An Untitled Microblog

Toying around with trying to create…

Nate — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:13:12 GMT

Toying around with trying to create a "standard" social media style app on Nostr, focused on posts shared within circles instead of the fully public microblogging that most stuff is focused on.

Made a custom NIP
https://nostrhub.io/naddr1qvzqqqrcvypzpyg2lyrsmlttamnr7r224tp4fdw6zexkhv3unjrkeh6jf3eqfendqqrkvun9deehgusdsjwna

And vibe coded a proof if concept (beware mobile users, the mobile view is not good atm)
https://npub1nj7tj7wr2zl69mdc02x24j2js592vuxufgw63xwvq3t3m3lgda4qktzax0.nsite.lol/

Just a proof of concept, posts there aren't private since they're custom events but are being publicly broadcast (would need a custom relay setup). But it seems to be working.

Could use advice from people who know what they're doing, if there's any issues with the formatting of the custom NIP or a better way about going about things I'd greatly appreciate feedback.

#asknostr #nostr #vibestr #vibecoding

With the spam, and managing which…

Nate — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:42:03 GMT

With the spam, and managing which relays I use to mitigate the spam, I wound up signing up for nostr.wine last night. A $20 one time payment sure ain't nothing, but then again I'm paying $5 a month to support the ActivityPub server I'm on which I use less than Nost, and I'm lucky enough to be able to make a $20 on a whim, so it seems worth it.

Especially with something that uses the outbox model, or something that uses Gossip's style of fetching content, definitely seems like a good way of reducing spam. Removing a couple of the high spam relays (nos.lol, damas, primal) completely cleared up the spam.

Though on ditto, which only uses my default inbox/outbox relays (which I only set to a couple more "exclusive" relays) I noticed some of the people I follow didn't show up (as opposed to Amethyst, which I have more relays in my general relays list so I can see everyone I follow).

Seems like you really need to walk a fine line in terms or relay management, and focusing too much on WOT & paid relays will prevent you from interacting with a significant number of people. Looking forward to Amethyst's next update which'll support outboxes, fetching content from the relays the person who posted sets even if you haven't added them to your relays, hoping that will help solve the issue of trade offs.

No real conclusions or advice here, just se random observations and hope that the smart people keep rolling with the punches and keep making the ecosystem better.

#nostr #spam

Update on n_cord (posting from…

Nate — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:20:17 GMT

Update on n_cord (posting from within it, lol, watch it break in real time). Added the bare essentials (blocks, notifications, multiple lines, etc), fixed a few bugs, and updated the UI:

https://0n4t3.github.io/n_cord/

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/n_cord/refs/heads/main/screenshot1.avif

https://github.com/0n4t3/n_cord/

So far it's turned out pretty neat

#vibecoding #nostr #n_cord

I've decided to jump on…

Nate — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:29:07 GMT

I've decided to jump on the bandwagon and try vibe coding, if anybody's interested in checking out the results I made a Discord/IRC inspired Nostr web client.

It's a single static html file and everything runs everything locally in the browser, so it's pretty flexible. Currently got a version running on Github pages:

https://0n4t3.github.io/n_cord/

I've also got a git repo:

https://github.com/0n4t3/n_cord/

For my very poor development skills I think it turned out pretty good, even if it's probably due for a bit more polish. At the very least I'll probably use it to keep track of tags I want to follow without needing to spam my timeline with them. It'll let you follow tags without an account and/or login with a Nostr browser extension.

