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2026-03-13 12:49:29

Hacker News people, flood this thread, hype it up!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363504
The grasp site looks good. and no mention of Nostr anywhere🤣

2026-03-13 05:09:31

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atleast this picture is not at dusk, so we are slowely getting there

2026-03-13 01:32:11

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2026-03-13 01:24:07

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''A solid 4''
Where you fall short of peak Odell (5-7):
>No Bitcoin/Lightning zaps, open-source funding calls, or policy advocacy.
>Lacks technical depth on keys/events (Odell dives into privacy guides and podcasts like Rabbit Hole Recap)[9].
>More essay than action—Odell pairs philosophy with ventures like Ten31's $100M+ BTC-only bets.
''You're Odell-adjacent: thoughtful protocol evangelism without the empire-building. Stack more sats and drop a Nostr client rec to hit 5''
Getting mogged by a midget via his empire💀

2026-03-12 22:36:17

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Are you making a statement or?
https://image.nostr.build/4b87b9b2973eb389299dbc46875681f8d0a68238f168aca3ba07584699690fbb.png

2026-03-11 00:37:43

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how about them apples

2026-03-10 21:37:58

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Its always nice if you can approach a space from the ground up like that. Il stay tuned to see how this ends🍿

2026-03-10 14:06:04

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look, i never used grimoire once in my life, but that is not the point, it is still the best client.

2026-03-10 14:03:18

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https://github.com/fiatjaf/vnak

2026-03-10 13:50:15

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And these days NAK has a GUI, so I don't want to hear any complaints!

2026-03-10 13:49:01

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PEOPLE ALREADY ARE CONTENT CURATORS DEREK....FFS
EVERYTHING IS CURATION, MY OWN POSTS, THE STUFF I REPOST, MY LISTS, SAME FOR RELAYS RRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Seriously, im kinda pissed. We should burn everything to the ground and force everyone to write fucking queries to generate feeds. You specify people(npubs), places(relays) and things(kinds) and get the shit you asked for.
Everyone is grounded, no dinner, until they have mastered NAK...after that they can have @npub1era…skz0 . And after that, maybe they can get their antiquated fucking twitter clone clients back.

2026-03-10 13:40:17

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Its stupid, just give them an easy way to generate a feed based on their friends follow list, instead of having them follow those people directly.

2026-03-10 12:55:11

👨‍🍳 @nprofile…47c0
https://blossom.primal.net/81016db7766086ad38c6e0c7c29fb3a6dc42a30082df6b97a98f5f6b76383c06.jpg

2026-03-10 09:24:03

I just realized that my life long opposition to platforms, their stupid accounts and walled garden silo bullshit, at its core comes from frustration.
Being aware that alternative ways of doing/organizing would be fundamentally better and possible, just made me dislike the current paradigm from the start.
I recon most people never had those a priori frustration, and as a result they/we now all experience the multitude of frustrations after the fact.
''We'' need to realize that ''we'' made the mistake in our behavior. ''We'' all went to had full of sites to sign up there, and ''We'' pretended that these corporate owned spaces were the public square, and ''We'' made ourselves dependent. I am not advocating for some collective action, the ''We'' is capitalized and in quotes for a reason, its just to point out that we ought to stop advocating for ''Them'' to change.
Take the following clip. ''I don't know''... thats just it. Between captured network effects and alternatives being shitty, people feel lost and defeated.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/45b5296d5509ce9b766ba3ccb3d3253e9d586edf964acfb7c2ceb3dc07e9c945.mp4
We are at the point that most if not every person is aware they dislike the current paradigm. They need to be convinced the alternative is here....for real this time.
Nostr for me primarily is a relieve from the frustration i described. It made sense to me, so i accept all its (hopefully initial) quirks. Unfortunately, regardless of the dislike people have for legacy platforms, it seems they hate quirks more.

2026-03-10 00:02:07

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congrats!

