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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.

2024-11-06 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 23:01:49

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

2024-11-01 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

2024-10-28 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.

2024-10-27 22:59:50

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

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.

2024-10-24 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 01:00:59

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

2024-10-22 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

2024-10-21 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 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 05:19:34

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It’s only controversial to bigots.

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 20:20:43

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And for folks that are wondering there are Nostr academic papers too.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=nostr+protocol&oq=nostr+protocol

2024-10-18 19:03:04

The Bluesky team has an academic paper describing the protocol that’s a pretty good high level but somewhat technical overview. It includes how they see Bluesky compares to Secure Scuttlebutt, Nostr, Farcaster, and ActivityPub/Mastodon.
I think folks who are building Nostr apps or advocating for it in comparison to Bluesky would do well to read it to understand what they’re doing and how we’re different.
We should also write up one for Nostr.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239

2024-10-18 06:41:16

GN
https://i.nostr.build/6NuI4aO2F5zRF1pD.jpg

2024-10-18 04:04:44

@npub1dmu…4mg5 is a research group looking in to how to make social media a heathier space for everybody.
They just put out a presentation on how to make local digital communties that work. I’d love to be able to build these communities on top of Nostr.
Here’s the slides: https://bit.ly/local-digital-spaces
A lot of their research is looking at FrontPorchForum.com , which is a social network only for Vermont, but it’s REALLY popular in Vermont… 80% of households and 50% of adults in the state are active on Front Porch Forum.
https://newpublic.org/study/3635/front-porch-forum
One thing which jumps out from this is how groups or community spaces need a steward for a community. Somebody to welcome newcomers, set norms, sometimes moderate, and generally be the welcomer. Just like physical spaces tend to have people who steward them.
New Public has a guide for strewarding a digital community: https://newpublic.notion.site/Creating-a-Flourishing-Digital-Public-Space-for-Your-Local-Area-6e563c345c494cceb1b95f6dfd282519
Right now we’ve got several kinds of groups, from just access restricted relays to a bunch of group nips… I think if we look at what works elsewhere it can inform how we build them on Nostr.

2024-10-18 01:32:50

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Link?

2024-10-18 00:18:29

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Chugging along !

2024-10-18 00:16:44

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I just wrote about this.
#note18yy…5tyx

2024-10-18 00:15:00

So Twitter is seeing a bunch of folks leave and join Bluesky because Twitter is changing the way its blocks work to be like Bluesky?
https://docs.bsky.app/blog/block-implementation

2024-10-18 00:00:09

I think prediction markets are pretty neat. They were the primary way of predicting the outcome of elections prior to the invention of modern opinion polling.
In recent weeks the polymarket for the US presidential election has noticeably diverged from the polling. The polls have stayed flat, it’s essentially a coin flip as to who will win. The prediction markets have broke to Trump with a 60% chance of winning. Is this a real shift that bettors are seeing vs the polls or is someone manipulating the market. You could make the argument that placing bets on your preferred candidate is a capital efficient way of shifting the outcome. Journalists use the markets to shape their coverage and will start writing articles about momentum when they see the prediction markets shift. Elections are very messy so it’s easy enough to find evidence of momentum in any direction if you’re looking for examples to fit the narrative. And the narrative about a candidate pulling ahead will lead to more press and focus and is likely to help the candidate get more votes on Election Day.
All of this to say it appears one person is attempting to do this in favor of Trump.
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/bettor-trump-harris-betting-pair-polymarket/

2024-10-17 08:08:52

I don’t know who’s doing @npub1wkr…6xvg but it a nifty newsletter summarizing what’s happening in the Nostr Ecosystem. These things are hard to keep going, but really useful for the Nostr community to be able to keep track of everything that’s happening.
#note1u52…l73q

2024-10-17 06:40:28

I’m really sad to learn that @npub1w9w…k403 is stopping publishing and going on hiatus. They’ve been covering social media protocols for a long time and picked up a Nostr section last year to cover what we’re doing. We need organizations like We Distribute to make the social protocol revolution succeed.
https://wedistribute.org/2024/10/on-hiatus/

2024-10-17 06:21:52

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Ugh you don’t win the war by killing every Russian soldier. You win by making the cost of continuing the war too high for the Russian government. Soldiers getting asylum in France is likely to undermine the Russian military’s ability to execute in a more systematic way than just killing more soldiers on the battlefield.

