"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.
