Aspie96
Valentino Giudice

I agree with this, broadly, but it should be noted that 10-year olds can have technical knowledge. Some people write code significantly before that age.
Also, a programmer may not be familiar with how Nostr works.
So explain things as if the user doesn't know much about Nostr.

2024-06-25 18:33:36

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I think he has more important things to worry about right now, but cc: @npub1xw7…umsa @npub1dcg…06js

2024-06-18 05:19:31

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Hello there, welcome to Nostr!
I'm 27 too, from Italy!
Currently Nostr is largely monothematic and mainly revolves around Bitcoin (despite the fact that it is *not* Bitcoin-based). Your profile doesn't seem to follow this pattern, which is good for diversifying the community.
So you have a follow!

2024-06-18 05:04:56

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You can hack FLOSS whichever way you want and it's your right to have such a policy.
But it would be a dreadful policy. Please, see: #naddr1qv…4z98

2024-06-14 00:09:49

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Personal data is by no means the only thing that makes users valuable for a platform.
The mere fact that they are there, that they watch ads and that they interact with other users (a small percentage of whom will pay as a result) would be of great economical value on its own.
> Paid users and monetized users are off-topic here.
The claim that "users are the product" is the closest to being true when we consider the main business model of these platforms: ads.
Advertisers aren't buying data, per se. Data can be use to target ads. But even if it weren't, the only reason advertisers join the platform is because many users, most of which are not paying, are there.
There isn't a product, there is a service. And the service is the ad space. But the (usually non-paying) user is the only thing that makes that space valuable to begin with.
And this stands true for other paid features that have nothing to do with advertisements.
> You can hide your IP on any platform. At least we agree that hiding your identity has nothing to do with the protocol.
Your IP is effectively the only thing you share by default if you use Nostr.
Do you know what you are sharing if you are using a proprietary app which connects to mainstream media?
How? You can only trust their claims. Your knowledge on this is no stronger than their honesty.
If you use Nostr you don't need to share anything which you aren't specifically trying to share, except your IP. You can more easily verify exactly what you are sharing.
The protocol is important because the fact that the protocol is open and simple is what allows you to use any client of your choice or even write your own.

2024-06-13 23:43:32

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The truth is you aren't a product in either.
Users aren't products and they aren't entirely analogous to products either.
That said, paying customers on platforms like Twitter, GitHub etc… are there primarily because of the network effect. This is to say, they are there because many other people are there. What they are actually paying for is (access to) every other user.
This is why a smart strategy on these platforms is to have a large amount (the majority) of non-paying users. It's not just that some of them could pay in the future. It's that paying users are there primarily because of the non-paying ones.
This is true for Nostr paid relays too, and for other services which connect to Nostr, with the difference that you can attract paying users even if you never actually use any service that they use. For example, even if you only use free relays, as I do, you may still indirectly help paid relays to grow.
That said, on Nostr you can hide your identity rather well, if you wish, by choosing what information to associate with your account and by hiding your IP address to relays. You have a finer control than if you're using proprietary apps.

2024-06-13 23:33:22

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Wait.
What kind of client doesn't validate the signature of events before even mentioning their existence to the user?
IMO if an event isn't compliant with the proper JSON format and also correctly signed, then the client should reject it at the lowest level possible and pretend it never received it at all.

2024-06-08 18:46:53

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Nostr (luckily) isn't supposed to be a "safe space". It is supposed to be secure (cryptographically).
However, why do the political views of the person who made Nostr matter, in any way? It's not like he can control what gets posted on Nostr.
It's documented, so you can see if there is anything you don't like about Nostr itself. The original author is irrelevant.
Nostr isn't his. It's, indeed "nostr" (meaning "our").

2024-06-08 18:38:02

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TOS: 404 page.
Privacy policy: 404 page.
Mentions "Stripe" but doesn't mention prices.
What exactly do providers have to do to be "like this one"?

2024-06-07 19:51:20

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Thank you!

2024-06-07 18:40:33

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What happened and why did people change their name to "fiatjaf"?

2024-06-07 18:39:57

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What happened and why did people change their name to "fiatjaf"?

