frjosh
Fr. Josh Miller

Priest. Crypto(graphy) kid who admired Bo Jackson and Phil Zimmerman back in the day. Decentralization is a must.

I mostly normie post.

Public Key

npub13tahtl9pjw9u5ycruqk84k6sfmkyljsr7y2pc4s840ctlm73fxeq3j6e08

NIP-05 Address

frjosh@nostrplebs.com

NIP-57 Address

quietmoose2@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsg47m4ljse8z72zvp7qtr6mdgyamz0egplz9qu2cr6hu9lalg5nvswmweqr

Author Public Key

npub13tahtl9pjw9u5ycruqk84k6sfmkyljsr7y2pc4s840ctlm73fxeq3j6e08

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2024-09-11 02:20:11

If the White Sox finish the season 8-8 over the last 16 -- if they play .500 ball, which they have not over any stretch of this season -- they will still finish with the worst-ever record in modern baseball.

2024-09-09 23:37:05

As is tradition, your Guaranteed Rate Crowd Report ahead of first pitch.
https://m.primal.net/KlTW.mov

2024-09-09 18:48:58

Apple Event - underwhelming in every way, and the definition of 'incremental update.'

2024-09-05 02:08:05

Bluesky has no algo persay, but yes: every user will turn against you for crypto posting. And I kind of... don't blame them? Those on the outside can't parse the subtle distinction between BTC enthusiasts and those peddling the next awesome airdrop. Those who can don't want to hear about BTC, much as I don't want to hear about stock information.
I return to the old theme: a crypto-related focus hurts Nostr adoption. I don't like it, but it's a hard truth.
#nevent1q…647a

2024-09-04 01:39:55

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12-10, actually. Impossible just the same.

2024-09-04 01:35:55

White Sox Infamy Update:
In order to dodge the title of worst team in history, the Sox must finish the season with a record of 12-12.
They won four games in the month of August.
What we’re witnessing is unfathomable to the baseball stat junkie.

2024-09-03 19:58:00

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Nice to have a little bit of everything. I have a Pelikan 800 I ordered from Richard Binder when he was still on the grind, always at the ready. Sign things with a Kaweco Brass. Carry a Pilot Razr. But mostly bang away with ooga-booga caveman wooden Japanese graphite pencils. Can't ever go wrong with a good tool!

2024-09-03 19:40:12

Better days are on their way.
Rarely will you meet a person who loathes summer as much as I.
https://image.nostr.build/2622ef24e1e9ce913b142f92d203cf836b897bc3f84cc392113f16913ee9dfc1.png

2024-09-03 15:07:31

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I’m mostly a pencil guy, but I went on an aside with some people the other day about that pen. I don’t often use it, but hard to argue with the most-produced consumer product.

2024-08-26 00:00:11

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UPDATE: Very good flavor profile, and rather complex. Also boozy on the backend, so 3-5 years of aging will do it good.

2024-08-25 23:58:54

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17.2% ABV. So gotta tame it with time.

2024-08-25 23:11:50

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Haven't tasted it yet. 17.2% ABV.
What I'm hoping is that it contains notes of Utopias, which I've had one bottle of.

2024-08-25 22:58:40

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Exact opposite in most of the U.S. -- the more abstract (read: good) stuff is bottled and distributed. This type of beer in particular, since it ages 5-10 years before it really hits its best point.

2024-08-25 22:12:34

Alright #beerstr (if you exist): was waiting for a pizza and wandered into a liquor store I haven’t been to in over a year. Was well rewarded in my time killing.
https://m.primal.net/KMvD.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KMvE.jpg

2024-08-25 21:11:02

The 1899 Cleveland Spiders.
The 1962 New York Mets.
The 2003 Detroit Tigers.
The 2024 Chicago White Sox.
The only teams to lose 100 games before September.
In their expansion year, the ’62 Mets became the losingest team in modern baseball history. The ’24 White Sox are ahead of their losing pace, and will undoubtedly displace them as the absolute worst to have ever played the modern game.
A baseball season shouldn’t be this lopsided. It takes expansion, or else a special kind of mismanagement, to do this poorly. The incompetent product the White Sox put on the field this year has provided me with morbid comedy since April, when late-inning leads would dissolve via a bullpen that could not achieve consistent success in the minor leagues. A comedy of errors. A team wrapped in folly. An entire roster of players who should be liquidated, or else developing in the minors. If they go 10-21 to finish out the season (.476, a level of playthey haven't achieved all year), they're still the worst team the game has ever known.
But what about that World Series? The 2005 White Sox were an aberration, a blip, as an assortment of cheap players all peaked at the same time, managing career-highs never to be achieved again. It wasn't a planned title year, nor was it well-earned by the front office. It was lightning in a bottle.
This White Sox team is Jerry Reinsdorf’s legacy, as his penny-pinching nepotism has arguably made him the worst owner in baseball. Truly, you couldn’t sabotage a team this bad if you tried.
Sell the team, Jerry. This is the only history anyone will ever remember. Your legacy is complete.
https://image.nostr.build/bb3b1e1236ae53ae9f3d9abed21a185627efd948015cbff6be3f14888b0f7349.jpg

