melvincarvalho
Melvin Carvalho

So it depends on the dungeon master rule set.
But right now I am going with the idea is that if you die, you get to reroll your character, and you're only allowed one character at a time per nostr account.

2024-09-17 14:59:54

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Yes, I will try that next. Right now the class is randomly selected. But in future you'll be able to chose, class/race/sex. You are only allowed one character. It has to die if you want to reroll it.

2024-09-17 14:50:46

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Almost unusable

2024-09-17 14:46:44

Well, my wizard died on his 2nd fight. TIL: advanced dungeons and dragons rules make it incredibly hard to get past level 1. What DMs normally do is fudge it, or get you in with high level characters. Need better game mechanics.
https://m.primal.net/Ksip.png

2024-09-17 14:27:20

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Absolutely! Also have a look at ditto, which is a big step in the right direction.
https://soapbox.pub/ditto/

2024-09-17 13:43:03

An interesting thing here is, that distraction itself, is what hinders free thought.
#note10ck…hy4m

2024-09-17 13:21:07

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Arg, I was using calle's service, but it seems i can no longer be zapped after he closed it. I will have to figure out another way.
Not intranets. Though that is private by default. The whole web can be access controlled. I set who can see what at the web level. Private, just for me. Shared with a friend (think encrypted private chat) or shared with a group (think facebook).
This for me is the natural working of the web. So I find it hard to explain because Im so used to the paradigm, if that makes sense.

2024-09-17 12:57:10

I guess alot of people dont know that on the web the public space, was only supposed to be one part of it. Developers use the directory "public_html" to put stuff on the web. What most dont know is that "public" was only supposed to be the first part. Private and shared were also supposed to be part of the web, just like the UNIX file system has access control, private and shared folders. But the mainstream didnt evovle that way. The finished version of the web, which we are very close to, will have all these features:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebAccessControl

2024-09-17 12:04:40

The female gnome ranger stood over the fallen goblin, her breathing steady despite the rapid exchange. Her first arrow had found the goblin’s shoulder, staggering it, but the beast lunged in return, its blade swiping the air where she had been moments before. With calm precision, she loosed another arrow. This one buried deep in the goblin’s chest, its wild eyes going wide with shock before crumpling to the ground. The forest was still again, save for the gnome’s quiet exhale. Victory, swift and certain.
https://m.primal.net/KscZ.png
https://dungeon-mastr.github.io/test/simulatecombat.html?pubkey=8a362f668ba466cb01b92ed821ba4922913306f3249e9659a1d52dbac9728610&blockhash=00000000fe95e3df86f411ed7748286cf2f679d566695a96b98bd570ecb191f

2024-09-17 11:30:30

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Getting your first follower on Nostr can be tough—give it a try and you'll see. As for data, Nostr lacks a scaling architecture, so clients use a lot right now. There's no clear path to scaling since it needs a uniform interface. That said, tools like Ditto should help reduce bandwidth.

2024-09-17 10:47:09

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It is actually I have started fresh many many times. Less than 5% of accounts will get a follower. Maybe less than 1%. Dont believe me? Honestly, try it. The introductions tag can help a bit, but most non techie newbies dont know about the introductions tab.

2024-09-17 10:28:03

Remember, Nostr now has 50+ clients across web, iOS, and Android, thanks to Ditto bridging it with Mastodon protocols. This means you can access Nostr via any Ditto instance using many mature open-source clients. It's doubled user options, and some of these clients are really solid!
https://ditto.pub/
https://joinmastodon.org/apps

2024-09-17 10:21:34

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Nostr doesn’t do storage, which is why the web will always be much bigger—storage is what the web’s built for. Nostr, built on WebSockets (part of the web), is more about relaying than replacing the web. Think of it as another tool in the broader web toolbox

2024-09-17 09:55:08

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Yes, new users are leaving. It's a very difficult time for new sign ups right now. Most are not going to push through the pain of getting their first follow (hard) and following back (buggy). Meanwhile bluesky add 1 million new users a month with good on boarding and infratructure.

