#13: The Linux of Social Media

24/10/2025 1h 25min
#13: The Linux of Social Media

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Episode Synopsis

"The identity should be outside of the computer."
hzrd149 & Gigi contemplate local relays.
Libraries & apps mentioned:

Applesauce
Boris
Citrine
nostr-relay-tray

In this dialogue:

Automation & robot armies
If this than that (IFTTT)
Permissioned vs permissionless automation
Self-hosting and the local-first people
"The identity should be outside of the computer"
Private vs public, local vs remote
DRM and other nonsense
Private means encrypted with my key
Nostr apps should be local-first, thanks to local relays
All nostr apps should work in flight mode, somewhat
Outbox model, writing, and reading 
Search & NIP-50 
Ants & thisishowyougetants.com 
6 degrees of separation & FoaF
WoT 
Friend list curation & "circles" 
"Don't touch my follow list"
Bootstrapping a network by saying GM a lot
Recommendations usually suck
Nostr can shine
Vertex & figuring out who John is
NIP-05 & realness
Root-level domains & realness (e.g. @dergigi.com)
Zaps & realness
Nutzaps & realness 
Local-first & local algorithms 
nostrdb VS local relays 
Local data & relevancy 
noDNS, locality, local preference, and "good enough" 
Mostly online vs mostly offline 
"Servers aren't bad. Getting rugpulled is bad."
"Information is easy to spread but hard to stifle" 
Local hubs, community hubs, global hubs
"nostr was built for broadcasting" 
Building stuff badly & nerd-sniping people
Gigi's ants video 
Walking in circles 
DM metadata leakage 
"It shouldn't matter where the data comes from" 
"Deleting data is a lie" 
The impossibility of proving deletion 
Bitrot & data loss
Fighting bitrot with duplication & rebroadcasting 
Bouquet, blossom, and self-healing links
Local-first vs local-also 
Left-side of the bellcurve CDN 
The one whale relay 
Topic-based relays 
fiatjaf's pyramid relay
Torrents, early video content, game installers 
fiatjaf’s take on IPFS 
Why not rebuild Cloudflare? 
Censorship-resistance = 100% uptime = no rugpulls 
Getting offered weed on the streets 
Every app works in flight mode
No developer needs an API key 
"The data accumulates where it needs to accumulate" 
Browser history as an example of local data & user interests 
WoT is kinda local 
wot.dergigi.com 
Blossom is different; blobs are heavy 
American HODL's vlogs 
"Step 1 is to build a shitty version" 
HAVEN 
Nostr Repair Kit (Nostr pacemaker) 
Shout-out to Pablo's highlighter (fucking hell) 
Open-source & scratching your own itch 
Applesauce v4
"It's almost done" - famous last words! 
Outbox in applesauce, and how it makes everything more difficult 
Waves, routstr, Pete, Justin, Paul, Gzuuus 
Hzrd's SEC-05 highlights 
noDNS
Wally & Cashu Wallet Connect 
Crazy idea => Consensus => Implementation 
Difference between idea & implementation
"Domains are shitcoins" 
We've been living in a post-domain world for a while 
Independent browsers & project Ladybird 
Nostr-native browser - who will build it? 
"A different way of doing internet infrastructure" 
Is a world without APIs possible? 
Mainframe => Personal Computer => Smartphones 
Online sometimes => Offline sometimes 
Local LLMs
Nostr allows you to build less
Thin layers & special-purpose apps 
NIP-60 and finding spare change under the couch 
Does negentropy fix NIP-60 synchronization? 
Nostr is synergistic 
The beauty of nostr-relay-tray
Nostr works. We've come far!
It's all coming together
Boris
"You can always go back and build it right"
Just begin again.
Just begin again.
Just begin again.