The Web's Missing Piece: How DID-Nostr Quietly Solves Social Portability

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The Web's Missing Piece: How DID-Nostr Quietly Solves Social Portability

After decades of platform lock-in, the first truly portable social graph standard has arrived. It's...

It’s crazy that #ActivityPub still doesn’t have a solution for letting users switch instances while transferring their posts and comments. At least #ATProto has solved that problem. And then we have #Nostr where you never need to worry about that. Just run a private relay, and then you have a backup of all your events, allowing you to broadcast them to new relays.

Injecting SVG code into the script tag was a mistake. I hadn’t thought it through… Turns out it takes a lot more SVG code to build a QR code than I imagined 😅 #dev View quoted note →

I'm doing an internship for my Software Engineering degree this fall semester. One of my tasks is to develop a widget that clients can embed on their websites using a simple `<script>` tag. That tag should fetch a JavaScript file from our server that contains all the logic. Yesterday I worked on coding the widget's UI. Today I need to figure out how to handle QR code generation. Ideally, I'd like to do it on the client side so we can avoid building API routes or storing anything in a database. I’m looking at the npm package `qrcode-generator`. With it, I could probably just generate the QR as SVG and inject it directly into the page from the script. #dev

In my opinion, there’s no reason at all to have these kinds of metrics on a decentralized protocol like Nostr. Metrics like follower counts, like counts, total views, etc. are never going to be accurate anyways. *By accurate I also mean by humans.* They aren’t even accurate on centralized platforms like Facebook and Instagram because of all the bot accounts. The only to get accurate metrics is to have a centralized platform that requires ID verification to create an account. And, one ID can only be associated with one account. Then creating bot accounts become an impossible task. We should obviously not want this. It’s dystopian… I’m just saying to explain that these kinds of metrics are irrelevant on Nostr. View quoted note →

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These two are adorable ❤️😂

Video from the structure fire in Løsning 🔥 #press