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#13: The Linux of Social Media

#13: The Linux of Social Media

hzrd149 hzrd149 (guest) Oct 24, 2025 1:25:50

"The identity should be outside of the computer."

hzrd149 & Gigi contemplate local relays.

Libraries & apps mentioned:

In this dialogue:

  • Automation & robot armies
  • If this than that ( IFTTT )
  • Permissioned vs permissionless automation
  • Self-hosting and the local-first people
  • "The identity should be outside of the computer"
  • Private vs public, local vs remote
  • DRM and other nonsense
  • Private means encrypted with my key
  • Nostr apps should be local-first, thanks to local relays
  • All nostr apps should work in flight mode, somewhat
  • Outbox model, writing, and reading
  • Search & NIP-50
  • Ants & thisishowyougetants.com
  • 6 degrees of separation & FoaF
  • WoT
  • Friend list curation & " circles "
  • "Don't touch my follow list"
  • Bootstrapping a network by saying GM a lot
  • Recommendations usually suck
  • Nostr can shine
  • Vertex & figuring out who John is
  • NIP-05 & realness
  • Root-level domains & realness (e.g. @dergigi.com )
  • Zaps & realness
  • Nutzaps & realness
  • Local-first & local algorithms
  • nostrdb VS local relays
  • Local data & relevancy
  • noDNS , locality, local preference, and "good enough"
  • Mostly online vs mostly offline
  • "Servers aren't bad. Getting rugpulled is bad."
  • "Information is easy to spread but hard to stifle"
  • Local hubs, community hubs, global hubs
  • "nostr was built for broadcasting"
  • Building stuff badly & nerd-sniping people
  • Gigi's ants video
  • Walking in circles
  • DM metadata leakage
  • "It shouldn't matter where the data comes from"
  • "Deleting data is a lie"
  • The impossibility of proving deletion
  • Bitrot & data loss
  • Fighting bitrot with duplication & rebroadcasting
  • Bouquet , blossom , and self-healing links
  • Local-first vs local-also
  • Left-side of the bellcurve CDN
  • The one whale relay
  • Topic-based relays
  • fiatjaf's pyramid relay
  • Torrents, early video content, game installers
  • fiatjaf’s take on IPFS
  • Why not rebuild Cloudflare?
  • Censorship-resistance = 100% uptime = no rugpulls
  • Getting offered weed on the streets
  • Every app works in flight mode
  • No developer needs an API key
  • "The data accumulates where it needs to accumulate"
  • Browser history as an example of local data & user interests
  • WoT is kinda local
  • wot.dergigi.com
  • Blossom is different; blobs are heavy
  • American HODL's vlogs
  • "Step 1 is to build a shitty version"
  • HAVEN
  • Nostr Repair Kit (Nostr pacemaker)
  • Shout-out to Pablo's highlighter (fucking hell)
  • Open-source & scratching your own itch
  • Applesauce v4
  • "It's almost done" - famous last words!
  • Outbox in applesauce, and how it makes everything more difficult
  • Waves, routstr , Pete , Justin , Paul , Gzuuus
  • Hzrd's SEC-05 highlights
  • noDNS
  • Wally & Cashu Wallet Connect
  • Crazy idea => Consensus => Implementation
  • Difference between idea & implementation
  • "Domains are shitcoins"
  • We've been living in a post-domain world for a while
  • Independent browsers & project Ladybird
  • Nostr-native browser - who will build it?
  • "A different way of doing internet infrastructure"
  • Is a world without APIs possible?
  • Mainframe => Personal Computer => Smartphones
  • Online sometimes => Offline sometimes
  • Local LLMs
  • Nostr allows you to build less
  • Thin layers & special-purpose apps
  • NIP-60 and finding spare change under the couch
  • Does negentropy fix NIP-60 synchronization?
  • Nostr is synergistic
  • The beauty of nostr-relay-tray
  • Nostr works. We've come far!
  • It's all coming together
  • Boris
  • "You can always go back and build it right"
  • Just begin again.
  • Just begin again.
  • Just begin again.

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