bblfish

After deploying the Babelfish [1] machine translation engine at AtlaVista in the 1990s, Henry has been working on Decentralised social Networks since 2004 at Sun Microsystems when he took up foaf, contributing to the Atom Syntax syndication format, WebID Authentication, then in 201x worked on Linked Data Protocol, Social Linked Data Platform (Solid), and now is working on Access Control. He read philosophy, spent three years immersed in [2] Category Theory towards a Solid Phd, and earns a living programming in #Scala. He will also talk to you about the #WebOfNations.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWqHkYtREAE
[2] Category Theory is the mathematics of duality, more https://web-cats.gitlab.io/

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npub1m0wym3srryqtkt9uuev43arglv4083p9redzep85ayurv53xsmas9nn0rv

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relay.nostr.band

relay.mostr.pub

eden.nostr.land

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2023-09-05 13:24:25

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Is there @npub1mkd…f0jp some filter reducing what is visible in my disjunctive query? For example with the query from the settings:
"Search: #maths OR #math OR #Mathematics OR #CategoryTheory OR #Logic OR #RDF OR #SemWeb OR #scala OR #Agda OR #FP OR #SemanticWeb OR #topos OR #ScalaJS OR #Java OR #www OR #W3C OR #WebScience OR #hyperApp OR #Cognitive OR #CognitiveScience OR #Psychology"
The following page does not appear:
#note17gy…ddq6 (not my preferred choice, but as I am trying to debug this functionality...)

2023-09-05 13:13:15

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Is there a limit to the length of the queries? I have the following in my settings
"Search: #maths OR #math OR #Mathematics OR #CategoryTheory OR #Logic OR #RDF OR #SemWeb OR #scala OR #Agda OR #FP OR #SemanticWeb OR #topos OR #ScalaJS OR #Java OR #www OR #W3C OR #WebScience OR #hyperApp OR #Cognitive OR #CognitiveScience OR #Psycholog" but when I query "#psychology" all alone I get a lot more answers on that topic than in the combined query.

2023-09-05 09:53:24

"Quantum in Pictures" by Bob Coecke and Stefano Gogioso, uses the latest advances in mathematics (string diagrams) to make #quantum theory approachable to children.
#science #maths #math
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/P/1739214714.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg

2023-09-04 20:12:02

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I bet you just wrote that to spam the #FP tag. ;-)

2023-09-04 15:57:30

If someone sponsors me, I’ll be happy to go to #Seville for #W3C #TPAC.
I have not been for a while.
Otherwise, I’ll follow some of the sessions online from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. #w3cTPAC #note1h34…rznf

2023-09-04 13:26:31

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I mean it would be good to be able to see the disjunctions of all the posts with tags and only the posts with tags I follow, as in #primal. I am trying to understand if I am actually capturing all the posts with those tags or perhaps missing some due to a social network filter perhaps…
#note10hy…vgdm

2023-09-04 13:07:40

It looks like in #damus one can follow a hash tag. Damus remembers these. But I can’t find a place where I can edit them or only see content with those tags - to see how lively a tag is. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/080bb35cb4c1e255159bf68d99a3a32f1c034b6f69bccb67300fd223dba837f5.jpg

2023-09-04 11:22:27

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I also tried the search without the # but that does not give any relevant results.
"Search: maths OR math OR Mathematics OR CategoryTheory OR Logic OR RDF OR SemWeb OR scala OR Agda OR #FP OR SemanticWeb OR topos OR ScalaJS OR Java OR W3C OR WebScience OR hyperApp"

2023-09-04 10:55:11

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Great! In Settings > Home Feed of the primal.net web app, I set the following home page search term
"#maths OR #math OR #Mathematics OR #CategoryTheory OR #Logic OR #RDF OR #SemWeb OR #scala OR #Agda OR #FP OR #SemanticWeb OR #topos OR #ScalaJS OR #Java OR #www OR #W3C OR #WebScience OR #hyperApp"
That gives a page of good results with an average of 7 a day.
That is perhaps good to help me get back to work.
Scrolling through those results, I found the following note on the symbol for OR .
Perhaps I'll put another set of political terms to get a more controversy laden feed of results I guess something like #Trans or #RFKJr OR ...
https://primal.net/e/note16srqcvjzugl2ysnwm3kxpd8sdpqkdqk7df4r8q4w950pz466n4rqquqhmh

2023-09-04 10:36:45

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I was there in 1999 and it was the same: some good looking and some not so good looking naked people. But a lot of very good art.  If you feel life is too tied down then it could be a good place to go to.
Nowadays the world has gone completely BurningMan, so going to church will make for more of a change of atmosphere :-)

2023-09-03 22:02:39

""Sellars as Metaphysician: #Norms and Nature, Appearance and Realty" Robert Brandom's 2023 Ph.D. Seminar #1
Robert Brandom was a student of David K. Lewis and Richard Rorty and his major influence was Sellars. Where Sellars wanted to move analytic philosophy from its Humean stage to its Kantian stage, Brandom's work has been to move it from the Kantian to the #Hegelian stage via a reinterpretation of Hegel as an analytic pragmatist. Brandom's initial key book was "Making it Explicit" followed later by "Analytic Pragmatism". He then wrote a number of books on Hegel's philosophy - completely surprising if one remembers that Bertrand Russel started analytic philosophy in opposition to Hegel!
How do logic and doing interact?
side question: Is he perhaps really thinking about the relation between #algebra and #coalgebra?
Well, lets find out. In this Ph.D. lecture series, #quine and many others turn up.
#philosophy #Hegel #Kant #pragmatism #analytic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vaURX1KTWE

2023-09-03 20:15:23

It would help if, on @npub12vk…pugg and other #nostrclients, one could have a feed of a disjunction of one's favorite search terms or #tags. I have quite a wide variety of topics that are moving quietly herel, with perhaps 1 post a day for e.g. #scala or #math, but if I could put them all together, I would, I think have a pretty interesting home page.

