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2024-09-12 04:04:14

We don’t need a Nostr marketing team
We do need a Nostr growth team.
@npub1kuy…kdj8 just published a good essay discussing whether Nostr needs a marketing team. I believe the answer is yes—but not marketing in the same way cryptocurrency projects have typically approached it.
https://www.curiousdk.com/p/6885aeab-251e-412b-bbba-1a0b09896558
We don’t need people running around buying ads. While having booths at conferences is beneficial for a community-driven project, I'm skeptical about the value of billboards or sponsoring athletes as ways to promote Nostr. It’s fun, sure, but it mostly reaches people who are already aware of it.
What we really need is a focused initiative to grow Nostr—distinct from the fantastic teams already building Nostr itself. In a typical company, this would be the Growth Team. They’d focus on how people discover and learn about Nostr, the path they take to join, how they choose their app, what their experience is when signing up, whether they find engaging content, and how to ensure they stick around and invite others. This is not to dismiss the great work OpenSats and HRF are doing, but a growth team is something distinct.
Each app can handle some of this, and that's working to an extent. But Nostr is more than just a collection of apps using shared code. It’s a network that becomes more valuable with every new app built on Nostr. For example, when a user joins Primal, it enhances the experience for Amethyst users, but it also becomes much more interesting for someone using YakiHonne or Zap.streams.
So, we need people focused on cultivating the Nostr ecosystem. This isn’t marketing in the traditional sense, like buying ads, but more of a Nostr Community Growth Team. We need people who can work with creators and community founders to help them get started on Nostr. There’s a lot to grasp, and some hand-holding will be necessary.
We also need better internal Nostr news—something like @npub19md…6vzk but aimed at two different audiences. First, for users, fans, and developers on Nostr: how do you keep track of all the projects and what's happening? There’s so much going on that it’s hard to follow. The second is external: we’re doing tons of incredible stuff, and we should be building excitement about Nostr by showcasing these amazing projects and content to the wider world.
The team at @npub1w9w…k403 does cover Nostr, which is awesome, but their focus is on multiple social media protocols. Journalists write when they feel there's news to break, and we haven’t been doing a great job feeding stories to them. We can improve on this. One initiative coming out of Nostriga is better coordination on getting Nostr folks on podcasts, especially beyond the Bitcoin bubble where most people have heard of Nostr.
At Nostriga, I talked to a lot of people about how Nostr keeps being framed as an alt-right protocol in the media. That’s simply not true, but we need to work on changing that narrative. Nostr is for everybody, how Nostr is framed does matter. People don’t join a social app because of its functionality, they join because of the other people who are already on the app. Projects like Trustroots.io, Causes.com, and Protest.net will help showcase a different side of Nostr and build new communities beyond our Bitcoin-focused core.
Nostr has already grown in new languages and communities, thanks to creators sharing about it on centralized platforms. We saw this with the Thai community—it’s fantastic. Let’s develop a program to support these creators. We’ve been discussing with @npub13qr…almy how she wants a space to onboard her fans into a community together. There’s a lot of promise in Ditto, which I’m excited about—I’ve set up an instance at social.protest.net. What if we helped each of these creators build their own communities on Nostr? From that initial onboarding, their community would be able to connect across all Nostr apps.
This isn’t exactly traditional marketing—it’s more like cultivating and nurturing a healthy Nostr ecosystem.
If we make it easy for communities to create their own spaces on Nostr, we can grow organically in countless directions. Every new user will feel ownership and be inspired to bring more people along. To achieve that growth, we need to lay the groundwork. We’ve got the apps, but we need to work with the people. After all, we’re building social software, and both the technology and the people are equally important.

2024-09-09 18:18:06

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This paper on battling state actors on social media protocols gives us a place to start: https://tsjournal.org/index.php/jots/article/view/171

2024-09-08 03:11:24

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Yes but we don’t make it easy to discover, use, and tweak the nostr apps to use these topical relays. There is nothing like Bluesky starter packs. We could do it, we have all the components, but we don’t make it easy and clear.

