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Writing a book about Nostr

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2025-03-31 15:42:06

If apps allow me to 'log in' with whatever Npub to check out that perspective; why can't i just do effectively the same thing while being logged in with my own nsec?
With a tiny bit of UI effort, it makes onboarding so much better because people can start out using their friends perspective; odds are they have similar friend and interests and they have direct access to that stuff.
Also, is there are 'you might also know/be interested in' DVM, that provides a list of suggested Npubs based on your current follow list, or perhaps better, selected lists?
Lastly, the current follow list is conflated; following and trusting an npub are not the same thing.
Now all this list flexibility does make things a bit more complicated (what happens when you press 'follow' for example, it would imply some dropdown menu asking you for what list this follow would apply), so how about a toggle between default 'simpleton' mode for how things work now, and a 'Nostr' mode that opens the door to do all these quintessential Nostr things?
Ideas are cheap, so here you go

2025-03-28 19:40:22

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It is a tragic thing after all

2025-03-26 13:27:46

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I wondered about this yesterday. What if for example you let it crawl to look for 'Boat' related stuff; and whenever it finds boat content it scans the surrounding network/graph if it can find more: at some point it is bound to find and identify a cluster of boat enthausiast people posting tonss of boat related things...atleast, you'd think

2025-03-26 13:21:00

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Also, things like views, like counts, how long the tracked eyeball stated at the titty etc, is a different ballgame with Nostr

2025-03-26 13:19:46

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The point is (i think) the platform server is this coherent database of 'all the things' (which is a lie, because its not all the things on the internet etc.etc.).
This means that there is a known state (i.e. 'global'), and subsequently a perspective on that state (the feed). Choosing your algo is therefor a differing perspective on the same thing.
In Nostr, gathering all the events is just as much a part of the process as the filtering is

2025-03-20 10:26:06

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No. You said that it depends if you have a direct channel, which is wrong. You don't need a direct channel; intermediate hops/nodes are also peers.
It does depend on if you controll a node in the first place, yes, ofcourse.

2025-03-19 14:17:09

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The association does not have to be close; it is a matter of heuristics, so even the slightest hint of suggestion of a possible association is more than enough.

2025-03-19 09:55:43

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Those other hops are systemically on the same level as you; they are equals/peers.

2025-03-19 06:34:14

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Too many protoss apes, they dont know anything

2025-03-19 06:32:58

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Not even a question 😎

2025-03-09 15:06:52

I don't have a good feed;
I am missing replies;
I see terrible things;
There are bots everywhere;
Etc.
People, all Nostr does is put the matter of perspective on foreground.
Bias is both your sword and your shield, use them. You are free to discriminate, use it to your advantage. Bias, discrimination etc. are only 'bad things' when everyone is stuck in the same 'space', which introduces this notion of 'fair' only because there is someone to complain to that has power/controll.
What is great about Nostr, is that perspectives are easy to swap out, a thing that will probably become fancy at some point; but nothing is stopping you from putting in the Npub of a 'popular' nostrich your like into your clients in order to see what they are seeing.
Your feed/perspective problems are not a Nostr problem, its a you problem for not being aware that you have all these options now.

2025-02-19 02:16:09

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Correct :)

2025-02-19 02:13:11

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It in that case would not be a release from core, correct. It would not even have to be inside the client, they could run a seperate program to adds the additional softfork rule and enforces it by ignoring the now newly unvalid tx's...its janky, put possible.

2025-02-09 14:55:29

My presentation about Nostr on #FOSDEM 2025.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/f30b018c0548884df4c79e5a4473cf29c8c68f3865f973105304289db95a04c6.mp4

2025-02-04 13:10:11

People are worried about their keys getting compromised, and they want fancy systems.
Yet i dont see any of you timestamping your content, which regardless of how you handle moving to a future key, is needed to 'protect' all your existing content based on the old one.
Normalize timestamping before we do anything else

