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Author of damus[1] here. We’ve seen a crazy growth in nostr in the past couple of months. Damus itself sees about 1000 to 10,000 download per week, and we’re up
by jb55 3y ago
Author of damus[1] here. We’ve seen a crazy growth in nostr in the past couple of months. Damus itself sees about 1000 to 10,000 download per week, and we’re up to about 500k to 1mil+ users (hard to get exact numbers on a decentralized network). Exciting times for social networking protocols!
[1] https://damus.io https://damus.io
- irusensei 3y agoI love Damus and Nostr. Thanks and please keep up the good work.
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 3y agoI like alternatives to big sites but this sentence makes me nervous: "Bitcoin & , the native currency of the internet." Is there a need for this?
- xk_id 3y agoIt’s okay, it’s only technology. It’s been around for almost two decades and it’s open source. Nothing to be afraid of. You can conquer your fear through diligent studying. Good luck!
- jb55 3y agoIts optional, you don’t need to attach a lightning address to your profile and you will receive no bitcoin for your posts.
- DJBunnies 3y agoWhy does it make you nervous?
- evilspammer 3y agobecause 99.999% of cryptocurrency projects are scams
- stiltzkin 3y agoHow is Bitcoin a scam.
- evilspammer 3y agoI said "cryptocurrency projects" not "bitcoin." it's things that use bitcoin that are scams.
- stiltzkin 3y agoIn the case of nostr is tipping sats using Bitcoin Lighting.
- DJBunnies 3y agoAnd Bitcoin will roll on, uncaring.
- unboxingelf 3y agoagreed. full disclosure: I’m a bitcoiner.
- INTPenis 3y ago100% of it is a scam, the only reason you said 99.99 is because blockchain as a technology is worth something. But crypto coins themselves have no value at all in the real world. One pizza place here, and one bitcoin ATM there does not make a difference. As long as you can't trade real goods and services for crypto coins it is absolutely worthless. And that is why any association with crypto makes intelligent people scared. Because it's inflated by confidence, like a true scam. The only real goods and services that have kept bitcoin going is a black market of illegal goods and services.
- throwaway4837 3y agoIf you don't like Bitcoin, you could always just get an address and if you get tipped, sell immediately. I don't see how this is any different than an app with "gems" you can buy and re-sell back to the app. Some games like Entropia[0] have a fixed exchange rate with the dollar, allowing you to "cash out" of the game, if holding game currency isn't your thing. It's just game currency essentially for the social app. When I think about it like that, it makes me less nervous. [0] https://account.entropiauniverse.com/account/deposits/#:~:text=PED,%2C%20clothing%2C%20property%20and%20more https://account.entropiauniverse.com/account/deposits/#:~:te....
- remram 3y agoNo one is claiming that "gems" are "the native currency of the internet" though.
- xigoi 3y ago> I don't see how this is any different than an app with "gems" you can buy and re-sell back to the app. The difference is that the Bitcoin transaction will cause millions of computers to waste a serious amount of electricity calculating hashes over and over.
- channel_t 3y agoIIRC lightning network transactions only use as much electricity as 10 emails, although I guess at some point a real Bitcoin transaction will happen eventually.
- philihp 3y agoYeah pretty much. A lightning channel is a bit like putting money down as a retainer for a lawyer, or putting a deposit down in a hotel. The real transaction happens at the beginning, and another transaction happens at the end when the channel closes and we settle out who gets the remainder.
- ursuscamp 3y agoIt uses the Lightning network, which is a separate network using off-chain transactions. The Lightning network crams upwards of infinite transactions into a single on-chain transaction, called a payment channel.
- infotogivenm 3y agoI am neutral on cryptocurrencies, but I agree that whenever I see people lumping cryptocurrency and cryptographically-secure messaging together it’s a huge red flag. The UX for key management should be monstrously different between shitposting and the instantaneous loss of money, for starters.
- jb55 3y agoDamus does not manage your lightning wallet. All it does is open lightning invoice links in an external wallet when you want to zap someone. All of this is optional and opt-in.
- hospitalJail 3y agoI'm with you on every crypto except Bitcoin, but nothing about bitcoin should make you nervous. Its nice you live in a country with a stable currency that doesnt hyperinflate. Not everyone has this luxury. Zimbabwe and Venezuela come to mind.
- sleepybrett 3y agoLook at all that virtue. Bitcoin started a literal tsunami of financial crimes, I feel bad for hyperinflated countries and if they find some use in bitcoin that's great for them, but I for one will stay the fuck away from anything blockchain related if I can help it.
- hospitalJail 3y agoOn a similar note, cellphones/internet allow all sorts of crime. Cars, make it easy to commit crimes. Food, allows people to use energy to fuel themselves to commit crimes. Water/boats/international trade: huge for crime. Cash, great for crime. Government, could be complicit in crime. ChatGPT says you used "hasty generalization" fallacy, but I'm not sure that is the correct fallacy. You have a fallacy here.
- tsuujin 3y agoNah, that’s not the hasty generalization fallacy. They didn’t say “bitcoin allows for crime to happen”, they said bitcoin has been the center of a huge amount of actual financial crime. I think that’s the observation fallacy, where you look at what’s happening and then state it out loud.
- ipaddr 3y agoThat's how my grandmother feels about the internet.
- sleepybrett 3y agoTurns out the internet has proven upsides, not sure you can say that about crypto with a straight face.
- stiltzkin 3y agoAny ETA for Damus on Android?
- fuyuasha 3y agoDamus is great but Amethyst is also great already on Android
- m4lvin 3y agoHow does damus relate to nostr? Your landing page does not explain this at all. Is this because already the concepts of (distinguishing) client and network would be considered too technical for your target audience?
- jb55 3y agoI don’t think it’s important to dive into tech details on the damus homepage. Gmail doesn’t attempt to explain the email RFCs when creating an account.
- m4lvin 3y agoFun analogy, but I think a better match would be that Thunderbird immediately says that it is an email program. From my first look I had no idea whether this is an app to connect to Nostr or a completely separate and iOS only network.