Last Notes
We defend democracy in our daily lives and not on election day.
#note1hdyā¦mxhn
I think this pretty much sums up the debate.
https://youtu.be/3SJr44m-w1Y
Interesting to see Newsom spiking in the prediction market. Whatās going on there?
https://i.nostr.build/q63kB.jpg
The US Surgeon General has decided that social media needs warning labels similar to the parental warnings about explicit music in the 90āsā¦ This is a moral panic which has no basis in science.
@npub1f4fā¦f7ql has two great articles, one digging in to why warning labels on social media is a terrible idea.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-surgeon-general-is-wrong-social-media-doesnt-need-warning-labels
And then another on why Jonathan Haidtās new book āThe Anxious Generationā blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way thatās easy, wrong, and dangerous.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-parent
These follow packs for new users are essentially lists which are categorized and suggested to new users. We could easily do this on Nostr.
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kvu5e47w4s25
I have too much testosterone I need to take estrogen sign me up :)
This feels like a good way to measure concurrent users of a given app. Assuming the vast majority of Damus users keep the damus relay in their defaults. Botās would more likely connect, push content, not pull much, and drop the connection.
I wonder if we had a way of calculating concurrent connections to the big relays per unique npub. Thatād give us a realtime sense of the ebb and flow of the networkā¦ we probably donāt want to collect and unify that data, but itād be interesting.
When I think of conspiracy theories Iām reminded the way @npub1a7mā¦4ske addressed them. Itās well worth listening to and considering somebody proposes that theyāve figured out and are exposing a secret conspiracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JirrKIQfOmk
https://i.nostr.build/nWMeM.jpg
This is the photo version instead of the video. :)
Thanks to @npub1sn0ā¦jdv9 and everyone who spoke up about the EU attempt at breaking end to end encryption for chat with pre-publishing AI reporting bots. The proposal is dead! Activism and pressure can work.
https://stackdiary.com/eu-council-has-withdrawn-the-vote-on-chat-control/
GN Nostr.
https://v.nostr.build/6G7Yz.mp4
The UN issues passports for stateless people, and a few other governments issue passports for people who arenāt citizens. Most stateless people lack identity documents or have them which doesnāt allow them to cross borders. Most stateless people are in the middle east (not just most Palestinians), south east asia, or people of Russian ethnicity who werenāt living in Russia when the soviet union broke up who ended up with no citizenship or passport. Even the US has colonies where the residents have no country, because theyāre a US colony, but theyāre not US citizens either! Theyāre giving a non-citizen passport issued by the US government.
Thereās about 4.4 million people today who are stateless. Theyāre almost always poor and disempowered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness
Sheās had a New Zealand passport for 25 years and just got tired of dealing with American taxes.
Lawsuit alleges ozempic has major undisclosed side effects.
#note1lsuā¦0tk7
From @npub1uuxā¦ahzv
My friend is doing it next week. She had to hire a firm that specializes in helping Americans renounce their citizenship. The consulate gave her a lecture about how she shouldnāt do it and are making her travel to participate in a renouncement ceremony!
I think the term youāre searching for is wage slavery. Itās not a new term.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
Legit I am in love with my friend
I talked to my friend for 11 hours on the phone this week and I still miss them when I havnt heard back in a day!!! Help!!!!!!
My friend was CTO over at friendster and what he said was they had massive scaling problems, but instead of turning off feaures and getting some quick fixes they spent a couple years rewriting the core while ignoring the running service. By the time they got their tech in order a core of users left for MySpace and eventually Facebook.
Friendster was killed by the big rewrite.
Interesting, Iād love to watch it but itās apparently locked down with region restrictions so only Americans can see Black Twitter: A People's History.
Does anybody else find it impossible to log in to medium? Itās just an endless loop of login, click on the magic link, load the page, end up at the medium site logged out. Same for when i try and login via twitter, google, email, etcā¦
Clearly SOME people are able to login to medium, some people are able to publish, some people are able to pay. But Iāve reset my cookies, erased everything from medium in my browser, tried all these different ways.. WHAT IS GOING ON?
I was looking at my flickr and found this picture of the Twitter offices in March 2008.
https://image.nostr.build/e943b4ab2a0910410cab239ce5ca7e7e70c243c739da7acf6cc6407632f600d1.jpg
Yesterday a bunch of publications claimed that Noam Chomsky had died. Heās not dead. And here on Nostr weāve got a team working with Noam to publish his content. Because they work with him, they just called his wife Valeria and asked her.
I think itās pretty amazing that weāve got @npub1sn0ā¦jdv9 a&d @npub1a7mā¦4ske both on Nostr.
#note1gxkā¦0vm4
Ah yes because once we get rid of privacy then the government will always stop at who you think are the bad people. After all what does anyone need to hide anyway ?
The EU is trying to impliment a plan to use AI to scan and report all private encrypted communication. This is insane and breaks the fundamental concepts of privacy and end to end encryption.
#note1vgyā¦chk4
I donāt even notice that i get much engagement from a repost, a mention / quote post gets a LOT more on nostr. Which i like, because to quote post youāve got to SAY something.
My guess is that the reposting yourself is a work around to the fact that most nostr clients are heavily chronologicalā¦. so good posts get lost if you donāt happen to see it in your feed and we reward people who post a lot with more attention.
Antisocial behaviour happens. We need to be able to address it ourselves, as a community of users in the apps, relays, and protocol. If we donāt then people will revert to centralized platforms.
#note13xkā¦wmhs
This is weird, it seems like Instagram has removed all flags from the emojis that they let you select.
This is crazy. Thereās a data sharing system between the five eyes (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States) to share biometric and biographical information of everyone who applies for a visa or enters any of the countries. Thereās no transparency or accountability in this system.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018942836/the-truth-about-the-shadowy-migration-5
This article by @npub1kf0ā¦kv43 about how sheās been blamed for being a CIA agent censoring the internet is worth reading. Weāve got real issues of free speech online but people going after her arenāt acting in good faith.
In particular this quote really resonated with me.
Censorship: āStrictly speaking, the term applies when the government prohibits or suppresses speech based on its content. Some people reasonably interpret censorship more broadly, to include when privately owned social-media platforms take down posts and deactivate accounts. But in Michael Shellenbergerās written testimony to Jim Jordanās committee, merely labeling social-media posts as potentially misleading is portrayed as a form of censorship. Fact-checking, by his standard, is censorship. Down-ranking false theoriesāreducing their distribution in peopleās social-media feeds while allowing them to remain on a siteāis censorship. Flagging content for platformsā review is censorship.ā
This parallels the way in Nostr labeling, users being able to filter content, and relays choosing what content to host is censorship.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/cia-renee-censorship-conspiracy-twitter/678688/?gift=hQ-wAXx9vcfn6GAow-ESV4l120dfYQLPxUagepWugYs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Has anyone made a list of them and an intro post? Itāll help a lot if they get engagement.
New York goes from banning masks to requiring them to ban them again. Canāt people decide for themselves if they want to wear a mask?
#note14fcā¦tcwx
We donāt talk enough about the way algorithm driven creators are stuck on a painful treadmill where they have to publish constantly or get left behind.
#note1pxeā¦23j4
Whatās Satlantis.io? I saw it was at the nostr btcprague both but iād never heard of it before.
https://i.nostr.build/kZBW6.jpg
What brings us real democracy and is our current system of elections and representative democracy really working?
#note17qeā¦r73x
Thereās a chance that the Conservatives go from a majority to the third or maybe even fourth largest party in the UK parliament. Thatās a stunning collapse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2024_United_Kingdom_general_election
Oh yeah, of course thereās nothing to stop him if he does want to join. Iād not host his content on my relay, but Nostr is an open permissionless network. I bet there are relays who would happily host Alex Jonesā content on their servers.
Oh I really hope he doesnāt. Itāll make getting a diversity of users harder.
This is terrible news, the Stanford Internet Observatory is being shutdown. Theyāre the research and policy group which has done the best work in researching speech and regulation online. Republican politicians have been attacking them and now it looks like Stanford has caved.
#note1rcsā¦twck
Itās a very weird world where the Republican presidential candidate has been convicted for felonies regarding his payments to sex workers and the Democratic candidateās son has been convicted of a gun control law triggering a major 2nd amendments gun rights case. I never thought weād see a time when Republicans would be fine with affairs and paying prostitutes while the Democrats were fighting for gun rights. So weird.
American politics is weird and broken. We have a system that, by design, is a duopoly. If a new party emerges, it either dies or replaces one of the existing ones. Because of that, we end up with these big tents containing lots of different constituencies and contradictory coalitions.
Take, for example, how conservative black evangelicals are pro-family, pro-life, and pro-business, but most vote Democrat because theyāre turned off by Republican racism. Or consider gay Republicans like Peter Thiel, who vote in their economic interests despite it being against their safety and the advancement of the gay community.
There are many ways in which a two-party system doesn't make sense. Iāve lived in two countries with proportional representation, Uruguay and New Zealand. Both have much more stable politics and better systems of coalition-building and compromise. Theyāre smaller, too, but you can see the US system broken at a state level where the numbers can be similar to those in Uruguay and New Zealand.
Forcing everyone to fit their values and political aspirations into a single party is a mess.
Whatās interesting is that as the US becomes more partisan, party members are more likely to adopt the partyās platform, even if it would otherwise not be in their personal or community interest. Only a small and shrinking number of true independents can focus on issues across parties.
Nos Journalism Acclerator partner @npub1uuxā¦ahzv has a good piece about this based on research: #note1dnqā¦sqc5
What do people think of this? #note13k0ā¦4y3r It seems that Mastodon is designed to share user posts, including private DMs, with anyone who asks for them. Someone with an AI background pulled in a bunch of posts and analyzed them, including labeling the content.
These folks, Maven, followed the ActivityPub spec and the terms of service. They downloaded publicly accessible data using Mastodon servers and services as designed. They then analyzed that data and ran an algorithm to add labels, similar to how every fediverse server does. The difference here is that Maven used machine learning to add some labels, whereas others add labels such as timestamps when the local server downloads the data without using newer machine learning tech.
Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Google also do this; they crawl the fediverse, use AI and machine learning to label content, and display it in different contexts.
The tags that Maven adds are pretty innocent. They are just adding hashtag-like labels for discoverability.
Furthermore, many people are upset that Maven is leaking people's DMs. This is like living in a house where you refuse to have a front door or curtains on your windows and then getting very upset when somebody wanders in and sits down in your living room or looks in from across the street. The fediverse, by design, has no privacy. DMs are public! It says right there in Mastodon that these arenāt private. Nor are Bluesky's DMs, by the way. There is no end-to-end encryption in the fediverse yet. Evan Prodromou is actually working on this, likely adapting the MLS standard, which is great but doesnāt exist yet.
So my question is this: Why does the fediverse rely on unwritten and undocumented norms that are not mentioned in either the specs or terms of service? And why are people constantly surprised when others don't follow these hidden social conventions?
Help us make Nos better. We need to do some interviews with people whoāve used @npub1pu3ā¦tfch in the last 6 weeks.
#note1lfpā¦96wt
Cozy cafe coding.
https://i.nostr.build/eZ8oz.jpg
GN Nostr
https://i.nostr.build/oMnY7.jpg
Are the scenes in the WWDC keynote from some AI generated metaverse or does the Apple HQ actually look like itās some three d render?
https://i.nostr.build/xEZ8G.jpg
I think youāre confusing things. The reason it feels cozy is because youāre in a community of mostly like minded people.
If we make Nostr to exist where there can be many communities like this then weāll be able avoid the push for centralized authority.
And while you may feel great about how Nostr works most folks who get harassed just leave. Either we build tools for people to regulate their own communities or people will return to centralized platforms. I mean even 4chan has mods. :)
https://image.nostr.build/46330efaaf7e37e1fc19ff5320f4acdc5cb10e6d8a018fe0aea92fa624d8987e.jpg
Creators to support: #note1l0nā¦v65c #note1cpwā¦gzam #note13ynā¦zavp
These folks are investing their time, energy, and creativity in to Nostr and we should show them we appreciate their work by liking, following, and zapping them!
Congratulations. What are your plans? Will this be full or part time? What will you be building? This is great news.
We need to build better tools for managing interactions and understanding different kinds of relays from clients. Right now it's too much of a black box and that's holding back Nostr.
#note12qeā¦7628
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I think we should make CEO of Nostr a rotating position held for a brief period of time selected by lottery.
https://i.imgflip.com/p1ij6.jpg
Anyone played with Strava heatmaps? Theyāre really fun to use as a way of seeing a human map.
Apparently these maps are useful to urban planners too. Nice to see an entirely wholesome use of crowd sourced user data.
https://discerningcyclist.com/strava-cycling-planning-cities/
I donāt want to know how theyāre going to suggest feeding newborns to teens but this public health campaign is flawed.
https://image.nostr.build/347b88f83868b311204f761ce7038c70872b77b20c14c59b102716622ddbee42.jpg
Weāre working with a bunch of nostr projects to promote more creators and journalists on Nostr. While we donāt all agree with how each of us want to build our apps but we do all benefit from a more vibrant Nostr ecosystem.
Also most of these creators want to have a wallet so we work with apps to set that up.
The trust and safety stuff is about creating solutions that work in a permissionless open way. Weāve got a lot of experiments going on.
The latest this week in the fediverse newsletter talks about Nostr. In particular reading tea leaves to see what Blockās Tidal and CashApp might be exploring with regard to Nostr.
#note17arā¦5n6a by @npub1u4uā¦jzzd https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-71/
The bot isnāt perfect, and thereās part thatās using a large language model and part which is a person reviewing the content before generating a report. If you think itās bad then mute it or make your own.
Itās the sad truth. For the most part people who get most worked up about queer people are those who are trying to deny something about themselves. Truely straight people not like the lgbtqia+ community but theyāre not particularly vocal and vindictive.
It seems Nos works great if you use half a dozen relays or less and follow less than 500 people. Thatās most users. But we are working on scaling both on the network side and performance with bigger social graphs.
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ā#Trump simply cannot beat President Joe #Biden relying solely on the votes of people who think his legal travails are a politically motivated scam, and who cheer Trump not in spite of his transgressions but because of them.
āThere are plenty of such people ā enough to power this generationās most important political movement ā but still not enough to win the #election. Trumpās only path to victory is a coalition that includes many #Republicans and #independents who find him deplorable but think a second Biden term would be even more so.ā
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https://apple.news/AYIMp7eRkQ3yp7mXEvgX6eA
What do people think of this piece about the politics of a few tech giants who want to take over San Francisco politics? By @npub1d9nā¦udfv
#note1sq9ā¦9utx
The Jury were all residents of Manhattan and none had blue hair.
And in every place where a national leader has been convicted of crimes theyāve claimed it was due to a corrupt judiciary.
This is a good look at what other democracies have done when their leaders are convicted for crimes after leaving office from @npub1a6wā¦9e8h
#note1drdā¦cyad
Nostr isnāt free for some of us until itās free for all of us. And to do that we need to build a space where people and communities of users can set and enforce community norms for themselves. If we donāt build these tools then weāll not be able to make Nostr for everybody. Nobodyās saying you need to use moderation labels or relays that take down reported content. Just that for people who want them, they can use them. We need good tools for self management. Authoritarians take and hold power because they claim that theyāre the only one to keep people safe. If we donāt build in tools on Nostr to help us keep ourselves safe, then people will think their only option is to use a system with opaque unaccountable centralized control over the platfrom.
Thatās why I do the work on @npub12m2ā¦e68j and other projects to provide tools for trust, safety, and moderation on a permissionless open protocol.
And if you donāt believe harassment happens, please listen to people like @npub19vvā¦t562 who helped organize the first Nostr conference in her experience: #note10c9ā¦drsv
Or look at what was said to me today: #note14vmā¦2jd4
Either we figure out a way to goven ourselves without centralized control or weāll end up with that centralized control weāve been fighting against.
It sends an encrypted event to relays for tagr which can decrypt it with its nsec. Itās the same way encrypted dms work but just a different event type.
:-D We do also show mutual contacts in Nos because we feel that is the fastest way to see if youād be interested in this personās content.
https://image.nostr.build/1994974e3ee4e4e6cb00131c5119f254b9783bb80e2d194cf1fbe94fa29042f5.png
https://image.nostr.build/f04d03a5d14fc643376d4f736ee6bf98a0584d50c79e4612fce4f25462cac2ec.png
Thatād be perfectly fine. The whole point is that the ratings and labels should be subjective from your perspective in the social graph.
None of us should have a single set of labels or web of trust score. Instead everybody looks at the network from their own perspective.
If you hate me and what iām doing, mute me, label my identity and content. Then if folks trust you and your views, theyāll probably agree with you. The entire point of this is that single centralized model of trust, safety, and moderation is flawed.
Nostr needs to work with many communities who fundamentally have different ideas of appropriate norms. We need a system that can handle that on the same network and protocol.
Weāve released an open source nostr notification service if you want to use it: https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-notification-service-go
The trick is that notifications need to come from a server which means either you need a bot crawling the relays or a silent notification which tells the local mobile app to spin up and check relays. The latter takes up battery, the former requires a cloud service running.
We donāt have DMās exposed in Nos but when we do weāll have notifications. RIght now Nos can handle the encryption part of DMās but doesnāt have a UI for them.
Iām not sure how Amethyst does it because as far as I recall, @npub1gcxā¦nj5z was trying to avoid running any services.
Weāre excited to release a new version of @npub1pu3ā¦tfch with a bunch of bug fixes and the biggest thing is a reworking of the much maligned @npub14h2ā¦e2sh with a new generation bot weāre calling @npub12m2ā¦e68j.
Users of Nos or anybody can now send an encrypted report to Tagr and itāll read it, check the content against a moderation AI and also ask the Nos team to take a look as well. If we and our AI agree, weāll issue a 1984 event report for that content. This solves two problems, one it puts a human in the loop for being able to check / approve / remove reports from Tagr. Secondly it lets Nostr users submit a report to a third party in cases where they donāt want to be associated with the report. Often somebody whoās subject to harassment doesnāt want to label their harasser because it only provokes them. This provides a system of asking Tagr to look at it and make a label if itās appropriate.
Iām sure there are folks who will hate the existence of content labels and reports. The report part is required by Apple and google. The content labeling using a Web of Trust is how we can make Nostr work as a permissionless decentralized network thatās both free and also safe for many kinds of people and communities. If we donāt figure this out then most people will retreat to centralized platforms. Even 4chan has mods. ;-D
You can read more about Tagr here: https://nos.social/tagr-bot
And the full release announcement is here: #note1sptā¦p3d0
Itās 50c in northern India. Weāre going to see a heatwave like predicted in Ministry for the Future in the next few years.
#note1uezā¦cxae
Oh wow. I didnāt know that Opera browser is now a total mess run by a company that engages in lots of unethical practices.
#note10nfā¦dnyg
Fun. It looks like youāre using micro.blog to publish your media and that youāre doing POSSE which includes direct posting to your Nostr account. How are you doing that?
How cool is that! @npub17ndā¦950x made a painting out of the picture I posted of a sunset over Evans Bay in Wellington!
#note1p7zā¦8cl2
Nostrich @npub1gg5ā¦ke5x, has filed to run for congress in the 2nd Congressional district in Nevada. You might have met Greg at both the #nostrica and #nostrasia conferences. Heās a big supporter of Nostr, bicoin, and other crypto.
https://www.mynews4.com/news/local/nonpartisan-candidate-greg-kidd-launches-campaign-to-unseat-incumbent-northern-nevada-rep-mark-amodei
Journalism is facing a crisis today. The economic model is failing and if media outlets canāt find new sustainable business models then weāll see only a few surviving and theyāll be owned or controlled by large centralized tech platforms or governments.
@npub1988ā¦u2yx hh
has a great essay ( #note1mfsā¦vnq9 ) calling for media outlets to experiment with new models where they control the relationship with their audience. This is entirely aligned with the mission of Nostr.
This is why weāre doing a accelerator focused on Journalism and not just the creator support. https://www.nos.social/journalism-accelerator
Thereās a Texas law requiring KYC to watch porn. The @npub1q40ā¦aa27 is in front of the Supreme Court trying to get this law struck down.
#note18xeā¦4hvj
subtweet
/ĖsŹbtwiĖt/
noun INFORMAL
noun: subtweet; plural noun: subtweets; noun: sub-tweet; plural noun: sub-tweets
(on the social media application Twitter) a post that refers to a particular user without directly mentioning them, typically as a form of furtive mockery or criticism.
"while he didn't include Smith's Twitter handle, that didn't stop Smith from seeing the post, taking umbrage, and firing off a subtweet of his own"
Origin: early 21st century: blend of subliminal and tweet.
Use over time for: subtweet
Why, this is a note, so is this: #note1kagā¦sl48
If this was on twitter iād call it a subtweet.. is it a subnote on nostr?
Whatās the real 1st ammendment implications of the proposed TikTok ban / divestment law?
@npub1uuxā¦ahzv takes an indepth look at the case and itās implications for free speech on the internet in the US.
#note1s5mā¦m0de
Ok. Who wrote the bot experimenting with spmming / trolling bluesky via gateways on May 11th?
https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/federation-and-political-spam
This shows that when we run Nostr services we need to think about spam controls. Kudos to @npub108pā¦yev6 for having those on mostr.pub.
The TechCrunch coverage and headline implies it was all of Nostr doing it, which we know to be patently false. At the same time it paints Nostr in a bad light. As these new protocols grow and more money shows up, like the $150 million just raised by farcaster, weāll see more of this stuff.
New bill proposed in California proposes taxing online advertising to pay for schools and journalism.
This seems better than the crazy linking to new laws in Australia and Canada.
Thoughts?
https://www.platformer.news/platform-sales-tax-california-sb1327-glazer/?ref=platformer-newsletter
p4p Offline First Social Media Protocols gathering.
This Friday in Berlin developers from Cabal, Cable, Earthstar, p2panda, Secure Scuttlebutt, and PPPPP will be gathering to talk local first protocols and celebrate the 10th anniversary of the creation of Secure Scuttlebutt.
Nostr users might remember that Nostr was inspired by Secure Scuttlebutt and a bunch of these other protocols have interesting ideas we could adopt.
If youāre in Berlin, go hangout with themā¦. theyāre all doing cool work.
https://offline.place/events/2024/05/24/p4p-unconference/
If youāre in Berlin or near by this conference looks really interesting. Itās a different community than we see on Nostr but theyāre talking about building censorship resistant public spaces that arenāt controlled by corporations.
https://re-publica.com/en
Oh, I wouldnāt want to live there, nor do I think itās a good system. Just i was very surprised to see these pictures.
To be clear, North Korea is one of the most brutal dictatorships we have today. I hope the government falls and the Korean peninsula is able to be reunited.
Check out these crazy pictures of North Korean Architecture & Cityscapes!
I would assume that these are AI generated if it werenāt for them coming from Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/pictures/architecture-control-north-koreas-bizarre-post-modern-cityscapes-2024-05-19/
Itās by Renee DiResta, the author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality, and the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory.
SIO does tons of good research.
