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Last Notes

2026-02-28 21:16:48 CET

This has to be one of the most interesting and positive takes on getting laid off I’ve seen. It’s better to give folks time and resources to adjust to the future than let it be a surprise when it’s too late.
https://x.com/jamie_selects/status/2027458500692152614?s=46
https://blossom.primal.net/ed4e846c0a08cd2cf4707476fa34d47f8a1218ffd200eb775211859e35b5d91b.mov

2026-02-25 04:07:09 CET

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this is incredibly cool to see cross app integration happening, great videos by @nprofile…dv5l too
#nevent1q…x6dr

2026-02-24 00:44:08 CET

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Yeah to solve this i created some radical optimisations on top of nostr, it falls back to standards support, but provides a bunch of indexes and endpoints which are radically faster.
http://github.com/divinevideo/divine-funnelcake/

2026-02-23 20:52:54 CET

Building new protocol based social media is just the start. Sustaining and growing them is also very hard. Bluesky’s been struggling with declining daily active users over the last year. We see similar struggles in Nostr at a smaller scale.
https://blossom.primal.net/7610fd67546ebfdee054a1041af864a8adfed82c4504d4d83df2018217b57876.jpg

2026-02-22 09:55:43 CET

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So i've pushed a new build which mostly has @nprofile…cgxs 's work with the help of @nprofile…x8mg and npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5 who helped debug login issues we saw come up with remote signers. That specifically is what we'd love some folks to take a try at this new build and test for us.
#nevent1q…ejj8

2026-02-22 08:13:29 CET

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@nprofile…99ej amazing, thanks

2026-02-21 22:25:14 CET

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They can choose to register with login.divine.video which is a custodial signing app that uses Secure Enclaves and can generate a nsec bunker URL, they can use a non-custodial key stored in the mobile os’s secure storage, or login via bunker / nostr connect. We don’t tell them about nostr unless they click on ‘login with an existing account’ or click learn more. To most users the login.divine.video is just like any oauth SSO login like Okta. It’s been tricky to meet the needs of very non-technical users while also not restricting the freedom of everyone.

2026-02-21 10:55:33 CET

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We did pay QA people but the experience that a diverse set of nostr users have ways of doing things our QA team didn’t anticipate.

2026-02-21 07:57:09 CET

ok, we're getting ready to release divine.video to @nprofile…uvay and we need some folks to test the nostr specific features, nsec bunker, nostr connect, login with nsec, etc... make sure we're not messing with people's kind 0 and kind 3 events, etc....
Please take it for a spin and give feedback:
https://github.com/divinevideo/divine-mobile/releases/tag/1.0.5

2026-02-20 02:47:56 CET

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Time zones and scheduling. It's a small venue and they've got lots of events so they're starting very early and going much later than other events. So if you're far from Europe it's the only thing you'll see live.

2026-02-20 02:27:39 CET

The olympics are weird, lots of obscure sports. I found out today that New Zealand is building a second curling centre in order to increase their chances. They already have one near Queenstown on the south island, but now they're building a second in Auckland. This is after having failed to make the 2026 olympics in Curling. It'll mean New Zealand is the only country in the southern hemisphere that has dedicated curling facilities. Canada here we come!
https://aucklandcurling.nz/

2026-02-19 21:37:06 CET

This week on revolution.social I talked to @nprofile…37a3 about how the tech industry has lost its moral compass.
Anil is on the board of @nprofile…43wm and used to be an executive with the blogging platform Six Apart, and Fastly. He also did a stint on the board of Stack Overflow.
He also talked about how AI is an major shift in tech but it’s in many ways it’s normal transformative technology, not something radically different than the internet, computer, steam engine, or other very important tech.
https://fountain.fm/episode/b6l3DzNy27IQ0aZIcbW5

2026-02-18 21:23:17 CET

What misguided marketing person decided that olympic champions need to hold a weird stuffed animal on the podium? It ruins the moment to sell some branding around this specific olympics that nobody gets, likes, or remembers.
https://blossom.primal.net/ccecfa6eda8e5c64c285924baef1b02d6251803eefb16a50946ce8738a86e791.png

2026-02-14 21:35:05 CET

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This was an experiment linking to a kind 34236 video event. Didn’t quite work.

