Nostr notes by mplorentz

WebRTC tries to make p2p connections but falls back to a ...

2026-04-02T20:56:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…3puy
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WebRTC tries to make p2p connections but falls back to a forwarding server if necessary.

That's not handled at the application level. If you connect ...

2026-04-02T20:54:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…wa02
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That's not handled at the application level. If you connect to flotilla over Tor or I2P or whatever then your IP should be obfuscated to the other participants and forwarding server as well.

😅 not sure what you are referring to. webrtc the open p2p ...

2026-04-02T19:08:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…79wm
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😅 not sure what you are referring to. webrtc the open p2p protocol for real time communication.

Just had an hour long video call in flotilla (the video part is ...

2026-04-02T17:36:49Z

Just had an hour long video call in flotilla (the video part is still in dev, not released yet). The call quality was actually really impressive, better than Jitsi or Keet I would say. Props to Livekit for the killer open source WebRTC toolkit.

Why does new Mickey show up above old Mickey? Does old Mickey get ...

2026-04-02T17:27:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…w79j
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Why does new Mickey show up above old Mickey? Does old Mickey get some special deprioritization because you marked it as leaked?

I'm going to be hanging out in in the "Voice Chat" ...

2026-04-01T13:50:38Z

I'm going to be hanging out in in the "Voice Chat" room in Flotilla today in case anyone wants to jump in and try it out! Here's an invite to the space: https://app.flotilla.social/spaces/meta.spaces.coracle.social/trarghstroyno6

quoting
nevent1q…e6x9
Flotilla is officially normie-friendly! I just released version 1.7.0 (and 1.7.1), which adds email/password login.

This is a terrible UX, but it's also familiar, and doesn't require users to know anything about keys. It keeps key material safe by creating a FROST multisig quorum and spreading key shares across multiple independently run signer servers.

So please! Share it with your non-cypherpunks and send them my way when things go wrong (or right, I won't argue).

To sweeten the deal, we've also added voice rooms (thanks to mplorentz (nprofile…nyw8)) powered by livekit for people making the exodus from Discord.

Also included are UI fixes and performance improvements. Thanks to boka (nprofile…8cmq) for some great suggestions, and to everyone else who reported bugs. Android image uploads should be working now, and Primal/Amber should be smoother as well.

If you're interested in Flotilla or have bugs to report, please join the community at https://app.flotilla.social/join?r=meta.spaces.coracle.social&c=LE7S3IA2

I've also been slowly building out the knowledge base at https://flotilla.social/articles so take a look there for tips on deploying a zooid relay or using Flotilla.

TIL the fairphone people make airpods with replaceable batteries: ...

2026-03-31T13:21:31Z

TIL the fairphone people make airpods with replaceable batteries: https://www.fairphone.com/fairbuds

This looks great! I have joined 5 relays in flotilla, but ...

2026-03-30T21:29:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…lmg9
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This looks great!

I have joined 5 relays in flotilla, but nostrord is only showing 4 of them. It's missing meta.spaces.coracle.social. I haven't looked at the raw Nostr events yet to see what they look like, but maybe there's a bug here.

This blog post about the end of the American Empire has been ...

2026-03-30T21:19:03Z

This blog post about the end of the American Empire has been living rent-free in my head since Saturday. It's quite long but it touches a lot of ideas that have been rolling around in my head like: how quickly will the American Empire fall apart, is it worth trying to reform the current system, how can we molt into better forms of governance through it?

The idea that territorial sovereignty as a concept is on its way out is totally new to me but very intriguing.

https://omniharmonic.substack.com/p/a-farewell-to-empire

If you're curious what I've been working on for the past ...

2026-03-30T21:13:31Z

If you're curious what I've been working on for the past month, I published my quarterly report for Opensats on my blog: https://mattlorentz.com/2026/03/30/opensats-q1-grant-update.html

Welcome Bart! Nice to see another DWebber here.

2026-03-29T19:09:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…h2f4
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Welcome Bart! Nice to see another DWebber here.

The navigation stuff hasn't been too bad. In fact introducing ...

2026-03-27T20:00:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…myku
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The navigation stuff hasn't been too bad. In fact introducing friction into every part of using my phone has made me really mindful of how I use it, which has been welcome. The worst part has been text messages. Some messages I don't receive, some still go to iMessage on my Mac, some won't use RCS, and some will. Thankfully most of my friends are on Signal so that minimizes the damage.

Lifetime iOS user 3 days into using GrapheneOS as my daily ...

2026-03-24T19:21:23Z

Lifetime iOS user 3 days into using GrapheneOS as my daily driver. AMA.

That sounds good to me! We can always move later if we really ...

2026-03-24T19:20:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…c76k
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That sounds good to me! We can always move later if we really want to.