2023-09-03 18:45:37

My kids after having spent a rainy day learning to build balloon sculptures.
They used this skill the next sunny day earn themselves a few rounds on the huge bouncy castle.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_e12b98427bf4c7e958a93336bcdd323db73416ef4b89076b.webp

2023-09-03 15:39:57

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And in the end the cure for the #vaccine induced hysterical minion #zombies is an oral medicament - also produced by the same Dr Nefario btw.
( Had the Minion story tellers predicted #paxlovid or #ivermectin? )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vvtNVnzxaA
Remember the #Minions love uni-thought and strong leaders.

2023-09-03 15:35:11

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Bizarrely enough it is a Trump lookalike villain “El Macho” who employs the evil genius Dr Nefario to make the vaccine that turns every #Minion into a Mad #Zombie.
(Sometimes one has to wonder if US politics is not just based on cartoons!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO8X89Zrzq4

2023-09-03 15:25:22

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The #Zombie meme was so strong that there were even kids cartoons whose plot was built around the idea of a mad scientist who was going to turn everyone into a Living Dead with a #vaccine. Here the #Minions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6RxZK3LTnA

2023-09-03 15:22:42

10 years ago John Vervaeke, Prof of #cognitive science at Toronto Uni, wrote a book on the Zombie Zeitgeist which I think he correctly predicted. What is a Zombie, and why were there so many around? The #covid19 Pandemic when you come to think of it was predicted by so many #zombie films: research labs leak virus which then zombifies the masses cowering everyone in their homes, with as only remedy a vaccine that takes too long to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSwAbQD-gZU&list=PLND1JCRq8VuimKPVt13Ba9I96moPPUKEA&index=2

2023-09-03 15:04:33

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These social networks work better if you have a bit of a profile about yourself.

2023-09-03 15:02:29

Is there a #relay that is particularly high on quality content?

2023-09-03 14:56:36

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Ah ok. I thought you were using Elon Musks satellite network :-)

2023-09-03 14:55:55

This remark applies to all #nostrclients I think.
Please add some language filtering on the full firehose of Tweets (we can call those that now? Right?) eg. #nostur #damus
#[0]

2023-09-03 14:46:35

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how did you post from satellite?

2023-09-03 12:20:10

It has been known for a long time that the most central problem on the #web was the lack of a micropayment system other than advertising, leading to the enormous investment into companies that could garner more and more data about individuals, as more data meant better-targeted ads, which returned 10-1000x more than plain ads.
#nostr's integration of #lightning [1] micropayment as an extra "like" feature into the #twitter-like user experience is a great live example of how new micropayment systems can change the game. It is live, and you can try it out [2] and send people micropayments for as It Is also valuable for helping people pay devs for the user interfaces, #relays that reduce spam, reward artists, etc.… Most importantly, it will allow journalists to be rewarded without us needing to take a yearly subscription to a magazine. There is too much content on the World Wide Web for me to want to subscribe to each major paper just because it has one great article I’d be happy to pay for. With governments no longer subsidizing journalism, they may again dare to take on their essential role of questioning it intelligently.
The Lightning network is open and could be used by any other protocol, such as #Mastodon or Tim Berners-Lee’s #Solid project, or much more.
The Bblfish
PS. Attached is a picture of my transactions, showing how little money can exchange hands… from 1 sat to 500 sats thanks to #yakihonne (a company producing a client for markdown enabled #nostr), worth $0.13
PPS. #Apple asked App devs to remove the micropayment system if they don’t give them 30% of the proceeds! Luckily, these limitations cannot be placed on Web Browsers such as #Firefox or #Chrome, and other options are available to get around this.
[2] https://nostr.com/ or browse some content from one of the web clients starting from Will’s page below.
[1] https://lightning.network/
Note: I have not analyzed the technology in detail.
The integration of lightning payment was not built into the system from the start but was added by #Damus developer Will https://snort.social/p/npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s .
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_0afc80a0e7e145c942bc363dc12a49bcc53a1a39654fe495.webp

2023-09-03 11:03:54

the various filter options on #snort are very nice. #Global helps get an idea of what is going on worldwide, though it would help if one could filter it by language. I speak English, French and German for example. One could then add optional translation service. Indeed I could imagine a translation service relay could save by translating Notes once and then serving them later.

2023-09-03 10:44:31

Is #Damus a word play on #nostr #damus i.e. Nostradamus, the famous French Astrologer and seer?
Idea from @npub1ywl…jx96 whome I was showing around yesterday.
https://void.cat/d/QFHvnet1jB7sY3XLTPnjA4.webp

2023-09-03 09:54:26

Vivek Ramaswamy vs Activist
or
how to keep your cool and civility even in the face of a deluge of bad faith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlK2GBrZXlE

2023-09-02 10:16:21

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https://www.mainvolume.com web site is not available.