2025-01-28 00:17:18

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The problem is not the nostr event/note, that already exists on multiple relays; and even if it were removed completely, it could be reuploaded at some later time. This is because nostr events/notes are self contained things, and people can verify them because they are signed and hashed.
To illustrate: lets say some archieologist digs up a harddrive with this thread on it, but the original post is not there, yet there are all these responces to this original post. And then 100 years later, someone digs up a clay tablet that has this particular OP written on it; this means they can solve this age old mystery because the event ID (which is a hash of the post itself) matches; They can verify that this was what everyone was responding to.
Now, the issue arives with the video. Because this event contains a link, and obviously that link will be broken, primal servers dont exist anymore in this far far future. In other words, we dont know what that video file is supposed to be, we only know where we were supposed to find it, and that place no longer exist; hence there is nothing to verify, even if you'd find the correct video in some other place.
We have a standard that adresses this (in theory for the most part, in practise its a bit of a different story due to lack of development/implementation), called blossom, which hashes files such that that is now how we reference them. I was just pointing out that this is not being used here, and therefore when the link dies, the nostr event might still exist but it became useless; if it referenced the hash of the video, the same "dig up a random clay tablet in some random place on some random time" principle would apply.
I.e. its the fundamental difference between referencing a thing directly, or referencing a location. The old web relies on location ; your email adress is @ (get it? "At") some domain, your instagram post is an instagram post because it 'comes from' instragram dot com etc. Nostr flips this on its head, puts the thing itself central using hashes as a naming scheme, and subsequently relies on 'hints'/'suggestions' as to where that thing may or may not be found; and if you can't find it, you can always go and look to see if you perhaps find it elsewhere, because you know what you are looking for and can verify that you found it.
Hope all of this makes some sense :)

2025-01-27 22:27:23

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And i would appreciate if you'd never a https:// link to a note inside of Nostr again🧐
#nevent1q…dqzu
I think il touch on it a bit during my presentation.
I will also try to remember it for the next open office to discuss.

2025-01-27 15:39:14

It bears repeating, so I will
#nevent1q…wsnc

2025-01-23 23:34:51

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Instead of sharing a https:// link, try the following
See that part behind the last /, that begins with 'note1'? That is the note ID.
Take that entire string "note1pgmgeq0v4qmgu6l3sqmha9fhng5q4prlp2myz2ufgaksnsvsqnyqf05ypw"
And put nostr: infront of it. This will result in the following
#nevent1q…3yuf
Way better than a link to a webpage ;).
You can get the noteID directly in primal by selecting 'Copy note id'.
You should actually use nevent, but dont know how to get that in Primal, so i wont bother you with that for now.
PS, referencing a profile works the same way, but instead of using the noteID, you use the Npub.
Like such
@nprofile…vldz
PPS:
I disagree with your post
#nevent1q…pmy7

2025-01-23 23:04:25

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https://cdn.satellite.earth/648e7cdb043e0f4123a9b9cf973c98beae2749e7e0c891a1b89853876420ee4a.mp4

2025-01-23 11:20:27

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Leaving Nostr right this second

2025-01-23 07:23:56

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Nothing is being co-opted thusfar, but to your point:
The geopolitcal arena of inter-state affairs is actually the most logical usecase for censorship resistant money ergo Bitcoin.
Case in point the sanctions on Russia and them being banned from swift and therefor the international banking system.
By its very nature Bitcoin, starting from 0 coins in circulation at a price of 0, required a grassroots bottomup ascendancy; but don't be confused, as it stands now, when addoption and use keeps growing, the 'plebs' will be priced out of use (in a sovereign way atleast), whilst the state-level usecase will remain, regardless if they happen to be the last in line to addopt.
But thats last bit has a large technical component, which might (hopefully) change (a bit).

2025-01-23 03:03:54

Nostr sacrifices lenient human-meaningfull names; and makes us responsible, distinct and free.

2025-01-22 15:29:07

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And 'we' will, for it is not illegitimate, their 'demands' are fair and reasonable; but the issue arrises that they deem their bells and whissles as a minimal viable requirement. As a result they will put it in whatever base protocol they come up with on the one hand, and only begrudgingly build it on top of another protocol if it turns out that is the direction the world is going.

2025-01-21 23:53:16

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Good, this is why we worked on the recipe kind (comming soon).
Also, if this new 240 chars tweet kind has edits, will that make you drop edit and markdown support for kind 1?

2025-01-21 16:02:27

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Kind 35000, not published yet.

