modesittb
Brooks Modesitt

Public Key

npub1uelky8na5jnnxle5cnff368eu302ls4zzuzk03v8vzrq5nn03jqq429crl

NIP-05 Address

modesittb@easynostr.com

NIP-57 Address

warringroast73@walletofsatoshi.com

Profile Code

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nos.lol

relay.damus.io

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2025-02-16 17:36:52

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Looks like the minimum of this graph is around 1973, not 1971. Guess what was also in 1973? Roe v Wade.

2025-01-23 08:11:11

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Very much interested.

2024-12-02 08:58:28

https://explorer.spacesprotocol.org/

2024-08-21 22:05:57

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(Get it because T-1000)

2024-08-20 01:59:00

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https://image.nostr.build/2128b4d023d98c98bfcde45c6b6f09ee7f62622e98b700b40f131db13fc5d202.gif

2024-08-10 18:38:12

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2024-06-17 16:03:42

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IMO the best part of social media is having people you actually know online. Sure, algorithmic recommendations keep your attention, but leave you feeling empty. It’s the interactions with people you know that are fulfilling. Private, invite-only relays, combined with an easy to use app limited to those relays (for the normies, but self-custodial once they want to venture out of the walled garden) could be a way to achieve this and slow the rise of AI generated content. Invites are moderated using a tree/pyramid invite system, eg if someone invites several spammy accounts they themselves will be banned.

2024-06-10 03:05:16

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Cloudflare or Namecheap

2024-06-10 03:01:49

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Yes, currently DNS is very centralized (plus names are effectively rented). But we must have some sort of human readable solution for naming (as opposed to memorizing an entire npub, for example), or else it will look like we are taking a step backwards.

2024-05-17 03:38:18

Interesting article #note1hrd…44aw

2024-03-06 04:37:24

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Pretty sure the newest version of Yggdrasil (0.5.x) removed the DHT and is using CRDTs and bloom filters to route traffic.
https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2023/10/22/upcoming-v05-release.html

2024-01-01 23:45:20

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This is awesome, I’ve always been interested in the pyramid invite system like with lobste.rs
https://lobste.rs/users

2024-01-01 18:39:35

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TOR onion addresses are no better than IP addresses, in fact worse, in terms of convenience and ease of remembering. IPFS does not work in practice. Unstoppable domains are also based on a centralized contract, you’re choosing between government control or private company control, which is no better than ICANN.

2024-01-01 08:53:52

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Thought this was a bot at first😂. Happy new year!

2024-01-01 08:50:51

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In terms of privacy, I agree, it doesn’t make sense for it to be on the list. But DNS is very centralized, with one entity (ICANN) overseeing the entire root. There’s no way to truly own a name on the internet, you can only rent it. I used to be entirely against the current system, but now I see some scenarios where a centralized DNS makes sense, like in name collisions, squatting, faking identity, etc. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love a decentralized alternative to DNS (for example Handshake), but it would be wrong to ignore the shortcomings of decentralized DNS. And DNS and web security are very closely tied, with CAs only granting certs to ICANN domains (or ip addresses but that defeats the convenience of DNS), which means your devices have no way to “trust” a service without an ICANN domain. DANE + DNSSEC could fix this, but no browsers support it.

2023-12-31 20:40:21

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/copy-acquire-kill-how-meta-could-pull-off-the-most-extraordinary-pivot-in-tech-history/

2023-12-30 06:36:25

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Pretty cool that this has been implemented now (nostrudel or dtan.xyz for example), although I’m pretty sure I was mistaking an indexer for a tracker. The next step is now for these sites to setup APIs to allow automated downloads from certain totally legitimate downloaders (for example people wanting to get the latest Linux os). Or better yet implement a nostr client directly in the automated downloaders.

2023-12-28 04:57:08

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Test sat

2023-10-22 17:50:24

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2023/10/22/upcoming-v05-release.html

2023-10-11 20:51:59

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Which project does P2P hole punching? I’m intrigued

2023-08-21 15:33:30

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Maybe the elevate app for strava could be a starting point.
https://github.com/thomaschampagne/elevate

2023-08-18 14:14:07

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We need a Strava alternative based on Nostr

2023-08-12 21:42:30

https://veilid.com/

2023-08-06 19:03:25

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Dude is Peter Schiffs son, this tweet is sarcasm.