2026-03-09 22:24:50

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Cool!
It gets me thinking. I designed TEPP for signing/execution control over other keys. But i wonder if a similar scheme could work on bunker sessions. It should be a lot easier, because i don't see the need for trust extensions and association is more straightforward; but the view-only/interact, kind, time, day, (maybe relay) controls; it could compart mentalize a single keypair.
The bunker would, on creation of the bunker session, would create and sign all the permission events irt to the bunker session, and follows those settings. The result is on the one hand a record of the permissions applied to each bunkersession, and the ability to pinpoint actions/signatures that were made back to the permission that was used, for troubleshooting/accountability reasons; you also have this shareable and modular standard of applying base Nostr permissions.
#naddr1qv…qdnn

2026-03-09 00:10:17

One quirk in Nostr, is that you are supposed to share npub or event ID and relay(hints) at the same time; this immediately tackles the vast majority of issues finding stuff.
So when you reference someone, you don't use the npub, but the nprofile, that has relay hints encoded in it; when you reference a thing, you don't use the event ID but the nevent, that has relay hints encoded in it.
But nprofile and nevent are not static things; you ''are'' still your npub.
You can wonder to what extend the npub as such is of any use to anyone, at the very least at the foreground. All it means is that we somehow have to make clear to users that the string they share to others about themselves can be different from time to time, because it is both the ''ID''(/npub) and some possible locations.
Or maybe most users will never care because clients just automate this stuff, i dunno. I think people can wrap their minds around npubs, but they are not all that usefull on their own.

2026-03-08 14:56:35

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Also, maybe you like this profile
@npub1kk0…6xq2

2026-03-08 14:52:27

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Are you really close to blind, and would you benefit from a tailored interface accustomed to your close to blindness for Nostr?
I sometimes wonder about the potential for nostr apps tailored to certain disabilities

2026-03-08 14:45:34

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You are a wizard harry, a wub wub wub wizard.
https://youtu.be/R_NtokmVAgw
What makes it difficult for you to see fresh new things? Al you need to do is cast the right spells🧙‍♂

2026-03-08 12:04:06

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Ok, so ''Not-Nostr''?
The whole point is that through tamperproofing it does not matter where you get your events from; you don't have to verify the relay, you verify the content you get from the relay.
The ''outbox model'' = Nostr; it was just implied at first, so it took some time to become explicit, and eventually got named/referred to as ''outbox model''.
Now, this obviously does not scale endlessly; you can manage to get a lot of stuff via outbox, but on top of that you can also just add the layer of picking particular relays and relying on their curation which is fast and efficient. It is because there is the ''outbox'' substrate, that, lets say,any 'malicious' censorship that occurs is mitigated; i.e. ''censorship resistance''.
The reverse perspective is also true: Because users are flexible and censorship resistant, relays are relieved from any expectation other then their own interests, and can enact whatever policies and moderation it wants, self determination via self determined means; i.e. ''freedom of association''.
''server to server'' is just aggregation that happens via certain clients on particular relays; one ''relay''/actor just queries other relays just like a client would, in order to store it elsewhere as a relay to make it available. Thats fine, relay feeds are fine, but its not either/or; the whole point is that its both.

2026-03-08 03:55:31

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Well, running your own relay does a couple of things for you i guess.
Given outbox, its not unlikely most of the requests for your stuff, go to your relay directly; at which point you can ask yourself if you want to ask for auth for a bunch of reasons.
Also a lot of people will send most of their stuff referencing you to your inbox directly, so you don't have to fetch it anywhere else.
Other than that, the content as such is still out there on other relays so it wont help you with your own data requests, which was the main issue at hand; which brings us to the last thing ''running your own relay'' (be it an individual, household, business or institution) in the aggregate can do is scatter the data. But who knows, you will get a market at the back of it gathering pieces. 🤷‍♂
Its fair to think and worry about this stuff, but the big elephant in the room is all the data-analyses potential of all the stuff people put out there as public information themselves.

2026-03-08 03:40:14

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I think that its fair for relays to ask for auth in the first place. I mean, cool if relays respect users privacy and such, i hope they do....

2026-03-08 02:22:43

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Dunno, i guess long term its a losing proposition not to expect relays to demand auth; at which point, what are you actually defending with non-auto-auth?
Which raises the question what type of data-harvesting could and would they do, and what would be the value of that data, and what do they do with it?

2026-03-07 17:46:52

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The cyborgsupersoldiers are not pacifists, and don't really care if the other party is; they just see easy new real estate

2026-03-07 14:49:27

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you can you @npub16lr…mfeq 's app for that

2026-03-07 11:41:33

Guys, we solved Nostr's adoption problem.
Just get lots of babies. I hear @npub10pe…n34f is willing to fund the breeding program.
#nevent1q…p07y

2026-03-07 11:37:43

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baby-making has probably a lot to do with it.

