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npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240

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rabble@nos.social

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rabble@primal.net

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Last Notes

2024-11-18 17:09:23

Bluesky has 10 million monthly active users. It’s still a centralized service with aspirations to be a decentralized protocol, but what they have done is working for a real set of users. They don’t overwhelm or confuse people because the main app feels like something people know and their starter packs really work for people finding their communities of interest and people.
#note1gyd…prmm

2024-11-17 07:57:27

Excited we’ll have people and a booth at fossdem!
#note1vn2…f2aw

2024-11-16 13:35:21

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TikTok is much better if you use it in a country where they haven’t enabled the crazy home shopping network functionality. This is kind of like Amazon where they found a business model that makes so much money they can’t stop as it destroys the central value proposition of their platform.

2024-11-15 21:26:23

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Oh I’m interested in these client and nip ideas.

2024-11-15 01:17:37

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This is a disaster for science and public health.

2024-11-14 00:08:12

It’s really exciting to see @npub1e74…g2cl on Nostr!
#note1v36…v4kt

2024-11-14 00:04:04

The Andes at sunset.
Cruzando la cordillera.
https://i.nostr.build/uX6DxHZYI1qieN5m.jpg

2024-11-12 11:41:18

Signal gets group video chat!
#note16jt…868m

2024-11-12 01:09:04

So who wants to take bets about Elon’s X buying Truth Social? It’d be the ultimate way to buy the presidency. It’s a waste of several billion but Elon will get it back through government support of his businesses.

2024-11-12 00:06:11

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I’m not a fan of the term expat and rather just call everyone who moves to live in another country an immigrant. People immigrate for many reasons and it’s pretty hard to learn to live in a new country, culture, and often language.

2024-11-12 00:02:01

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I’m in Uruguay right now, I’ve lived here off and on since 2003. But I’ll let an Uruguayan on Nostr answer the question about what they think about their country’s policies and people moving here.
#note1c3c…uzfg

2024-11-11 23:59:09

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How about you not make assumptions about a people you know almost nothing about boludo.

2024-11-11 23:49:45

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And strong banking secrecy laws and bearer share corporations. It used to have stronger financial privacy protections but the US and IMF kept pressuring the government to remove those rules.
And drugs, abortion, and guns are legal. The latter is regulated.
Oh and if you work in tech and your income is from overseas you don’t pay taxes. The idea is you’re bringing money in to the economy in a clean way.

2024-11-11 20:27:03

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The fear is that progressive states won't be able to keep people safe with a Trump lead trifecta in DC.
More I was surprised to see post after post of parents of trans kids talking about relocating to Uruguay.

2024-11-11 20:14:30

My sister and her wife asked about moving from Arizona to Uruguay because reasons. I went to look up the expat forums and they’re full of families with trans kids who have moved from the US or are considering it.

2024-11-11 14:55:57

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Primal uses strike.me as a custodial wallet. Meaning they old the money and have to comply with US banking and money transfer laws. You could use a wallet which is non-custodial and it’ll work. Unfortunately it’s harder to setup. Maybe @npub12rv…85vg could help you figure out cashu for a nostr wallet.

2024-11-11 13:25:59

Interactive tutorial for how Nostr works.
https://how-nostr-works.pages.dev/

2024-11-11 12:12:42

Elon did such a bang up job when taking over Twitter, I’m sure he’ll do great with those exact same methods and people with the US Government.
https://archive.is/MLxVu

2024-11-11 09:16:19

So much good stuff happening in the Nostr ecosystem.
#note1xf0…clck

2024-11-10 20:59:35

The reaction to Trump winning this time is so different than last time. Instead of being inspired to organize resistance there’s dispare and fear.
Maybe once Trump’s project 2025 starts to be implemented people will get organized. Maybe Trump will succeed in remaking America in the image of Orban’s Hungary.
https://archive.is/Orybg

2024-11-10 20:41:53

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The parties have changed a few times in the past. And about 90 years ago the ideology of the Democrats and Republicans flipped.
Look at this. The coalitions have shifted a lot.
https://i.nostr.build/wnuj3rHA4krBCJvk.jpg

2024-11-10 17:26:13

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I think these things take longer than a week to organize.

