "spawn" an AI moderator to help detect and defend against spam, organize their community, and eventually do a bunch of other things.
I believe this capability may become an essential tool for nostr to survive the coming onslaught of AI-powered spam. It seems to me that if we really want to have a realistic chance of maintaining public, human-led social spaces, we have to match AI with AI. It's not something we can afford to leave on the table.
On a technical level, nostr is a perfect fit. The shared, permissionless, data architecture means that each community's AI can "live" on Satellite's server (or any server, actually) and, after having been nominated as a moderator, proactively sign events with its own pubkey just like a human.
The AI will be given a simple task: *Enforce this community's rules as written*.
So the human admin of the community can essentially set policy to be implemented by the AI. For example, if the AI decides to remove a post, it can be instructed to explain why it removed the post, and to specifically cite the "legal basis" for its action. Human admins will be free to tweak the rule, overrule the AI's decisions case-by-case, or remove the AI from its position of authority.
It's very interesting to consider where this leads, and what other things an AI that "lives" in a community may be useful for. For now I'm focused on getting an MVP with this mod stuff deployed on Satellite asap. I'm genuinely curious about what it will take to make this work well in practice.
If you want to open your own thread on the AI/Nostr intersection, here's the link to the community https://satellite.earth/n/AI/npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft
I'll be writing a lot more about this.

2023-06-24 22:06:48 GMT

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This is just the first super basic implementation though.
That’s a good point about the curator/moderator distinction.
I was planning to add an option allowing the admin to set the community as either “pre-moderated” (posts don’t appear in main feed unless approved) or “post moderated” (posts appear in main feed unless removed).
What do you think @npub1gcx…nj5z @npub1alp…6dsn ?

2023-06-24 21:27:33 GMT

So I have a totally different perspective on this. I do not believe that moderated communities on nostr are 'censorship'. On the contrary, I think that independently-governed spaces are (and will increasingly become) one of the most important tools we have in the fight *against* censorship.
I will explain how I came to that conclusion, but first let me try to steelman what I think you're saying.
Reddit has obviously been crippled by censorship. Like, it's is basically a psyop at this point. So I 100% agree with you that if nostr communities are implemented in the same way that reddit communities are implemented, nostr will, sooner or later, slide down the path of becoming censorious and irrelevant just like reddit.
So why do I think sub-communities on nostr will *not* lead to censorship?
It comes down to nostr's architecture. The fact is, all data on nostr is public and uncensorable by default because notes are signed and distributed redundantly across multiple relays. Therefore, on it's not possible for the mod of a nostr community to delete your post or ban you without everyone knowing. Unlike reddit, mod actions on nostr are 100% transparent, and mods are therefore accountable for the actions they take. Satellite's interface displays a *public modqueue* for every nostr community. Mods are replaceable because communities are forkable.
I'm sure you'd agree that it's necessary to delete spam, right? If there isn't some mechanism in place to delete spam, every feed in every community would be 100% ads. Right now we're all relying on relays to fight the spam battle, but that won't work forever. This leads me back to my point about why I think communities on nostr are actually a way to prevent censorship.
Censorship prevents communication. One way of preventing communication is by silencing people. Denying people the ability to speak. Signal *blocking*.
What's less obvious is that another way to censor people is by signal *jamming*. They way you do that is by increasing the noise. Imagine trying to be heard in a room of a thousand people all shouting at the top of their lungs.
It comes down to signal/noise ratio. Whether you reduce the signal or increase the noise, the result is the same.
Nostr already does a relatively good job defending against signal blocking, but we're still vulnerable to signal jamming in the form of unmitigated spam and potentially even AI-powered psyops. My viewpoint is that communities (transparently curated and moderated by humans) are how we scale nostr while making it *more* censorship-resistant.
I'm the developer of Satellite (I just pushed and update with these nostr communities yesterday). I want to avoid this being something that divides nostr. If you disagree with my reasoning I want to understand why. #note1vgt…favv

2023-06-24 01:05:53 GMT

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I wasn’t aware of NIP-31, that’s interesting…
It’s definitely important for discoverability that kind 1 clients are able to display notes posted in communities - the way I handled it in the current implementation is to prepend the title/link to the content string, and to automatically insert inline references to events when posting a link to another Nostr web client so that they appear as quoted notes.
I wonder what the current client support is for NIP-31? Could I just put the text with the prepended elements in an alt tag and count on clients displaying that as if it were a kind 1 event?
Definitely want to make sure that these communities don’t lead to a fragmented UX between Twitter-like clients and Reddit-like clients.
Hopefully we can have a twitter-like feed with notes that show up properly and have references like “posted in this community”