2023-09-02 10:08:54

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2023-09-02 10:02:16

Hi #[1] here's an interesting case for your #mostr.pub.
Martin Escardo wrote a 20 post thread on Mastodon which started here:
https://mathstodon.xyz/@MartinEscardo/110912588238494225
It looks like I need to reToot each post in the thread on w3c.social for the other Toots to appear on #nostr.
So you’ll see I rebooted half of them on https://w3c.social/@bblfish
But I think that may bother folks at W3C if I do that too often. It would help if when I reboot one, the whole thread then becomes visible on nostr.
#[0]

2023-09-01 15:37:06

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Sorry that was my fault, I used the hash B… magical incantation too lightly.
I should have used #math #science #ecology #categoryTheory #astronomy #music and others to describe @npub17u6…pd6m's work. For example:
#note1ets…s2gx

2023-09-01 13:39:07

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Strictly speaking I should not say “there are too many #bitcoin folks on #nostr” but rather that the proportion is a bit too high. But that will change over time.
#Nostr notes can’t be edited though, so I have to add that as an a comment to the original post above.
I guess that #mostr the Mastodon ⇆ Nostr proxy would find the wider use of a versioning of notes to be useful to better integrate with #Mastodon whose Toots can be edited.

2023-09-01 11:52:35

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Sometimes the integration between #Mastodon and #Nostr is strange.
https://w3csocial.files.fedi.monster/cache/media_attachments/files/110/886/514/798/049/702/original/d9efa1984a40464f.webp
I can't find the above interaction on Mastodon but I do find it on a #nostr view here for example:
https://snort.social/e/note1aq6ytfa55v2g8r88gkgslv2axvg6e0ksyflklfjnzfe20uvjem6suw45n2

2023-09-01 11:00:26

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Bing’s Skype-integrated AI gave a good summary.
> Nostr is a decentralized network protocol for a distributed social networking system. The name is an acronym for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". It's an open protocol designed to enable a decentralized, censorship-resistant social media network. This protocol doesn't rely on a central server; instead, every user runs a client that allows them to publish content.https://medium.com/@21e6Crypto/what-is-nostr-ce86d9699617
> Nostr is supported by Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, who has deployed 14 BTC to fund its development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostr https://www.freethink.com/internet/nostr Some of the early adopters of Nostr include US Senator Cynthia Lummis and Ethereum's creator Vitalik Buterin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostr Nostr is seen as a potential alternative to centralized platforms like Twitter and Facebook, which have been criticized for their content moderation policies and privacy issues.
Ok, so me:
Nostr is a decentralized platform: like Mastodon, but different.
* Mastodon works as a mini centralized social network that can federate posts (toots), and your identity is tied to one instance (e.g. mathstodon.xzy),
* #Nostr’s is a protocol (https://nostr.com) on which identity is via a public/private key which you enter into an App, like Damus, or many others you can find. (There is a list here: https://nostrclients.webflow.io/ ). There are also web apps and plugins for browsers to safely enter your private key to your browser and reduce the risk of key leakage.
The technical idea is simple: your app signs your posts, which are distributed to relays that can distribute them. You can save them to your own server if you wish too. People can comment on Notes with notes as I am doing now. But essentially, you can’t unsign your apps, and because they can spread it would be very difficult to shut down a conversation. But it is not synchronized like the blockchain: there is not one global pool of Notes.
Most interestingly, they integrated a micropayment system.
The problem with Mastodon is that admins are not full-time and can easily be pressured by political activists: calling someone a fascist is a simple way to do that. Most admins are not political scientists, so don’t know how to evaluate such a claim. On Nostr you can’t censor Notes, so one has to filter what you like yourself, and clients provide options for that. There is of course, a lot of nonsense to filter out. Social network filter is one way to get quality.
For the moment, there are too many bitcoins folks there. If you have bitcoin-related math, your Toots could be turned into Notes via the proxy we are using and garner a lot of following on #Nostr. :-)
It am looking at how much this integrates with the decentralized linked-data-based networks I am working on…

2023-09-01 10:28:46

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Austria was part of the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1955 and was released under the promise of neutrality.

2023-09-01 10:16:54

And now for something completely different:
The Original Muppet “Mah-Na, Mah-Na" from 1969 #kids
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x3YkkmMxjV0&feature=shared

2023-09-01 10:06:03

If you want to increase the quality of your #nostr experience a million fold, just follow #[1], mathematician, category theoretician and scientist.
Also repost this (whatever the best way to get attention on this platform), and repost the Messages by him you like the most.
He’ll come over to #Nostr I am sure when Mathjax mode is the default - it is available currently on mathstodon.xyz . At leat if mathjax is available, his more math oriented posts will be easier to read.
#[0]

2023-08-31 06:18:40

Crocodiles are one of the oldest living species on Earth, dating back to the Late Cretaceous period, about 94 million years ago. They are the closest living relatives of birds, and they have survived several mass extinctions that wiped out many other animals. Some branches though did not survive, such as the various vegetarian crocodiles discovered by scientists recently.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/07/09/science/27TB-VEGGIECROC1/27TB-VEGGIECROC1-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp
NYTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/science/crocodiles-vegetarian-teeth.html
Cell article: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30690-6

2023-08-29 09:54:13

This is actually very funny.
#humour #web #socialnetworks
#[0]

2023-08-29 09:46:53

Here is a process I am using to link up with people I know on #Mastodon from #Nostr.
1. I followed my Mastodon #mostr clone account on #nostr.
2. I also followed the #nostr account on #mastodon
3. When I see some post I like on #Mastodon I retweet it (retoot?), and then I can usually see it from #nostr.
4. I then follow the #Mastodon account via their #mostr handle
5. and perhaps repost that Toot here on #nostr, so that they can get a bit of visibility here too.
So now I post things that are potentially controversial on #nostr and leave the politically correct stuff on #mastodon. (The smallest deviation from the norm there leads to a visit from the thought police).