2024-11-07 02:18:22

Look, Trump got 2 million less votes than 2020. The problem was that Harris got 14 million less votes than Biden. Democrats lost because they failed to inspire and turn out their voters. Not because more people supported Trump this time than last.
Trump did his thing. But this was a failure of the Democratic party to do what it needs to do to win elections. You’ve got to run for something that can inspire people, not just against the other guy.
Off the top of my head the only policy I remember Harris advocating for that was unique was a $25k subsidy for first time homebuyers. That wouldn’t do a damned thing to make housing more affordable. Oh and she’ll continue to fund the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
Trump promised all sorts of crazy things like mass deportation, tariffs, no taxes on tips, and stopping imaginary in school trans surgeries. Doesn’t matter that the deportations are cruel, the tariffs and exemptions for tips are bad economic ideas and kids aren’t getting gender affirming care in schools. Hell, even project 2025 shows there’s a ton of proactive policies. Not good ones or ones i want, but lots exist.
I supported Harris and followed the election but can’t think of what she’d do if elected differently than Biden. She failed to get people to vote for her. That’s the long and short of it.

2024-11-07 01:59:19

In case you need to know how to disappear online.
#note1wdx…lhsc

2024-11-06 13:58:52

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Not according to most international evaluations of freedom per country. The US is pretty far down the list.

2024-11-06 12:16:40

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Trump is many things but a man of his word he is not.

2024-11-06 10:53:43

In case you’re looking for an country that cares about freedom here’s a list of some you might consider.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices

2024-11-06 03:34:33

Well I’m not regretting my decision to emigrate and settle in Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://www.immigration.govt.nz

2024-11-04 23:06:30

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While I think voting and democracy are important I’m pretty sure most people around the world are not dreaming of the broken American political and social systems. Most people I talk to outside the US assume the country is a violent dangerous place with a crazy system of elections and broken healthcare system. It’s been at least a decade since I heard people say much admirable about the US.

2024-11-04 23:01:49

The @npub1pu3…tfch team is making empanadas together as part of our retreat.
https://i.nostr.build/3AOVoDJFfNDB6bXx.jpg https://i.nostr.build/v5elGKL0PcZIHwFY.jpg https://i.nostr.build/KBIZ83Y4yYzTjSyV.jpg https://i.nostr.build/jshC1MFa6CauuErm.jpg

2024-11-02 20:39:30

Turns out empowering violent police officers with massive surveillance tools doesn’t solve crime or make people safer.
#note15c8…v70g

2024-11-02 20:35:22

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I think it was recorded but I don’t know much more than that.

2024-11-02 14:11:10

I think we’re going to increasingly see people hand over decisions to their AI. I’m not sure it’s good, but it seems like it’s inevitable.
https://archive.is/gxm9g

2024-11-01 21:25:51

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Hermosa

2024-11-01 18:06:13

The #nostrbooth is kicking off at #labitconf
Tomorrow we have nostr talks and Sunday a whole Nostr day.
https://i.nostr.build/PWiKl0sQZirC1g4P.jpg

2024-11-01 17:13:14

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Sounds like a great idea.

2024-11-01 16:00:43

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It’s an incredibly profitable and sustainable business model. I think the inability to do subscriptions in Nostr and bitcoin is a major blocker to our getting a sustainable business model.