2024-09-08 02:35:29

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We need an instance of the nostr blogging software which highlights non-bitcoin content. I keep talking to people about how amazing and powerful Nostr is as an open Medium.com and showing them YakiHonne, highlighter, and habla. They get turned off not by the apps, design, idea of a protocol, or anything like that. They get turned off because all they see are bitcoin posts. They think, this isn’t for me.
It’s like porn on Twitter, there is so much of it, but you only find the porn if you’re looking for it. We need at least one nostr blogging app which can highlight other content with lots of diverse audiences. That way we can get them on board without them thinking, this place is not for me.

2024-09-08 02:28:17

I know it’s barely spring but today feels like summer in Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://i.nostr.build/J5XCvLIy09qg7J4m.jpg

2024-09-08 00:45:08

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We’re blessed by the stupid reply guy bot because it lets us fix spam issues now when it’s easier than later when the problem will be more complex.

2024-09-07 03:45:28

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Twitter wasn’t banned because it was Twitter it was banned because the company wasn’t following local laws. Were those laws legit? That’s another question. If Bluesky responds to legal and law enforcement requests it’ll be allowed.
I’m not saying it’s good to respond. In a past life I ran a network of websites which constantly was getting police attention, Indymedia.org, and we had the EFF represent us. We moved servers and domain name registration between countries on a regular basis to keep us from having to comply with government attempts at restricting speech.
Until ATproto works as an open network, Bluesky will be more like Twitter in terms of governance than Nostr which is more like BitTorrent.

2024-09-06 00:06:08

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It’s damus.io not damas which might be your issue. But why not try nos.social?

2024-09-05 23:28:47

I’ve published the slides from my talk on Nostr - Past, Present, Future online. https://docsend.com/view/9ne8vqpx6p6cz33z
Happy for folks to repost it beyond descend, it’s just the easy thing I have for publishing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUsk7cqZyKU

2024-09-02 15:22:14

Neon fun
https://m.primal.net/KagA.mov

2024-09-02 04:33:16

I was pleasantly surprised to find good coffee at the Beijing airport.
https://image.nostr.build/2c57362d142599520c8ab8a830181a457d5b04e9aaf228fb8e32011037ceef13.jpg

2024-08-30 18:31:57

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Well the sad part is the most homophobic people are driven by self hatred of their own queerness.

2024-08-30 17:51:07

This kind of thing won’t stop me from using and building on Nostr but it will drive a lot of people away.
https://i.nostr.build/DZgx3fsbiPUp5EkF.png

2024-08-30 10:23:42

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I think it’s one of those big brand, smaller engagement thing.

2024-08-30 09:16:28

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I like the somos nostr one.

2024-08-29 21:23:35

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The client you’re using mangled the repost. :)

2024-08-29 15:03:22

I’m spending a couple of days in France before heading back to New Zealand and I came across this giant field of crops which surprised me a bit.
https://v.nostr.build/GesjfnkWfY5EGN56.mp4

2024-08-29 12:11:35

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Can we get Nostr and Tor working better together?

2024-08-27 16:32:27

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Yeah but in the context of my talk I was explaining how a very famous example of past deplatforming was Father Coughlin who was advocating the US join the Nazi’s side in WWII. He was justifying the holocaust. Then he was deplatformed and his weekly radio program listened to by 25% of Americas was take off radio stations because of a pressure campaign and advertising boycott. I was saying this is a case of deplatforming in the past that wasn’t a bad thing. Just like taking out the radio stations in Rwanda that pushed for genocide was good because it saved lives. My point is there are times in the past when people were deplatformed and it was the right decision.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin

2024-08-27 07:08:04

GM
https://i.nostr.build/sHmW8FBtRCoiXjua.jpg

2024-08-26 18:26:25

I’ve got a question for folks here. The definition of unconference I’ve used for a couple decades before getting involved in nostr is something similar to what we see the Wikipedia page.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference
When people arrive at the event they propose sessions and put them on post it notes and then there are many many rooms where discussions happen. There’s no schedule ahead of time, stage, presentations, or big screens. Sometimes there’s a mic and speaker that’s passed around if the groups get too large for every to hear.
It’s something similar but much better organized than what we did the second day at Nostriga in the DIY space.
To me there are things these open space style unconferences are good at, discussions, connections, networking, hashing out issues as a community, forming working groups on specific topics. They’re not great at informing where one person is trying to communicate a topic or project. A talk on a stage can do a better job of that.
I was expecting something more conversational where many people might have come to the event with topics of sessions they’d like to do, but there was no fixed schedule ahead of time.
I’ve heard many people say nostr* is an unconference. So clearly this word has the meaning of an event like nostr* events. But from the communities I’m coming from what we’ve been having in Nostr are conferences with talks, panels, and workshops. And a bit of open spaces discussions.
So my question is what is a conference if Nostriga was an unconference, what’s a conference? How is it different and what makes the one a conference and the other an unconference.
To me, I’d like us to have closer to 50/50 time and space between speakers on stages conference and group discussions unconference. I get a lot out of the talks and panels and enjoy doing them.
So. What’s a conference is Nostriga was an unconference?

2024-08-26 11:42:33

It’s funny in Lisbon and Barcelona nobody assumed I spoke the language but in Scandinavia people almost always assume I do speak the language. I don’t speak any Scandinavian languages but I do speak fluent Spanish and B1 level Portuguese (not great but good enough to converse). And I’ve spent a substantial portion of my adult life living in Ibero-American countries.
The kind of crazy part is my ancestors came from Sweden, northern Germany, Wales, and England. I’ve only spent minimal time in this part of the world so it feels odd to be assumed I’m a local.

2024-08-26 11:02:41

I appreciate the sentiment, and we need to both make a resilient network that lets users have good end to end encryption. But if we build a network that optimizes for that we’ll find the users don’t really take it up and they’ll revert to insecure and vulnerable networks like telegram.
Nostr has to feel fast and responsive to users who don’t need to understand how the network works. In some situations like replies / reactions / zaps the network works incredibly well. In others we’re not there yet.
The changes you’re considering were the things that @npub180c…h6w6 dropped from Secure Scuttlebutt when he redid it to make Nostr. SSB was painfully slow and really struggled with discovery. But it does work entirely p2p.

2024-08-26 10:18:45

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Yes they will comply with a court order if they lose appeals but they won’t know who their customers are.
There are configurations and Debian packages that keep your servers from logging ip addresses and other PII.

2024-08-26 08:42:50

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We know it’s a pretext but that doesn’t mean understanding the pretext is without value.

2024-08-26 07:57:11

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You’re right. We’ll do so much better at dismantling the state if we don’t understand how it works. Silly me.

2024-08-26 07:44:27

Now this is not shit coffee. Single origin pink bourbon pour over.
https://i.nostr.build/EJidbJHLPwC4uSKO.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/DHX70V058KYpqYXx.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/DAzMh3XZ5Q3b5ft2.jpg

2024-08-26 07:37:46

Flexible art.
https://i.nostr.build/TA5Mto94U1piryYn.jpg

2024-08-26 07:16:23

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I would like us to advertise the onion and dns addresses of relays as a kind of paid and also have the relay setups do Tor and an onion service by default. Then we need more apps to support it of course. That would go a long ways towards better privacy and actual censorship resistance.

2024-08-26 06:33:31

Shit. Coffee. 😬
https://i.nostr.build/mCt1U7vAbsw4gvks.jpg

2024-08-25 23:48:42

One of the surprises of Nostriga for me was the appearance of the https://layer3.news/ project. It’s nostr + rss + news + ai.