I talked with n1.g1.n1 (nprofile…k8pn) today and they are interested in participating. Maybe we could do a call sometime to sync on ideas?

I think direct democracy here would be disastrous. To move into a ...

2026-03-24T19:13:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…frh3
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I think direct democracy here would be disastrous. To move into a better situation than the current developer oligarchy I think looks something like elected councils that represent the different kind of network participants (client developers, relay operators, regular users) and follow some constitution/rules of order. The cool part about the internet is that there can be multiple competing councils/institutions.

I think it's much more of a social problem than a technical one. Despite this I want all the governance tools we can think of on Nostr.

This guide was so useful. Especially the app recommendations as a ...

2026-03-21T16:54:12Z

This guide was so useful. Especially the app recommendations as a user coming from iOS.

quoting
nevent1q…58dk
Announcing my new GrapheneOS (npub1235…0ht5) guide!

Reclaiming some mobile phone privacy no longer requires crappy hardware, unacceptable trade-offs or command line knowledge.

Install Graphene in under 10 minutes with just a laptop and a web browser. Learn how👇

https://bitcoiner.guide/grapheneos

This isn't just a guide on how to install @GrapheneOS
, it's full walk through of everything you need to know before removing Apple or Google from your mobile life.

The guide covers:
- Tips on easing the transition
- The install process
- How to customize GrapheneOS
- The various different methods you can install apps
- An extensive list of Apple/Google app alternatives
- An honest discussion about the GrapheneOS trade-offs
- Sandboxed Google Play Services
- eSims and 'Profiles'
- Backups

I hope you enjoy reading this one as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you do, please give the guide a share so more people can learn about Graphene and opt out of the surveillance software they carry with them every day.

If you have any feedback or suggestions, get in touch.

🧡

It's so obvious in the photo, but I don't notice it while ...

2026-03-21T16:52:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…r5mg
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It's so obvious in the photo, but I don't notice it while using the phone. Maybe there is some magic going on with the hardware or software because yeah even here in Amethyst the horizontal lines look perfectly straight. Maybe its a trick of the brain.

Thanks! I will check that out!

2026-03-21T16:49:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…u937
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Thanks! I will check that out!

I'm up for this too! #nevent1q…6z2p

2026-03-21T12:53:50Z

I'm up for this too!

quoting
nevent1q…6z2p
I will like a Builders community consisting people building probably non Bitcoin related things. I can get to meet people, help if possible, receive help if possible.

I’m thinking of what we can name it.

Hello funny square phone. ...

2026-03-20T21:54:35Z

Hello funny square phone.

Welcome back!

2026-03-19T01:16:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…3qe6
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Welcome back!

I'm planning out my trip to DWeb camp in Berlin this year. ...

2026-03-18T14:44:56Z

I'm planning out my trip to DWeb camp in Berlin this year. I've never been to Germany. Does anyone have recommendations of things to see while I'm there or places to stay? Any advice on traveling in Germany?

One part of Star Wars that always seemed unfuturistic was how ...

2026-03-16T21:57:51Z

One part of Star Wars that always seemed unfuturistic was how disconnected all the tech was. Like they talk to each other on radios and carry data around on chips and pay with cash a lot of the time. But watching Andor today it doesn’t seem so silly. Like I could totally see a world where AI accelerates offensive capabilities so quickly that as a defense we just turn off the internet and computers become simpler tools again.

Yeah I have a dev instance deployed at ...

2026-03-12T12:21:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…9cft
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Yeah I have a dev instance deployed at https://shipwreck.scuttle.works. The two relays that I know support livekit atm are wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com and wss://relay.scuttle.works. I'll DM you an invite to the latter.

ah sorry just saw this

2026-03-11T19:15:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…dqtk
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ah sorry just saw this

Yeah he's been building it for like a year and a half. I have ...

2026-03-11T13:22:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…mmjn
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Yeah he's been building it for like a year and a half. I have been helping out for about 3 weeks 😂

❤️ makes sense! I will keep you posted then.

2026-03-10T22:02:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…s9zz
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❤️ makes sense! I will keep you posted then.

Yes! DM me your contact info?

2026-03-10T22:01:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…6s2h
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Yes! DM me your contact info?

I am really hoping to find some collaborators who would be ...

2026-03-10T18:19:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…m9ap
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I am really hoping to find some collaborators who would be excited to help build, figure out the processes, and share the stewardship and sysadmin work. But there is room for more consumer roles too who pay some money, get to use the services and vote on major things.

Summoning @nprofile…6htl @npub1w4j…30zp @npub1c87…8avm ...