2025-01-21 11:20:22

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No, that is a crime, only exceeded in severity by screenshots

2025-01-21 10:03:02

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Perhaps the answer to Gigi's question is: how 'self-healing' are the nostr events at this moment?
Lets start there

2025-01-21 09:43:48

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The 'innitial' link is there for convenience, and there is no reason to not have it;
Other than that perhaps it creates lazyness in terms of implementing what ought to be implemented

2025-01-21 00:51:00

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A kid friendly app is doable, but i recon it will take a while before we get there; by its very nature it has a large amounts of requirements to serve its purpose well.
It is something that is in the back of my mind a lot though, not just content filtering, but also restrictions with what people they can connect/interact, based on your own social network as a parent for example.
I really think we can build seemingly 'open' online enivornments that are not dull, for kids of a wide range of ages to explore and interact in a safe manner full of interesting, entertaining and usefull content.
The reason i say 'open', is because i think the crucial part in all of this is that they dont have to all use the same app, and need to be in the same 'environment'/silo with the same rules. The kids with the strict parents and the ones with the more liberal parents can still interact with eachother regardless what app to the extend the 'policies' overlap. This mitigates the FOMO, alienation etc. dynamics that are ruthless among kids, and will undermine any attempt to 'shelter' them otherwise.
In this context they can gradually as they get older, work their way towards the 'no guardrails' hellscape that is the open internet.

2025-01-20 13:05:27

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Let me quote the inventor:
"it's not an acronym, it's a word, with an acronym shoved on top of it for increased meaning."
:)

2025-01-20 09:00:36

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Its not an account, because you are not registering anywhere.
And its Nostr, not NOSTR; why? Because NOSTR is ugly, thats the reason it is a word rather than an acronym 🤷‍♂️
Welcome and good luck :)

2025-01-20 07:02:50

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Dont know what app you installed, but there are a whole bunch of them; some are indeed similar to X, or 'micro blogging' as it is refered to in general. Others focus more on long-form content like articles (one such app is called yakihonne), or pictured similar to instagram (olas for example). There are cooking recipe apps, chat apps, audio/video chat room apps...
The same protocol and its socialgraph can be leveraged to build an appstore (zapstore for example), wiki's.
And you can use the same profile you use now in all of them, carrying your socialgraph (the people that follow you, and the people you follow) with you.
Welcome to the Nostr rabbithole

2025-01-20 04:52:56

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A zap is a direct payment. The numbers you see are actually 'sats' or 'satoshis' the smallest unit of a bitcoin (0.00000001 ₿). With the current exchange rate of about 100k$/BTC the math is actually fairly easy, roughly 1000 sats per dollar.
This means Ian right now roughly made 670$ worth in bitcoin on his post right now.
You will have to set up a wallet and connecy it to your Nostr profile in order to receive zaps. There should be enough documentation out there, and otherwise ask around and hopefully someone will help you on your way.
Welcome and goodluck :)

2025-01-20 04:31:25

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Thats ok, we will get you there.
You can consider starting over and using https://start.njump.me to set up a new profile. Just take the time to read the accompanying tekst and it will clarify a lot. Should not take too much time. After this, you can use the identity you have created in all the different Nostr apps :)
Good luck

2025-01-20 03:51:04

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Welcome Ian, and new people that followed you to Nostr.
Hopefully this series of short quirky videos will make some things click, especially some of the nuances around censorship.
This is the mission:
#nevent1q…3lza
The core notion of censorship resistance, i.e. retaining your following:
#nevent1q…unve
Breaking free from the silos, and having everything tied to your unique name:
#nevent1q…h7k5
Nostr is pro-censorship, and that is a good thing:
#nevent1q…jt49
And all of this allows for a whole new web, if, we manage to build it correctly:
#nevent1q…39wh

2025-01-20 03:47:49

https://cdn.satellite.earth/756de1c3a4fe5db9df6804231888f7268e87cbf3f21eaf88f435c4168cc68bad.mp4

2025-01-20 02:34:13

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Nostr is, Nostr;
Nostr.

2025-01-16 20:30:39

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Same

2025-01-15 21:28:21

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Target audience is FOS developers that are bothered to come to a conference for FOS developers to find out stuff about FOS projects.

2025-01-15 11:21:49

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#nevent1q…9hzm
#nevent1q…lg3w
#nevent1q…9jht
#nevent1q…va6z
#nevent1q…nfew

2025-01-15 07:26:05

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The open office? Yes it is.