2024-08-25 22:07:14

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Gutenberg was catholic and printed catholic texts. There is no indication he supported heretics like Martin Luther who used Gutenberg’s invention to print texts the Catholic church viewed as heretical. There were many many heretics before Marin Luther but the critical reason why Luther succeeded was he has the ability to spread his teachings much farther.
https://blogs.loc.gov/international-collections/2023/10/man-behind-the-bible-johannes-gutenbergs-life-of-adventure-and-art-loclr-blogint/#:~:text=Gutenberg%20had%20realized%20his%20goal,Latina%2C%20Mainz%201454–55.

2024-08-25 13:30:36

We need to help artists and creators grow their audience on Nostr in a way that competes with the way centralized platforms do it with algorithms. And we need the experience of discovering, selection, understanding the paid options, paying, and then getting the paid content in a way that makes sense to non-technical users.
#note1tck…2sde

2024-08-25 13:07:07

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That sucks. I think we need a kind of protection for that. Maybe relays store a previous version when you update a replaceable event so clients can easily publish a roll back these things.
https://metadata.nostr.com is your friend (you know this, I’m sharing for others, who might face the same issue)

2024-08-25 12:59:01

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There’s a nostr matrix bridge?

2024-08-25 08:54:42

Not to justify the arrest, but to give some context in the Telegram CEO getting arrested, there are people using it as a market place for CSAM (child porn).
Understanding how and why they shutdown platforms and protocols is important to understand.
https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/addressing-distribution-illicit-sexual-content-minors-online

2024-08-24 17:35:06

Where should we hold the next Nostr conference?
https://github.com/nostrworld/V4/issues/1

2024-08-24 11:12:04

https://i.nostr.build/ktBTB6lwVaUHCgtV.jpg

2024-08-24 10:00:30

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It’s just in the main stage day 2 full video right now. At I believe 43 minutes in, but the video crew is still working on breaking it out to its own upload.
https://www.youtube.com/live/uI38gUNaJLY?si=kNKYVCC8IMzfNhBP

2024-08-23 21:14:17

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Is it still going on?

2024-08-23 14:21:01

New users need to find people and content that interests them. They need to be able to find it easily. This is the biggest problem we face in growing Nostr.
#note12zf…mrlm

2024-08-23 14:00:02

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It’s definitely mixed. I did a bleach, dyed it red, then after it faded a bit overlayed purple. The bleach wasn’t consistent, intentionally so it’s not a flat color.
I’m exploring the way I layer over new colors on top of past dye that’s faded.

2024-08-23 13:49:53

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Thanks. It’s fun to play with.

2024-08-23 13:03:27

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It’s @npub1j8y…vrvg’s hammer. I was just holding it.

2024-08-23 12:15:06

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Is this a one off thing or something I could run on a regular basis to cross post from ghost to nostr?

2024-08-23 11:51:57

Interesting that @npub1qny…95gx says a large part of their OpenSats evaluation is looking at the work done by the applicant beyond the application itself, the proof of work on nostr and in code.
#nostriga

2024-08-23 10:59:09

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Yeah I’m exited about ditto.

2024-08-23 09:37:06

What’s this DHT relay discovery for outbox proposal?

2024-08-23 09:32:21

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Use Nos.social or https://nostr-delete.vercel.app

2024-08-23 09:29:39

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It is an experimental feature that we just got working.

2024-08-23 09:28:17

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I wonder if our bot found two different versions of your contact lists.

2024-08-23 09:26:17

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It’s interesting to see as folks come and go. Like @npub1n0p…pfp6 unfollowed me then 5 minutes later followed me again. :)

2024-08-23 09:22:21

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You do want push notifications for unfollows?! I think maybe push for follow and then just some place in the app to find unfollows.

2024-08-23 09:21:11

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What’s the Nostr version of a subtweet?

2024-08-23 09:18:50

This is cool it’s working but I think we’ll not actually roll out push notifications for unfollows.
https://i.nostr.build/2O0KwgQ3Of1lt88p.jpg

2024-08-23 08:45:40

Watch Nostriga Live!
#note1r9w…8znj

2024-08-23 08:27:06

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Thanks.