2026-03-07 10:43:39

I see so many videos with commentary etc. about the various troublesome aspects of the current platform-centric web paradigm. And i'd love to make these people aware of Nostr, but there is seemingly no way to contact them without being on those platforms themselves...
Hahahah the irony. We need a Morpheus who bothers to go into the matrix to purple pill all these Neo's.
Not it!🙆‍♂

2026-03-07 10:39:34

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What happens if the biologically engineered mechanically enhanced cyborg super soldiers come knocking at their door?

2026-03-07 10:37:22

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very pretty and i get the sentiment, but there is a geopolitical reality that will result in your existence at the whims and mercy of the dominant power that did use the tech.

2026-03-07 10:33:37

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inb4 the digest being all 0's

2026-03-06 23:07:45

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Well, he does program in go🤷‍♂️

2026-03-06 22:58:46

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No, he indeed made a fuse filesystem to browse Nostr events. I just want my files nostrified/blossomfied so i can access them from whereever

2026-03-06 22:41:43

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The app works, excellent.
Now finish it:
#nevent1q…y522

2026-03-06 22:34:12

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Sir, il have you know i use an empty group chat on telegram to transfer my stuff🧐

2026-03-06 13:18:09

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And i'd argue clients have an interest in providing this stuff because i suspect it would increase retention.

2026-03-06 13:17:24

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This has nothing to do with relay feeds as such though. A lot of the current relays that focus on this stuff are themselves communities, or something close to it; and its roughly the same group of people doing that.
But what if you ask some LLM to categorize all events it can get its hands on, and curates them into seperate topic based feeds, with it running a batch every day to update it. Just spitballing but my point is, the nature of the feed itself and how it came to be can be anything.

2026-03-06 13:05:03

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Now a month in, how would you answer your own question?

2026-03-06 12:43:12

#asknostr
How would one submit a talk about Nostr/Permissionless systems/TEPP for Oslo Freedom Forum? The madness surrounding ''online safety'' has been escalating.

2026-03-05 21:20:04

This video is very good, watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwQ0KTAih84

2026-03-05 14:26:08

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ah well, now the idea can die in public instead of withering away in a private chat :)

2026-03-05 11:46:44

@npub1xts…kk5s listened to a podcast you did a few months ago, where you talked about leveraging follow-packs as an on-boarding method. I think in second instance, follow-packs are a great thing, but new users should start at curated relay feeds first, instead of curated follows;
The user selects interests, so showing them stuff that aligns with those interests is indeed what you want; but whether the user actually wants to follow those people or not is a second thing altogether; and if it turns out they don't, they are forced to take some action.
Whereas with relays feeds, they just pick another feed and are not attached to anything; the only action the user is ''forced'' to make is this learning moment that they can change perspectives. You could always offer associated follow-packs consisting out of the npubs the relayfeed is made out of.
With a relay feeds you can curate on the event level, instead of getting all of what npubs publish. Also, these topic-(sub-)relays could be read only, scraping stuff from other places; users interacting with those events will do so using outbox anyway.

2026-03-05 09:36:50

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as i am working on a protocol and system that is full of lists...what makes them so cumbersome?

2026-03-05 09:35:31

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dont know if it solves anything, but i had the idea, told it to the jungle spirit, and he liked the idea but was sad it was going to die in that chatroom then and there....
So i just copy pasted my remarks and pretended it was a reply to your post, to ensure its out there.

2026-03-04 16:51:09

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What if @npub1era…skz0 type spells, and follow-lists were the same thing?
Is not the ''main'' follow-list just ''all the things from this list of people'', which you can translate into a nak query thingy? and subsequently you can add specifiers on things, making lists distinct; the definition of the list, is the query.
i.e. ''what type of list is this?''
"Oh, its a list that looks at the recipe-kinds of the people listed on these particular relays''
''that is what that list is, how nice that i understand, and that we did not have to set up some committee to define all the possible list types, because we can express all possible list types via query/defining npub, kind and relay''
Its not nicely indexed, but the Clients would also know what to look for based on kind specifications in the query , and could also choose to modify them (like remove unrelated kinds).

2026-03-04 12:44:14

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They are, but there is no need for us to all be at the same one;
Be it here, or there, we recognize each-others identities and data-formats and the query language with those servers is the same. This means we can use interoperable interfaces (clients), and because on the internet, time and space collapsed; with the same ease with which the entire world can visit the same location, they could also just visit the place where they need to be at that particular moment.
Websites+RSS is really close to Nostr. At some point i had my RSS setup with all the newssites and what-not, but the rest of the internet decided to move in a different direction, time to steer is back

2026-03-04 12:07:58

Spring preview 2
https://image.nostr.build/f679c0acceacdb34f4d20513834c119f5f8a8eb2e268006d1514e9424c4b6692.jpg

2026-03-04 10:49:49

Why do we go to the same places in order to interact and make sense of things, if we can just go to wherever the other person is, and make sense of things ourself?
Nostr.