2024-06-07 00:15:59

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> Security, not so much, lol.
Nostr is pretty secure in a way that traditional social media aren't.
When you fetch a tweet from Twitter, or a post from Facebook, you are *trusting* that neither Elon nor Zuck have compromised the content of the message.
They *probably* wouldn't do it, but from a technical prospective they absolutely could.
If you fetch a post on Nostr, you know it actually has been published by someone who knows the private key of that public key. This is cryptographically proven and there is nothing relays can do to modify the content of messages.
> If I understand correctly, anyone can log in as anyone else with their pubkey, but it’s read only.
Not really.
Nostr has no concept of "logging in". It's a protocol and authentication is only mentioned in some optional and marginal features.
Clients, such as noStrudel, but also others, may (and typically do) implement a "log in" function.
You cannot log in with someone's public key, in a meaningful sense. What you can do is fetch events by public key. This isn't a security bug, this is exactly the expected behavior, by design.
Clients may call this "log in", but it's not really something only the actual owner of the key is supposed to be doing. Fetching events is something you are supposed to be able to do, be it trough a client, trough a command line or by manually using the protocol.
> Allowing people you have blocked to continue following you or allowing anyone to stalk your account using your pubkey, is creepy AF and should also be addressed.
It is not assessed on traditional social media (users can just create another account) and it cannot be addressed on Nostr.
Nostr clients aren't meant to limit what users do in any way whatsoever. That's because any user can make their own client. You *never* trust other's clients to behave in a certain way. You control your own client and others control theirs.
Events on Nostr, of all kinds, are public. Anyone can fetch them from relays.
Blocking people on social media is not a form of IT security and the illusion that it can be is, if anything, a mild security threat.
Nostr has no concept of "blocking".
It does have mutes, but this only means you choose to not see messages published by a certain user. You can also choose to not see messages published in 2023, messages that contain the word "word" or messages that are above a certain length.
The protocol specifies none of this, it's just something at the client level, not really part of Nostr itself. And, as I said, you control what your client does.

2024-06-06 06:58:09

Follows on #Nostr are a mess.
Users follow other users on Nostr using kind3 events, defined in NIP-02. Events of this kind are replaceable and they contain the whole list of accounts (pubkeys) the author follows.
Fetching the list of accounts a user follows can be done by fetching the relevant kind3 event. Because not all relays have the same events, one should fetch the relevant event from all relays, then pick the most recent one across all received events (within some timeout). This is in contrast with fetching non-replaceable kind0 events (for example): in that case one can stop display the result after receiving the first answer. However, handling this is simple enough.
Fetching what users follow a certain account, on the other hand, is really tricky. The most obvious way is fetching all kind3 events (from all relays) that point to that account, from other users. But this will yield false positives: if a user has followed that account in the past, then unfollowed it, it might be that the updated kind3 event (with that account removed from the updated list) is not available on all relays. The query will return nothing on relays with the updated list, but they will return an obsolete event, yielding a false positive.
This can happen on @npub1wyu…87ez, for example. If a user follows you and then unfollows you (but fails to update the list on all relays the second time), the "Following" tab on that user's account will, indeed (correctly) not display your name. This is because the client will still fetch the updated list from at least one relay. But if you go to the "Followers" tab of your own profile, you will still (incorrectly) see that user's name. This is because the client is only fetching (potentially outdated) kind3 events that point to your account.
The only obvious way to fix this is by fetching someone's followers in two steps. First, one would need to fetch all kind3 events that point to that account (which is what currently happens), then one would have to double-check each of them by fetching (from all relays) the most recent kind3 event of each user found in the first step (which can be done with one or few queries, each with multiple authors specified in the filter). This is nontrivial, it's more expensive and slower and it's not what happens in practice (at least not on noStrudel, it seems).
There is another problem which has a very simple solution, on the other hand, but is yet to be solved.
It'd be nice to be able to be notified when a user follows you. That is a rather crucial social event, which I think users want. Yet, notifications don't show that. Indeed, how would they? How would you know, just from kind-3 events, whether the follow is new? What are you even going to fetch?
Here is the simple solution I suggested to this problem: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/discussions/1131

2024-06-02 18:33:37

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> so much more than twitter, threads, facebook, instagram, soundcloud, bandcamp, youtube
It's so much not more of any of these because it doesn't serve one of their main purpose: uploading videos and photos.