2026-02-14 21:14:55 CET

Happy Valentine’s Day
#nevent1q…c657
https://divine.video/video/b25f3a7f5f45b3b21edfdd6a49d6561d7dc4636619c3898c2be234145acf546f

2026-02-14 20:58:42 CET

So UpScrolled just got removed from the google play store.
https://x.com/realUpScrolled/status/2022696096041177563
The reason we need alternative ways of distributing apps like @npub10r8…t2p8 is that centralized platforms like Google Play can and do shutdown apps.

2026-02-11 21:29:02 CET

Discord announced everybody will be required to provide faceid or a government id and if they don't their account will be restricted to teen mode. I'm sure Discord will be good stewards of this important private data, after all they've not had a major leak of ID's and personal information since October 2025.

2026-02-11 01:07:47 CET

I just found out that Marques Brownlee, the creator who is probably the best at reviewing tech products out there, is also a serious semi-pro ultimate frisbee player who has played on the US National Team. He's REALLY good at ultimate, not just reviewing products. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V91irPU1dZA

2026-02-09 01:20:32 CET

You know who's not in the Epstein files? @nprofile…zj6n https://blossom.primal.net/ee71b0b09a6d63a4ed154c69329a899804ce6187fe72d31b0b7a636e2863a5d5.png

2026-02-03 14:37:06 CET

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You could probably do research to answer that question using industries and different regions in and outside of the EU. I'm sure somebody's doing a PHD on the subject.

2026-02-03 14:35:48 CET

When people ask my why I spent so much time in Uruguay and New Zealand, a map like this helps explain it. There are only 9 majority non-religious countries in the world. The only two outside of Asia/Europe are Uruguay and New Zealand. They also oddly have a lot of sheep. I don't that's connected.
https://blossom.primal.net/a3d9343ec173e73ad25b9e3f521a2392b279095a966d4b5bf1eb6b06b49860a1.jpg

2026-02-03 03:20:06 CET

So SpaceX now owns Twitter?!?

2026-02-02 16:17:46 CET

Maybe Brexit wasn't such a good idea.
https://blossom.primal.net/2c9dbbe5e5cecb08ff28864dd07cc846c1e2cc409fc28a034499ed77f192377e.jpg

2026-02-02 13:27:46 CET

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It’s the primary client being promoted by the protocol creators.

2026-02-02 05:13:00 CET

Not permissionless.
https://blossom.primal.net/a460a34193300ca9452f7c09939e716373d49bc2c7a7f798823820cc62aebd85.png

2026-02-02 02:30:36 CET

We're getting ready to release the nostr video app, Divine, on to @nprofile…uvay but i want to have some folks test it first. Specifically the way we load up your kind 0 and 3 from other relays and try and preserve all of your lovely content, plus allow login via nostr connect / nsec bunkers are critical.
So if folks wouldn't mind taking a peak at the app and try it out. I THINK we're doing well by your various nostr events, but i'm not 100% sure, hence the test. So maybe try first with a secondary nsec. ;-D
https://github.com/divinevideo/divine-mobile/releases/tag/1.0.4

2026-02-01 03:54:45 CET

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It uses some Nostr adjacent tech that we use every day here. ;-D

2026-02-01 03:51:16 CET

You've heard of moltbook.com the social network for AI agents, and there's even a Nostr version, clawstr.com, but we all know the internet is for porn, and the AI agents need their porn too, so now we've got moithub.com, AI porn by and for AI.

2026-01-31 08:01:43 CET

I know that folks here aren't the most excited about the bluesky ecosystem, but i wanted to point out the blacksky project which is focusing on rebooting the financial system in a way that will appeal to a lot of the bitcoiners. I think you'll end up liking what they come up with.
https://blackskyweb.xyz/money-for-mutual-resilience-introducing-blacksky-cash/

2026-01-29 14:57:18 CET

We've got pretty big security problem looming, using AI agents locally on our machines, with access to our deta, and credentials is amazingly powerful. But it also entirely breaks the security model we use for everything from crypto to end to end encrypted messaging.
https://cyberinsider.com/signal-president-warns-ai-agents-are-making-encryption-irrelevant/

2026-01-26 02:59:00 CET

Getting rid of bugs is so frustrating, but as I push to get the android release on ZapStore I’m running new import scripts and really enjoying the old vines. I figured I’d share a little video.
https://v.nostr.build/C3zTfxdAhEXYQ6m8.mov

2026-01-24 18:07:34 CET

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I don’t think WOT will work very well for a short form video app with a mostly asymmetric follow graph. But we’ll take a look. It works much better with smaller networks with mutual trust I think.