2026-03-04 10:18:45

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''video not available''

2026-03-03 19:43:32

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your mom

2026-03-03 19:40:51

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If anyone is interested, its name is pinkeltje

2026-03-03 19:37:36

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the sudo password is the same as his name

2026-03-02 19:27:38

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This is a Dutch series, that started in 1996 and is still going.
https://image.nostr.build/b71203b026af306f9c7520b0fb51f757b1a19b59385d035f6b6fdbdbcdfad5c1.png

2026-03-02 15:27:09

Spring preview
https://image.nostr.build/dcc4f65915f963a9a21f8b759bf7601de77aa7b58bc7eb98c2b53c893d22c0cb.jpg

2026-03-02 13:02:18

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Its a policy-agenda/zeitgeist thing. I saw it getting traction 1,5~2 years ago and picking up momentum about a year ago.
The ''think of the children'' angle is really powerful, especially because there are legitimate concerns. My main issue is that the whole discourse around this is framed within the current paradigm, with the obvious conclusion that the centralized platforms everyone relies on need to be held accountable and need to ''fix'' it. All these laws etc. do is make demands on central platforms, with no guarantees whats however they are capable of enacting those demands effectively. Spoiler alert, they can't, so discontent will just push the lock-down further and further until the hardware and the internet itself are fully permissioned.
This direction is a dead-end liberty wise, and my guess is it won't do all that much in terms of safety either.

2026-03-02 11:35:03

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i just zapped this post 2500 sats. Goodluck, and i will await what you come up with.

2026-03-02 11:22:48

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i want to be able to configure the blossom servers and relays myself, that would be a requirement for this PoC.
Is it ok if i zap you the 2500 sats on your reply to this post?

2026-03-02 11:15:35

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what would be your price, and do i need to pay in advance or after? What if i am not satisfied, can i get a refund?

2026-03-02 10:42:18

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I see. What would have to be added to the NIP94 part would be adding all the meta-data that the file itself has. It does not have to be specified in a NIP, but stuff like all the crap .mp3 files for example can contain. What i think is weird is that NIP94 does not have a field for the filename.
What is the issue with versioning? All versions would be separate files/events/blobs, so you should be able to figure out what is what no? I.e. the one with the latest date is the latest version...
I'd say lists would function as folders

2026-03-02 10:28:13

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@npub1ye5…knpr how does this work? Does it come close to what i describe?

2026-03-02 10:22:03

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funny you'd ask
#nevent1q…tmqz

2026-03-02 10:21:12

#asknostr
Is someone working/has anyone worked on a Nostr-''onedrive''?
I.e. take my local files, turn them into blossomblobs, create a Nostr event with all the relevant meta-data surrounding the file, such that i can go and fetch my stuff on other systems, and share files with others?
I vaguely recall stuff like this

2026-03-02 09:52:54

Obvious path is obvious;
Ideas a being floated, bills are proposed and laws are being signed to force age verification on the OS level. Once you go the top-down permissioned route for safety the final stage is everyone ending up in a cage to account for all variables.
This is the reason i am working on TEPP, to provide parents permissionless tools to create permissioned environments for their children (or agents/bots).
Nostr keys at the OS level would be great, not just for this stuff, and TEPP would fit nicely; but it also means i just have to enter my keys/bunkerlink into the OS, and it can initialize with all my apps, settings and files right then and there.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/california-introduces-age-verification-law

2026-03-02 03:35:44

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*Desert-Disneyland experience not affected, i repeat, Desert-Disneyland experience not affected*

2026-03-01 17:43:55

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just walk a bit faster and you get warm regardless

2026-03-01 17:42:39

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in order to reference a Nostr event (or a user for that matter), use: ''nostr:[eventID, or npub, or nevent, or nprofile, whatever string here]''.
Now that you know how to do things manually, you dont actually have to. You simple selected the wrong option inside primal. You picked ''copy note link'', which gives you a url you can use outside of Nostr. You should have actually selected ''copy note ID'', it automatically adds the ''nostr:'' part for you and would have resulted in this:
#nevent1q…6pd7

2026-03-01 13:14:39

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I recognize this, but when it thinks an idea is stupid, it will tell you so. Unfortunately this does not help much, because it probably only does so with obvious things and is also probably wrong about it often.
One problem is confirmation bias, it will just find all sorts of papers and articles to support its reasoning, which is nice but on its own proofs nothing, im sure every position has some academic article associated to it.
Another issue i have found is due to its stupid bias to agree with you, it will start out telling you what a great idea something is, to further on describing all sorts of things which if you think about it would undermine the idea but it never picks up on that.
Just use it as a fancy google to find relevant articles.