How did a fight over the politics of who leads NPR lead to arguments that Signalās encryption is somehow suspect?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/npr-elon-musk-signal?CMP=share_btn_url
Why wouldnāt they put out a statement against homophobia? There are lots of gay soldiers in NATO armies. Itās similar to how the military is one of the most racially diverse institutions in NATO countries.
NATO is mostly democracies who believe in human rights so itās perfectly acceptable that everyone who benefits from those rights should be able to participate in defending them.
Also RT is a news outlet from the Russian Government which isnāt exactly a great when it comes to democracy or human rights.
Itās ok but single district elections are not as good as perportional representation. If you do for some reason need a single winner then you should use condorcet method ranking.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
Iām so excited to announce the start of our program to promote diversity of creators and journalists on Nostr.
šWELCOME THE FIRST CREATOR & JOURNALISM COHORT!
Weāre excited to amplify a mix of existing Nostr creators jouranlists and new to Nostr. Join us in welcoming the first cohort of creators and show them some love by following them, engaging with their content or zapping their posts! Check out their bios below and click through to follow them and support the effort to #grownostr !
PUBLICATIONS
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In-depth reporting on topics ranging from cybersecurity to books to politics. Written by academics who are experts in their field.
JOURNALISTS
npub157pk8t8njtnldqzankrk2syzmkp6qtrv2ewgq3fnuc4k78dr797shfngev
Founder and editor at Scoop.nz focused on climate journalism and the future of news.
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Both of these Creators are bypassing the doom scroll model to share content that entices people to engage!
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An active Nostr user focused on film noir and art, you can follow her to check out experimental films and art or participate in bi-monthly challenges.
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Combines AI generated images and AI prompt writing to tell stories of magic and engineering.
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Keep up with the latest in sports news with two passionate sports curators and one determined lifeguard committed to teaching people to swim.
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Curating the latest sports news from around the world, this account is perfect for those who want to keep current with your favorite sport from abroad (wherever your abroad may be!)
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Read the latest news on Black swimmers and efforts to increase swimming knowledge amongst the Black community.
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Get the insider take on US based teams and players from someone who spent decades working in the industry.
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Music has taken off in Nostr and weāre excited to feature a few favorites and introduce you to some new to Nostr talent.
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Pop/Rock Artist based in Nashville. Follow to hear Ainsleyās latest releases and see behind the scenes into the lives of todayās musicians.
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Americana-roots singer / songwriter based in the Rockies.
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High powered rockers with a blues edge.
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This is one group that has felt the pain of ever-changing algorithmic feeds. Nos is excited to welcome them to Nostr and help them build a network they can have forever.
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An organizer based on Puerto Rico helping to co create strategies and experiences for a better future.
When we interviewed users on Nostr or those considering using it, we heard a few key points. Many praised Nostr for being amazing, friendly, and innovative but felt the platform was dominated by discussions about Bitcoin. While people enjoyed features like lightning and zapsāeven those who hadnāt thought much about payments or cryptocurrenciesāthere was a strong desire for more diverse content. They didnāt want less Bitcoin content; they just wanted more variety. After all, Nostr stands for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays.
We also heard from creators and journalists frustrated with centralized social media platforms. They found the algorithms opaque and felt pressured to create content that served advertising models, resulting in a constant chase for viral hits. The money they earned from platform advertising was minimal. Some creators have already found success on Nostr, benefiting from direct payments from their audience or through subscription content.
So, how do we bring more diverse content to Nostr? We search for people, get them on board, promote them on the protocol, and figure out what they need to be successful.
To that end, weāve launched a program for creators and journalists on Nostr. Over the past two months, weāve been onboarding new people and publications, setting them up with multiple Nostr apps and a wallet. Weāve spent hours with each of them, learning about their needs and teaching them about Nostr. Weāve also reached out to the Nostr community and app developers to help promote these new members.
Our plan is to continue onboarding new folks, welcoming a new cohort of creators and journalists each week. Instead of relying on algorithms to promote them, weāre using the power of humansāthe Nostr community. Twitter originally grew this way with its āFollow Fridayā initiative, where people shared curated lists of new accounts to follow. It was entirely grassroots, with people helping each other discover new and interesting content.
Thanks to everybody who put this together! So much work has gone in to finding and onboarding these folks and itās exciting.
I want to call out thanks to npub1j60x528w2g2vkq5kae5uhh8y7sezjyj20zcsg0v9muc72cmdpu0s0md7ua who spearheaded this project, npub1uaajg6r8hfgh9c3vpzm2m5w8mcgynh5e0tf0um4q5dfpx8u6p6dqmj87z6 who did the design, npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 , npub1yl8jc6znttslcpj3p6p8vuq98awu6w0xh4lqtu0lkjr772kpx4ysfqvz34 , npub138he9w0tumwpun4rnrmywlez06259938kz3nmjymvs8px7e9d0js8lrdr2 , and npub1k2dmnr47ejn6uw5x5q4tdnexpwhv7zvde4zja789l8z5nh7qurhsvwv5hn who did development, and npub1lur3ft9rk43fmjd2skwefz0jxlhfj0nyz3zjfkxwe3y8xlf5r6nquat0xg who make sure the lights stayed on.
This project wasnāt just something from Nos, we also are doing it in partnership with Damus, Primal, Highlighter, YakiHonne, and Nostr.build.
Thanks to npub137c5pd8gmhhe0njtsgwjgunc5xjr2vmzvglkgqs5sjeh972gqqxqjak37w , npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr , npub1h50pnxqw9jg7dhr906fvy4mze2yzawf895jhnc3p7qmljdugm6gsrurqev , npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s , npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft , and npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q .
A special thanks as well to npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m who saw the promise that Nostr has to offer and helped fund it in a way that letās us develop Nostr as a community with a diversity of projects and open bottom up participation of users, developers, and designers.
Weāre building this open ecosystem together.
Yep just took it. Feel free
It was all AI all the time.
Why did that feature ever get added in the first place?
@npub1f4fā¦f7ql has a really good article about @npub1sg6ā¦f63mās leaving the Bluesky board, support of Nostr, and the recent interview.
I mostly agree with the article but I think thereās more than just that Bluesky is taking on a corporate platform prespective with the roll out of the atproto. Itās that Bluesky is engaged in a kind of closed protocol design that feels heavy like xml and java. Itās open source like Android isā¦
My hope is that @npub1pu3ā¦tfch can be the super easy to use for normies app for Nostr. Weāve got a much bigger and more interesting ecosystem of apps. Nostr is a lot easier to work with than atproto for developers. But itās also super confusing to new users. Wallet setup is hard, registering a username is hard, understanding how to login to nostr web apps with browser extensions is hard. We can solve these problems, but it takes work.
Weāre about to launch the creator and journalism residencies to help bring a diversity of content beyond our core bitcoiner community which is sustaining Nostr.
Take a read:
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/13/bluesky-is-building-the-decentralized-social-media-jack-dorsey-wants-even-if-he-doesnt-realize-it/
It checks to see if the relays support expiring events and only sends the events to relays that say theyāll honor deletes.
Hereās some more information on how it works: https://www.nos.social/blog/on-deleting-and-editing-notes
Donāt believe the hype. The recent anti-signal media is a smear campaign from Telegram in a fight to keep its marketshare. Donāt trust the closed source app over the open one.
The Telegram āreproducible buildsā on iOS only work if youāre running an old iPhone with an old version of iOS that you jailbreak and then sideload Telegram, and even then theyāre still encrypting parts that you canāt verify. Thatās pretty useless to almost all users of Telegram on iOS.
#note1yrqā¦qqs6
If you want to have your Nostr posts bridged to Bluesky you can do it now by following:
[email protected] This works by going via https://fed.brid.gy/ which goes takes the fediverse bridged version of your Nostr account from mostr.pub and then creates a parallel account on Bluesky for you. Anything you post on Nostr will show up on Bluesky. Iām not sure if all the replies go back or just the folks whoāve opted in to bridging from Bluesky back to the fediverse.
And if you want to bridge to Twitter you can do that too at connect.nos.social
Weāre starting to see a working bridge between Nostr and Bluesky
https://image.nostr.build/640ed456cb7bed4c2d5593111d6312bf1dbb78d5248d8fe1eebd5fc1f0d60aa1.jpg
Has anyone sent sats to a non-nostr lightning affiliated wallet from primal?
The number selection only shows up when you try and send to a nostr user. When you paste in a lightning address and or scan the QR code.
Am I doing something wrong or is primal sending directly to wallets beyond nostr just broken?
@npub16c0ā¦6nvr ?
I missed this Bluesky moderation system overview from March but I think itās useful as a comparison as we figure out Nostrās more bottom up moderation.
https://docs.bsky.app/blog/blueskys-moderation-architecture
What other Nostr apps should @npub1f4fā¦f7ql be looking at?
Heās the tech reporter who wrote the seminal essay āProtocols not Platforms: A technological approach to free speechā Which you should all read if you havenāt.
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech
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Wow, this new ipad advertisement from Apple is so off. What a horrible way of saying all the things you can do with an ipad, by litterally crushing and destroying the previous non-digital way of doing it.
Watch it quick before Apple takes it down and tries to scrub it from the internet.
https://youtu.be/ntjkwIXWtrc?si=zqGBmIwx8T7awd3H
I donāt understand how the crypto community trusts Telegram which is closed source, has substandard encryption, and actively cooperates with police. Signal isnāt perfect but itās a hell of a lot better than Telegram. Transparent open funding from the US government and California tech money donations is a hell of a lot better than sketchy Russian and Middle Eastern funders.
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This AI created songs are crazy.
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What do you like about primal?
Nostr doesnāt have a centralized roadmap because there is no company or ceo of nostr. But Iām curious what it would be for different nostr devs.
Bluesky does have a ceo and company directing the development of the atproto. As such theyāve got an annual roadmap. For folks helping design Nostr itās worth knowing where atproto is going.
https://docs.bsky.app/blog/2024-protocol-roadmap
Weāve released a big update of @npub1pu3ā¦tfch in the leadup to the launch of of the creators and journalist residencies.
Check it out: #note1kneā¦dqe3
Weāre working on performance and hygine in the app while we also redesign the user discover and search functionality. In the last few months we did about a hundred user interviews with current, former, and future Nostr users.
We found a few things which jumped out at us.
* We discovered that the Nostr community is broadly considered friendly and welcoming.
* Almost everybody wanted there to there to be content on other topics beyond bitcoin. This was the case with both people who considered themselves bitcoiners and also those who didnāt identity themselves as bitcoiners.
* Most Nostr users felt welcomed, but a small number of people were agressive in harassing other users. We need to develop decentralized permissionless solution to these problems if we want Nostr to grow to itās potential with hundreds of millions of users.
To address these issues weāve created a program to highlight content about other topics beyond bitcoin. These folks are using bitcoin, theyāre being setup with lightning wallets, and promoted in the app to help them be discovered without the centralized algorithms. Once this launches itād be great to welcome these creators and journalists and validate the business model of micropayments and subscription content over zaps.
https://www.nos.social/creator-residency
https://www.nos.social/journalism-accelerator
New cars are a privacy nightmare: #note1y2aā¦2sd0
Theyāre not only monitoring everything the driver does and reporting it to credit agencies without their knowledge, theyāre also surveillance machines which send data of everything around them to data brokers. American politicans are banning TikTok in the name of privacy but not passing any privacy laws or caring that new vehicles are recording and selling all activity that takes in public and is visible from the street.
https://archive.is/0wqhh
How does your nostr client handle display of these images with different aspect ratios? @npub1uaaā¦87z6 is looking for some design feedback on what each Nostr app does and with these different shaped images.
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I did try and talk to Gabor about the value of open protocols and how t2 ni Pebble should consider building it open. I shared my research in to open protocols. I genuinely wanted him to succeed but as an open project.
Hereās a bit more context. Or at least a news article.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149543/jack-dorsey-gone-bluesky-board
Ugh. So there is this web3 social protocol called friend.tech which apparently doesnāt do much except let you buy your way in to mod privileges on chat rooms and a bunch of custodial wallet stuff. I played with it and the it seems like the only part of the app they focused on was the crypto trading part.
Anyway surprise surprise the token almost immediately lost 98% of its value.
Projects like this are why even calling your protocol decentralized is considered a dog whistle for web 3 scam.
https://decrypt.co/229273/friend-tech-community-in-uproar-amid-token-and-v2-launch?amp=1
Anyone else use farcaster? I donāt much but want to use it a bit more to understand what the tech and user community are doing.
Iām https://www.farcaster.id/Rabble on farcaster.
Their frames thing seems nifty and would be useful in Nostr.
Bluesky has announced that @npub1sg6ā¦f63m has left the Bluesky board of directors.
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3krreazpfpu2t
Google is changing their search results a lot based on their LLM experiments. This feels like a fundamental shift in how the internet works for people. Itās drastically reducing links to third party websites and focuses on both the AI driven results and then tons of links to video content mostly on youtube.
So weāre seeing both LLMās summarizing content hiding the original sources and also creating a environment where a huge portion of the content on the web is LLM created.
This is a mess that threatens to break the internet as it currently exists. The shift is going to be massive, disrupting most internet businesses and by extension the broader economy.
GM Nostr
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This! Nostrās freedom is for resisting tyranny and creating a commons that isnāt owned by a corporation or government. Itās freedom to control our own public spheres. Freedom to set norms that make sense to different communities who have different standards. It is not freedom so that you can be an asshole where you impose harassment on people. Youāve got the right to speech but nobody has the obligation to listen to you, display your content in their clients, host your content on relays, or quietly leave your content unlabeled/reported.
#note1fkvā¦lyyf
Thoughts about the implications for Nostr and zaps?
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You can delete. Nos.social has delete and you can also use the delete micro app https://nostr-delete.vercel.app
Nice to see folks posting about the crackdown on university student protests. Feels like Nostrās growing a bit in terms of diversity of content.
Yeah. People on secure scuttlebutt refer to themselves as butts. :) There have been so many bad jokes.
USPS PO Box? They reject mail unless itās to a verified name.
Iām pretty sure there are millions of Einsteins who are trapped in poverty or donāt have a champion like Einsteinās mom. Have you read the story of what his mom did to get him educated. Itās epic.
And Hawkins would have died of ALS if he wasnāt incredibly well supported by family, private money, and the UK NHS. Heās incredibly rare in that heās lived in to his 70ās only because of constant 27/7 care.
We can be incredibly innovative if we support the people we have. If everyone had access to the support we provided the Einsteins or Hawkins of the world we be much more innovative with 2 billion people.
Jack Conte created Patreon and has interesting insights about the TikTok and the way TikTok has reshaped all of social media. For us making Nostr, we can be an alternative platform for creators.
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I donāt actually get why this is a problem. Weāve got 8 billion people right now. We donāt need that many people to run the economy. As new tech continues to develop we get more productive. If we steadily grow in productivity we can produce the same economic output with fewer people. The income and wealth per capita goes up. In the case of Japan their GDP is flat but the the Japanese people are better off because that same GDP is spread out to fewer people.
With the environmental impact of humanity, itād be a lot lower with 2 billion instead of 8 billion people but we could have higher quality of living.
And isnāt this the best way to reduce population? Slowly through people having fewer kids? Want to have a lot of kids. Go for it. Most women are choosing fewer kids as they get more economic and social power. Itās a hell of a lot better than Chinaās one child policy, disease, war, or famine.
Yes we need to pay people to take care of the elderly. But we could do that the way Singapore does it. They donāt tend to put the elderly in institutional care. Instead they pay family members to take care of their elderly. Just like raising kids in a family is be than an orphanage, or other group child raising like happens in some christian communes and kibbutzes. Most people provide better care of their parents and grandparents than any nurse in an institution could. And itās a hell of a lot cheaper, itās just there is no companies pushing for these polices like there is for care homes.
We can handle massive reductions in population over a few generations humanely without destroying the economy.
These kiwis have a crazy color! Tasty too.
https://image.nostr.build/3c41401d752f6b29b275cdada737d4ebd27beeaa942ed6aa7cfe5a32863f2c69.jpg
The merging of iris and snort is an example of this. So is the highlighter super team.
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https://crowdin.com/project/nossocial
Iāve known the people running this fundraiser personally for a few years and as much as you can trust me, i absolutely trust that theyāll use the money for what they say. Theyāve got family in Egypt who are well educated professionals who will make sure it gets used for getting as many of their family out of Gaza as possible.
I think this is a potential great vision for Nostr as something unique and different from existing big social media platforms.
āā¦A truly sustainable and resilient digital public sphere is possible and is actively being createdā¦. A public sphere supported by these three legs:
1. Consists of many different platforms with a wide variety of scales and purposes;
2. Users can navigate with a loyal client that aggregates, cross-posts, and curates;
3. Is all supported by cross-cutting services rooted in interoperable data.ā
https://publicinfrastructure.org/2023/03/29/the-three-legged-stool/
What do other folks thing? Is this a viable vision for Nostr?
In a couple days Iām going to a symposium on social media middleware. In Nostr, thatās everything that isnāt the client, the relay, or the events. All the services weāve built around Nostr which make it work. Iām going to give a brief 5 minute talk about how we do middleware in Nostr. How we host content with media severs, how search engines work on nostr, wallets for payments, spam detection, nip-05 name servers, and moderation bots like the ever controversial @reportinator.
We spent so much time talking about how to make Nostr sucessful, what users need, and how to avoid centralization. I'm looking forward to a discussion about how we build these services in a way that's open and permissionless to operate on the network. In prep, they've collected a bunch of articles on the subject which I thought would be really helpful for people using and developing Nostr to read as well. So i'm sharing them here.
https://www.thefai.org/events/symposium-on-shaping-the-future-of-social-media-with-middleware
**Exploring the Impact of Middleware on Social Media and Digital Democracy**
Discover a series of enlightening readings that delve into the concept of middleware and its potential to reshape social media governance and enhance digital democracy. Hereās a curated list of essential articles and papers from leading experts and institutions:
- **Fukuyama et. al.** presents "Middleware for Dominant Digital Platforms: A Technological Solution to a Threat to Democracy," a Stanford Cyber Policy Center publication that explores middleware as a countermeasure to the monopolistic tendencies of major digital platforms. https://fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/cpc-middleware_ff_v2.pdf
- **Keller, 2021** discusses the practical implementation and challenges in "The Future of Platform Power: Making Middleware Work," published in the Journal of Democracy. https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-future-of-platform-power-making-middleware-work/
- In another piece, **Fukuyama, 2021** extends the discussion in "The Future of Platform Power: Solving for a Moving Target," also featured in the Journal of Democracy. https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-future-of-big-tech-solving-for-a-moving-target/
- **Keller, 2021** offers a critical view on content amplification issues in "Amplification and Its Discontents," from the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. https://knightcolumbia.org/content/amplification-and-its-discontents
- **Lauffer & Nissenbaum, 2023** analyze the "Algorithmic Displacement of Social Trust," a significant study on the erosion of social trust by algorithmic decisions, published by the Knight First Amendment Institute. https://knightcolumbia.org/content/algorithmic-displacement-of-social-trust
- **Rozenshtein, 2023** explores decentralized social network moderation in "Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media," published in the Journal of Free Speech Law. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4213674
- From the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst, **Idpiumass, 2023** proposes a compact internet model in "The Three-Legged Stool: A Manifesto for a Smaller, Denser Internet." https://publicinfrastructure.org/2023/03/29/the-three-legged-stool/
- **Lane, 2022** introduces "Gobo 2.0: All Your Social Media in One Place," a unified social media interface project, also from UMass Amherst. https://publicinfrastructure.org/2022/11/09/gobo-2-0-all-your-social-media-in-one-place/
- **Ovadya & Thorburn, 2023** tackle "Bridging Systems: Open problems for countering destructive divisiveness across ranking, recommenders, and governance," available through the Knight First Amendment Institute. https://knightcolumbia.org/content/bridging-systems
- **Reisman, 2023** explores broader applications of middleware in "A New, Broader, More Fundamental Case for Social Media Agent 'Middleware,'" featured on the Smartly Intertwingled Blog. https://ucm.teleshuttle.com/2023/11/a-new-broader-more-fundamental-case-for.html
- In "New Logics for Governing Human Discourse in the Online Era," **Reisman, 2024** addresses the evolving challenges in digital discourse governance, published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI https://www.cigionline.org/publications/new-logics-for-governing-human-discourse-in-the-online-era/
- **Reisman & Riley, 2022** detail forgotten foundational internet principles in "Delegation, Or, The Twenty Nine Words That The Internet Forgot," available on TechPolicyPress. https://www.techpolicy.press/delegation-or-the-twenty-nine-words-that-the-internet-forgot/
- **Thorburn, Bengani, & Stray, 2022** break down the mechanics of platform recommenders in "How Platform Recommenders Work," published on Medium. https://medium.com/understanding-recommenders/how-platform-recommenders-work-15e260d9a15a
- **Newitz, 2023** imagines historical enthusiasm for modern platforms in "Ben Franklin Would Have Loved Bluesky," featured in The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/social-media-centralism-fediverse/674041/
- **Masnick, 2019** advocates for a foundational shift in "Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech," a pivotal piece from the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech
- **Whitt, 2021** delves into digital autonomy in "Hacking the SEAMs: Elevating Digital Autonomy and Agency for Humans," published in the Colorado Technology Law Journal. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I8IAxowzYIq1tH_BfA0y2yKY3z2ydCMu/view
- **Stasi, 2023** discusses competitive approaches to free speech in "Social media markets: A pro-competitive approach to free speech challenges," from Tilburg University. https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/social-media-markets-a-pro-competitive-approach-to-free-speech-ch
- **Reisman, 2023** examines privacy solutions in "How Third-Party Social Media Middleware Can Protect Contextual Privacy," available through TechPolicyPress. https://techpolicy.press/how-third-party-social-media-middleware-can-protect-contextual-privacy/
- Lastly, **Ovadya, 2022** discusses "Bridging-Based Ranking" at the Belfer Center, focusing on middleware and addressing centralization. This piece includes references to connected publications on platform democracy. https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/bridging-based-ranking
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the critical discussions around middleware, offering various perspectives on how technology can be leveraged to foster a more democratic and user-empowering digital environment.
I didnāt pick it, but if i used a different number then it wouldnāt be in line with the nostr specs. ;-D
@npub1rdwā¦qyr4 thatās a really good question. It got me thinking and I started writingā¦ It became much more of a essay about nostr and blueskyās growth over the last yearā¦
So here it is: #note19f0ā¦9dnj
And if your client doesnāt display long form content: https://njump.me/note19f0dqr8g5sq8g9yh5lvd66cxddhydz2gakvs5qqdnv6ekynpz4gqq89dnj
Anybody know why new users, posts, and a bunch of other Nostr usage stats spiked April 18th like 5x? Did something happen in the news, or on other social media to drive new traffic, or are the bots getting better and arenāt being filtered out of the stats as inauthentic users?
https://stats.nostr.band/
Thanks. I feel blessed every morning when i look out while drinking my coffee.
I really like the corner Iāve got for working but I need a little end table to hold my ever expanding collection of cups.
https://image.nostr.build/fa6617e71706b616e2f6a1dd1d03307d750f477645680ffb5a22a20dfde07423.jpg
moonrise over the water
https://video.nostr.build/c2ab54a6b2717fa2477cf3721bf53712a46313a313f53e647753ade116d035af.mp4
This is super exciting, i'm looking forward to playing with this as i think it's a great interaction model. We have a bit of a stories interface in Nos, but as flushed out as this. I especially like how stories is combined with sharing.