2024-08-23 04:17:39

This video of @npub1lq9…pa2e talking to Meta’s support people trying to understand why they’ve been found in ‘gross violation of community guidelines’ is worth watching when we think about why Nostr is important.
Our public digital spaces need to be ours, not some shopping mall that one company owns and controls without any rights for the users.
#note1vyp…0rte

2024-08-23 02:59:27

I’ve never seen a lawnmower robot before. I’m not the only one apparently because they had to put up a sign asking people to leave the robot alone.
https://v.nostr.build/Q0pzOq2Zze4Qroxi.mp4

2024-08-22 20:14:36

My dad always told me that the Golden Rule was “He who has the gold gets to make the rules.”
I was an adult before I discovered that his quip was not in fact the golden rule, but instead “treat others as you’d like them to treat you.”
While I think that the latter is a better motto to live by, the economy we live in today is run based on my dad’s version.

2024-08-22 19:05:03

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And that’s the only way history has ever been written?

2024-08-22 15:17:19

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Gotta do the purple hair for the nostr conference!

2024-08-21 16:15:46

Apparently when it rains in Riga in summer it isn’t a drizzle. #nostriga
https://v.nostr.build/AGW9I8fxwQBFdWOp.mp4

2024-08-21 08:50:45

#coffee #kombucha
https://i.nostr.build/EmpwmC2FWO1kD9ma.jpg

2024-08-21 08:04:15

I just realized that I’ve created enough content on the internet that I can ask ChatGPT to generate quotes from me about any topic. They’re all made up of things I plausibly could have said, but didn’t.
It’s really good for preparing a talk… because if I say it then it becomes a real quote.

2024-08-21 07:23:06

I just did a walk through of the #nostriga venue and it’s looking great. I’m excited for tomorrow.
There’s a good balance of rooms and the central atrium will work well for the hallway conf as well.
https://i.nostr.build/3m0ToaA2qfWqAbTm.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/MlIAjUlMQf4KipMC.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/QBQ5K4hTt5KMInJV.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/3yo4yDP0InwPKEF5.jpg

2024-08-21 04:40:39

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Why yes! We do have a creators program!
https://nos.social/creator-residency

2024-08-21 03:56:29

If you go to the 24 hour pizza place across the street from the #nostriga conference be careful of the disrespectful man in a small body. #googlereviews
I don’t understand how this review is related to the pizza but I am curious.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/CxMmHo7WDX42oQxDA?g_st=ic
https://i.nostr.build/8KGHbyIOk43Km8lF.jpg

2024-08-20 20:21:03

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@npub1am2…qsqn I normally take the train too but my time was limited.

2024-08-20 18:15:46

Anyone got stats for Monthly Active Users on Nostr? Nostr.band has the daily and weekly. I want to do an apple to apples comparison to other protocols/platforms.
https://stats.nostr.band

2024-08-20 17:57:30

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I ran in to some nostriches boarding our flight to Riga.

2024-08-20 17:22:55

I’m preparing my Nostriga talk, which includes a bit about the history of decentralized technology. One thought I had was that FidoNet and ActivityPub are essentially the same thing, but separated by a couple decades.

2024-08-20 16:50:33

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The old city of Barcelona, but I don’t know where exactly because I was wondering.