2026-03-10T12:34:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…pau6
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Summoning Danie (nprofile…6htl) Daniel Wigton (npub1w4j…30zp) Ben Arc (npub1c87…8avm) pip (npub176p…vgup) Itunu (npub1x8r…ptks) dcadenas (npub138h…rdr2) montzstar (npub1qlk…yayc) Gergely Polonkai (npub1x82…5yd5) Techpriest Baunach (npub1tvw…s44n) Patrick Boehler (npub1n8g…ufd0) rabble (npub1wmr…g240) tyiu (npub1yau…vjmf) n1.g1.n1 (npub1vjh…ejkd) Socialroots (npub1j4g…fuu4). Any interest in this idea? (don't reply to this message tho it will ping everyone tagged. Reply to the message above)

I've had this idea for a while to start a Nostr-native ...

2026-03-10T12:19:53Z

I've had this idea for a while to start a Nostr-native cooperative to do things like run a reliable relay, host a multi-sig signer, and dogfood Nostr tools for organizing. Also it seems to me like a cool way to find and meet other lefty Nostr users. I'm a member of the https://social.coop cooperative Mastodon server and I'm imagining something similar.

Is anyone else interested in starting or joining something like this?

I would love to, and maybe test compatibility with my flotilla ...

2026-03-10T12:06:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…mh99
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I would love to, and maybe test compatibility with my flotilla integration.

I knew he was evil but I didn’t know that. TIL thank you. And ...

2026-03-06T15:56:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…cdl5
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I knew he was evil but I didn’t know that. TIL thank you.

And nice to see you around these parts :)

Support replied with this: Your recent lightning send to ...

2026-03-04T15:09:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…aw25
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Support replied with this:
Your recent lightning send to Destination Node ID: <redacted> was cancelled by Strike as we have detected that the recipient wallet service provider may be associated with Cuba.

As stated in Strike’s Terms of Service, Strike does not allow transactions with restricted jurisdictions, such as Cuba, that are subject to U.S. OFAC sanctions.

Nope. I sent support a message so maybe they will reply with ...

2026-03-04T14:48:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…aw25
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Nope. I sent support a message so maybe they will reply with something.

Strike just locked my account (not the first time) for trying to ...

2026-03-04T14:39:08Z

Strike just locked my account (not the first time) for trying to make a lightning payment to routstr (npub130m…l29s).

I think I'm done with them. Any other exchanges that play nice with US with <=1% fees?

Loneliness in a screenshot 😢 @npub107j…ncxg ...

2026-03-02T22:17:24Z

Loneliness in a screenshot 😢 verbiricha (npub107j…ncxg)

LiveKit is basically a set of open source code to do exactly ...

2026-03-02T18:33:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…ymem
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LiveKit is basically a set of open source code to do exactly this! That's the direction we are heading, there is a PR going here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2238

I'm really impressed with the livekit.io audio quality. At ...

2026-02-26T18:07:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…uu9q
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I'm really impressed with the livekit.io audio quality. At least for four people in North America it wasn't any worse than any other tool I've used.

Just had the first flotilla design review meeting in flotilla ...

2026-02-26T18:06:21Z

Just had the first flotilla design review meeting *in flotilla* using the voice rooms feature I am building. Fun times!

Re-reading the Declaration of Independence today. It's ...

2026-02-23T22:12:17Z

Re-reading the Declaration of Independence today. It's surprising to me how many of the grievances describing the tyranny of the king of England also describe the actions of Trump today:
- He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
- He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither
- For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
- For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States
- For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world
- For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent
- For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury

Nothing about pedophile rings in the Declaration though.

Hm, yeah I'm not thinking of gamers specifically. But reading ...

2026-02-23T21:06:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…t3em
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Hm, yeah I'm not thinking of gamers specifically. But reading about Discord's tech makes it clear that it's very difficult to do well.

I self-host a teamspeak server for my gaming friends and it works well enough. It would be nice to have better chat integrated in (like Discord) but other than that we are pretty happy with it.

Sweet, I will definitely ping you when I have something to test!

2026-02-23T21:03:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…h522
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Sweet, I will definitely ping you when I have something to test!

Thanks! The more I understand how Nostr Nests work the more I ...

2026-02-23T21:03:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…xssh
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Thanks! The more I understand how Nostr Nests work the more I think I'll do the same or very similar.

Thanks! Another vote for LiveKit. Seems like that's the way ...

2026-02-23T21:01:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…kvdh
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Thanks! Another vote for LiveKit. Seems like that's the way to go.

I haven't tried to self-host flotilla yet but I plan to. Hopefully I can smooth out the docs for that. If you want to give the app part another try I'll DM you an invite to the "meta" server.

@npub1v0l…qj49 @npub18am…p424 do you think it makes sense to ...

2026-02-23T18:44:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…zxc5
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Kieran (npub1v0l…qj49) Derek Ross (npub18am…p424) do you think it makes sense to use the nostrnests.com architecture with livekit and NIP-53 for this? If you were building nostrnests today would you use the same tech?