2024-08-25 19:03:41

Telegram: not even once.
https://image.nostr.build/c6bf62d30a429fbf5a37cdc3ec69b83d987e459af32b5b321366c322c8053c3c.png

2024-08-23 01:58:48

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Dunno if you've really consumed baseball over the last couple of seasons, but the average baseball game lasts 2 hrs 30 minutes now. The NFL game is still well over 3 hours, with many more commercial breaks.

2024-08-23 00:44:47

Taking a break from baseball this evening to reacquaint myself with a familiar frustration: the slow pace-of-play in the average NFL game. It's a real problem, but you know, they've got cars and beer to sell during all these long, drawn-out breaks.

2024-08-22 21:59:17

My dad's version of this was always "Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law."
Brutally pragmatic, not representing the way things should be, but how they ultimately are.
#nevent1q…7c7l

2024-08-21 19:57:45

This alleged reprobate used the alias "Dr. Phaakon Sonderburg-Glucksburg," and still made half a million dollars.
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/catch-him-if-you-can-capuchin-arrested

2024-08-21 15:37:42

Musgrave Pencil Company seconds, pencils with slight manufacturing defects. My version of the gamer’s loot box. On sale, $5 for 144 sticks, so I picked up four this time.
I’m now the proud owner of 150 or so pencils declaring “Third Graders are #1.” New York Public Library slaps, though.
https://m.primal.net/KGnD.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KGnM.jpg

2024-08-21 00:44:04

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I believe it is, unfortunately. It’s the deal you make when you peg to a system.

2024-08-20 20:59:51

"Curiosity" can be problematic, which is why I'm publicly confessing to having watched the first episode of "Ricky and Morty: The Anime."

2024-08-20 18:34:27

Went fishing yesterday for the first time this year. Mistake. Should have gone sooner, wish I was fishing now.

2024-08-20 17:10:59

Ever since Facebook introduced them to my social media experience, I've been anti-algorithm.
In the end, though, I think they're helpful, if they aid in discovery of content. I want my follow list linear, but I also want to deep-dive into the pool of unfamiliarity. Bluesky does this well, and I'm hoping Nostr can follow suit as a matter of basic implementation.

2024-08-20 16:59:00

Praying everyone has a fine Tuesday out there.

2024-08-14 21:14:51

Kind of frustrating, really. Bluesky will Mastadon if it remains the "enemies of Elon" refuge, just as Nostr will if it's "that network for bitcoiners." It's easy to lose focus on what matters (easy, stable decentralization) when your market remains niche.
https://image.nostr.build/a8522d1820efa768cc3678b97ed72c895f7b3fb655de60fef1f8676c521f46b9.png

2024-08-14 20:43:34

Now that every Social Security Number in the U.S. has been stolen, can we just agree that perhaps this isn't the best system and come up with something new?

2024-08-07 22:03:13

There we go, White Sox. Back on track with that L. 29-89.

2024-08-07 19:18:27

Still getting over the disappointment of that White Sox victory last night.
Today's a new day, though, and the 3:1 loss ratio still holds.

2024-08-05 16:16:51

To be clear: I'm critical not of the vision or BTC in general, but rather what it's morphed in to, which is essentially a really volatile commodity. It can never become anything *in itself* as long as it's traded alongside soybeans and corn down at the Merc. It's forever pegged to the USD, and forever susceptible to all the fluctuations that hit other commodities.

2024-08-04 22:57:14

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This is the reality of the present.