2024-11-01 14:22:24

It's some dystopian shit when websites want to charge you to download content that you uploaded to their site.
https://image.nostr.build/311b68a3e714a043be559ac03180dcc56fcd657563416351449ae65c18bf1a68.png

2024-11-01 12:52:43

This is the best piece I’ve read about the elections in the US if you care a lot about the genocide in Gaza. We need to be strategic and understand the system within which we live while we work to change it.
#note16f5…t45g

2024-10-31 18:22:46

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We still get situations like this person who joined and was scared away by enthusiastic bitcoiners pushing him to setup wallets and learn a ton of stuff he isn’t interested in.
@npub10vh…g0fp

2024-10-31 18:16:07

Bluesky and its user community struggle with it being a vc backed company controlling the protocol.
#note1gkv…sfxt

2024-10-31 07:57:10

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It doesn’t bother me really. Just sort of people make assumptions. There is some confusion.

2024-10-31 07:55:20

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Why not just directly publish the 30023 event from ghost. The clients like habla and YakiHonne can just display it.

2024-10-31 00:52:03

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Voy a saltar el charco mañana.

2024-10-30 22:31:13

Hola Montevideo.
https://m.primal.net/LnYG.bin

2024-10-30 09:44:31

@npub1f4f…f7ql has a new essay about what is bringing people to decentralized social protocols. He calls them Elon Musk Events (EVM’s) which drive people to leave one platform and try alternatives.
He wrote the essay, Protocols, Not Platforms which really pushed forward the idea of social media protocols as a viable alternative to centralized platforms.
The latest one on adopting social media protocols is somewhat focused on Bluesky but it talks about Nostr and other protocols. The point is we need to keep exploring and trying things to figure out what are the killer features that decentralized can do which isn’t easy or possible with centralized systems. Nostr has so much experimenting going on that it’s hard to keep track of which is amazing. We need to do a better job at talking to new and potential people in order that they are invited in and see value in staying.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/29/some-slightly-biased-thoughts-on-the-state-of-decentralized-social-media/

2024-10-30 00:38:28

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Harper the red beard wizard

2024-10-29 23:19:46

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It’s come up a few times, but clearly the name confuses people. Nos.today is its own thing not affiliated with nos.social. It’s cool, but one of my projects.

2024-10-28 23:50:02

Yum yum ramen https://i.nostr.build/2Q6H3wqxO6RBuGSD.jpg

2024-10-28 03:01:38

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Yeah Meta decided to suppress all political and electoral content. It means that there’s a whole group of people who are essentially unaware and if the election.

2024-10-28 01:52:21

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You do realize that map is a parody right?

2024-10-27 23:13:32

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That sucks. Endo is so intense and shit. I hope you’re able to find the right balance to get it under control.

2024-10-27 22:59:50

https://i.nostr.build/3lF6TB6XvdVcutOL.jpg

2024-10-27 05:33:28

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Yes, but it’s something we need to fix across the ecosystem.

2024-10-27 01:42:50

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Yes they are impersonation accounts that have an invalid nip-05 name verification.

2024-10-26 09:37:56

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Ditto & soapbox are ActivityPub servers. He funded that work via an OpenSats grant.

2024-10-26 09:31:46

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Why do you think Jack Dorsey is involved? He left the board and didn’t take equity. He also did grants to Nostr and some fediverse stuff too but didn’t make it an investment. Wouldn’t you want billionaires donating money for open source open protocols without trying to own it?

2024-10-26 05:26:51

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Is there / could there be an SDK like your iOS Nostr SDK that would make it easier to make nostr native apps for android?

2024-10-26 00:17:40

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I think most of it is very easy to implement in Nostr but the real layer which is missing is a way for machine learning to pick which notes to display based on user activity and engagement. That’s buildable and a lot easier/cheaper than it was when TikTok or even IG reels were developed. But we have no way to bundle up user engagement data and send it to a trusted algorithm service. We could do a DVM or custom relay to display the content based on the algorithm service.
The other issue to address is that TikTok and its clones are very optimized for performance with incredible low latency uptime. You need a good CDN and really optimized clients.