2023-08-29 06:25:23

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It works for me. But it could also be the iOS image text recognition capability

2023-08-28 21:41:50

"Wolfgang Munchau: #Germany is in trouble" #Unherd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ACX9xqMsRM

2023-08-28 12:03:54

How to conduct civil online discourse and deal with negative comments on the internet.
(1990s video) #W3C #History #Weird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_QmvZRS85U

2023-08-26 13:59:30

I have been working on the #w3c Verifiable Credentials Data Model 2.0 by translating the #JsonLD to #N3.\nMy major suggestion is: any graph that is signed must be in a node, i.e. it must be a quoted graph - or else how would one know what was signed? This is what a #VC Presentation should look like: https://github.com/co-operating-systems/PhD/blob/main/Logic/VC/model2/diagrams/Ex2Presentation_fromJsonLd_proposal.png?raw=true
See the discussion here:
https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model/issues/1248#issuecomment-1693975080

2023-08-26 13:02:23

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It looks like the voting notes from #snort don't yet work very widely elsewhere...
https://void.cat/d/Mhx79wEDWVsBqVee153Mph.webp

2023-08-25 11:43:11

Riley Gaines is close to reaching 5 million views on her Tweet, where she quietly eats her cereals.
I am jealous.
https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1692622826409198005

2023-08-25 10:53:26

I have been using the AI-enhanced Warp Terminal written in #Rust
for 9 months now.
I like it: it is fast, looks good, and the #AI is very useful when I can’t remember what command to run. Of course, over time, I put together a list of HOWTOs for this, and I know my way around #Unix. But for newbies, it could be a huge timesaver. It is what I thought I would get when I first used a terminal in 1980.
(I thought I could ask the computer to solve the Rubik’s cube too).
But then I found that one had to read through man pages to learn to use a command.
It is also the first terminal I have encountered with a marketing team.
If you download it with this referral, I might get a T-shirt, which I could use on these hot summer days :-)
https://app.warp.dev/referral/23GPJP

2023-08-24 17:30:01

@npub19zs…zyhq has an interesting Twitter thread on the #GOPDebate and "Rich Men North of Richmond.”
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1694732227241013685

2023-08-23 19:21:47

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Oops, I think I meant that the hashtags in the post above are not clickable on the markdown post and that one should like with LinkedIn have a hashtag editor for such posts.
Thanks for pointing me to Habla.news also. It is nice to be able to compare two User Interfaces like that.
I need to install an Android emulator for my #macOS laptop to run #amethyst. If anyone has any pointers to the best one please let me know.

2023-08-23 19:09:51

Can I wire a markdown post?
It seems so on #damus 1.6 #note1x9y…rwdy

2023-08-23 19:02:16

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I think that is only Damus 1.6 that does it. Damus on my Phone is 1.5.

2023-08-23 17:32:39

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Mhh it looks like #Damus does not show that the above post was a comment I left on the #Markdown post written on #yakihonne nostr: #naddr1qq…j4e4
Or perhaps the link is missing somehow?
I also noted that these markdown post is not appearing on #mostr, but perhaps because my instance does not support markdown yet - https://mathstodon.xyz does I think.

2023-08-23 17:27:53

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So somehow I tried to add to my #markdown post did not work. Does someone know how one should do that in the post? Or perhaps #yakihonne needs to add a tagging function at the end of the post the way LinkedIn does it.
Here are the tags I tried to use:
#scala #Mastodon #nostr #rdf #semweb #math #mathematicians #crypto

2023-08-23 17:20:23

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You are right. I wrote up a #markdown post on #nostr here:
https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qq25umn0f9ghwk29242rzw220p3x5um82agj6q3qm0wym3srryqtkt9uuev43arglv4083p9redzep85ayurv53xsmasxpqqqp65whgj4e4
I guess the tags did not work as hoped…

2023-08-23 17:16:14

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Nice to see that #Damus displays #markdown written posts on #nostr!
See thread above

2023-08-23 16:44:16

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Speaking as someone who just came to the platform, I could not tell initially if there were a lot of people here or just very few. I did not want to follow all the people that were suggested to me in part because they all seemed overly bitcoin related. (I quite like Lightning btw, so one can slowly be converted :-)
But then not having followed a lot of people, my client was filtering the topics such as #scala. It took me some time to work out that I had to open the the filter on one client from close social network to the extended one (can’t remember quite which web client that was now) to see anything at all.
Then with the extended network set it still does not seem to be a lot of discussion on feeds like #scala or #RDF, well even less than on Mastodon which was not very busy either. So it helped when I worked out to add mostr.pub . Though I think tweets from there should be highlighted differently.
On an open social network one has to be able to see what the intermediary friends of friends are that led one to see a specific post, if only so that one remove some intermediaries that lead to too much spam, but also to understand how people are related.
I think whatever could help foster discussions would help people build communities more quickly.

2023-08-23 15:43:26

I found the perfect picture to illustrate my logical take on
#W3C Verifiable Presentations
https://github.com/co-operating-systems/PhD/blob/main/Logic/VerifiableCredentials.md
https://m.primal.net/HJeM.jpg
But it also finally helped me explain to my father why I did not go to work in a business suite.