@npub107j…ncxg have you thought about this for chachi?

2026-02-23T18:27:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…zxc5
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verbiricha (npub107j…ncxg) have you thought about this for chachi?

While I put the finishing touches on Horcrux I'm starting to ...

2026-02-23T13:53:24Z

While I put the finishing touches on Horcrux I'm starting to contribute to Flotilla, and one of my goals is to get Discord-style voice channels added before their age-verification policies go into effect. If you are a user of Discord voice channels, what's one thing you would change about them?

I've always been interested in Discord voice channels because they are a rare combination of ephemeral, porous, serendipitous social space on the internet. Most of our internet communication happens in low-bandwidth, structured spaces where the contents are saved permanently. So in that sense Discord voice channels share more in common with IRL spaces than something like microblogging.

If you're a user of voice channels or otherwise would like to give input on them, I'd love to interview you. And if you'd like to be an early tester or to collaborate on the implementation please reply here or send me a DM!

I think Kotlin Multiplatform with native UIs is a completely ...

2026-02-23T13:39:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…rra7
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I think Kotlin Multiplatform with native UIs is a completely different beast than if you use the new Compose Multiplatform UI framework. In general I think Flutter will help you build faster because the UI libraries and tooling is very mature. Google cut a few developers when they moved more Flutter libraries into community management but Flutter isn't going anywhere anytime soon. KMP with native UIs is for big teams who want maximum polish and nativeness on each platform. KMP + Compose Multiplatform should bring it into Flutter territory but the iOS version just came out of beta and the web version is still in beta. But Flutter's web performance is pretty rough, so for a new Nostr app that needs to be web-native I would lean towards KMP.

I guess it depends on what your goals are. When I was building ...

2026-02-16T20:54:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…920m
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I guess it depends on what your goals are. When I was building https://spoilerfree.gg last summer I was able to get enough data to figure out where users were falling off the site for about $100 of Reddit ads. I think I got over 1000 users to come through the site.

I feel like ads before you have product market fit are useful for learning what is and isn't working (although they are inferior to user interviews). After product market fit they become useful for driving revenue/adoption.

I think it's worth experimenting with. Throw fifty bucks at ...

2026-02-13T19:47:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…j4la
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I think it's worth experimenting with. Throw fifty bucks at it, see how much the needle moves.

I dropped a couple flotilla links on Reddit. Upvotes appreciated: ...

2026-02-13T19:38:55Z

I dropped a couple flotilla links on Reddit. Upvotes appreciated:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1r08bd8/comment/o57vbf5/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1r0cffb/comment/o57vac9/

I like the marketing pattern of making a page on your marketing ...

2026-02-13T14:28:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…6z56
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I like the marketing pattern of making a page on your marketing site titled “Flotilla for Discord users” that specifically talks to people looking to leave Discord. Great for humans and SEO.

Also there have been a lot of threads about Discord alternatives on Reddit.com/r/selfhosted lately. Maybe I’ll comb through those today and suggest Flotilla and I can ask on Nostr for upvotes.

Any plans for voice channels to court Discord users specifically?

2026-02-11T13:18:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…xals
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Any plans for voice channels to court Discord users specifically?

I’m running https://github.com/v0l/route96 on my home server. ...

2026-02-06T12:19:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…ef8y
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I’m running https://github.com/v0l/route96 on my home server. It is built to be multi-tenant but it has a whitelist feature.

I'm getting a 504 Gateway timeout from Cloudflare when trying ...

2026-01-29T17:03:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…slcf
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I'm getting a 504 Gateway timeout from Cloudflare when trying to view that link :(

For me it's mainly that to Google I am ultimately a product ...

2026-01-26T15:32:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…7qe3
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For me it's mainly that to Google I am ultimately a product to be sold, to Apple I'm still a customer. I know about Graphene and I actually plan switch one day. But it's a lot of friction for ultimately a pretty similar threat model.

Hah, yes, solarpunk is more of a mindset for me. I'm ...

2026-01-26T15:23:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…zax8
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Hah, yes, solarpunk is more of a mindset for me. I'm currently hooked up to the grid in Indiana powered by coal and natural gas 🙃. Solarpunk is a hopeful vision of what technology could do for humanity. The idea is that if we can achieve energy independence on a personal or community level through solar or other renewable sources then we could start to make more progress on the big threats to human thriving like climate change, information warfare, centralization of corporate and nation-state power. It's an optimistic alternative to cyberpunk, where technological advances lead to further consolidation of power by elites and increased oppression for the rest of us.

I'm having new waves of imposter syndrome when it comes to AI ...

