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Re:Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on ... by Retr0id on Thursday December 21, 2023 @06:54AM (#38719354)
I think that's a typo for "any of the 34235 clients", where 34235 is a stand-in for "large number" (there are lots of nostr clients).

Nostr is interesting because it's not actually P2P, just decentralised - whether that's a good thing is open to question.

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Re:Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on ... by Zm44 on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:47AM (#38720315)
In this case 34235 client refers to `kind 34235` events. In nostr, different event types are distinguished by kind numbers, so clients can be built and filter for events of a certain type. For example, the content shown on a twitter/microblogging client, should not be the same as the content shown on a YouTube like client.
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Re:Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on ... by edent on Thursday December 21, 2023 @11:07AM (#38722278)
That's super usable!
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