2024-09-17 09:15:23

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Could be done in 2 if there's enough interest. I can write a charter pretty quick. What nostr has going for it is several interoperable implementations, all be it, with a few discrepancies, but that could be ironed out.
The only thing then that would be needed is a test suite, which would not be THAT hard. 18 months I think is the minimum for a WG. Feel free to join the CG and come help if you have any interest:
https://www.w3.org/community/nostr/

2024-09-17 09:11:31

After 18 years of working on the "Solid" (Social Linked Data) it is now going to a W3C working group, and will likely become a global standard in 2 years.
20 years of work, from 0 to global is alot, but worth it. The minimum critereon is a charter, mutliple interoperable implementations, and a test suite.
I wonder if we could also make nostr into a global web standard in a few years. We would need a bit more interest in the idea, and it would likely take 2-4 years of effort. But I think it could be doable. Such stability is seen as a plus for bigger players that might want to adopt nostr.
https://solid.github.io/solid-wg-charter/charter/

2024-09-16 21:59:34

#dungeonmastr male elf rouge
https://m.primal.net/KsCj.png

2024-09-16 19:28:21

Did you know that from any pubkey (nostr account) and block hash (bitcoin tx) you can generate all manner of things consistently. Here is a dungeons and dragons character created using this technique. Meaning that if you send a tx to the block chain it can create a unique character for you, deterministically, forever.
https://m.primal.net/KrxT.png
https://dungeon-mastr.github.io/test/generatecharacter.html?blockhash=0000000097df8db7ffc9a4432177eea77fa39e117f5091dc96b5372b812d283a&pubkey=bf5f99b906c8af89dfb0ea3491ec19a84357de063c9a8735a07342ea1caf2501

2024-09-16 18:10:03

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#subkeys ... many of us have been saying this for a long time

2024-09-16 02:43:50

https://dungeon-mastr.github.io/rules/
https://m.primal.net/KrNt.png

2024-09-16 01:05:43

Thinking about a game on testnet. Every nostr account can roll one character, and it gets generated in the next block. The character has to die, before you can reroll a new one. Characters can fight each other for XP.
https://m.primal.net/KrKJ.png

2024-09-15 20:24:43

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this is very impressive sn0wden has 8 letters and it took a long time
im very surprised you got rana working so fast, your "old" laptop much OG 😃
in any case, welcome to nostr, I'm definitely going to learn and explore what you've done -- thanks for the contribution

2024-09-15 14:37:11

Never forget GPG
...
The Web of Trust is practically dead and can be considered a failure. The question arises on how the trust in PGP keys can be restored. Some people argue the community should look at mobile messenger services.
...
“We’ve known for a decade this attack is possible. It’s now here and it’s devastating” rjh
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The spam signatures and also those of the sister of your friends - are no longer imported into the local keychain. This doesn’t affect manually imported keys.
This solves the signature spam abuse for GPG users. But it comes with a hefty price tag.
...
https://inversegravity.net/2019/web-of-trust-dead/

2024-09-15 10:25:25

Next level spamming
https://m.primal.net/KqaU.png

2024-09-15 10:07:48

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You really generated 9 chars?
How does it compare to:
https://github.com/grunch/rana

2024-09-14 12:29:20

The inventor of HTTP now has a #nostr pubkey. #smallsteps
https://m.primal.net/KpbB.png
https://timbl.solidcommunity.net/profile/keys/publicKey.ttl

