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Nostr apps

This is an ongoing list. The first section is apps I use as part of my work day. Ending with a list to show you what is possible on Nostr.

Lumina

An app that displays all images that have ever been loaded on to Nostr social media. This is my paltry contribution

Memester

The name is self-explanatory. A giggle factory. Great memes to use on social media, and send to your Whatsapp groups.

Pinstr

Pinstr is...drum roll...Pinterest for Nostr. This is the Olive Grove Eggs Pinboard.

Pollerama

A panorama of polls. Pollerama is one of many polling apps available on Nostr, but it works really well and you can easily embed a poll on your website.

You may have noticed in the last two screenshots that I am logged into Pinstr and Pollstr as Olive Grove Eggs. One of the magic aspects of Nostr is that it is an open network. I have a Universal ID, and when I sign in with a browser extension, Nostr opens up showing my profile. When I log out, I can sign into any another Nostr app and ditto. My account goes with me.

Mapstr

A map app built with Open Maps, Mapstr identifies businesses across the world that accept Bitcoin. I now know where there's a Bitcoin ATM in Barcelona. Not that I ever go there.

Formstr

A user-friendly interface to build good-looking forms that can be embedded on any website. I prepared a super little order form without any instruction. I must admit to pressing the wrong button at the final step and instead of publishing my creation, I deleted it. My bad.

Habla.news

I write full articles on the Olive Grove Eggs website, and post sections of those articles on Habla.news. Being integrated into the Nostr network, what appears on Habla is also picked up on my Nostr social media page. The old way was to blog on WordPress, copy some text for Twitter, and repost the article on a long form article website like Medium. That is the difference between the joined up thinking of the Nostr internet and the current silo-ed internet exposed.

Hope you enjoyed the short trip around those apps, a taster of what a business or online enthusiast can do on Nostr, beyond social media.

Social media apps I use

Nostr is our primary, only social media exposure. Nostr is best known as a Twitter killer, and rightly so. It is the best "Twitter"experience I have ever had, by miles.

Amethyst

I was lucky to stumble into Amethyst, my Nostr social media client of choice for Android.

Amethyst has a very clean layout which belies its many features.

One click reveals a plethora of options that show why Nostr is so functional and pleasant to use. Check out the wording of the last option. By default nothing is ever deleted from the relays, or servers.

Satellite

This is a Nostr social media client for desktop. I find it very well organised and super fast. The emphasis is on community building, which is going to help going forward. Try it out. It is also a platform for services such as file hosting 5c/GB/month.

Below are apps I have just discovered or don't use that often.

Shipyard

This is a Nostr writer's app. Very stylish. I'm integrating it into content marketing flow, the scheduling makes it a no-brainer. I can write a few articles and periodically Shipyard will publish them while I'm looking after the chickens. This is my first impression of Shipyard, literally typing as I learned from scratch.

The Vitor Pamplona list

This Vitor person is a Nostr app developing machine, and a visionary. He is very clear about where software development has gone wrong. This is his thesis on making sure that Nostr doesn't repeat past mistakes, which I have distilled down to:

a natural urge to morph away from simplicity, efficiency and power to listless, bloaty software trying to be all things to all men, serving nobody well.

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