Andrew

Software Engineer by day, aspiring beet farmer by night. ☦️💻⚽🏥📷📈💪☕️🇺🇸🇪🇬

Things I like:
- #P2P/#decentralized/#opensource stuff
- #History (esp Rome/Greece/Egypt)
- #Transit oriented city design
- #Gadgets/#ElectricVehicles/#Solar Power
- #Space exploration
- #Videogames (especially #GTA)

Things I've Built:
- Agora: Follow your favorite topics across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads
https://agorasocial.app
- Chronicl: Decentralized web archiver that distributes archives across Nostr relays
https://chronicl.vercel.app/

“Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor”
- Roman poet Theocritus

🐦Twitter: https://twitter.com/Coptic_Chad
🐘Mastodon: https://andrew.masto.host/@andrew

Public Key

npub1k979np6dcpwh7mkfwk7wq3msezml48fh7wksp9hakakf8pwk3y5qhdz7te

NIP-05 Address

andrew@primal.net

NIP-57 Address

spiritedpause@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqstzlzesaxuqhtldmyht08qgacv3dl6n5ml8tgqjm7mwmynshtgj2qlqrpuc

Author Public Key

npub1k979np6dcpwh7mkfwk7wq3msezml48fh7wksp9hakakf8pwk3y5qhdz7te

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Last Notes

2025-01-16 10:13:39

@npub1hu3…h8nh this another impersonater?
https://bsky.app/profile/carlabtc.bsky.social

2024-11-30 20:09:45

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that’s exactly my point, it’s important to expand on things like NIP-65 to efficiently distribute content across many smaller relays. As it currently stands, the way apps find content across relays doesnt even fully make use of NIP-65, especially big apps like @nprofile…a660 that still haven’t prioritized that at all.

2024-11-30 17:37:35

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Well that was always something the nostr protocol was going to have to handle if its supposed to be a true alternative to Twitter.
If the protocol can't scale to that size without a few massive relays doing all the work, then it's Bluesky with extra steps and a muuuuuuuuch shittier UX. That means it's not a serious global social network IMO, moreso one for niche communities only, just like Mastodon is looking to be.

2024-11-30 15:31:20

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and Bluesky profiles are bridged here using @npub1d03…pzfs like so: @nprofile…gyjc

2024-11-30 15:24:03

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Nostr profiles are already being bridged over to Bluesky, for example: https://bsky.app/profile/npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240.momostr.pink.ap.brid.gy

2024-11-01 18:03:18

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the relays host the archives

2024-11-01 11:11:58

In light of recent events with Internet Archive, I figured we could really use a decentralized Internet Archive to have a resilient backup.
Having said that, introducing Chronicl - Decentralized Internet Archive distributed across Nostr relays
https://chronicl.vercel.app/

2024-10-23 08:18:45

PSA: " #Ecoli Outbreak Linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, with most illnesses in Colorado and Nebraska."
https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/outbreaks/e-coli-O157.html

2024-09-07 10:17:19

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Which cloud service do you recommend for deploying this?

2024-08-31 09:00:02

https://image.nostr.build/2eb408c2d755709777ed1d90d380a41818814a10c7c3e5ed89249b15737f2497.gif
#note1emq…9ywj

2024-08-31 08:53:10

#note1yr2…dey3

2024-08-26 09:19:51

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Choose a nearby Amazon locker rather than your home address as the delivery location.

2024-08-10 09:36:07

Ditto.pub has quickly become one of my favorite nostr web clients, super fast and clean. Well done @npub1q3s…d26p
https://ditto.pub/

2024-08-10 09:33:22

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I agree, it would make it more feasible/sustainable to run a free relay without worrying about endless storage usage.

2024-07-30 16:26:36

@npub1sg6…f63m What would be a good resource to learn the different parts of the payment processing flow that something like a Square reader handles?

2024-07-21 10:27:55

Well well well
#note1gwz…rqeg

2024-07-20 14:32:34

Let’s test this and find out 😂 #note120z…ch54

2024-07-16 08:52:53

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The idea of being cancelled for being boring cracks me up, but also sounds very American. Come visit!