2025-01-15 07:24:13

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Or on the r?
https://image.nostr.build/e0c76fa7e4bb9b1c1468fb6203261ef08ad065bdcccd4e7a89e9868726bf3742.jpg

2025-01-15 07:13:23

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You are not wrong, but also missed the obvious which you might have arrived at if you'd stick to the metaphor;
You are saying the townssquare is not the breakout usecase, sure, but whatever 'establishment' get super popular is still connected to that square.
Thats what the square is; the center to all the shops, restaurants, cafes, theaters etc.

2025-01-15 07:06:24

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@nprofile…jye9 has a cooler name and logo though, so suck it.

2025-01-15 07:03:37

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Roger.
Agreed.
One question though, dont these central servers use fancy indexing heuristic magic things to optimize their processes, rather than bruteforcing itself through long lists of things though?
Still leaves the fact that with Nostr querying multiple relays distributes computes regardless

2025-01-15 06:53:17

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Darker shade of purple🧐

2025-01-14 17:25:09

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I would add that this 'unlimited time' thing is cheating, and therefore makes it practically wrong. And i don't mean in terms that using infinity is always cheating, but in terms of trust decay.
I am also not making a data availability argument, but one of distance in social graph:
Data is meaningless, in order for it to be information you need context. The immediate context to events is the signature, which brings us into this whole WoT thing. Problem is that signatures run under an underlying assumption that the privatekey is indeed private and therefor the wielder of a name is consistent.
The problem is not getting data anymore, in the 'dead internet TM' context the problem almost completely shifts to getting 'real' data. Relying fundementally on both the key assumption on the one hand, and WoT on the other, distance in socialgraph but also distance in time becomes an issue in a similar way:
It is more realistic to assume that keys will eventually get compromised in their lifetime than not. Therefor if we imagine a let say 100 year timeline (which compared to 'infinity' is not all that much right?), we have generational distance to old notes and their associated keypairs. My point is that because of integrity insecurity, you get a similar type of trust removal as if those keys were distant from your social graph.
In other words: yes, on this 'infinite timeline' you can have all the data, but for the most part means you have all the noise; and its that same time component that undermines your ability to differentiate signal from noise. Time is actually undermining your efforts is my point.
This is also why i keep on hammering on the use of NIP-03 opentimestamps, which somewhat mitigates all of this

2025-01-14 17:09:29

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Her point is that because it is indexed via unique hashes, if you crawl long and persistent enough in theory you could find all the things.
Atleast, i think that is her point.
#nevent1q…jrja

2025-01-14 07:30:03

it occurred to me that in the context of the ‘one size fits nobody’ moderation of centralized platforms, the Nostr crowd takes issue with too much censorship;
whilst the Bluesky crowd takes issue with not enough censorship.

2025-01-14 05:45:52

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https://freeourfeeds.com/
That will be 50 push-ups for screenshot-only-posting Sebas🧐

2025-01-14 05:43:54

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I am sure it has gigameg blocks

2025-01-14 03:29:43

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Spam is an inherent issue in open systems (or rather systems that try to be as open as possible, in service of network effects). The DOS issue is different on different levels, be that router, server or user; fake request, fake data and fake information respectively.
Clients and relays both can help filter spammy info, relays will have to find ways to deal with spammy data, and it is very interesting to see this type of work trying to tackle the most fundamental layer of it all.
It is also the most far out there to be honest, and i am personally uncomfortable to even dream that big...can you imagine?
"Lets fix Twitter" turning into "lets fix the entire Web", ultimately ending up with "oops, guess we have redone the entire internet".
Maybe it has been a long held vision in my minds eye, but I keep my visions to myself.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/4e6d8391bedd634bfb706d51b0bfd6ae16ff6840672ca0de96a5f7228e81d8f8.mp3

2025-01-13 20:41:27

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First bluesky, now rednote, next will be
Greenfield. Not a problem, they will land on purple eventually.

2025-01-12 13:05:20

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You are making my point though.