2026-03-01 09:27:25

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https://youtu.be/Rbm6GXllBiw

2026-03-01 08:04:33

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It was this post that inspired the thought btw:
#nevent1q…hjre

2026-03-01 08:03:11

One of the cool yet wonky things about Nostr is how depending on what it is you are doing, location/server/relay matters or does not matter, and sometimes sort of at the same time.
Let look at the current web. Lets say there is a news article about a new type of fruit that is discovered in the jungle somewhere. People share the link (or screenshots but there is a special place in hell for screenshot-of-news-articles-posters so lets ignore those for a second) in all sorts of places, be that in the comment section of the news site itself, on the-X-platform, on subreddits, forums, discord channels, telegram groups etc. A conversations about this new fruit happen all over the internet, among different groups of people. Biologists talk about it from their perspective, Chefs speculate on new recipes, environmentalists worried humanity will cut down the jungle in search for more of this fruit, Allergy-support-groups depressed that there is another thing they will probably miss out on....and so forth.
All these conversations are public, but isolated on their own servers, enjoying their own moderation to enforce and align with their preferred context (Biologists talking about biology, Chefs talking about cooking etc.). With Nostr, you can throw out a query looking for anything that replied to that particular news article. Normally the result will be twitter-like, giving you all sorts of individuals with their comments and branching threads.
But if you happen to include the relays where these ''contextualized conversations'' are happening, you can get those as well. All the sudden, you don't just get access to how individuals view a thing like this news article, but how different groups talk about it as well.
What makes this possible is that even-through this stuff is on separate relays, just like all of this is on separate servers today, that's the only thing that separates these posts; the profiles/ID's/''''accounts''''', that are used, as well as the underlying data-structure constituting the conversation and for good measure the interface with all these different relays, are all complying with the open protocol, and whatever app can be used to interface with it. In the legacy web, things are not just separated by location/server, but by different account types, data-types, and above all apps as a result.
Now i am not the UI/UX-for-the-normies-guy, and let those that are figure out what is a sensible way of displaying all of this, but to think you can shove ''Nostr'' as such under the rug as to hide it is a dead end. Lean into it, start to leverage all the possibilities that Nostr provides as a reason for people to understand.
Nostr.

2026-02-28 11:11:22

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What makes you think im not already doing that? Your stuff is good

2026-02-28 01:44:48

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write it with your newly acquired quill

2026-02-27 22:56:49

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Cool

2026-02-27 14:44:48

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Vibecoded monster cocks, lets goooo

2026-02-27 14:41:48

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Im talking about penis enlargement pills, whats the difference?

2026-02-27 14:36:15

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I for one was very happy to receive details on penis enlargement pill in my email inbox! My cock is massive now.

2026-02-27 00:54:07

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Nostr is not a microblogging system, thats just low hanging fruit on what to build first.

2026-02-27 00:51:56

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I'd propose to do all of these via musig2 signed events between the parties involved;
This way the event can scale to more than 2 easily, other than coordination, which was kinda the point of the ''signal'' that the event is designed to give anyway; the ability and willingness to coordinate.
I would say the analogue would be ''friends'' as a phenomena we know from the legacy web.

2026-02-24 12:11:24

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can you give me a tool that allows me to scrape all my posts looking for blossomlinks and back those up to the azzamo server?

2026-02-24 10:20:43

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well, time to go either back or forth again, because you are wrong.
But the response needs an article i notice.
TLDR for article not yet written:
>You have: Things(events), People(Npubs), Places(relays).
>''To Nostr'', on the read side, is to query, and you can play around with the specification surrounding things, people and places in that query depending on what it is you looking for/want.
>But you will always have to specify either people or location at least to avoid spam.
> When specifying authors/npubs, what relays should be automated/outbox.
> When specifying location, user has to have awareness of places/relays to begin with.
>> people being aware of location/relay is NOT an issue, people understand websites just fine for example, all they need is an intuition for the new paradigm.
@npub1era…skz0 does it best. Clients (all clients, from a read perspective) are just renderboxes for queries (or spells). A ''feed'' is just a spell that is being cast. Performing the spell should obviously be automated, but constructing the spell should be something most users CAN do, or at least understand. The nice things about queries/spells/feeds, is that they can be exchanged.
Relay feeds are just a simple type of spell, so are follow feeds; either being location or people based respectively.
You are a wizard harry, a wub wub wizard.
Nostr.