2024-07-15 14:30:50

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Ideologies that include any mix of ultranationalism, racial supremacy, populism, authoritarianism, nativism, xenophobia, anti-immigration sentiment, etc

2024-07-15 14:04:23

The crypto world likes to think they’re enlightened centrists/libertarians when in reality they fall into this same naive “no true Scotsman” fallacy claiming that the people they disagree with are leftists, while none of the people they agree with qualify as fascists because reasons. https://image.nostr.build/5317508db37a24d21e80439f14a09532056e591f624d129a8f7e860697612e77.jpg

2024-06-29 16:28:52

Who’s developing this Nostr client?
https://nymble.world/

2024-06-28 09:38:46

#nevent1q…c2uh
Based on what my relatives have been telling me back in Egypt, this is a spot on assessment of what's been going on.
Another example:
A big reason for the insane traffic in Cairo and Alexandria is that their transit systems are nowhere near extensive enough for the population size.
With all the money being spent building new cities from scratch, some of that must be spent to vastly expand metro systems in both.
To put it into context: Cairo metropolitan area and NYC metropolitan area have about the same population size of about 22 million.
NYC metro area has:
- Largest subway system in the world with 472 stations and 36 lines.
- LIRR commuter rail to the Long Island suburbs with 11 lines and 126 stations
- Metro North commuter rail with 5 lines and 124 stations
- NJ Transit commuter rail with 12 lines and 165 stations
Cairo metropolitan area has:
- Cairo Metro with 3 lines and 84 stations
…you can see where the traffic comes from

2024-06-27 19:15:10

https://open.spotify.com/track/1G1kKHczSz6Xqv5dCmtkL4?si=8b499f9377f249dc
This is a BOP, has me goin like
https://media.tenor.com/McEKHo4Ou-0AAAAC/daryoush-dance.gif

2024-06-21 16:26:35

Was refreshing my memory on the "SOLID" programming principles for interviews, when I realized that the Robert C Martin who developed these principles is none other than @npub19mu…jnft !

2024-06-19 09:56:02

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https://www.pacaso.com/blog/Pacaso-YIMBY-report

2024-06-17 13:49:22

@npub1q3s…d26p I'm getting a timeout when I try to log in to ditto.pub from Mastodon clients using nsec.app as the bunker provider.

2024-06-06 21:41:07

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and this is her Bluesky that she kinda uses: https://bsky.app/profile/klong.bsky.social

2024-06-06 21:39:50

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@npub18am…p424 @npub1qhu…f5z7 @npub1sd0…445s and this is her Bluesky that she kinda uses: https://bsky.app/profile/klong.bsky.social

2024-06-06 20:23:34

Hey @npub1qhu…f5z7 , you can't see this, but you're a big ol turd!

2024-06-06 18:20:09

You know what though, Giovanni is a badass name, so fuck em!
#note1rny…a58f

2024-06-06 12:27:24

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@npub1zac…5dy5 isn’t this what the trending people section is on Nostr.band ?
https://nostr.band/

2024-06-03 11:41:48

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How about OpSoc for Open Social protocols, or this?
nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpyf5phpfp3l5t62whhwru8ss5yqnt3ve7ff5l25tn5r7l4gj4jtaqqs98a28pn2t2rxdqeanrv9ma0mqwddn6mmue6vv9h8e05hdmmaxnhs59jvty

2024-06-03 09:31:05

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@npub1zvh…wqrp Maybe we can take the format that turned Decentralized Finance into DeFi and call it DiSoc, for Distributed Social network protocols.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking

2024-06-02 08:08:53

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How does @npub16he…z8zz perform on that computer?

2024-06-01 17:51:32

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@npub1ye5…knpr Does Snort not?

2024-05-28 15:31:01

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@npub1nlk…jm9c https://wikifreedia.xyz/

2024-05-27 12:39:40

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It's very different from full blown conscription, let's not fearmonger with misleading BS:
"Under the plan, a small minority of 18-year-olds — 30,000 out of an estimated 700,000 — would spend 12 months in the military, working in areas such as logistics or cyber defense. The rest would spend one weekend a month working for charities, community groups, or organizations such as hospitals, the police and the fire service."

