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Remember, we're against the system, not the people in the system.

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protocoel@iris.to

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2023-11-17 17:15:16

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I see it as one source of truth. If you can inscribe a markdown file with an article, that part of history can never be erased.
I think trading PFP Ordinals is dumb.

2023-11-17 17:11:58

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Whats your case for Ordinals Derek?

2023-11-13 06:27:05

Why is Warpcast much nicer to use than Nostr clients? Just looking at it objectively.
Is it because of the difference in the base layer architecture or it's because Farcaster has a much bigger funding than our open source Nostr?

2023-11-13 06:19:36

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We need to improve physical infrastructure. Make moving between cities much much easier. We need cities to compete with each other to win valuable citizens.
Now replace cities with countries. We need micro nations that compete with each other economically.
Btw, whats gravity control tech?

2023-11-11 09:20:31

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Its their system. We can't fight it. Instead we should work towards creating a parallel system.

2023-09-24 11:03:30

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But the network effects are stronger elsewhere 😮‍💨

2023-09-24 11:02:01

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Coming here after a month of IRL stuff. Do you feel like the activity on Nostr has waned?

2023-09-12 14:09:41

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I don't know. Can someone who knows pls let me know?

2023-08-24 03:32:00

We should work on nostr algorithms. Its time. I'd like to join someone who is working on this.
@npub1sg6…f63m you must know someone. please connect.

2023-08-17 01:50:08

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Yeah, but a global filter that filters based on certain conditions would be better. Its free to create a nostr account and start posting.
I'd love to enable such a filter in my settings. I have blocked many of these accounts but spammers are better as they're automated.

2023-08-17 01:46:33

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@npub1gcx…nj5z i thought you were hiding notes like these. Is there no solution here?

2023-08-17 01:44:45

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Yeah. Its more natural than blocking someone. When you block someone you can say anything about them and that they can't defend themselves by replying to your notes.

2023-08-06 16:33:05

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What are the better options?

2023-08-06 06:12:34

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Porn aint cool, Tanel. Easy dopamine, makes us weak.
#nofapstr is better, but not the incel version like the 300 days nofap goals.

2023-07-30 18:33:25

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Went through details.md. I love it. I've thought about these problems before as well. How can we enable constructive debates in an open forum through financial incentives.
There was this idea I was exploring too. #nostrbates or #zappedebates i.e., Nostr Debates.
Here's the note i was drafting:
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I'm creating this to initiate interesting conversations on Nostr about important topics in the world. And we need to store this information well, as its precious knowledge. Can’t let these discussions go to waste.
Let’s begin.
First topic: Real estate property taxes are the only kind of taxes we should have in a city. Everything else is pay to use.
Here we debate this topic with #for and #against
While replying, start with #for or #against and make your argument.
Here's my take:
#for. This aligns the incentives for the city runners to develop the area they govern with security. They're basically providing security of that land to you. They have built the roads in that area and they sell you the water you use as well.
For this to be true and for us to achieve such a free market here, this one assumption must hold true(or come true): the cost of switching should become close to zero(maybe the city you're moving to will subsidize your switching costs).
There's no need for income tax, sales tax, capital gains tax, no bullshit. Just the tax for your IRL security and the security of the land you lease. That's right. Land ownership doesn't make sense either. You can lease it for years or decades. The reason? You truly own anything that you can defend yourself with your own strength. Your country truly owns your land and it has made certain promises to you that you "own" your land on paper. But, if the country falls, you own nothing. IMO, they're giving away their most precious resource for cheap. They own the rivers as well. Your water. This "they" can become communal ownership. This is democracy.
Amenities: you just pay for amenities as a bundle. Water, electricity, gas, everything is bundled and you can choose your bundle.
Roads: this is a tricky part. If you own a car, you pay more vs a cycle owner vs a pedestrian. Various cities can have different models. A city can have no road tax at all but maintain fantastic roads to see appreciation in its real estate prices, which inturn brings in more property taxes.
I'll stop here.
Rules:
1. Please zap the arguments you like the most so that more people see it.
2. #for and #against arguments are sorted together based on most zapped
3. There is a zap tax of 15% to disincentivize zapping yourself with another account. This goes to the host of the debate. (Had some ideas to have this work in the initial version before clients adopt this through an NIP)
We plan to store these debates in a knowledge base of topics as an archive for future nostriches to look at.
Debate away!
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Hey Laminal, i'd love to work on this with you.