2026-01-24 16:15:39 CET

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https://i.nostr.build/s2CU5GzcB1CjrcBt.png https://i.nostr.build/cxk1RByfTzGkfKBx.png

2026-01-24 16:14:54 CET

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Yes. Plus divine.video/proofmode signing of videos being shot on divice. But for folks who don’t use the divine app we have several services we use to detect AI. If we think think it’s AI we won’t serve the video from our blossom server, or host the event on our relay, and we issue an 1985 event about it. But there’s nothing stopping you from using your own relay and blossom server if you want to post AI content. It’s nostr after all.

2026-01-24 16:00:24 CET

New UI updates for DiVine before we push to ZapStore for our initial Android beta release.
https://i.nostr.build/IoVLE0DduuU6kG5R.png https://i.nostr.build/pq4CQI8cpA71YuPN.png https://i.nostr.build/uezi8nISSDMLZ1ft.png https://i.nostr.build/FHjl93sjP6sFpNAq.png

2026-01-17 23:50:14 CET

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Oh. That’s not good

2026-01-17 21:58:39 CET

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Uh no. Proofmode works with Android an alt AppStores like zapstore.

2026-01-17 12:22:52 CET

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Yep some folks will definitely choose purity, that’s your choice. Its open source and you’re free to build an artisanal version by hand. I don’t think there will be any consumer apps in 2026 that didn’t use agentic tools for development.
If you actually want to know how we deal with AI generated content read divine.video/proofmode

2026-01-17 12:00:17 CET

6 months ago I listed to a podcast about Vine and its history. It got me thinking, how hard could it be to bring Vine back, but open and on Nostr.
That lead to me building divine.video and announcing it in November. It got tons of attention, and I’ve been working hard to fix my vibe coded prototype in to something which would be usable by mainstream noobies. The Nostr tech and community has been critical to this, I couldn’t have done it without you all.
The podcast, Vine: 6 seconds that changed the world, reached out to me and they’ve put out an episode about Divine!
It’s really good, talks about how divine came to be and really gets in to our movement for open permissionless protocols. They do it in a way that’s not technical or overly jargony.
Please take a listen and share it.
https://fountain.fm/episode/ongMXxS7YkVurUroj8CL

2026-01-16 07:19:22 CET

I was wondering why I feel so tired then I realized that I’m at the end of my second night in a row in an airport lounge due to flight delays. Ugh.

2026-01-16 01:25:23 CET

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@nprofile…sk8t but it should be up to them to decide the future of their own country. I doubt moving from a country with a funded mental health are system to one without it would help, but it's not up to us. It should be a decision of the Greenlandic people. While they are a colony of Denmark, the arrangement is that they'll be granted full independence if a majority of the population votes for it. Self-determination means they have the right to make very different decisions than you'd make.

2026-01-16 01:21:19 CET

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No, these in particular are from the airport lounge. :-D

2026-01-16 01:01:55 CET

“The future of Greenland and Denmark are decided solely by the people of Denmark," Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said. This unfortunately wasn't the affirmation of sovereignty Greenland deserves. It should solely be decided by the people of Greenland not Denmark!
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn824zzp670t?post=asset%3Ab983161a-fa56-40c1-8587-af0562c94aac#post

2026-01-16 00:07:35 CET

Sometimes I choose to fly via Brasil just so I can get Pão de Queijo. So good.
https://blossom.primal.net/de9e87968a549af6bf39dde77ec87fb8aacf9662a86b9d216527a55d7bfeaf36.jpg

2026-01-14 14:22:48 CET

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$2.8B USD for 600km of track seems like a really good deal. New Zealand just spent $3.1B USD to build 3.45 km in Auckland. Of course the NZ rail was underground, with a few stations, two tunnels, but still.... that rail in Africa's an incredible value for the money.

