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wss://raxva.net 🪽 relay is free and open on Iran internet now. People can use it for encrypted safe communication. I've just shared it with some people. Beside bitchat for my friends who attend the protests, so they can stay connected safely from home and in street. 🪽 BTW, Raxva is one of Zoroastrian (the widely accepted religion in Iran before Islam) names of God which mean the freest of the free. Onward. 🫡🪽❤️

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Kayhan Sepanta 🪽50d ago

@Mike Dilger ☑️ I don't know if you see this since I can't see your events at all. But I'm using Chorus for this and it's great! Thanks a lot.

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Mike Dilger ☑️45d ago

I haven't been using nostr for a while. So you haven't seen my events because I wasn't creating any. But this is cool. I'm glad it is working for you. I feel good about developing chorus, I think I did good work there. Better than I feel about gossip.

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Kayhan Sepanta 🪽45d ago

Of course. ❤️🪽

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the axiom41d ago

you are a legend of nostr that will be forever remembered no chance you're coming back with a new app?

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Mike Dilger ☑️40d ago

There is a chance. No, I'm not working on one now. I spent a lot of time working on Mosaic, which was how I proposed fixing the hard problems like NIP-65 not being good enough, relays wanting multiple IP addreses and maintaining reputation when they move IP addresses, ditching trust of DNS, improving performance, and a whole host of other minor tweaks of nostr including using different cryptography (a prereq of solving at least 2 of those problems). I couldn't seem to both solve these problems and also make it backwards-compatible with Nostr. I got pretty far, but stopped before I got close to the finish line because, honestly, my motivation was drained (nobody came along to help me). Then I got myself involved inother things outside of nostr.

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mleku41d ago

gossip needs rearchitecting before you can really fix it. the imgui library you used is pretty good but probably as a systems programmer, you struggle with UX, and probably, like me, especially with UI systems based on javascript. i can attest from my own experience, using LLMs to do architectural analysis based on domain driven design principles, leads to a much easier to work with, cleaner codebase, that is easier to extend. i can only speculate that you have put that project to the side because it grew excessively complex.

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the axiom41d ago

I only see a bitcoin bot and a lot of porn in that relay btw are these the tenets of iranian culture?

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Kayhan Sepanta 🪽41d ago

We don't use this relay publicly. We use it for encrypted DMs. I didn't checked the public events on it at all. But soon I'll clean it and ban non encrypted events on it. Thanks for reporting.

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Mike Dilger ☑️40d ago

Gossip uses egui, but very similar. I never felt the codebase grew excessively complex, at least not in an over-arching way. Some pieces are ugly, but they are contained. I think the organisation of the codebase was pretty good. But you are exactly right about UX. UX is simply not my wheel house. Too much has to do with art and style and color and nuance that I'm simply not good at. I had UI developers @7bdef7be…784a5805 and @bfc058c9…69d68914 for most of the development, but not for the last 6 months or so, and taking back on the UI work, having to learn and debug what they built, complex as it was, to solve problems I'm not interested in solving, it drained me. Long ago I split the binary from the library precisely in the hopes that somebody would build a different binary with a different UI, and I could nestle into my focus on the back end. But nobody did.

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