2023-06-12 15:50:18 GMT

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Im stoked about this. Independently governed communities are going to be a huge driver of adoption. I’ve been working on a “subreddit” concept and am almost ready to deploy it to Satellite. Next week 🤞

2023-06-11 22:43:18 GMT

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I’m working right now to add “subreddits” to Satellite ASAP

2023-06-06 23:02:45 GMT

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Thanks for the shoutout. It's awesome that nostr.build provides a free, super-clean, standalone hosting service — that feature set alone has done so much for the nostr ecosystem.
I reckon Satellite CDN can fill a different niche for podcasters and long-form video content creators.

2023-06-01 01:00:40 GMT

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It’s priced at the BTC equivalent (live exchange rate at time of payment) of $0.05 USD per GB per month. So it costs 5 cents to store 1 GB for 1 month. Or 60 cents to store 1 GB for one year.
It’s like one of those pay as you go phones - there’s no automatically recurring charges. You just top it up with sats whenever you need to keep your balance positive. And you only get charged for whatever is currently hosted, so if you delete stuff that you don’t need to be hosted anymore that will extend your credit. Data transfer is free.
The reason it works like this is because it made the most sense to replicate the pricing structure of the underlying object storage (Cloudflare R2)

2023-06-01 00:36:24 GMT

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I’ve only tested mobile NIP-07 with nostore - I’ll see if I can replicate with Orion/Alby

2023-05-31 22:38:33 GMT

After the past few weeks of building it's time to push this prototype out and get some feedback from users —
Announcing Satellite CDN: Scalable media hosting for the nostr ecosystem!
https://satellite.earth/cdn
- Upload video and other large files, up to 5 GB each
- Simple flat-rate pricing, buy storage with sats
- Fast, free and unlimited data transfer
- Integrated NIP-94 censorship resistance
- Developer-friendly API
https://cdn.satellite.earth/2ab2fe9cccb9267060106a274682fa24bdf9499dc2b3c94eed734c38a5d6e8e9.png
https://cdn.satellite.earth/b0a5715db4c105746bb539ab3ef88aaaab800edcd8c3084eed7aae4cd86b8fa2.png
https://cdn.satellite.earth/d08b384d48294e77f79df495e3c83ed9a0b09e0b191e8073fbfbd0978d054ec1.png
I feel like a "native" nostr solution for hosting and streaming large videos could really help with adoption and I'm curious about how Satellite can support specific use cases.
API docs coming soon.

2023-05-09 00:26:13 GMT

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Hmm, that's really interesting. I wonder if it would possible to make like a dedicated "nostr browser" app — basically just a webview that injects window.nostr

2023-04-19 13:46:18 GMT

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Thanks! I was glad to get the torrent stuff formalized at the protocol level - it’s going to enable a couple really cool features I’m currently building for Satellite

2023-04-15 00:04:01 GMT

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I read the other day (on Nostr actually) that iOS added support for webapp notifications but I haven't had time to look into how hard that will be to implement. For Android users I guess that would have to work with email notifications right? That's a cool idea, thanks.

2023-04-14 23:38:38 GMT

Just deployed a big update for Satellite. Major features, optimizations, and—of course—bug fixes!
- Added support for zaps ⚡
- Added support for "stars" (likes) on notes
- Note actions represented by icons for a cleaner look
- Videos are now rendered inline instead of just showing a link
- Videos/images posted, reposted, or starred by a user load full-width on each person's own profile page while other media load as thumbnail previews
Next update will add support for direct messages and more fine-grained control over relays. Then user search.
What other features do you want to see?

2023-03-17 00:48:27 GMT

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Not yet — I just deployed it to the live server about 20 mins ago! There's a bunch of features that are "coming soon (including a bunch of code that I need to clean up so I'm not embarrassed to open source it haha) but I wanted to get an alpha version out before getting on the plane to Costa Rica tomorrow. I'm just excited to see what people think. It's weird to work on something for a long time and then just deploy it and be like, uhhh... check it out? I'm super impressed with the other clients people have made but I hope Satellite can contribute something unique to Nostr