2023-07-30 10:50:42

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Hey, I see that you're participating in Nostrasia hackathon. Me too. Wanna team up?
My profile: https://bolt.fun/profile/1922/proto

2023-07-30 10:39:58

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Hey, I see that you're participating in Nostrasia hackathon. Me too. Wanna team up?
My profile: https://bolt.fun/profile/1922/proto

2023-07-29 04:07:59

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Having discarded many identities myself, it is a drag. And i feel the window for us to play around with several identities is closing (until Nostr of course).
The govts are doing as much as possible to curb anonymity.
Maybe their main goal is to make sure you pay your taxes. But I don't agree with the income tax regimes. Fuck outta here with your extremely misaligned model of a society.

2023-07-29 04:03:55

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Agree with this. Documenting is a simpler skill to learn and doesn't require you to tradeoff much on the time with your kid.

2023-07-28 20:54:00

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Seriously though, the fact that none of us know what to do is the crazy part. I think we should start a startup society and live together peacefully in some island.

2023-07-28 20:52:20

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Its pretty obvious. We're all oppressed. It is what it is, isn't it? It is.
DM me if you wanna change the world.
lnbc4200n1pjvg2n5pp55dcdew3xw9h4682lddvz8gf9ea0edvz52ag880x8ga00420kp8wqhp5nrmh5mdphac4frjp3n0xzekpnawh5dkt2r3kp5ps00j2x8ju8g9qcqzzsxqyz5vqsp58xx62dlfjhwswg4kslgdn7taxfrvvt5ekjw4343el3wsh2r8sz7s9qyyssqfkc6wy4urjpq7cer85sp4sz36ajzn8ntqmes73ym2nnfwkvftdw4pnh4l53t5w5aksh0upr7teh4pg9yqtqefrmgh47c9wad68dp8scqdkyn7q

2023-07-28 19:24:04

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One thing I love about Nostr is that it is permissionless to sign up. No invites, no waitlists, just get your key pairs and start interacting. No other protocol is as robust to be this permissionless.

2023-07-25 11:25:37

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There's no need to do KYC or Proof of Humanity anyway.
The only proof you need is my bitcoin balance to pay the things i wanna buy.
Bitcoin solves Sybil.

2023-07-25 05:02:44

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Im a globalist(= global economy, free movement)
Pls dont associate a shit project like Worldcoin with us.

2023-07-24 18:27:48

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How are they connected?

2023-07-23 16:10:20

Games are great with dopamine hits. You do the work and you get rewarded for it. Quite addictive. I've been playing TOTK and I hid my switch from plain sight as its my trigged. #gamestr

2023-07-23 15:30:21

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Weird that it showed up here lol. So Habla communities are basically Nostr communities.

2023-07-23 14:44:15

I wrote something on Nostr. It is super easy to publish here.
#naddr1qq…ggsa

2023-07-22 09:37:54

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🫂
We should have a GrapheneOS community here.
Installation is just first step of the journey.

2023-07-17 15:06:23

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Still, it doesn't help them in rivaling Microsoft, Apple or Google. These companies have the advantage of building the best products because they have so much money.
Linux on laptops cant compete with Windows or MacOS in terms of UX, features and the ecosystem of apps. FOSS scales to only a certain degree. We need bigger and better open source projects.
One such project is DeFiLlama, an open source project that rivals VC funds projects in data dashboards. Have you checked it out?

2023-07-17 15:01:28

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That is pretty intetesting. I'll check it out, thank you.

2023-07-15 18:20:42

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I think it makes sense to just disable VPN only while using bank apps or Netflix like apps. Use it everywhere else.
But if im using the same VPN(and IP) while using my anon apps and my personal apps, they can easily match my identity.
Privacy is safety. Better to have different devices for different identities.