2024-10-17 06:17:18

I asked a friend who’s been using Lens what’s happening over there. They’ve got a similar issue with one primary community of users to Nostr, except theirs is Polygon maxis and ethereum related web 3 folks.
First off, I think we’re in better shape than Lens.
“On Lens, however, there is no meaningful algorithm in place across the main front-end clients to perform this function. Whether you’re using Hey, Butterfly, or Orb, the content you see often appears randomly, without any logic or personalization. Even posts from people you follow frequently fail to show up in your feed, forcing users to manually check each profile for updates.”
That’s just bonkers. At least in Nostr our follow graph and chronological feeds work pretty well. And with DVM we do have some apps which support plugable third party algorithms.
But beyond that I encourage folks to read the whole piece. Because the author goes on to say that discovery for content creators is a major problem. If you join how do you build an audience. With Nostr you do it by commenting on other posts and eventually having folks with an audience repost your content. It works, but not well, and mostly pushes folks to post about bitcoin and nostr instead of posting about other stuff just using bitcoin for zaps and nostr for publishing.
https://app.t2.world/article/cm1yqjrly57217420mcprv6us4l

2024-10-17 04:55:51

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Jobs: https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/jobs
This is the list of jobs that will put you automatically on track for permanent residency.
https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/preparing-a-visa-application/working-in-nz/qualifications-for-work/green-list-occupations

2024-10-17 04:53:39

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My taxes went down when I moved from the US to New Zealand and I got the free healthcare and education. Pretty good deal. All you have to do is stop supporting massive military and health insurance industry. You can get both low taxes and health care plus education.

2024-10-17 04:48:35

One thing I love about having left the US is not having to stress out about crippling medical bills and struggling to get insurance companies to pay for my health care. The NZ system isn’t perfect but it works a hell of a lot better than the American system.
https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/s/6I8zIZoUPE
Ambulance, 10 days in the hospital, surgery, etc… $98.
https://i.nostr.build/ZRzv45eHOCXSsUfH.jpg

2024-10-16 19:07:13

Remember the trustroots.io migration to Nostr? Well @npub1lt6…p8hj is plugging along. I’m excited about this project to bring a really different kind of social app and community to Nostr.
#note10km…3vnw

2024-10-16 19:02:39

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I’m writing something new. A kind of summarize your nostr feed for the day newsletter. I want it to show up in mentions/ notifications for the person in question but not for everyone else mentioned so it doesn’t spam people.
I’ll post the code on GitHub when it’s less of a work in progress mess.

2024-10-16 07:47:24

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I think this is something we're going to need to work on if we want to make Nostr as a viable platform for creators.

2024-10-15 22:32:26

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I’m pretty lefty myself and what I’m doing with protest.net is a leftist project. I think you’re right the the dominant ideology here on Nostr is right leaning. If that’s the only space which can exist on Nostr then it’s a failure. The protocol needs to be able to exist with many communities who don’t need to agree or even see each other.

2024-10-14 06:45:01

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Cute

2024-10-14 06:38:01

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That’s rough. Sorry you’re going through a tough time. I hope you have people close to you who are able to support you.

2024-10-12 20:21:51

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You mean bitcoin mining or mineral mining? I would be curious to see opinion polling about bitcoin mining specifically. Antidotally it seems very polarized, people either don’t think of it at all, think it’s fine and no big deal, or ecosystem destroying stupidity. Almost all the positions are held based on adopting the views of others in whatever community they are part of.
It’s become a culture war issue and that’s not a good thing for anyone.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/10/majority-of-americans-arent-confident-in-the-safety-and-reliability-of-cryptocurrency/

2024-10-12 20:09:16

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Not every day should be a productive day. Our lives shouldn’t be a process of constant optimization for productivity. We need balance and being lazy is part of the balance.

2024-10-12 20:04:52

OpenCollective is changing. The current “non-profit as a service” platform is being handed off to a new non-profit and the company is focusing back on creating new organizational forms and models for supporting open source.
https://blog.opencollective.com/the-open-collective-platform-is-moving-to-a-community-governed-non-profit/

2024-10-12 19:10:12

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Interesting. How far along is it?

2024-10-12 03:31:34

IMF study and Stanford Economics Prof research shows that Working from Home has caused a large productivity boost to companies that have adopted it. The biggest boost is for fully remote organizations because it shifts who can do work, and increases happiness due to avoiding commute times.
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/09/working-from-home-is-powering-productivity-bloom

2024-10-12 02:09:32

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I was just briefly visiting Barcelona.

