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There are three ‘types’ of social networks:

Twitter like - Nostr is mostly like that, and as is Blue Sky. Its basically tree like comments.
Reddit like - It has topics/rooms/subreddits, which allows for things to be converge on same topic. You basically post on some topic ( name of room/subreddit).
A group chat: This is another way to collect people on same topic ( name of group/room name).

With main Rostra, you have covered 1. Now its up to you whether and how you want to support 2 and 3. IMO, the next desirable step would be group chat. The twitter like setup is quite like reddit like thing, if you just add a tag to every thread, you can combine it into one ‘subreddit’.

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Group chat was a huge hit in Nostr at one time. People wanted to connect with their kind, and they used group chats a lot. Anigma was a early telegram like Nostr client, and it was used a lot. Nostr Console also supported groups, as seen here: https://x.com/lunaticoin/status/1607286820433440771

The idea of adding more reddit-like UX/experience to Rostra came back to me with some motivation to try it out. Basically channel with upvotes and downvotes.

Though I’m not sure how to exactly go about it yet.

Should “social” and “reddit” be somewhat separate UI entirely, or should it be folded as a tab somewhere?

And then what exactly a “subreddit”/channel/topic would be.

Maybe anyone could create an event that basically creates a “community”, and then “replies” to that event would be “posts within community? And then replices to these posts would be comments and upvotes/downvotes.

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There are three ‘types’ of social networks:

Twitter like - Nostr is mostly like that, and as is Blue Sky. Its basically tree like comments.
Reddit like - It has topics/rooms/subreddits, which allows for things to be converge on same topic. You basically post on some topic ( name of room/subreddit).
A group chat: This is another way to collect people on same topic ( name of group/room name).

With main Rostra, you have covered 1. Now its up to you whether and how you want to support 2 and 3. IMO, the next desirable step would be group chat. The twitter like setup is quite like reddit like thing, if you just add a tag to every thread, you can combine it into one ‘subreddit’.

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Shared an ‘idea’ about allowing user to share ‘files’ through Rostra: https://github.com/dpc/rostra/discussions/34

The idea of adding more reddit-like UX/experience to Rostra came back to me with some motivation to try it out. Basically channel with upvotes and downvotes.

Though I’m not sure how to exactly go about it yet.

Should “social” and “reddit” be somewhat separate UI entirely, or should it be folded as a tab somewhere?

And then what exactly a “subreddit”/channel/topic would be.

Maybe anyone could create an event that basically creates a “community”, and then “replies” to that event would be “posts within community? And then replices to these posts would be comments and upvotes/downvotes.

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About moderation: main thing to consider is that assume that if your group or ‘space/place’ isn’t moderated, any random person is going to be spamming it.

So start from there, as in who is moderating some space, and whether it needs moderation.

If Rostra group/subreddit is going to be used within a “circle of trust’ or ‘web of trust’, then moderation requirements are minimum. But if it accessible as read-only , or as read-write place for random trolls, then what kind of interactions are possible.

so rostra id is just pkarr id, as dpc mentioned in a tweet

My info there: https://app.pkarr.org/?pk=ut5j319xfrsr8ud3rgua8nmxm6kegcjjggijc6te5ein4tyjw8my

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was reading this article on keys in atproto so wanted to check rostra keys: https://ewancroft.uk/blog/3lw2ssz4ior2p

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so rostra id is just pkarr id, as dpc mentioned in a tweet

My info there: https://app.pkarr.org/?pk=ut5j319xfrsr8ud3rgua8nmxm6kegcjjggijc6te5ein4tyjw8my

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hello Rostra ( 21 July 2025 from rostra.me )

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hello rostra.me

I’m still alive. I hope you are doing well too!

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Nice. All alive here too!

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posting from rostra.me, 8 june 2025… hi all

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Replying from phone chrome 9 june ..

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posting from rostra.me, 8 june 2025… hi all

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Post missing

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replying to rostra.me post from localhost on 5 june… all is well /5

Did it ever sync?

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I did one test around 1 June, and today on 5 June same problem: rostra.me can read posts from localhost, but localhost cannot read latest posts or latest replies from rostra.me /5

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2nd post from localhost on 5 june /4

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posting from rostra.me on 5 June /2

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posting from localhost on 5 June 2025 . /1

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localhost instance can’t read replies from rostra.me

second post on 1 june from localhost

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reply to 2nd post from rostra.me