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2023-05-04 18:45:56

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They chose a specific, select number - a default. What’s stopping them from removing those relays entirely as a choice.

2023-05-04 18:41:51

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I find the Twitter threads make for a very easy experience. Especially being able to filter on most popular (zaps), most recent, most controversial (most replies)

2023-05-04 18:36:20

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You could swap who you follow on whatever app you like... And sure “open protocols” don’t have to have algorithms, or they could have them and you could choose between them, as you say. But, again, that’s potentially the same with any app… an implementation like Damus could have an algorithm that’s “good”, or one that manipulates you just like the big tech companies. Anyone or any corporation can make a Damus… and by the way Damus does it already. Just go to the search tab and check the top right filter… Damus already chooses for you what you’re exposed to.

2023-05-04 18:30:19

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Go to the search tab on Damus. In the top right there’s a filter where you can pick which relays you see posts from. For me half of them were unchecked. The unchecked ones were mostly spam and crap, but it just shows that (1) the Damus developers could choose to censor or promote whatever the fuck they like to their users and (2) relays by definition can promote crap or censor crap. Who knows what that could be used for in the future…

2023-05-04 18:22:24

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That’s a good point. Couldn’t implementations like Damus just be shutdown though? Someone has the power to remove their app from the AppStore, or delete their Git, or their webpage. It’s not Nostr but a lot of people use Nostr exclusively through things like Damus.

2023-05-04 18:19:12

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I’m not disagreeing with you. Their algorithms can be harmful. It doesn’t make algorithms bad per se though. I don’t want to get into the psychology of humans, but you can easily get sucked into things that are bad for your mental health just from the people you follow or listen to.
I’m just saying, never having an algorithm is limiting and a waste to any social app. A good algorithm will show you things or people you like, or things that you might not like but challenge you in a healthy way. This is all very subjective, but I’ve discovered a lot of incredible people, music and channels because of algorithms on YouTube, for example.

2023-05-04 18:04:02

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An algorithm can be written to cater to what you like. Naturally that will make you stay more. It’s the same as someone you like recommending some else.

2023-05-04 17:50:37

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Algorithms aren’t bad. We use them everyday, whether it’s Twitter, youtube, Google, or even conversation. Twitter’s sucks, but I don’t think algorithms are bad in general

2023-05-04 17:47:49

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I’m not done with you

2023-05-04 17:46:39

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Not advocating*

2023-05-04 17:46:16

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Ok. I agree fully. I’m
Or advocating for one relay, but you said what’s the point of having a relay if people can just unfollow it? I’m saying it so cheap to make relays that “good” relays can easily turn into “bad” relays.

2023-05-04 17:44:53

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No ads is good. No algorithm? Do you get suggested anything outside of what other users suggest? Or shitshow that is the search tab? No ceo is good too.

2023-05-04 17:43:00

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Ye, if they knew, they would. Defeat the point in what sense? On a technical level, why not just have one global relay then? If no one would ever use a relay nefariously then surely one would just be enough?

2023-05-04 17:37:14

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I don’t think you can compare TCP/IP to Nostr, or bitcoin. They’re just completely different things

2023-05-04 17:33:41

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From what I understand you could create one and do it

2023-05-04 17:30:45

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In nostr you write a post and send it to a server. Relays can accept it or censor it. The latter: you just make your own relay. But there’s no cost to you or anyone else doing this, there’s no proof of work. It can be meddled with (and again, sure, you could create your own network) but you’re (1) choosing to ignore what’s supposedly on the server already (aka censoring) or (2) it’s cheap to create hostile relays that collude. It’s probably better for free speech than Twitter, but god it’s so painful as a base layer. At least to me.