2023-07-28 01:37:07

@npub1gcx…nj5z A bit ago I replied to a thread discussing media hosting on Nostr and suggested a hybrid torrent system for media. Torrents themselves you said have too large a latency to work with a social media app (fast scrolling). A hybrid system would allow the mobile client to upload and download from an image repo of their choice, using http allowing for lower latency. But if requested, the image hash could be queried over the mainline DHT like any other torrent, for example. This would also allow image repos to sync with one another, and if a client requested an image off a repo that wasn’t present, the repo would be able to cache that image and serve it using faster http for future mobile clients. You think this idea is feasible for Nostr?

2023-07-27 21:12:24

@npub1elw…ehan As someone who became very bullish on decentralized DNS alternatives a couple of years back, I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the current state of those solutions. Obviously in order for these alternatives to become widespread, large ISPs and/or browser makers will need to resolve them. Do you see any current solutions being accepted, or something new entirely?

2023-07-23 00:05:26

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https://handshake.org/

2023-07-16 15:06:43

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Yeah it would use BitTorrent. I was just referring to the tracking software/index of files. The actual file transfer protocol would be BitTorrent since it’s battle tested and works. Essentially a Nostr based tracker.

2023-07-16 03:38:47

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Someone could do it with NIP-94🤷‍♂️

2023-07-16 03:33:28

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Now this would really increase adoption

2023-07-12 16:18:23

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IANA*

2023-07-12 16:18:07

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Any other non IANI namespace would have to be implemented/recognized by the client or by the upstream dns resolvers of that client, correct?

2023-07-11 00:53:06

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Handshake fixes this

2023-07-10 21:53:41

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What about a hybrid system? Might lead to centralization in the long run but could be used until there’s a breakthrough in torrent speed, couldn’t media still be hashed and in torrent form, and the user could choose a particular gateway for images in their client, which would be a large cache for the images and hence, faster than implementing a full torrent client in a mobile device?

2023-07-10 16:51:37

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Opting in, Damus was struggling

2023-07-09 01:13:00

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Torx or Robertson is the way to go. Phillips strips easily, flat head bit slips out of the screw too easily and doesn’t center on its own. Although if you use quality screws and bits, and torque to specifications, you shouldn’t have issues. But that would be unrealistic.

2023-07-08 20:39:33

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Awesome, I might use this on my blog in the future. I like the rating system. Something I think Nostr needs is a more universal rating/reputation system, I think arcade is implementing one based on NIP-32 and it also factors social graph distance.

2023-07-08 20:03:28

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How is this different from Fiatjaf’s nocomment? https://github.com/fiatjaf/nocomment

2023-07-06 02:00:30

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A solution to this must be client side, as having a relay attempt to filter all events with mentions is unrealistic. Someone suggested that clients could filter all mentions/replies by people that haven’t zapped you at least once. Or the already implemented option, to only show mentions from people you follow. Maybe clients could implement some kind of rate limiting. Relays could always just block the pesky npub, but creating new identities is free, so they’d be better off having a pay wall. There also is pow. Has a viable reputation system taken off yet? Clients could filter mentions based on npub reputation.

2023-07-05 00:50:21

@npub1me4…0ues Any chance we’ll see a new version of Apollo based on Nost Communities and NIP-172?
🙏🙏

2023-07-03 16:50:05

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In your NIP you mentioned a reputation system, I was wondering what were the latest updates on a Nostr reputation/rating system? Someone made a NIP just for that purpose and it became NIP-32, maybe that could be used?

2023-07-03 16:41:16

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Some people have already been doing that, attacking nostr intentionally to try to force a spam fix, but I haven’t seen them recently.

2023-07-02 23:25:57

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Hey, I just had a look at pkarr and it looks really interesting. Could you describe how it will work with Nostr in the future to solve discovery, I’m still a little confused. Thanks!

2023-07-02 03:10:24

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Woocommerce is free and open source

2023-07-01 21:51:11

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Hello there!

2023-07-01 21:26:51

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I’m realizing this too. The user can effectively become their own algorithm by choosing who they follow, and not having random posts spamming your feed is a breath of fresh air.

2023-07-01 21:25:03

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Since notes are distributed across many relays, search doesn’t work very well (yet). Try looking at who people are following. There are also online directories of Nostr npubs and their corresponding Twitter handles.

2023-07-01 21:05:04

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Damus by the looks of it

2023-06-27 02:49:16

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Yes, this is definitely an urgent need. Not sure if there are any Apple APIs that would enable constant requests to another app (presumably running the wallet) to sign every action made in the app though.

2023-06-26 17:44:40

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test note!