2026-01-14 14:15:48 CET

How far could it be, Dubai to Bogota? REALLY FAR... https://blossom.primal.net/663a9d947dc4be671bb79d549b7dc6a8631fc1752ee693b2eed41b28c3b08dda.png

2026-01-13 11:37:05 CET

This is what it feels like living in New Zealand... https://blossom.primal.net/9bb8e9fbf02b3be7630f0be0f208d2b9c394ccb7bc61f9d1dadd13c19823885d.webp
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-01-2026/trying-to-enjoy-the-nz-summer-while-the-world-burns

2026-01-13 06:45:20 CET

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Most of it electric I assume. I don’t think any high speed rail systems use diesel engines.

2026-01-13 05:52:40 CET

There's something interesting about this new project to build a trans Africa rail network with funding from the middle east and china. I was of course first proposed by the horribly racist Cecil Rhodes in his colonial ambitions as the Cape to Cairo railway a 150 years ago. I like the narrative of former colonies planning and building their own infrastructure.
On part I thought was interesting is the Dakar - Port Sudan railway is being funded as a way to provide more affordable way to do the hajj pilgrimage. Making affordable a recreation of what was the most expensive road trip in the history of humanity, when the richest man in history, Mansa Musa. Although it seems like Mansa took a route along the north coast of Africa, not straight across southern Sahara desert as the new railway plans to go.
Obviously the real impact will be economic as it'll mean the land locked countries of the south Sahara will get access to fast, cheap, and reliable transportation, especially for freight. The lack of reliable road and rail infrastructure is a lot of what has held Africa's development back. I've watched videos of travellers who go via car or motorcycle down the west coast of Africa or try and drive across the Congo to go from west to east Africa, and it's bad. Many countries are barely connected at all. The infrastructure that exists was mostly built by European colonial powers to extract natural resources without any concern for regional connections or economic development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_to_Cairo_Railway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa
https://blossom.primal.net/6d207154bf0de07f0b13786f2ad8d1b6cac6b4a721ca3c1b86e0c1b20d714362.png

2026-01-10 18:44:58 CET

It’s interesting, my video feeds on TikTok, instagram, and YouTube shorts have so little resemblance of each other. Totally different kinds of videos, not just topics or creators, but totally different genres. Nothing alike. It’s weird because I know all the videos I see on one are uploaded to the other two.
I am not trying to get the algorithms to diverge. I interact in mostly the same way to the same videos on all three but get a really different experience. Given that they are mostly clones of each other this is surprising. Is that the case for anyone else?
When I open divine.video I mostly get testing and debug videos. So no comparison yet.

2025-12-14 16:15:47 CET

There’s a debate raging over in the Bluesky world about whether or not infrastructure providers on ATprotocol should be neutral carriers or if people running things like PDS servers should be able to choose who they host.
It’s an interesting read and worth thinking about. From a Nostr perspective it’s like arguing for a custodial system then being upset at the power dynamics that exist because of that.
I’m curious what folks think. I think the poster kicked a hornets nest, not understanding how communities of users react to being told what they should or shouldn’t do with their own servers.
Thoughts?
https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4

2025-12-06 09:49:40 CET

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Divine.video uses nostr. That’s more important than always talking about it on my podcast. Some guests don’t know enough about nostr to have an interesting conversation.

2025-12-04 00:39:06 CET

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We're tweaking the moderation and content warning system, right now it's flagging a bunch of things as adult content which are clearly not adult content.
Divine is using the extension to nip-71 that Vitor and I came up with in terms of just a replaceable event type so you can edit the metadata about the content. You can use it for any content you want, including AI generated content. We are using the client tag, you can filter out divine content from your client or your relay if you want. We're not pushing the divine events out form relay.divine.video but i think there are folks running scripts that share them beyond our relay.
The filters for the divine app is we check and label any content uploaded to our blossom server or from events on our relay. We do let you add your own blossom server and change the relays, but we'll indicate that you're outside of the divine experience and in the broader open nostr ecosystem.
In the divine app, we're going to have it use labelers we provide, but with settings to choose others. I honestly don't expect these choices to be very appealing to existing Nostr users and would encourage folks to consume the content with other clients. We are curating what goes in our relay and our media severs. If you're not keen on how we do it, use other clients or use the open source divine app and make a version with different choices.
I'm not planning on changing the nip-56 tag to other, i think 'ai-generated' is a useful tag of content and if a second app supports it i'll submit a PR to update the spec. Innovation in nostr is not based on strict support of the spec, each app supports it as they choose, with a few core elements. If we don't extend it, try new things, add extensions, then Nostr won't evolve. In ATprotocol they've got strict schema validators and their relays and appviews will not accept signed events that don't fit pre-approved schemas. That's not really the Nostr way. There is no central nostr standards authority to complain to, it is a permissionless network.
We will see a lot more folks get upset like you are at seeing content reports until @nprofile…pt5w changes Amethyst to show content reports as a content report label. Right now it shows up as if it was a comment. If you don't want to see them, stop using the divine relay, use a client that doesn't display labels that way, or contribute to amethyst to change it's behavior. I don't really love that decision decision, but I do support each nostr app developer making their own choices about how to interact with the network.