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Non-compete clauses in employment contracts are a terrible way to shift power away from workers and in to the hands of companies. Itās great that theyāre now banned in the US. This should have happened a long time ago.
#note1j39ā¦70ny
Not all creative or artistic endeavors is particularly good. I also donāt love the term, but do feel it fits.
Some folks who are called creators are actually curators, which should be valued, it used to be, but now feels like a nice way of somebody saying they find and steal others work to republish.
That feeling you get when somebody requests a feature you already implimented and deployedā¦.
#note1ts7ā¦9p3y
They havenāt said, but Jay the CEO of Bluesky was a developer working on ZCash for a couple of years. Some of the other folks have experience in blockchain projects as well. I think folks shouldnāt jump to conclusions based on the current user base of Bluesky. The current users didnāt want them to open up and decentralize, and thatās the plan from the start, and itās slowly happening.
I also know that there were talks about merging bluesky with redditās decentralization project, but that fell apart because the reddit folks really wanted to use their own token, similar to farcaster. Whereas the bluesky team wanted their core protocol to work without any core integration to a token or coin, more similar to how Nostr works.
What I suspect will happen is that bluesky adopts a similar hybrid approach which is what we have in Nostr. Some clients like primal use a KYCād custodial wallet with appleās approval and ability to buy sats via apple pay. Others let you use a custodial third party wallet like Alby via NWC. And yet others integrate with entirely non-custodial wallets.
There are a lot of regulatory issues, both with governments and appstores. Itās not as simple as saying, KYC/AML be damned. For example, Primal on iOS is a hell of a lot easier to use zaps because theyāre following rules that make apple and regulators happy. Sure you give up privacy and pay an apple tax, but itās SO MUCH EASIER to setup.
I mean the feedback is going to make Nos look not as good as it does now because weāve only got full localization in to English, German, Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
https://crowdin.com/project/nossocial
Whatās crazy is half the team speak Spanish and even some of us use the app in Spanish and weāve not kept up with making sure itās fully localized.
Anyway, weād love help. Getting all the Nostr apps translated is a great way for non-developers to contribute.
There are tools for opening jars. Itās only $15 on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-Opener-Base/dp/B002DWA6KM
Why should women need men for anything or vice versa. Shouldnāt those relationships be based on desire not need?
Anybody else try airchat? Itās like being a pinball at a cocktail party. Just randomly bouncing in and out of contextless conversations.
Weāre going to know more about you than just email if you do hired. If you want a job with zero KYC then this probably isnāt for you.
Come work with us, we're hiring a DevOps engineer, remote first, preferably in a timezone that overlaps with the Americas.
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āDavid Pecker to be first witness in Trump's hush money trial: New York Timesā
Couldnāt they have found a Richard Pecker, or a Randy Pecker? I mean it is a trial about hush money paid to a #porn starā¦
https://apple.news/ADaLBX2MtQMytsqNZj3vvQA
#Trump #politics #TrumpTrial
Anybody played with Farcasterās frames? Itās basically kind of taking an event and having it render with a html frame for some sort of interactivity.
Itās in someways a web based and cross app version of @npub1xtsā¦kk5sās idea of noscript. I kind of like the idea of frames. Like blueskyās custom algorithms which are easy for third party developers to make and support, frames give developers a way to create a microapp.
Think a poll, or event, or even a little game. Remember back when Facebook had lots of apps. Some were stupid and annoying, but a lot were fun or interesting. Causes had an app which raised tens of millions of dollars by creating an interactive way to find charities and donate to support them. I feel like if we had something like this in Nostr, itād be used and cool.
How might it work?
A nostr event could indicate that a type of āframeā was able to handle its content. If the client wanted they could load the micro app from a web url, or perhaps something more decentralized, and hand the event content to the frame, which could then render something in a little html frame. Then that frame micro app could ask the enclosing web app for information about who the current user and permission to write new events and display a new frame state. This would be nifty and wouldnāt be too hard to learn.
https://docs.farcaster.xyz/learn/what-is-farcaster/frames
I see it in Nos with these relays.
https://image.nostr.build/047770e332d8481d9b9535c0c671085941878994dd27386966a6efffd9f6e9b7.jpg
I hope this isnāt real.
Oh wow, angrygf.ai is a real thing!
I live in a place with wild Pinguins but despite the evidence Iāve never seen one here. I was talking to some friends who grew up here and they say the pinguins are super cute but loud and smelly. That Iām lucky that they donāt want to live at my place.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/18/penguins-in-the-pond-kiwis-in-back-yard-how-a-city-brought-back-its-birds-aoe
Closed social media platforms are failing while team open grows.
https://www.augment.ink/social-siloes-post/
Itās apparently happened a couple times already.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2024/04/19/trump-reportedly-dozes---again---at-hush-money-trial/?sh=20affa4b74e3
Wouldnāt it be ironic that Trumpās legal troubles only hurt him because people see him repeatedly fall asleep during the trials?
The CCP has said they wonāt allow bytedance to sell off just TikTok in the US. So weāll see.
So theyāll both fund the wars and bad the way Americans have been organizing against the war at the same time?
Apparently yes: https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/
But Iām pretty sure @npub1wx6ā¦558r doesnāt read the comments, or even actually do his own posts.
Itās got better long form support than mastodon, AP of course does support long form, and a nice way to distinguish between users that are publications vs consumers of content. But yeah. It would have been better it theyād added ActivityPub support.
I have wanted a collaborative decentralized wiki for a long time. But isnāt this about subjective knowledge instead a single truth?
I came to give a talk in Wellington in 2016 and did a loop of the south island in a Jucy camper van, then came back a year later to do some similar exploring of the north island. It took a few more years to move.
My buddy came down in December from Canada planning on staying a few weeks and going mountain biking. He keeps renewing his visa and is still here.
After spending some time exploring the country itās pretty common to ask yourself āshould I move here?ā
Ugh. Google is abandoning its pledge that their vendors pay in compliance with minimum wage laws and provide healthcare.
#note1z8qā¦an0w
Iām thinking of doing a little road trip up to Mt Taranaki next weekend. Maybe we could get coffee too on my way through.
Meme coins on bitcoin? Iām guessing thatās not going to be popular around here.
#note1sazā¦g73a
Coracle has supported different reaction emojis for a while and itās definitely a fun feature.
Sure, Nostr is part of team open protocols. We win as we grow. Lots of Nostr users wonāt want to follow him, but imagine being able to do campaign donations via zaps.
But we wonāt see Trump from Truth Social, itās built on @npub108pā¦yev6 code, and could federate but Trumpās people decided against it. So we only get Biden vis Metaās Threads.
Look at that. You can now follow Joe Biden on Nostr* npub1wx6m0vmakggyq0v2jyykshe522nssh7zh8x3hz94eesmnkrs22ksd4558r
* Itās his official account on Threads coming to Nostr via mostr.pubās two way gateway.
Getting rid of a US passport is pretty hard but getting a second one is prudent.
And Do Kwon is forced to pay a massive fine and is banned from ever being an officer in a publicly traded company.
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And on Nostr! @npub1ugdā¦nm8h
And Pebble.is gone too.
https://medium.com/gabor/from-t2-to-pebble-the-rise-challenges-and-lessons-of-building-a-twitter-alternative-553652f1d1e7
I tried to talk Gabor in to doing something on an open protocol but he wanted it all under their control.
Definitely! Thatās a great way to see the country. You can go say hi to @npub1acgā¦p35c and his sheep a couple hours north of me too!
Shouldnāt be all that hard to build, no? Iāve not yet used airchat, just read about it.
I put a 24 hour timer on it. It hasnāt yet been 24 hours.
I disagree. Bitcoin and lightning is nifty, iām glad we have it. But itās not what makes Nostr really special. Nostr revives the promise of Web 2.0 where it was easy to make social apps which built upon each other with little or no prior permission needed. The way we can have dozens of different kinds of apps with the same user and some of the same data is fundamental.
Artifactās AI algorithms sucked. You read or like one article and then all of a sudden thats all you get. Also writing something about articles you share and being more intentional about what you want to share is important. A fully automated system is a bit soulless.
I mean Secure Scuttlebutt continues as a viable community because as long as the software works, and runs on newer versions of OS updates it works for the users. They donāt need new things.
They do night time raves at the queenstown canyon bungy jump site with folks jumping in to the dark while everyone dances to DJās.
Anyone know about the new fediverse gateway momostr.pink? Whoās running it and what needs to be done so weāre not seeing duplicates with mostr.pub? Is it the same software? Seems like maybe not. @npub108pā¦yev6 ?
https://image.nostr.build/b5705a2437ef55c84a822904bbb7f86244b44a174dc39af6be12141836bea7c3.jpg
I look forward to your ideas.
Iāve heard it a number of times. But im glad itās not as widespread as i worried.
Yeah I agree the bot gets it wrong a bunch and especially flagging stuff incorrectly. Weāre building a way for us to look at each report it makes and retract (delete) the mistakes. Weāre also constantly tweaking it, mostly to reduce its sensitivity.
Itās an experiment.
What nostr clients create and / or use kind 1984 report events?
Nos creates them and uses them as content warnings only if the report is from someone you follow.
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Yeah thatās what we found, even folks who liked or were neutral about bitcoin wanted to see posts about other stuff. We donāt need the enthusiastic bitcoiners to stop doing their thing. We need other folks and easy ways to discover a diversity of content and people.
I think it might be as simple as we donāt encourage it in the apps. Look at how warpcast works. Simply putting it there in the post UI does a lot to change how people post. At the moment groups / channels / communities are a kind neglected part of Nostr.
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The mobile apps are required to have reporting functionality by Apple and Google. Some web apps have it and some donāt. Each app also decides what to do with reports, some with settings and others are just hard coded.
The reports are for people who want them and relay operators to decide what content they want to see / host. Some people are want to be trolls but then get upset when other people troll them. They want freedom for themselves but not other people.
Just because there is a Nostr report doesnāt mean there is any centralized authority which could take action on these reports. Thatās not the way Nostr works.
I stood up on stage at both Nostr conferences and quite literally pointed out examples of offensive and harassment on Nostr. Almost every Nostr developer saw it in person or watched the video. Everyone was very polite, even when we didnāt all agree, which is fine. Nobody assaulted me. Iām going to be speaking at Nostriga in August. I expect the same reaction then, some agreement, some people who disagree, and a lot of productive debate.
Iām sorry to hear that youāre such a snowflake about what some stranger says that youāll threaten violence and go to jail. Personally Iām not so easily offended. Youāre welcome to run our open source nostr bot and publish a report on everyone of my notes. I donāt threaten people with violence to silence their speech like youāre doing.
Perhaps you should consider meditation as it seems like youāve got a lot of angry feelings.
Welcome to nos! Weād love your feedback on your experience with the app.
Google's fired 28 employees because they held a protest asking the company to change their policy around Israel.
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Nobody's asking you to use this bot. Nobody's asking you to follow it. Just like nobody on Nostr has any obligation to host or view your content.
All @npub14h2ā¦e2sh does is provide an opt in way of choosing one kind of content labeling. Hell at this point we don't even opt-in the @npub1pu3ā¦tfch users. It's got 24 people who follow it!
I think there should be many different ways of doing moderation. All that this bot does is provide one take, which users can choose to use or not. There is no centralization in a bot with 24 followers posting to a single relay.
Do you really think that all the Nostr developers would do all this work only to say, oh hey, let's have centralization after all?
Censorship is about suppressing speech, but somehow you're saying that my speech, which you're choosing to see, is suppressing your speech? Just use an app that doesn't support kind 1984 events. Use relays that don't support kind 1984 events. Mute bots you don't like.
You also might want to google me before you think that my projects are doomed or that I've just appeared on the scene. ;-D
I believe some Nostr apps support this. We're planning on adding it to @npub1pu3ā¦tfch. You can also mute, follow, or ignore any nostr feed, including those like @npub14h2ā¦e2sh who are making reports you're not interested in seeing.
The US Constitution 1st Amendment is about what the US congress does with regards to actions by the US government covering Americans. Nostr was not created by Americans, it's not run by Americans, and it's definitely not a project of the American government.
I write open source software on an open source permissionless protocol. Relays are only centralized if you choose to, if you want to only use the Damus relay, then you're choosing to give @npub1xtsā¦kk5s authority over what content you can publish or see.
If you're so concerned about this issue, i strongly recommend you setup a relay, i recommend: https://github.com/hoytech/strfry
And develop a plugin to strfry that rejects all kind 1984 events.
Here's the instructions: https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/blob/master/docs/plugins.md
And if you want to run a service that reports all of my content, you're welcome to do so. Here's the code which is open source and you're free to use and modify as you see fit. https://github.com/planetary-social/reportinator_server
See, i'm not telling you want to say or do, go for it, but all I ask is that you realize free speech only works if it is for everybody.
Iām not the snowflake demanding somebody else stop using Nostr how they like. Youāre the one demanding I stop posting stuff on Nostr that you donāt like.
So why are you all upset about my ācrassā labeling of your speech? Why do you get free speech to say what you want but somehow I shouldnāt have the same free speech rights to comment on it?
In our user research, we found that most people joining Nostr get turned off and leave when they have somebody harass them or when they see harassment. So a way to protect free speech and also address these issues are to provide a way of users to choose labels and filters to shape their experience. It empowers relay operators to choose what they want to host, and users to decide what they want to see in their clients.
Nobody's telling you that you can't say whatever the hell you want on Nostr, but it is giving people tools to shape their social experience.
We see lots of women join Nostr, love what it offers, and then be harassed until they leave. This has happened many times. While you may want a platform which feels like 4chan, lots of others don't. You should be able to have your flamewar fun time while others don't have deal with that.
Nostr is held back because of the reputation of the content on the platform, not the quality of the apps and features of what we're doing. I'm saying, we should be able to use the protocol with communities of many norms.
Look at how many people are accusing Nostr with being a pro-nazi platform...
https://www.google.com/search?q=nostr+nazi+bar
Here's my talk from the last Nostr conference about why we built @npub14h2ā¦e2sh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pGZ2epF8ZY
Here's the spec... it exists because Apple and Google require it.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/56.md
Yes it'll go out to the fediverse, we want your fediverse address to be
[email protected] but right now it's this much less pretty: @2536db06a9c7f1fd21f87e97c799e4dedf9c71f556395b21d2b2be821bc70957@mostr.pub
Some fediverse servers show comments from people on third party servers who they're not following, others don't. I'm not sure what @npub1a6wā¦9e8h does.
Bob looks like a lot of fun!! šš
#fisting #ConstructionWorkers #RealMen @npub14kaā¦3kg0
https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/e399cd18e412d39d29e084e4e7d540a13ffec24504413ef322c7603b4b93b518.webp
FYIā¦ Weāve let our domain expire. It was intentional. We werenāt giving Boy Perfect the time and energy it needed. So better to focus on doing fewer things well.
I know that amethyst has some support for this. One thing is we would benefit from more onion service relays.
Uruguayans like to complain but they donāt realize how good things are in comparison to the region.
Are the IIW sessions only in person, are there videos or notes?
Yes apparently it will. But it might take a while. Sometimes a year or two!
I smashed my toe and now Iāve got an offical medical report on my injury as a chair leg vs toe fight. The chair leg won and the toe is losing its nail.
https://image.nostr.build/12a8bd48946b929ee70dcf342d8cacfb1feb9d9c6db09738e91ea1996411ed5c.jpg
@npub13thā¦wvcs I appreciate your concerns and what reportinator is right now is a flawed experiment. Sometimes it helps sometimes it gets things wrong. Letās talk. Also I think there are some straight up bugs where it should be reporting a post and not a person. Or where it flags people talking about being harassed as harassment. I also think this is about content labeling so users can be empowered to shape their own experience, the name āreportā comes from appstore requirements and is causing a lot of confusion. This can be better.
We should build good tools for connecting Ghost and Nostr. I think this would be a killer feature which would drive creators to publish to the nostr paid long form content apps like highlighter.com, letr.co, yakihonne, and creatr.nostr.wine.
One thing which has come up in our user research is that most journalists and creators are using tools to manage their publishing to social media platforms as opposed to the apps that people use to read / reply / share content. We need to work with those tools.
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On my way to get an MRI this morning I walked past a window where I saw a woman running on a treadmill - with a view of Central Park. The weather was perfect for running outdoors, and Central Park is a runners nirvana. Which raises the question - why indoors when she could be running in the park?
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The goal of reportinator is to provide a service that people can opt in to using for content warning. Itās not perfect and weāre not telling anyone they have to use it. Donāt like it? Mute it. Donāt host its events on your relays.
It doesnāt always get it right, but weāre tweaking it. Weāre also working on adding an easier way for people to review and edit or delete reports.
Our goal is that there should be many different reportinator like services with different takes. The Thank God For Nostr folks can do one consistent with christian values. The sex workers can do one from the perspective of embracing sexual content but helping protect those same creators from harassment. A bitcoiner might make one that labeles all non-bitcoin crypto content as āshitcoin propagandaā.
Relays can then decide what content and users they want to host, having content labeled makes that process a lot easier. Most relays already have algorithms to decide what content theyāll host and what they reject. This just gives them better tools. If you donāt like the policies of relays then run your own!
What app are you even seeing these in? Kind 1984 & 1985 events are labels and shouldnāt be displayed as if theyāre notes. Some app confused about how these events are supposed to work.
#JackingOff is good for you! A New study says you should try to #jackoff every day, but at least 21 times a month (~5 times a week). Doing so lowers your risk of #ProstateCancer by 20%.
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https://apple.news/AjJltJu_9S-Wc_iwgarsS6Q
#MensHealth
so far so good ā This is a comment on: https://yakihonne.com/flash-news/nevent1qqz9rgtcyypzp3ld5es2d0yzwpfsaq455acj4n029ccaczjklrwf2kkqp8hajlyxqvzqqqqqqy4y7dw3
The sentiment is good, and we need a way of protecting user privacy and data. The problem with the way apple decides whether or not theyāre collecting data and what counts as third party.
If an app developer doesnāt look at how their app is used then it wonāt improve as fast as the apps that collect a lot of analytics. Where are we losing users, does this new design work better, which of these two ways of doing something is better. That is all user data collection, even if it is never used to for ads or commercially.
The other issue is third party data sharing. Under appleās rules using a sass analytics service is considered exactly the same thing as selling all user data to data brokers for resale. Itās insane. The cost of running everything without any sass services is really high. And for what? Posthog and others committed to not using or selling their customer data.
With Nos we run our own notification system which talks directly to apple, but all apps that use a service for notifications are sharing data with third parties.
I think most developers lie or ignore appleās rules about hosted sass services. But that just means theyāre vulnerable to being taken down.
So yes. Donāt collect what you donāt need for bug / crash reporting, donāt sell data or give it away. But current appstore rules donāt really cover those cases at all.
The press release went out April 10th! Itās totally new.
I think this didnāt get picked up enough in Nostr, but @npub108pā¦yev6 is launching building a substack like competitor on nostr, called letr.co.
#note1chuā¦4qf0
awesome, sorry i flaked on getting mine doneā¦
This is about content creators. Making hardware is hard, but maybe find funding elsewhere like https://geyser.fund/ or opencollective.org
In part of our launch of the Creator and Journalism Accelerators note1z866al6xs9xhnlqgwt0lkxr9lrynstyc52ls29sej96hfxpwxzws5u3m9u some people have asked why we're doing this on Nostr and not ActivityPub and the Fediverse. It's a good question, and the answer for me is about the way both the protocols and the culture of the people creating them work. I wrote this out here in a reply, but it deserves it's own post. So here's my why Nostr instead of Mastodon & ActivityPub.
There are a lot of things that Mastodon & ActivityPub canāt do.
* User identities are tied to a server; if the server goes down, you lose your account, as happened when queer.af had their domain name seized.
* Users canāt migrate between servers. In some servers thereās a system where they can request a migration, where they can stop using one account and point their followers to a new account, but server admins need to allow this, and your followers donāt automatically follow your new identity on a new server.
* On a single server, it is impossible to change your username!
* Fediverse servers have total control over your account and data; they can see all of your private messages or write new ones on your behalf.
* The fediverse is a network of fiefdoms, each server admin having total control over their users. Often they are benevolent and use their power to decide what behavior is acceptable on their server, but itās opaque. Most fediverse server admins keep their moderation and defederation decisions secret. So, users must choose a trust and safety regime without any understanding of the rules and how theyāre enforced. When combined with the very limited ability to migrate between servers, only with server admin's permission, itās a problem.
* Each kind of fediverse server is isolated. You can use a Peertube instance to federate with other Peertubes for video, or Mobilizon for meetup-style events, or Pixelfed for Instagram-like photo sharing, or WriteFreely for blogs. But each of these is isolated. I need a new account on an instance of each of these servers. They all run the same protocol, but they arenāt actually interoperable. You canāt use a single fediverse identity with your profile and followers in Peertube, Mobilizon, WriteFreely, and Pixelfed. You need a totally separate account in each one. With Nostr, you can use dozens of apps all with your same identity, content, and followers.
* The fediverse has no privacy; there is no system of end-to-end encrypted messaging. In Nostr, you can have private direct messages and even private groups that are encrypted. Nostr even supports encrypted private file sharing.
* The fediverse has no system for micropayments. The zaps on Nostr enable easy ways to fund creators and journalists with either one-off tips or subscriptions to unlock paid content, like paid Substack newsletters or OF accounts.
* Lastly, and most importantly for me, the culture of fediverse server admins and developers is vindictive. Itās a community that attacks people who make proposals or want to try out new ways of using the network. That is why there is no search, no ability to choose an algorithm, no private groups, no private messages, no system for payments, etc. Those have all been proposed or even built, but the fediverse culture has gone after those people, punishing them for suggesting new ways of doing things.
Oh NOES! Shit. Sorry for the confusion. It's the problem of doing active development on stuff and seeing what happens. Part of the confusion might be @npub1j60ā¦d7ua did leak her personal nsec and made a new one.
It wasn't a compromised nsec, somehow in doing experiments with various nostr apps and code we cloned pablo's kind 0 profile note and published it as our own.
I'm so excited to formally announce a new project to onboard a diverse range of creators and journalists to Nostr. Please join us and help #grownostr
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This an incredible article that explains so much about the conflict in #Israel / #Palestineā¦
https://apple.news/A-peJ7qPzRDaAQnnNWpee6g
#MizrahiJews
#SanFrancisco is truly the tech capital of the worldā¦ š¤£
https://apple.news/An_Y0mTlXRHO4o0y4QFm2lg
5 1/4ā floppies were archaic even in ā98 when #Muni installed the system!