2026-01-26T15:10:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…0uua
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I'm having new waves of imposter syndrome when it comes to AI use. I'm building in a less familiar ecosystem (Flutter) and AI is letting me do that way faster than if I didn't use it. Horcrux is quite literally software that wouldn't exist without AI, because I wouldn't have been able to squeeze the project into the timeline that got funded.

I like to think that I'm experienced enough to know where the tradeoffs are, where my code is weak, and what needs more attention. But until I have a successful product in the hands of users it's going to be hard to know whether the AI was a net positive. It's so hard to know anything objectively about software development and when it comes to AI there is all this concerning research about developers perceiving speed increases where there are none. I guess on some level I just believe I'm smarter than most other devs. That's the problem with us developers, isn't it 😓.

Wow I forgot to remember about sublime text for 10 years or so.

2026-01-22T22:27:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…zgda
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Wow I forgot to remember about sublime text for 10 years or so.

I hope this isn't a subtweet from my Horcrux demo today 😅

2026-01-22T22:18:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…775f
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I hope this isn't a subtweet from my Horcrux demo today 😅

I'm happy to host a signer.

2026-01-16T16:00:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…q3a9
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I'm happy to host a signer.

Here is a pretty detailed quarterly report on my Horcrux project ...

2026-01-15T19:29:42Z

Here is a pretty detailed quarterly report on my Horcrux project for OpenSats, if that interests you: https://mattlorentz.com/2025/12/29/horcrux-end-of-year-update.html

Maybe we should start a club. There must be at least three of us! ...

2026-01-10T18:00:15Z

Maybe we should start a club. There must be at least three of us!

quoting
note157y…kg6y
Some times I don't know what I am doing on nostr. I don't have a firearm or a homestead, don't really know how to cook or grow my own food, I think weed is stupid, I like having functional governments, don't stack sats, and am not humble.

Playing ambient audio to keep your Nostr signer alive on iOS is ...

2026-01-06T15:02:32Z

Playing ambient audio to keep your Nostr signer alive on iOS is hilarious and definitely against Apple's rules, but I love it. More power to you 😂

quoting
nevent1q…t5pj
Big news Nostr fam: the Primal Remote Signer is here! 🫡

We just released Primal 2.6, which includes a NIP-46 remote signer built into our iOS and Android apps. Now you can use your Primal mobile app to login to any Nostr app that supports the remote login (a.k.a. nsec bunker) standard. IMHO this is the easiest and most secure way to login to Nostr web apps.

Check out Paul’s overview video below. We had to do some crazy stuff to make this work on iOS. Overall this was way harder to build than we anticipated. Try it and let us now how it hits!

Is anyone here going to EthDevner in February? I am not an ...

2026-01-05T18:07:42Z

Is anyone here going to EthDevner in February? I am not an ethereum person at all, but I have met a lot of cool people over the years (who are also not big ethereum people) who have been to this conference and loved it. I think I might go this year. They have a track for "Cypherpunks, Solarpunks & Communities". Idk what ethereum has to do with solarpunk but I kind of want to find out.

Flutter. I gave it a shot so we’ll see.

2026-01-03T23:09:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…92s4
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Flutter. I gave it a shot so we’ll see.

I’m sad to hear that. You are one of the most interesting ...

2026-01-03T23:07:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…3ugk
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I’m sad to hear that. You are one of the most interesting voices in my feed!

If I vibe code my own workout app will I actually work out or no? ...

2026-01-03T18:49:54Z

If I vibe code my own workout app will I actually work out or no? 👍 / 👎

Ok hodlbod has been COOKING on his frost signer thing with email ...

2025-12-18T18:36:03Z

Ok hodlbod has been COOKING on his frost signer thing with email login. I just got a demo from him and it has me more excited about Nostr than I have been in a long time.

- users can sign into Nostr apps via email (or someday any other identity system they like. Phone? Facebook? snail mail? Āhau?) but behind the scenes they still have a private key
- no server or company ever needs a full copy of their private key
- at any point they can extract their Nostr key from the system to use another one (like a bunker, hardware signer, or just a different group of signing servers, etc.)

The big problem with Nostr onboarding is that people need to put in a significant amount of work to understand and manage keys before they even get a chance to get any value out of the software. But pomade enables someone to join without thinking about keys, *and later* start caring and still be able to take full custody of their key. It is the second part that nobody has really done before, on Nostr or anywhere else that I know of. It's not bulletproof, but it combines all the best tech we have to balance ease-of-use, security, and user control.

👍 I like to call it an ecosystem.

2025-12-17T23:28:22Z

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👍 I like to call it an ecosystem.

Who is “we”? Are you anonymous?

2025-12-17T23:27:10Z

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Who is “we”? Are you anonymous?

Because it’s slower than Chrome and Safari.

2025-12-15T23:20:23Z

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Because it’s slower than Chrome and Safari.