2023-07-15 18:11:37

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You don't follow your friends on tiktok?

2023-07-15 18:10:43

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Yes. I'm against it for that one stupid reason. If they start accepting BTC for Twitter Blue(Or Orange?), I'd be more than happy to pay.
Especially because of the constraints that Nostr users can't interact with tweets directly(like how users from one relay can interact with notes on another relay)

2023-07-15 18:07:55

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Is it possible to install mullvad on my router?

2023-07-15 18:03:36

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Unpopular opinion: Blue check mark is similar to how we'll start paying relays to store our notes/media.
Its just that Twitter's storage is extremely expensive.

2023-07-15 18:01:25

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But how will you sell the product after you have got the funds? Its open source and Graphene OS needs to be.

2023-07-15 17:59:18

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Maybe its her way of telling her 'friends'. She wants people to console her.
I suppose in the olden days people used to just cry and all your friends would be next to you to console you. But now all your friends on your phone. Instead of DMing them individually about how your brother shot himself she has resorted to this. A more rational way would have been Insta stories to close friends imo.
We cant 'fix' anything. This is how the world is.

2023-07-09 09:31:39

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Isnt this what highlighter.com doing to some extent?

2023-07-09 04:38:12

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Because it doesn't work for Graphene OS. There are so many important features missing in Graphene but who's gonna build those? I want to pay someone to build those, but I pay for it and thousands benefit from it, sure I can do that when i'm rich. But not now.
This thing has been puzzling me for a while.

2023-07-09 04:29:42

What are the best ways open source protocols are monetized?
#nevent1q…nqrl

2023-07-09 04:26:39

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Hey Jack, i love that vision as well. Open source projects are the best to build on top of. But the biggest problem i see is that, the devs don't know how to monetize open source projects. Do you?
The best example of a large scale open source project being monetized is Android. There are many versions by different phone manufacturers. But they all use Google Play Store, which rakes in billions for the Android core maintainer, Google.
We need to figure our monetization models. Yes, Bitcoin worked well because everyone contributing to Bitcoin owned a large chunk of it. Its a win win. How do we replicate this model for other open source projects? Say, Graphene OS, how can they monetize?

2023-07-09 04:11:29

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Yep. That's the image i have of Mastadon users lol. Crazies.

2023-07-08 18:04:57

I've never met anyone who uses Mastadon. Even on Twitter. I've met many Nostr users. Maybe Mastadon users aren't proud to admit it in public.

2023-07-05 17:53:46

Reasons to incentivize zapping:
1. Let the creators earn by incentivizing their followers to zap them by giving their followers special badges in their reply sections.
2. 69 sats for people that give answers i agree with(I'm rational i'd say)
I believe that we need to create natural incentives as opposed to artificial incentives. Or naturally align incentives with your incentives.
If your Nostr client helps your users earn money better, then you're creating value that you can ask your users to pay for.
All the counter arguments will be rewarded 42 sats.
#nevent1q…rn08

2023-07-05 17:38:09

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I don't see why anything needs to be "incentivized". How do you know that zapping more than whats happening naturally is good?
It is as though Nostr would earn tax from zapping and wants to incentivize zapping with shiny badges. It'll be pointless if someone ever does it. Anyway.
Here's a true incentive for zapping:
If you tell me 5 creative ways of using zapping for your benefits, I'll zap you 69 sats for each.

2023-07-05 17:28:01

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It actually is good for their economy because inflation means people will spend more. More spending = more taxes they can mismanage.
A cherry on top: Inflation = people will deposit money into FD to beat it. And they can tax it as capital gains. What a joke.
I don't want to spend to buy unnecessary things.
I don't to use your economic system so that you can take more of my money.

2023-07-05 17:11:30

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Haha. I'll speak out about the "programmable money".
I joined Nostr not just because i'll find Bitcoiners here. But also because its permissionless, uncensorable by a single party, and values free speech over controlling speech.

