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How is it Emily in Paris wears a new outfit every scene and she’s almost never shown shopping, nor it it explained how she affords the clothes nor where she stores it all in her tiny walk up apartment?

2024-09-16 09:35:16

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Yeah I think we need both relay and client filtering and settings. We need better management tooling for both.

2024-09-16 09:24:10

Anybody else getting tons do spam replies with fake accounts and invalid nip-05’s? I’m thinking if relays refused to accept content from npub’s that were impersonating other people’s nip05 it would help.
https://i.nostr.build/8nflZNOoeoLBpcFO.jpg

2024-09-16 07:15:17

Hey @npub1c87…8avm your bot impersonator is pretty rude.
@npub19ps…5mfy

2024-09-16 03:11:25

This leaked producers guide to MrBeast videos is fascinating.
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/15/how-to-succeed-in-mrbeast-production/

2024-09-16 01:22:02

Bluesky crosses the 10million account threshold. The latest 4 million users are mostly Brazilians who joined since Twitter was banned in Brazil.
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l47prg3wgy23

2024-09-15 00:47:56

We’ve got porn on Nostr. #foodporn
#note1grv…jthf

2024-09-15 00:40:26

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I love the glasses.

2024-09-14 08:26:27

Want to be paid to bring your community on to Nostr? UC Boulder is accepting applications for their Open Social Incubator.
This is money and support to #grownostr. This is for people who are non-technical who want to work on onboarding and cultivating a community. Who are your people and how do we get them on Nostr?
“Participants will meet as a full group monthly and receive ongoing, 1:1 project-specific technical support as they seed and grow new communities using open social media tools of their choosing. Participation is fully remote and all sessions will be conducted in English. All participants should commit to making strides toward community-building in open social media by the end of the program. Completion of the full program, from November 2024 to April 2025, will be compensated with a stipend of $3,500 USD.”
The program is open to any open social protocol including but not limited to Nostr.
https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/09/11/open-call-join-open-social-incubator

2024-09-13 23:17:15

The MLS group messaging is a promising future for Nostr. It is complicated, so we’ll need good libraries and SDKs.
#note15qy…qva3

2024-09-13 21:56:52

This is why we need to make language tagging on notes default and make it easy to find content by language.
#note126u…88es

2024-09-13 21:55:32

We’re looking to talk to Nostr users, regardless of which apps you’ve tried, to understand the new user experience and make Nostr better for everyone. Please reach out to @npub1j60…d7ua and help us improve the initial onboarding experience.
#note1je6…y8fn

2024-09-13 10:12:24

We’re so lucky to have @npub1yxp…qud4 and his strfry in the Nostr ecosystem.
#note1sc3…da2u

2024-09-12 08:40:22

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Yes despite it starting at a brutal 3am. I’m attending the fediforum.

2024-09-12 06:43:33

The next three days is the online fediverse conference the fediforum.
It’s a great unconference talking about everything social media protocol. Nostr is part of the fediverse even if we’re very different from the classic Mastodon. It’d be great to get more folks from Nostr to attend.
https://fediforum.org

