mplorentz
Matthew Lorentz

Wannabe solarpunk, gamer, backpacker, climber, gardener in meatspace and cypherspace. CTO at https://nos.social, building a social media commons centered around trust, freedom of listening, and self-organization. #nocoin

Public Key

npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7

NIP-05 Address

[email protected]

NIP-57 Address

[email protected]

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsdpg0lhpmph96va39rh6xtevhfdfcfph85vhl74jpe4fx2yry6t8spzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj94c82c3wwajkcmr0wfjx2u3wdejhgewl6sf

Publishing to

nostr.mom

nostr-pub.wellorder.net

relay.primal.net

Author Public Key

npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7

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Last Notes

2024-09-04 16:50:37

@npub1zaf…26k5 did you lose your follow list? https://image.nostr.build/7fb6f612eb54c99f444943e28158c0b6ac21891453045e46017ad78cdab2d573.png
We just had a team meeting to talk about two of our employees who lost their lists around Nostriga and noticed yours. We are cooking some things which you will hear about soon but in the meantime I learned about https://follows.nostr.com/ which seems to work well for recovery.

2024-08-30 16:14:48

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Another minor issue I just noticed. I see two “Last Notes” for this person but they are the same note: https://njump.me/[email protected]

2024-08-30 16:13:55

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It looks good on this one! https://njump.me/[email protected] although they don’t have the olympics relay in their list. I will keep checking as we get newly registered NIP-05s. Thanks for you help!
That olympics relay is kinda weird. It’s a nostr-rs-relay we modified to support AUTH for REQs. It works fine with Nos but `nak` actually doesn’t talk to it very well. Maybe we didn’t implement auth totally correctly. The incorrect subscription ID definitely sounds like a bug. I heard from some folks at Nostriga that they have seen nostr-rs-relay do some weird stuff so maybe it’s not even a bug we added 🤷‍♂️

2024-08-29 16:45:00

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I can keep producing instances of this. I’m seeing this issue on something like 20% of nos.social NIP-05s. Some more:
https://njump.me/[email protected]
https://njump.me/[email protected]
https://njump.me/[email protected]
These ones were registered days ago.

2024-08-29 16:42:28

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I just checked our dashboard and our NIP-05 service seems to be happily servicing all requests. No errors have been logged in the last hour. And I can easily get the kind 0 for that user from a bunch of relays. I guess if the SLA is 6 hours then I can’t complain 🙃 but the data is available and I think njump just isn’t seeing it for some reason.

2024-08-29 16:36:42

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Ok here’s another one showing the error page right now. Although maybe me opening the page is triggering something: https://njump.me/[email protected]

2024-08-29 16:35:18

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Oh, I was seeing this error page until I just now refreshed the page 🤔 something changed.
https://image.nostr.build/f63ecabd831e129c7c4d13fc00ac8163f3ecee585dd20acbd754a98b76ef702c.png

2024-08-29 15:46:04

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Hm, yeah so I would expect this profile to show on njump but it isn’t: https://njump.me/[email protected]. The user’s relay list in their NIP-05 is wss://purplepag.es, wss://olympics2024.nos.social, wss://relay.nos.social, wss://relay.snort.social, wss://relay.damus.io. And I see their kind 0 is on all those relays except wss://olympics2024.nos.social (which is a paid relay). Do they need a NIP-56 relay list for njump to find them?

2024-08-29 15:32:19

@npub180c…h6w6 can you add wss://relay.nos.social to the relay config for njump.me? I looked to submit a patch but I don’t see the RELAY_CONFIG_FILE under version control.

2024-08-24 23:57:41

https://image.nostr.build/7dcb2170a994849b64d2e1f970335b2793f35fe88118d1556c371926c6b14e7e.jpg

2024-08-24 13:15:56

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Welcome Bart!

2024-08-23 16:50:56

gm @npub180c…h6w6

2024-08-23 13:49:46

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CC @npub1t89…a5h9

2024-08-20 22:04:00

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Did you get a cat!?

2024-08-20 02:11:22

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Maybe some integration with https://comingle.co makes sense?