Corruption idexes are inherently subjective but that doesnāt mean theyāre useless. When people think everyone else is honest and trustworthy then theyāll act better themselves. Itās a story here in New Zealand because for the first time ever the country isnāt ranked first or second least corrupt.
https://www.transparency.org.nz/blog/new-zealands-score-slips-in-latest-corruption-perceptions-index-now-ranked-third
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Soon the days of crying babies will be a distant memory... Enjoy being able to work from home and be around them when they're little. We're lucky to get so much time with our kids even if sometimes it feels like too much. ;-D
Yeah. Itās offline for me too. š
If only there was edit. We did all this work to reinvent twitter and we still didnāt get edit!
Isnāt using lightning doing some of what GP has asked in terms of lower carbon footprint transactions for bitcoin?
Podcasting is the shining example of how social media can be open. #note143wā¦usy8
Adding the link to the actual post: #note1rvlā¦23um
Was he given red pills while he was held captive?
Thatās a bit harsh, but not untrue.
I like how the Jews approach it. You start life with your first breath and end it with your last breath. Ergo fetuses are part of the mother, not a separate life - until the point of viability when they can survive on their own.
Super interesting. Automattic is buying Beeper and merging it with Texts. When I hear a company is being acquired Iām normally worried, except when itās Automattic. Theyāve got a great track record with supporting both open source and the open web.
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Oh shit. Iāve got an LG TV. Anyone else had their TV hacked?
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The UX for nontechnical users is so much better. Non-custodial wallets are really hard to use, because the system itself is opaque and confusing. Whatās a valid address? which of these dozens of wallets work? How do I buy sats with fiat.
Iām so happy to see #conservatives getting voters out for #Biden! And doing it in a purple state is an added bonus š
https://apple.news/AICxi5CuxT9uxeImnHA3_5g
#BlueWave #politics #abortion
I canāt find the paper now, but I read some research showing that when somebody believes in something, like a conspiracy theory, showing them evidence which contradicts that belief does not reduce peopleās confidence in their belief. Instead showing somebody that there is evidence their belief is wrong, only reinforces those believes.
Showing somebody who believes in a conspiracy thoery that theyāre wrong only reinforceds their beliefs. Itās this crazy self-reinforcing cycle.
Youāve gone down some weird weird tiktok rabbitholeā¦ ;-D
Nasa has an eclipse live feed.
#note1akvā¦unz3
Everything you need to know about watching a total solar eclipse. From @npub1zyfā¦g837
#note1kv7ā¦vxxa
My favorite!! šš¦
#note1gvjā¦0902
Having been immersed in Christianity as a kid, with exposure to many of its denominations, I generally agree.
But there are exceptionsā¦ I still very much respect many Episcopalians, Church of God and other liberal branches that truly follow the teachings of Jesus.
That said, when you look at the bulk of Christian history what stands out are the wars and the oppression carried out falsely in the name of Jesus. This is continues to be very true today with the Christian Nationalists trying to force their beliefs on others.
Whatās your definition of āwokeismā? To me itās the acknowledgement of uncomfortable truths. So I canāt quite wrap my head around equating it to communism.
I generally agree with you in relation to communism. Socialism is a really broad concept. On the more extreme bits we agree. On the more mild bits we disagree. Iād also say that Jesus was a socialist (far more so than me). So Iām surprised with you having an issue with it.
But basically I donāt see those 3 things as equivalents. Each is quite a distinct thing.
I donāt get how the toll on the NJ Turnpike is OK, but the toll on Manhattan roadways isnāt. Both are the same thing.
#CongestionPricing #nyc #ny #nj
Just felt another #aftershock. 4.0 this time.
Clearly #NJ isnāt happy about #CongestionPricingā¦ š
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Source: https://www.threads.net/@eliarnoldvox/post/C5VVZDmOrjy/?xmt=AQGzC7lBjoKDljLkV13YEpYyKubLuSXuVD1zPQJStkKtrA
It used to be that the economy had to add 250K jobs every month just to tread water. So 300K doesnāt mean anything substantial happened - it just means we didnāt lose jobs and might have added a few.
Ah, the ironyā¦ The guy who gave homophobes their cherished bible was actively bisexualā¦
āThe King James Version of the Bible is the preferred version of many fundamentalist Christian churches ā and the one being hawked by Donald Trump in a āGod Bless the USAā edition ā¦ But what some promoters of the King James Version donāt realize or ā at least ignore ā is the queerness of the king who commissioned it.
āJames, known formally as King James I of England and King James VI of Scotland, would likely be understood as bisexual today.ā
https://apple.news/AD8w7-teMT5qvkuufzJS8pg
#LGBThistory #LGBT #LGBTQ #homophobia #bigotry #christians #christianity #history #queer #QueerHistory
Ugh. I wonder if this is going to happen to other exchanges like easycrypto. Sorry to hear about this.
The thread of continuity in my lifeā¦ Fundamentalist Christian upbringing -> now working in gay pornā¦ https://image.nostr.build/7cf97ec058f2c27c48a88bd856bb0918ce1391b7afc60dcfa07929dc012019b7.jpg
Coinbase is adding Lightning support. Exchanges might not be a very safe way to store crypto long term, but itās a very good on and off ramp. Being able to go directly from coinbase to a lightning wallet seems great.
https://www.lightspark.com/news/coinbase-selects-lightspark
I think a bunch of the organizers and nostr community folks were already going to be in Riga for the Baltic Honeybadger conference. So it made sense to double up.
Nostriga in August in Riga, Latvia.
https://nostr.world/
Iām hoping this kind of thing will be repeated in the fallā¦
āOut of 13 right-wing school board candidates in the St. Louis area, zero won their races on Tuesday.
āVoters overwhelmingly rejected their far-right options this weekā¦ā
https://apple.news/A450OFXTlRPSiNW9TPeBJ9Q
#maga #woke #politics
Everybody building in the Nostr ecosystem, and working in tech in general should follow @npub1r0rā¦q9acās recommendation and read this piece on identifying what to build. It is so common to build the wrong thing and waste tons of time and money.
#note1ed2ā¦tqyx
Yes! Itās not that algorithms are bad, itās opaque unaccountable algorithms which are trying to manipulate us in to being addicted and clicking on advertisements that are the problem.
Cafe working.
https://image.nostr.build/a982d034c6a4b6351513e4ab62e7a8f820cf8225e0dbae67ca6d70e554a8f652.jpg
I have no idea what kind of plant it is!
This is a great thread of artists posting beautiful and interesting stuff on nostr.
#note14p4ā¦2sdx
Except heāll actually serve 5 to 8 years :(((
An iphone 15. Iāve got a sony ZV-1 but mostly it is a very fancy webcam. Itās easier to grab quick shots on my phone.
Seems like a good feature. Or better the OS way of unlocking rhe app, like faceid / touchid.
Nature is amazing. This is just my houseplant in the morning sun.
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To me youāre a third party, but given youāre just an npub and not amongst my friends of friends nor do i have any context about who you are, youāre not a trusted party to me. To others you might be. Thatās the way it should work, itās subjective. Any person or group should be able to provide a trusted third party moderation service.
I donāt know any nostriches in Auckland. Iām in Wellington
We need the ability to subscribe to another personās mute list.
I respect Andre a lot and build an ssb app. I think heās made some trade offs which make ppppp much harder to implement than is needed.
Itās really good but thereās some rough edge cases with their way of doing KYC and also when the signup flow breaks down. Itās close.
Uh, I mean thunderstorms are a seasonal thing, youāve been living there in fall/winter/springā¦ ;-D
Thereās a github repo: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips
Here is the process:
Criteria for acceptance of NIPs
1. They should be implemented in at least two clients and one relay -- when applicable.
2. They should make sense.
3. They should be optional and backwards-compatible: care must be taken such that clients and relays that choose to not implement them do not stop working when interacting with the ones that choose to.
4. There should be no more than one way of doing the same thing.
5. Other rules will be made up when necessary.
You can see and participate in the discussions for proposed nipās here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pulls
The conversations tend to be pretty technical but thereās always a need for diverse kinds of inputs in the design process.
Building a system that doesnāt have affordances for users being able to protect themselves is exactly that, suppressing peopleās voices by any bad actors who have a lot of time and/or money to go after somebody.
Weāre working on a moderation bot that will accept encrypted report notes, then the bot can review the content via AI and a human, and then issue a report on that content. Basically itās not always a good idea to be public about your report. Also clearly we need the ability to vet reports, because often the report is not accurate or isnāt enough. So i an say, sure bob reported jane as being as spammer, but I donāt agree, or this moderation group looked at Janeās content and decided Bobās report didnāt have merrit. Sure others might agree with Bobās report, but the point is that we need a second level, and the ability to have some reviews.
Yes, but we could create filters for new users and use a web of trust to filter out these accounts. Eventually with good LLMās you could create troll accounts that do the work of being legit before they start their abuse, but for now weāre not yet facing those issues.
Or recruit women to work on clients and nostr services. A more diverse team building the apps will mean that the app serves the needs of more kinds of people. Talk to users! Talk to people whoāve decided not to use your apps. Ask open ended questions.
Read this: The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers and Learn If Your Business is a Good Idea when Everyone is Lying to You
If we canāt make a social media ecosystem where people feel safe enough to share then theyāll go somewhere else. Itās like a dark ally in a city without anyone doing public safety. You can walk down these back alleys but itās risky. If youāre strong and have guns youāre fine. Or if youāve got a security guard. Or if you have a lot of social capital protecting you, most people wonāt mess with you.
But on nostr we see folks who donāt have that power or protection be attacked with death threats for posting a selfie or doxxed for publishing an accurate content report. This kind of harassment silences speech. We need tools that let folks feel safe enough to share and build communities. Otherwise theyāll opt for the evil mall cop an corporate social media platforms because at least there is some safety in that authoritarianism.
Read the experiences if women on Nostr
#note1n2hā¦640z
#note1e8gā¦egzt
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How do you know failing isnāt the way youāre proving youāre human? Actually youāre probably failing because youāve got your browser and computer locked down to protect your privacy. Mostly those captchas are using other data than the actual puzzel to determine if youāre a bot.
The EFF fights for our freedom everyday but they canāt do it without our support.
#note1kntā¦ly4u
Yeah, primal runs a cache but amethyst doesnāt. In this case, thereās no easy way for a nostr app to figure out what relays hold the posts by @npub1988ā¦u2yx Which i linked to.
Itās a problem. One solution would be for a client to push a mentioned / reposted note to its relays. Another would be for you to add wss://purplepag.es to your relay list so you can always find what relays an npub is on, that works IF your client uses inbox/outbox model.
I think we need a better solution, like a DHT where you could publish your npub and what relays youāre using, signed with your nsec.
Itās on all of these relays:
wss://relay.mostr.pub
wss://relay.shitforce.one
wss://nostr.coinfund.app
This was intended to be a reply to #note1d47ā¦arlu
Iām not sure what happened.
Yeah, iām kind of glad to see this go away. Effective Altruism was a movement which was fundamentally anti-humanist and authoritarian. There was an EA meetup in wellington recently, and i was like, wow, this thing is still trying to happen.
The indieweb ( indieweb.org ) is a longstanding project to try and make an open social media ecosystem that can be built with simple public websitesā¦. Itās both been incredibly influential and also completely failed at getting mass adoption. Mostly because itās creators all wanted to build their own software from scratch, it is all hacker hobbyists and no people building software for a less technical audience.
That said, i think we should look at what theyāve done and learn from them for Nostr.
For example, this post on sharing intents: #note1kjpā¦3wy8
Yeah, meta only seems good in comparison to the mess that is Elon and Twitter. The truth is meta is more powerful and less ethical. Weāve seen in a thousand ways and itās not going to change. Microblogging as we see in twitter, mastodon, nostr, and bluesky canāt be given over to one guy who has proved to be unethical.
The CEO of Signal, @npub15s3ā¦6r6y has a great essay about why the US push to ban or force a sale of TikTok is a terrible idea.
#note1u7xā¦de8r
Itās worth reading. She says that people on the political left need to realize there are major free speech issues with social media platforms. This shouldnāt be a left right divide.
She says āThe problem here is the platforms themselves. There is something deeply wrong with the whole form. With their self-reinforcing business models, their reliance on surveillance, and their role in undermining an independent media ecosystem and replacing it with their monolithic feeds.ā
Which I think all of us working on Nostr would agree with.
She concludes with āThe world would be better if these platforms were dismantled and their revenues shared with the people, professions, and communities whose livelihoods and public spaces theyāve worked to foreclose, and if a more localized variation on digital spaces for deliberation, discussion, and discovery could be constructed in their wake.ā
Now Signal is open source, but has rejected the idea of federating their servers as it would slow down platform development and endanger user privacy. So in some ways sheās running a platform.
As a committed leftist iām very uncomfortable with the way some of my fellow travelers arenāt defending free speech online.
What do the numbers mean? I tried checking me to @npub16zsā¦92l7 and since we work together but i got numbers MUCH lower than the ones in your video. And I also assumed itād be how much npub1 trusts npub2.
This is great!
Is it open source for reviewing the code / contributions?
Weāve been wanting to implement it in nos.social, but itās not being worked on yet.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos/issues/647
At the moment weāre doing some experiments with proxy relays because that was something we could with much less work and we could learn something.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos/issues/906
The books are amazing and worth reading
I just had a comment removed from instagram for violating their community standards. Apparently they think Iām spamming for mentioning Unicode I guess. Honestly Iām not sure. It was in response to a instagram rule asking why the kiwi bird isnāt an emoji.
I posted it once, and to a instagram post from someone Iām following. I donāt think Iāve made a comment about Unicode or emojis on instagram before.
This is crazy.
https://m.primal.net/Hoxa.png
PÅneke Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Cute but at least the US house of lords, err Senate, is elected now.
Also looks like nos has a bug with embedding links to media Iām uploading. Opps.
https://image.nostr.build/857028d9d1c81a593dd090b6f8d443645f7227a57291ca1aede06994763ea319.jpgHere is the unfiltered version. Honestly the filter made it look more like what i saw with the naked eye. https://image.nostr.build/857028d9d1c81a593dd090b6f8d443645f7227a57291ca1aede06994763ea319.jpg
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Looks like the sky this morning has been purple-pilled AND oranged-pilled.
https://image.nostr.build/db21561665ecb8fbcf35f6d7c15c8bd529b28c77c37ac9730e018cb7c2bf8381.jpg
Not trippy to see yourself mentioned in a book! Or as weird to see that despite dropping out of undergrad that iāve somehow managed to accumulate over 100 citations on google scholar. Some are repeats, but stillā¦ surreal.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=evan+henshaw-plath&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
The internet is about to get weird again, by @npub1t8uā¦c7sk
All Hail The Weird Internet!
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/
You can ban it from appstores and ban traffic that looks like nostr traffic at the router or ban access to nostr relay servers. If people use tor on a device that lets you install your own apps, yes you can get around it. Banning the mobile apps would block most users. In this case, appstores do know what age the user is, and could not let users under 18 install social media apps, including nostr apps. A teen could either just change their birthday on their device or use a vpn to appear to be in another state. In terms of computers, tor would be the best way around being blocked. āØāØIt doesnāt matter, these laws will never be held up in the courts. Itās pure political theater.
That screenshot of a report from November. Iām not sure what heās up to since then.
If youāre using Nos and follow @npub1sn0ā¦jdv9 then you already can have him do your moderation.
https://image.nostr.build/4df15fc0660a8bbc6a3cc663fd5fe19a6dd4eacb4840f0db10779b804f5af10f.jpg
I think we can implement a composable moderation system similar to bluesky, where you can choose moderators or operate without any. The default should be some reasonable level of labeling and guardrails. Users should be allowed to run with no moderation or just with their network. Those just donāt work great for new users, nor a bunch of other communities who would greatly benifit from Nostr. Freespeech doesnāt mean youāve got the freedom to force others to listen to you. ;-D
I listened to this interview as a podcast, talking to Jay Graber about bluesky. Again, a lot of whatās said about bluesky also applies to nostr when advocating for a protocol.
Notice the difference in focus on censorship and monetization. We canāt just be claiming those are the two things that make nostr important.
https://theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview
This is why we need DVM feeds better supported and integrated in to apps so users can choose their algorithms.
Most relays do out of the box because all the widely used relay software supports it.
Well the main pushback is that the fediverse uses a very server / instance based model for content moderation where as Nostr users a more web of trust / social graph model. So to the other parts of the fediverse, it looks like all of nostr is mostr.pub and itās got no content moderation at all.
The fundamental problem is a disconnect between paradigms of how the network is governed.
Nothing. I think itās great that youāre posting erotica! Reporting doesnāt cause content to be taken down in nostr. It just creates a content warning in some apps.
Nostree is a start but I agree we need something much better. And as a hosted service connected to nip-05 it should be a viable business too.
I donāt think that it is a bug. Nos also shows @npub1226ā¦grkj as not having a signed and validated nip-05
https://image.nostr.build/6705250cc78c25b66ea5e7ca391ee31c25a4bc13e637e74e3e7ac37d44fee450.jpg
This is the first time Iāve seen in the wild a threads.net post on Nostr! Itās @npub10vaā¦dpj5 on Nostr.
https://image.nostr.build/37939ed689b3a961ddb090cbd6ea46fc4dab27b9e86e85d582ee6d4bd83f3b9f.jpg
Technically you could create a second delete event to remove the first delete event and then repost the original event. I donāt know how relays would handle it. But technically it is possible.
Thanks! Weāre looking forward being able to use this for encrypted notes, not just DMs, in NOS!
If you want to delete a note on Nostr and your client doesnāt support it, you can use: https://nostr-delete.vercel.app
One of the best parts of Nostr is that weāre not locked in to the control and opinions of app developers.
#note1k85ā¦zwvk
Hereās a video of me posting a reply here then deleting it. https://v.nostr.build/3Pa0k.mp4
Living with stalkers must suck. One woman on Nostr tried to convince me that she was married to Jack!
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/09.md
Read the spec. Even relays that choose not to implement Nostr, eventually drop all content.
Delete is a core part of Nostr and it works. Donāt trust trolls who wish Nostr didnāt support delete.
#note178tā¦syk6
Edit works in some apps: #note1te9ā¦sky3
We let users choose what they want to see, including putting content warnings on content your friends have reported. If you think that is censorship then weāre living with different definitions of the word.
https://image.nostr.build/3ba7cc2b69d03987c58c13eacc9a9aec9a09eb9428cc6d14c12187af32cbb823.jpg
Nostr supports both edit and delete. Youāre apps that choose to hide that functionality because rhe creators donāt like edit and delete.
Dunno who did it but i think itās unlikely the KGB unless theyāve got a time machine. The KGB was disbanded 20 years afo and replaced by the FSB.
Yep. Itās at connect.nos.social please use it and tell others.
Folks interested in emerging social media protocols should check out Willow. Like Blueskyās atproto and Nostr it is inspired and built by Secure Scuttlebutts developers. Itās another approach that solves a bunch of problems in its more popular siblings.
https://willowprotocol.org
To be able to anonymously send is cool, I wasnāt aware. The question that came up was the desire by people to receive anonymously.
Anybody explored anonymous zaps? One thing which has come up in user research is there are a set of users who want to receive zaps but don't want the world to know that they're receiving them. Thoughts?
Whatās the story with Mash? They seem like they kind of thing which would be nostr connected, paid content with lightning, but I donāt see any Nostr stuffā¦
https://mash.com
I agree, itās a hard timezone for me but the conversations are worth it.
If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.
https://m.primal.net/Hmbp.jpg
Iām not sure @npub1jlrā¦ynqn, because the UX of primal and damus are a lot better becuase they do run relays. Weāve been experimenting with proxy and caching relays with @npub1pu3ā¦tfch and found that it does help a lot. It is much easier to add capacity to a server, scaliing horizontally, than it is to optimize the on device performance in an app on a low end mobile phone. Whatās more, Nostr tends to use tons of bandwidth requesting the same content repeatedly.
I think a potential solution would be clients connecting to and using proxy relays, but then weād need people running those. At the moment most proxies tend to be closed.
Iām using a lot of nostr apps everyday and also testing proxy relays.
I gotta figure out why my lightning address keeps getting removed from my profile.
GM Nostr
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Double rainbow.
https://image.nostr.build/f8766aac7e9c12ad5cc7465e8a71c46558130089a39a8b66aab16deb755edf24.jpg
Maybe you should look at examples outside the US? Lots of other places have programs to support ebikes.
We should fix this but for now just put the npub. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240
npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240, how do I @ on here
I hate how mastodon doesnāt support changing user names. So stupid.
Nostr in many ways is the successor protocol of secure scuttlebutt. There will be new protocols.
Iām not sure about algoeithims but algorithms simply arenāt a thing we can avoid in software. Fundamentally software is a series of mathematical equations organized together in algorithms. It is kind if like saying you want an ocean without water. There are oceans of other liquids on other planets, but here on our planet, with computers as they are built today, all software is algorithms.
When it comes to social media and the way out software decides what to show us, every possible way choosing data and showing it to a user is an algorithm. It might be just show the posts from people youāve chosen, either in the order in which they publish them or in which the client receives them, those are algorithms. That choice has a bias and rewards some behavior while punishing others.
Take for example @npub1r0rā¦q9ac who posts a LOT of short posts. If we use the most frequent posters get more exposure, then weāre focusing on building an audience of direct follows, getting your posts shared, and posting a LOT. We could have an algorithm which focuses on showing whatās trending in your network, or one which prioritizes showing you posts with lots of comments, or a feed that shows you content which has the most reports.
There is no escape from using algorithms to decide what content you will see.
What we need is a system where users have agency, where you can choose your algorithms, see the trade offs in each, and the way to pick what works for you. The algorithm isnāt the problem, itās that is a monoculture thatās picked by platforms. It flattens culture and makes us vulnerable.
Facebook actually had researchers try presenting users with content / social graph/ engagement aware algorithm vs chronological feed. What happened was a chronological free showed less news, less diverse view points, and lots more viral shared content. It had no change in peopleās political views at all. The biggest take away is that the cohort of users given the chronological timeline used it less and switched their time to social media apps that did give them a more customized timeline algorithm.
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/surprising-discovery-about-facebooks-role-driving-polarization
We canāt escape the algorithm. First because thatās how all software works, but also because users prefer something other than the chronological timeline we think we want.
Over at Bluesky theyāve got 40,000 algorithms to choose from in a way thatās easy to discover, use, and make. Nostr has a few dozen to choose from because for the most part we combine the algorithms with the clients. Only a few clients use the DVM feed functionality that lets us decouple the algorithms from the client.
We should embrace and support user agency to choose and create algorithms that they can control. We need DVM feeds to be shown in clients, documented, integrated, and to be fast. Relays need to be able to support requests of a list of note ids not just full note content so we can make the system fast and low bandwidth.
We can do this. You can choose an algorithm which pulls from the lists your friends manually curate, or from some advanced LLM predicting your interest. If we have a hundred thousand algorithms then the power of each one diminishes. Maybe you want to have a feed that helps you find the shit posters, while I want to hide the flame wars. Both are fine.
Letās not reject algorithms, letās admit that theyāre baked in the fundamentals of how the technology works. Letās take power over them instead of the large platforms using them to control our public sphere.
Share to links.
https://werd.io/2024/seeking-share-urls-for-every-platform
We donāt really have something like that with Nostr. Should we have something?