2024-09-12 06:04:14

We don’t need a Nostr marketing team
We do need a Nostr growth team.
@npub1kuy…kdj8 just published a good essay discussing whether Nostr needs a marketing team. I believe the answer is yes—but not marketing in the same way cryptocurrency projects have typically approached it.
https://www.curiousdk.com/p/6885aeab-251e-412b-bbba-1a0b09896558
We don’t need people running around buying ads. While having booths at conferences is beneficial for a community-driven project, I'm skeptical about the value of billboards or sponsoring athletes as ways to promote Nostr. It’s fun, sure, but it mostly reaches people who are already aware of it.
What we really need is a focused initiative to grow Nostr—distinct from the fantastic teams already building Nostr itself. In a typical company, this would be the Growth Team. They’d focus on how people discover and learn about Nostr, the path they take to join, how they choose their app, what their experience is when signing up, whether they find engaging content, and how to ensure they stick around and invite others. This is not to dismiss the great work OpenSats and HRF are doing, but a growth team is something distinct.
Each app can handle some of this, and that's working to an extent. But Nostr is more than just a collection of apps using shared code. It’s a network that becomes more valuable with every new app built on Nostr. For example, when a user joins Primal, it enhances the experience for Amethyst users, but it also becomes much more interesting for someone using YakiHonne or Zap.streams.
So, we need people focused on cultivating the Nostr ecosystem. This isn’t marketing in the traditional sense, like buying ads, but more of a Nostr Community Growth Team. We need people who can work with creators and community founders to help them get started on Nostr. There’s a lot to grasp, and some hand-holding will be necessary.
We also need better internal Nostr news—something like @npub19md…6vzk but aimed at two different audiences. First, for users, fans, and developers on Nostr: how do you keep track of all the projects and what's happening? There’s so much going on that it’s hard to follow. The second is external: we’re doing tons of incredible stuff, and we should be building excitement about Nostr by showcasing these amazing projects and content to the wider world.
The team at @npub1w9w…k403 does cover Nostr, which is awesome, but their focus is on multiple social media protocols. Journalists write when they feel there's news to break, and we haven’t been doing a great job feeding stories to them. We can improve on this. One initiative coming out of Nostriga is better coordination on getting Nostr folks on podcasts, especially beyond the Bitcoin bubble where most people have heard of Nostr.
At Nostriga, I talked to a lot of people about how Nostr keeps being framed as an alt-right protocol in the media. That’s simply not true, but we need to work on changing that narrative. Nostr is for everybody, how Nostr is framed does matter. People don’t join a social app because of its functionality, they join because of the other people who are already on the app. Projects like Trustroots.io, Causes.com, and Protest.net will help showcase a different side of Nostr and build new communities beyond our Bitcoin-focused core.
Nostr has already grown in new languages and communities, thanks to creators sharing about it on centralized platforms. We saw this with the Thai community—it’s fantastic. Let’s develop a program to support these creators. We’ve been discussing with @npub13qr…almy how she wants a space to onboard her fans into a community together. There’s a lot of promise in Ditto, which I’m excited about—I’ve set up an instance at social.protest.net. What if we helped each of these creators build their own communities on Nostr? From that initial onboarding, their community would be able to connect across all Nostr apps.
This isn’t exactly traditional marketing—it’s more like cultivating and nurturing a healthy Nostr ecosystem.
If we make it easy for communities to create their own spaces on Nostr, we can grow organically in countless directions. Every new user will feel ownership and be inspired to bring more people along. To achieve that growth, we need to lay the groundwork. We’ve got the apps, but we need to work with the people. After all, we’re building social software, and both the technology and the people are equally important.

2024-09-11 23:12:13

Which nostr relays and clientes support and use nip-29 relay based groups / communities?
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/29.md

2024-09-10 09:13:20

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So you’re wishing for ditto.pub?

2024-09-10 05:13:16

Looks like cohost.org is shutting down. They’re actually bringing in a lot of money each month with a high % of users supporting as paid members. But their expenses are really high for the kind of site it is.
Anyway this is what happens to a community that builds itself on closed source centralized platforms. When the maintainers decide to give up the users and community have no say.
https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down

2024-09-10 03:07:24

This is great. Now let’s get the iOS apps onboard too. I’ve been talking to the guardian project and their mobile dev on the iOS side about working with us to get Nos and other Nostr apps to have similar seamless tor support.
#note1n82…7wwy