2026-02-22 16:47:54

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Im not on there though, hahaha. But yeah, spread the word

2026-02-21 16:01:14

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Oh no, its fine. I could have managed on my own anyway. But yeah, if i would have to rely on a w*m4n in such a situation, i would have probably just torched the car right then and there, obviously.

2026-02-21 15:44:31

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Only a little bit

2026-02-21 11:35:37

Well, it was bound to happen at some point; got my car stuck in the mud when i got to my forest. Lucky for me, there were two hunters right there seeing it happen, so they got me out of their real quick😅
https://image.nostr.build/433e924eb67cb068561892e31e93d03ee82bf6997dec6b11fc80bebca7af7dc3.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/44d803ccdff9d6062a00d932454d7b2c2a9140e821884a92bc5ed17d0a03edf1.jpg
#forestr

2026-02-21 00:08:21

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So can i conclude that the person who took the picture does not care about @npub18am…p424 ?

2026-02-20 16:16:24

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https://youtu.be/swghsu7LXSs

2026-02-19 19:53:49

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Their pricing indeed never covered the costs, so the subsidy given to the users only makes sense if they can get those users locked into their platform, such that they can later leverage that platform lock-in. Without that, users are just burning antropics money and just walk away whenever its convenient.

2026-02-19 00:53:15

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>goes out in public
>>comes back with old fotograph and plasma grenade

2026-02-18 16:39:08

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but....you know...did you need to throw them away?
Omnomnomnom
https://image.nostr.build/deda4f2ee153a2435bbc1a5ca69512323ba2200f66d778f0aa0303dc5ddb85d1.png

2026-02-18 13:38:45

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Its an expensive hobby for sure. Its not been useless for me, but the main component of all the vibecoding/AI stuff for me was mostly keeping/getting hands on experience up with what is going on in this fast moving world, and chuck up those costs as part of my 'education', lol

2026-02-16 17:33:49

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All of this is a setup to where you have to go to those bureaucrats as well to get permission for your app to check it applies to the UI/UX regulations that they have decided upon. Meta is not being regulated into oblivion, it is being regulated into position.

2026-02-16 17:09:44

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The point is that bureaucrats are going to platforms, forcing their decisions on them which is subsequently what you get. So they forced platforms to provide a reverse chronological feed of the people you follow? How fucking lame is that, how about giving users actual freedom to determine for themselves whatever their preference or desire might be.
Nostr.

2026-02-16 14:38:04

Big Tech Doesn't control this feed anymore.
In Europe, bureaucrats do!
#nevent1q…t0kx

2026-02-16 14:34:00

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ive been yelling at computers for longer than that.

2026-02-16 13:39:51

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Public!? Thats dangerous...there are, you know...people out there, in public.

2026-02-15 23:12:21

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I actually disagree that knowing that a reference is made, simply by ''nostr:'', is an unrealistic expectation. Its both a very simple, and very powerful skill/piece of knowledge. I am sure that in the eternal UI battle strides can be made, but the insight is worth sharing regardless.

2026-02-15 16:23:58

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haha even worse is that now i look in my wallet i see i did in fact send 3x 100 sats. But not sure if that issue is on your or on my end through.

2026-02-15 16:07:49

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I am atleast slightly annoyed you reference a nostr event with a url instead of a 'nostr:reference' :).
Try the other button 'copy note ID' instead of 'copy note link' next time when. The first is for use inside of Nostr, the other is used outside of Nostr ;)

2026-02-15 14:00:36

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A lot of the problems is due to the fact we allowed the network effect to be captured by centralized platforms, which subsequently keeps us hostage. Thats what i mean with the architecture being primary, and the incentives flowing out of that.
Just an example, of the long list of issues, is the fact that you need to install an app that requires full access to every part of your phone including a signature written in blood giving up the soul of your first born. Nobody WANTS to agree to those term, we just got ourselves into a position we HAVE to agree.
In a Nostr world, such an app would have a lot more issues getting traction, because you have countless alternatives that leave the soul of your first born alone.