Because even at their most unreliable, commercial aircraft are incredibly safe. Weāre much more likely to die getting to the airport than on the flight. :)
Yep. Something like that. I, of course could implement it in @npub1pu3ā¦tfch but havenāt yet.
If KOSA passes in the US we all lose freedom on the internet.
#note13lyā¦t9yw
Both @npub1acgā¦p35c and I moved from the US. Heās on some sheep farm a couple hours north of me. Iām based in Wellington.
It is easier to get a visa here than it is to the US. Everyone is incredibly friendly. Come for a visit.
@npub1m6gā¦2e6g i live here and am also not sure itās a real place.
npub15udps0gkavgwqjm3tljxqmfcaqtgd95dh3h072msy5pkjefasahsp9qgd3 Some nostr clients do highlight posts based on how many zaps theyāve received. Which is a kind of paid promotion.
@npub1yyeā¦hmd0 Iām really curious what do you like about fastcaster and why.
Weāre also considering disabling straight repost in nos and instead encourage people to make quote posts. The idea is the latter adds a lot more to the conversation.
I think we need to update clients so you donāt see a ton of copies of a repost when a lot of people repost the same thing.
I tend to say nostr is a social media protocol, it works more like other internet protocols like the web and email than a closed plarform like instagram, twitter, and facebook.
It seems to work for a somewhat technical user.
Me too. Itās one of the first things i say. Nostr is a decentralized protocol but not blockchain and there is no coin or token needed. You can use bitcoin lightning for micropayments but tons of people never set that up and Nostr works great without the payments.
So many people have been scammed by cryptocurrency projects that theyāre looking for scams. In this way bitcoin gets painted with the same brush as all the other projects.
I think their onboarding experience is better than nostrās, they have good follow up emails, good recommendations of content and people to follow. And in particular their way of encouraging groups is what weāll need to do if we want nostr groups to take off.
I never thought pornhub would be leading the anti-kyc resistance.
Interesting to see farcaster got basically no use until January when they git a big spike.
Itās not actually an open social media protocol but it is close enough to nostr that we should be paying attention.
https://dune.com/pixelhack/farcaster
Iāve tried a few different LLMs for coding and found theyāre good for really constrained issues with well known apis. For example it is good at svelte and swiftui but even when you remind it and give examples it hallucinates about ndk and Nostr actually work.
Sometimes they just get stuck and stop providing anything useful at all until I start over from scratch.
I am hopeful as context windows grow that weāll be able fix that.
Has anyone tried this new one yet?
I use vscode but I keep meaning to try out zed, itās by the creator of Atom which became vscode.
https://zed.dev
We must return to speaking Anglish! Rid the language of its un-germanic corruptions.
Maybe someone can help you get setup to verify your account with dirtybee.co. Anyone know how to put a nip05 on to a squarespace site?
I think itās because @npub1gcxā¦nj5z isnāt running any relays as part of amethyst. Where as Damus has a big read / write relay and primal makes extensive use of a caching relay that also provides things like notifications, follow counts, etc.
Ugh. The remote signing / login thing is supposed to fix this.
That is annoying. You could use nsec.app or a browser extension to login and that wouldnāt happen. My guess is most folks do that and forget the annoying experience of folks who use a pin to unlock their accout.
The country of Aotearoa New Zealand is very geographically isolated. Similar but different from Australia. Here almost every ecological niche that an an animal could occupy has been filled by some kind of bird. But birds that evolved with almost no predators. When the MÄori arrived and settled the country about 800 years ago they didnāt introduce that many animals, but they did have to adapt because most crops from more tropical Polynesia donāt grow here. The MÄori ended up hunting the giant Moa birds to extinction, but for the most part their impact on the environment was lighter. When the Europeans started showing up about 200 years ago they introduced many more plants, animals, and intensive agricultural. The native birds had evolved in a world without predators. The impact was huge. Australia had evolved in the opposite direction, with intense competition, marsupials taking the dominant spot in the ecology.
Anyway. This is a really round about way of saying that today the biggest problem for the native fauna are rodents and cats. There is an effort to rid the islands of these predators, except for the cute cats, those are allowed to kill billions of birds because theyāre friendly and adorable to people. Some of the smaller islands are already predator free. I live on a peninsula at the very end of the north island. Theyāre working out from here to expand the zone for native birds. Across the street from my house there are traps. Iām writing this because I saw the guy servicing the trap this morning as I was having coffee.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/a1366f6611fcfd58870ee072dd5a110e509f6fe623fbc4ab652436c05515c587.webp
Anybody else notice primal is slow tosay? Normally itās the nostr app i used with the best performance but i think the influx of tiktokers is overwhelming the caching relays.
I think we should reach out and do a kind of campaign promoting nostr as a response to the US trying to ban tiktok.
Oh i was testing some nostr apps and managed to blow away me profile and forgot to add my ln wallet address back.
https://image.nostr.build/1e8132e12d726537bc8328b47b04e4519cbecddf8c8a91038776bce9d1c6c13b.jpgmpanadas and coffee https://image.nostr.build/1e8132e12d726537bc8328b47b04e4519cbecddf8c8a91038776bce9d1c6c13b.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/1e8132e12d726537bc8328b47b04e4519cbecddf8c8a91038776bce9d1c6c13b.jpg
I use njump, i didnāt even know Nostr.com had a viewer. That link doesnāt seem to work for me, is it a universal link?
Mostly we donāt see spam on Nostr because itās not precieved as big and valuable enough to target. There is a lot more work to do.
Amethyst is good in that it supports tor, but we need relays to support tor as well so you can connect to the relay end to end encrypted without leaving through an exit node.
They could ban Nostr apps. And until weāre able to easily run Nostr over tor, the network traffic would be easy to ban.
This is great, thanks!
Can we get something up on nostr.com directing folks to nostr.org and making it clear at least for now the .com is a developer docs site. I know youāve got some ideas about what to do with the .com in the future, but we can start getting SEO juice and traffic to the user facing nostr.org site while thatās in the works.
We donāt talk enough about how Digg committed suicide by going to war against itās users.
Blueskyās announced developer grants, $10k in allā¦
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/bluesky-is-funding-developer-projects-to-give-its-twitter-x-alternative-a-boost/
Thatās such a huge difference from the way moneyās being spent in the nostr ecosystem with OpenSats being able to provide substantial funds to tons of projects and developers.
I donāt mean to post tons about bluesky, but I think itās important that nostr devs and community be aware of whatās going on beyond our space. The biggest thing Iāve heard talking at a bunch of conferences lately is how concerned folks are about the meta business model for Threads and how the rest of the fediverse and bluesky lack a business model.
If I say nostr uses bitcoin, then we end up in an ideological debate. If I mention lightning, only crypto folks have heard of it. But if I say nostr solves the business model problem that other open protocols have by providing an easy way for fast cheap micropayments, folks get really excited. I think this is a powerful marketing message. Nostr has micropayments to sustain the ecosystem and creators. Those payments use bitcoin lightning, we donāt need to hide that, but itās a tool. If we start with bitcoin, then we bring up all sorts of debates. If we say, nostrās micropayments solves a critical issue, then folks get really interested in nostr.
Appleās going to allow sideloading of apps on to iOS but with lots of limitations.
The app developer has to be in the EU, the user has to be in the EU, theyāve got to have been an apple app developer for over 2 years, and to have over a million installs of your app. Plus a ton of other requirementsā¦. This is the definition of malicious compliance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/12/24098334/apple-ios-web-distribution-eu-app-store-changes
I love your consistent position on the need for opt-in content moderation. It can take a real toll for some folks mental health to see hateful stuff on their social feeds everyday. Social media can be a place where the bounds of free speech can be testedā¦ and it can be a quiet respite from a challenging world. Itās the users choice in the end.
March Bluesky Protocol updates:
https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/2293
Mostly theyāre working on labels, weāve got labels in Nostr but we donāt seem to use them as extensively as they do over in bluesky. Theyāre also getting ready to open up and release Ozone, their moderation labeling tool. I know most folks here arenāt keen on composable moderation, but I think a moderation system you can choose with alternatives is probably closer to what normies are looking for. The nostr model of using your network and web of trust works once youāve GOT a network, but itās not great for new users.
The good part about being able to choose your moderation system on bluesky, is you can choose a minimalist one that only removes CSAM (Child sexual abuse material) which is illegal to have. With that option, and your own PDS they only real choke point is the GDS server which theyāve still not got a model for federating.
On a different point, I had a conversation with some of the bluesky folks at the Princeton Social Media Protocols Workshop ( https://dsmw.cs.princeton.edu/ ) about lightning and bluesky. It seems like itās pretty straightforward to add lightning wallet addresses to bluesky profiles, theyāve got a more constrained schema system, so weād need to publish a schema and validator for it, but with that, it should be easy to do something like Nostr Wallet Connect on bluesky. Maybe do it like npub.cash so it just works?
I quite like how unified everything is on this side of the ditch. Of course NZ is the size of an Australian state. Itās easier being small.
Platforms with moderation policies arenāt inherently bad. Good for business really.
Unfortunately a lot of people who claim to be libertarian (cough Ben Shapiro) ruin the stew.
My little attempt at disconnecting from my phone over the weekends with the implementation of more limited devices https://image.nostr.build/bc5bfca0dd8f959e1892793316494926a294f56d7f9202f3a6268973a861a56c.jpg
I love you AHOHNI https://image.nostr.build/5ac08c41fb2402d3d2e4ae1b81f12c43a29531eba0969681f1d57182dcba7595.jpg
Some thoughts about Nostr & Custom Feeds
A bunch of nostr apps have custom feeds, but theyāre oddly one of the few things which arenāt reusable across apps. Over on bluesky, theyāve got 40k custom feed algorithms and itās a really popular thing. āØāØ
For example, hereās a feed of just pictures of moss: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x3cya3wkt4n6u4ihmvpsc5if/feed/aaacynbxwimokāØāØ
In particular though, thereās feeds for different takes on what should be for you, trending, top, etcā¦ āØāØ
We donāt have that in Nostr, and i wish we did. Iām going to outline a way in which i might be possible for us to get there.
First off, weāve got to understand how the third party feeds work in bluesky. The way it works is that each user has a single PDS (think relay) where they post their content. That relay is then indexed, by a global index server (there can be multiple), which may or may not keep a cache of a users content. āØāØ
An index is a third party service which clients can connect to and say, iām bob and i want the feed āonly posts by bobsā. That feed service does not keep a copy of the content, nor does it provide it to the clients. Instead when user Bob requests the āonly posts by bobsā feed, it checks the user requesting, then itās indexes of content, and returns an array of message idās (hashes) for what it thinks is a good bobs feed. The clients then request that actual content from the relay (PDS) servers, or their caches. Thereās even a service for no-code creation of custom feeds, skyfeed.app.
This would be pretty easy to make. A nostr relay service that instead of serving the full content, just lets you request a feed, and it would return message event idās for the events in that feed. Youād then go request that content from relays that are hosting content. We could do it with dynamic lists too, but then we wouldnāt be able to customize it per user.
āØāØIād like an easy way for developers to make and deploy custom feeds without having to have the whole own nostr app the way they need to do it now. As an app developer, iād love people to be able to build their own feeds without me doing the work of tight integration.āØāØ
I know that Damus has nostrscript which does some of this in the client, but it only works on one nostr client, and hasnāt really taken off yet. A server based solution might be a lot better. Something we can support that works with nostr, but lets people make many feeds.
Thoughts?
I worry about state supported, civilian acts of terrorism. Sort of like how the KKK was subtly/implicitly endorsed by local police departments back in the day.
That being said my plan consists of possibly moving to Wisconsin or Minnesota where Iāll be close to the border. Iāll wait to see how things pan out but at the same time have all my documents in order to seek asylum.
Did you know monopoly was created as a game to critique rent seeking monopoly capitalism?
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/25/1151367036/story-monopoly-american-capitalism
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/072/181/328/555/297/original/10cab5a3b8ab699f.jpg
Me too, we stopped working on plantary.social to build nos.social on nostr.
YOOOO queer platonic relationship works in this case too! I didnāt realize it was such an ambiguous umbrella term. Now I feel happy.
My fav is self sabotage š„µ
I think of frog and toad as my model.
Thereās this girl I know and I have unspecified feelings for them. I am not sexually attracted to them. I am aesthetically attracted to them. I donāt want it to be labeled as a romantic relationship. Itās hard to describe but I am attracted to the idea of frolicking around on hills of green, laced by a crisp morning dew. I am attracted to the idea of having tea with them and getting high. I am attracted to the idea of writing letters to them if our distance apart ever expands. I am attracted to the idea of working out disagreements and having a certain mutual cherishment.
I think that romantic relationships as a label is more about wanting to be perceived as others in a certain way more than anything else.
I am starting to not believe in romantic relationships. And I have a lovely nesting partner whom I care for very dearly. We settled on āqueer platonic friendshipā a while ago but we do things that could be considered āromanticā but I donāt know if that justifies the label. Not because I donāt hold them in very high regard, but because western romantic relationships carry a certain possessive root that I find to be antithetical to my beliefs.
I got so many looks when I wore my skirt to the nearby cafe. I guess that means I will have to wear it more until people stop staring.
More information doesnāt mean more clarity. If Iāve learned anything from this book, itās that. https://image.nostr.build/285f347f0aba39fb572b24f9a5c28746b0eff34cba0f46d83d836d9ea7e99172.jpg
I love her so much https://image.nostr.build/e10daec26fdfbc19ef26c42c80713004e5c1b80eaaac141730d1f8c43888e934.jpg
This is quite a measured take which i appreciate.
Iām not sure. Last time i checked it wasnt many, around a hundred. We should promote it more.
We pay X $100 a month for API access in order to run connect.nos.social.
Yeah. Itās hit me hard this time.
Its international womens day so that means i only masturbate to gay porn for the entirity of the 24 hours.
Im out of of the nostr loop. Do we have advances in opt-in methods for filtering potentially harmful information yet? #asknostr
"FREE TALK" nest is live! Come join š¤ https://nostrnests.com/naddr1qqjrwdekxymkydf495mxzdfj956r2ve3943rxvpj943k2veex5urzetrxp3xxqg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09upzphc2akfdluqdflld5t6vmzxevlw9w664f9qqhy40hx9yrx4qdeh4qvzqqqrkvu685yfz
Everyone who's interested in bitcoin and africa should follow @npub1q0aā¦04mt who's doing super interesting work on tons of projects. He created Ushahidi for tracking emerging issues like riots after the kenyan elections.
#note1f4yā¦mfje
Memes Uruguayos...
#note1a9fā¦uzxn
I like 1984.is as a host and they let you pay using btc or monero and will host your vps with no kyc.
@npub1txmā¦6jwt itās Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa.
Glad to hear it! Oh and weāre pushing a fix to that bug which mangles mentions. š³
Aotearoa New Zealand might soon be a country without broadcast television news. The primary commercial TV station, the Disney / Warner owned Newshub is being shutdown in June.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018927944/discovery-warners-to-close-newshub-in-june
And the only remaining other broadcast news will be the te reo maori language tv network and its sister English language tvnz news. The problem is that now the government has just announced major cuts to tvnzās news departments.
https://thespinoff.substack.com/p/tvnz-braces-for-bad-news-as-seymour
What happens to a country that loses all TV news? Do we have alternative models for funding news on that level? Will we revert to small independent collectives of journalists using their iPhones and social media? Iām no big fan of traditional broadcast media but Iām concerned we havenāt developed a good alternative while the old model dies.
Will the folks like my mom who watches the tv news every night only get their news from facebook now?
Clearly we are trying to build an alternative together here, but itās a little scary to see how fast the old order is collapsing.
Siempre es un buen momento a tomar un maticito.
Can you buy something with 1720 tanzania shillings? Iāve never been to Tanzania, just visited Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia in east africa.
@npub1kttā¦yhz0 itās Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. When I travel anywhere i curse the long flights and jetlag but when I get home and wake up to this view itās worth it.
Yeah Iām a big fan of Paul. Itās nice to see him getting success with his work on Bluesky.
GM Nostr. https://v.nostr.build/BP0P.mp4
Paul is now the lead dev / architect on Bluesky.
I think the whole hypercore / pear / dat ecosystem is both super interesting and frustrating. The JS only part is a major problem for me, and it is pretty complicated.
Itās an alternate universe to what protocol labs and ipfs have created, but with less funding and no token.
You arenāt wanting to use keet, an open source p2p chat / video app because tether complies with US government financial regulations? Keet isnāt tether. I donāt see the connection.
If you want to delete it @npub1ezwā¦jmeg, then just delete it. Some nostr apps hide the delete functionality, but itās part of the core functionality and works.
That said, content warnings are a way we make nostr work for different kinds of people and communities. You can choose if you want to see the warnings or not. Twitter was the biggest porn site on the internet, but did a really good job at not accidentally showing porn to people who werenāt looking for it.
https://image.nostr.build/c46a1a25c105efb3b33551f191d435405ba0ab9aee41bffa1d49b040e1dde118.jpg
@npub1mt8ā¦m7cz sounds like a bad dad joke. A bit sexist but mostly a bad pun. :)
I agree the headline takes it out if context, but the article clarifies it. That said, there are folks who agree with the headline. #note17quā¦z753
Why are online news outlets going out of business? This piece from Talkingpointsmemo does a great job at showing how its a combination of declining traffic from centralized social media platforms and declining revenue from automated ad platforms like google adsense. Both are strong arguments for nostr as being better for sustainable journalism.
#note1kzuā¦duwc
One time i crossed it 5 times on a single flight.
Nope. I was at the Princeton decentralized social media workshop.
#note1fnxā¦f78k
This was my sunrise flying home this morning. #aotearoa #sunrise https://image.nostr.build/dfcb2991ec58f6fa3feb6881c074fb7992e7ab812c047cca66435361d2ccf9c3.jpg
I think we can and should have a way of users to have a chosen third party moderation service in nostr. We need there to be multiple compatible providers and users can opt out all together. I got a demo of their ozone moderation tool a couple of days ago and Iām wondering if we could make an adaptor to have it work for nostr too.
Nostr works for folks who develop a community here, but we donāt work well for new users who are trying to find or cultivate a new community. We can solve that problem, in fact we ned to if weāre going to be able to see nostrās full potential.
So mostr.pub pushes fediverse content to the following relays:
wss://relay.mostr.pub
wss://relay.shitforce.one
wss://nostr.coinfund.app
And the primal cache reads in posts from mostr.pub so Iāve youāre using primal, youāll get mostr posts from the fediverse. Weāve got a couple issues to address. First, thereās a TON of content on mostr.pub, so lots of users wonāt want to just add it to one of their read relays, but getting requests for content is how mostr.pub knows to go pull it down from the fediverse. If youāre using a client with a global feed, then you really donāt want relay.mostr.pub because itāll overwhelm your feed with random stuff.
One option is for nostr apps to publish both the repost note, and the event that is getting reposted to its relays. Another is more use of caching services to pull that content in. In terms of making sure mostr knows what actual fediverse content nostr users are looking for, we need a fix for that too.
Iām not sure this is so much an amethyst fix as it is a need to update some of how weāre running relays and caching relays.
So, thoughts @npub108pā¦yev6 ?
@npub1c85ā¦6lkc You think women shouldnāt have the right to vote?
It shows up in NZ too.
Honestly if weāre going to make something easy and custodial that works nicely on mobile apps installed from AppStores, itās going to involve KYC. Just like how most people buy btc from exchanges. The primal wallet isnāt meant for you. Itās about creating a clean accessible experience for new users.
The GOP nominee for governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson, would like to revoke the 19th amendment which granted women the right to vote. Thatās a pretty extreme position.
#note1n44ā¦j4s5
I mean most people in argentina are millionaires. Back in 2000 it was one peso one dollar. Now its almost 1000 to one.
https://bluedollar.net
All you need is a thousand usd in argentine pesos to be a millionaire.
Inflation is a powerful beast.
Oh. There are alternative camera apps?!
Or use connect.nos.social to cross post from nostr back to twitter.
I agree itās complicated but we should be careful about stopping innovation because of legacy data or apps. Weāve got what, a dozen widely used apps that display kind 1 events. We can do that upgrade. Users really want to be able to edit their own posts and i think collaborative editing opens up a whole new world, a new paradigm of social media.
Yeah Iād love a post on how youāre doing it.
Blueskyās got 5 million users. People are using Bluesky, even if your friends arenāt.
https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
Essay series about how Bluesky works.
#note1p34ā¦g0et
@npub1acgā¦p35c me too. I got a demo of blueskyās ozone moderation tool. I want to play with it to see if it would work for nostr content too. It would of course be something where youād be able to choose which moderators you wanted.
I like the idea. Especially if we use some AI to summarize and firmat the content. A personalized newsletter. Itās been on my wishlist for a long time.
Yep. We talked about how the fediverse has a kind of city state model of trust and safety, bluesky has a choose your moderator provider, and nostr uses a network / web of trust model. I thought nostr was pretty well received by the academics.
When do you sleep @npub1gcxā¦nj5z ?
Iām hanging out wirh @npub1yauā¦vjmf and @npub108pā¦yev6 at the Princeton decentralized social media protocols workshop.
https://image.nostr.build/eb032dbc999c5a4ac980d98eff857c46a0dbbcbc72a86eaf503eb4ec847e9835.jpg
Iām wirh @npub108pā¦yev6 and @npub1yauā¦vjmf at the Princeton decentralized social media workshop.
https://dsmw.cs.princeton.edu
This is why you need to encourage folks to move forward to the first couple of rows.
Wonder what the story behind this block is.
When we feel weāve got a compelling app on iOS then weāll add android. At the moment weāre pausing anything which isnāt focused on a compelling experience which people use and would feel sad if it went away. Weāre temporarily dropping light mode because supporting light and dark was distracting us from important issues like making the app compelling.
This is very cool new feature coming to amethyst. Collaborative editing of notes.
#note1te9ā¦sky3
I thought it was real until i got to the flowers part.
Some nostr event kinds support edit for all clients. Itās just things like mute and contact lists. :)
That doesnāt mean my definition of sufficiently decentralized.
Will this work? I found it in my hotel in new york just now.
https://image.nostr.build/327295b7d3c200de17b68c89620342394164edb28c15d9592e8474a6a4e9a888.jpg
Ive got freesky.social domain :)
Zapping isnāt in this release but weāre actualy looking in to it and see clear reason to support it.
Iām excited about the upcoming release of @npub1pu3ā¦tfch, lots of bug fixes and an integrated nip05 username service. Itāll be released once we do our round of QA.
Changelog:
- Tap the Like button on a note youāve already liked to remove the Like.
- Display NIP-05 identifier in the Profile screen title bar.
- Added option to register nos.social usernames.
- Fixed issue where search results sometimes donāt appear.
- Disabled link to nip-05 server / url on author cards.
- Fixed issue where paste menu did not appear when tapping in the Post Note view.
- Fixed intermittent crash when tapping Done after editing your profile.
- Fixed URL detection of raw domain names, such as ānos.socialā (without the āhttpā prefix).
- Fixed the sort order of gallery media to match the order in the note.
- While composing a note, a space is now automatically inserted after any mention of a user or note to ensure itās formatted correctly.
https://image.nostr.build/4389f21dba85c8bd67ad2361cdb2c74a5a20116ad869f4196c83c2f49218c571.jpg
I was introduced to bitcoin by Primavera who traveled the world only with bitcoin in 2012.