2024-09-09 01:52:34

If we want Nostr to truly protect privacy and resist censorship—like when X faced a government ban—we need to stop relying on relays with known IPs or domain names.
We need encrypted traffic between clients and servers by default. That means Tor (and networks like I2P and Nym) should just work right out of the box, ideally without leaving the mixnet where traffic could be exposed at the exit node.
💡 A lot of relay operators are already running Tor onion services, which is awesome—but we need to make them easier to discover and use. If a public relay becomes unavailable, we should be able to switch to the Onion service version seamlessly.
What do we need to do to make this happen? First, it’s about getting Nostr relay software to publish the Onion address when it’s set up. Then, it’s about getting clients to handle alternative transports like Tor or I2P natively, letting users choose between IP (TCP/IP), Tor, or other options.
We could also explore mapping DNS records to onion addresses or including the info in HTTP headers. But maybe the most straightforward approach is extending NIP-11 to include alternate transport details so that everything's baked into the protocol.
What do you all think? How can we push this forward? Let’s brainstorm and figure out the best way to support these privacy-preserving networks and keep Nostr resilient. I think we need Tor support in native clients where users can turn it on with a single click. Or maybe even have it attempt Tor as a fallback when the normal way of connecting fails.
This isn’t a big change current relay info ospec here: NIP-11 https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/11.md

2024-09-08 23:24:12

One way to help Nostr grow would to make it easier to find content in languages you speak. Damus and others have nifty ‘translate this note’ features but there’s something different from the way people speak in their own langauge.
Nostr already has the nips for this: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/32.md
We can easily add tags to events which would let clients request only events in a specific language, or set of languages. But do any clients write out the language tag and do any use it in the UI for helping people discover content in their own langauge?
I’m thinking of this because most Brazilians prefer to talk to people in their own language, Brazilian Portuguese (yes it’s different written language than Portuguese du Portugal).
It’d be so cool to have on boarding which saw that a user is in Brazil, or has their device set to pt-br and then show them primarily content in their own language. This is also true of Thai, Japanese, and Chinese which also have big sets of Nostr users. The latter two seem to use custom local Nostr clients to avoid this problem. I’m not sure what Thai users do. I know that although I speak Spanish, and there are lots of hispanohablantes on Nostr, we mostly seem to write in English. That’s because it’s hard to filter out by language community except for who you choose to put in your contact list.
So, what Nostr clients do this well? How do get clients writing these language tags in their posts and make it so clients then display / use them for users.

2024-09-08 21:26:47

Ever contemplated the different uses of the - hyphen, – en dash, and — em dash?
https://youtu.be/Bd8r7LUiUJA
After watching this video I’m curious about the grammatical use of the • interpunct.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct

2024-09-08 05:02:35

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Yeah I agree. We’ve got pieces to make it all work but they’re not put together well I a way that works for users and creators.
And for my trolls out there, the bitcoin payments part via zaps, lightning/cashu etc is fine, it’s the overwhelming bitcoin content that drives people away.

2024-09-08 04:35:29

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We need an instance of the nostr blogging software which highlights non-bitcoin content. I keep talking to people about how amazing and powerful Nostr is as an open Medium.com and showing them YakiHonne, highlighter, and habla. They get turned off not by the apps, design, idea of a protocol, or anything like that. They get turned off because all they see are bitcoin posts. They think, this isn’t for me.
It’s like porn on Twitter, there is so much of it, but you only find the porn if you’re looking for it. We need at least one nostr blogging app which can highlight other content with lots of diverse audiences. That way we can get them on board without them thinking, this place is not for me.

2024-09-08 04:28:17

I know it’s barely spring but today feels like summer in Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://i.nostr.build/J5XCvLIy09qg7J4m.jpg

2024-09-08 03:05:33

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Because you live in Brazil and want to reach your non-Brazilian Twitter audience and can’t legally access Twitter directly.

2024-09-08 02:45:08

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We’re blessed by the stupid reply guy bot because it lets us fix spam issues now when it’s easier than later when the problem will be more complex.