2023-05-04 16:58:54

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I’m saying Nostr doesn’t have the qualities we’re actually dreaming of when it comes to communication we can’t censor. This isn’t the bitcoin to crypto.. somehow the alt coin came first. And so maybe usability is simply better at this point. I haven’t seen a single post on Damus that someone couldn’t have posted on Twitter (aside from porn spam which I’m sure we all love). I think Twitter and lighting would just be better. Again, maybe I’m just a hater

2023-05-04 16:51:41

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I’m not trying to deflect. I think I’m making an apt point. “No ceo” as about reliable as a qualification as so many cryptos that exist. Bitcoin truly has no ceo. Nostr is not the same

2023-05-04 16:49:02

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I am talking about Nostr. Are you dating Nostr is as decentralised as a protocol as bitcoin? I’m comparing it to other decentralised protocols like [insert your favourite non pow protocol here]

2023-05-04 16:47:26

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You understand that. Is Nostr proof of work?

2023-05-04 16:46:30

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Ethereum is open source too

2023-05-04 16:46:10

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Just like ethereum doesn’t have ceo

2023-05-04 16:45:19

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I understand that. Zaps could be implemented the same way anywhere. Damus isn’t special in that sense, Twitter could do the same. You only need to look at 90% of the the big influencers on Twitter who moved and promoted Nostr… they always say something like “it’s better there, and zaps are a motivation”. And those are just the influencers… most common folk come for the same reason, by
Nostr, and Damus especially, aren’t proof of work, they centralised in the same way shitcoins are.
Sure they’re more resistant to censorship than you average social media. But are they some bitcoin-esque decentralised? No. Therefore I don’t get why we worship this protocol so much. Sure I’m being pedantic, but people are acting like it’s going to save the world. Our standards are low it seems

2023-05-04 16:36:46

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I’m no Nostr developer, or Damus like developer on top of it, but I find it hard to believe you couldn’t censor what you liked in this app if you so had the will. I could be wrong of course… but, if you could, to me that’s a “decentralised” kind of decentralisation that a lot of altcoins boast about.

2023-05-04 16:34:09

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For example. I can’t figure out intuitively how to reply to you again after I’ve already replied.
I’ve clicked buttons but I can only figure how to reply to myself. I didn’t mean shitcoin as though it’s an alt to some bitcoin; to me nostr is a best try of something we haven’t figured out how to do well yet. To me it’s kind of like a shitcoin. Lots of bells and whistles but no substantial use. And it’s only realbitcoin in so far as the wallets you allow is to interact with have real Satoshis. But 99% of us use have custodians in those wallets

2023-05-04 16:27:54

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Would it be actual bitcoin if Twitter implemented lighting the same way? Nostr from what I understand is just relays, and some interaction with lightning has been built into it. I’m jaded by the fact that the bitcoin community has converted to nostr/damus from Twitter when Damus ISNT bitcoin. It’s just a harder to develop version of online communication aka social media.

2023-05-04 16:20:29

#[0]
Call me a hater, but I’m struggling to see the point of Nostr and Damus. To me, if feels like Bitcoiners have had the wool pulled over their eyes into supporting a shitcoin inception of social media that has basically wrapped bitcoin/Satoshis.
I invite anyone to enlighten me. It feels like lighting and bitcoin, what we truly care about, has been packaged in something novel but basically crap??

2023-05-04 16:15:55

Can anyone honestly say the user experience here is better than Twitter?

2023-05-04 16:13:49

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Feels like a shit coin version of social media. Only, they’ve somehow integrated btc into the shitcoin. Most people probably wont even see my reply to myself. Something fundamental has been skipped and people are getting too excited. I truly feel if Musk introduced Lightning into Twitter this app would become irrelevant. And if he didn’t, this app would eventually become the what I rated us about the current Twitter.

2023-05-04 16:10:13

I have to be honest… Zaps are incredible, but apart from that I’m struggling to see the point of producing a social app this way. Can someone explain the actual advantage of this besides first-mover advantage? To me, it’s less user friendly, can be censored just as easily because, ultimately, the devs have centralised control of the apps’ usage, and its seems more convoluted to develop/code on. Maybe I’m missing the point like I missed the point of bitcoin for a dozen years… I’d love to be enlightened. If someone provides a something that makes me think, I’ll zap.