2024-06-01 20:12:58

NIP-05 cannot be used for verification, but it doesn't mean nothing else can.
Here is a simple idea for verification on Nostr: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/discussions/1277
If implemented it could, hopefully, discourage the misuse of identifiers as verification.
Opinions?
#nevent1q…edsu

2024-05-28 23:23:26

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Hosting your own blog, on your own website, like I do, is not very difficult.
Yes, people use Medium and Substack, but I'd guess people who use Nostr are on average a bit more technically capable.
Using Nostr is not straightforward yet and the additional "cost" of creating your own website isn't big, in proportion.
You get all the interactions you would get by publishing the long post on Nostr even if you just link to it, from a kind0 note. You have total control because you control your blog. You can share it with anyone that doesn't use Nostr.
There isn't much of an additional advantage in posting it on Nostr directly.

2024-05-28 18:36:06

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I think there may be a few reasons why they are not very common.
Among them:
- They are not really Nostr Nostr. Only NIP-01 is real Nostr, while everything else is just sparkling event types. By definition, a Nostr client/relay is characterized by the fact that it communicates trough NIP-01. Everything else is optional.
- Nostr is seen largely as a Twitter-like social media solution and Twitter is used primarily for short texts.
- Precisely because they require more effort. Fewer people are going to be willing to write or read them.
- They are harder to support than standard notes.
- Alternatives for blogging exists, including and especially creating one's own website, as I have (https://www.functorfault.net/). One can then share the blog post on Nostr to receive comments. Why would one write a long post directly on Nostr?

2024-05-26 07:26:56

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I don't get it.
Where does it even retrieve it from, if it's no longer on relays?

2024-05-25 18:28:51

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Nice, but, given that kind0 events are replaceable, the old username may disappear from most relays.
In fact, it should disappear from all relays that accept the new event.

2024-05-24 19:05:16

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> Indeed, GDPR is a giant mess that make no sense for the most part and has proven to be ineffective.
I don't really consider the GDPR that messy, compared to other laws.
It's ineffective when people or companies don't comply with it. But all laws have people breaking them and getting away with it.
Regardless, I wasn't attempting to endorse or oppose the GDPR, just pointing this out as something to consider before using this.
> In fact it's not different that hotlink an image.
Which can also be an issue GDPR-wise and even CDNs can be dubious.

2024-05-24 06:11:58

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I don't think it *can* be fixed. It requires that the IP of the user is sent automatically to relays, most or all of which are not GDPR-compliant.
I wasn't requesting a change. Rather, I was warning those who may chose to rely on this of something to consider.

2024-05-22 19:29:15

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> Its open source, no?
I don't know how to answer this question. It doesn't have a license at the moment.
> You can add all the baggage you would like to the package Daniele published
I can. I pointed it out for others who might want to use this, especially people located in the EU/UK or other territories with similar laws.

2024-05-22 19:24:50

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Putting aside the fact that we know for certain eggs came before chickens (dinosaurs predate chickens), you are right.
That's the network effect. You don't go to write where there's none to read and you don't go to read where none writes.
I don't really know what strategy we should use to promote Nostr.

2024-05-22 18:46:19

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Archives don't have to be decentralized.
It would be enough to have some centralized archives that fetch data from other relays and expressly aim at being archives that preserve posts for as long as possible (unlike most relays, which have no express aim or policy).
The amount of data would, likely, not even be that large (it's just text), especially if you filter out spam (which you may or may not want to do). The price of storage wouldn't be a significant issue.

2024-05-22 18:42:12

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The point about archiving is actually absolutely correct.
What we do need is one or more archiving relays. Luckily, fetching data from Nostr is much easier than fetching it from mainstream platforms.
I think it could be an interesting project for the Internet Archive or the Archive Team.
It probably wouldn't be too costly, either. It would be acceptable for it to be rather slow and also to have a high latency between when a post is published the first time and when it's available from the archive.

2024-05-22 18:36:04

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I know I'm being annoying saying this, but I think this needs to pointed out for those who might want to use it.
INAL, this is not legal advice, but a blog made this way is in all likelihood not GDPR-compliant.
As soon as one opens the website, one's IP address (which is personal data) is sent to (and collected by) relay servers the user doesn't even know about.
So one should be mindful of that.
Still cool project, thanks for sharing it!