2025-01-12 12:42:27

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You should recalibrate your equipement then🧐

2025-01-12 12:41:21

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You are simply looking at raw numbers, which is a mistake on your end.
Desktop applications allows for far more complicated features and usecases; both in terms of UI and in terms of available compute, important for laying the groundwork and exploring the possibilities within this new paradigm. The share of power-users is far larger among the early adopters, which also impacts the numbers game you hint to on one end, but on the other hand gets into the fact not every type of user is of equal added value (in every moment in time); power users are what bootstraps this thing for the most part.
Case in point: The Damus Notedeck thing is gearing up to be a mayor breakthrough in within the Nostr space; and Gossip in its own way did it before that.

2025-01-12 01:14:23

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You should try out Olas and post your art with kind20 (picture) to get a foothold and some exposure in that realm of things.
Goodluck :)

2025-01-11 13:28:56

Another thing that Nostr will ultimately solve or improve:
The terrible phenomena of euphemisms (un-alive instead of dead), deliberate mispronunciations (corn instead of porn) or explicit spelling (S.E.X. istead of sex), to avoid moderation/algorithm implications.
It is horrible, because most of the times it is not to undermine anything, it is just trying to avoid stupid consequences while the words are used ’innocently’. It is not just sex stuff, but also COVID or whatever. Stupid games where people are fighting the machine that judges them, that can’t tell context (well enough) to figure out if anything ‘problematic’ is even going on on the one hand; and stupid blanketed moderation policies that are obvious ‘one size fits no-one’ tragedies on the other.
We need Nostr’s freedom of association for so many reasons, the current web is awful.

2025-01-11 13:16:24

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The ‘race’ would be attacking the center, which is futile imo.
You don’t attack entrenched network effects head on, it is pointless; Nostr loses on most of all metrics which got those platforms in that position in the first place, at least for now.
What sets Nostr apart is the openness and interoperability, ability to moderate/curate/censor, all while retaining network effect and censorship resistance. This implies an ecosystem; Nostr’s added value grows not just with every user, but with every new application. The resulting clusterfuck of Venn diagrams will eventually encompass the center from the outside in.
This means two things (at least):
1: we don’t have to attack the center, we can encircle it by conquering the margins of niche communities and use-cases, and grow and strengthen the network as a whole that way. Which is also something the competition can’t do (as effectively).
2: The way this works IS to do it the right way, because otherwise it won’t work. It wont have the features mentioned above making the endeavor ultimately pointless.
This new paradigm is difficult because we are figuring it out along the way, in a decentralized/disorganized manner. It is messy and the result will be imperfect but hopefully good enough.
So yeah, you are right Bill, there is no quick win. And if there is something Bitcoiners have shown it is persistence with the conviction pay-off will come eventually however long it takes; one of the many reasons it is this group of people who have a shot at achieving all of this.

2025-01-10 23:37:20

It is an honor to announce that i will be giving the talk about Nostr on the mainstage at FOSDEM.
Thank you @nprofile…c6wa, and the other volunteers for the effort of managing all of this. Preperations have already started, lets purple pill these FOS developers!
PS: if you think you are a presentation slides pro, hit me up. I normally don't really use slides when presenting; and when i do, well....you can look at my videos to get an impression. I will still go for information light and low number of slides, but would not mind them to be, presentable, lets say ;)
#nevent1q…urf8

2025-01-09 21:13:49

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There is no 'here', you started speaking a language and claimed a name.
You use Primal? Albeit the conclave of purists has some remarks on that client, you should not mind that for now. Part of its heresy results in very good search features; utilize those to find what you are looking for.

2025-01-09 07:00:39

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The single market and borders thing was all the EEC, not the EU.

2025-01-09 06:57:29

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The roaming thing is actually a hard problem of accounting, for which the actual sollution would be paying directly for internet acces/bandwidth in some way or another. Which in turn is a technical problem of payments.
Providers do incurr costs and risks, they are only not allowed to directly price those anymore. Albeit that i dont have a lot of sympathy for mobile providers, and they fuck and squeeze consumers in every way they can think off (paying for SMS for example), so in that sense the legistlation was not too bad.
Then again, when are they going to ban these stupid subsciption churn praktices; its an entire fucking industry that produces absolutely nothing. All it does is it forces consumers to play this stupid game of 'its the end of my subscription, i will leave if you dont give me another deal' on the one end; and this endless groundswell of small parties with cheap deals that just farm clients in order to sell themselves again to the big providers after a short while.
Anyway, off topic i guess, but you guys got me started 🤣