2024-08-14 23:10:49

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Oh yeah thanks for following up on this. I actually went straight from camp to vacation 🌴 so I’m going to pass this off to @npub1j60…d7ua.

2024-08-13 15:31:00

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Hi Mae, welcome to Nostr! I would suggest playing around with different apps. Many of them have a different feed and discovery algorithms. Some, like https://coracle.social, even let you build your own algorithm if you are into that.
The app I work on, https://nos.social, has been running a program this summer to promote creators and journalists posting outside the usual topics. If you download Nos you can find a list of these folks by tapping on the Discover tab.

2024-08-10 22:48:33

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😎

2024-08-10 22:48:03

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It’s me!

2024-08-09 16:55:28

Hello DWeb camp 2024! We set up this relay for folks to stay connected here and after we leave. Glad to have you!

2024-08-09 15:21:54

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Maybe I just don’t know what “parameter” actually means. I think of it as a variable that can change on each invocation of a function. So from that perspective both “parameterized replaceable events” and “replaceable events” can be thought of as outputs of a function where the parameters are content, tags, pubkey, etc. So it kind of confuses me that one is called parameterized and one isn’t. I would say one has a stable address and one doesn’t.

2024-08-09 15:08:48

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We finally opened relay.nos.social up to everyone last week to help. Outbox is necessary but so are relays that allow new users to publish for free.

2024-08-09 14:59:35

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I don’t understand what the “parameterized” part means. In the Nos code we call them replaceable events.

2024-08-06 00:52:22

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That’s a lot of apps

2024-08-03 01:48:01

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Did it work?

2024-08-01 22:56:29

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nvm, I found it https://snort.social/subscribe

2024-08-01 22:54:49

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how do I subscribe?

2024-08-01 20:41:58

@npub1v0l…qj49 does relay.snort.social require payment to publish these days? I get the message “failed: msg: no active subscription” when I try to publish events there.

2024-08-01 20:35:06

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Speaking of relay.damus.io - it seems to be rejecting all notes from fresh keys with “you are noting too much” notices, even on their first request. Am I tripping some sort of spam protection?
```
nak event wss://relay.damus.io
connecting to wss://relay.damus.io... ok.
{"kind":1,"id":"3eb05b2fb1d69b4a1a56929d01e77aa1c2fc4996185de93673c603185f77f518","pubkey":"79be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798","created_at":1722537100,"tags":[],"content":"hello from the nostr army knife","sig":"664ec8b9c5a6902b63b0de8b7ed4023bbfb40889e973f36a870fc4d5697454aa9f6f1c79b39672874ff1b00f9943af57fcdd57c22728cb6e2d1cd5ed4ee65aac"}
publishing to wss://relay.damus.io... failed: msg: rate-limited: you are noting too much
```

2024-08-01 19:45:47

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Yeah that is incredibly reasonable! Thanks for sharing.

2024-08-01 15:57:48

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Very cool. I wish we would just modify NIP-96/98 to fit blossom, but @npub1ye5…knpr doesn’t seem to keen, not sure why.

2024-08-01 15:55:30

@npub1xts…kk5s have you posted stats anywhere on how much traffic strfry is handling on relay.damus.io? I’m curious how big of a server you are running it on too and how much it cost. I heard that it costs thousands of dollars per month to run a Bluesky PDS(!?) and it’s an interesting comparison.

2024-08-01 01:16:09

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It’s definitely not the full thing because I saw in the release notes that there is no Image Playground, Genmoji, and maybe even the private cloud stuff yet. I’m sure it will get better but I thought it would come out of the gate being able to do the basic stuff they demoed at WWDC.

2024-08-01 01:14:28

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Yeah, it will surely get better. I think these are all on device requests but I’m not sure.