2024-05-22 07:36:13

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I don't know if this relates to that, but it might.
I have been thinking about a verification system for Nostr (no, NIP-05 is not verification).
Maybe the amount of verified followers would be a better metric?

2024-05-22 07:35:27

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I cannot access this article right now due to a server error.

2024-05-21 18:30:16

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Are you familiar with Shoggoth, too?

2024-05-20 20:00:35

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Somewhat recently you considered whether Nostr was actually the best solution for decentralized Git hosting, given the existing alternatives.
Have you concluded Nostr is better for this purpose?

2024-05-17 17:59:14

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Prediction: if this hashtag becomes popular, it will start being used for Bitcoin-related content, which is what happened with #grownostr, too.

2024-05-14 18:33:30

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> yes, nostr has a ton of moderation failures, with spam and scams
I think the truth is that Nostr has basically no moderation. It doesn't even fail at moderation, it just doesn't do it.
Relays can have rules, and rules against spam and scams would make sense, but the only NIP for reporting violations, right now, is terrible.

2024-05-14 18:30:02

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> notice
You mean "nostrice"?

2024-05-12 18:28:10

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What is that even supposed to mean?

2024-05-12 07:34:18

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I don't know.
Why so many profiles?

2024-05-11 18:32:16

Why does the Nostr Supreme Leader have two accounts now?
@npub180c…h6w6 (old) and @npub16y5…ljkl (new).

2024-05-11 18:32:07

Why does the Nostr Supreme Leader have two accounts now?
@npub180c…h6w6 (old) and @npub16y5…ljkl (new).

2024-05-10 18:35:48

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It's not clear to me that Bitcoin is the only decentralized crypto, or even the best in this sense. Also, some alternatives, like Monaro, aim at better privacy.
It's technically not even the only currency started by Satoshi, the other being Namecoin.

2024-05-07 18:28:36

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The issue with fetching relay lists from Nostr itself is that you need relays to fetch anything from Nostr.

2024-05-04 18:40:19

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I don't know what you consider to be an inalienable right, but consider, for example, freedom of speech (the same will transfer to most other rights).
You have the right to express yourself freely.
If I were to, for instance, attack you for what you say, that would infringe this right of yours.
This does not, on its own, mean I have to help you do so. It does not mean I owe you anything. It does not even mean I can't censor you on my own server (in the case of online speech).
In order to effectively exercise freedom of speech, some things are necessary and others are quite useful. Having a pen, having a computer, having certain resources will help you.
If you don't have a pen and are unable to get one, none is infringing upon your right to free speech, but it's effectively limited by the fact that you don't have a pen.
If the main system that people use to express themselves online is trough social media platforms, and they don't have another system for public self expression, their freedom of speech is effectively limited, not because anyone is infringing it, but because they lack a way to exercise it.
Some platforms, such as Minds, are "free speech platforms". This is not to say they don't infringe upon your rights. Facebook and Twitters don't either. Rather, it is to say that they are a tool suitable for freedom of expression.
It's important to build such tools, digital and not, and make them widely available, to maximize freedom of expression. It's not morally mandatory to do so, but it makes the world a better place.
Mainstream social media platforms could, if their owners wanted it, be tools aimed at maximizing effective access to the exercise of certain rights. They are not, in practice, because their owners don't want it. This is ok. It's important, however, that we don't treat them as what they aren't and that we build systems that actually are aimed at maximizing effective access to the exercise of those rights.
It's not really a defense, since there isn't really an attack. Rather, it's avoiding a stupid mistake, that would subjugate one's right to the whim of certain companies, and building things that can help to maximize human rights, not because we have to, but because we can.