2024-09-08 02:43:44

Você pode publicar suas anotações no Nostr a twitter sem acessar o site x.com no Brasil com connect.nos.social
#note1j0w…7vgd

2024-09-08 01:34:53

Bluesky is struggling with handling content reports and CSAM is up 10x.
https://bsky.app/profile/aaron.bsky.team/post/3l3gerugkbt27

2024-09-07 06:24:16

I’m very confused.
https://i.nostr.build/rFNKHe20araHUgTr.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/4dZDSGopcif6lB2N.jpg

2024-09-07 05:47:17

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The it’s all bitcoin content is a major issue when I talk about nostr too. 😿

2024-09-07 05:38:07

Looks like Bluesky is getting a huge surge from Brazil blocking Twitter. Reports are 50% of their users joined in the last week.
There is something to be said for being a simple Twitter clone.

2024-09-07 05:22:30

Si, nos hablamos castellano.
nos.social/es

2024-09-06 08:29:04

@npub12lz…ntw2 talk on bitcoin and capitalism from HoneyBadger Bitcoin Conference 2024 was great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gGw464vVTY

2024-09-06 01:28:47

I’ve published the slides from my talk on Nostr - Past, Present, Future online. https://docsend.com/view/9ne8vqpx6p6cz33z
Happy for folks to repost it beyond descend, it’s just the easy thing I have for publishing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUsk7cqZyKU

2024-09-05 10:40:41

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Yeah I was hoping that maybe @npub16zs…92l7, @npub1yl8…vz34, or @npub1j60…d7ua could make it.

2024-09-02 19:03:33

The UK government arrested a pro-Palestinian activists just for what they’ve said online.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sarah-wilkinson

2024-09-02 17:22:14

Neon fun
https://m.primal.net/KagA.mov

2024-09-02 06:33:16

I was pleasantly surprised to find good coffee at the Beijing airport.
https://image.nostr.build/2c57362d142599520c8ab8a830181a457d5b04e9aaf228fb8e32011037ceef13.jpg

2024-09-01 00:41:36

We grow nostr by organizing communities of people to join and connect and be seen.
#note1fy4…t3r2

2024-09-01 00:37:14

What a weird building in central Paris.
https://i.nostr.build/rv1qg9RixaqkJSAF.jpg

2024-08-31 22:28:49

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I know @npub16c0…6nvr is working on Primal but I do find it interesting that the last commit to the code was 4 months ago even though there are bugs and PR’s being submitted. I’m also curious.

2024-08-30 19:57:41

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Do we need to wrap it in swift so we can store the keys in keychain and support push notifications?

2024-08-30 19:51:07

This kind of thing won’t stop me from using and building on Nostr but it will drive a lot of people away.
https://i.nostr.build/DZgx3fsbiPUp5EkF.png

2024-08-30 15:11:36

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This is really helpful. I’m not sure if it’s my crappy internet connection or a problem with the article, but it isn’t loading any of the images in that piece. Which would be kind of helpful. ;-D

2024-08-30 14:41:08

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Yeah, l mean here’s my current guide for users to get setup.
https://protest.net/how-to-join.html
It’s very long and I think also not long enough, because to be useful it’ll need pictures / help walking people through it.
Even with a bunker, that url is too long, we need to make is to you a put in your nip-05 and then it looks up your bunker url from that… SUPER SIMPLE.

2024-08-30 14:29:42

I’m working on relaunching my activist calendar website protest.net. One thing I need is a good set of instructions for non-technical users on how to create an nsec, add the protest.net relay, add the nsec to a browser extension, so they can actually use the nostr apps we’re running. The question is, which how to guide for this about Nostr is best to link to?
#note19ez…7xlz

2024-08-30 12:23:42

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I think it’s one of those big brand, smaller engagement thing.

2024-08-30 12:22:17

I’m excited to see us moving forward on nostr login options. We do need to do something UX testing on this.
#note12fa…lxqa

2024-08-30 11:56:01

Check out the NYMvpn from @npub154x…pq8h
Maybe we can get a NYMstr working to route nostr comms over NYM.
#note1cqq…ngez

2024-08-30 11:16:28

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I like the somos nostr one.