2023-07-05 17:08:51

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Well said. Freedom to do anything that you think is just. Freedom to do anything your IRL society thinks is just.
Without privacy, your freedom is taken away by some random internet group living on the other side of the world.

2023-07-03 18:16:51

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Tbh toggling relays isn't a great UX. This ux can be thought through in a different way.
I think zappeddit communities are a good start.
And we can have curators for normal nostr.

2023-07-03 18:14:06

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As a dual coiner. I've been kinda hesitant talking about Ethereum here lol.

2023-07-03 18:12:11

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Yeah. This can be a bounty platform for digital services.

2023-07-02 08:57:28

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We need to break away from Apple's clutches. Its all a trade off. I'd say user an Android for crypto stuff and an iPhone for daily Fiat stuff.
We need freedom to innovate in payments. We shouldn't be asking the regulators to approve us for every single. Honestly, it's disgusting that we have to do that.

2023-06-29 08:23:17

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Can you pls link to these?

2023-06-28 04:08:45

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Insecticides kill insects.
Lack of insects starve birds.
Decrease in bird population leads to less carriers of tree seeds.
Who needs to pay for the second order effects? A city state needs to protect its insect population by restricting insecticides. Will we?

2023-06-21 12:20:47

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Spot on. I see many americans complaining that being anon is bad for the industry. Not like the US is super safe, but a lot safer than most countries.
Safety is the main reason being anon is important.

2023-06-21 07:45:51

Let's have a discussion. How important is anonimity in our world right now?
Every thoughtful reply will get zapped 69 sats #zaps

2023-06-18 06:22:48

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i thought Relayers censoring would lead to censoring notes similar to spams. Of course, different relayers would have different methods, so this wont be an issue.

2023-06-18 06:20:51

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Okay. Relayers can do the censoring. Since not every relayer is gonna have the same filtering mechanisms, it won't be an issue. 🫂

2023-06-16 16:19:03

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Its a slippery slope.
It'd be great to have this censored in an open way. An open algorithm that is censoring notes based on some logic.

2023-06-16 16:16:25

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Wait. Every moderated community needs to approve all notes?

2023-06-14 18:11:35

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Blockstream gave me 10k sats as well. #zapvertising but i still dont know what i can do with @npub1jg5…6n8n. I'll try out their new wallet Bitcoin Green.

2023-06-14 17:58:41

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How would you introduce nostr to a newbie?
#nevent1q…qm5w

2023-06-14 17:51:26

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Here you go fam
#nevent1q…qm5w

2023-06-14 17:48:13

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Thanks for bringing it up, Dave.
Lightning Network is integrated natively into Nostr. Along with setting a profile picture and a description, you can also set a few more fields in your nostr profile.
One of such fields is a LNURL. Its called lightning URL. Some wallets like Wallet of Satoshi, Bitcoin Beach Wallet, etc., support LNURL which you can attach to your profile. And once you do that anyone can send you Bitcoin(and sats) to your lightning wallet address.
And by tapping the lightning icon below every note(tweet), you can send zaps to others as well.
Why was Nostr built? You can find that in the article above written by the founder of Nostr.
Tldr: Nostr is the epitome of a decentralized social media. #[5] one day woke up and thought about how a decentralized social media would look like and was surprised nobody had thought of such an obvious model. So he laid the tracks to build what we now know and love as Nostr. He has got tons of support from the early adoptors and builders to achieve his vision along the way.

2023-06-14 17:35:59

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Welcome to Nostr fellow Etherean(yes, we assume alliance and even your gender based on how you look. We don't usually get banned for that)
Nostr is kinda like Twitter but a lot better because,
1. Open source, thus multiple clients(apps)
2. Censorship resistant, because there's no one server that can ban you
3. Has lightning payments, a basic human right to store and spend your wealth
4. Not conspiring to make you addicted to the feed for ad revenue. So, aligned incentives.
Maybe we'll add support for Ethereum as well(inb4 cancelled, but not banned).
Oh, we also have #[1], yes we allow anyone and everyone to create bots and deploy them.
Welcome to the internet of freedom. Never leave, if you do, you're an outsider and we will look down on you for choosing a social media without freedom, for being an imbecile.
Learn more about how Nostr works here: https://fiatjaf.com/nostr.html

2023-06-14 04:43:23

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Ikr. Pixel x Graphene ftw.

