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
Test of snippet sharing
> cat ~/bin/tmux-here
#!/usr/bin/env bash
dir="${1:-${PWD}}"
rel_pwd="${dir//${HOME}/\~${USER}}"
session="${rel_pwd//./_}"
cd "$dir" || exit 1
if [ -n "$TMUX" ]; then
tmux has-session -t="$session" 2>/dev/null || tmux new-session -d -s "$session";
exec tmux switch -t="$session"
else
exec tmux new-session -A -s "${session}"
fi
Test of snippet sharing
> cat ~/bin/tmux-here
#!/usr/bin/env bash
dir="${1:-${PWD}}"
rel_pwd="${dir//${HOME}/\~${USER}}"
session="${rel_pwd//./_}"
cd "$dir" || exit 1
if [ -n "$TMUX" ]; then
tmux has-session -t="$session" 2>/dev/null || tmux new-session -d -s "$session";
exec tmux switch -t="$session"
else
exec tmux new-session -A -s "${session}"
fi
About moderation: main thing to consider is that assume that if your group or āspace/placeā isnāt 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 ācircle of trustā or āweb of trustā, 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.
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 Iām not sure how to exactly go about it yet.
Should āsocialā and āredditā be somewhat separate UI entirely, or should it be folded as a tab somewhere?
And then what exactly a āsubredditā/channel/topic would be.
Maybe anyone could create an event that basically creates a ācommunityā, and then ārepliesā to that event would be āposts within community? And then replices to these posts would be comments and upvotes/downvotes.
Last few months, Iāve been working on an BFT Consensus Engine. If someone is interested: https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/radicle.dpc.pw/rad:zii8qFzZhN3vigh8BuxGCuEEp6z4
I donāt really have much time promiting Rostra, but sometime I check here, and Iām still quite pleased of using it. :D
Group chats have a moderation problem, that the whole design of Rostra wanted to avoid - if anyone can join and anyone can post, what is stoppping someone from posting trash? In Rostra there is no need for moderation, because you just donāt see anything from accounts you donāt follow.
We could have a āgroup chatā, where one would just not see messages from unknown people, which might have confusing UX, as some messages would display for some users.
Thatās why I was thinking about Reddit-like format first, as I think that works somewhat better when each user has their own subjective view of all the posts/comments.