2024-05-01 19:15:53

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GitHub is a for profit proprietary platform. Many (certainly not all) public projects on GitHub do happen to be open source (while many others have a proprietary license or even no license whatsoever). Most users and most projects on GitHub don't accept donations. A project can also be developed on GitHub but accept donations trough some system external to GitHub.
Your prediction about money being abandoned is shared by some and not others, which is why a system which isn't designed specifically for those who align with your (or anyone else's) particular ideology need not to be bound to any specific kind of currency. Developers are absolutely free to ask donations in the form of gold and diamonds.
> I do not believe everything will just work out of free contributions, as it never really did.
Except when it does, like in most small open source libraries and even some rather large and widely used ones (see SDL, which only accepted donations for a short time).
> All open source ecosystem are "polluted" by sponsorships by some corporations, are they not?
No, they are not, but it also wasn't my point.
I'm not against projects accepting sponsorships.
I'm against the idea that apt should be loaded with the functionality of monetary transactions in the specific form and trough the specific currency that you wish to support.
Apt needs to do one thing and it can and should remain simple and focused, like most fundamental Linux (or just Debian and derivatives, in this case) utilities are.
You, or anyone else, is free to develop a command-line utility that will deliver donations in any way you wish, trough any currency you wish, which users will have the freedom to either install or not and that those who wish to contribute to programs meant for package installation and management don't need to maintain.
> I will certainly prefer seeing millions of developers and even users zapping to Linux maintainers than seeing Linus Torvalds exiled for a few weeks from his position due to a "recommendation" from a board that suffer pressure from some ignorant mobs.
Linus Torvalds would have had no technical difficulty setting up a donation campaign, if he had chosen to do so. If anything, it would have reached more notoriety, and thus more donations, than any command line utility could ever have provided.
There is no sequence of lines of code that would have changed the situation, because it was a purely social, non-technical matter, one for which Linus himself is arguably in large part at fault.
I too often err towards technosolutionism. It is, indeed, an error.
> PS: you seem to be confusing "cryptocurrencies" as something that's real and is even in the same "space" as Bitcoin. Not sure why, but it is not. I say Bitcoin, I mean Bitcoin, not "crypto" or "cryptocurrencies" or any other made up concept.
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency.
I know (many) bitcoiners hate the existence of other cryptocurrencies, but so what? That's a purely ideological matter.
Bitcoin isn't inherently better in a technical sense and I see no reason developers of package utilities should cater to bitcoiners any more than to those who support any other open source cryptocurrency.
Of course, all cryptos are made up, as is fiat, and as is Bitcoin.

2024-04-30 18:33:13

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Absolutely not.
Not everything in the world has to cater to Bitcoin.
The Debian/apt ecosystem does not revolve around any cryptocurrency, or even money in general.
Many if not most open source projects don't and are not trying to get donations in any form.
Developers, in public descriptions of their projects, are free to say whatever they want and to ask for any form of donation they wish, be it cash sent trough post, crypto (not just Bitcoin) or a beer when you meet them in person.
Bitcoin/zaps need not to pollute all software in existence.

2024-04-28 07:37:18

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I do know how Nostr works, but bullying is not a technical matter, it's a social matter.
There are things I don't like about the Nostr community and I've had unpleasant interactions here, but have you seen Twitter?
The capitalist assholes running mainstream platforms won't protect you from bullying, unfortunately. Censorship doesn't solve bullying.
On Twitter you can also be anonymous by creating an anonymous account.

2024-04-27 18:27:55

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Why do you think Nostr is more bully prone than Twitter?

2024-04-25 17:58:57

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The only one that matters, of course: diversity of content.
Old Reddit wasn't entirely (or even mostly) about Bitcoin, or even money in general, was it?

2024-04-25 06:56:08

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Kind of like old Reddit.
Nostr does have the potential to be that, really, but there is still work to do, especially in terms of interface and, most importantly, diversity in the community.

2024-04-19 06:51:28

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If it's rate limits that are the problem (which may mean relays aren't very clever in rate limiting, if opening a new socket is enough to get around it), you might still be able to have a smaller pool of connections to each relay (fewer than one per connected client) and re-use that pool with some cleverish strategy.

2024-04-18 20:04:58

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58 times 20 is 1160, not 116.
Also, I don't see why you'd have a separate socket to each server for every client.
Just keep one socket for each one server and stream all data trough that one socket.
You can easily know the correct client of each response by checking the subscription ID.
If you're afraid of colliding subscription ID, just add a client-unique suffix to it, which you can then remove before streaming the response back to the client.

2024-04-17 17:59:44

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Why 116?
Shouldn't it be 78?

2024-04-17 07:37:52

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Welcome back!!!