2024-05-25 12:11:25

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"ICQ was bought by AOL in 1998, and then by Mail.Ru Group (now VK) in 2010."
Yeah no thanks lol. Real shame.

2024-05-24 16:54:12

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@npub1jlr…ynqn Yeah the wording could be clearer here. Could maybe be:
Following
Friends of Friends

2024-05-23 09:33:39

testing

2024-05-22 11:08:32

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It can mean either sign or signal in Arabic, depending on the context.

2024-05-22 10:17:48

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So basically he's Italian-American :P

2024-05-22 09:24:05

Seeing Zuckerberg's posts bridged over to nostr will never stop being hilarious
#nevent1q…pk62

2024-05-19 10:30:52

@npub1sg6…f63m what would be the best way to stand out when applying for a software engineer position at Block/ @npub1cas…dg5l /Square ? Asking for a "friend" who thinks Block is awesome 😃

2024-05-17 02:48:01

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? i like nostr way more than bluesky!

2024-05-11 09:32:36

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#AuroraBorealis was visible from much of the Northern US last night! This is from Nahant Beach near Boston
https://image.nostr.build/5dce775c2f8a847a5c8bf812e2cf6fa40e37cd04a5773e6ebc1698ab01115eee.jpg

2024-05-10 20:07:41

The beauty of open protocols is that @npub1sg6…f63m can respond to this bluesky post from Nostr and @npub1eej…will see it
#note16sj…0e5g

2024-05-10 18:09:59

1st a mini earthquake, then a solar eclipse, and tonight #AuroraBorealis?? The Northern US is getting spoiled with super cool natural phenomenon this year!
https://m.primal.net/IFQg.png

2024-05-10 11:25:50

If you want to see a list of Nostr profiles that have bridged over to Bluesky so far, go to this search and tap on the "People" tab.
https://bsky.app/search?q=npub

2024-05-10 11:22:54

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wss://relay.momostr.pink isn't my relay, I haven't been able to find the nostr profile of the creator/operator of that relay. On the main site, they do list this contact email: hhrjfshng@mozmail.com

2024-05-10 11:20:32

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Yup!
https://image.nostr.build/00214292d65253dc25b8dd7aef6b6d712adde4b2c8d1396f0c4a79fb27d700fb.png

2024-05-10 10:59:14

and for those seeing this post from Mastodon, to bridge your Profile/Posts over to Bluesky and Nostr:
1. Follow @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy
#nevent1q…x4d0

2024-05-10 10:55:48

and for those seeing this post from Bluesky, to bridge your Profile/Posts over to Mastodon and Nostr:
1. Follow @ap.brid.gy:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xbifsywyv5pka5jlknhv5yv3
#nevent1q…h30k

2024-05-10 10:43:09

To bridge your Nostr profile/posts over to the Fediverse/Mastodon 🐘:
1. Add wss://relay.momostr.pink to your relays
To bridge your Nostr profile/posts over to Bluesky 🦋:
1. Follow @npub1pqr…2sck
2. Add wss://relay.momostr.pink to your relays

2024-05-09 09:07:31

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What client are you using to load file blobs from relays like this?

2024-05-08 14:00:57

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Except they use Portuguese spelling so it would be Ramires :P

2024-05-04 15:29:38

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It seems you need to follow @npub1pqr…2sck for your nostr profile to federate to Bluesky

2024-05-04 11:25:37

and here's my Nostr account on Bluesky, so friggin cool!
https://bsky.app/profile/npub1k979np6dcpwh7mkfwk7wq3msezml48fh7wksp9hakakf8pwk3y5qhdz7te.momostr.pink.ap.brid.gy
#nevent1q…jne8

2024-05-03 14:50:31

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You may need to connect to the relay:
wss://relay.momostr.pink
and it does indeed go both ways!
here’s your nostr profile on Mastodon: https://agorasocial.app/#/mastodon.social/a/112128150569511730
and your bridged profile on bluesky should have this handle:
@npub180c…h6w6.momostr.pink.ap.brid.gy
but it doesn’t seem to have federated over yet. i think you need to follow @npub1pqr…2sck for it to federate

2024-05-03 08:40:42

@nprofile…ag5n
Looks like ditto.pub is down?

