All right everyone, I’ve deployed a cool feature to https://rostra.me, though it might potentially be confusing.

Since Rostra is a public social network, anyone can (at least potentially) just log into any node with any identity, and have it download and present all the data for that it.

Thus, I’ve configured the demo instance to default to present things as my own identity.

This also allows publicly sharing your Rostra posts. The new # mark on a post is exactly for that. You can share it around from a public instance, and as long as my own identity on the public instance has downloaded it, it will just work.

Omnia mea mecum porto

I watch this channel for theories of everything on the edge of physics, philosophy and mysticism, but I guess today it’s a turn for reality being just a Haskell program

Whoever you vote for, you get warmongers. 🤷

Will need to try out that datastar thing.

I just realized, that there’s a neat future that I did not advertize well - read only mode.

If you copy my RostraId, log out, and past it into the login screen without my secret, you can start Rostra node for my identity in read-only mode. It will sync and replicate my event history, and you can look at it just like you were me. It’s just without the secret key you can not create any events.

Ooops. Rostra got featured on Nostr and unsurprisingly the rather naive implementation of public instance hit number of sockets limits rather quick.

Well, you’re supposed to be running your own instance, so no complaining. 😛

I’ve never fooled myself that that there’s a high chance of something like Rostra competing with more established projects, and I treat it mostly as an interesting challenge and opportunity to learn and practice some fronted skills/tech.

I’m reaching the point where I’m quite happy with the feature set and how things are working, and my motivation is waning given that there isn’t a lot of users here etc.

One important things that would be easy to implemented is adding attachments and embedded media (as Rostra’s protocol could easily exchange even arbitrarily large files).

But for now I think I’m going to pause my efforts and wait and see if any community ever materializes.