Nostr Reviews

Good steps in the right direction with the latest update!

Looking forward to seeing more in the future!

Not a full review of a #Nostr app, but an explanation of how Nostr Wallet Connect works in plain language, and what it enables for Nostr and beyond.

#Nostrversity #NWC

Next up for a full review,

?

#asknostr

At long last, I have finally finished my full review of #Amber signer for #Android!

I hope you find it useful, #Nostr.

GM #Nostr!

After much testing and discussion with the developer, I have decided #Shopstr is not yet ready for a full review.

The short version is, Shopstr is a fantastic idea and I hope to see it build upon the foundation that has been laid, but there are still some major pitfalls to using NIP-99 based marketplaces in general.

A good chunk of this is no fault of Shopstr's solo developer,

, whatsoever. This is because communication between a buyer and a seller must happen privately somehow, and DMs on Nostr are currently a mess. The best we currently have are NIP-17 DMs, but they are not supported by some of the most popular clients, and sometimes they aren't received even on clients that do support them.

For the sake of his users' privacy, nostr:npub16dhgpql60vmd4mnydjut87vla23a38j689jssaqlqqlzrtqtd0kqex0nkq has relied on the best Nostr-native standard we currently have available to us for communication. Additionally, he has sought to mitigate the poor receiver-side privacy of Lightning by routing payments via eCash and sent to the seller via DM. A sort of VPN-for-payments approach, which is quite clever in my opinion.

However, since not everyone is using a client that can receive NIP-17 DMs, and even those who are don't check their DM requests regularly, this has resulted in a poor experience for both buyers and sellers, with some sellers resolving to take their listings down altogether. Hopefully we will see a better spec for DMs soon, and we will see wide adoption of it by clients, so these types of issues can be resolved.

Until then, and because it is largely no fault of the dev, I do not feel I can give Shopstr a fair shake at a full review.

I'll start looking into the next app I want to review shortly. Stay tuned!

Spent a good chunk of the last two days picking

's brain about the issues I was having when testing out #Shopstr, only to find out the entire problem was my ISP blocking traffic with

....

Thank you for your incredible patience, sir!

Someone REALLY wants Shopstr to be the next review. I have no problem with that!

I have had a few other suggestions since posting this poll, such as ditto.pub and npub.pro. Though I cannot add them to this poll, they will be added to the next one.

I will give folks a few more days to vote on this poll and then start in on reviewing the top vote-getter.

These reviews do take some time, so it probably won't be released until late this month, or early January.

#Nostr

Folks seem to want to make me spend some sats in my next #Nostr review.

What say you #Nostr? Which of these apps would you like to see a deep dive into?

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Do you have friends and family you've been trying to purplepill into trying out #Nostr?

#Primal may be just the client to get them started with.

Read the full-length review to see why.

This review focuses on the #Android client, but Primal is also available for #iOS and on the web at https://primal.net

Feel free to send me suggestions of Nostr apps you would like reviewed!

Hoping to have the #Primal #Android review posted this weekend.