2024-10-25 07:27:44

So Bluesky raised $15 million in a new round with a partner from Blockchain Capital taking a board seat.
https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

2024-10-25 07:24:41

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Wait. What? Bluesky raised again?

2024-10-25 06:14:19

This is huge. I’m so excited about MLS over Nostr. Good work @npub1zuu…c2uc !
#note125c…v0fj

2024-10-24 08:32:30

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@npub1yau…vjmf is working on @npub1c0n…g243 which is an iOS nostr events app.

2024-10-24 07:25:09

Understanding from here to there ( aquí to allá ) in Spanish.
https://i.nostr.build/SWL5CyMvLpZXD0bw.jpg

2024-10-24 07:18:41

Troop.is for events.

2024-10-24 07:15:01

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There’s a great book by @npub1nhc…6w95 about this very thing. “Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires”
https://rushkoff.com/books/survival-of-the-richest-escape-fantasies-of-the-tech-billionaires/
I moved to New Zealand and I think it is a pretty amazing place to be, especially with the rise of authoritarianism and climate change. Not because it’s a good place to build a bunker in the remote mountains of the South Island. Aotearoa New Zealand is a place with incredibly high trust, even with political divides the politics and culture here is cooperative. Sure the natural resources are tremendous and the place is isolated, but that’s not what makes it work. What makes it work is people see the humanity in each other and believe that’s more important than anything else.

2024-10-24 07:04:56

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I’m glad you love my “GM nostr” pitch :)

2024-10-24 01:00:59

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Yes. What should we be doing in our reposts / quote posts that we’re not doing?

2024-10-23 23:30:08

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We are devo!

2024-10-23 22:50:06

Why aren’t we doing more stuff with Nostr and Tidal? It’s really cool, they launched it back in June, I’ve seen it pop up a few times but we should do more with it.
Like make ‘share a song’ more a feature in the app and auto login with your nsec when you see events with Tidal content.
https://developer.tidal.com/blog/tidal-embeds-the-other-stuff-transmitted-by-nostr

2024-10-23 03:50:27

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But New Zealand does have a balance between public and private healthcare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_New_Zealand

2024-10-23 01:42:18

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Also to be clear the NZ system spends less per capita from the government budget on health care than is spent in the US. We have a much more effective system without the excessive paperwork of the American system. And yes there’s private hospitals and health insurance here and even pharmaceutical advertising. It’s really not very different from America, it just works a lot better. Lower taxes, better security, more benefits.

2024-10-23 01:38:17

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https://youtu.be/sgspkxfkS4k?si=ugqTWlMLeBBwKQuE

2024-10-23 01:37:15

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I think it got deleted.

2024-10-22 21:36:51

New Tor browser is out.
#note1950…2mfl

2024-10-22 17:49:37

Interesting, dev tried to build group chat style app on top of ATprotocol and found it was too slow to work. I’ve always been amazed at how fast Nostr is but I haven’t yet seen a clear thing that is performance related that works on Nostr and not ATProtocol.
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.mom/post/3l74hmtbg42bt

2024-10-22 00:01:35

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They’re now saying it was a tech error. So I’m guessing some AI automated account suspension bot.
https://i.nostr.build/BNtUqrPrHnA2a0pW.jpg

2024-10-21 23:51:51

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Oh interesting. I was on the yahoo pipes team. It was the first thing I worked on after leaving odeo (twitter).

2024-10-21 22:34:51

Apparently they aren’t going to tell me anything about what or why I violated their community guidelines. But by verifying my email and phone number I’m ok now. All very odd since I’m already a verified user with 2fa and an associated Facebook account that’s been active for 19 years.
I’m pretty sure it’s because of the CCTV footage I posted over the weekend.
#note14zg…kh9a

2024-10-21 20:25:45

So this just happened.
https://i.nostr.build/73kJYRzEZoJbFxvu.jpg

2024-10-21 01:22:30

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Landing on the moon was cool, but wasn’t it essentially just propaganda against the Soviet Union? How does that help Americans?