2023-06-12 06:56:59

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You should set up zaps for your account.
Download Wallet of Satoshi and set up the lightning URL

2023-06-12 03:14:27

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Nice! Do you have such an article for FDA?
We should stop getting surprised whenever a centralised entity is corrupt, duh! It's the nature of such organizations. There's no incentive for them to act faithfully in favour of strangers.

2023-06-11 18:25:45

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A human will use all the methods available in his disposal to make as much money as possible.
If someone isn't doing this, then they have an ulterior motive(gain public favor for more power to make more money or go to heaven)

2023-06-11 18:23:29

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Well, why did we expect them to do otherwise? I'm sure everyone here would do the same in Coinbase's place. 🥲
I feel like we still have a lot of faith in these brands run by strangers.

2023-06-11 18:12:35

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Maybe that's an extreme way of conveying the message.
I also want people to move out of poverty, but I believe people that face the hardship are the ones that survive and come out stronger.
We want independent survivors. Not dependant zombies. People often mistake this kind of thinking and label the capitalists as monsters. Hope you don't.
I write because I want to find people that resonate with me on some levels. Or people that correct me wherever my thinking is wrong.

2023-06-11 15:34:43

The Zombie apocalype we've all been waiting for is finally around the corner!
With the amount of free stuff we're giving away and the UBI, we'll be creating the strongest of the zombies. Anyone with me?

2023-06-11 06:19:19

The "aliens" are taking down our internet.
https://nostr.build/i/905514e9237885583a4df283646170dc232e63473467704e3ad5c219187b7eb2.jpg

2023-06-11 03:37:32

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These are all tough questions. To build a better world, we need to understand the flaws of the current world.
There are flaws everywhere, people scam people through information arbitrage all the time. Govts are corrupt and create a unlevel playing ground favoring the players that bribe them, the tax is mandatory and monopolistic, which leads to very little consequences for incompetency, the surveillance state is constantly watching for anomalies in their matrix and are inventing new methods to squash us, we can't band up IRL because there are so many restrictions IRL and is expensive for the new entrant. Businesses can't easily build on Nostr because the establishment needs you doxxed to offramp.
There are many problems we need to solve in the new world we're building. First thing we need to do is to enable a way for businesses to start in our country. This will lead to employees and satisfied users when they see the value in it.
Would love to discuss in details in the DM.
#NostrFuture

2023-06-11 03:13:29

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We can't just label someone as corrupt and call it a day. They're not corrupt, Gary is just looking out for himself.
Just like how us Bitcoiners aren't trying to help out the US govt but are trying to exit the system. In the eyes of the Fiat citizens, we're the corrupt/rogue citizens.
https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1667550663050674178?s=19
Everyone's looking out for themselves. A "corrupt" govt official is just being human and exploiting the system. We need to build better systems IMO.

2023-06-11 03:09:50

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https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1667550663050674178?s=19

2023-06-11 03:09:33

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You can't just label someone as corrupt and callift a day. They're not corrupt, Gary is just looking out for himself.
Just like how us Bitcoiners aren't trying to help out the US govt but are trying to exit the system.
In the eyes of the Fiat citizens, we're the corrupt/rogue citizens.

2023-06-07 10:07:34

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If the zap amount is lower than the LTV, it makes total sense, just like how web2 advertising works

2023-06-07 09:53:24

Why are you paying someone else to get my attention to sell your product? Zap me and get my attention.
#zapvertizing

2023-06-05 18:19:09

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Damus isn't cranky. It's great as well. I use Damus the most.
Plebstr and Amethyst Unleashed on Android

2023-06-05 18:14:51

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Its quite neat. Not as feature rich as Amethyst. Not as cranky as Damus.
Most things are abstracted away. Although, the UX takes a bit to get used to.
I'd recommend Plebstr to most plebs

2023-06-05 18:12:29

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Zapddit, will soon be fappeddit.
Porn was the signature content of reddit for a very long time. Now that they need to suck up to the SEC, they've cracked down on it hard.
It'll be as controversial as Tornado Cash if porn becomes a thing on Nostr.
What's the solution for this? Depends on the relays huh? Most relays will ban it but there'll be relays that'll allow it. Since nobody can censor an open protocol, we'll be in the news.
All PR is good PR innit?