2024-04-16 18:34:08

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I didn't know about this.
No country is perfect, but Switzerland is based. Neutrality is based. Maybe not every country should be neutral, but having at least one country in Europe which is neutral is nice.
Also make the EU a confederation again. It shall not become a single country.
(Note that Switzerland, while neutral, does have agreements with other countries and the EU. It's also part of the European Council. This is fine).

2024-04-14 19:54:18

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Salve!
Seguito.

2024-04-13 18:29:39

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Interesting idea.
Probably not gonna work very well for people who live in San Marino, though.

2024-04-13 18:28:42

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How DARE you speak about another cryptocurrency on Nostr. /s

2024-04-12 04:47:44

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Nostr is simple enough that it's not too hard to get something working with at least NIP-01 in mind.

2024-04-12 04:30:07

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It is decently censorship resistant, although not fully immune to censorship.

2024-04-10 18:49:28

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I don't think it's a good idea to refer to government censorship as one of the issues. Not because it's not a big issue, but, rather, because it's something Nostr on its own doesn't address (Nostr with some darknet protocol like Tor or I2P, maybe with some decentralized DNS system, actually might, at the detriment of simplicity and speed).
Governments can still censor you by arresting you if you are in their territory, confiscating your assets if you own anything in their territory, blocking foreign Nostr relays and turning off relays in their territory (arresting relay admins if they don't comply). They may also block the internet altogether, but most Western governments would not do so.
Arbitrary censorship by capitalists and platform owners is what Nostr does solve.

2024-04-10 18:41:20

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There are plenty of systems that are (or claim to be) suited for decentralized sharing of code.
There is Radicle, there is Nostr trough NIP-34, there is Shoggoth (which one can use for anything, not just AI) and there are Gitchain, Gitopia and others. There is also Git itself, which many consider to be sufficiently decentralized on its own, with either ActivityPub, maybe extended as in ForgeFed, to handle cooperation or something like git-bug to track issues.
Which of those alternatives we should promote is no easy question.

2024-04-10 06:34:14

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Free speech, along with other human rights, is a top priority.
It's nice to have a tool for it.

2024-04-10 06:31:46

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Hello!

2024-04-09 18:30:23

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I assume you mean any *famous* person.
In that case, it'd be Newton for me. I don't know why one would pick anyone other than Newton.

2024-04-08 23:59:37

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> almost anything besides Bitcoin.
Nice.

2024-04-07 18:48:21

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By "different kind of content" do you mean "not related to Bitcoin"?
You have my follow.

2024-04-06 18:29:45

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2: But you'll find the same tools in any major Linux distro.

2024-04-06 03:59:51

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I'm not sure: how is OpenBSD better (or worse) than major Linux distros?

2024-04-05 01:02:00

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Oh, wow, I can't see your post at all, you must be shadowbanned.

2024-04-04 19:38:41

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If that's a future in which everyone is as obsessed with money (I don't care in what currency) as Nostr users are with Bitcoin, it's not the timeline I want to be in.

2024-04-04 19:36:58

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I don't think economic incentives are helpful to the microblogging experience.
Communication itself should be the end.

2024-04-04 19:35:20

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The huge amount of software libraries I can download for free seems to disagree with that assertion.
Also, there can be non-profits. They can be founded trough donations, rather than payments.

2024-04-04 19:33:38

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Ok, it's not technically Bitcoin, but it's still cryptocurrency-related (and a cryptocurrency strongly tied to Bitcoin and supported by Satoshi when it was called "BitDNS").
NIP-05 trough Namecoin or ENS, however, would indeed solve the problem of DNS centralization on Nostr.

2024-04-04 18:48:57

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Why is that ironic?

2024-04-04 18:48:02

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I agree that the monolithic culture is a problem, but I don't see why people sending notes to many relays would be a problem.

2024-04-04 18:45:08

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It's not easy to find people who don't have Bitcoin as one of the main topics they talk about.

2024-04-04 18:16:57

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One can be interested in something without talking about it constantly, especially if the thing in question is something as limited and a specific currency.
It's also rather narrow-minded because many other elements are needed for Internet freedom. A decentralized payment system is neither the only nor the primary component.
Also, if the main use of decentralization is to talk about decentralization itself, if it's such a self-referential end in itself, it's useless and frankly not worth it. Decentralized technologies must be the tools to do what we'd want to do anyways, without having to subjugate ourselves to the whims of oligarchs.
The obsession over Bitcoin is the main reason Nostr won't be successful against mainstream platforms.