2023-06-26 17:43:09

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Testing reply from nostr.kiwi

2023-06-26 16:10:04

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Something with the fundamental idea of decentralized (largely non hierarchical structure) internet architecture? Or something that Yggdrasil itself uses, such as the use of a DHT

2023-06-26 03:38:19

@npub180c…h6w6 what do you think about yggdrasil? https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go

2023-06-26 02:55:01

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It sounds like ChatGPT but I don’t care if it is or isn’t because it’s insightful

2023-06-26 02:35:20

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Delicious

2023-06-25 03:42:30

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Test 2 with alby!

2023-06-23 02:59:06

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Federation isn’t the solution—we’ll have issues like this unless there’s a great enough incentive to host a stable server and prevent personal differences from getting in the way. But if everyone flocked to the few trusted instances, everything would be centralized again. And while you could still host your own instance, who’s to prevent the larger instances from not federating with you? Similar to how it’s nearly impossible to self host an email server with reliable delivery.

2023-06-22 02:02:16

Anyone have any advice for blogging platforms? Want to convert my blog to static for speed and versatility (it’s currently on Wordpress) but also still want a gui editor with easy image support (drag/drop). I’ve also heard of people hosting their blogs over Nostr, so preferably a platform that integrates with Nostr.

2023-06-21 23:21:19

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What mechanism is used for the stream?

2023-06-19 15:59:36

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Is this Bisq?

2023-06-19 02:51:37

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🤦‍♂️looks like I was too late😂

2023-06-19 02:49:52

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lnbc1u1pjglsjgpp5g2f3u77etg9asn7xkxpqumkgyxgj2jh9nu0sw9drqrlhpkh3e3jqdqu2askcmr9wssx7e3q2dshgmmndp5scqzzsxqyz5vqsp5yrxhdx2r5kvnhwcuvvjlrfdxm84l5dlfufztuh9yt0jvjtccnves9qyyssq06q0vfrc0mm47j83u049e8d7e3l0g4d0kmyvktxxryvjdc0vt9w3dqm53wld9yw7summsrqt2g8sy7wxznkkh3236xs6mr0dqckahzsp7lxa3s

2023-06-19 02:09:36

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There’s someone who has an army of these spam boots insisting we fix the protocol itself—is this a possibility?

2023-06-19 02:06:02

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I’ve been getting spam in my replies but never this long

2023-06-18 16:38:07

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Thanks

2023-06-18 15:45:46

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!add @InternetH0F

2023-06-17 17:35:05

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!relays

2023-06-17 17:34:13

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!help

2023-06-17 16:15:22

Is there work underway to fix search in Nostr? Damus’ search is useless, and without a good search mechanism, discovery is hindered. Maybe ideas could be taken from bluesky, relying on large centralized indexers to recommend content? Obviously this is not ideal but what other options do we have?
#grownostr

2023-06-17 16:02:02

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Nope. One of those airdrop spammers commented immediately after I made a post.

2023-06-17 16:00:49

It seems the most commonly pitched Reddit alternative is Lemmy. However, it’s federated, and as I’ve previously said, federation does not seem like a viable solution. I hear there is work to build reddit-like communities on Nostr with NIP-172, which looks promising. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/602

2023-06-17 01:30:11

The main issues I see with anything federated is that people will not run their own instances. Users will flock to large instances, and everything will be centralized again. And even if people did decide to host their own instance, I predict it would end up somewhat like how hosting your own email server is. Your reach is at the mercy of the moderation of the larger instances, and who they choose to federate with. But someone smarter please explain how I’m wrong.

2023-06-17 01:26:22

What do people think about the AT protocol vs Nostr vs ActivityPub? It sounds like the AT protocol was designed to fix shortcomings with ActivityPub, namely portability, but how does it stack up with Nostr?

2023-06-05 01:39:00

How do I switch back to the old Damus icons? Not a fan of the new ones

2023-05-23 20:22:58

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Looks like the T-X from Terminator 3

2023-04-07 03:50:30

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Maybe Handshake could fix this

2023-04-02 04:21:41

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How about Handshake for a decentralized DNS root zone?

2023-03-12 17:46:26

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That’s where those 18 sats came from. Thanks!

2023-03-04 04:29:51

Testing lightning invoice
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2023-03-04 04:22:40

Just added a LNURL address from wallet of satoshi to test #zaps

2023-02-28 21:44:30

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I use Damus btw

2023-02-28 21:43:58

Someone please explain how I can set up zaps with Nostr.

2023-02-26 18:25:11

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What’s going on here

2023-02-24 22:58:26

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