2023-08-21 10:24:37

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Reminds me of Eurocommunism in the 1970s.
Perhaps it is just the continuation of that process?
https://books.google.at/books/about/Eurocommunism.html?id=kKLaAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y

2023-08-21 08:16:12

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Interesting. But I think #NIP98 has just been made obsolete by the #IETF publication of HTTP Message Signatures https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2023JulSep/0124.html .
That provides a way to sign HTTP headers with keys, and there is no reason one could not use the keys that #nostr uses, by either publishing them at an http location or using a #DID URI (did:key, or did:jws, ...) .
But you are right that it is similar to foaf+ssl, or WebID-TLS, though much more flexible in fact, since TLS can only sign the connection whereas message signatures can sign every request, and every request differently.
I show how "Message Signatures" can be used to speed up #BigData access to #LDES files in this demo.
https://twitter.com/bblfish/status/1666547828506742788

2023-08-21 07:38:49

Tim Bray, one of the XML pioneers, a colleague of mine at Sun Microsystems when I worked on the Atom specs for blogging, wrote an overview of Mastodon but does not mention #Nostr. See my reply to his post.
#note1ra5…yw4v

2023-08-21 07:27:34

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In the talk “Symbolism Happens” Jonathan Pageau mentions a talk on the Symbolism of #ConspiracyTheories which I followed up on. Quite a rabbit hole of course…
#note15gc…h77l

2023-08-21 07:19:34

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You need to look at #nostr, which solves the problems that you describe for #Mastodon
- accounts and posts are not tied to a URL, but to a public key, so there is no problem with migration between domains (they need to develop a story of key migration, but that is well-known territory)
- migration of user interfaces is easy (I use 5 regularly for their various advantages)
- there is a good payment story with lightning
- it solves the censorship problem, which is much worse on Mastodon than on Twitter. The problem is that Mastodon acts as a slander machine, spreading false rumours in that tags section and censoring people trying to give opposing points of views.
Here is the details on that:
https://primal.net/e/note1dve7jxdmrk5j3euww7p07ere9ju768ywjksdqptpnkrlrchutu9s6v8net
And you can see the story in a number of other web interfaces here:
https://nostr.com/nevent1qqsxkvlfrxa3m2fgu7880qhlv3ujew0drj8ftgxsq4sempl3ut797zczyrdacnwxqvvspwevhnn9jk85draj4u7yy5095tyy7n5nsdjjy6r0kqcyqqqqqqgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qzrmhwden5te0wdhkcmmrduhxumqpzdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ukzcnvv5hx7un8qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mq6xynf2
(But there are also apps for Android and iPhone, desktop etc...)
Is it perfect? No.
But it is bringing something very new to the table.

2023-08-20 22:09:07

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Of course that means one has to point to the original conversation where that discussion takes place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5yh2HcIlkU

2023-08-20 21:41:03

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So just recently, I was wondering how the #Exodus story was meant to be interpreted, I was pointed to this talk on Symbolism by Jonathan Pageau...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzdjUMkxsdE&feature=youtu.be
There he mentions....

2023-08-20 21:37:10

A few months ago there was the First Conference on the Philosophy of #ConspiracyTheory, attended by Prof. Catarina Dutilh Novaes. I am looking forward to the papers being published... just the titles are pretty interesting....
I will use this thread to point to interesting thoughts on that topic.
#note15g9…mx4q

2023-08-20 11:05:37

Ok so here is an idea for #nostrclients on how to display #narings [1] filters by social network.
It is really important to know what the social network graph through which one saw a post, so that one can see if some one of the people one is following is is linking to spammers. So when showing a #naring it would be good to show the shortest link to that node as a small (linear) graph.
[1] #naring and #Narings was an idea by #chatGPT for a name for #nostr posts
#note1yhx…j0zj

2023-08-20 10:56:20

Idea from #ChatGPT: call #nostr posts #naring.
I searched the web and found that næring is Old Swedish for Food.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/n%C3%A6ring#Old_Swedish
This was ChatGPT’s argument
"Posts on the Nostr social network could be called "Narings." The term "Narings" is derived from combining "Nostr" with "sharing," reflecting the concept of sharing posts on the Nostr network while incorporating the unique branding of the platform.
Additionally, given the emphasis on decentralization and the use of private keys to sign posts, "Narings" also conveys the idea of securely and openly communicating, which aligns with the philosophy of the Nostr network.
Feel free to use or adapt this suggestion as you see fit for your social network branding!”

2023-08-20 10:32:31

“Law for Computer Scientists”
A great book, online free to read by Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt
https://lawforcomputerscientists.pubpub.org
#[0]

2023-08-20 10:27:26

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Thanks YouTube URLs now show up with pictures on #nostur.
Another thing. I created a relay filter just for #mostr the #Mastodon proxy, just to see what type of things are coming from that direction.
From time to time I want to look at the profile of someone there, but you only show mostr.pub . The interesting thing is that all the data about an identity is shown there in the encoded email before the “mostr.pub”. I could not find any way to have that information shown.
For all #nostrclients, #mostr posts should be highlighted somewhat differently from other posts, because they are quotes of other posts. Ie. the Principal speaking is
in the says logic [1] Mostr|SomeAgent , ie Mostr.pub quoting some agent. If we trust mostr when it speaks for Mastodon instances then we trust that the agent said what it said. But there is an indirection that newcomers may not know, and that #mostr and similar services should make explicit if they could. But that requires quoting data.
[1]https://github.com/co-operating-systems/PhD/blob/main/Logic/Says.md
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_6773ed136d17526e1a30b3df5720cf21d47aac4d25f9da31.webp

2023-08-20 06:10:31

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Come to think about it the #BabelFish is if not the ultimate #MiM then the #fish in the middle.