2024-09-13 16:26:07

Forced coding, from 2012.
"This one is more for my own reference, but sharing anyways as it may help others. In numerous scenarios it is really hard to "get going" when you're trying to code, particularly under the following circumstances:
* You haven't started coding till late(r) in the day
* Emails, Blogs, Social networking have taken up more time than expected and/or distracted more than anticipated
* You've just completed a deliverable, milestone or task.
* You're tired!
All of these are virtually daily occurances in the coding world, and here are the methods I've used to get going again.. no particular order, just a list.
Under all circumstance, avoid planning!
Planning is one of those things you can't do unless you are all ready in the flow, whether this is because you've just had a client meeting, a long discussion, or read a full spec - it's not the thing to do to get your flow going, all you'll do is plan nothing, plan badly, or stare blankly at the screen / paper.
Don't read related material to get you in the flow.
This will purely serve to distract you, make you think about doing things differently, doublt what you've done or worse throw you in to planning mode - fact is you won't be planning "your" app though, you'll be planning "some" ideal app or scenario.
Pick the smallest task, whether complex or not, and just do it!
Doesn't matter what it is, so long as it's coding a little part of the app, or modifying part of it, then it'll do. It could be adding an extra field to an object or table, popping in some validation, anything small and simple. It really doesn't matter if you do it right or wrong; you're not doing it to sign off a task, you're doing it to re-aquaint yourself with your system, by the time you've been through X lines of code you'll be back in work mode and firing on all cylinders, well on your way to getting zoned.
Music, Headphones, Repeat.
You'll know the genre that suits you, personally I find repeating an album or even song fades me in to the zone and keeps me there. The repetitiveness of the tune keeps you there, because just as a phone call can distract you, so can a change in tune to something at a different tempo or worse a completely different genre.
Don't cram!
If you've only got 15 minutes before the next sizable interuption, forget it, don't do anything just chill - make a coffee, smoke, whatever. You're not wasting time you're saving your zone, you can only get zoned a couple of times a day, so don't get zoned for only 15 minutes - save it and get zoned for longer later on.
Speedcode
Why not? as nike say "just do it", if the code has 10 bugs but is finished in half the time then you've done good, that gives you loads of time to fix the bugs, and more importantly you get to those moments where you realise x,y&z need to be changed much quicker. Not only that, but would you rather have a week to go and have a list of 80 bugs, or a week to go and 2 major deliverables a week overdue..
Communicate for no reason.
Often a major focus is simply talking to somebody else on the same project as you, whether its the client or a workmate, and the more stressed they are the better, they'll not only blast you with things but their urgency / stress will often convey straight over to you and focus / zone you instantly.
Do the thing you know, not the thing you don't.
Inline with "don't plan" and "pick the smallest task", always pick something you can already do (if possible), as with everything else, the things you don't know are much easier when you're already zoned, not only that but you'll be more focussed when doing the thing you don't know so less likely to over spec / over code it.
Don't code other things!
nothing on earth will kill your project like working on something else, every minute you spend on another script or app is like an hour lost on what you should be doing, and with every minute that passes you're getting closer and closer to utter project failure - and hence why most open source projects are dead.
Remember, the key to forced coding is just to get you in the zone, and ultimately boils down to just getting stuck in there with some lines of code on your project.
Works for me anyways [most of the time] - if anybody has anything to add (constructive) then please do!
Regards - nathan"
https://web.archive.org/web/20120412165228/http://webr3.org/blog/general/forced-coding/

2024-09-13 16:11:01

Versions on the web
0.1 original web, http, html, uri, browser/editor
0.2 ajax, javascript, user generated content, social
0.3 web of data, semantic web, linked data, solid
0.4 temporal web, git, time chain, bitcoin
0.5 causal web, contracts, single use seals, programs
0.6 payments everywhere, mints, free markets, digital firms
0.7 AI, AGI, autonomous web, humans w/ machines
0.8 Web of beauty, content, audio, video, free media
0.9 War against the machines
1.0 Endgame, the eternal web

2024-09-12 12:57:18

2024-09-11 16:25:57

https://m.primal.net/KmrP.png

2024-09-11 14:55:28

Some Nostr Clients You Might Have Missed
New Iris -- When logged in, it hides replies from people who are not in your social graph. You can display the hidden messages by clicking on the button underneath.
https://new.iris.to/
Not Primal -- just a primal clone
https://notprimal.lol/
Oddbean -- hacker news style nostr, has been around a while, but not widely used
https://oddbean.com/

2024-09-04 10:42:58

I have liked this interview, for a long time, and often think back to it.
"I usually don’t speak on behalf of myself. I don’t fight for myself. That was the one time that I did. I don’t know if it worked. No one really cared." -- Jack
I think some people care. I think some people will fight for Jack, or with Jack.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-rolling-stone-interview-782298/

2024-09-03 15:32:56

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I think they will make it hard yes. They are also masters at influencing through propaganda. That doesnt always mean misinformation, it can be misdirection, agitation, divide and conquer, co-opting or just moving things in a direction where it will not be a threat. Then play whack-a-mole on anything left.

2024-09-03 15:11:17

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Thanks for the clarification. Its a worry that the privacy oriented OSS project says nothing about the privacy invasive company and closed source project. I've seen this movie too many times.
I remember now I went to a fedimint workshop. The speaker asked how to send keys to one another, and I said, from the audience "Nostr".
Fedimint has too many flags for me to blindly trust it.
I hope it works though, and the docs are interesting, and could easily be done with the *existing* relay infrastructure with a 2/3rds honest majority. Rather than having to run new software, learn it, audit it etc.
"One such protocol is AlephBFT. We will mainly use it as a reference for BFT consensus properties but note that similar but more efficient ones exist (most notably Dumbo and hybrids built on top of it)."
https://fedimint.org/docs/MiniMintDetails/Consensus

2024-09-03 13:32:23

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Before nostr, I founded and was first chair of the W3C Solid Community Group. I always wanted to build Solid and personal storage to work together with nostr. In we made pub/sub websockets in solid before Nostr did it. I spoke to Alex and I am hopeful we can get some Solid ideas to work with ditto. Then we have Nostr + Ditto + Solid to be better than ActivityPods, and a whole scalable financial layer can be built on top of that.