Most countries no longer put stamps in passports but i only once filled up the double pages passport.
Oh 70 something. Not even 1/3 of all countries. This world is bigger than we think.
I read this as āimmolation communityā and i was surprised that an immolation community could sustain itself and grow.
Letās cultivate more solarpunk on nostr.
I donāt think you really understand humanity until youāve learned another language and lived in another culture.
In my personal experience the best way to learn a language is to move to a place where itās the dominant language and find a lover whoās a native speaker. Youāll be functionally fluent in a few months. And itās a lot more fun than duolingo.
We could put expiration timestamps on reposts. ;-D
@npub1j60ā¦d7ua our product lead on @npub1pu3ā¦tfch made a mistake and accidentally leaked their nsec. Sheās written up an essay on it and why using a keypair is still a much better than a username and password on a server.
naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpjfz2sfh297zr3qcpcpwcl3e98p84caec2y2ntqdvyrgeygwsn6tqq24sn2nx4zy542hwdxngvr4x3f9vs6x09yk5zgsxan
https://njump.me/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpjfz2sfh297zr3qcpcpwcl3e98p84caec2y2ntqdvyrgeygwsn6tqq24sn2nx4zy542hwdxngvr4x3f9vs6x09yk5zgsxan
They post weird memes just like here. It seems memes and injokes are universal.
Iām sorry. Itās incredibly unsettling when your home starts feeling unsafe.
BTC reaches all time high $100,000!
See. I can post bitcoin content. š¤
https://image.nostr.build/f9eb71cba10e75ba33e738c450f3c9156c3ba828f635b86d94b73d964e151f00.jpg
Nifty it seems to work. I found a bug and a UX confusion.
I canāt figure out how to get sats out. But getting them in worked and was easy to get started. Is my problem that Iām doing it wrong or is that still a feature to be developed?
Lastly I think thereās a bug in the dm bot. https://i.nostr.build/DV39.jpg
I came across @npub1sg6ā¦f63m's original twitter thread announcing Bluesky and I'm reminded at what a great explanation it is of what Nostr has become.
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106
Iām a big fan of local first software. It doesnāt always make sense, but it does put the user in control, itās permissionless, it scales horizontally, and itās pretty nifty.
Some nostr apps with embedded relays ARE local first software.
Thereās a new podcast about local first software which I think would be interesting to nostriches.
https://www.youtube.com/@localfirstfm
We need to make nostr easier to use. To do that we need to talk to users. Please join or share this with your network, especially off of nostr.
#note1aj4ā¦m6w2
Iām rabble.nz on bluesky.
This is not intended as trolling, but what are the chances that we get all of that cheap energy, abundant safe AI, and an economy which supports everybodyās basic needs without quantum computing?
Wonāt bitcoin need to be replaced by an equivalent which uses quantum resistant cryptography? And also I get saying that bitcoin mining isnāt the carbon emissions problem critics say, but how does it create cheap energy? Feel free to send me to some FAQ as Iām sure this has been answered before.
āSince 2023-12-04 Fedifinder has no X/Twitter API access and can't find ActivityPub, ATProtocol and Threads accounts anymore.ā :(
So I tried the npub.cash thing, and honestly itās not so easy to setup. I know itās a proof of concept, so I expect things to be less than smooth. Thatās fine. Iām providing feedback in the hopes it gets better.
It took several tries to login, when I tried with Nostore and my iPad, it didnāt work at first. After a few tries it did, and I was able to try and claim a username, but then it presented a QR code on my iPad to pay. The mobile wallet apps Iāve got canāt scan a QR code from a web page Iām looking at on the same device.
I have a wallet in Primalā¦ nifty, itās powered by Strike and I was able to load up some sats via apple pay, not a good exchange rate, but it was damned easy. The thing is, Primalās iOS wallet lets me scan a QR code using my deviceās camera, send sats to a nostr contact I have (which is a really cool feature) or to a lighting addressā¦ Iām not sure how to tell if somethingās a valid address or if it validates them, what happens if you paste in a bitcoin wallet address or say ethereum one? The thing is, npub.cash only shows a QR code. How do I scan a QR code on my phone from my phone? Dunno. Iām guessing npub.cash could have given an option to copy the lightning address as textā¦ but thatās not there yet, that would have been helpful. I failed and gave up on npub.cash, went to sleep.
Then today I decided to give it another try. I went to my desktop, then used nos2x to connect, the login worked fine, but then I also got a QR code, this time on my computer. I thought, great, Iāve got an Alby walletā¦ but when I went to go scan the QR code in Alby it says I need to enable the camera. The thing is, the QR code is right here, on the same web page from which I loaded the Alby extension. Whatās implied is that I should maybe print out the QR code? Or perhaps take a picture of it on my phone, then present that to the computer camera? All so I can make a transaction from chrome to a chrome extension in the same window?
The npub.cash payment screen suggests I copy the QR codeā¦ copy it and do what exactly? As far as I know, the wallet apps donāt accept pasting in images of QR codes, at least not that Iāve found.
I was able to open up primalās wallet, scan my desktop QR code and pay the 5000 satsā¦ So I now have a cashu wallet and address of
[email protected]. Not sure what to do with it, but it was easy to setupā¦ Mostly because the full version is at @npub1wmrā¦
[email protected] and I think it worked without me even logging inā¦ kind of a weāll hold all of your sats until you login with nostr to retrieve them. Which is cool.
I donāt really want to learn how cashu or lightning work under the hood, because if we have to understand them to use them, then itāll be too complicated still for most people. This is getting closer.
Lastly, the code claims itās open source, but thatās also not strictly true. It appears to be published publicaly on GitHub without a license at all, so while we can view the code, we canāt modify it or use it for our own purposes. This seems to be an oversight that applies to all of Lightning Digital Entertainmentās repos: https://github.com/orgs/lightning-digital-entertainment/repositories?type=all
Whatās the word to describe the shared space on nostr? Thereās the twitterverse, fediverse, er uh metaverseā¦ but whatās Nostrās? Nostrverse? Nostriverse?
Yeah although itāll be an interesting experiment because Iām not sure how theyāve setup with banned account names and new federated PDSās. Worth a try Iād say. The account would only have the posts if itās still on their servers and they allow migration
I think we need to make it clear that Nostr is not a blockchain project with some speculative token. It is one of the things I say early on when describing Nostr. Sure Nostr supports micropayments with bitcoin lightning but it doesnāt use that to function. Lots of people use Nostr without any connected wallet.
Tell me more about your Nostr journalism project.
@npub1yxzā¦5qvv has a great elegy for Vice which goes in to how the big social media companies, especially meta, killed the company with rug pull after rug pull.
Although it doesnāt mention nostr or any emerging solution, this gets at why what weāre doing is important. Weāve got a solution to the payments part of the problem, we know how to talk about that. This essay gives us a roadmap to talk to publishers and journalists about why they should build their business on a permissionless open protocol, eg nostr.
Hereās the essay as a series of posts, tweet stream like: #note1ea0ā¦8tkz
And here is in an easier to read way, on Coryās own site: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/
We should be taking up the banner of Nostr as a powerful tool in implementing āPOSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control:ā
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/19/now-we-are-two/#two-much-posse
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Most books and writing about the history of twitter is a confused garble of misattributed and distorted stories. Kind of like the truth as seen through a kaleidoscope. Iāve not read the new Battle for Twitter book by @npub18juā¦rydr but I did see this excerpt which I can tell you, is accurate.
@npub1sg6ā¦f63m was an incredibly talented developer who got shit done and was way eaiser to work with than I was. At one point i held a sitdown protest during our standup meetings because I thought the way some people were calculating story points was bullshit.
https://image.nostr.build/4d7f0c75ae91b1ba92f4e6cf12d8f31d38a148f3a630c202092d1fa5c13966d0.jpg
Anybody know if thereās a way to get twitter follower lists off of twitterā¦ even if itās old and out of date? Did somebody scrape or leak it? Was it part of the firehose?
Bluesky has passed 5 million accounts and more importantly theyāve turned on federation so you can run and host your own PDS (relay/identity) server.
#note1z0yā¦vnyk
I really donāt know how this has taken so long for Signal to role out this rudimentary privacy fo users in groups.
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Did you know that the 10,000 steps goal comes from an old japanese marketing campaign and has no basis in science?
https://www.menshealthforum.org.uk/news/walking-science-confirms-10000-steps-day
Yeah, Iām not telling folks to stop their enthusastic bitcoin content. Just that if thatās all we get, weāll stagnate and slowly wither away. We need the ability to find, share, curate, and create lots of kinds of content. Sure, use zaps and lightning to tip people and pay for content, but for almost everybody those should just be features and tools and not their focus. Humanity is incredibly diverse and within every person thereās a multitude of interests and communities.
When I was at a conference last week, a bunch of people were like ābluesky is cool, but iām really worried it has no business model. how are the developers and users going to make money to sustain the network.ā Well Nostr has an answer to that. The value to users is that thereās an easy low cost micropayments system. They donāt care if itās run with the traditional banking system, bitcoin, some custom token, ethereum, sea shells, or even a centralized db like paypal. The value to people is in what it lets them do, not how it works under the hood. Honestly even all the censorship resistance, soverignty over identity, open source, open protocol stuff is not particularly interesting to most people. They want to go where the interesting people and content are. Weāve got to make that compelling.
Lack of interoperablity? Iām curious about that one. It feels like itās curation work, similar to what flipboard does, which is super valuable yet weāre not quite sure how to pay for it.
Was @npub19mdā¦6vzk funded by an OpenSats grant and the money ran out? Or did folks just burn out? Or was there another reason things wrapped up. It might have been clearly stated but i missed the underlying reason.
I think the Nostr report was a ton of work but weāre all worse off as an ecosystem now that itās not being published regularly. We used to have a similar feed on Scuttlebutt and it was great but it got dropped because it was a lot of work and we didnāt have a way of paying for that work.
This is the kind of thing Iām talking about when I say we need more non-bitcoin content on Nostr. Itās by a bitcoiner but not about bitcoin.
#note13xuā¦v3mk
I WANT to like the Vision Pro... but it's not ready.... That said, probably the only way to get it ready is to get it out there to a larger audience. But if early adopters like @npub1yl8ā¦vz34 who are iOS devs and even have an app in the Apple Vision appstore are returning theirs... it's not a great sign. At least Apple has very deep pockets to keep this running for years at a loss.
#note1qkhā¦wlm7
Why does the nifty integrated wallet in primal's mobile apps not work on their web app?
Iām hearing more and more people switching to ghost from substack, medium, and wordpress. Itād be cool to get a plugin to publish to these long form posts to nostr. Especially if itās tied in to helping them get a lightning address and being able to charge over nostr for their paid subscription content.
The term normie dates back to the 1950ās and in general is used to describe people who are not a member of a subculture. Itās been used to describe straight people, non-punk, non-hippie, non-etcā¦. Very recently itās been used by online gamer and crypto communities.
Nobody is a single identity, we exist in a multitude of spaces. So weāre all normies to someone elseās in-group.
Wow, Appleās pulling some underhanded shit. Theyāre using the DMA requirements for alternative appstores, to ban PWAās in Europe. This is on top of them implimenting third party payments and appstores in such a way that nobody will ever use them. But to find a way to kill PWAās by using EU regulations pushing for more openness.
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#note1ajmā¦uk8k
He wanted to ban all muslims but couldnāt legally so he banned all new visas from muslim majority countries. Heās Islamophobic.
Iām no big fan of Biden, especially this whole funding genocide thing, but do you think Donald āban all Muslimsā Trump will be better?
Crazy story. I didnāt know Air New Zealand completely closes their checkin desk an hour before departure. I arrived 57 minutes before departure and they were nowhere to be found.
I was worried Iād missed my flight, but I had an idea. If I could get to the gate they could print me a boarding pass and check my passport. Then I had a chicken and egg problem. If i was on the air side of security Iād be able to travel, but I couldnāt show my ticket that I didnāt yet have.
I quickly looked for and booked a miles flight a few hours using miles on American. I checked in and was able to go through security. They were wondering why i was going in to the wrong terminal, but let me through. I then cancelled the ticket I had already checked in on.
Once I got to the Air New Zealand gate for the Auckland flight they were happy to print my ticket. The only downside was i had to leave a knife i was given as a birthday present. The info desk said theyād turn it in at lost and found and i can have someone pick it up.
Iāve done the book a ticket, check in, go through security, and cancel it without flying a few times. Mostly to say goodbye at the gate or greet someone arriving at the gate. Just like you could when I was a kid. This is the first time I did it to catch a flight after check in closed.
Anyway, now Iāll be home tomorrow.
Goodbye San Francisco
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Apparently fediverse folks are flipping out about bridges between ActivityPub and Blueskyās atproto.
Just look at these issues theyāre submitting to the bridgeās github project:
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues
Did i just see @npub1sg6ā¦f63m next to Jay Z at the superbowl?
South Korea has a program to pay lonely youth $500 usd a month to encourage them to leave their homes and go make friends.
https://fortune.com/2023/04/13/south-korea-reclusive-population-hikikomori-young-people-allowance/amp/
A bluesky comic.
https://bsky.social/about/welcome-to-bluesky-comic-davis-bickford/cover.jpg
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Hello California
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Todayās my birthday, itās the longest birthday Iāve ever had, and one of the longest ones possible. My birthday will last 44 hours for me. I believe itās possible to have a single calendar day last almost 48 hours.
I woke up in Aotearoa New Zealand, GMT+13, and am traveling to San Francisco GMT-8. Just after I take off from Auckland, the day will start in San Francisco.
I believe to maximize the length of an experienced calendar day you could travel from either Big Diomede Island in Russia to Little Diomede in Alaska, but neither island is inhabited so thereās no regular flights or ferry service. Samoa and American Samoa have the international dateline going between them and there are flights and ferry services between them. And the weather is more pleasant. So if you wanted a 48 hour day, you could start in Samoa, then close to midnight, hop on a plane and fly the few minutes to American Samoa. Geographically a ton of South Pacific islands are west of the international dateline but choose to use a TimeZone and date to the west of it so they can facilitate trade and cultural integration with the rest of Oceania.
Timezones are weird, really weird. Did you know thereās an open source flat file database which encodes all timezones that have ever existed? Including details on all changes to daylight saving time. Itās crazy, itās own flat file format. The file is maintained and created by ICANN, the same weird international body that manages domain names and ip address allocation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database
I find ICANN and its sister organization the IETF fascinating. Theyāre twin organizations, started as the internet emerged from a US government owned, university run network in to something all the rest of us are using. When ICANN was created, there was worry that the US government shouldnāt own and govern the internet for everybody. Many countries wanted to put internet governance under the UN, but there was a worry that if the UN controlled governance of the internet, then it wouldnāt keep itās free wheeling ways, and would end up being a much more tightly regulated and censored place than it was through the 90ās or even as it is today.
So a totally new kind of organization was created, a multistakeholder international governmental body. ICANNās mandate was strictly limited to issuing domain names and allocating IP addresses. The organizationās mandate would not extend to what people did with those domain names and ip addresses. Servers physically existed in sovereign countries, if you moved your data to a new country, then that government was now responsible. The sleight of hand was meant to let technologists play jurisdictional games, which is what made all sorts of things on the internet possible.
What does a multistakeholder governance model look like? Instead of the UN, where only nation states get a seat at the table, or a standards body run as a consortium of businesses where companies get a say in the rules, the ICANN process said that nations, companies, and civil society (NGOās, social movements, religious institutions, etcā¦) are all co-equal in running the organization. ICANN is staffed mostly by diplomats. The meetings are held every 6 months in some random place in the world. ICANN collects a tax from domain name registrars, who then sell the ability to register domain names to registries. Itās this super weird, global government, which collects taxes, and has transparent public meetings. It is the opposite of what any conspiracy theorist thinks of when they hear global government. Anybody can show up and get a say, participate, but they keep everybody away by being very very very boring.
ICANN is run by an endless web of committees, itās sister organization IEFT which defines internet standards is the most boring version of anarchism possible. The IETF moto is āWe reject kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code.ā In IETF meetings, you express your opinion about the discussion through humming! Yes HUMMING! Itās so weird, ICANN is an all encompassing global government which collects taxes (they call them fees) and its sister is this anti-authoritarian anarchist standards body.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7282
Honestly, I think both organizations could be a model going forward for how we manage the world beyond and after the dominance of the nation state and corporations. Theyāre far from perfect, but they do kind of work. Really truly different kinds of was of organizing society. And the internet is as big and complicated thing as weāve made as humans.
Anyway, all this is a weird round about way of saying, itās my very very long birthday.
I find creatr to be too hard to use. Iām sure itās easy if youāre the kind of person who uses bitcoin and lightening outside of Nostr, but for normies this is hard. If i could pay for it FROM a nostr app, with a zap, then itād be easier. But as it is, itās like go use x software, then y software, then copy this code (relay address) and put it in the right spot. As a proof of concept, i like it, and iām excited about being able to pay for subscription content on nostr, but this needs some user testing.
Looks like Chris Dixon had friends bulk order tons of copies of his book in order to game his way on the New York Times best seller list. Kind of like how he games the system with A16Z crypto investments.
#note1r2uā¦y2jd
To be clear, this is me communicating the strategy that @npub1ey3ā¦23is developing coming out of our research talking to users, including folks on nostr, who have tried and left nostr, and those who havenāt yet tried it. More to come.
Threads had a spike and drop but since then itās grown a lot. A bunch of it is because Meta is promoting threads on instagram and Facebook, but the growth and engagement is real.
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/threads-has-more-people-actively-using-it-now-than-during-its-initial-peak-says-meta/
Bluesky added a million new users in the last day since removing the requirement for invites.
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kkv3clm3su2h
@npub1h88ā¦pz20 this is a good story / testimonial. I know @npub13qrā¦almy has also had more success on wavlake than on spotify.
We should help the creators we have be successful and use their experience to learn and make the ecosystem better.
Nostr has always supported delete. The clients you used just didnāt support it. You donāt have to delete anything if you dont want to.
Sneak peak at the new nip-05 service @npub138hā¦rdr2 is building for @npub1pu3ā¦tfch.
https://image.nostr.build/ffa4fdc8f6b2dd9da51790cfa883ffe2b35c5a5eca673875871d1b8a6b2359c4.jpg
Does anyone else switch back and forth between nostr apps when composing a note or a reply? I find I do it when i need to look up a bunch of posts and people i want to reference. Itās easier to pop between apps with one for navigating and the other for composing, rather than doing it all in one app.
Weāve been doing a lot of user interviews and one of the things which comes up is users either avoiding Nostr because they think it doesnāt have delete or complaining about the lack of delete.
We published some of our research results last week: #note1h8dā¦9x25
I think we should start working to find creators who are joining and support them. Help make lists of creators, send them zap's, repost their content, promote them to new users. Let's welcome and support creators. The way to get Nostr to have content beyond bitcoin is to support other stuff, embrace the diversity. And yes, show them we've got a financial model with lightning payments so they can directly get paid. The zaps are important, but we need to zap folks for posting all sorts of things.
Iāve seen so many people say they wonāt use Nostr because we donāt support delete. This is really frustrating, because Nostr DOES support delete, itās right there in the NIPās! Weāve got delete in @npub1pu3ā¦tfch, but most apps donāt expose the functionality to users because they either donāt like the idea of delete or canāt be sure that something is 100% deleted. That misses the point, delete is as much about social signaling as it is about getting rid of the content.
Hereās my argument for how we should think about and support delete in nostr. In case your client doesnāt support long form content, hereās the njump link: https://njump.me/naddr1qq2ksje3g9trxujpxymyxjjlg5ckjmmrtguyxq3qpu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqxpqqqp65wk06e7u #note1hldā¦6u8m
Anybody remember the Web Monetization API? It was an interesting idea, micropayments to a url, but stuck because it was tied to itās own tokenā¦ ughā¦
But apparently the Coil token has been droppedā¦ maybe thereās a case for lightning support? Seems like a web version of what we do with Zaps.
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/01/24/what-happened-with-the-web-monetization-api/
UBI works, but in places like Austin almost all the money goes in to paying for housing which isnāt affordable.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a38nq/austin-gave-poor-families-a-basic-income-it-changed-their-lives
I like invite trees for access to relays and other things. I think it could give us a way of bootstrapping a social graph for finding community.
Ci sono italiani qui ad accogliere @npub18jkā¦qku5 ? @npub17ndā¦950x ?
#note1m3fā¦jj7w
Thanks for trying out nos.social, we'd love feedback about your experience and thoughts.
We've got a new version of @npub1pu3ā¦tfch out! Help us test it.
#note1gfaā¦t4el
USB-C cne connector to unify everything, but which hides the complexity and now we have all these cables that look the same but donāt work the same way! #note1n5nā¦ckwx
Connect.nos.social works for posting from nostr to twitter (x)
Weāve been been doing user research to understand nostr users and where we should go in building a new social media future. @npub1ey3ā¦3has our first report of the research results.
#note1h8dā¦9x25
Iām exploring a human welcoming committee app idea. How do we find legit new users and reach out to them, welcome them, help them find the people and content that theyāll be interested in and connect them to that community. I think we could beat algorithms which drive us to adiction and advertising with people power, human curation, and community.
Weāre also seeing a resurgance of piracy for tv and movies. The streamers are complaining about lost revenue, but the reality is that piracy is what happens when you make your content expensive.
I think normal people sharing their lives is the point no?
I think I've got Damus connected to Alby and then also primal connected to their stike wallet. I'm not sure what's in my profile.
The problem weāve faced is we donāt want to send data to third parties. So we use open source tools we can host and control all user data.
Yeah. Good idea. Iāll set up a version with formstr.
Have you used the @npub1pu3ā¦tfch nostr app for iOS & Mac?
We are kicking off the New Year with prototype tests of some updated areas in the nos app. Making a useable app needs help from users to engage in codesign with us.
All tests will take place over Zoom and require you to be on a mac computer or to own a iPhone / iPad that you can screen share to your computer. To register to participate in this or future user research efforts - please fill out this short questionnaire. https://forms.gle/hkGmB7PXq6aK21K3A
Getting a viable starlink competitor is important for free speech and competition.
#note1sezā¦yksk
http://nostrneet.me/ seems to be offline
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There are sharks that live over 250 years! Thatās crazy.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/greenland-sharks-animals-science-age
Can we get the @npub18mmā¦wg7n directly on nostr?
#note1w94ā¦ftka
Iām sad that Meta is no longer committing suicide by betting their future on legless VR avatars in business meetings. But their open source AI plans means at least it that future wonāt be controlled by only giant corporations.
#note154hā¦ny74
Uh @npub1manā¦n9tn, TrustNet is a decentralized subjective WoT system. The numbers only make sense from the perspective of one user towards the network of their contacts.
On Twitter we used to do #followfriday where people would curate recommendations for new users. That practice got replaced by algorithmic follower recommendations. I think we should embrace people helping people. It can be manual set of links to start but also we could build it in to a feature using lists.
#note18tmā¦ttyh
What nostr clients support generating / receiving / displaying nostr badges?