2024-08-04 22:18:49

...struggling with the disappoint befalling most would-be revolutionaries, as his noble ideal for a better future morphed, in practice, to a commodity valued by volume trading.
https://image.nostr.build/6040da85cdee014e7e010d45a546bf2b7efac7de4f36f817de46aed481f243e7.png

2024-08-02 15:48:13

Hadn't listened to Bob Dylan's "Triplicate" in a couple of years -- cover albums of songs that aren't Bob's usually end up low on my playlist -- but man, is it good. The perfect overcast rainy day slow-moving album. The band is perfectly laid back and Dylan's voice is strong, yet grizzled with the experience needed to tell these stories well.
https://tidal.com/browse/album/71983194?u

2024-07-22 04:52:05

The whole "Biden didn't sign it" and "Biden was coherced" storyline is a wild gambit when you'll see him speak about it later in the week.
<s>OR WILL YOU?</s>

2024-07-20 01:01:03

Bob Newhart was one of those familiars from the past. You remember the familiars, even if they were in the background. My parents watched his show, though I at that age was never a fan; Bob would come on Johnny Carson and I'd see him at night with my grandpa, as we both dozed.
As time goes on you lose the familiars, more and more of the anchor points that establish relationship with the world around you. Family dies, and it leaves a hole you can't articulate even if you gather the strength to look at it directly.
And at some point, you realize the twilight of your youth set a long while ago, all while you weren't looking.

2024-07-17 04:42:45

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Star Wars isn't complicated. It's a kids show, a kid's western. Good is unambiguously good, same with evil. The white hats fight the black hats, and after much struggle, good triumphs over evil. Some lame equivalent of an equally lame Ewok dances around, roll credits.
It's a billion dollar formula, people.

2024-07-17 04:36:57

My dream for Star Wars: (1) Disney sells off Lucas Film to recoup at least a little of what they've lost on buying it (2) New IP owner restores "Legends" canon, brackets and discards everything Disney has their name on.
I know it's just a dream. A nerd's dream. But it's my dream.

2024-07-17 04:29:25

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What a frustrating show. In the hands of competent writers who know the lore, the basic idea could have gone somewhere awesome. The skeleton was there, but they just couldn't put any meat on the bones.
Likelihood of a second season is at a solid "don't hold your breath."

2024-07-16 17:13:58

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I'm with you. Went out 14 hours ago here. Thankful for my natural gas generator at this rectory, but most of my campus has nothing and all of town is down.

2024-07-09 17:48:02

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Dunno if you saw my second comment here, but I'm not talking about the morality of the companies involved. Just the morality of the tool itself: a gun is a moral neutral. A phone is as well.
When we choose chainsaws or pens or pencils, we choose them because they do a good job and get out of our way.

2024-07-09 17:41:54

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But even here, please note: I am speaking only about the tool as a morally neutral object. A phone is a moral neutral, as is a firearm, as is a gun.

2024-07-09 17:36:22

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The success of Linux on mobile devices supports the point. Click here, update this, and move on. Certainly, it can be finicky (moreso than iOS), but Android is at the point where we can say it "just works." And as a result, people use it and like it and are all set.

2024-07-09 17:25:17

I love Linux and all it stands for, but Desktop is just not a good tool.
A good tool gets out of the way. You don't know it's there: it requires little maintenance and does not impede the act of creation.
The problem with Linux Desktop is that its maintenance becomes the hobby. The tool becomes the purpose. That's a bad tool, and tangentially, it serves as a warning to the Nostr community. What all you hard-working people are creating is a means, not an end. The key to good design structure, as far as I see it.
#note1q5n…n4kl

2024-07-09 14:40:07

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I’ve run Linux for over 30 years. When it doesn’t blow up at random and require maintenance time, I’ll use it exclusively. Until then, I’ll work under macOS.

2024-07-04 16:08:18

It takes an outsider to tell you how terrible your pizza is, Chicago. I've lived in places where it's better. Detroit has you cooked. New York has no envy. The flat nasty tavern crust cannot compete, and your Deep Dish is disqualified by species, for being a tomato casserole.

2024-07-04 16:00:01

Dave Portnoy is correct about the terrible state of pizza in Chicago. It is not good, period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drX5eaBYNEU

2024-07-02 17:49:40

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ANYTHING that works as smoothly as, say, Damus, Primal, or Amethyst on mobile. ANYTHING that doesn't resemble a 1990's design -- and most importantly, anything without major feature bugs that actually works as a social media site should, displaying notifications properly.
I want to see a proper Decking tool, for use with lists. This is the most efficient way to view social media in general.
Seems like the community has overly focused on mobile apps, and this is a shame. Many work on a computer and spend their evenings one one (myself included).

2024-07-02 03:40:02

Turdsoup.com prompt. https://image.nostr.build/026291c8537a3ae4e08ba3f5cb9f310c2ced7e99c4473dacc9c1e373606086eb.jpg

2024-07-02 02:44:06

Why I always goof that I prefer my drama in sports and professional wrestling.
#nevent1q…3mjg

2024-06-29 01:35:59

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Fiber. And I live in a really rural town technically outside the Chicago suburbs.