2024-08-30 10:33:18

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En castellano es “nostr es nos” y em portugués “nostr somos nós”. The wordplay makes sense in Spanish and Portuguese where nos means us and so a rough translation of nostr would be “us-str” or “us-tr”

2024-08-29 23:22:04

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Buenos Aries, Bariloche, Montevideo…. The problem with Brazil is that is huge but the national press would cover Jack showing up. I think Florianopolis, Rio, Porto Alegre, or São Paulo would work for various reasons.

2024-08-29 17:03:22

I’m spending a couple of days in France before heading back to New Zealand and I came across this giant field of crops which surprised me a bit.
https://v.nostr.build/GesjfnkWfY5EGN56.mp4

2024-08-29 14:35:43

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Yeah I love how folks keep saying Nostr won’t work…. It’s like. Cool. But it does work.
Nobody will run relays. Yeah but a thousand people are happy to run relays.
It won’t be possible to make apps if we don’t constrain and validate schemas. Uh sure clearly our apps don’t work.

2024-08-29 14:20:13

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I spent the morning looking at the state of tor embedded for mobile apps and asking folks who work on the Tor and Guardian projects which libraries are working well. So the quip was because I’ve been trying to figure it out.

2024-08-29 14:17:51

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@npub1sn0…jdv9 :)

2024-08-29 14:16:38

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The way I see it there are two things. One is easy. Get relay software to by default or easily add and advertise onion services. The second one is to add tor support to clients so they use those onion service relays.

2024-08-29 14:11:35

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Can we get Nostr and Tor working better together?

2024-08-29 08:01:01

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So it’s accessing nostr via a cashu nutshell mixnet? It’s interesting but why not use Tor?

2024-08-28 20:35:25

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No I lived in Uruguay, Argentina, Ecuador, and spent a bunch of time in Brazil and Bolivia. I’ve only spent a few days in Costa Rica. But mostly Uruguay.

2024-08-28 01:28:08

Look who I found lurking here: @npub1s4k…d9s9
Not really of course but it’s only a matter of time.

2024-08-27 23:47:26

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npub.pro does the web hosting, yea! But as far as I know nobody’s connected npub.pro with nip-05 hosting.

2024-08-27 18:32:27

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Yeah but in the context of my talk I was explaining how a very famous example of past deplatforming was Father Coughlin who was advocating the US join the Nazi’s side in WWII. He was justifying the holocaust. Then he was deplatformed and his weekly radio program listened to by 25% of Americas was take off radio stations because of a pressure campaign and advertising boycott. I was saying this is a case of deplatforming in the past that wasn’t a bad thing. Just like taking out the radio stations in Rwanda that pushed for genocide was good because it saved lives. My point is there are times in the past when people were deplatformed and it was the right decision.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin

2024-08-27 16:51:27

Tips for new people joining Nostr.
#note1rfv…7ykr

2024-08-27 15:22:25

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@npub1fla…zlk6 bo que piensas estamos haciendo acá? Fumando porro con un sueño que todo va a estar mejor si tenemos código para inventar un nuevo mundo de hadas y unicornios?
Claro quiero tener una protocolo donde no puede existir control central que puede censurar gente. Pero esto no significa que no puedo tener un espacio en mi relay o mis grupos donde si puedo decidir que comportamiento es aceptable o inaceptable?
Free speech es el derecho a hablar. Pero también tenemos el derecho de decidir a quien vamos a escuchar. No quiero una red donde puedo decidir a quien puedo conectar. Pero tampoco quiero una que mi obliga a hablar con vos o ver tus comentarios.