2024-08-20 12:28:17

This gallery is like cat nip for me. I love that it’s the creation of a collective of artists selling their own work. They do some of it there on site while talking to folks who wander in. The Argentine artists who were there correctly noticed my Uruguayan accent. The difference from a Buenos Aires porteño accent is subtle. Then every Spanish speaker I talk to is very confused when I explain that I’m not actually from Uruguay originally.
https://i.nostr.build/BvEhu7XXP4hHGP2I.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/cYn39OUnJx5C77wF.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/PSFJAbn1prRAHkP3.jpg

2024-08-20 11:44:30

In my adventures in transit to Riga I’m stopping over in a bunch of cities. Some people dread layovers but I try and make them long enough to go out and do things.
I stopped off at the Moco Museum and had lunch in Barcelona.
https://i.nostr.build/N5kk7wDkIfRN4XhH.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/X2aN1WOHswhjspi6.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/VBqoAUpv2swY4AlE.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/A1E769mUSHQ5i3Nh.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/tLU8saPJ9JGmeJrv.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/CGV4G7c6s9paEP24.jpg

2024-08-20 11:31:41

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There are taxi signs but not as you get closer to point where you’d go down to the taxi level. Then they’re replaced with other signs and the creepy taxi guys.

2024-08-20 10:19:51

I’ve got a long layover in Barcelona and I was looking for a taxi to go in to the city. The signs all say AMB instead of Taxi. Apparently AMB is an acronym for the city administration which regulates the taxis, amongst other things.
But nobody knows this arriving at the airport who needs the taxis, because they aren’t locals who take the metro.
The solution is there are a ton of scruffy guys with taxi jackets who’s job is to tell people who are lost that they should follow the AMB signs. The funny thing is in airports everywhere else the sketchy guys pitching taxis are scam artists. Since Barcelona is famous for pickpockets and scammers, you’d think the city wouldn’t try and make things even more confusing.
I’m sure there is a story as to why they didn’t just put up a sign labeled Taxi. The paid guys are clearly a fix for broken UX.

2024-08-20 08:36:46

If Nostr is only developed by one group, a minority, with no participation from the majority of society, then we’ll never build something for everyone.
We need to cultivate and support women developers contributing to Nostr.
#note1nnx…sa6a

2024-08-20 08:32:35

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You can put whatever you want on your resume. Somethings on your resume help your job search, sometimes what you put on your resume is accurate but not helpful. And when you put inaccurate things on your resume it can help if the fib isn’t discovered, or completely discredit you if one lie. When one problem comes up it reduces the trust in everything else ok the resume and in the person who made it.
But yeah. You can put attended Nostrica on your resume, it’s even accurate. Do people reading and evaluating your resume care?

2024-08-20 08:25:06

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In Aotearoa New Zealand shoes are considered entirely optional. It is legal and socially acceptable to go barefoot pretty much anywhere. In offices, supermarkets, schools, public transportation, concerts, restaurants, etc… people go barefoot.

2024-08-20 06:46:56

I had an overnight layover in Lisbon and got to spend time exploring the city. I want to come back and see more. I’ve spent a ton of time in Brazil so being in Portugal is weird. It’s like decaf Brazil.
The other odd thing is in Brazil everyone assumes that if you’re there then you’ll be able to speak Portuguese. I was given a note the very first day I arrived in Brazil telling me that if I was going to be there I should learn the language. I thought it was a bit of a high bar given my 12 hours in the country. My Portuguese is not great but I’m able to read and understand people and make myself understood if people have patience. In Lisbon nobody thinks seems interested in speaking Portuguese to me. The assumption is that I don’t *look like* a Portuguese speaker I guess. Or I’m only hanging out in touristy places and here they’ve given up on the idea of people speaking the local language. You can really feel how much Lisbon has become an international tourist / “digital nomad” destination.
https://v.nostr.build/0J1Pw2OKcjwp6bbX.mp4

2024-08-19 18:44:35

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your other pieces are better than this one. :) — This is a comment on: https://yakihonne.com/flash-news/

2024-08-18 23:45:00

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Yeah. From NZ it’s the same either way but I stopped off to visit family, friends, and give a talk at #dwebcamp

2024-08-18 23:42:31

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@npub1el3…l27r well as you know SF is the half way point. The world is small, but not that small. :)

2024-08-18 23:40:03

Nostriga here I come! https://i.nostr.build/L8T7P8RvDer2Gkml.jpg

2024-08-18 19:13:17

Check out the smart widgets that YakiHonne has launched. It’s a Nostr version of farcaster’s frames.
https://yakihonne.com/smart-widgets
It’s similar to open frames. https://framesjs.org/middleware/openframes
I’m excited to get this in to Nostr. It gives us a way of making interactive nano-apps.

