So just finally got on nostr today (nostrchat.io + iris.to)

curious for those who have been using it a little more / know more about it, if you could clue me in on a couple things?

  1. When I was on the EH nostrchat … room? I was seeing what looked like UTC timestamps. Is there any built-in way to have it print local timezone instead? Didn’t see anything under settings but could be missing something. Or need to throw together a user script?

  2. Both nostrchat and iris had the npub/nsec pub/priv keys. iris also printed the private/public keys in hex format. Where would I use the hex format vs the other format? Or is it not really all that useful?

  3. nostrchat kind of reminds me of discord/irc in that it doesn’t really seem to have subs so much as a channel or room and it doesn’t seem to have you following people. and iris kind reminds me of maybe twitter/mastodon in how they are organized to follow people and have hashtags but dont seems to have subs or rooms. Does the behind-the-scenes concept/structure support other layouts too like reddit/lemmy subs/communities whatever? So that you could group a bunch of various threads under a general category? Update: I think it is a per-community thing but seems like it might support reddit style communties - both https://satellite.earth and https://zapddit.com seem to have a communities concept

  4. I saw I can either post links to pics or use the built-in giphy thing. If I wanted to drop a meme pic somewhere, am i correct that i would need to use some kind of external hosting like catbox or similar and then paste the link or is there a better way?

  5. when I was searching I couldn’t find any nostr relays that are on TOR. Anybody know if those exist yet?

I am still trying to read up on my own but so far most of what I am finding either is super technical and I need to spend a lot of time to absord or is extremely shallow and doesn’t have enough detail

  • Masterofballs@exploding-heads.comM
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    1 year ago

    In a AI meeting but i’ll try to hit up some of these points that I think I can answer.

    1. It’s open source, we can submit a pull request if that is a feature you want. I’m not a react guy but that is probably easy enough. I’ve done that plenty of times in real life work.
    2. I’m not entirely sure the purposes of these different formats. I know you can generate your own hex private key and plug it right in a app with openssl rand -hex 32 if you don’t trust the ui to not steal your private key. Then you can use something like nos2x-fox to prevent webapps from ever accessing your private key.
    3. Nostr is designed to be extremely easy to program for. So you can arrange the data in what ever ui you want. You can add fields to the note (message) to customize it. You are a programmer so you can take a look at the message format to get a idea how that works. I’ve got some ideas on grouping stuff based on hashtags I eventually want to try to get to working on.
    4. Most of the nostr apps have been using nostr.build . It’s just a free open api right now. It’s kinda centralizing media which isn’t a good thing but they have not been really deleting anything that isn’t illegal so as long as they are offering free hosting people should just use it. Maybe Jack is giving them bitcoins to fund it or something. There are a lot of open source hosting services we can throw up if it ever becomes a problem. I don’t like hosting media anyway because you can get into legal problems.