2025-01-09 05:22:19

Let me abuse kind 1 here:
Today I went to the meetup associated with the Dutch mini-documentary called ‘Error 404: het internet in crisis’(the internet in crisis), that was released a few days ago.
The episode was about how regulation could keep fight back on the negative practices of social media platforms, following a Greenparty member of the European parliament, the Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation and some lawyer trying to fight a legal battle with Meta.
The underlying question was whether something could still be done or if the crisis was complete.
I had a lot of disagreements with what was shown in the documentary, but it is relevant especially that the EU ‘Digital Services Act’ is going into force now. I decided to go to the meetup where a couple of the key players in the documentary would speak and the audience could ask questions.
My main take-away is that there is this sense of desperation, a lack of control on the situation. The idea that these few large corporations just do whatever they want and are geared towards hacking our very human nature. This path of legislation is experienced as their only hope in turning the tide, using the great power structure in the shape of the EU to fight the monolith of a handful of all powerful platforms. This general sentiment is being expressed explicitly from out the EU itself, stating the ambition to be a world superpower by mean of creating legislation; be it AI, cryptocurrencies or social media. Europe can’t seem to create competitive businesses in these fields, so they try to achieve their edge this way, at least so is the thought.
My sense is that these for the most part are very confused people. To illustrate, during the session they expressed their complaints with profiling and targeted advertisements, to subsequently argue a minute later that better targeted adds should help reduce a lot of spammy irrelevant advertisement practices by only getting things that are relevant to you. They did not seem self-aware of this blatant contradiction, and for the most part operate on some ‘if it sounds good it ought to be that way, if it sounds bad it ought not to be that way’ mode of thinking; unaware of the technical reality of things. I guess a concrete expression of this (that was not discussed, but that is besides the point), is the EU now insisting chat applications (whatsapp, signal etc.) become interoperable; it sounds nice, but how on earth is that going to work? Not their problem, for they have an ought in mind and their dictates will make it a reality...somehow.
In the context of the meetup I was only able to ask one question. I decided to ask that given they take issue with the monopoly position of these large platforms, if they did not fear that all these barriers and costs resulting from this legislation would prevent alternatives from coming up, and that it would not just solidify the position of these platforms able to cover theses costs.
The answer boiled down to something like ‘we legislate bad things, and bad things are not the type of innovation we want, so it wont prevent the innovation we do want.’. The host subsequently asked in response to that answer if that did not simply mean that it was them deciding on what was good and what was bad innovation. This followup question caused confusion, they did not seem to comprehend that this could be the case. They did not really have an answer other than that if insights would change over time, new legislation could be made.
From taking a glance at this EU ‘Digital Services Act’ it predominately focuses on ‘Very large online platforms’ (technical term for anything with more than 45 million monthly users), and for the most part is geared towards forcing companies to have adequate processes in place. So the emphasis is more on due diligence than making them directly liable for stuff happening on their platforms.
Still, the devil is in the details with these things, and they shoe-horned a bunch of ‘grey area’ subjects into this like ‘gender-based violence, public health, and mental and physical wellbeing’.
I do sympathize with these people but in the best case they are useless and in the worst case they are counter productive. Unfortunately they do have their hands on levers of power; and I am frankly more concerned about them, than ‘Big Tech’.

2025-01-07 23:48:06

Profile-centric or Relay-centric? Why not both!
Nostr truly is a galaxy brain idea😏
https://cdn.satellite.earth/9d43bc0e2edb37b3941fd7a1230424ccdf4580a4df760a6dd4e2fd43dad3c3c9.mp4

2025-01-07 12:38:33

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Is the decent private group chat thing easily solved? I have hopes, but seeing is believing.
The second point will be interesting. This high agreeableness/low tollerance for disagreeableness crowd will self segregate by blocking, muting and blinding themselves from the outside world like they always do (and to be clear i think this is totally fine, legitemate and principally have no issue with this); but this time in doing so they wont marginalize others directly via bansishment from platforms.
However it would constitute more of a 'soft' attack on socialgraphs. So who knows how that will actually play out.