2023-08-20 05:56:48

In 2019 I wrote this paper "#Epistemology in the #Cloud"
https://medium.com/@bblfish/epistemology-in-the-cloud-472fad4c8282
which argued using a counterfactual analysis of #knowledge developed by Robert Nozick in "#Philosophical Explanations" that #centralized systems will lead to the inability to #think.
We start with Nozick's thought experiment [1] of the possibility of Alpha Centaurians having conducted a raid at night on earth and captured you, dear reader, then brought you up in their labs orbiting the earth and placed your brain in a vat, to make you think you were in front of the screen reading this. This possibility seemed to break down all possibilities of knowledge. Nozick [2] found an answer using counterfactual logic that depends on a distance relation between possible worlds. That world seemed far out in the 1980s and still does to most of us when we are sipping our morning cup of coffee. But what happens if similar problematic worlds become much closer to us? Well, consider this passage from DuskoPavlovic's 2012 paper [3] on the #ManInTheMiddle or MiM attack:
"In the #MiM-attacks on authentication protocols, the intruder inserts himself1 between the honest parties, and impersonates them to each other. MiM is the strategy used by the chess amateur who plays against two grandmasters in parallel, and either wins against one of them, or ties with both. #MiM is also used by the spammers, whose automated agents solve the automated Turing test by passing it to the human visitors of a free porn site, set up for that purpose [20]. MiM is, in a sense, one of the dominant business model on the web, where the portals, search engines and social networks on one hand insert themselves between the producers and the consumers of information, and retrieve freely gathered information for free, but on the other hand use their position in the middle to insert themselves between the producers and the consumers of goods, and supply advertising for a fee."
How much can you know if all your messages go through a MiM who can alter them, filter them, redirect them, emphasise them?
Have we not witnessed in the past 10 years people going crazier and crazier, from the ease with which such messages could be inserted by foreign entities and so people’s thought directed willy nilly towards whatever those who paid the most for wanted?
Do you think your neighbour is a #fascist? Perhaps a #communist even ready to kill your children? Do you perhaps even feel you are on the verge of being #genocided? Well those are symptoms of a 12 year growing #MiM attack.
I will need to update my paper now that #nostr is out since if you sign every note, that changes the argument. At least you know that the message has not been changed, and you could make it difficult for history to be rewritten as it was constantly in George Orwell’s 1984.
[1] that's what we philosophers do! we sit in labs with large comfy chairs and build thought experiments!
[2] Also known as the author of "Anarchy, State and Utopia" which I have not read, but if you push me here, I could put some time aside for it... Leave a note :-)
[3] "Tracing the in the Middle Attack in Monoidal Categories" Dusko Pavlovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6324

2023-08-19 17:34:16

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From my client it looks like you responded to my note above in a non-threaded way, so I’ll just link to your response from here
#note1wzl…deqm

2023-08-19 17:31:27

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It seems like that could be a minor update to a little personal relay software:
to track a few relays and just store the responses too (trying to avoid spam somehow). But it clearly looks like this should be very light weight, and hardly use up any resources.

2023-08-19 16:52:22

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Do you also own those of people who reply to you? Seems like that would be important too, to keep track of the conversations.
Do you keep more on your relay? I’d be interested how large it becomes. Apparently setting up #Mastodon servers takes up a lot of space - if I remember correctly an article I read earlier in the year by #[1]

2023-08-19 14:30:29

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Here is the #Wired story from 1997 of how the first computer social network The Well was destroyed by deleting of posts
https://www.wired.com/1997/05/ff-well/
A key passage:
> On July 5, 1992, he logged on and executed a mass scribble over the next three days. The mass scribbling tool had been written a few years earlier by Andy Beals in a burst of anger at The Well. Mass scribble allowed you to easily erase all your comments in a topic, no matter when they were written. This time, while Mandel erased only his own postings, he cast a wider net across The Well, far beyond his earlier targets of the Weird and Future conferences. This time, he went from conference to conference and deleted nearly everything he had posted in each one.

2023-08-19 09:47:27

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I'd argue the opposite, if you don’t mind.
The worst part of #blocking on #Twitter was that people would have a conversation with you in a thread and then when they did not like what was said would block you, removing all the context of the conversation, and also of all previous conversations.
That was a tactic loved by #trolls.
So it was clear that blocking should never have applied to existing Tweets.
Furthermore deleting should not have been allowed on Tweets a short time after they were posted or certainly commented on. Once you have engaged in a conversation your posts are no longer yours to remove. This problem was known to people from the earliest social network, the Well, which was destroyed by deleing of posts.
#Nostr gets that right. The longer you wait to delete the less likely it will work.
I am sorry to say, but #𝕏 is clearly a big improvement since Elon took over: longer tweets, markup, identity verification, financial support, all have improved the platform a lot.
The main problem remains the one that bothered me since the beginning was that it is centralised. #nostr is going the right direction.

2023-08-19 09:30:53

The worst part of blocking on #Twitter was that people would have a conversation with you in a thread and then when they did not like what was said would block you, removing all the context of the conversation, and also of all previous conversations.
So it was clear that blocking should never have applied to existing Tweets.
Furthermore deleting should not have been allowed on Tweets a short time after they were posted or certainly commented on. Once you have engaged in a conversation your posts are no longer yours to remove.
#Nostr gets that right. The longer you wait to delete the less likely it will work.
#𝕏 is clearly a big improvement since Elon took over: longer tweets, markup, identity verification, financial support, all have improved the platform a lot.
The main problem remains the one that bothered me since the beginning was that it is centralised.