2024-05-03 08:33:36

#Bluesky accounts have officially begun bridging over to the #Fediverse thanks to @Bridgy Fed for Bluesky , which means Bluesy accounts are now officially bridging over to Nostr thanks to @mostr and momostr.pink!
For example, here’s my Bluesky account bridged over to nostr:
@npub1k4l…8sr6
This is built-in to @npub16he…z8zz , meaning if you search someone's Bluesky handle (boles.bsky.social) it'll automatically load the bridged version!
Great work @npub1ytx…28uf

2024-04-29 10:20:04

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Which ones?

2024-04-29 08:47:55

Quiet looks super interesting, it's like Discord/Slack but actually decentralized/P2P. Messages and content are synced between devices using IPFS/OrbitDB and connects made through Tor.
I made a Nostr community on it as an alternative to using Discord for Nostr dev discussions:
https://tryquiet.org/join#QmTKmdzHG4S7QfTEXY1awK8jC136cjQGzmo9V5goUuDHnN=zf7fjrtwejtmx2tgpfw2moo2vftrinqnapk275nwc3n5xmntinwffdad&k=8kUpddb3u8vZ8p0AzZRXn%2FTkwXIbi1ctbj8D5Q3D1d4%3D&o=03027974a60f062ba4ac1f9e3f5337eca1dfffacdc3eb3ac88b384f04311e8f792
#nevent1q…y7xm

2024-04-28 14:00:24

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ah i see what you’re talking about, thanks for the heads up

2024-04-28 12:05:13

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Hmm what do you see when you go to it?

2024-04-28 11:55:25

Was thinking about this the other day, and it inspired me to start working on what I call VibeTag.
The idea behind it is to be able to tag any content on the internet with a “vibe”/“sentiment”, whether it’s a nostr post, something on Mastodon, Twitter, even entire websites.
This will initially focus on whether the sentiment of the content is positive (informative, funny, etc) or negative (misleading, rage-bait, vulgar in general) etc.
As more and more content is tagged in either direction, it learns what words/phrases are associated with positive content vs negative. The tags and info about associated content would be synced across content through the beauty of Nostr relays.
This essentially allows there to be a straightforward algorithm that you can take with you across the internet that automatically generates/updates a list of words associated with shitty content and hides it from view.
This is something I’ll be integrating into @npub16he…z8zz but also will be a library anyone can integrate into their project! #note19al…8rr6

2024-04-28 11:37:18

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Hmmm I find this part the most intriguing:
"Syncing: IPFS and OrbitDB, an IPFS-based CRDT, ensure that all data (messages, user data, etc) syncs between peers with eventual consistency.
Asynchronous messaging: because messages sync to all members, members can communicate without being contemporaneously online, provided that there is "continuous liveness", a continuous chain of online peers who each sync the latest updates, between the sender and the recipient."
This kind of sounds like how Scuttlebutt works, but using IPFS+OrbitDB so perhaps the performance would be much better?

2024-04-28 09:55:18

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> By the time you get hold of NIPs and get busy developing your app, either new NIPs come out or previous implementations change without any major announcements.
Here's an RSS feed tracking closed issues in the NIPS repo:
https://openrss.org/github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed

2024-04-23 20:26:33

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https://image.nostr.build/215df0181e8a8bf79f32947dbfd1484e4355101d6dffc34b251c73695274c6b1.png

2024-04-23 14:11:18

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Holy sheet

2024-04-23 14:10:04

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Very true. That’s why i think if this sort of thing is implemented, it should be in the form of specialized relays that accept file blobs, that way it can be an explicit decision of whether or not to accept those kinds of events.

2024-04-21 20:04:31

What ever happened to these discussions around storing files directly on relays (those who choose to accept file upload events)?
@npub180c…h6w6 @npub1xts…kk5s @npub1gcx…nj5z @npub1acg…p35c @npub1l56…9sza @npub1226…grkj @npub1skf…xa7d @npub1jlr…ynqn
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/719
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/345

2024-04-20 07:37:52

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Which sites?