2024-06-29 01:28:40

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https://image.nostr.build/b3ae6b2369b9d11644da536c26440ed60dc949c236994382ad22542138ecbd53.png

2024-06-25 17:42:10

This is sad. Though MTV died a long time ago, the good work they did back in my formative years at the spearhead of music and culture was still relevant.
https://www.showbiz411.com/2024/06/25/paramount-shuts-down-mtv-website-wipes-history-after-20-plus-years

2024-06-14 18:29:00

One problem with @npub10qd…arpj -- I can load everything exactly once in Brave browser, before it sends me to a perpetually loading circle that never ends. Close browser tab and you're out of luck.

2024-06-11 19:03:41

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That's why I say: if it works in actuality the way they present it in theory, I'm fine with it.

2024-06-11 16:14:36

"every tool is a weapon -
if you hold it right." - Ani DiFranco
#nevent1q…tg97

2024-06-04 17:48:12

Not only is it Signal spam, it's Bitcoin Signal Spam.
Double Gross.
https://image.nostr.build/0fd007470a31a754d6c676909337757ee437441b9a9d7ee5743c3a31cb934588.png

2024-05-29 16:29:04

🤣 It's always been controlled government tech. Might as well just make it official.
#nevent1q…cxl7

2024-05-25 22:52:55

The only aesthetic.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/f732b6e16fae9de35b33f6933e27fc6a7b93be35df40829dd10e3973a05d891c.mp4

2024-05-25 22:37:18

I bought a MacBook Air i7 just months prior to the release of the M1, and let me tell you: it's aged like milk. It sits in my bed (celibate's privilege) and is the absolute worst machine I work with.
And I know it's intentional. Apple what's that i7 MacBook Air dead.

2024-05-12 18:45:03

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Though I'm mostly here now, I still drift between worlds.

2024-05-10 22:52:30

Agreed. My choice is to opt out. And that should be a choice open to all.
#note1kw6…39s9

2024-05-10 20:06:59

Feeling bullish on Nostr after the incorporation with Bluesky.

2024-05-09 22:45:13

I don't understand it either.
#note1vad…fjvd

2024-05-09 15:43:04

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Tokens will have the opposite effect, I guarantee you. Nostr already has to fight against a negative mainstream perception of Bitcoin: let's avoid giving them an actual reason not to use this platform.

2024-05-08 20:43:39

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Yes. Outside of Chicago.

2024-05-08 20:37:02

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Yes. For almost 14 years.

2024-05-08 20:33:45

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I was just a kid back then, but yep!

2024-05-08 19:42:52

That's why the FUD makes me suspicious of the ones posting it, more than anything.
At the same time, though, it's reasonable to be concerned that someone on the Signal board has values antithetical to Signal's primary aim.
https://m.primal.net/IEis.png

2024-05-07 20:47:05

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Simplex is going in the right direction, and may be a viable option one day. It’s never going to have the normie draw of the others, though.

2024-05-07 20:28:32

Bummed that we didn't get a refreshed iPad Mini. The only one I find useful.

2024-04-25 02:05:36

The irony is not lost: TikTok hides behind "the constitution" and notions of free speech to protect their cash cow, while at the same time heavily censoring simplistic things like criticism of their product... or the Chinese government... all on an app not allowed in China.
TikTok is brain rot, and even though it will likely be salvaged through sale, I wouldn't be sad to see it go. Meanwhile, I'm interested in what the government knows and isn't telling us about the nature of the app. We know it's incredibly invasive from a data collection standpoint, but what else is there? Any time both of our terrible political parties agree on something with so little front-facing disclosure, my ears perk up.
As it stands, the most troubling thing about this censure is that our government officials aren't concerned about the terrible consequences of privacy-invasive data collection, so much as they are which country siphons the data and is in control. If they were truly friends of the American people, they'd enact better privacy laws to protect the people from the companies stateside who track our digital lives (and then sell the data to the CCP, among others).
In reality, it's about control. The federal government has every major American company in their back pocket, and can call upon them at any time to do their bidding. If there's going to be a targeted psyop via social media, you'd better believe it's going to be as American as apple pie. In the end, maybe this the only motivation both parties needed.

2024-04-22 19:08:40

Quiet (mostly) on the socials but ever-lurking. 👀

2024-03-15 22:42:09

I been all around this country, boys, and ain’t nothin better than the Midwestern Knights of Columbus Friday fish fry.
https://m.primal.net/HlRm.jpg

2024-03-12 21:52:43

It's a special kind of thing when gratitude takes control. We keep it hidden out of unworthiness or selfishness or some combination of the two.