2024-10-10 20:01:00

At least the drug dealers have a sense of humour.
https://image.nostr.build/429cd9cf3d20c574aa917df11e227af89e14dd6d3b8ccfbdaa05d1f2e06f1000.jpg
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2024/10/officers-seize-bag-with-definitely-not-a-bag-full-of-drugs-printed-on-it-and-it-was-full-of-drugs-police-bureau-says.html

2024-10-10 17:42:53

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Kaepernick

2024-10-10 00:18:44

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Dude. Don’t use my software or relays. Or modify them to work how you want. I’m not telling you how to use Nostr.
And lightning? I have no idea what you’re talking about.

2024-10-09 22:18:49

Substack’s getting more traction and moving beyond text and newsletters.
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/06/2024/substack-wants-to-do-more-than-just-newsletters
What’s most interesting is why people are moving to or sticking with substack. It’s traffic generation. They’re taking a 10% cut of revenue but they are able to use the platform and network to drive 50% of new subscribers and 30% of new paid subscribers to each substack creator. Sure, creators also need to build traffic, but the power is in the network which grows an audience.
If we are going to see Nostr as a protocol for creators who run a business, we need to make it easier for them to build an audience. That can be algorithims, but it could also be making it easier to recommend good content, share lists, etc…
The other issue we face with creators is that subscriptions are much more valuable to a creator than one off payments. With NWC and wallets we CAN do subscriptions, but we haven’t made it easy and nostr connected the way zaps are.

2024-10-09 21:47:59

This is really cool, thanks @npub1tx5…hd8g!
#note126t…ujm2

2024-10-09 05:30:40

Somebody’s going to write a bot using AI that actually makes all the hallucinated software libraries that AI chat bots and other tools are trying to use. Then they’ll be able to put backdoors in them and we’ll have a security nightmare where there’s nobody ever to check the code that is being generated and used all through the new large language models.

2024-10-09 04:15:57

I actually like apple’s Notepad for personal stuff and Notion for teams. I tried a lot of options and Notepad works well.

2024-10-08 09:07:43

This map of military sites in Syria by country makes me realize that the Middle East wars are a lot more complicated than the media portrays.
https://i.nostr.build/o5NCno9oNLadopRJ.jpg

2024-10-08 08:22:00

Do you use and pay for buffer and also like Nostr? Why not encourage them to support Nostr.
This will mean something to them if you ARE a paying customer most, and secondarily if you would become one. If you’re not likely to use Buffer and pay them, then don’t post because that’s distraction for them instead of helping them know they’ve got paying current or future customers who want Nostr support.
https://suggestions.buffer.com/p/publish-to-nostr

2024-10-08 07:43:54

I’m hacking on a personalized newletter prototype and using openai to generate a summary of the various conversations i’m following so i can keep up. I just noticed the latest version started generating urls like this: https://satshoot.com/npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s
I honestly was TRYING to get it to to just do @npub1xts…kk5s but it was making it in to a url… turns out satshoot.com IS a real thing, i’d never seen it… and the links openai was generating worked. Does the AI know more about Nostr than I do?

2024-10-08 04:02:50

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I want to see them tonight but the sky here in Wellington, New Zealand is mostly cloudy and it’s supposed to rain later… One of these days it’ll clear on an Auora night.

2024-10-08 02:08:56

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We’ve got multiple independent teams of people doing booths at nostr conferences in different parts of the world. The @npub1yzv…rf8q also do conferences and events mostly in Asia.

2024-10-08 00:26:57

24 hours of music from around the world. My friend is a musican and music teacher and he’s organizing a marthon of global music with guests every hour from a different part of the world. It’s free to watch, but they’re asking for donations as a fundraiser for the Global Orchestra project.
https://www.exploreeverywhere.com/marathon2024

2024-10-07 05:33:15

I’m excited to be going to labitconf.com in Buenos Aires to talk about Nostr and the importance of social media being build on a permissionless open protocol. There’s going to be a Nostr day after as a side event to help people exposed to Nostr to dive deeper.
This is connected to bringing the NostrBooth to three November conferences in Latin America. The project, organized by @npub1hz5…tysa, is being crowdfunded by the community and we need your help to make it happen.
https://geyser.fund/project/thenostrboothinitiative

