Today I started to implement a new #WoT UX for #SatShoot . Client-side Web of Trust is already working, taking extended social follows, mutes and reports into account. New users are bootstrapped with SatShoot account follow network (can be switched off in settings) Plan for improvements: 1. Implement Mutes as blocklists. Network (ppl you follow) mutes can remove from WoT but user-mutes (kind 10k) will hide blacklisted ppl from Services and Jobs feed. You can still land on a profile page or service/job landing page of a blocked user avatar will be shown as blocked. DMs will be blocked from these ppl and there's no way to allow them in Reputation calculation. Only affects visibility 2. You will be able to show/hide ppl outside WoT in Job/Service feed 3. I will implement #Vertex analysis in Profile pages. I will query top 5 reputable follows (personalized). I will make this feature paid (thinking 100 sats / query) but Vertex is not yet able to handle ecash or LN payments easily so I will get some credits myself. I'll cache the result so it will be reusable. Will show the user if he follows any of those reputable followers of the analyzed pubkey. I think of this as sort of a fallback or extra info for the user to be able to trust more and eventually follow people in freelance context (kind30k) which is explicit trust in SatShoot. Later community memberlists of uswr can be added as well, when they come alive. Plan to demo this in the #wotathon later. Thoughts? #devstr

Both APIs you mention live off donations. This is not really feasible for the whole internet. Furthermore, they still apply rate limiting and such to not be abused. What if I want to run a service that puts heavy load on the that api but am ready to pay for it? IP based rate limiting is a primitive technique compared to what Nostr offers. If you want curated data sustainably you will need authentication and you are better off with a paid service beyond a threshold for sure. If on the other hand some successful service goes rogue you will have much better guarantees to fork that service and jailbreak the data, if it uses signed and standardized Nostr events. Otherwise your left with unverifiable data that only makes sense in a proprietary format that no one else uses.

The primary issue in my mind is that the api-s don't follow one well-defined standard, like signed Nostr events queried with filters. This way you don't have to keep rewriting interfaces, and all data is verfiable. The "closed" part is tricky: Even with wide-spread Nostr adoption I don't think that we would have completely free access to data. Data is precious and people will protect it with digital fences, even if everything is signed and standardized. But to the degree everything is interoperable and verifiable, we are in a very good place. Even small backups can help in a major way. Real censorship becomes too costly in practice even for a large player. It will result in more competition and therefore more openness as well.

I guess this has something to do with why people are sleeping on groups. And nostr overall

The better question is: How do we obsolete them? They're just a shitty corp with a bad product.

Me too. Beautiful. One of my favorites

Thanks this will come handy for testing out grasp features in BudaBit.

#Ecash bears will have a hard time explaining why self-custody Lightning fees are skyrocketing when Bitcoin adoption hits new levels. ... Or why we still won't have a single self-custodial LN wallet that competes on UX with fiat wallets. Think in spectrum rather than religious dogma. Black and white. We need multiple solutions with all kinds of different tradeoffs for a gamut of use-cases. Do you think #Zeus wallet adopting ecash was a simple decision? Do you think they don't care about Self-Custody? They did what reasonable people do: act in a careful and smart way to meet people where they are.

Signal is really frustrating and we could do so much better with Nostr. Phone numbers, limited devices, tied to one business entity, and running unsustainably on charities. Hope a Nostr-based solution like #Keychat and #Whitenoise will eventually replace it fully for me. Monetization is very important. Privacy is not for free.

Similar here, I just think replacing all of this and LinkedIn and GitHub is achievable by well-designed communities with easy deployment and a credible exit. Most of the real value is trapped in fiat marketplaces and platforms of collaboration (especially around software). Unstoppable reputation and authentic connections in interoperable high-trust and high-signal private groups is the new internet in my book.