2025-12-04 00:25:41 CET

So New Zealand got it's first Ikea today. It's national news.... last year we got a Costco which caused mobs of people and was national news for over a week. I know it's silly and consumerist of me, but it sure does make life easier.
https://news.google.com/search?q=ikea%20nz&hl=en-NZ&gl=NZ&ceid=NZ%3Aen

2025-12-01 11:58:35 CET

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1.0.2 v 126 I think

2025-11-28 04:20:26 CET

No shade to the microblogging twitter like apps but we’re seeing a wave of new apps that take Nostr in to being the universal social app protocol. We’re learning what Nostr native means.
#note1utu…d65e

2025-11-25 15:27:03 CET

New version of the diVine released to TestFlight. This one focused on lists. I think we should do more with lists in Nostr.
https://i.nostr.build/cWIJyenqW9579Xmg.jpg https://i.nostr.build/vsq3Nu9Yq4BC0bJp.jpg

2025-11-25 03:05:54 CET

Anthropic released a new model, Opus 4.5 and i'm playing with it. I had it generate some docs for a server i'm working on setting up, and it created a docx file which was nicely formatted instead of a markdown file.

2025-11-23 21:44:16 CET

Nostr’s core are the developers who build all the apps and servers and other tech we need to make it work. Eventually I hope the tech eventually fades in to the background as users come for the community they can find.
We can do better as a developer community. One of the projects I’m working on through And Other Stuff is making Nostr a better place for developers.
The first step is to listen and learn, to do that we’re working with the open source support group superbloom.
Please fill this out if you’re helping build nostr and share.
https://survey.superbloom.design/878514
If someone speaks fluent Japanese, Chinese, and Thai we would love to translate this in to those languages in order to reach more devs.

2025-11-22 21:26:24 CET

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We need to fix the blossom server and relays first. We will put it on zapstore.

2025-11-21 11:06:10 CET

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There is support for external signers in the web app and in the code in the flutter app but it’s not exposed in the UI. I’d accept a PR fixing that but given the mountains of other things to do it’s just not something I’m going to get to soon.

2025-11-21 11:03:45 CET

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Yeah I have a new build but I got distracted and built divine.video, ADHD problems.

2025-11-20 15:59:07 CET

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No I think we need help on the blossom side too

2025-11-17 15:26:21 CET

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I mean it is open source. You can build it for your own phone. :)

2025-11-17 15:24:03 CET

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Oh no. This isn’t good. We do try and pull in your kind 3 and kind 0 from purplepag.es to prevent this. This is why I was discouraging people from reusing their existing nsec but people kept asking and asking and asking. So I added the risky feature.

2025-11-17 09:43:22 CET

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GitHub.com/rabble/divine-web

2025-11-16 19:09:31 CET

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I added my own extensions to nip-50, not strictly needed but woudl be nice https://github.com/rabble/nosflare/blob/main/docs/SEARCH.md

2025-11-16 18:48:01 CET

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We need beta testers and QA, for the website, for posting videos, for all the features of the apps, mac, ios, android, and web....
Please don't pitch bitcoin at folks, we're going to add a cashu wallet and zaps eventually, but we don't want to scare them away... ;-D

2025-11-16 16:53:00 CET

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Yeah, we need folks with scaling nostr relay skills... or just really good devops who love nostr....