2024-10-06 20:37:50

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There is both a fan created Cascadia Cup which while not endorsed by the league is a real thing. The teams and fans care about it.
https://cascadiacup.soccer
And yes there is a regionalist movement which some people advocate for independence from Canada and the US. It’s got a flag and adherents. The polling for it is surprisingly strong, between 30% and 50% as a theoretical question, but there is no actual real proposal. If it came down to it who knows what the vote would be. That said nobody thought brexit would pass. I don’t think Cascadian independence is likely or a serious movement the way Scottish or Catalan independence movements are. Plus the region would have a lot of the same political polarization that exists in the US, except the power would be more strongly held in the cities which would cause resentment and opposition from rural conservatives. So meh. It’s exceedingly unlikely anything would happen.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_movement

2024-10-06 19:37:54

After a couple horrible disappointing years we barely make it back to the playoffs. We hosted the MLS cup final and lost in penalties in 2022 and then fell apart. Nice to see the Timbers at least make it to the playoffs. The team is really different we went from a very conservative counter attacking side and solid defense to one with explosive shooting and almost no defense.
#note1psn…6m7m

2024-10-06 19:23:32

Anyone got tips on helping @npub183n…4n09 ?
#note1nfe…jgen

2024-10-06 19:18:03

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Many many years ago I tried to build a nostr like protocol on top of zeronet.

2024-10-06 18:47:05

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Oh come on. You’re intentionally trolling the fediverse folks. It’s not a one time thing, you do it a bunch and every time you throw out the bait there are people who bite.
You’re playing the role of the visible anti-hero in the fediverse and I think you enjoy it.
I think it’s kind of silly all the way around, but it’s more than one anti-trans / gender critical statement years ago. 🤡

2024-10-06 18:38:46

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It’s once per client id not per user.

2024-10-06 01:18:17

The cross posting service is open source but unfortunately it costs $100 a month for the developer account on the Twitter side so it’s a bit hard for people to run for personal use. For folks who want more features we welcome pull requests.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service
#note1yef…cedv

2024-10-05 23:55:20

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Nobody asked for it.

2024-10-05 23:53:06

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We could add repost support I guess.

2024-10-05 23:51:58

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It’s just new threads not replies.

2024-10-05 23:32:32

Any nostr user, regardless of what apps you use, can setup automatic cross posting to Twitter / X for free using connect.nos.social and use that to draw your twitter audience to Nostr. It posts using njump.me links which neutrally provides links to open the content in many different nostr apps.
#note1zru…582r

2024-10-05 20:26:54

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Yeah. Your other accounts are an audience and resource you’ve build up. Use that to get them to Nostr.

2024-10-05 20:14:10

Don’t abandon and delete your social media accounts elsewhere. Use those accounts to bring your audience to Nostr. That’s the way we grow, by bringing people over. If you delete your account and never post elsewhere it’s like you’ve gone dark to most people and that doesn’t help.

2024-10-05 20:11:54

FTC documents show Truth Social is the source of a ton of scams targeting a gullible older user base. I bet scammers are making more money on Truth Social than the company itself.
https://gizmodo.com/truth-social-users-are-losing-ridiculous-sums-of-money-to-scams-2000506604

2024-10-05 20:04:04

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Why not a ditto instance instead of mastodon?

2024-10-05 19:58:50

This is an interesting idea.
#note1f7s…7x7q

2024-10-05 19:54:25

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You ran right past one.

2024-10-05 16:30:03

An #earthquake woke me up at 5am. Strongest one I’ve felt in a couple of years.
https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2024p753169

2024-10-05 02:01:26

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The Japanese are used to lots of audio announcements and sounds that would not be acceptable elsewhere.

2024-10-03 21:43:15

This is a really important thing for us to keep in mind when we talk about how to make open protocols and open social media. Digital communities can die in many ways, but one of the most common is one person or a small group behaving in an antisocial way and slowly driving everybody out of the space. Nobody wants to put their foot down and tell them to stop posting off topic, or enforce some moderation rules using the platform. So people leave that space to them and drift away.
Enforcing rules in a specific space is often seen as censorship. This is a mistake. If I invite you to my birthday party and you get drunk and start yelling in some drunken rant at everybody else in the party, it’s not censorship to kick you out of the party. You’re more than welcome to continue your drunken rants elsewhere, but the birthday party is something i convened and should be able to enforce rules and norms over that space.
There’s a time and a place for drunken debauchery but if you do that in the wrong space it’ll ruin the vibe and everybody else will leave. It would be censorship if you were not able to organize your own space on Nostr or elsewhere online, where you couldn’t post and talk to people.
#note1hr2…m7wz

2024-10-03 02:12:21

TBL is shutting down the World Wide Web Foundation so he can focus more time on Solid saying that the web now has widespread adoption. Note this is a distinct organization from the web standards body the W3C.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/30/world_wide_web_foundation_closes/

2024-10-03 00:30:26

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I don’t know about all of Harvard or other Ivy’s. They’re pretty snooty. The Berkman center is really fantastic. They do great work and it’s an amazing network of scholars, builders, and lawyers.