In my demo of BudaBit in #Bitfest I was asked if I was after the 10BTC bounty originally promised by Jack Dorsey to replace GitHub. My answer has always been: I really don't care about bounties as primary incentives to build anything in freedom tech. I like when people donate to worthy projects but that motivation alone gets nowhere. I build #SatShoot and #BudaBit for my own goals: Making code collaboration and digital work platformless and social. I put my own sats and time in my projects and will see how far that goes. If people find it useful enough they will contribute in ways they can, money or otherwise. I already received a lot of support from many people in the space which I am really grateful for. But receiving charity support is not my goal.

Nobody really knows what quantum is really about and if it's feasible at all. At this stage it is nothing more than vacuous promises and shitcoin-style fear-mongering. I suggest you look deeper than superficial FUD before making such claims.

Keep the Services coming! We build the the freedom economy, step by step. ... and of course let me know how I can improve #SatShoot and #freelance on nostr!

You can try posting your service on [SatShoot](https://satshoot.com/post-service/) , a freelance app I built on Nostr. No middle man, no forced fees. Someone might jump on it, but you'll need to promote it, markets are not yet so liquid in freelancing (and other areas on Nostr)

You should try to run your own private nostr community that you own and your voice cannot be falsified, reputation lasts, and is verfiable. You would be able to channel your audience into a sovereign group where you talk directly to your them, and you can customizeto your needs. For projects like yours shadowbans and censorship is inevitable. You need a place you own and makes your noble efforts unstoppable. I recommend looking at #Flotilla ( [start here](https://flotilla.social) ). It has a lot of the features you expect from a Discord community, even more in some aspects. E.g. it has Zap Goals which raises awareness and can help with funding. #BudaBit ([link to demo comm.](https://budabit.club) , [link to repo](https://github.com/Pleb5/flotilla-budabit) ) is a fork of that, especially for developer communities that strives to make code collaboration platform-independent and a social effort at the same time.

That's right self-interest beats appealing to altruism. The questions are: 1. What kind of perks are the best for a certain audience? 2. How to communicate those to the user? Both are enormously important. And as points out: we don't need to exclusively rely on #v4v . It's always getting into those important details that shines light on a specific use-case. There's this generic thing called "creator economy". We inherited this awful term because mass products like FB, Insta, TikTok, and others like to, well, think about their users in masses rather than niche cohorts of people. To make this clear: E.g. in freelance ( #satshoot ) I let the freelancer set up the pledged percentage per deal, importantly *before* being accepted by a client. I also let the freelancer set his own sponsored npub to split the pledged percentage between the app and a selected person as he likes. Overall pledged sats are conspicuous in profiles. I believe this model is fine-tuned to my use-case, and it can get pretty far if freelance on Nostr takes off. This however doesn't mean I couldn't offer extra optional services: the most lucrative to me seems recommendations. If the market is liquid enough it's not feasible to crawl a big network on the client side and calculate the best counterparties, so this could be offered as a premium for someone who cares enough to pay. That said, a musician for example needs something very different. The design space is infinite. The real technical hurdles have been demolished with bitcoin and nostr. This was also pointed out in the pod. Now all that's left is to build the right product for the right people.

Some clients don't render markdown in kind1, on Amethyst it looks okay. But yeah, I checked on jumble, primal, yakihonne and perhaps others look bad too.

As to BudaBit, I intend to improve radically on all fronts, mobile view is constantly being worked, as well as other things. You have any specific suggestions? I can pay for sizeable PRs

1st step: Nostrize it. See [Gitworkshop](https://gitworkshop.dev) And [BudaBit](https://budabit.club) These utilize nip34 to take issues, PRs and discussions on Nostr and makes all repo state (even branches and code) platform-independent. You can even install [nostr-git extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nostr-github-integration/fagibbjlnnmfcgogkobglpcgpcllcjek) in chrome that you can use to nostrize a repo directly from GitHub. We're winning.

... and most job opportunities can only be accessed on a permissioned platform. Reputation and business network is kept hostage. Nostr can solve that. That's why I built [SatShoot](https://satshoot.com) . It aims to create a platformless job market.