2024-08-17 17:56:49

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I think this is one of many great kinds of custom algorithms which would be great to have in Nostr. Bluesky has a feed called “quite posters” which are posts from people who don’t post too often, very similar to most recent post per person… The Meta algorithms have the opposite optimization, they’re making creators publish multiple times a day in order to get an audience. I love the idea of making it easy to see the quiet person who’s being lost in the flow right now of wonderful but enthusiastic posters like @npub18am…p424 and @npub1r0r…q9ac. These and others are people I REALLY want to follow, because they’ve got good things to say, but they say a lot, and we need to be able to see the other folks too.
I’d also love a feed which was AI summaries of a person’s posts or a thread. Take for example this thread: #note1qcw…wvnr It’s got tons of replies and discussion. Rather than just giving me the chronological or most ‘important’ replies or replies by people with the highest web of trust score for each user, we could feed that whole thread in to an LLM and create a summary with links directly in to the comments / discussions.

2024-08-17 03:42:57

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@npub17nd…950x are you coming to Nostriga?
I am kind of keen on the moonlight over the pier painting. Since I can put it up in some place next to where the picture was taken.

2024-08-17 03:02:21

I sat down and talked to someone in person recently who I’d only met online. After a very pleasant chat he said, you know what, you’re really nice, I always thought you were an asshole.
Lots of people have different personalities when they switch context or language. It’s interesting to hear someone’s perceptions of me.
So I’m wondering if people who have or haven’t met me in person think something similar? If we haven’t met then #nostriga is next week and we can meet in person.

2024-08-16 13:30:00

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If you think states are more important than people then sure. Of course someone who moves to Tasmania should get more electoral power than if they move to NSW.

2024-08-16 00:54:00

The press, social media vibe, and energy has shifted from Trump to Harris, but the polling shows that if the election were held today, Trump would win the electoral college by a landslide and lose the popular vote.
If this holds, it would mean that in 2000, 2016, and 2024 the Republicans won the election despite losing the popular vote. Only one time the Republicans win the election AND a majority of the votes this century, 2004.
What amazes me is how this dynamic is just accepted. This is not a well functioning democracy.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024/battleground-states

2024-08-15 23:13:13

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I found it because a bunch of people on scuttlebutt have been trying out the Veilid Chat app.
https://veilid.com/chat/

2024-08-15 22:49:05

The Cult of the Dead Cow has released a new protocol for secure private peer to peer social apps called Veilid…
Here’s their defcon slides: https://veilid.com/Launch-Slides-Veilid.pdf
Source code: https://gitlab.com/veilid/
And website: https://veilid.com/
The DHT part and wrapping of content as it goes around the network are both interesting. It’s very slow and prototype level at the moment. And kind of made for the opposite use case of Nostr, in that it’s not possible to make public conversations on Veilid. Worth tracking to see what comes of it.
Did you know, Beto O'Rourke used to be a member of CoD?