2023-08-19 07:53:04

Is it just me who sees my #𝕏 logo scratched on my iPhone? Or is this well known? (could also be an Elon joke) #Twitter
#note1cz7…38n8

2023-08-19 07:08:38

Why is the X logo scratched?
It’s not my phone.
@npub1sg6…f63m @npub1mus…l3z5 ?
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_1407281888639967701692428833.webp

2023-08-19 05:23:15

#tiktok #censors for quietly listening to the rant of one of their #woke fellows :-)
https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1692622826409198005

2023-08-18 20:40:01

Open media theories.
Peer to peer and #revolution.
#p2p #philosophy
https://youtu.be/HYXLeKnhcbw

2023-08-18 20:12:14

Philosopher of media Hans-Georg Moeller covers Baudrillard’s response to an earlier philosophy of media revolution. Instead of revolution mass media gives us the #hyperreal or the simulation.
Does that analysis cover a medium like #nostr?
Let me know what you think.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bZ2MHcwtFHY&feature=share

2023-08-18 15:10:57

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I meant to link to the #Mastodon instance
https://mathstodon.xyz
for the #math folk.
I know they would like #mathjax support as GitHub now has, and you can see some example for the says logic:
https://github.com/co-operating-systems/PhD/blob/main/Logic/ABLP.md#deepak-gargs-2009-bl-logic
https://void.cat/d/CV7PHyQwdhWGMiHMgTaM5o.webp

2023-08-18 12:14:45

Here is why both #nostr and #mastodon need #markdown support. Here I am trying to show code snippets without but they get interpreted very differently on different clients.
(If you can add mathjax support for the mathsotodon.xyz folks)
This note #note13f8…3ckp
shows on #primal like this:
https://void.cat/d/3DQd4z4M7SZx1kMPCurau4.webp
and on #mastodon like this
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/0583587e67572613ef549661a35bad7df9277236013d1c6009a0e3f1f0bef930.png
and again differently on other #nostr clients.
In the Primal UI the URLs for the RDF get interpreted as URLs and some preview is shown, but that is not the case with other viewers.

2023-08-18 11:42:09

Here is why both #nostr and #mastodon need markdown support. Otherwise, it is difficult to show code snippets without them being interpreted wrongly on some clients and not others. (Add maths to make the mathsotodon.xyz folks happy.
This note #note13f8…3ckp
shows on #primal like this:
https://void.cat/d/3DQd4z4M7SZx1kMPCurau4.webp
and on #mastodon like this
https://void.cat/d/A2d2ovpSCiMhd1Z4dvrij3.webp
and again differently on other #nostr clients.

2023-08-18 10:34:31

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#Solid should learn from both #Mastodon #ActivityPub and #nostr.
Here are initial thoughts:
1. Linking WebIDs to nostr keys could easily be done with an owl:sameAs statement
<https://bblfish.net/people/henry/card#me> owl:sameAs <did:key:…>
btw. What do #nostr folks recommend: did:key or did:jwk: or something else ???
2. The same could be done with redirecting if one loses one’s personal domain
old:WebID owl:sameAs new:WebID .
And a statement such as
new:WebId webid:deprecates “https://bblfish.net/people/henry/card#me”^^xsd:anyUri .
3. The major innovation of #nostr is the use of keys and the signing of all content. That should be integrated into #solidproject.
(Should headers be added for each signed content? for example? A header like
Author: did:key: …
Signature: …. <- using just released Signing HTTP Messages RFC? https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2023JulSep/0124.html
Interestingly that gives a reason for having server signatures that don’t sign the URL!
4. Another innovation is using the lightning network: Solid should integrate that.
Nostr makes a very good case that it works and is fun as one zaps people’s posts (note Apple asked apps to remove that feature!)
A Quick look at the protocol, and I wonder:
1. does one need sockets for posting content? Could that not just be a POST to a solid container?
2. Nip 01 comes with a simple query mechanism. My main problem is that these are not restful. If it returned just URLs for new content, that could be sent quickly down the wire. Even better with SPDY (still looking for a #scala implementation)
But an even lower cost search could be #LDES (Linked Data Event Streams https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/semic-support-centre/linked-data-event-streams-ldes ), which is just like RSS but with a tree structure and non changing
3. Also, the format is unnecessarily not extensible.
Still #nostr is a very good demonstration of what solid hyper apps are meant to be.

2023-08-17 13:51:02

Updated my logo to the BabelFish from the 2005 Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy film. It’s all explained here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWqHkYtREAE

2023-08-17 13:44:26

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I just found that the #Nostur 1.5.0 beta is available… trying it out now

2023-08-17 13:26:14

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Following up on the conversation on a decentralised future with nostr, here is a structure that will be needed by the web and #nostr longer term. Technically it is not difficult to setup. It is philosophically tricky as it requires what recently deceased French philosopher #BernardStiegler, bank robber, and student of Derrida, called an organological view of society.
#note1449…ndtu

2023-08-17 13:19:36

I am finding #Nostur very useful now that I understand what’s going on here on #nostr.
Having many clients to choose from is really good.