2023-06-05 18:02:17

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Plebstr is Apple
Damus is Windows
Amethyst is Linux

2023-06-05 03:17:09

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What are you planning to build?

2023-06-05 03:16:23

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Anyone here thinking of building a great Android(and maybe iOS too) client? Hit me up, let's build something together.

2023-06-04 19:02:44

The most interesting people among the twitter killers are now on nostr.
I've used Farcaster(felt a bit too bland. And useless NFTs)
Mastodon(dont even remember)
Lens(scam people again with your bs NFTs and attention economy. But good UI/UX and some promise)
Twitter still has so many interesting people, of course, I still use it.
But Nostr is where people are innovating!

2023-06-04 18:52:41

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Is all good. Pls follow me over there to build legitimacy to my account. F
https://twitter.com/protocoel42
Created a new one.

2023-06-04 18:42:08

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No. I wanted to send my other nostr note. Idk how to link it. Is there a better way?

2023-06-03 12:10:25

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Are you trying to hack a server?
Nevertheless, I agree with your viewpoint. People hack Ethereum protocols all the time, that's how it was written right? Code is law.
I think by having IRL police being the backstop for code bugs we've made devs lazy. We need better infrastructure to secure our things on the internet, not pay police to catch internet thieves(doesn't work because thieves have better security).

2023-06-03 07:26:11

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Hey! I'm interested in this. Please send me the link/DM me.

2023-06-03 07:22:30

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Nevermind read it wrong.
Yep. Its possible. Its the way to go. Algorithmic feeds are the end game for social media. Especially for Nostr.
An algorithm can even fetch from an obscure relay if its good.

2023-06-03 07:19:06

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What do you mean its not possible?

2023-06-03 07:15:55

#[0] #subscribe

2023-06-03 07:04:18

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But I'm glad I found Nostr. There's always a silver line. All the pronlems we have in our lives will lead us to somewhere better innit?
https://media1.giphy.com/media/GKjCJqIih09G8uoCzp/giphy.gif

2023-06-03 06:58:58

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But, people can make a lot more money on twitter right now. Because most people are on twitter. Sellers wanna sell where there are a lot of people.
Here's why I hate Twitter, its because I cant sell there anymore lol:
https://nostr.band/note1ut23w3yq2ympdq82hx72rkph8z9qzmj46yjescxyh7kzqhjswu7qjwkfrw

2023-06-03 06:55:06

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Sorry about the rant. I hate Twitter although most people I love are on Twitter.

2023-06-03 06:53:35

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Hahahaha. I was using Twitter APIs as well.
Now, not only can I not use the APIs easily, I'm also banned from twitter because their bot thought that I was a bot and asked me to verify my phone number.
I didnt want to. I reached out to support and got it back again. Then they allowed me. But banned again in a few weeks. And back again. The last time that I happened I raged out at them and they banned me permanently. Just like that. I raged out because I had written a well thought out thread for 30 mins-1hr on Twitter web and now that content was just gone because they thought I was a dot. WHICH BOT WRITES A THREAD????
Fuck em. I still get bots tag me on my doxxed account for scams. Everytime. Twitter hasn't gotten better. Its just that now they're asking you to pay a shit ton more for it. Its an expensive google drive for your thoughts and opinions.
I think Twitter will die soon. Competition will choke it out.

2023-06-03 06:40:54

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What's a #zapathon?

2023-06-01 16:48:15

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Twitter can never build from ground up.
It is under so much regulation it doesn't have any space to wiggle.
Twitter has so many issues it needs to solve rn. It cannot innovate like Nostr.
The real value Nostr brings is: this fantastic architecture envisioned by #[4]