2024-10-21 01:19:09

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I find it fascinating that you truly honestly believe it is true. There’s little point in arguing the exact points because neither of us is likely to change our minds.

2024-10-21 00:50:17

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I can’t tell if this is satire and you’re being ironic or not.

2024-10-21 00:40:57

The German government has setup a sovereign tech fund. It will fund open source technology because “the open source ecosystem serves as the foundation for society's innovative strength, competitiveness and democracy. Digital sovereignty is the self-determined use of digital technologies and systems by individuals, industry, and governments. “
https://www.sovereigntechfund.de

2024-10-20 22:20:34

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Nice to see. Somehow I thought ditto already had that since nip46 remote signing seems to be most aligned with how ditto works.
How do you post with a mastodon client connecting to ditto without nip46 to sign the content?

2024-10-20 05:19:34

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It’s only controversial to bigots.

2024-10-19 22:14:21

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Well there’s a lot of people who blame society’s problems on queer people. Scapegoating a minority is a good way to distract people from systemic problems. The church has engaged in systemic protection of priests who abuse children, so let’s redirect the legitimate anger at kids being hurt at some other group.
Concerned about how your real inflation adjusted wages haven’t gone up since the 1970’s? Blame immigrants and Jewish bankers as opposed to central banks and the monetary system.
Often the most extreme homophobic and transphobic attacks come from people who are themselves queer and hate that part of themselves. So they lash out at others who aren’t self-hating and try and prove their straightness to themselves and others.
Look. If you’re happy with your gender then enjoy it. If you find yourself attracted to the people society says you are supposed to be attracted to, then that’s awesome. You’ve avoided a lot of unnecessary trauma.

2024-10-19 20:07:52

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This time I had a backup flag pole and flag in waiting. As long as they keep tearing it down I’ll keep putting it back up.
I often see people stopping to comment on or admire the flag as they walk along the waterfront and I think having it up does a tiny bit to help make society a bit more inclusive.
https://i.nostr.build/q1QADY6x2sfZLnJu.jpg

2024-10-19 18:41:44

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The police said they are going to send a CSI person to gather fingerprints.

2024-10-19 12:59:45

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I doubt it given then way he runs off with it.

2024-10-19 12:33:09

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No a gay pride flag looks like this.
https://i.nostr.build/DMEAIkeAng9IcCCx.jpg
It was Valentino Vecchietti's intersex-inclusive Progress Pride Flag.
https://i.nostr.build/jrvGH1hEBw7W14dN.jpg

2024-10-19 12:28:17

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Not in New Zealand. Guns are for hunting and sport shooting here. Using lethal force is not a legal response to trespassing or property crimes here.

2024-10-19 12:25:21

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In New Zealand I’m pretty sure the All Blacks flag is the local straight pride flag. It doesn’t bother me at all. In fact I think nobody should be shamed for their sexuality or gender, so straight people shouldn’t be ashamed either.

2024-10-19 12:08:33

Third time this has happened this year. This is the first time I caught it on video, unfortunately they knew there was a security camper and covered their faces.
https://v.nostr.build/EUHiEqSkTR3SXLyl.mp4

2024-10-18 22:13:55

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We faced something like it with the spam stress tests a few weeks ago. And we discovered the servers stay up but we are vulnerable to a sophisticated attack on the network.

2024-10-18 22:12:11

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A couple of years myself. Welcome.

2024-10-18 22:03:13

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I think the biggest issue would be a lot of relays are run as single instances without load balancing / replication. Strfry supports it but I doubt it’s being done. And then the search relays are similarly scalable but not setup for it.

2024-10-18 22:01:14

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You build community and followers by commenting on other people’s posts.

2024-10-18 22:00:20

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Should be right away.

2024-10-18 21:59:56

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I see the profile but no posts.