2024-07-30 19:20:30

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Here is Apple AI rewriting my post in a professional tone:
“Upon gaining access to the beta version of Apple Intelligence, I encountered significant challenges with its functionality. I attempted to generate an image, summarize an email, inquire whether Siri was an LLM, and execute various other requests. Regrettably, all of these attempts resulted in failures, primarily due to Siri’s tendency to provide incorrect responses. Instead of fulfilling my requests, Siri often offered to conduct Google searches that closely resembled my queries but ultimately yielded inaccurate results.”
And summarizing it:
“Beta Apple Intelligence fails to generate images, summarize emails, and answer questions.”
And making bullet points from it:
• The beta Apple Intelligence was accessed.
• The user tried generating an image, summarizing an email, asking Siri if she was an LLM, and other requests.
• All requests failed.
• Siri offered to Google search something that sounded phonetically like what the user asked for but was wrong.
Ok the writing tools part of Apple Intelligence seems at least somewhat useful.

2024-07-30 19:17:55

Wow, just got access to the beta Apple Intelligence and… it’s awful. I tried generating an image, summarizing an email, asking Siri if she was an LLM, and some other requests. All failed spectacularly, mostly resulting in Siri offering to Google search something that sounded phonetically like what I asked for but was wrong.

2024-07-30 02:08:50

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I think they are showing off their cardboard stuff to advertise that these sorts of events can be more sustainable.

2024-07-30 02:05:14

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Oh cool. I guess the main reason I would want to publish my notes on Nostr would be to collaborate with others. So while it’s a big task having a robust CRDT and some permissions system for collaborative note taking would be amazing. Basically hack.md on Nostr.

2024-07-30 01:17:51

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markdown and wiki links?

2024-07-30 01:14:35

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Yep, although I didn’t get a push notification for this one.

2024-07-30 01:14:06

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Yes i do!

2024-07-29 15:57:59

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Welcome!

2024-07-27 04:33:53

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I will definitely give this a read next week!

2024-07-26 15:52:10

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I have some of the same relays under “Public Inbox Relays” and they have bytes there 🤷‍♂️

2024-07-25 23:29:53

@nprofile…pyug why do all my "General Relays" in Amethyst have 0 bytes, 0 errors, etc? https://image.nostr.build/7bbaf6dc9f237f2d2e895db285c45339fa3685e8f93b0f4109d28726d0156c5f.jpg

2024-07-25 15:36:57

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💯 and just being a user of one of these alternatives contributes more than you probably think 🙏🏻

2024-07-25 15:12:59

@npub1ldz…n99t are you coming to DWeb camp? You would love it.

2024-07-25 14:59:30

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hm, I think we already have a pretty complex hierarchy if you index e tags and p tags. Here are some queries I have wanted to do:
Give me all the root notes from people I follow (maybe I don’t even have to send my contact list) AND any reports referencing these notes from people I follow AND the count of kind 7 reactions for those notes.
Grab all notes published by people I follow in the last 48 hours, limit 5 per person (can graphQL do this?).
Give me replies from people followed by the people I follow.

2024-07-25 14:30:28

Nostr but with GraphQL. Would it be good? Or just a DoS mess?
So many of the more arcane problems with building a good client come out of the simple query language of REQs.

2024-07-23 23:14:50

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Right on. I want a native SwiftUI version of Nos but I’ve never done a Mac app at all before. Keep us posted on how it goes.

2024-07-23 23:06:58

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I have found it. A feature that Amethyst doesn’t have!
Just checked out the app for the first time in a bit. It’s still so impressive how much it does and how well it all works.

2024-07-23 22:59:52

Is there a way to browse a specific relay in Amethyst? @nprofile…pyug

2024-07-23 00:49:18

Testing 1, 2, 3…

2024-07-19 23:03:16

If you work on a Nostr app I guarantee this product workshop @npub1j60…d7ua is proposing at @npub1nst…rg5l will be worth your time. #note1ct3…vzvf

2024-07-19 20:58:18

testing NIP42

2024-07-19 16:39:46

@npub1c87…8avm @npub1cx4…8vf0 @npub1rj2…ag4u hey I’m working on a project at @npub1pu3…tfch where we are setting up a paid relay using LNBits. Unfortunately we’re running up against a deadline so I’m reaching out for some help.
I’m having trouble doing NIP-42 auth with the relay. I think maybe there is a bug in the implementation but maybe I am just dumb. I haven’t done NIP-42 before. I wrote up the details here: https://github.com/lnbits/nostrrelay/issues/27
Would appreciate your thoughts when you have the chance!