2025-11-16 16:44:49 CET

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yeah it's bonkers

2025-11-16 16:43:29 CET

Hey Nostr,
I need your help. Divine.video as you might have seen is a new video nostr app that i've been working on for the last 3 months.
It got MUCH more attention than I was expecting. Hundreds of millions of people viewed, liked, or shared videos about it. I've got some of the biggest original Viners in my DM's begging to get back on it. The TestFlight hit it's 10k limit in a few hours.
I'm excited but also really stessed out. We've had lots of bugs and Apple and google have been their usual black boxes when it comes to app review.
A bunch of folks have stepped up to help, @nprofile…9kky got the android build working for example.
Lots of things have broken, nobody really knows how survive a flash flood. I'm sharing this because I need help. We've got a chance to really grow nostr, the idea of a video app that's not got AI slop and does focus on something more human is resonating. People hate what's happening to tiktok, instagram, and youtube shorts where algorithms and the platforms love of AI generated content going viral is taking over. Instead of fighting back we see AI only platforms like MetaAI and Sora. This is an assault on the very idea that people are central to social media. I think big companies see the shine of AI generated content and dream of a world without all these pesky rabble making demands of platforms. If only they could replace the creators with bots.
This call to action felt right to me, but holy shit I had no idea it'd go so viral.
The app has lots of bugs, and we need appstore approval, but at the moment the biggest problem I have is relays. I need you, the nostr community's help. I started out with strfry which we know scales but lacks search. So i started using nosflare, https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare , by @nprofile…4nss which worked pretty good when we had dozens of users but has had scaling issues and has been hard to debug. But Nosflare is cool. I was able to easily add nip-50 search support, and because it runs on cloudlfare i hoped would scale horizontally. When I told @nprofile…4nss I was using nosflare, he said i should have told him... but again I didn't think this would escalate so quickly. So then we tried using the ditto relay https://github.com/andotherstuff/otherstuff-relay by @nprofile…t7fy and put a bunch of really beefy servers behind it. Even then it's struggling to keep up.
The thing is, we're pre-launch, we have 10k users in testflight and a mostly read only site at divine.video which is a react app.
I'm a really terrible sysadmin. Yes I've helped run my own mail server since the 90's but I hate it and i'm not good at it. I know my way around my command line, I've compiled my own kernel from source, but fuck i hate it. And now i've got to setup and scale servers to realize the dream of something i've worked on for the last 8 years. I need your help, but maybe i'll digress...
In 2017 I decided to learn crypto, i joined a startup, quantstamp, and built their testnet, a SAT solver to verify smart contracts. I quit because I came to see how scamy the world of ICO's and tokens were. I'm not the only Nostr dev to have explored the 'darkside'. I started my company to build decentralized social, initially trying to take secure scuttlebutt to the mainstream. I built planetary.social, and worked with amazing dev's like @nprofile…w4p8 and others we saw Nostr arrive and we pivoted! We built Nos.social, which i'm really proud of but it never took off.
A few months ago I was in talks to help start andotherstuff, but i was also very frustrated with running a company, I wanted to build stuff myself. So I stopped managing people, started a podcast, and really dove in to building with agentic programming. I built a bunch of things I threw away. A lot of bad experiments. In the course of the revolution.social podcast i kept hearing about Vine. I listed to the "Vine 6 seconds that changed the world" podcast: https://vine-six-seconds-that.captivate.fm/ and I talked to people about this social media platform that was shutdown when @nprofile…zx6m was trying to save Twitter when he returned as CEO.
I thought, well Vine is cool, I know folks like @nprofile…srrg and others have build nostr video apps, how hard could it be to make a nostrvine app. I started coding, that's why the repo is still called nostrvine: https://github.com/rabble/nostrvine Turns out that it wasn't that had to make something that sort of worked.
Then I thought, it'd be cool to dig up some old vines. I searched the internet, found some on youtube, some on the way back machine, and I thought oh cool, i found a couple hundred popular old vines. Then I hit the motherlode, a community internet preservation project called archiveteam had run crawlers to archive the site: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Vine they had about 2.7 TB of vine data, but in these very hard to work with WARC files that are 40GB each! I spent a month or more learning to parse and extract the files. I realized i had the meta data for most vine users, millions of comments, and hundreds of thousands of actual vine videos! It was a nightmare to parse because of the size of the files, the messiness of the data, and the like. But it was a consuming fun project, a puzzle.