2024-04-04 18:04:19

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The Italian version of this is horribly translated.
I think it's also important to point out that NIP-05 is not a "verification" and does not verify anything. The badge clients put is mostly meaningless and somewhat misleading.
#nevent1q…9nwj

2024-04-03 00:00:06

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Communities are defined in NIP-72. They are moderated, Reddit like.

2024-04-01 18:31:11

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Personally I have no intention of using paid features on Nostr myself, but moderation at the level of individual communities is different than moderation at the relay level.
Communities on Nostr are like subreddits. There is value in having the ability to create forums which aren't censored by platform owners (but can be moderated by the owners of that forum).
They can have any set of rules to follow, be about any topic and require any kind of format or post.

2024-04-01 06:45:20

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> I think this would be a good reason to go back to the idea of communities in Nostr land.
We don't need to go back to that idea. Communities are still a thing on Nostr.
Nostr could be what Reddit should have been.
Communities have moderators, however.
Tags are similar, but they don't have moderators.
Both have their place, each has its advantages.

2024-03-29 18:17:39

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It's more than likely @npub180c…h6w6, the founder of Nostr, who came up with the name.
I think he was more than aware of the meaning of "nostr*" in Romance languages and that, although "Nostr" is described as an acronym, this was fully intentional.

2024-03-29 18:13:51

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I think it's worse than a Bitcoin subreddit (except for the fact that Reddit went to shit due to no longer being FLOSS and due to moderation).
Subreddits are individual sections for people that talk about all sorts of topics. You talk about stupid things, you make jokes, you make memes and you ask topic-specific things about what you wish, including Bitcoin.
This is like a whole fucking social media platform for people absolutely obsessed about Bitcoin. You "estimate" that "98% of the world couldn't care less about Bitcoin", but even the 2% that do don't need to be more obsessed by it than by any other tool they use.
I use many tools. I'm not constantly talking about any specific one of them.
Most people who are really passionate about a topic, which is admirable, are interested in something which is rather wide, things like programming, mathematics, art. Even when it's more niche, they usually don't think everyone should be as focused on it as they are.
Money isn't really something one would normally be this obsessed about and the constant focus of one specific currency very understandably make people wary of Nostr.

2024-03-29 18:06:51

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> Why am I on Nostr?
For freedom of speech, which is a fundamental human right.
There are many problems which "[destroy] everything" and many cults which focus on one and think everything else depends on it. You have conservatives thinking it's SJW bullshit, climate activists thinking it's climate change, socialists thinking it's capitalism, anarchists thinking it's authoritarianism, conspiracy theorists thinking it's those conspiring, social justice activists thinking it's discrimination and bitcoiners thinking it's fiat.
The world is a big and complex place and no one topic, let alone money, let alone a specific currency, is worth being so obsessed by. A bunch of bitcoiners spending their leisure time telling other bitcoiners how much fiat sucks does nothing to solve any issue whatsoever. It's very cult-like.

2024-03-27 20:11:29

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I governi restrittivi possono assolutamente bloccare l'accesso ad internet *nel loro territorio*.
Non credo proprio in Corea del Nord sia facile comprare roba con Bitcoin.

2024-03-26 18:09:19

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Thanks for the reference, I might use it in the future.

2024-03-26 18:00:30

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Hello there.
I'm not really new to Nostr, I just didn't have a NIP-05 identifier before.
I'm aware of the possibility of adding a LN address and I have no intention of doing so. I'm here for freedom of speech and fundamental human rights, not money, and I think monetary incentives tend to be more detrimental than helpful for the microblogging experience.
I'm uninterested in everything that relates to, at once, Nostr and Bitcoin (or any other payment system).