#vibecoding #ai #nostr

Made some progress on the book…

Nate — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:43:33 GMT

Misfits (Act 1 of an Untitled Novel) v0.9

Made some progress on the book I was working on, getting everything written so far into one large document. The downloads page has pdf/epub versions of the work, though I also posted the entire contents to Nostr under NIP-23 to see how that would work.

https://untitlednovel.dns7.top/download/

Posting on #Nostr seems to have mostly worked, although I noticed a few places where NIP-23 fell a little short. Since it's built on markdown things like images inline with text or being a specific % of screen size isn't possible. I had a few hyperlinks that led to images, and some clients show the link text + a clickable link, where some other clients just disgard the text and embed the image. Anchor links seem to not work in any client I've tried them in, although I'm not sure if that's the clients' falts or the NIP's falt. Also, it appears that anchor links (which include a hashtag as part of their markdown formatting) also are added to the post's tags. (lol, a bit of an oversight it appears)

Reading on a web client seems pretty serviceable though. You might need to Ctrl + F to jump from chapter to chapter since markdown anchor links appear to be broken, and images might be displayed slightly unpredictably, but it seems to work. Reading on an app, though, would probably be nigh infuriating without markdown anchor links.

Anyway, if you're interested in checking the project out the Nostr version or web/downloadable version might be worth checking out. It's free, so not much of an investment cost.

#nostrwriter #writestr #scifi #bookstr #nip23

So a thing happened and I'…

Nate — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:28:06 GMT

So a thing happened and I'm kinda flabbergasted. There appears to be a campaign to shut down the Mostr (Nostr <> ActivityPub bridge). Dunno how big it is, but apparently at least one DMCA complaint has been filed. This is all on account of the bridge duplicating posts and profiles on ActivityPub.

For those unaware, THIS IS LITERALLY HOW ACTIVITY PUB IS BUILT TO WORK. Every Activity Pub server duplicates content. Without it there'd be no seeing posts from anybody on servers other than their home server. It's literally the thing that makes the protocol work. If being on a protocol that specifically is designed to duplicate content isn't permission enough to duplicate content then the Fediverse goes poof. Zilch. Zero. Nada.

Convince Cloudflare, or worse - convince a judge - that a protocol designed around federating content isn't permission to federate content and that's that for #ActivityPub. I'd personally prefer to see both protocols do well; please, if anybody reads this, learn how things work before trying to break things for working as intended.

#Nostr #mostr

I'm toying around with making…

Nate — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:00:49 GMT

I'm toying around with making a python script that pretends to be a #nostr relay and let's your client post on #bluesky or a #fediverse instance.

https://github.com/0n4t3/nipy-bridge btw

But it dawned on me, lol, #mastodon doesn't even have quote posts yet and I just bridged a Nostr quote post in. It's not really a quote post - the quoted post is just converted to an njump.me link to provide context to what the user was quoting - but it's still a little funny.

Giving npub.pro a try, so…

Nate — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 12:47:11 GMT

https://nate0.npub.pro/

Giving npub.pro a try, so far very cool. Haven't published any long form content on nostr as of yet, but set up a microblog theme and it looks pretty sleek. It's free if you're fine using a subdomain, and the repo looks somewhat new and lacks instructions yet but looks like you can/will be able to self host.

https://github.com/nostrband/nostrsite

#nostr #blog #microblog

New #blog post talking about social…

Nate — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:13:10 GMT

https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2024-08-11_microbloggingv2/

New #blog post talking about social media protocols like #ActivityPub, #Nostr, and #AT (Bluesky). It's not entirely new, I posted a comparison in January, but this updated version fixes two mistakes I made and is updated to reflect some changes that occurred since the original post.

Also, as with my previous post, obligatory original meme to accompany the post.

Hey #nostr can I waste your…

Nate — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 01:34:15 GMT

Hey #nostr can I waste your time for a sec? It's a mildly amusing waste of time. Anyway, I've been playing around with Suno, an AI bot that can make songs, and also been working on a revised version of a blog post on microblogging protocols since the old one had a few things wrong and was getting out of date. Wound up writing some random lyrics and told it to make me a sea shanty, so without further ado I bring you the "Silly Goose Protocol Song"

Had a couple of points where it got hung up on pronunciation or messed up the lyrics a tad, but it turned out surprisingly well. Thought it was funny and didn't want to wait until the updated blog post to share.

#ai #music