2025-01-06 04:23:35

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My dude patience, the video is almost done, jeeeeeez

2025-01-06 04:06:58

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Tigerblood #winning

2025-01-06 04:04:16

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I just gave you the reason for why we are early; even a lot of developers don't fully grasp things yet.
I also told you i dont care about those non-Bitcoin normies; ofcourse they much rather stick to the environment that has a bazillion $ of funding and decades of development history. Where is the value add for those people, there is not any. At best they feel the current platforms getting shittier, but that is a push, not a pull, and for now same-old-same-old-but-with-bullshitmarketing stuff like bluesky will get those people before we do, and then fail regardless.
We are not building a social media alternative, we are building a whole new web, a whole new compute paradigm, its all new, its all different and it all has to be figured out.
Tiktok blew up in no-time because it is the endstage of a paradigm; the bestest fanciest horsebuggy.
Nostr wont win by competing on those terms.

2025-01-06 03:45:20

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You seem preoccupied with (normie) user adoption. That is not unreasonable but personally think this is not the way it is going to play out.
It makes far more sense to me that Nostr will take the margins first and encircle the center before capturing that center. The super power is in the interoperability throughout the variety of usecases; go for the niches.
I, and my sense is a small but minimal viable size group is already at the point of there being no reason to ever go 'back', and our options/usecases only grows over time.
Retention among normies/masses is terrible, but i expect it to be such.
Realize that Nostr constitutes a whole new paradigm that appearently most devs dont even seem to comprehend (fully) yet. We are, in fact, still early

2025-01-06 03:17:06

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Profiles

2025-01-04 15:54:02

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@nprofile…pyug what is the 'KE' at the top right of the post? It was there before i timestamped the post(forgot to make a screenshot); and because it was there and could not figure out what it was i decided to timestamp (because it is in the same location as where the OTS indicator is, to)to see what happens, and it just concatenated.
https://image.nostr.build/461361d533f8b074db989fa7bbdaf51ba3cc6201085bac6518fad45868d86f47.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/85802af07b4d664295ae5ba9605962472dd2e95a96214da389cb7c475d513061.jpg

2025-01-04 12:49:07

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Phoenix supposedly usses it. Atleast, that is what Josie said when i taunted him with the notion Nostr would implement it before Bitcoin

2025-01-04 11:01:45

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I discussed this briefly with some south american jungle spirit, and listed key-value pairs should actually work in terms of implied order.
If/When i find the time i will have a look at the NIP with the NSF guys, see what they think of all of this stuff.

2025-01-03 20:56:28

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How you feel about FROST based bunkers though🧐

2025-01-03 16:26:41

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I agree, although the sollution is rather easy by allowing users to set thresholds on what they get notified (and some way to signal/make clear what that threshold is). From there is kinda becomes silly to complain about getting paid for trivial to ignore spam.

2025-01-03 12:15:28

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Part of me things Saylor just wants to avoid any potential FUD during what he feels is this pivotal moment.

2025-01-03 12:06:48

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It is weird to me saylor supposedly does not want to softfork in covenants. He does not want reactive security on all that btc he owns? Same goes for Coinbase or all the other custody players in the space, you'd think it would potentially lower insurance costs and stuff no?

2025-01-03 04:47:59

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Do you have a link to the NIP/kind description? I am curious. Did you guys just assume the order in the json would imply the order of the parts? If so, then yeah that is not going to work out

2025-01-03 04:43:36

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Via https://alexandria.gitcitadel.com/ on my phone, using firefox. Screenshot attached where i scroll upwards popping up the refresh icon thingy to indicate .jpg that i am indeed at the top of the page whilst looking at the "conclusion" :)
https://image.nostr.build/891d5d361f8c7504c191d5f3c35583acf8b09262f8534fd7440b4f5b388256f5
And the chapter overview is also nicely in reverse order, so atleast it is consistent ;)
https://image.nostr.build/484f7c6afb63099d913a28e837724dcf4a80fa7cffd9ec72670de4a0f0dd6b54.jpg

2025-01-03 04:33:53

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All of them

2025-01-03 04:12:36

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Everything is in reverse order. The end is at the top and the beginning is at the bottom.
Took me a while to figure this out, at first i thought i just loaded some random chapter

2025-01-02 18:22:01

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https://cdn.satellite.earth/7e9bb7fb3d48f771d19ac24fbd58783ef71503a6ae010afaa4e26fcd283d5c9d.mp4

2025-01-02 15:09:56

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Yes, its called the Middle Age