2024-08-27 15:00:07

We need to figure out how to talk about Nostr in a new way and do other things to help it grow beyond its core initial community.
#note1u0y…kpf6

2024-08-27 14:14:33

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Hey @npub1l6s…j5rc yeah that came out more frustration with you than i intended. Sorry.
To be fair putting nsec in apps which don’t store them securely is a terrible idea. It’s just we need to remember that an nsec isn’t as precious as a wallet key with money.
And that we were able to show the power of nostr and get folks excited when we showed them how to put their nsec in multiple apps they can use at the same time.

2024-08-27 14:10:30

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The marketing and for Twitter it works. But normally it’s so much better to be able to speak and understand the name and have people find you.

2024-08-27 14:03:55

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I wish people would understand and use their nip05 which is much easier to understand than the npub :)

2024-08-27 13:28:12

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I am in favor of the historical deplatforming people who are actively promoting the holocaust while it is happening during WWII. You might want to give Hitler and his supporters a platform while they were running death camps. But I’m not. Mass murder is wrong and if jailing them for that mass murder is justified the so is taking away their megaphone.

2024-08-27 12:28:28

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So are you working to do any of this? Or just telling us how to do it? I hear lots of security experts who love to tell me how to do things but most don’t either talk to actual users or build systems for other people to use. It’s like all the security experts getting pissed at Signal for using phone numbers but nobody built a version that really worked without phone numbers even though it’s open source and they kept saying it’s really important.
Or how security folks tell users to not reuse passwords but it was a couple decades before people admitted that was an insane impossibility and switched to passkeys that come with managed software.
We created oauth to solve this same basic problem. Keep users from putting user names and passwords in random apps. The effect of platforms switching to using oauth meant that all power got concentrated in centralized platforms.
I’m sick of security researchers who tell us how software should work. Think we’re doing it wrong, build a better solution.

2024-08-27 12:06:25

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You’ll see your own posts in your feeds.

2024-08-27 12:01:35

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I mean it’s so damned close to [email protected] but looks so much better.

2024-08-27 12:01:01

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Yeah there are real CSAM markets on telegram. But police aren’t actually interested in investigating them, we just report and takedown. Most CSAM markets on telegram seem to be cases where minors are producing and selling porn of themselves. They’re blocked from legit platforms so they use telegram. The thing is, who’s the victim? Is it good and ok that it’s happening, probably not but the solution would be both therapy for these kids, and a network of support.
We go crazy about shutting down CSAM but do almost nothing about the children being abused.

2024-08-27 11:51:44

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I agree but I like the domain instead of user at domain. But we render it shit work [email protected] or [email protected] vs nos.social / @nos.social & rabble.nos.social / @rabble.nos.social
The [email protected] looks like an email. If we did username.nip05.server it could both be a web view profile and a nostr name.
Anyway I think nostr names / addresses is way better than npub / nprofile sharing.

2024-08-27 10:39:04

I’m excited to welcome @npub1xsp…62dr to Nostr. He co-founded open collective and many other cool projects. I’ll let him introduce himself.

2024-08-27 10:27:14

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The door is nice but it’s not the primary purpose for using the bathroom. 🧻🚽

2024-08-27 10:25:58

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That is a good argument for ‘stralia over other options.

2024-08-27 10:23:55

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It was amazing. This was Hakone cafe in downtown Oslo.
They will talk through options but I’m a big fan of the lower yield varietals either way a light body. Think as far away as you can get from Starbucks and French roast.

2024-08-27 10:16:45

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It’s got such a walkable downtown with a beautiful harbour.

2024-08-27 10:13:09

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I feel like this is one of those things that is a terrible idea in theory but just fine in practice.

2024-08-27 10:03:06

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Yes we’re working on adopting MLS which would give us really good private groups and options. @npub1zuu…c2uc gave a good talk about it https://youtu.be/PWKd9aoZ-Cg
The biggest funding for Nostr development is through grants from OpenSats.org but there are also investor backed companies too.
Also the work on ditto.pub is interesting when it comes to private / community focused Nostr.