2024-08-15 16:46:16

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I showed them these apps:
https://m.primal.net/KAaa.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KAab.jpg
Plus web apps logged using Nostore on my iPhone including highlighter, habla, zap streams, flockstr, coracle, satellite earth, trustroots, and protest net (ditto + flockstr).
We’ve got a bunch of social feed apps, which is good, but the other apps help show that Nostr can be used for many kinds of apps.
What inspired this guy, and a ton of people at the #dwebcamp was just how many real apps, not just quick prototypes. @npub16zs…92l7 also setup a community scoped relay just for people at the conference, which was a great easy way to find everybody else there. Easy communities using relays.
When it came to bitcoin, folks had two concerns. First they wanted to know that using Nostr didn’t require money for each action, didn’t require a wallet to get started, didn’t require paying for an account to register, and wasn’t a blockchain project. They’re scared of the scams and barriers that they see with crypto. When I say, yeah, there’s a lightning wallet, which is bitcoin micropayments, meaning the transactions are cheap and don’t directly require mining, and let you optionally send tips and pay for services and content. Folks who would be ‘death to crypto’ and ‘I hate bitcoin’ often come around to ‘oh, yeah, that seems useful’. Because it’s optional and there appears to be a reason why they may opt in to it. And if they don’t want it, you can easily use Nostr without a wallet and it works just fine. The only other bitcoin thing was folks wanted content about things they’re into and not just posts about bitcoin. ;-D

2024-08-15 15:46:26

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These apps, plus nos.social, habla.news, flocksr, zap.streams, highlighter, and a few others.
https://m.primal.net/KAab.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KAaa.jpg

2024-08-15 15:44:26

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I showed him a bunch of the web apps plus these nostr iOS, and my own nos.social
https://m.primal.net/KAaa.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KAab.jpg

2024-08-15 15:40:12

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I was at a dinner a couple nights ago with brian.behlendorf.com & Kevin Kelly who both helped start Wired Magazine, and a bunch of other interesting folks.
Brian made this point that when it comes to complex software systems worse is better. Referring to the essay on the subject from the early 90’s: https://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
The idea is that simpler systems that are easier to evolve tend to win over top down strongly architectured systems that tend to be inflexible.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
Nostr has the characteristics of the “worse” technologies that often win. HTML is worse than XML and Hypertext. JavaScript is worse than Java. TCP/IP is worse than OSI! We don’t remember that TCP/IP was the scrappy underdog protocol that the government tried to kill because they wanted their properly designed OSI protocols for the internet! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Wars
Twitter itself was worse, it’s a kind of minimalist thing which was powerfully extensible. The original Twitter api docs were a single page long. The original oauth spec was 6 pages long.
Worse is a better way to build technology to change the world.

2024-08-15 06:43:26

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Being aware of the way systemic issues shape power and people. To be awake (woke) to the fact that these systems have unjustly treated people in the past and how they continue to shape all of us going forward. As much as we might like to have everyone treated equally, it is not the case and we need to be aware of it. Once we’re aware of this injustice we should work in some way to change the systems of our society and economy.
Many people who would like the current systems to continue unaltered despite past, current, and future societal failings consider themselves anti woke because they don’t want any process of change to improve things if it benefits anyone but themselves.

2024-08-14 19:35:46

I just gave a friend an update on what Nostr is and showed a bunch of apps in the ecosystem. Showing how fast it is and how all of these apps use the same identity and data but are different in their focus. He has been around the space of social media protocols for years but he was blown away.
We’ve really got something amazing. We need to do a better job of show and telling the story. It’s not about just zaps or censorship resistance or the way we’re doing web of trust moderation. We’ve built something which works really well. It fulfills the dream of the early days of the internet, web, and Web 2.0. An open interoperable internet, by and for the users.
As an aside, yes bitcoin is part of it, but it’s so politicalized that some people dismiss nostr as that bitcoin social media protocol. We see people join nostr and through it discover bitcoin, that’s the path to wide adoption.

2024-08-14 17:12:42

This is a genuine question. Why do bitcoiners have so much faith that quantum computing won’t break the cryptography that secures bitcoin?
I don’t know how likely it is, but it feels like the chance is higher than 0% and lower than 100%. There’s a real non-zero chance that the current implementation of bitcoin won’t work in a decade. Doesn’t that give maxis cause for concern?
Maybe there is a good answer. I see lots of discussion about fiat, emissions around mining, privacy, taxes, and tons about regulation. But isn’t quantum computing an existential risk?
And if it is a real, potentially small, but fundamental risk, wouldn’t the prudent thing to do would be to diversify risk?