2025-01-02 04:41:46

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Sir, the reason Bitcoin took off was because it started with a nice windows .exe
Whereas lightning started with a linux CLI.
Pls relflect on this

2025-01-02 04:34:46

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Ok, so.
1: forget the selected relays *insert stop trying to make manual relay selection happen .gif*
2: client takes the follow list and uses it as a guide to pick relays for a feed innitially.
3: innitially uses the existing follow list as your 'soft follow' set up.
4: continue the scheme as you described.
5: 'clustered' softfollows could be a reason for the client to decide to add a relay for feed purposes (instead of just fetching particular npub notes)
A: assumes an existing profile with existing socialgraph, if this is not the case, pls see *bootstrapproblemexistsforeverything.pfd*
B: manual relay selection should still be an option, ofcourse, if not just to make you happy

2025-01-02 01:59:20

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A lot of it is repression by proxy anyway. Look at things like the 'Financial Action Taskforce', which formally is not even anything other than a group with a list and 'recommendations' that for some reason countries adhere to.
If according to the ideology being oppressed is the virtue, they cant/wont declare explicit power, so for the most part they don't, or denie it is happening when they do.
Atleast it would be cool to resist some out in the open coherent tyrant; now we are stuck in the most fake n gay type fight of our lives.
A blessed 2025 little valkyrie.

2025-01-02 00:36:31

One thing people often mention when explaining/talking about Nostr, is that with current platforms you can't be sure of the authenticity of a post.
MaYbe SoMe EmPloYeE wIlL pOsT tHiNgS iN yOuR nAmE.
Albeit technically true, the point itself is silly.
1: does this actually happpen? Ever?
2: all you retards end up sharing screenshots anyway. So how about y'all take a big step back and litterally fuck your own faces.
Thank you.

2025-01-01 16:15:26

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Based

2025-01-01 16:08:22

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Is it a closed environment or is the data public? If its public then don't bother discussing and let these people free in their choise to be crybabies about it.

2025-01-01 12:11:16

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Turf war it is then...

2024-12-30 12:32:05

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Ah, we are talking past eachother i see.
Yes, primals approach is retarded and wont work. I was not catching on you were refering to that (that discussion might be all the rage right now, but was not part of the context here, so thats why).
I was refering to/explaining something different entirely

2024-12-30 06:00:08

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I will have a look.
The way i see things now is that each individual client (nor user using multiples of clients for that manner) wont have to perform such exercises over and over again each time. Running such an operation should result in a product (simply put a list of events), which can then be used by others.
Also, these operations can vary in terms of debth and width, adjusting to usecase irt available compute and bandwidth.
At @nprofile…jye9 we call this type of operation 'pulse'; a ripple through the mess of events out there guided by a construct of biasses on npubs and lists.
In any event, i gues my main argument would be that computational efficiency is irrelevent because due to spam, data curration (signal/noise diffirentiation) will be the #1 challenge and i'd argue to only way to tackle that is in in a distributed manner (i.e. relying on a network and networks of networks of people applying sensemaking for themselves). Any walled garden will either be too limited or run over by weeds with nothing in between.

2024-12-30 04:47:13

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As long as its not IPAs, whoever thought those were a good idea has serious taste issues and somehow convinced hordes of morrons.
Tripels are the best btw.

2024-12-30 04:31:08

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That is just some holding company, not the producer of the beer.
Heineken is designed to be the most unoffensive bland taste like nothing 'beer' possible. After a couple of beers it does not matter that much what you are drinking, but having it as your first one is a huge dissapointment (yes, i notice when i am served heineken, without knowing it is heineken).
Grolsch actually has a taste.
I also like jupiler, as far as pilsener is concerned.

2024-12-30 03:07:47

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Heerlijk helder heineken.
It sucks btw, if you drink pils, be a man and drink Grolsch.
Vakmanschap is meesterschap

2024-12-30 01:54:00

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Recon this a bit overdramatic. Given the circumstances we are very lucky stuff like opensats exists, in the way it does. There are so many different ways all of this could have played out that are orders of magnitude worse.
Some context could not hurt, might even make one gratefull, regardless of the need to stay vigilant

2024-12-28 22:54:52

Fuck UX, in it for the tech.

2024-12-28 22:52:21

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What is the value of transparently avoiding all the hard problems?