2024-09-03 12:21:11

If you think nostr is good, #ditto is going to blow your mind.
What has been achieved, with simple text strings, and small relays, is incredible.
When devs get all of that, PLUS the full power of structured JSON, a massively scalable architecture, and permissionles dev, literally anything will become possible!

2024-09-03 11:41:37

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https://play-grounds.github.io/ditto/[email protected]

2024-09-03 10:37:41

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Not sure I trust fedimint to be honest. They claim to be a privacy solution yet have spyware on their high profile new launched site. Nevertheless, I hope they are successful. I may use it one day. The principles behind can be replicated in any number of ways. Relays already exist, so they can do something useful, without needing a 3rd party spec or system, that I would have to learn and audit. End result is more choice for the end user.

2024-09-03 10:25:16

My first #ditto micro app. Not much, but it's a start!
https://play-grounds.github.io/ditto/
https://image.nostr.build/31648dbeb32c81cae3505612b51edb1b6e42edee8f20d0ea97da56c54370d9a7.jpg

2024-09-03 09:43:23

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🍿

2024-09-03 08:52:46

If you could create a dynamic federation of relays, with 2/3rds honest majority, it would be superior to cusodial services or mints. This should be tried on bitcoin testnet, to proof it works. And then offered as a service on nostr.

2024-09-02 21:05:42

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Semantic Web been doing this since 2002

2024-09-02 15:21:32

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https://image.nostr.build/5929730a702f5bcd594ad73800aad5faca817faacf161ab80ad6551afeaf0b20.jpg

2024-09-02 07:27:32

The initial version of caniuse for nostr from Marco.
https://marcodpt.github.io/nostracker/
https://image.nostr.build/42c2e3ff354fd4518173895e5140a26874ad8a75de7097b18dec7dab261b57ff.jpg

2024-09-02 01:01:40

I've been thinking a lot about what Nostr 2.0 should look like:
1. Bottom-up, permissionless dev instead of top-down control through NIPs.
2. A scalable architecture that’s interoperable, extensible, and standardized, including relays.
3. Cutting-edge features like smart widgets to compete with the latest tech trends.
4. Full npub-taproot infrastructure with financial interop, smart contracts, DAOs, markets, and naming.
5. AI integration where AI agents are first-class citizens on the network, leveraging all of the above.
#Ditto seems like the first step toward Nostr 2.0 (with shout out to nostrocket). Nostr 1.0 apps and the relay network are still going to be key, but I see the next generation starting to take shape.

2024-09-01 23:13:26

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Which clients?

2024-09-01 23:11:04

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The neglect of the nostr relay network, has been quite remarkable. Everything else was supported, but the relay network was thrown under the bus often is a quite unkind way. It is a shame because without the relay network, there would be no nostr.
Ultimately I think it's a case of "tragedy of the commons". It's never too late to help the relay network. But 80% have left and most wont come back. Let's try and do better with #ditto !

2024-09-01 22:57:57

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Sad :(
Relayable.org has been downsized from its network of worldwide relays to just one in Los Angeles. This is due to a lack of financial support and large monthly hosting bills. We tried numerous times to get funding from the usual suspects but were not even sent back a denial email. So due to the ongoing costs and slowing of direct support with the price of BTC going up, the hard choice was made to downsize. Thanks to everyone who has supported and helped over the last 2 years!
- Jascha
https://relayable.org/

2024-09-01 21:53:53

#ditto allowed me to create a new nostr client, relay and website, in a weekend. Still some work to be done, but happy with the results so far.
https://nostr.me/

2024-09-01 18:25:59

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Not sure I would say that. Nostr has become fairly centralized. What I think bluesky was able to do, that opensats wasnt, is invest in infrastructure, so that they had capacity for a million new users in 3 days. We all know nostr relays dont have that capacity or scalability. Also I think they had quite a bit of luck there. However, I am optimistic that #ditto has some great growth potential for nostr.