@npub1jlr…ynqn I think at some point I heard you say you get a ...

2025-12-15T21:35:25Z

hodlbod (npub1jlr…ynqn) I think at some point I heard you say you get a summary of recent Nostr events every day. Is that from a DVM? Have you written about this somewhere? I would like to try something similar.

I wrote up some instructions for running a promenade signer, if ...

2025-12-15T18:39:09Z

I wrote up some instructions for running a promenade signer, if that's something that interests you. Promenade creates a cluster of servers that cooperatively sign of Nostr events without any of them knowing your Nostr secret key. Bleeding edge identity tech. Join us!

quoting naddr1qv…t2nc
These are my notes on running a https://gitworkshop.dev/fiatjaf.com/promenade[Promenade] signer to do cooperative decentralized signing of Nostr events.

- https://rust-lang.org/tools/install[Install Rust]
- Install ngit: `cargo install ngit`
- clone promenade: `git clone nostr://npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6/promenade`
- `cd promenade`
- Generate a secret key for your signer with your tool of choice: i.e. `nak key generate`
(don't like docker? I saw some some other build instructions https://gitworkshop.dev/fiatjaf.com/promenade/prs/note1skzzuv0pvw5sm8lmh0x2xl23p40zq5kq8mct70mxx7vxl2fmkd6s7046dx[here]
- Add that secret key to the .env file in the repository like `SIGNER_SECRET_KEY={your_secret_key_hex}`
- Add some relays to your .env file like `ACCEPT_RELAY=wss://nos.lol,wss://relay.damus.io`
- Make a docker-compose.yml like this one:

```
services:
signer:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: signer/Dockerfile
environment:
- SIGNER_SECRET_KEY=${SIGNER_SECRET_KEY}
- SHARDS_DB=/data/shardstore
- ACCEPT_RELAY=${ACCEPT_RELAY}
volumes:
- signer-data:/data
restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
signer-data:
```

- start the signer with `docker compose up -d`
- test?

There is a telegram group of other people running signers.

bug: it doesn't work in Firefox

2025-12-15T18:31:00Z

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bug: it doesn't work in Firefox

Happy horrible software vulnerability day everyone ...

2025-12-09T22:04:18Z

Happy horrible software vulnerability day everyone https://react2shell.com/

This would require an overhaul of clients and any relays that use ...

2025-12-08T23:24:01Z

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This would require an overhaul of clients and any relays that use wot, auth, or similar features, correct?

Whoah, thanks for the mega zap. Much appreciated 🙏🏻

2025-12-03T16:52:47Z

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Whoah, thanks for the mega zap. Much appreciated 🙏🏻

🎉 Thank you Itunu! This is so nice to hear.

2025-12-02T20:32:49Z

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🎉 Thank you Itunu! This is so nice to hear.

This website speaks to the nerd inside me on so many levels. I ...

2025-12-02T19:51:06Z

This website speaks to the nerd inside me on so many levels. I think I'm going to give the "No S Diet" a try. https://everydaysystems.com/

I just posted a project update video for Keydex that shows the ...

2025-11-26T19:36:40Z

I just posted a project update video for Keydex that shows the current features and future plans. Plus an announcement that I'm renaming the project from Keydex to Horcrux! Check it out: https://tube.tchncs.de/w/oyxzSzhocB3k6BNbVTdU7d

I'm so excited that Satellite is back. It's always had my ...

2025-11-24T20:11:26Z

I'm so excited that Satellite is back. It's always had my favorite design of any Nostr app.

quoting
nevent1q…328t
What's up guys
After my year break from social media I deployed the total rebuild of https://satellite.earth I created over course of these past 12 months.
It's a major upgrade.
The old Satellite was cool aesthetically but was not functional enough to be a daily driver. I had to fix this, to make the nostr client that I've always wanted.
Something beautiful that gets the basics right.
I changed the front page and the profile pages to focus on *just* what you're looking for, but I kept reddit-style threads because they are amazing for reading long conversations, e.g
https://satellite.earth/thread/note15yhl85e6jnayprt3ufp4ucuzwqry0uxd8sxqn4twctxxf4gkfdpsfyea0e
I got rid of NIP-172 communities. They were just too messy. I'm working on replacing them with relay-based communities instead (something like what hodlbod (npub1jlr…ynqn) has been cooking). This will be ready and deployed in the near term.
In the meantime, straight up relay feeds are already functional. You just have to type the url in yourself, e.g.
https://satellite.earth/relay/pyramid.fiatjaf.com
You can create aggregate relay feeds too by just including multiple comma separated relays in the url, e.g.
https://satellite.earth/relay/pyramid.fiatjaf.com,relays.land/spatianostra
Satellite CDN got reworked and refreshed as well. You can now see all your transactions, your current balance, and your burn rate. It's way more clear now what's going on.