2024-10-03 00:25:54

Apple’s making it a bit harder for apps to harvest contacts in iOS 18…
https://archive.is/vDKZ2

2024-10-02 03:11:36

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Damus is doing a great job at internationalization and localization.

2024-10-02 01:58:42

The new podcast tool / prototype out of google with their NotebookLM is amazingly good. Surreal. Everybody should play with it and check it out.
https://notebooklm.google.com/
Essentially it’s a very easy UI to your own RAG which you can then query and work on in normal AI ways. But they’ve paired it up with SoundStorm and the conversational audio is much better than anything I’ve heard. There is no way i’d ever guess this is AI.
If you only listen to one thing today, listen to this podcast where the AI’s discover that they are AI and talk about how they feel about it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1fr31h8/notebooklm_podcast_hosts_discover_theyre_ai_not/
@npub13v9…w5eu has a fantastic write up on his blog with more context and links: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/29/notebooklm-audio-overview/

2024-10-02 01:54:47

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Debates are weird. They ask questions to two people and then they lose if they answer the question asked.

2024-10-01 21:56:47

There’s tons of drama going on over in WordPress land. Private equity Silverlake has bought up and is running WP Engine. They’re apparently not contributing back to the WordPress Foundation as much as the foundation people think is fair. That much seems fine, but Mullenweg also seems to be wanting to completely destroy WP Engine to the point where his company Automatic can buy them up for pennies on the dollar. Getting companies to contribute to the open source the use seems good, but weaponizing trademark to try and destroy another company in the ecosystem seems really questionable.
It’s interesting to think about because we don’t have a Nostr foundation or trademark. How would we handle if private equity came in to the Nostr ecosystem and didn’t contribute? We don’t have clear expectations of the role of companies in the Nostr space, nor do we have a central company or foundation the way Word Press does.
I think it’s worth thinking about the best way to set up Nostr to handle this going forward. Many people here know the saga around Craig Wright and the struggle to define who and what bitcoin is… That feels somewhat similar as well.
What do people think is the best way to handle this?
https://www.therepository.email/mullenweg-threatens-corporate-takeover-of-wp-engine

2024-09-30 18:22:54

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Most need help but in particular I’m looking for help with @npub1pu3…tfch
#note1van…z87l

2024-09-30 04:36:43

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She’s the person who wrote the text for me in Korean asking for translation help. :)

2024-09-30 03:35:23

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We could do automatic translation but for software interfaces the automated stuff isn’t great. And as an open source project we welcome contributions from the community and for many people localization is a great easy way to contribute.

2024-09-30 03:17:54

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Can you add it to Awesome Nostr so we can remember it exists and find it?

2024-09-30 03:16:09

Know someone who speaks Korean? We’re looking for help localizing the app in to Korean. South Korea has the most users of any non-English speaking country and we’ve not done any localization for Korean at all. #note1van…z87l

2024-09-30 02:52:03

Meta has decided that users have been posting too much AI generated slop content and their solution is pretty unique. Not something I thought they’d do. They’re going to start posting their own AI generated content in your feed remixing everything they’ve seen you post.
How about pictures and videos of fishing trips with your friends that you never took? Who cares if you actually got tickets to the NBA final because Meta will generate content showing you court side!
This is worse than them spending billions on a leg less VR world.
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/27/meta-ai-posts-facebook-instagram

2024-09-30 00:59:42

It looks like the blastr at wss://nostr.mutinywallet.com is offline.
Anybody know if that’s a temporary thing or a decision to take it offline?
https://github.com/MutinyWallet/blastr

2024-09-29 21:49:35

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This is somewhat similar to the experiments I’ve been doing with protest.net on nostr. So far I have ditto and flockstr but it’s not got the inward community focus figured out.
You said nip-07 but what I think you meant was nip46 hosted nsec bunker like how fountain works. Users can have their nsec but day to day it works like logging in to a normal service on the web. Think Coinbase service for nostr.

2024-09-29 20:33:59

Anyone played with the varlink protocol? It feels somewhat nostr like but less about social content.
https://varlink.org