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/58.md
Appleās announced the most minimal and dysfunctional way of allowing third party payments for digital content in the appstore in order to comply with the results of the Epic lawsuit.
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/16/us-app-store-alternative-purchase-option/
Itās basically never going to be used and is useless, both for crypto but also any other kinds of payments, but letās Apple say āwe allow third party paymentsā.
@npub1r3fā¦7ex2 For it to work well as an API, it canāt be presigned, but using nsec bunker you could delegate the note signatures to a service.
Has anybody build a RESTful api for pubilshing to nostr? I'm thinking something we could hook up to buffer, hootsuite, later, agorapluse, eclincher, sked, sprout, tailwind, loomly, coschedule, crowdfire, meltwater, socialbee, etc...
Most creators who are cross posting use one of these tools rather than the app directly. They do it to save time, manage access to the apps, etc... Having a nice service that could integrate in to those would be a huge win for Nostr.
Understanding what Threads is doing with the fediverse is important to everybody working on social media protocols. @npub1dqwā¦cr3q was invited to visit Meta and has a very through write up worth reading: #note1uzaā¦qeg8
@npub1dqwā¦cr3q was my co-founder on Planetary, the secure scuttlebutt app I worked on before pivoting to Nos and Nostr. Heās very insightful, if a bit long winded.
Iām going to a foocamp hosted by meta next month, hopefully Iāll be able to ask additional questions and keep talking to folks and learning. Getting the big tech companies on board with open social protocols is potentially both dangerous and very powerful.
Binoculars which use AI to identify birds! This is the solarpunk AI future I want.
#note1wvuā¦0trg
Car companies are just now rolling out NFT support. WTF?!
#note1749ā¦np0z
crazy rainbow this evening
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Zip lining in #Aotearoa
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can you make links to long form content somehow be both the note id and also the web viewer version?
Itās summer festival season in Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://image.nostr.build/99b5699dfceb94fe6244a881ec5d216e44f1335fda8b43205adce58979fe2af2.jpg
Instagram is telling me that my reel is being blocked from viewers in the US because of copyright violations. Itās 100% pictures and videos I took, none of which I took in the US even. ugh.
In spanish because my phone is in spanish because reasons.
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Ugh. Screw copyright and our current intellectual property regime.
New Zealandās managed to get mobile operators to provide free access to a ton of public services and related sites except from users normal data caps.
Zero.govt.nz
This is something Meta did for only their services, but the public option is much better. I know Uruguay provides free universal broadband as part of their policies around internet as a fundamental human right. Does any other country do this?
Reason 10,001 for why we canāt trust big corporations to run our social media. Theyāre running key loggers on the in app browsers they launch when you click on links from Meta and TikTok apps.
#note1hyeā¦2l9r
Is this what happens when AI is added to a robot dog and it starts hallucinating?
https://v.nostr.build/KZ7y.mp4
Got my deck sorted for the summer.
https://image.nostr.build/a84feb57dff1a73fae292a50092e52e91128dd96a13eeea9b9d2941d1d99927d.jpg
How can we get more long form content on to Nostr? This seems like a great place for blog posts, substack style newsletters, medium like posts, etcā¦ But itās not so easy. The wordpress plugins for nostr do unformatted short posts with links.
We added long form markdown support to rsslay, https://github.com/planetary-social/rsslay , but rsslay has some pretty big design flaws which canāt be fixed. It doesnāt act like a normal relay, it doesnāt store anything, instead each time you request an npub it goes and redownloads the rss feed associated, creates NEW events, and provides them once to that client that requested them, and then deletes the events from memory. So if multiple people follow a feed, theyāre all slowly getting different versions of the event.
I want it to be easy, nicely formatted markdown, ideally with support for the paid subscription content stuff @npub1l2vā¦ajft is working on.
Thoughts? Has somebody built something? RSS is probably the easiest way although lots of formatted content in rss is a mess. It needs to be something that can push to multiple relays the way mostr does. It needs to import once, and then scale with the nostr network. Users who comment on the post need to be commenting on the SAME event, not multiple versions of the event.
Weāre SO SO SO close to this working, yet somehow it doesnāt.
summer time coffee
#aotearoa #coffee https://v.nostr.build/QOyq.mp4 https://i.nostr.build/6P5v.jpg https://i.nostr.build/BqyA.jpg
Happy New Years Nostr.
What a spectacular day to welcome in the new year. Letās take this time to renew the struggle to build a better common humanity, ending war, occupations, oppression, and borders which divide us. Humans evolved intelligence so that we survive better together, in community. The solutions come from doing the messy work of dismantling old institutions and building new better ones to replace them.
#newyear #aotearoa
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It wasnt ārecommendedā I misspoke
Not tryna bitch, it just doesnāt make for a positive experience.
#damus the first recommended message in the search section had the n word with the hard r. Can the client not have an option to filter out this kind of thing? š
Itās so damn hard to find representation for non binary AMAB people who take estrogen while keeping their beards and body hair.
Puāer #tea https://image.nostr.build/df88d3f91565da09f2f9d9c1cf9236c2ea1377587156961d62b7a0e97f2adc42.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a46817527070632660d648ccc49dcb61c5a3acdd3d43b8cb7bb14323051e58e0.jpg
Iām curious about the cold water immersion technique that is used for physical and mental health. In particular I see all these videos of people getting in lakes with ice on the surface or in bathtubs full of ice and liquid water. Nearly freezing water, so around 1c to 2c. Thatās really cold. I have gone swimming in water that cold, Iām not a fan.
So how long should we be in cold water and how cold should it be? Turns out itās longer and warmer than i thought.
According to this research review the water should be 10c to 15c and immersion should last 11 to 15 minutes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802003/
Even wirh that knowledge it doesnāt make me want to go swimming right now.
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I welcome this regulation coming out of the EU.
#note187nā¦97xm
Substack has banned porn but is embracing self-identified nazis.
Meh Iād rather have spicy content than nazis.
Whatās interesting about this is that the real content and editorial decisions are being made by the credit card processing companies and appstore operators. Companies which arenāt really qualified to make these decisions. Why have we decided this how content should be regulated?
https://www.techpolicy.press/substack-founder-defends-commercial-relationships-with-nazis/
I really love exploring abandoned places, there is something so interesting about what weāve decided to build then let go and return to let entropy take hold.
The posts from @npub14p4ā¦j3gw let me do it vicariously through their pictures and exploration.
#note1y8vā¦cm28
The grants have been huge for getting nostr going but it canāt ever be the long term path to sustainability.
I think the easiest path is either a recurring in app payments for SaaS services. The SaaS model doesnāt need massive scale to sustain the providers.
People think that pro or paid features need to be really valuable to cause people to pay but thatās a mistake. Itās more like giving people something special so theyāre appreciated or relieves an annoyance. Slack has tons of features for paid users but itās really just being able to see and search your past conversations that causes people to pay. Plus things businesses need that individuals donāt, like more control and compliance.
We donāt need huge sums of money to support our current ecosystem, but we do need models that work with thousands of users per app instead of millions.
how do we make it easy for other clients to support consuming these paid feeds / content?
But like in nos a repost shows you the content whereas quote post doesnāt. weird.
Iām curious about reposts vs quote posts. I get tons more interactions when i do a quote post instead of just a repost. āØāØAre folks just not seeing the reposts or is the commentary provided with the quote post the critical thing? Is this a social or technology issue?
English is the primary trade and secondary language in the world, so while Mandarin and Spanish have more native speakers, english is the most widely spoken language today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
I think the world will become less divided by language as AI gets better at translation. This is really good but will bring up lots of conflicts that have been hidden by language barriers. #note1kpqā¦lmje
cease fire now! #note1ft2ā¦hesw
I was today years old when i realized this.
#note155lā¦7ygs
weāre building a provider for nos.social. not ready for testing yet.
https://youtu.be/9pGZ2epF8ZY?si=Nh5o5KFl8j7ZWlgN
basically we need to make it easy for a custodial nostr but one where users own their keys and can leave the custodial identity service to self host or choose another service.
Oh interesting. I wonder if thatās what people see in other countries? ;-)
Wow! Look at this! On Nostr now?
https://image.nostr.build/a3719ecb747998226eb0f4317b5e30383d1ecfe4bc81e6ec1900279451df5cba.jpg
Merry Christmas and happy solstice
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Uh we can say theyāre infringing on our free speech or civil rights, but the 1st amendment of the U.S. constitution only applies to the u.s. government, specifically congress. Companies can violate our civil rights but they canāt violate the 1st amendment.
this is one of the primary issues weāre looking at solving with nos, but so far itās not great. finding people to follow and being discovered so you donāt feel alone are critically important for nostrās success.
Yes, I think we donāt acknowledge enough the tremendous injustice of Colonialism and the way itās shaped the world today. France in particular never really gave up its empire. There are lots of colonies who were just redefined as āpart of Franceā without an restorative justice for the past. Others like French Africa were given independence as long as the former colonies agreed to use a Central Bank owned and controlled by France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Central_African_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bank_of_West_African_States
All this discussion on here amongst folks who care about the corrupt influence of central banks, thereās not enough looking at the way France imposed a central bank on itās colonies in order to keep control.
In the case of New Caledonia thereās real tension between the indigenous Kanak people, the European French, and other ethnic groups. The Kanak want independence but arenāt a majority so when itās come up for a vote, a narrow majority has voted to remain part of France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_New_Caledonian_independence_referendum
Friends whoāve visited New Caledonia say they felt the tension of this being a segregated colonial society.
Anyway, itās part of France.
Tahiti on the other hand has a much lower percentage of itās population of European descent and only recently elected a pro-independence political party.
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-polynesia-oscar-temaru-france-overseas-territory/
Thereās also a bridge from Brazil to France. Itās true and amazing.
Think about how both of these things are possible.
Thereās really nothing on this side of the world except Australia and a few small islands. Weāre the same distance to India, China, California, and Chile. Far from everywhere. The most surreal thing is the country closest to New Zealand is France!
nice to see AI version of me has lost weight. ;-D
Trust but verifyā¦. hereās the source for you to see what we do with nsec, which is put it securely in the keychain.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos
Help make Nostr more accessible and easier to use. Weāre looking for nostr and non-nostr users to join our research pool to be interviewed. The research is being run ny Nos but relates to Nostr and decentralized social media in general.
Weāll share the results with anyone else working on Nostr as well of course.
https://forms.gle/11BReHn5NGq32UiR6
yep. :) iām vegetarian.
Went to have lunch and catch up with @npub1543ā¦zf45, who I havenāt seen since nostrasia.
Tried a new place, quite tasty. #foodstr #food
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I donāt understand why hats, beanies, and hoods are banned from the slot machines. Headscarves are just fine for gambling. https://i.nostr.build/laqj.jpg
Thatās not actually the trust and safety Iām talking about. Nostr has very few women as active users, in no small part because when women post an innocent selfie they get death and rape threats. Even if there isnāt that extreme reaction we still have people questioning their very existance like the trolls that claim theyāre not actually a woman.
When we interview people to understand why theyāre not using Nostr, that stuff comes up a lot. People, especially women, donāt want to be harassed and stalked. It doesnāt feel fun and comfortable. Theyāve already chosen to use other platforms which are safer.
Nobody is proposing that we be able to ban accounts. More social media without the ability to have boundaries is like living in a glass house with no lock on the front door. I can close the front door of my house, choose I invite over, and generally control my personal space. My preventing you from moving in to my house or crashing a dinner party is not censoring you. Itās saying I donāt have to share with you or listen to you.
Also of course fuck the state and giant corporations, i dont want them seeing everything i say and do either.
I'm so excited about this. So much of our user research is showing that people want to the ability to have safer spaces where they decide who's invited. We see this with telegram channels, discord servers, signal groups, whatsapp groups... if we can make nostr work easily this way, we can combine the intimacy of chat groups with the flexible power of social media. #note1wl8ā¦9yx7
After I left Odeo with its āside projectā of Twitter, I went to Yahoo where I briefly worked in Yahoo Pipes and then built a privacy focused location api called FireEagle.
Thereās a great history of Yahoo Pipes on retool. It was an amazing app for its time. Honestly it was a great example what the open Web 2 could be before it got enclosed and taken over by big social.
https://retool.com/pipes
#nostrich Ostriches are badass. https://v.nostr.build/laKP.mp4
in theory the nip-05 should be
[email protected] but i think i saw it was
[email protected]I havenāt gotten mostr to give me an npub through the gateway. Iām sure @npub108pā¦yev6 is digging in to it.
Exploring the great joining as Threads joins the fediverse.
#note10f4ā¦jy82
Reticulum is actually a new one for me! I try and keep a running list of decentralized social projects: https://airtable.com/appsg8xUrw8rodOHa/shr3I5vXCP1NSYSPO
Itās a multiverse with tunnels between them! Weāre in the nostrverse, but we can reach out to and connect with the fediverse via nostrā¦
Somebodyās going to come up with some good spiderverse memes about this all.
What is threads then, the Threadedverse? The Threadiverse?
Did you know you can follow the European Commission on Nostr?
@npub18mmā¦wg7n
You can follow any fediverse/mastodon user in nostr by simply putting
[email protected] where youād normally put an npub or nip-05 username. In @npub1pu3ā¦tfch, if you put in a fediverse username it knows to look for that user via the nostr bridge at mostr.pub. I hope other nostr clients add support for this as itāll open up so you can engage with the fediverse without giving up control over your identity and privacy.
I donāt know, nobodyās researching Nostr in the same way. My guess is no, that Nostr acts more like bluesky and mastodon in terms of use patterns than YouTube.
YouTube is huge, but what does it look like once you look beyond the viral hits? The research team coordinated by @npub1wslā¦8r6f at the center for Digital Public Infrastructure has found a way to research the breadth of YouTube. Itās pretty neat play with.
https://tubestats.org/
For example, over all videos uploaded, the median play count is 40, video duration is 67 seconds, creators have a median of 93 followers, and median likes/comments for a video on youtube is 0.
It is hard to get an accurate sense of how big Nostr is by nature of the network. Looking at just whatās written doesnāt tell us the whole story. We can see āwritesā in the various nostr statistics sites like https://stats.nostr.band/
That shows us having about 10k daily active users. But in this case a daily active user is somebody who has a positive trust rank and publishes something.
Nostr.band estimates there are 350k users on Nostr. While Primal.net/explore puts the number at 660k. In both cases theyāre looking at users whoāve got a trust rank and verified user. Users who are just lurking will never show up in those numbers.
Show how many people are really on nostr? The question is worth asking, because many people are looking at emerging social media platforms trying to pick which one to use. Size and engagement are concrete numbers which help people decide. Should they use these numbers this way, no, but itās a thing.
Thereās the 1% rule of thumb for social media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule It says that 1% of the users will be the creators, 9% are creators or curators, they reply but donāt generate original content, and 90% of people are passive consumers. In the real world, those numbers arenāt right, as every platform has different levels of engagement. What is useful to remember is the general ratios.
With Bluesky we know more about the ecosystem than we do with nostr, due to the architecture of their system. You can see the stats for yourself here: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats It shows us there are currently 2.5 million registered accounts, of which only half have posted a single skeet (note). We donāt know how many are spam or fake accounts. When bluesky had 500k users, I was told by a team member that their DAUās were between 1k and 2k. Theyāre clearly getting a lot more use per user today as theyāve got about 130k unique users posting per day, 90k new followers, and 200k people liking a post. So my guess is their actual DAU is somewhere between 250k and 500k. This is a huge shift, where theyāre getting much more engagement per user today than they were 6 months ago.
My guess is that weāve got between 25k and 75k actual DAUās on Nostr. Iāve got to get some breakfast and focus on building nos, but those numbers should get people started.
In 2015 I was on a big road trip around South America and in Bolivia they had rules preventing the sale of petrol or diesel to cars with foreign plates. In order to get gas, we had to park around the corner from the gas station, walk over with portable 5 gallon containers, fill them, then go back and fill the truck.
In some gas stations they even had police there to prevent the sale of gas to foreign cars.
But the crazy thing is, they could tell iām not Bolivian, and knew I was buying gas for my car, which it was extremely unlikely that I had a Bolivian car. The police were perfectly happy to let me buy gas as a foreigner, as much as i wanted, without a problem, as long as i didnāt put it directly in to my car!
When i asked they claimed this was an attempt to prevent foreigners from buying gas for cocaine production. I have no idea why the way they were enforcing it would limit gas for cocaine production, youād think the narcos, even if theyāre foreigners, would just buy Bolivian vehicles.
I thought this was all insane, until I read Seeing Like A State, the state isnāt like us, but it does have an internal logic which you can understand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
The internet is weird. Iām listening to a talk by @npub1wslā¦8r6f about his research of social media.
One surreal split was the woke / anti-woke fight in pro-meth subreddits.
Thereās the main meth group with 181k members: https://www.reddit.com/r/meth/
Then thereās a group who didnāt like the woke politics of the main meth users group, so they created https://www.reddit.com/r/MethWithoutCommunism/ which has 28.5k members.
I had no idea that there would be a political split amongst pro-meth mutual aid groups online.
Weāre in the process of doing user research on this and more generally what will make the new user experience work in a way where they stick around and keep using nostr.
Getting private groups will open up nostr to people who canāt or wonāt post on a public only platform.
#note1w2zā¦rs3w
When @npub1sg6ā¦f63m was CEO of Twitter and Trump was president there were many calls to ban Trump from Twitter. There were many people demanding Trump be removed because either he violated the TOS or because they saw Trumpās tweets as dangerous.
While catching up over kombucha at the Square office, Jack mentioned some of these conversations and how there were compelling arguments on both sides. He asked lots of people what they thought twitter should do. So he asked me about Trump and other accounts, like Richard Spencerās and the alt-right.
Iām very anti-Trump but I said I thought Jack shouldnāt ban him, because heād face a shareholder revolt. Everyone said that it was Jack deciding things at Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg for the meta empire, but that wasnāt really true. The real power is in the money and thatās shareholders and advertisers.
I can only imagine what a hard and stressful job it would be to decide what can and cannot be said in the public sphere, as twitter effectively was at its height. It was an impossible job, one which shouldnāt exist. Jack did incredibly good at managing to find balance, and everyone hated his decisions because there was no right answer.
The reason for Bluesky, and now Nostr is to make it so no company or person has that kind of control. That the public sphere that is social media shouldnāt owned or controlled by any corporation or government. When something of value is held together without being ultimately owned by a person, organization, or government, the it is held in common.
What weāre building together on Nostr is a commons. By making it a commons thatās held up by our software and contrbution as users, we escape the trap that caught twitter.
A commons where we come together to make and sustain space.
A commons where we can do business freely without someone who can arbitrarily shut us down.
A commons where groups of users can decide the rules for themselves, and everyone doesnāt need to follow some universal set of opaque rules.
Yesterday we had an intense storm blow through #Wellington, #Aotearoa #NewZealand. Weāre used to strong winds, but this was worse than normal, the temp dropped from 20c to 9c in about an hour, there was hail, lightning, rain, and hail.
I was driving when it hit, moving stuff to my new house. Thankfully made it ok.
Here are some pictures.
https://rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com/image/upload/s--TpF5LVyp--/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050/v1702357137/4KY3U5M_MicrosoftTeams_image_35_png
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Went swimming from the beach in front of my new house. The 17c water was cold at first but after a couple of minutes my body adjusted and I stopped feeling cold. Despite the not quite warm enough water, people here swim in the ocean & bay all year long. https://v.nostr.build/Poqr.mp4
this is a matter of nostr client apps adding support. Itās in our backlog for @npub1pu3ā¦tfch
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos/issues/573
That wonāt help you on android but @npub1gcxā¦nj5z is really good at adding nostr features quicklyā¦ so just ask?
We need some good easy to use okta like nip-46 servers, probably places that provide both nip-05 and nip-46 as thatād cause the least confusion. And a push to get web clients to support nip-46. And some better documenation and help text.
I was just talking to a friend about how communitarian bitcoiners are and how zaps are mostly used for a gifting economy.
I had to look this up because I wasnāt sure what the official name was, but turns out itās this:
Official Name: tÄra o Aotearoa
English Unofficial Name: New Zealand Dollar
Local Name: Dollar
Interestingly enough, the official languages of Aotearoa New Zealand are Te Reo Maori and New Zealand Sign Language. English is the most widely used language, but oddly it has no official status.
We can make it clear on nostr.com that there isnāt now nor will there ever be a nostr coin or token. That would make it a lot harder for scammers. And trademarks are using the state but it would stop the scammers from incorporating legal entities.
What the hell is this? @npub1h7qā¦ykld
Do we need to copyright the nostr brand just so we can send cease and desist messages to crypto scammers?
The irony is their highlighted trending post thing is just fine, but theyāre claiming some nostr blockchain coin.
Antidotally I run in to tons of Brits whoāve moved to New Zealand, and they all point to Brexit. Sure lots of kiwis have always done their time going the other direction, but it feels like a trend. Even more go to Australia.
The UK inflation is worse than the EU because brexit cut off the low cost / low friction import / export market. In this case it drove up the cost of fish and made fisheries less economically efficient. Labour costs also are driven up as intended by making shrinking the labour pool, which was a lot of the point.
The way #brexit is contributing to the death of the classic British Fish and Chips shop is one of the most amazing self inflicted wounds. The nationalism ended up undermining the economics of the national dish.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23562954.half-uk-fish-chip-shops-close-2025/#
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I got some new funky shoes!
Delete is and has always been a core part of the nostr protocol. Essentially Nostr delete is just like on centralized platforms, not all copies of content are deleted when you request servers delete something.
I fundamentally donāt understand why nostr app developers keep insisting on disabling delete and pretending that nostr doesnāt support it. Delete works in nostr and it is a large part of why we switched from secure scuttlebutt to nostr. Delete canāt work in scuttlebutt, but does work in nostr.
Users should be informed that there is no way to force relays to honor your delete requests. And i think dishonest relays should be something we can rate and track in nostr clients. But to say we donāt have delete or edit in nostr is both incorrect and undermining the adoption of the protocol.
#Baltimore public buildings are in trouble because people are pissing on them. Quick solution is more #PissPigs who serve as #PublicUrinals š
https://apple.news/AXpGcBndvQ8ifsyeNLXSk7w
This thread is about the UK and how theyāre now preventing most citizens from bringing their spouse in to the country. It has nothing to do with the American immigration system at all.
And yes saying your own citizens canāt live with their foreign spouse is xenophobic.
Dunno how you came to that conclusion. The pay gap means itās easier for British men to bring a spouse over than for a British woman.
The UK is trying to once again one up america with the latest immigration reforms that make it nearly impossible for most Brits to bring their spouse to the UK. Xenophobia just keeps getting worse.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/07/everything-is-in-jeopardy-how-new-uk-visa-rules-are-tearing-families-apart
I suspect that the free relays will be run by client developers who want to make sure their app works out of the box. And because theyāre running a client they can more easily do spam control on it and justify the cost.
gossip support is in the nos roadmap.
This means that the Republican majority is down to two from four. It seems crazy, but there's a non-zero chance they'll lose control of the house if this continues.