2024-07-18 16:06:03

TIL about git worktree. Instead of doing git stash && git checkout, (make changes, review PR, etc.), then git checkout - && git stash pop you can run git worktree ../myproject mybranch and git will create a new directory with mybranch checked out. Kind of like if you had cloned the project again. When you are done you can git worktree remove ../myproject.

2024-07-18 01:01:24

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2024-07-16 19:15:56

Still 🔥 on Tuesday morning #note1mtf…rwkg

2024-07-13 16:16:35

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That’s fair. I think a lot of the time it’s a fan who maintains the package in the system they want it in. So I guess that means I should submit it to homebrew…

2024-07-13 02:30:13

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I was just recommending this to @npub1yl8…vz34 today. I have been using it so much lately. I wish it were in all the package managers though.

2024-07-13 02:27:15

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Wow, that is wild.

2024-07-12 23:33:12

My second attempt at soldering the Ploopy Classic was a huge success! I was only planning to get through the soldering but I had so much fun that I finished the full assembly in one night.
More open-source hardware kits, please. I originally found the Ploopy mouse when looking for trackball mice with high-res sensors and a thumb scroll wheel. My right hand often hurts from scrolling with my pointer or middle finger so I’ve been searching for a solution to that for a long time and I think I’ve found it. I love that, like my keyboard, it’s something I can repair or modify myself.
If you are in the market for a mouse (or headphones!) check out their site. I’m now a fan. https://ploopy.co/classic-trackball/
Here’s a photo of the finished product: https://image.nostr.build/54190eb4be6f67d40334b7a640bef56fb33c6a3861bacacd190093049c999e19.jpg

2024-07-12 19:09:59

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😍 that’s awesome. Are you considering using SwiftData for Comingle?

2024-07-12 00:41:13

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How to fix Nostr lists:
1. Use a CRDT
2. Use a hash chain and have the user resolve conflicts
3. Rely on Amethyst users to keep everything in sync
Yep, #3 requires no work from me so I’m on board 🫡

2024-07-11 20:27:27

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Ah, very cool!

2024-07-11 19:24:48

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I’m still confused. Are you trying to undelete things?

2024-07-11 14:59:11

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I guess most file hosts will probably support this, but not all will, and the ones that don’t are also probably the ones that care most about optimization 😅

2024-07-11 13:33:34

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Oh yeah that should work.

2024-07-11 04:35:29

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But how can you check the size of an arbitrary URL before downloading it?

2024-07-10 23:09:09

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🤯 oh awesome. How does it know which signing requests to approve? Can you allowlist local keypairs or is it only interactive?

2024-07-10 21:44:45

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I guess by ‘server’ I mean ‘remote signer’. I would like to host my own.

2024-07-10 02:26:11

To get over my fear of soldering I decided to order the unassembled kit for this open-source trackball mouse instead of the assembled version.
https://ploopy.co/classic-trackball/
I attempted to solder the sensor last weekend and it went really poorly. I thought I had burned the board and I accidentally soldered two pins together that shouldn’t have been. A few YouTube tutorials later and I’m ready to try again. This time with some solder wick, one of these cleaner things, and solder that’s actually small enough for a circuit board (I had my dad’s plumbing solder 🤦). Wish me luck.
https://image.nostr.build/9504bed8994c8295b388f884f935c802ee2bdd7379e38ffca21b8b4e3bcf8fe7.jpg

2024-07-09 22:53:07

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CC @npub180c…h6w6

2024-07-09 22:52:54

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TIL about NIP-29, thanks! We should normalize kind 11 in its own NIP for all kinds of notes that don't belong in the kind 1 timeline. Like I want to use kind 11 notes in NIP-72 communities.

2024-07-09 22:49:47

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Is this running somewhere in a way I can try?

2024-07-09 22:14:45

Is there a good NIP-46 server I can easily self-host?