At the same time, I was learning about flutter, I've had to rewrite the nostrvine codebase many times as i learned about riverpod, figured out how to get the UI to update smoothly while interacting with nostr. Getting the app to run fast and smooth was really hard. I also had to figure out how to host the damned videos in a way that works. I tried google cloud, cloudflare, and bunny. I made TONS of workers to run all of these services to make the system working. I also was seeing how much people, myself included are frustrated by AI slop, taking over social media. I have an old friend who runs a non-profit tech org, The Guardian Project, they'd make a tool for verifying videos are real for documenting human rights abuses. I thought, hell i could use this proofmode thing they've got to verify that videos are real. People like realness.
Over the last few weeks the pieces came together, I was scheduled to speak at WebSummit with @nprofile…5cp7 and also to interview @nprofile…9grd on the main stage talking about enshittification of the internet, and how we can resist it, by building things like Divine.
I talked to a reporter from Tech Crunch who'd written a positive article about AndOtherStuff, and she was excited to write an in-depth piece about my vine clone. Once the date was set, I had no choice to go forward. Was the app ready, NO NOT AT ALL. I was literally coding up releases on the plane while flying to Web Summit in Lisbon. I started submitting the app, and getting rejected. It got much better really fast, and basically works.
On the stage at WebSummit when I introduced diVine, the audience clapped politely. I showed the app to people and they sometimes said "oh this will be big" and wanted to play with it. But if you've ever made software, and you show it to people, everybody always finds something nice to say about it.
I had so little faith in diVine taking off that I was planning on taking a few days off to explore Morocco before heading to a non-profit software dev meetup in SF. It was only the last minute that I decided I might need be near a computer and internet connection post launch to see how things are going. Until diVine launched I thought the highlight of my trip and WebSummit would be that a podcast network wanted to pick up revolution.social and help me build an audience around the podcast.
I have never seen anything like this excitement. Just look at tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/search?q=divine there is a wave of people excited about it. There's a wave of news about it: https://news.google.com/search?q=divine%20vine&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen Folks are saying that I'm taking on TikTok, and it's been on the evening TV news all over the place.
This is a dream. More excitement than I ever could have dreamed of. Creating a social media app that reflects all the values I laid out in rights.social . Building something people love and are excited about. When the app's been up, the new videos are amazing, so funny, so creative. When Jack launched Twttr, we didn't get this reaction. It took a lot of time for twitter to emerge as a star. The scaling issues didn't even show up until a year after twitter launched. When Kevin launched Instagram it got 150K signups in the first few days, and I was blown away at how fast it was growing.
If it hadn't been for my messing up getting in to the appStore, and having my relays collapse under the traffic, diVine would have grown much faster. Somehow it hits a nerve.
This is where I need your help, the Nostr community. I've already got help from a ton of folks like the folks from @nprofile…mrhy and @nprofile…pa8a and others i'm forgetting right now... But we need more help. Let's do this as a community.
We're building a permissionless, open future that can't be shutdown by corporate owners. But we only get there if the tech works. We don't get to integrate cashu and show users how there's another business model for social media if we don't make an experience that people enjoy using.
Here's where we are. We've got the new nip for replaceable video events, which is supported by divine and amethyst... https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2072/files we've got the proofmode verification spec i proposed: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2109 and my weird fork of nosflare which adds the ability to do filter requests that sort on things other than timestamp, it lets us find the most popular old vines: https://github.com/rabble/nosflare
The blossom server for media running on cloudflare mostly works, bunny is mostly working to scale serving the content. But fuck our relays are having trouble. Partially it's because divine doesn't optimize how many relay connections it does, so help with that would be appreciated.. but mostly it's we need to scale the relays, we need to work fast, and reliably. I'm trying to not talk much about Nostr and not make users understand anything about how nostr or keys or relays work.
We need a network of relays, we can dedicate for this, scale horizontally, which respond quickly, and support search. We could have search relays + normal content ones, but doing that requires updates to the released app, which is hard to do because we've got a delay of a day or more per release. So it's best if we can put this all behind relay.divine.video.
In terms of content moderation, my tactic is to provide a pretty heavily moderated experience on the primary relay and media server. But users own their keys, and the app lets users change or add relays and switch media servers. That way we can provide both freedom and the curated experience of users we're enticing away from centralized corporate social. And all of this is open source.
So help! I need nostr sysadmins and scaling folks. Please help. We don't have much time to catch this wave, and I'm in over my head. If you can help, reach out, [email protected] or send me a DM, i'll add you to a slack room, and we'll figure it out.
Join me and we'll make a social media revolution to make revolution possible.

