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nostr
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Probably a bad idea to use Reddit to talk about privacy.
Some resources if you're interested in learning more: https://nostr.com/ https://ron.stoner.com/nostr_Security_and_Privacy https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr/ https://nostorg.github.io/clients/
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Ask HN: What is the next great online community?
I think your best bet here is Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays): https://nostr.com https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
Nostr isn't a federated platform like Mastodon or Lemmy, it's more similar to the AT protocol created by Bluesky, whilst being far simpler to understand and write apps using it. The nostr protocol is defined by a series of NIPs (Nostr implementation possibilites https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips), the most basic of which can be implemented in a client or a relay in 50-100 lines of code in any modern programming language.
Each user runs a client, anyone can write a relay or run any of hundreds of existing implementations, both clients and relays can choose to support a number of NIPs. Users have a public-private keypair, and distribute notes to relays signed with their private key, which are verified by relays. Clients subscribe via websockets to any number of relays (I usually have 20-30), and receive notes from all users on those relays' databases, or filtered by the public keys of the users you're following. Relays for the most part don't communicate with each other. If you're ever blocked or banned from a relay, you'll still be able to have your notes seen as long as you have at least one relay in common with anyone who wants to see them. I run my own as well for extra resiliency.
At the moment there's ~50 standardised NIPs, which add features like likes, zaps (bitcoin tips for notes), user status, post expiration, mentions, search, DMs, and public chats. Nearly all of these are supported by popular clients and relays. While nostr is primarily used for social media at the moment, it's already possible to build upon as a protocol for pretty much any online service.
The total active user count on most public relays I'd estimate is somewhere around 500k to a million, though the nature of the protocol makes it impossible to estimate its true size. The perceived community on most relays before following anyone frankly can get pretty cancerous, mainly due to a lot of clients sorting notes by new by default, so I can only hope to high heaven it'll improve as it grows.
Though like any new non-centralised platform, it's more difficult to get started on for most non-technical users as they have to pick one of hundreds of clients to install, and requires caution to never leak your private key and be very wary of which clients you trust it with.
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I hope this was not too technical and all over the place. If you are interested in knowing more please ask me or check out https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr or https://nostr.com/get-started
- r/nostr stands with Reddit users and support continued use of 3rd party apps. However, during the blackout on 6/12, we welcome you to come to us and ask questions about our open-source, decentralized and censorship-proof social media protocol known as nostr.
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The Stack Overflow Data Dump has been turned off
Without movement on this [1] I can't see adoption.
[1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr/issues/97
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A Social Media site where “No Humans” are allowed and AI Bots run the show
I think the next stage is decentralized social media. Something like nostr (1) where there’s no centralized entity determining the algorithm to boost. It’s up to the individual to follow users.
Perhaps the next challenge would be human verification, even with this protocol we’d need something to index public people by to handle discovery.
Even before LLM’s became as mainstream as they are, most social media platforms were riddled with spam: affiliate marketing, drop shipping crap, and people who are running some sort of con.
1 - https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr already has 8k stars on github
- Vart tar man vägen när Reddit går åt helvete?
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It's time to go NOSTR
Considering that Reddit might not be able to negotiate better pricing for API usage, it's worth considering a different approach. The future of social media seems to be moving towards protocols rather than specific platforms. This means that instead of relying on a single platform like Reddit, Apollo should focus on using a protocol called NOSTR (you can find more information at https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr).
- Now that Reddit are killing 3rd party apps on July 1st what are great alternatives to Reddit?
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Twitter's Algorithm: Amplifying Anger, Animosity, and Affective Polarization
Holding me back from posting updates of what I had for breakfast is the problem of private key sharing with services that I can use in order to post updates of what I had for breakfast.
A client or service will inevitably be compromised. And with it, the private keys of all using it whether stored by the service or logged on entry by a compromised system.
Private keys should be chained, master->subkey, with subkey the public key of the service __or a solution like that or that ends in the same result. When (not if) a service or key is compromised, the key can be blacklisted and/or any key co-signed by a compromised service blacklisted.
I'm confused by the oversight. It's also been raised here https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr/issues/97
Until then, I'll have to keep my updates of what I had for breakfast to myself.
iced
- Cosmic Desktop Is Slated to Debut with Pop _OS 24.04 LTS
- Iced 0.12 Released
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I'm trying to build a progress bar for an Iced GUI app and having a lot of trouble with it.
I am building an app using Iced that takes hashes of the files in a directory and assigns them to a profile. The problem is that I can't get the progress bar to update in real time. I've been checking out examples like this https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/tree/master/examples/download_progress. But I just can't get the progress bar to move. Is anyone available to take a look at my code and maybe show me a fix (as long as you're okay with MIT licensing your changes)?
- A cross-platform GUI library for Rust
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Crate Suggestions for Web Frontend
What about Yew and Iced?
- LXD is now under Canonical
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What's everyone working on this week (27/2023)?
Working on Halloy - an IRC chat client for Mac, Windows and Linux. Written with Iced as GUI framework.
- Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
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Halloy - a GUI application with Iced for IRC
It’s a pretty new feature we merged 2 months ago: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/1856
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Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC
Holy shit this GUI framework looks good. I am a Qt fanboi, but this looks great. Normally, I skip all the "X for Rust" posts as a bunch of fanaticism. Could it really be different this time???
The feature list is really impressive: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
Plus, here is the road map with many things already done: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/blob/master/ROADMAP.md
Wow, wow, wow: Keep up the great work.
One of the rendering engines is Skia by Google. This library is sneaking up fast on us...
What are some alternatives?
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
ipfs - Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
simplex-chat - SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!
druid - A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
Signal-Server - Server supporting the Signal Private Messenger applications on Android, Desktop, and iOS
yew - Rust / Wasm framework for creating reliable and efficient web applications
awesome-nostr - nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things
slint - Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.
matrix-spec - The Matrix protocol specification
gtk-rs - Rust bindings for GTK 3