2024-09-01 18:21:44

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They have the infrastructure to handle it. And a bit of luck.

2024-09-01 17:21:24

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By this rationale, Satoshi was not a bitcoiner. Cmon Will, you know better than this. It's shitcoin propaganda.

2024-08-31 20:03:15

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Alex has built and delivered things to millions of users before, as have I. I see good design patterns in there. I may be wrong on that, but this is the first thing I've seen in the space that I think has a really good chance of scaling. If someone else does it first, so much the better.

2024-08-31 19:28:17

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yes, I used it, before I discovered ditto

2024-08-31 16:54:21

#ditto is the best kept secret on nostr. If you want to try an amazing client, go to:
https://ditto.pub/
Or install your own version using:
https://docs.soapbox.pub/ditto/install
With an elegant, scalable architecture which can handle millions of users. This was the missing piece of the puzzle that nostr has needed.
https://m.primal.net/KXNT.png

2024-08-31 11:47:03

running #ditto

2024-08-30 21:44:23

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Plain Old JavaScript is highly under rated

2024-08-30 15:44:35

Few people know that the original web was designed a decentralized space where everyone could browse and edit thei own pages. The original browser, called worldwideweb, was a browser/editor, where anyone could make edits to the web as well as browse the web. What happened next was that VCs removed the editing functionality and created web based silos which locked in the users. We now have a chance to add back the decentralized functionality to the web, returning it to its decentralized roots.

2024-08-30 15:14:26

Ditto scales, so nostr doesnt need to. And through federation ditto has already scaled to millions of users and growing. You dont have to use ditto, just take the design patterns. Not only that, but we can add almost unlimited features to it.

2024-08-29 17:07:37

Great to mean Alex Gleason and MK! Bullish on ditto.

2024-08-29 12:39:42

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It feels like it, but it isnt. Nostr is controlled by one entity. If it transitioned to community based, like bitcoin, it would be good. Might be a bit late now.

2024-08-29 12:34:28

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yes

2024-08-29 11:59:02

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Not quite right. The bottom half is bigger in the Jungian model.

2024-08-29 11:11:08

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Main thing with bcash is that there are hostile forks (such as bcash) and complementary forks (such as litecoin). Bcash was the most hostile of hostile forks, it took code that it didnt write, and tried to destroy upstream bitcoin, so that they could take all the coins, which gave that code to the world for free. It's like stealing your neighbours car and trying to run him over and kill him, so that you can f*ck his wife. When your plan fails, you say, hey cant we just be friends. No, you cant.

2024-08-28 23:23:38

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Why base32 encode the pubkey? Why not use the hex which is the canonical form?

2024-08-28 22:26:32

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If it's just an API, then what you use it for, freedom or otherwise, is up to you.

2024-08-28 21:45:01

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I think nostr could help do the handshake, then you figure out where the audio files are. Then stream it client server, or through an audio relay. So if nostr is just an API you can figure out what tool to use, it might be nostr, it might not be. As a developer you have freedom to choose.

2024-08-28 21:33:16

Nostr is better as an API than as a protocol. It might end up as either. If it's an API it doesnt need to scale, because it inherits scale from http. So you use the API and are happy. I think that's where it will end up, but it could go either way. Both are good outcomes.

2024-08-28 18:27:35

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Yeah, definitely dont want to start over. Can an xpub be deterministically generated from an nsec?

2024-08-28 17:03:01

"IETF MLS, Message Layer Security, scales Signal-style encryption to large group chat using Merkle Trees. Is in process of being implemented on Nostr too!" -- Harry Halpin
https://x.com/harryhalpin/status/1827976195746783674

2024-08-28 16:49:55

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Yes, I think you're onto something.
NostR = notes and other stuff transmitted by relays.
Nost = Notes and other stuf.

2024-08-28 16:24:34

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There are indeed multiple paths forward to scalability. But nostr hasnt really explored this yet. There's a lot of hope that the gossip model will solve things, but no evidence that it will.

2024-08-28 16:06:05

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2024-08-28 16:04:06

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Nostr isnt designed to scale at all. Connection oriented networks dont scale very well. But they can do a decent enough job.
Sufficiently decentralized is orthogonal to scaling and imho a red herring. We know what scales through observation and we know what doesnt scale through observation.
Nostr was under 100 users 2 years ago. It's done very well to get where it has, but it wont overtake the internet, and isnt designed to. It's a very useful tool, and unlocks a lot of developer innovation and creativity. Working as expected.