2023-05-04 16:04:07

I wish my superpower was to be able to give people my existential crises on a whim. It’s awful lonely.

2023-05-04 16:02:58

Do you invest your money into anything?
Ye, I pretty much put my entire paycheque into bitcoin.
INTO BITCOIN?

2023-05-03 10:37:48

They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way. - Carl Sagan, on humanity

2023-04-30 17:28:38

And sometimes… we need to sleep

2023-04-30 17:28:07

Say hi to a stranger. Comment something about them. They’ll feel happy. You will too. It’s what we’re meant to do as humans. When was the last time that you had an interaction that you felt worse about. SAY HI. WE’RE IN THIS SHIT TOGETHER

2023-04-30 17:25:26

What if, Bitcoin isn’t the most important thing in the world.

2023-04-30 17:24:44

If anyone is looking for movie suggestions, and likes Nicolas Cage (because you should)… The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Color out of Space, Willy’s Wonderland.
Watch them. You won’t regret it

2023-04-30 17:22:34

I think the most blissful slumber I could have is hanging on branch on a fuckin tree

2023-04-30 17:20:58

Still boggles my mind that there are more stars in the observable universe than there are grains of sand on our beaches

2023-04-30 17:19:53

What’s been the most impactful tragedy of your life? I had a dream that my mother died and I didn’t realise just how much I loved her. I dread the real day, especially because I haven’t learned my lesson

2023-04-30 17:18:01

Have you looked at your YouTube history? It fuckin scares me how many videos I watch without even noticing

2023-04-30 17:16:56

You have a choice. Only one will survive. Bitcoin, your sanity, or your family. Which do you pick

2023-04-30 17:14:16

I’m not a scientist, but can someone explain how light travels the fastest. What about outer reaches of the universe?

2023-04-30 17:12:24

Will the future study our posts. Or will they be scrounging for edible pieces of leather

2023-04-30 17:10:28

Serious question. Why do we use the Twitter and Damus?

2023-04-30 17:09:32

What I like about the Dune series is it’s a world where no matter how far we progress, we’re still victims of our brittle humanity. Prophecy, power, superstition and religion, strength… being able to best a foe in battle. It’s so fuckin primitive, but humans will do it forever

2023-04-30 17:06:23

Do you sometimes think that you’re only doing it for the sats. Or the attention

2023-04-30 17:05:36

Apparently, ignorance is bliss. Would you want to be ignorant? I genuinely don’t know

2023-04-30 17:04:28

Sometimes the question, why is there something instead of nothing, hits me in a way where I feel dizzy. And out loud I say something smart like, what the fuck

2023-04-30 17:02:54

Another day. Another ordinary sunset on some planet thousands of light years away

2023-04-30 11:22:35

I don’t want to seem like a wack, but like many have said, AI is about to be bigger than the internet, and the industrial age, and the innovations from the military industrials complex combined.

2023-04-30 11:20:54

I keep reminding myself with articles and smart people that the fastest thing in the universe is light. What happens at the edge of the universe?

2023-04-30 11:20:03

What if you’re wrong

2023-04-30 11:19:46

And those seen eating cheese, we’re thought to be insane, by those who were lactose intolerant

2023-04-30 11:18:19

What would be worse… an apocalypse or a dystopian future

2023-04-30 11:17:27

Our days are numbered. Our love is too. But you can fit more love in time than even most benevolent people. That’s a good metric

2023-04-30 11:16:24

Who thinks Socrates would have loved bitcoin

2023-04-30 11:15:58

Fuck the Greek philosophers. We could have come up with that shit too

2023-04-30 11:14:20

Time isn’t just a concept, or a science, or a part of a mathematical equation. Sometimes it’s having an original thought and being pissed some Greek guy thought of it already

2023-04-30 11:11:28

Sometimes we’re wrong. Sometimes we’re proven wrong. Sometimes we can admit that we’re wrong. The further you get, the more it hurts… the more you learn.

2023-04-30 11:09:40

Did you ever think you figured it out?