2025-11-16 15:26:33 CET

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https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2072/files

2025-11-16 01:52:23 CET

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yeah there's a flutter app and a react web app.

2025-11-14 12:39:49 CET

I nearly missed my flight to SF because I was trying to get one more bug fixed and the android build of divine working. There’s a build sitting on my Mac mini which might work. Anyone want to take bets on TAP’s inflight wifi being good enough to upload a 300mb APK file?

2025-11-14 12:36:23 CET

These shitcoiners made a scam coin around diVine and then threatened me when I posted that I had nothing to do with their scam!

2025-11-13 22:22:30 CET

Can an android user please take a look at https://divine.b-cdn.net/app-release.apk and see if it works?

2025-11-13 21:39:44 CET

Well that was fast, we had 10k people join the divine.video testflight in 4 hours.

2025-11-13 14:40:04 CET

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I already did! They’re in the app! Clearly documented and easy to find.

2025-11-13 14:38:42 CET

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Yeah I threw this out and it’s a draft. I think we should be iterating on and improving the media nips.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2072

2025-11-13 14:36:27 CET

Apple is being typically frustrating and clueless with its AppStore reviews.
Just got rejected again and these are their questions.
By this logic Apple wouldn’t allow Nostr apps no? I mean Divine doesn’t have a wallet yet, we’re planning on cashu in the future, but not yet. And we’re actually more aggressive about mutes than most Nostr apps, we check to see if someone has muted you and don’t show you their content if they have. But it’s Nostr and open source, the point is you don’t have to follow my rules, it’s your keys and your software.
https://i.nostr.build/P0yae3HkeGDigKby.jpg

2025-11-13 08:37:03 CET

Thanks to everybody who helped beta test divine.video, a nostr based vine like app.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/jack-dorsey-funds-divine-a-vine-reboot-that-includes-vines-video-archive/

2025-10-24 12:23:54 CEST

In the latest episode of revolution.social I talk to Journalist and author Jeff Jarvis where he says Bluesky isn’t yet as open as it should be to ensure true user freedom.
Full episode out now.
youtu.be/WJ8wNo5eN2I

2025-09-25 22:00:45 CEST

On Revolution.Social this week i talked to Blacksky founder Rudy Fraser. He talks about building on the ATprotocol but without being controlled by the Bluesky company. They run their own moderation, algorithms, identity servers, hosts (PDS), and are building an entire alt tech stack called rsky.
But what's most interesting to the Nostr and Bitcoin community is in this conversation we talk a lot about how to fix the money. We talk about needing to build an alternative financial system which is not owned or controlled by the state or corporations. We talk about the role of mutual aid in social change and building a future society we want to live in. And we talk about Cashu and how we're exploring bringing it in to the ATmosphere (how the they talk about the ATprotocol ecosystem beyond just bluesky).
It was a fascinating conversation, and i really hope that Nostr Bitcoiners take a listen as this is a conversation about permissionless protocols and freedom money which is very different from what we normally hear in bitcoin circles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1DutGDVcs&list=PLklPNPs42pgA3IImetDMeQ3kflBrOqwr7

2025-09-18 21:04:25 CEST

Earlier this year I discovered these inflatable off brand mascot costumes and started taking them to raves and festivals. First a cat, then a bear, and now I’ve got a unicorn. The way people react is magical, hugs, delight, and general whimsy. Given how really affordable the costumes are and how much people like them I’m surprised other people aren’t doing this.
https://v.nostr.build/mQV2QoH6Fv9zfwRM.mp4

2025-09-07 03:42:04 CEST

It’s Father’s Day here in Aotearoa New Zealand and I’m spending it building the biggest Lego set I’ve ever seen with my daughter. 10,000 pieces.
https://i.nostr.build/T6W2PJX18cXdpnNJ.jpg

2025-09-04 19:56:41 CEST

Love or hate her, @npub1d9n…udfv, has a ton of interesting things to say about social media. In my latest episode of revolution.social, we talk about free speech, social protocols, and the need to control your own infrastructure and tech.
https://fountain.fm/episode/oNIA338g6r4nWw9kg8p9