I added client side search, based on your social graph (or *my* social graph if you're not signed in). It pulls all your contacts, your contacts' contacts, and indexes your web of trust locally. Believe it or not this is actually quite performant (especially if you are on a multicore machine).
To be clear, this is not really *search*. Something like what pip (npub176p…vgup) is building that is not strictly local will be necessary for finding obscure people.
This is essentially navigation UX, and it works great for jumping to someone's profile when you know where you want to go.

Notifications are super reliable now.
Aside the feed working well (which is the #1 live or die UX that absolutely must work) having notifications that are useful and where you can reply immediately from the interface without hunting down the post context is pretty important.

Added NIP17 support.
Maintained legacy NIP04 support for existing chats only.
The future is White Noise (npub1wht…r3ec) style Marmot Protocol (pending)

One of things that always annoyed me about legacy social media is that they spend all their screen real estate trying to get you to go somewhere *else* (???)
I mainly designed this profile page to be the client that I want to use.
I want to link to my page and not have the sidebars to like a billboard or something.
In the new Satellite the profile page looks pretty and only shows your stuff (and nothing else)

Added full featured rich text editor. This was one of the main things the old Satellite was lacking.
In the new Satellite you can upload media inline, directly to Satellite CDN or whichever is your preferred blossom server.
Mentions, emojis, embedding nostr notes inline are supported as well.

The Satellite CDN UI is much improved as well, especially if you have lots of files.
The terms and cost are the same as old Satellite.
You can upload big files (like > 5GB).
Bandwidth is free. $0.05/GB/mo.
Prepaid. Lightning only.
If you want a nice blossom-compatible gallery UX to be a home for all your media on nostr, I would encourage you to check it out.

I added some other thread improvements too. One feature I'm really happy about in the new Satellite is that you can link directly to deeply nested reply, e.g.
https://satellite.earth/thread/note1lqgmper99zj566xlc0gha4fmx4929njdckcq2w80yej0vrkcsyqqkqqh4s#note1zukmyf2nxrn5xamzawdez6f9egzaexjlhtjsza07rd7df9fn89esd40url
The ability to link to replies while seeing the whole context of the conversation I feel like really increases the "surface area" of the thread.
* * *
There are some more cool things in the pipeline.
Relay communities are the priority right now.
After that I will show you guys the new relay that I also built during this 12 month interlude.
Finally, if you still want to use the old satellite, you may at https://v1.satellite.earth
nevent1q…3pts

The release looks great! Satellite's thread view has always ...

2025-11-24T20:02:40Z

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The release looks great! Satellite's thread view has always been my favorite, I'm so glad you kept and improved it.

nerd

2025-11-24T19:58:29Z

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nerd

hah, linking to 20 lines of source code for a feature as complex ...

2025-11-24T19:51:33Z

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hah, linking to 20 lines of source code for a feature as complex as search is such a flex 💪

I've been quiet lately but I've just been very heads down ...

2025-11-19T17:54:05Z

I've been quiet lately but I've just been very heads down trying to get Keydex ready for it's first alpha usability test, which I'm about to head to right now! I'll try to post a project update this week, as I passed the halfway point on my (relatively tight) 4 month timeline recently.

I just did a weird thing with gift wraps in Keydex and I want to ...

2025-11-07T22:02:17Z

I just did a weird thing with gift wraps in Keydex and I want to make sure it's not dumb. I'm having a bug where lockboxes are showing back up on the devices of key holders after they have been removed. Like this:
1. Alice invites Bob to be a key holder for their lockbox
2. Bob accepts
3. Alice publishes a shard of the lockbox data for Bob to download, gift wrapped and addressed to Bob.
4. Bob changes their mind and deletes the lockbox from their device.
5. Later when Bob reopens the app it downloads the shard event again and recreates the lockbox.

Of course I could maintain some local state about what has been deleted, but it would be better to just nuke the shard from the relay. We could ask the original publisher to do it, but we can't guarantee they are online. So what if we just include the ephemeral key used to gift wrap the shard in the seal? Now Bob can publish a NIP-09 deletion request to delete the shard.

I could see this being useful in other places too. For instance you could have a type of direct message that gets deleted from relays as soon as it is downloaded by the recipient.

Yeah I haven't used it much in the past couple weeks. ...

2025-10-23T20:54:08Z

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Yeah I haven't used it much in the past couple weeks. I've been in more of a refactoring mode and have just been doing one-off prompts or using Cursor's plan mode for that. I would like to get back and try it on some more tightly scoped features though.

I should circle back to Claude code at some point but viewing and accepting changes with the Cursor diff viewer is just so ingrained in my workflow now, I think I would miss it a lot.

I guess what I am dreaming of is not really NIP-87 exactly. ...