2024-03-26 03:32:30

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> Starlink, comunque, dà la possibilità di "disobbedire" a leggi folli, come il blocco eventuale di internet. Intendo dire che è fisicamente impossibile bloccare segnali satellitari, anche se ne proibisci l'utilizzo.
Starlink richiede che persone a terra facciano funzionare l'azienda. Richiede anche che continui a funzionare correttamente l'oligopolio di ISP che gestiscono il resto della rete e che questi si connettano ad internet.
Sono aziende gestite da esseri umani, esseri umani che possono essere arrestati e rinchiusi.
Se gli USA rendessero Starlink illegale, Elon Musk smetterebbe di operare Starlink, non per scelta, ma perché dovrebbe farlo. Ovviamente non credo che gli USA abbiano intenzione di fare ciò, ma il funzionamento di un'azienda dipende dalla stabilità del governo del Paese in cui opera.

2024-03-26 03:28:50

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Indeed, the fact that our senses are easily deceived is one of the reasons we use instruments of measurement for scientific purposes (as they can detect things we can't, or detect things in a much more consistent manner). We also use animals that are better than ourselves when it comes to some senses (for example dogs for their sense of smell).
It's actually surprising, however, how far we can go using our senses alone, before running into our limits. I'm referring, for instance, to the study of the orbits of planets and the (apparent, relative to us) orbits of stars, and the difference between the two: something apparently (and truly) really hard to deal with, but which we have been studying since before having ways to extend our senses (including the telescope).

2024-03-25 19:44:53

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Rare non Bitcoin-focused account.
Followed!

2024-03-25 19:39:34

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You should note that this illusion has nothing to do with the arrows.
Looking at it, one could think it's the arrows that make the difference, but it is not.
Versions of videos like this have been published without the arrows and the effect is the same.
It has to do with how the outline of the shapes changes. The arrows aren't the point.

2024-03-25 19:37:15

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The fact that we are easily deceived just means we are flawed, maybe gullible, and often mistaken.
It does not mean reality isn't objective and absolute.
The universe doesn't owe us simplicity or clearness and something can be true regardless of our utter complete ignorance about it. Reality doesn't revolve around humans. The universe was around long before us and will be here long after us, it doesn't depend on us.
Something can be objectively and absolutely true regardless even if us humans in particular are too limited, flawed, gullible, ignorant and stupid to actually understand anything about it.

2024-03-25 19:29:14

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Boh, puoi provare con il metodo empirico.
Vai in una banca con una pistola e ti fai dare dei soldi. Poi ti siedi lì.
Se ti arrestano vuol dire che le leggi c'erano ancora.
(Non farlo davvero, ovviamente).
L'esistenza di Internet dipende dal volere degli stati. Non ci possiamo fare niente, è così.
Non ti puoi (normalmente) connettere ad internet in Corea del Nord.

2024-03-25 06:50:24

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It's not guaranteed, however.

2024-03-25 06:49:55

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> Most relays drop content after some amount of time.
This is something we really need a solution to.
Social media posts can remain very relevant after a LONG amount of time. Practically forever, in fact.
The solution to this is having a Nostr archive which makes a backup of the whole Nostr ecosystem (by querying relays).
The archive wouldn't even be that large compared to several existing archives.

2024-03-25 00:53:58

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What you thought is entirely accurate.

2024-03-25 00:52:59

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Not really.
It kindly asks relays to delete the event and then relays can chose whether to actually delete it or not.

2024-03-25 00:51:52

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If one of your *relays* doesn't support it, however, you are fucked.
Always assume that you won't be able to delete a note once you've published it.

2024-03-25 00:50:38

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Starlink non è indipendente dai governi. Deve seguire le leggi dei Paesi in cui possiede proprietà esattamente come qualunque altra azienda.

2024-03-24 23:55:37

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Dalle banche (che sono tra gli intermediari) sì, ma lo stesso accesso ad Internet, di cui Bitcoin ha bisogno per funzionare, non è indipendente dai governi.

2024-03-24 20:11:35

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Usarle come comuni valute ha perfettamente senso perché permette di effettuare pagamenti digitali senza intermediari, ossia senza avere bisogno di aziende del pagamento digitale (che sono un oligopolio), come Mastercard, Visa, Paypal e Stripe o banche.
È questo, in effetti, il loro uso più ovvio, e quello su cui ci si dovrebbe basare in un'opposizione politica a ban di questo tipo.
In effetti, anche un rappresentante del Partito Pirata parla, appunto, di libertà economica, non di ribellione ai governi: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-cash-cap-and-ban-on-anonymous-crypto-payments-results-in-financial-paternalism/

2024-03-24 19:44:20

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Is it though?