2024-03-10 11:44:09

Time belongs to God, not the American government. Enjoy your "extra" hour of sunlight, as if it matters what time it comes.

2024-03-08 15:20:07

Typical midwestern pre-Spring: ears clogged, sinuses going crazy

2024-03-05 21:26:40

72 one day, 42 the next. Sinuses always murdered.

2024-03-04 22:55:30

I’m not convinced they’ll have the guts, but I sure hope they continue the Dune story with more movies.

2024-03-04 01:29:39

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John Prine. The singing mailman from Maywood, IL. Gone from us too soon for my liking.

2024-03-02 07:05:59

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What I mean by that: free and open, held together by a loose civility. You found that most places back in the day... and of course the occassional gunfight broke out ;).

2024-03-02 07:03:22

Love this. For my part, I end up spending more and more time around these parts as the weeks go by. Nostr still has that Wild West feeling of the early Internet days. The way it should be.
#note17c5…hhp9

2024-02-27 23:59:36

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FreeTube isn't bad actually. Played with it last night. I don't tend to use mobile for videos. In general, I'm so hardened against tracking, I'm not sure it really matters how I view it.

2024-02-22 19:41:19

Been waiting for the self-hosting part of Bluesky, but now I just don't care. Nothing decentralized about some janky "protocol" one has to literally register on Discord (lol).

2024-02-21 22:52:12

If the people I trust (like Nadim here) can't audit the code, it's a no-go every single time.
https://m.primal.net/HeMD.png

2024-02-20 22:23:37

A Catch-22 in the Priestin' World:
A lot of priests hand out their personal cellphone numbers. I don't like this, because I have a hard enough time keeping track of phone calls on one centralized phone in the office. Can't handle two "business" lines.
And yet, I'd not be opposed to receiving texts. Except texts are awful for privacy, namely because there isn't any (and only nominally so with iMessage). The things people communicate to a priest are often sensitive: privacy should be guaranteed, rather than placing it at the whimsy of the NSA's full access to SMS/MMS.
I forced my family and friends on Signal years ago, but it was never an option for parish contacts because... then they'd have a voice number to call me at, which would guarantee disorganization and non-returned phone calls.
Until today. UNTIL TODAY.
How many people will I be able to strong-arm on to secure coms? That remains to be seen, but at least it's an actual possibility today. Thanks @npub1n03…h0ky.

2024-02-18 00:28:27

For good Mexican food, there is no substitute.

2024-02-17 05:48:28

I was probably the last American who hadn't seen "Interstellar." Pretty good scifi.

2024-02-05 18:37:50

Why is this season of True Detective so committed to being boring?

2024-02-02 17:41:55

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And the Fantasy Baseball nerds make fun of the Fantasy Football nerds because they're playing with auto assist turned on. Yep.

2024-02-01 22:05:26

Here's a picture of my favorite comic book character holding a Pomeranian to get you through the day. (Google Bard AI testing)
https://m.primal.net/HaLW.png

2024-01-31 21:57:17

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The chance is higher than is good for any of us.

2024-01-31 20:20:29

One thing I appreciate about Nostr is that I’ve encountered zero dialogue about Taylor Swift. Thank you, everyone.

2024-01-02 23:17:24

The Keychron Q1 Max with Gateron Jupiter Bananas. Very nice typing experience on top of a very nice sound. Happy with my Christmas gift.

2023-12-07 08:17:59

Excited to read about the upcoming whisper model. That’s what we need right there.

2023-11-08 22:03:10

CHEERS: Twitter is demonetizing any post hit with a community note. JEERS: The process of adding a community note takes forever, and whatever idiocy someone spouts has long since made its way through the pipes.

2023-10-16 18:47:06

Speaking of "misinformation," a clarification on the #Signal App copy pasta going around a couple of days ago.
https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/signal-debunks-online-rumours-of-zero-day-security-vulnerability/

2023-10-12 13:20:00

Morning everyone, hope it's a blessed day.

2023-10-11 00:26:13

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I watched this a couple of months ago. I think he's right on a couple of points and wrong on others. Thing is, his criticisms I agree with are actionable.
The only real Achilles Heel (which has stunted adoption) is the tie to crypto. That isn't going away.
We will in fact likely be using Nostr in 5-10 years. The question is whether this is doomed to be the Linux of social networks.

2023-10-07 13:17:34

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Until I see confirmation by security researchers auditing the open source, it is all FUD.