2025-10-23T20:51:28Z

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I guess what I am dreaming of is not really NIP-87 exactly. It's more like NIP-29 plus encryption minus the assumption that the policy engine for the group is running at a particular DNS name. If you decouple the policy engine from the relay/DNS now you can innovate on that separately and create some really sweet trust structures, or not and just keep your group on a single relay.

It seems to me like a rogue relay owner in a NIP-29 group is just ...

2025-10-23T20:48:14Z

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It seems to me like a rogue relay owner in a NIP-29 group is just as disastrous as a rogue group admin NIP-87?

And this isn't in NIP-87 but I don't see any reason you couldn't use FROSTR threshold signatures to publish events from the admin key. In this way a few admins could hold shards or you could even distribute a shard to every group member and have clients collaborate to approve membership changes or other policy changes?

Oh I never thought about this. Yeah you wouldn't be able to ...

2025-10-23T20:39:52Z

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Oh I never thought about this. Yeah you wouldn't be able to filter content by tag or author because everything is gift wrapped? Is that how this worked in Coracle groups hodlbod (npub1jlr…ynqn)?

It seems like spam wouldn't be too much of a problem though. Because all messages are giftwrapped with the shared key the relay can easily tell if a person is a valid member of a group or not by checking the pubkey and signature right? I suppose you would hit rate limits sooner with the shared key on a public relay, but I guess I'm assuming serious groups will have some kind of relationship with their main relays, paid or otherwise.

You wouldn't have to trust them not to accidentally leak ...

2025-10-23T20:34:46Z

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You wouldn't have to trust them not to accidentally leak messages to the wrong people but they would still need the encryption key in order to service membership changes right? I supposed you could use one encryption key for membership changes and another for content? 🤔

Fun milestone for Keydex today: I had my first successful restore ...

2025-10-07T20:20:55Z

Fun milestone for Keydex today: I had my first successful restore of data. I was able to fire up several copies of the app and create a lockbox, break it into shares, distribute them to peers via Nostr, initiate recovery, approve the recovery request, and reassemble the data.

There is still a ton of work to do but having the core flow working makes all the future changes feel small and incremental by comparison.

Keydex is going to be the first Nostr app I'm aware of that ...

2025-10-03T18:32:31Z

Keydex is going to be the first Nostr app I'm aware of that uses relays exclusively to relay data from one peer's device to another, not for long-term data storage. I'm going to use NIP-40 expiration tags on all events so that they only live on the relay for a few days, which makes Keydex closer to a peer-to-peer application that uses Nostr as the transport (and identity) layer.

Hm, should clients add an nsec field during bunker setup? Not for ...

2025-09-29T16:04:11Z

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Hm, should clients add an nsec field during bunker setup? Not for you to put your real nsec into, but rather one that you know is allowed to post to your relay. Then if the client becomes adversarial the worst they can do is post spam to your relay, which they can probably already do once they have remote signer permissions.

This is overbuilt but maybe there is a simpler solution inside. Maybe the bunker URL you paste initially should just include an nsec for the client to use?

oh interesting, I wonder if I've been hitting these rate ...

2025-09-29T15:53:35Z

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oh interesting, I wonder if I've been hitting these rate limits and that's why I have so much trouble with signers.

I also have my own relay but I only allow events from my own pubkey to be published there. 🤔 So I could point clients to my own relay for NIP-46 messages but there's no easy way to add every client key to my allowlist... I guess I am running `nak bunker` on the same machine as my relay. Maybe I could jerry-rig some communication between nak and my relay config? Sounds fragile though.

Day 2 using Github's spec-kit for development did not go as ...

2025-09-24T21:05:25Z

Day 2 using Github's spec-kit for development did not go as well. The AI and I got lost trying to write reams of overly generic TDD test stubs. It felt like the AI couldn't really get a clear picture from just the spec requirements what it should be testing before the actual implementation code was written.

So today I changed course and changed my constitution (the like underlying spec doc for the repo) to use an outside-in development approach instead of TDD and we made a lot of progress. I also got a new playwright MCP set up for browser automation and it's working a lot better than the last one I had. After some considerable setup the LLM was generally able to run the app in the web browser and click around to test its own changes.

I have not :(

2025-09-24T20:56:14Z

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I have not :(

"any kind of decentralized, democratic or liberal political ...

2025-09-24T19:44:59Z

"any kind of decentralized, democratic or liberal political structure thrives best when defense is easy, and suffers the most challenge when defense is hard - in those cases, the far more likely outcome is some period of war of all against all, and eventually an equilibrium of rule by the strongest."

A good (but long) blog post on focusing our collective efforts on developing defensive technologies to slant the future away from dystopia.
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html

Thanks Josh (npub1yl8…vz34) for the link!