2024-04-19 19:19:25

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What about NIP-97? This way, copies of the file can be distributed across multiple relays that choose to accept NIP-97 events, and users don't need to think about what servers to send the file to.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/719

2024-04-14 23:56:31

https://image.nostr.build/15af2124b3ace472354c418924cc29fd772f5c36fe47a0c8a351b3516ed08035.png
#nevent1q…lstm

2024-04-13 15:24:13

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apps that are super focused on one specific function.

2024-04-13 09:37:07

https://image.nostr.build/3a94df99ecafdb315b5170ae139714e0e3e6b8b78d868bdc6357a0d594c77337.png

2024-04-13 09:36:35

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Interesting, which note is it?

2024-04-12 21:41:09

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basically just trying to figure out how to get a fork of highlighter deployed lol

2024-04-12 21:40:28

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like you just ssh into a VM and do your thing?

2024-04-12 19:46:21

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I'm American and find eating rice with a fork to be bizarre and inefficient lol. I assumed you were American too btw!

2024-04-12 15:20:14

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yes! looks awesome

2024-04-12 11:48:38

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🙋🏻‍♂️

2024-04-12 10:31:10

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It used to be, KKR purchased OverDrive from Rakuten in 2020

2024-04-11 20:31:46

@npub1l2v…ajft Trying to deploy a fork of your new highlighter repo to vercel...none of the cloud hosting providers ever seem to play well with your repos 😂
https://i.imgur.com/qb5tYzb.png

2024-04-11 19:58:34

PSA: OverDrive, the parent company of Libby, the app most libraries use for borrowing eBooks/Audiobooks, has been owned by private equity firm KKR since 2020.
Here are some #opensource/non-profit alternatives:
Audiobooks:
- https://librivox.org/
eBooks:
- https://openlibrary.org/
- @npub1vav…6xms : https://www.gutenberg.org/

2024-04-10 20:48:00

Wait people are pissed about this? I would love for all social networks to limit political content, as long as it's *all* political content. If I want to learn about a candidate or a government office, I can look at their websites.
#nevent1q…j0u0

2024-04-10 17:31:41

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well they’ve succeeded in confusing me then haha

2024-04-10 16:41:14

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> 10-20 huge hubs and a long tail of 10k relays
Ironically this sounds pretty similar to the Bluesky/AT Protocol model where the indexers are the hubs and the instances are the relays.

2024-04-10 15:58:32

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> it will REQUIRE intermediaries to be usable on most clients if nostr users spread out across more relays.
Why is that?

2024-04-10 15:57:00

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The common theme i’ve seen of people who are anti-outbox/gossip model is one of two camps:
1. Those obsessed with performance/speed/data usage and they believe centralization is the only way to do that.
2. Those who don’t fully understand how outbox/gossip works and they think it means clients will randomly pick which relays their posts are sent to

2024-04-10 10:30:18

Blown away by how fast @npub1wyu…87ez is compared to other web clients and even many native iOS/Android clients. @npub1ye5…knpr you are a wizard

2024-04-10 09:11:16

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fapped

2024-04-09 19:43:34

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That's God having a sense of humor :)

2024-04-09 19:41:33

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> new protocol to make decentralized image/ file sharing better
@npub1ye5…knpr I want to learn more!!

2024-04-09 13:49:45

Honored to be on this list, and @npub1pvg…dx8c herself should be on it b/c of the awesome job she does finding interesting people/content on Nostr! #note1zt2…vl7d

2024-04-09 09:47:05

Well well well, we've now got 2 U.S. Presidents on the Nostr/Fediverse @npub16mv…jn9m @npub1wx6…558r

2024-04-09 09:17:23

"The DOJ is looking into the possibility that RealPage is facilitating price-fixing among some of the large residential property owners and management firms that use the company’s product"
Get those bastards!
#nevent1q…a8er

2024-04-09 00:45:12

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It would be an honor to be a blockhead myself

2024-04-08 12:46:16

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@npub12e8…re7a use one of these nostr clients that support NIP-65/Gossip and you'll have a better experience with small relays, because they can intelligently find the relays that contain the missing pieces from profile info, notes, etc.
Nostrudel: https://nostrudel.ninja
Snort: https://snort.social
Iris: https://iris.to
Coracle: https://coracle.social
They're all Progressive Web Apps, which means you can install them on your phone to behave like a regular app.