2024-08-27 09:08:04

GM
https://i.nostr.build/sHmW8FBtRCoiXjua.jpg

2024-08-27 08:22:10

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Well we need to figure out where too!
What do you think?
#note1jk4…7mpt

2024-08-27 07:57:52

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Yeh this is why I have been thinking about how we need to communicate the breadth of apps to users. So if you use one nostr then you’re seeing how you can do all this other stuff with other apps.

2024-08-26 23:05:37

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Yeah it was overwhelming

2024-08-26 21:57:50

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Your conference sounds more like a political rally.

2024-08-26 20:28:09

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One what exists on Nostr?

2024-08-26 20:26:25

I’ve got a question for folks here. The definition of unconference I’ve used for a couple decades before getting involved in nostr is something similar to what we see the Wikipedia page.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference
When people arrive at the event they propose sessions and put them on post it notes and then there are many many rooms where discussions happen. There’s no schedule ahead of time, stage, presentations, or big screens. Sometimes there’s a mic and speaker that’s passed around if the groups get too large for every to hear.
It’s something similar but much better organized than what we did the second day at Nostriga in the DIY space.
To me there are things these open space style unconferences are good at, discussions, connections, networking, hashing out issues as a community, forming working groups on specific topics. They’re not great at informing where one person is trying to communicate a topic or project. A talk on a stage can do a better job of that.
I was expecting something more conversational where many people might have come to the event with topics of sessions they’d like to do, but there was no fixed schedule ahead of time.
I’ve heard many people say nostr* is an unconference. So clearly this word has the meaning of an event like nostr* events. But from the communities I’m coming from what we’ve been having in Nostr are conferences with talks, panels, and workshops. And a bit of open spaces discussions.
So my question is what is a conference if Nostriga was an unconference, what’s a conference? How is it different and what makes the one a conference and the other an unconference.
To me, I’d like us to have closer to 50/50 time and space between speakers on stages conference and group discussions unconference. I get a lot out of the talks and panels and enjoy doing them.
So. What’s a conference is Nostriga was an unconference?

2024-08-26 18:59:09

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What kind of research. There’s not been much peer reviewed research on nostr published.

2024-08-26 18:58:01

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I haven’t dug in to how it works.

2024-08-26 15:18:39

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Oh interesting. It does appear there is some sort of bug where it lost its tags tracking the reply.

2024-08-26 13:42:33

It’s funny in Lisbon and Barcelona nobody assumed I spoke the language but in Scandinavia people almost always assume I do speak the language. I don’t speak any Scandinavian languages but I do speak fluent Spanish and B1 level Portuguese (not great but good enough to converse). And I’ve spent a substantial portion of my adult life living in Ibero-American countries.
The kind of crazy part is my ancestors came from Sweden, northern Germany, Wales, and England. I’ve only spent minimal time in this part of the world so it feels odd to be assumed I’m a local.

2024-08-26 13:02:41

I appreciate the sentiment, and we need to both make a resilient network that lets users have good end to end encryption. But if we build a network that optimizes for that we’ll find the users don’t really take it up and they’ll revert to insecure and vulnerable networks like telegram.
Nostr has to feel fast and responsive to users who don’t need to understand how the network works. In some situations like replies / reactions / zaps the network works incredibly well. In others we’re not there yet.
The changes you’re considering were the things that @npub180c…h6w6 dropped from Secure Scuttlebutt when he redid it to make Nostr. SSB was painfully slow and really struggled with discovery. But it does work entirely p2p.

2024-08-26 12:52:51

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https://i.nostr.build/kQCnzPIPOLwj0wTR.jpg

2024-08-26 12:18:45

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Yes they will comply with a court order if they lose appeals but they won’t know who their customers are.
There are configurations and Debian packages that keep your servers from logging ip addresses and other PII.

2024-08-26 12:15:28

They let you print your baggage tags on the trains that go to the Oslo airport. That’s brilliantly efficient.