2024-08-28 15:58:46

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Good. Now imagine if nostr was anchored in testnet4.

2024-08-28 15:56:25

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Connection-oriented networks carry overhead because they need to maintain continuous connections, which doesn’t scale well as the network grows. The web scales by focusing on stateless interactions and efficient caching strategies.
For Nostr’s caching, consider distributed caches or edge approaches to reduce server load.

2024-08-28 15:52:44

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You're responsible for your own actions. There can be any number of reactions. Where I see nostr's value is that people are able to speak the truth, and it's harder to silence that truth, at least, in theory. If the big relays ban you, you're going to have a bad time.

2024-08-28 14:47:22

Subkeys spec just dropped
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/d31a1490537db439dd853269781955f6a0cdf78e/102.md

2024-08-28 14:12:13

Nostr - bring your own algo
https://uncensoredtech.substack.com/p/bring-your-own-algo

2024-08-28 14:11:49

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1000x

2024-08-28 13:30:08

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Its harder to run a relay than a website. Most have given up. Running a website is easy. That's why I love npub.pro, it makes things easy.

2024-08-28 10:43:39

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I think it's different. Most people dont know this, but in the first few years of the web, there was actually a list of ALL the servers. They maintained it for a while. But it kept doubling every 3 months or so. In the end they could not keep track. Nostr is different. It was on a growth spike But then that growth stoped and reveresd. Now the relay is not growing exponentially, or even growing at all. It may be shrinking The two systems are quite different.

2024-08-28 10:08:37

Decent idea. I was looking at this yesterday. It is possible to run an idle relay in 20MB of memory. Hope it happens, although the relay network is currently shrinking and centralizing around a few reliable ones
#note1qat…we2z

2024-08-28 08:15:02

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no no no ... nip 98 is hugely under rated

2024-08-27 21:45:58

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I really need to make an HTTP 402 API w/o macaroons

2024-08-27 19:18:15

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Oof. Always has been: "Debtor's prisons in the UK were a two-tier system: wealthier inmates could pay for better conditions and privileges, while poorer debtors suffered harsh, overcrowded conditions, often trapped indefinitely. The system was abolished in 1869.". Prolly a lot of pedos back then too ...

2024-08-27 18:15:30

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sorry new users on the right

2024-08-27 18:03:27

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The individual who integrated spyware into Nostr, collecting user IPs without consent. Some light reading for your consideration.
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

2024-08-27 17:53:14

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reddit spike too ... its_happening . gif
https://m.primal.net/KQAG.png

2024-08-27 16:19:25

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Worth it so far. 100 notes / second
#note1j25…q25k

2024-08-27 16:16:56

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I've been using about 6 clients, just to get the basics such as follow, reply, post etc. working. In the end they all have bugs, so I have decided to write my own client.

2024-08-27 15:50:02

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Forking nostr is impossible, it's a myth. It's what we have, we just have to live with the good and the bad. However it is proprietary as in "property of". I know this as a fact, as ive known FJ 10 years, longer than anyone else here. It's neither good for nostr nor for FJ. But it is what it is. Nostr would have benefitted by moving to an open transparent, community run project, but it was not to be. Not all is lost, you just need to know the rules and keep on building.

2024-08-27 15:22:27

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Not a good look, imho. But I guess you have your reasons. GL.

2024-08-27 15:19:08

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Good, was worried! I do agree with snowden about privacy, but that is easier said than done.

2024-08-27 15:10:35

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Not really true. fiajaf owns the protocol. He can change what he wants with or without community approval, as he did last week, when he ulilatearlly nixed parametrized replaceable events. Nostr may be open, but it certainly is proprietary.

2024-08-27 14:12:58

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Always has been

2024-08-27 13:21:34

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Interesting, isnt it. Grift everywhere. Human choices.

2024-08-27 12:58:28

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Do blossom requests allow reply attacks where you can send an upload from one server to another by replaying the request?

2024-08-27 12:02:42

If npub is for display purposes only, then the checksum should not matter, only the prefix, and the key. A good way to test implementations.

2024-08-27 11:54:57

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Its normally a bad sign when fiatjaf attacks bitcoin, which he ocassionally does. There is a lot of anti bitcoin FUD and propaganda around, which gets repeated. That normally coincides with some kind of fork push or other.
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