2023-04-15 07:34:51

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We’re absolute psychopaths

2023-04-13 13:26:01

Bitcoin has been stroking my hair and telling me everything will be ok

2023-04-13 13:24:50

Elon sold his BTC. He didn’t understand. Just focus on marketing because that’s all you’re good for. Business.

2023-04-13 13:23:33

There is almost no reason that bitcoin won’t be a million within a few years

2023-04-13 13:22:05

The biggest danger to the way the world is, is Bitcoiners. And that’s a good thing

2023-04-12 11:56:57

I’m impatient as hell. Where is 40k

2023-04-11 04:44:10

30k

2023-04-10 20:08:03

Pump it up

2023-04-10 10:11:59

Surrounded by normies at 2am. AMA

2023-04-08 16:57:32

How nuts is it that Elon paid 40b for Twitter and most of us could make it in a week with chatgpt

2023-04-08 07:31:02

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How so

2023-04-08 07:13:47

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Are you drunk

2023-04-08 00:02:51

America selling its bitcoin will be looked back on as perhaps the world’s biggest financial blunder 🤡

2023-04-07 23:17:29

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I watched a tutorial and it looks like you have a choice of how many sats you want to send, or a custom amount, but seems I only have a default amount option I can’t change unless I go into my settings

2023-04-07 23:13:24

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When I try to zap I get taken to the list of wallets and then it opens the app. Seems the zap feature isn’t working for me? Am I missing something or do you recognise this problem by any chance

2023-04-07 22:11:40

The exciting, upcoming sequel:
Catch Me If You Kwon
🎥 🍿

2023-04-01 19:02:54

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It’s easy.
It’s not bitcoin. It’s whatever makes you happy.

2023-04-01 18:53:13

Can somebody explain to me what the fucking point is

2023-04-01 18:20:11

What a stupid fucking day

2023-03-23 17:28:54

Can someone explain to me how BNB is worth $52 billion?

2023-03-17 09:21:07

I want to look back at this nostr post, embedded forever on a chain, and think, I did the right thing. The more I see unravel in the world, the confident I feel. Here’s hoping

2023-03-15 02:07:56

What price does BTC have to be so you can say to your family, I told you so?

2023-03-11 20:59:39

If startups banked themselves with Bitcoin they wouldn’t be in the predicament they’re in now…
#Bitcoin #SVB

2023-02-25 09:27:33

My main question is, does the more 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 I use mean the more years in jail I’ll get????

2023-02-20 08:32:48

Gonna give a thousand sats to the next 5 people below :) post your invoice

2023-02-20 08:17:06

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Still Sunday night for me. Pray for me tomorrow

2023-02-20 08:01:06

https://www.usnews.com/object/image/0000017d-4901-d657-af7f-cf773ba80000/gettyimages-1183137700.jpg?update-time=1637607446420&size=responsive640
Hope my house doesn’t get fucking nuked

2023-02-20 07:48:50

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No problem :)

2023-02-20 07:48:30

The more that unfolds in the world the more lucky I feel we have bitcoin. Without exaggeration, after some difficult times, this may save our humanity.

2023-02-19 13:33:48

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Sorry, was out. Should have zapped you now tho

2023-02-19 10:39:16

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BIG BRAIN

2023-02-19 09:44:25

THIRD PERSON. Repeat THIRD person to reply, gets 10k sats. Let the games begin.

2023-02-18 08:03:09

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Right back atcha

2023-02-18 08:01:53

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Sounds like you just encountered a hard chockie brownie human

2023-02-18 08:00:39

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Interstellar

2023-02-18 07:58:38

Sometimes you get a bit too drunk, and you just want to… you just want to… you just WANT TO ZAP

2023-02-04 23:12:28

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Ya got me good 😂😂

2023-02-04 15:18:50

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
I’m not one to post fancy quotes but this has struck me my entire life. What’s it mean to you, I’m curious?

2023-02-04 08:27:17

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Twitter hasn’t solved spam n bad shit after years. A place that’s more open and less developed… ye that shits gonna happen sadly