2023-08-17 10:43:24

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So how can one address the problems of child pornography and other
illegal content without creating a #unipolar world with one global lawgiver,
one moral code, one police, ... How does one allow freedom of expression without
censorship? (After all, how could one have secrecy for the army or police but not for everyone else in a knowledge society?) There is no thought without diversity, since one needs a proponent and an opponent to think. We think with others, and so do nations in a #Multipolar world.
These questions were asked in a very intelligent conversation between
@npub1az9…m8y8, @npub1xts…kk5s, @npub16cy…u878, and @npub1zyw…s58k recorded at "Nostr and the Decentralized Future of Social Media Is Here" [1]
One could add the question: how will people know that they are talking to a real person, perhaps a specialist on a particular topic, rather than a thief or an AI bot using deep fake tech trying to scam them?
But how do we also allow anonymity to exist so that whistle-blowers such as @npub1sn0…jdv9 can inform citizens of abuse of power?
This is the problem that the #WebOfNations is designed to help solve. It's an opt-in system that allows players that wish to do so to tie themselves or more precisely, their keys or WebIDs, to a national legal framework so that they can signal that their actions are guided by a country's laws, for which they can be held accountable in court, and for which they pay taxes. Why would they do that? Countries are long-term agents that need to think in the time-frame of generations, and this long-term game makes short-term selfish behavior irrational (This is a game theoretic result explained in Nozick's "The Nature of Rationality") As a result, certain types of long term thinking, require the guarantees of states to be possible.
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/4e079121decf9ce966dc39cc5a57dc32a834c6904385a769f5597e1b59930bfa.png
A #WoN would allow users and proxies to filter content by legally responsible players without stopping pure anonymous content to flow. Being legally responsible is not a guarantee of good behavior, or else law courts and prisons would not exist. But it does create an incentive for good behavior because it creates a means of redress. It would also allow one to create highly restrictive filters for children while keeping it as open as adults feel they can take.
This would also allow one to have two types of filters: my known peer-to-peer (p2p) social network, family, or business relations, and the wider world that goes through the social p2p networks of states. This does not exclude non-state actors either. It does not require one to have a legal trust anchor. I guess the mafia will want their mafia network of trust too, though their problem is that, not being open, they may not want that network to be visible or even ever to be traceable, which is why such technology may not be that useful to them.
[1] https://reason.com/video/2023/02/21/nostr-and-the-decentralized-future-of-social-media-is-here-live-with-nvk-will-casarin-nick-gillespie-and-zach-weissmueller/
[2] see pdf or HTML at https://co-operating.systems/2020/06/01/

2023-08-17 08:46:35

Dame Wendy Hall quotes the Times arguing that the UK Online Safety Bill is poorly thought through.
It risks making it impossible for ministers to communicate securely, create problems in #Ukraine, etc., etc... all for the laudable attempt to stop child porn. So how should one solve child porn and other problems there or on #nostr? I'll point to some ideas next.
https://twitter.com/DameWendyDBE/status/1692093359622349109

2023-08-16 16:51:25

A great intro to #nostr from Feb 2023: "Nostr and the Decentralized Future of Social Media Is Here" with @npub1az9…m8y8, @npub1xts…kk5s, @npub16cy…u878, and @npub1zyw…s58k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi2JbHWd_BM
Very helpful. They tell how the continual censorship on Mastodon lead them to create #Nostr. (I had exactly the same experience recently, which is why I am here). They talk about the #protocol, the user interfaces, the #philosophy, the #lightening network, etc...
article: https://reason.com/video/2023/02/21/nostr-and-the-decentralized-future-of-social-media-is-here-live-with-nvk-will-casarin-nick-gillespie-and-zach-weissmueller/ video:

2023-08-15 14:06:36

Here are some questions for #webscience researchers who wish to look into the #nostr social network.
Answers to this question should help us understand what kind of #socialmachine it is.
What are its advantages and limitations? #note16pc…rl9z

2023-08-15 13:34:14

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Some questions:
- does running one's own instance use up a lot of memory? I remember
@npub1kar…qlv8 writing earlier this year that running #Mastodon instances was memory-consuming. Perhaps people have written about this?
- Why are some relays paying? What advantages do they claim to have over others?
- Has anyone yet done a cluster analysis of nostr posts to understand how the social networks cluster and which relays need to be reached if one does not want to reach the widest audience or listen to the most diverse folks?

2023-08-15 12:41:35

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do you have something already written on how relays work?

2023-08-10 17:51:13

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Thanks for the link. It is clear that moving to JSON-LD could make #Nostr more easily extensible, as it would come with semantics and a lot of interesting tools such as #w3c #verifiableCredentials.
Let us see if you can see this #nostr reply to your #mastodon post on Mastodon. I have not been very successful in this direction. It looks like it could be a #Mostr bug. Let's see.

2023-08-05 16:33:54

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Hi all #nostrclient
As explained in the post below I now have a NIP-05 compliant address. But how do I link to it in a post? should I use the henry@bblfish.net name? (It does not seem to work on #primal) or is it some other string?
#nevent1q…8jws

2023-08-05 16:17:31

I now have a verified name linked to my domain name, so that I can now
be identified by henry@bblfish.net. As I understand this would help
in case I loose control of my keys somehow.
I followed the instructions here
https://nostr.how/en/guides/get-verified
It was actually quite easy, as I just need to add this file to
my web server
https://bblfish.net/.well-known/nostr.json
The result on #primal looks like this:
https://m.primal.net/HHrd.png

2023-08-05 07:05:41

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Up and downvotes is something I just discovered from the Zappdit app. See here:
https://zapddit.com/n/639b5a7bde4a8583cef6eaa2a671ea9cdac5439fd81f519e01d7e2282bc22715

2023-08-04 06:57:43

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Ah. What happens to deleted notes?