2024-07-09 02:34:13

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Wow. I just signed up to try Claude this morning. Did you do this in the web browser? Does it do it’s own write/run/eval loop somehow?

2024-07-08 15:47:26

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😭 we don’t support edit in Nos but we do support delete. Is it not working for you? If so I would love to figure out why and get it fixed (I work on Nos).
FWIW I don’t see any replies from you other than this one, so maybe they did successfully get deleted for others but not you? There are a few Nostr apps that don’t respect requests to delete content but it doesn’t sound like that’s what you’ve run into.

2024-07-08 15:41:53

This week in work-from-home adventures: try to keep my feet flat on the floor.

2024-07-04 15:16:34

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Everbody needs a break. We’ll be here when you get back!

2024-07-02 18:30:40

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maybe we just broke ours somehow

2024-07-02 18:29:22

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😮 oh really? That’s something we should fix. We are using strfry - do all strfry instances not send EOSE? 🤔

2024-07-02 15:28:58

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We’re aggregating kind 0s and 3s on wss://relay.nos.social.

2024-07-02 15:26:31

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hello

2024-07-02 15:24:45

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Welcome tish! Care to share some of your favorite pictures that you’ve taken?

2024-07-02 00:09:25

Finally got around to reading this “Navigating the social graph” paper from @npub176p…vgup. I did not know about adjacency matrices. Is anyone representing the follow graph as a matrix in Nostr (or elsewhere)? I would love to learn more about how this works. Right now Nos builds up DAG of the two hops follow graph in memory as-needed. It’s quite expensive in terms of performance and I wonder how we might take advantage of adjacency matrix operations to make it cheaper.

2024-06-28 16:01:11

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Interesting, I haven’t run into the problem with NIPs changing. The list problem has really been bothering me lately though.

2024-06-28 15:58:16

I did two practical 3D prints yesterday: a child-lock for our IKEA bookcase and a replacement part for the clip-on cupholder on our stroller. This is addicting!
https://image.nostr.build/703f08a891be622bc087a031d72e366dead8f1255caa60e17672f4f54e1b09c2.jpg

2024-06-27 21:34:27

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You publish every day!? That seems like a tough pace for one person to maintain.

2024-06-27 04:49:47

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I’m excited both for this app and to have another Swift dev around!

2024-06-27 00:46:08

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I can’t wait until my kids are old enough to do that. Rainier is my favorite mountain. Say hello for me.

2024-06-25 19:44:24

I really like this "ultra-processed content" idea from Cal Newport. He compares it to "ultra-processed food". To me any social media app built around “content” is a red flag. Not that content is bad, but it’s a hyper-capitalization of entertainment. It doesn’t have much to do with building healthy social structures. The healthiest food for your social self is being in relationship with other humans and good social media should encourage this. https://calnewport.com/on-ultra-processed-content

2024-06-25 03:19:28

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Maybe a nostr wiki like https://wikifreedia.xyz?

2024-06-24 21:55:07

I love this quote from @npub1sg6…f63m “There’s a lot of conversation these days about free speech, and the importance of free speech, and I think that is a complete distraction. The question, and the debate, and the conversation we should be having is around free will. Because these algorithms are being used to direct your attention, and in some cases direct your action.”
I think we can talk about a lot of abstract problems in the decentralized social media space like privacy, ownership, freedom of speech, and algorithms and it can be hard to connect them to other problems in the world. But attention and behavior change are happening at scale and it’s changing elections, increasing polarization, inciting violence, driving late-stage capitalist consumerism and a other societal diseases that help keep powerful people in power, and it’s being done through you and me.
From https://youtu.be/t-40158eRqo?si=6huO-k_l3_YlvRL_&t=1530

2024-06-24 19:45:01

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yeah. It works for me now though!

2024-06-23 01:19:00

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Looks comfy!

2024-06-22 15:25:48

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I just added it. Thanks so much for contributing!

2024-06-22 15:14:20

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Hey @npub1ae4…7ul9 are you posting this directly to Nostr or cross-posting from micro.blog?

2024-06-22 15:08:19

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It does lol