#note1turā¦xs0e
The state is its own unique kind of organization. Iām not a huge fan, iād rather live in a stateless society, but understand it is important. It doesnāt actually just care about power, itās more complicated than that.
I recommend you read Seeing Like a State: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
First off, I donāt trust anything on infowars, theyāre criminally dishonest and ran a campaign of attacking the family members of people killed in mass shootings. They arenāt interested in a honest debate about politics or society, instead are trying to bring about authoritarianism by making it so nobody can believe anything from anybody. There plenty of right wing people and movements who are engaged in honest debate about whatās best for society, and I respect that even if I disagree with their views. Iāve been following it since it launched in 1999, Infowars is not that.
Secondly, in the case of New Zealand the changes in excess deaths are primarily due to the way in which that level dropped at the lockdowns and boarder closures in 2020 and 2021, only to rebound after the boarders opened up. Basically the public health measures taken due to covid kept elderly alive and then when things opened up again, those most vulnerable passed away.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/the-whole-truth/132369176/fact-checking-claims-about-new-zealands-2022-death-rate
New Zealand consistently ranks as one of the most transparent and least corrupt countries in the world. There has been so much data released and so much public information that becomes overwhelming. The country has a strong independent press and vigrous public debate. The critiques come from a tiny minority of neo-nazis (yes swastika tattoo neo-nazis), white supremacists, and Christian nationalists. New Zealand has become the target of covid conspiracies precisely because it was so effective at dealing with covid.
Most New Zealanders wanted more enforcement of vaccine rules than what the government implemented. Most Kiwis wanted the borders to stay closed. There was no legal requirement to get vaccinated, but most kiwis would happily have voted to jail vaccine skeptics. The government acted with restraint and respected the views of the small minority of critics.
I feel that New Zealand acted based on good science and public policy in ways that reflected the opinion of the overwhelming majority of the population. Anytime I saw the policies of NZ criticized from overseas, the local opinion was that the government hadnāt gone far enough.
Let me guessā¦ They got it all backwards?
https://image.nostr.build/07591e84a3729bdbee12c283653f22636667423c4a389115e47a521508969c69.jpg
#dyslexia
So Iāve since discovered I got it all wrong - she wasnāt who I thought she might be.
https://image.nostr.build/6478e1793ee768f42b8df7a779653b174f392cac09ce855d4215a46110eca448.jpg
When the water is calmer. š
So many skipping stones! https://i.nostr.build/xyw7.jpg
Does kanji even do capitalization?
We should probably have a clear message on nostr.com that there are not and will never be these kinds of crypto āinvestmentsā with nostr.
Theyāre as valuable as beanie babies, baseball cards, and other weird things. Expect that theyāre hard to show off and easily stolen or copied.
depends on your definition of web 3. personally i like Jay Graberās description which is a self-certifying protocol and by that definition nostr is web 3.
https://jaygraber.medium.com/web3-is-self-certifying-9dad77fd8d81
Got the keys to the new rental. You can hear the waves lapping against the shore and most importantly for wellington itās in a spot which is protected from the wind!
Yes I know you can figure out my address from the picture, but you can also do that from public records if youāre really motivated. Aotearoa New Zealand is a pretty safe and high trust place.
https://image.nostr.build/33df5c6bbcd30c357b1caeda65b792d065c7a72f7957ddd306ef14caffed3b62.jpg
This is the first time Iāve seen a proper tiktok/reels style video on Nostr. It works!
Itās exciting to see how the community is coming together to tackle the issues of new users and making nostr accessible.
#note1d2dā¦tvcy
In The Ministry for the Future thereās an radical environmental group which starts using micro-drones to down private jets. At least in fiction, it only took a few jets being taken down before people stopped flying them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
The COP28 conference going on right now is in Dubai. Thereās zero chance that this photo is of Dubai. Googling it, itās of the Munich airport, which was closed due to a snowstorm. Germany gets winters storms which close airports, has for as long as there has been air travel. The language of āglobal warmingā has been dropped because although the average temperature is going up, itās really more like disruption of the global climate system causing more extreme weather. That includes sometimes more snow or colder weather than we saw before.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the organization and success of #nostrasia and for making nostr.world possible. The immense effort involved in orchestrating such an event is commendable, and I'm thankful for having had the chance to participate.
A key expectation for me was to delve deeper into and connect with the Japanese Nostr community. Unfortunately, despite being in the same vicinity, a sense of connection was missing. The language barrier and cultural differences seemed to be significant obstacles. I struggled to follow the Japanese talks and couldn't engage with the Japanese attendees as I had envisioned. This highlighted the need for more inclusive and accessible communication strategies in future gatherings.
While much about the event was praiseworthy, there are aspects I wish were different. The format, dominated by numerous stage presentations and hallway interactions, was commendable, yet I believe an ideal unconference strikes a balance between these formats.
The structure of having many speakers and an audience primarily in a listening role hindered the potential for deeper, personal connections. As a speaker on the first day, I was approached for conversations about Nostr, which were enriching, but somewhat sporadic and unstructured. This dynamic, where a few are seen as heroes imparting wisdom to an audience, doesnāt quite resonate with the collaborative and egalitarian ethos of the Nostr community. We avoided the pitfalls of corporate booths and sales pitches, but thereās still potential to enhance our approach.
For future events, I propose reducing the number of talks and panels. An alternative could be pre-recording talks for online viewing, allowing us to utilize in-person time for more meaningful, facilitated networking. Open Spaces and similar models offer guidance on this, involving active facilitators and opportunities for attendees to propose discussion topics and participate in smaller, focused group conversations. This format emphasizes personal connections over mere information sharing, utilizing various room sizes for more inclusive and effective discussions.
This isn't to diminish the achievements of the Nostr.world team or the value of Nostrica and Nostrasia. Both events were extraordinary, offering immense learning opportunities and a platform for networking. Yet, there's always room for improvement, particularly in fostering more inclusive and impactful interactions.
Aspiration Techās guide on creating participatory events is a valuable resource in this regard: Aspiration Tech's Participatory Event Guide https://aspirationtech.org/papers/creating_participatory_events
The goal is to enhance the value of our gatherings by deepening the connections within our diverse community.
Itās amazing how our brains work when viewing images. If thereās a conflict of potential meanings then we can feel the image flip back and forth. Then once the brain settles it becomes hard to see the other meaning. https://i.nostr.build/0kBY.jpg
Did anybody else watch the cybertruck launch event? Iām perplexed by a bunch of things. How they could have spent so much money on amazing promo videos in Iceland, which do make the truck look cool, and then somehow fail to get the most basic things working at the actual event. Itās so dark you canāt see whatās going on most of the time. Elon himself stands to give his talk with his head in a shadow, you can only see his torso!
Then thereās Elonās speech. Itās incoherent. He rambles on, loses his train of thought, fails to complete sentences, throws in a bunch of zingers which donāt land. If heād presented that way at any startup / pitch competition heād lose, despite him presenting a rather impressive vehicle.
https://www.youtube.com/live/ddzZMUoXzDM?si=vjvIHeQikjlar8KL&t=108
The Engadget takedown on the cybertruck is hilarious:
Tesla's Cybertruck is a dystopian, masturbatory fantasy
In Elon's future, the rich should be allowed to dominate (and probably run over) the poor with impunity.
https://www.engadget.com/teslas-cybertruck-is-a-dystopian-masturbatory-fantasy-225648188.html
Iām perfectly happy to know that these conversations and uh arguments, can exist on nostr, I just am not particularly interested and would rather talk about othet things.
Why donāt the iOS mobile apps support nprofile? Most of the web apps seem to, which is good. I just checked all the nostr iOS apps, nos included, and none support looking up users via nprofile. Using nprofile for sharing contacts is good because it embeds the relay information and lets us work with a less centralized relay network.
Today is one of New Zealandās weirdest unofficial holidays, Crate Day.
The goal is to drink a crate of 12 beers, each 750ml in 12 hours. This is not a healthy or sober holiday.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crate_Day
this is a nice nostr profile / discovery.
the kind1 label isnāt going to make sense to anyone but other than that iām excited about this. #note1dajā¦twfe
Itās my mastodon account that Iāve had for 6 years.
You could check out the @npub1pu3ā¦tfch suggested users for ideas of who you might want to follow: #note13ggā¦v0mg
Exploring Nostr as a Replacement for Old School Online Forums
This week, I had an enlightening conversation with the team at Bamboo, a digital agency in Aotearoa New Zealand, about leveraging Nostr for communities. Bamboo supports organizations in establishing and nurturing online communities, primarily using basic web forum software. While this software is straightforward and manageable, hosted on their own servers, it's not quite hitting the mark. Engagement is low; people aren't sharing much, often forgetting to revisit or open emails. They're looking for something more dynamic, akin to Nostr.
The communities Bamboo works with aren't overly concerned about censorship, but they do value a sense of privacy and effective community moderation. Currently, their forums are moderated by a few designated volunteers who can delete content and interact with contributors. Unlike Reddit-style communities, there's no need for post approval queues.
However, there's a definite interest in privacy, though not necessarily requiring robust encryption. It could be as simple as restricting community access to specific relay connections, or encoding posts with a shared key ā akin to a house lock, which is secure but not impervious to a determined intruder.
I believe Nostr can meet these needs. We're close, but there are challenges to address, particularly in making it straightforward for users to connect and engage with these community spaces using existing Nostr apps. Ideally, there should be clear instructions for web, iOS, and Android platforms. For instance, if someone installs the Amethyst app, they should be able to join a community easily, perhaps through a simple link.
For web users, the process might involve installing Amethyst, then clicking a link that directly ushers them into the community. This process still seems a bit complex, and simplifying it remains a challenge. A direct web sign-up process, similar to @npub1l2vā¦ajft's new web login, could be effective. Users could request to join a community or relay through a Nostr link, and relay operators would manage these requests and monitor joiners.
Moderators would need tools to oversee posts and flag inappropriate content within their community. While end-to-end encryption is appealing, it's crucial that it doesn't complicate the joining and participating process. Users should easily understand if they're posting within their specific community and not to the broader Nostr network. Similarly, viewing content should be streamlined to focus on community-specific interactions.
āØOne option is we make it clear what relays host what content, provide info on joining a relay, finding it, adding it, posting to it. āØāØ
Another option is we modify / extend the communities that satellite.earth and amethyst support. āØ
Another would beā¦..?āØ
In summary, while Nostr presents a promising alternative to traditional online forums, there's work to be done. We need to refine some underlying technical aspects and, more importantly, develop a user experience and apps that facilitate easy and engaging community interaction.āØThis feels like a really good way to grow nostr, I hear folks with a clear need.
This episode of the daily show starts taking the piss on Elon Musk, then goes in an homage to Kissinger which was amazing. Iāve never laughed so much to a debate about who was Americaās greatest war criminalā¦.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYsN1rHi1mo
Publishing to Nostr from Drupal. Thatās cool. #note1dv7ā¦7zwq
I donāt want to see either but if thatās what you want to do with one of the greatest creations of humanity then nostr lets you do it.
pretty please with a vegan cherry on top?
Another big step towards nostr being part of but better than the mastodon dominated fediverse. #note1aqcā¦mdy3
We also put media attachments in the body and itās terrible.
Iām excited to see @npub1uacā¦99rx is working on nostr.watch again! More people need to reach out to OpenSats to support their nostr work.
#note18z2ā¦fq6d
Weāre incredibly lucky and grateful to have @npub1uaaā¦87z6 on the @npub1pu3ā¦tfch team. His design and UX work is what makes nos stand out. One of the frustrating things about working with him is seeing everything in Figma but not having it implemented yet.
#note1cftā¦x0xj
Iāve been maliciously doxxed before and got the fun death threats and attempts to hijack my accounts. Itās not fun but Iām not worried about people knowing that I live in Wellington, New Zealand. :)
yep. And also i live in new zealand which i choose in part because itās exceedingly safe. š
staying in a hotel. we always went camping for vacation.
Iām moving in the next couple weeks, my new view is really nice but iām going to miss the big deck with a silver fern. https://i.nostr.build/Do3j.jpg
Sending good vibes and virtual hugs :(
Yeah thats what the prostate is for. God is good!!
Hopefully you wonāt encounter someone like this when youāre out on a #NakedBikeRide
https://apple.news/Ab_W9xH3TTTCWG_mXNIZEhw
If the cyclists werenāt doing #wnbr, I wonder why they were #naked
#homophobia #NakedSports #exhibitionism #nudist
Substack has launched video support.
https://read.substack.com/p/substack-is-for-video
https://v.nostr.build/6gWW.mp4 https://v.nostr.build/B64K.mp4
#kraftwerk https://v.nostr.build/lx7e.mp4
https://image.nostr.build/f2d926151464b4b528b41d6ec7d07deaa4691b2d4702f3b5b1d4a98bde1132e4.png
I read this as using generative AI to rewrite or create a Bibleā¦ Which even as an atheist struck me as a terrible idea.
it would be interesting to have a feature where we offered to āimportā or āportā followers from the fediverse over. we ask them for their fediverse user and then auto follow everyone via mostr.
Nice! Can we add a second form to look up a nostr account for the fediverse? Put in an npub or nip-05 and generate the mostr account for the nostr identity?
Cute videos of nature on nostr! @npub1zwuā¦hjds
Iām a big fan of the use an DHT to map npub to relays. I think we should totally do it. But iām not quite sure how. Some folks who know more than me say itās hardā¦ But it seems like it should be doable to me.
Phoneās today do tons of onboarding and thereās a lot of lockin too. Thereās a whole set of tools to migrate your data and accounts to the new phone, find contacts, recommend apps to install. We donāt think about it because google and apple do such a good job. But ask Nokia, MSFT, Mozilla, Amazon, Samsung, and all the others that spent billions trying to make alternatives to iOS and Androidā¦. that onboarding / experience / engagement is very important.
you should find someone else to write about the project because i just spent a couple minutes reading that link and i have no idea of what it is except maybe open source tech somewhat related to crypto and youāre very excited about it.
This content tagging game by @npub1zuuā¦c2uc is neat. Itād be fun to have a way to navigate posts by tag as well.
https://ontolo.vercel.app/
we should learn from others including farcaster and lens. #note1wyfā¦t2sf
some relays do sync between them. there is a gossip model where you can find what relay a specific user has published to and then read from there.
Right now most clients donāt use relays that host and share just contact and profile information. We were using purplepag.es by @npub1l2vā¦ajft until we added that functionality in to our own relay.nos.social. I think using those is a stop gap, but we need a better solution to finding people and contacts.
@npub1tqjā¦z588 is cool, when I installed it on my Mac it wouldnāt let me resize the window, it didnāt seem to pay attention to my mute lists, and I found some small bugs. But itās early days. So Iām excited to see what you come up with. The Alby NWC worked.
The UX is lacking and nobody knows about it, but in @npub1pu3ā¦tfch you can search for any @
[email protected] and it will let you find and follow that person via the mostr.pub bridge. If you work out the nip-05 you can do it in any nostr client.
Hereās how we do it: https://github.com/planetary-social/nos/blob/a1d75348703851e4f5a51ca3ac21c26ef61882e3/Nos/Service/RelayService.swift#L734
The nip-05 for most fediverse users on nostr is: mostr.pub/.well-known/
[email protected]Iām so sorry to hear about your brother passing.
And the search came from a company, Summize, which had a real time social search engine which they launched using twitter data. It really made twitter work. Buying summize was one of the critical early decisions at twitter which has been forgotten but was so important.
https://techcrunch.com/2008/07/15/confirmed-twitter-acquires-summize-search-engine/?guccounter=1
Yeah, I hope I didnāt imply that you werenāt aware of what needed to get done. More we need to build a team around the nostr.com and work on itās content for normies. :-D
Primal runs its own caching and search relays to make the experience better. Itās written in Julia! Thatās not a language Iāve come across since I was hanging out at MIT. We need multiple compatible services like what primal is doing.
Damn, another nostr app to try out. ;-D
https://freerse.com/
Following along @npub1tqjā¦z588
I probably talk about the bitcoiner content too much, the problem is not at all that weāve got tons of bitcoiners or that theyāre talking about bitcoin too much. More itās that itās hard to discover the other people and conversations.
The UX experience is where we need to do work. Itās not so much fun, but itās what will make the difference.
So when it comes to contact discovery, Iāve always wanted to do something Private Set Intersection. Anybody interested in working on getting PSI for privacy preserving contact discovery that we could use with Nostr?
Thereās code which does the first 90% of the work: https://github.com/OpenMined/PSI
Regarding search, my initial thought is throw elastic search at the problem. But then Iām wondering what LLMās could do to make search better. I think weād want to have multiple search providers with a common api, the way that Damus and others support plugging in to translation engines. I think the needs of search and indexing are different than a normal relay, and we probably need those broken out in to a separate service or an add-on which only some relays provide.
Primal has a caching server that calculates things like how many followers a person has and they use that to sort the search results. In nos.social we donāt, yet, have that, so we sort by mutual followers. Both do a great job at finding the right @npub180cā¦h6w6 but overall popularity isnāt as good when youāre looking for your friend Matt. For new users who donāt have anybody then the overall popularity is better than mutual follows.
Coracle calculates and displays a kind of Web of Trust (WoT) score for each person which is nice.
All of which would be improved if we had a good way to say, this is the Matt who youāre following on twitter/mastodon/instagram or have the email / phone number of.
Get paid to build Nostr!
#note10dxā¦wnxr
It didn't use to be that you could even seen content from mastodon to pixelfed and vice versa... I guess they fixed that... but clearly the fediverse model is confusing people: https://www.reddit.com/r/fediverse/comments/uj1kpj/i_cant_login_pixelfed_or_peertube_using_my/
Nevermind, i found it: https://v.nostr.build/QV2Y.mp4
Hitler's trial was broadcast over radio and that's how he came to be widely known in Germany in the 1920's.... So sometimes broadcasting the trial doesn't go well. In the case of Trump today, he's got a massive platform already, so perhaps broadcasting the trials would help, honestly i doubt it.
@npub1h88ā¦pz20 I can't find that tiktok nostr video you made... I looked for it on your youtube and tiktok... i saw it originaly here on nostr.build
His videos are good, catchy, viral, and help promote nostr. But he's also reaching the bitcoiner crowd who likely have already heard of Nostr. We need creators who have communities and audiences which aren't the same as the folks we already have on Nostr.
There was a time when nostr.com was exactly what it should be. I quite like it in terms of being a site for developers to find out more. We need to keep updating it, but it's good for that. But once we went from needing just developers, to now wanting to attract early adopters, now we need to move nostr.com's current site to developer.nostr.com and create something for users which focuses not on the tech at all, but why they should join and how.
Today, I had a conversation with a friend's acquaintance who expressed a desire to "do something about social media, to create something that is ours." She was unfamiliar with Nostr and only vaguely aware of Mastodon, though she had heard of Bluesky and Threads.
She represents the ideal target audience for Nostr. Once I explained our project, her excitement was palpable. Although initially skeptical about Bitcoin, she showed interest in an economic model not reliant on advertising and was open to exploring alternative models.
Several key points emerged from our discussion. Firstly, the ease of joining and locating acquaintances on Nostr is crucial. For instance, the process of installing TestFlight, then navigating back to nos.social to click a link and install Nostr via TestFlight, proved challenging. Her attempt to Google Nostr nearly led her astray. @npub1a8jā¦5pj4 i think, this underscores the need for someone with tech marketing/communications expertise to overhaul nostr.com. The current site should be repositioned as developer.nostr.com.
We must simplify the process of finding and connecting with known contacts on Nostr. It's essential to communicate the value proposition of Nostr to new users, whether they learn about it through friends or media. Our focus shouldn't be on creating more content for Bitcoin enthusiasts, as there's already a plethora of information available for those familiar with wallet operations.
Another aspect that stood out was Nostr's multi-app nature. Nostr isn't just Damus, Nos, Amethyst, or Habla.news. It's a platform where various apps can operate using the same data, contacts, and services, all under the user's control. For those with a developer mindset, the sheer breadth of projects within Nostr demonstrates the vibrancy and scale of our endeavor. Projecting this magnitude is crucial for attracting users who are deciding where to invest their time.
I believe we could benefit from explainer videos that highlight why Nostr is both important and interesting. During our conversation, I showcased various apps: Primal for a web social feed, Habla and Yakihonne for longer-form blogging, Flockstr for events, Wherostr for geolocation, and Highlighter for layering different functionalities. These examples illustrate the diversity and versatility of our platform.
I didn't delve into Nostr nests, marketplaces, Wavlake, Streamstr, and more, but it's clear there's much to explore.
This conversation has led me to believe that we should proactively share the Nostr story, positioning it as the future of social networking. This approach will also help us differentiate from platforms like Threads, Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Bluesky. While these platforms are based on open protocols, they operate as single-app, vertical silos.
Our unique offering is the unified 'login' across diverse apps, granting users not just control over their algorithms but their entire app experience. They can even use multiple apps simultaneously.
The impact of a single Thai TikTok video in attracting a Thai user community to Nostr exemplifies the power of targeted storytelling. We should harness similar strategies to broaden our reach and influence. Talking about how this is a whole new way of social, not just one app.
bluesky has a nice community written guide for new users. Itās the kind of thing iād like for nostr and to be promoted on nostr.com instead of our very developer focused page.
https://from-over-the-horizon.ghost.io/bluesky-social-new-user-guide/
scuttlebutt doesnāt have a single contact list. Instead each follow / unfollow / block are individual contact messages. it has advantages and disadvantages over the nostr system.
I was able to fix it with https://metadata.nostr.com/ and also found out that I was running an orphaned version of YakiHonneā¦ The new TestFlight is: https://testflight.apple.com/join/tcXozZIu
Itās a great app and really highlights good aspects of Nostr! Now can we get some $ from OpenSats or elsewhere to talk/bribe @npub147wā¦selt in to open sourcing it. ;-D
Yeah, we need a better way of handling them. Because I would also like to be able to tell a relay, give me all events from pubās in this list. But the way we do lists right now isnāt scalable.
Oh, nice, I like the update. Youāve got lots of really. Nice features in Yakhonne and Iām excited about the project.
to be clear iām really liking the ios yakihonne app. just frustrated that i lost my contact list.
One of the downsides of closed source apps is you canāt see what itās doing or file a ticket to fix bugs. This just came up with me with @npub1yzvā¦rf8q which has a bug where it overrides your contact list if you follow someone in the yakihonne app. Hopefully itāll get fixed fast.
In general we have a nostr problem with replacable list events and how easy it is for apps to override and whip out lists.
@npub1xfpā¦e7an has written what I think is the longest article Iāve ever seen on Nostr. Itās about el paĆsito, Uruguay the little country. I lived there for many years and a large part of the Nos team are Uruguayans: @npub1uaaā¦87z6 , @npub138hā¦rdr2 , and @npub1k2dā¦v5hn
One important thing left out about taxes is that if you can qualify your overseas income as coming from technology work then itās tax free. Itās a huge benefit.
So check out the piece: #naddr1qqā¦xl57
https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qqrrxv3kxvmrgq3qxfp0eu86raryz2sw53f9qnxdujm8z73c5s55d3vzkae06gz5p0dsxpqqqp65wjcxl57
Yeah Iām thankful to live in a country where corn syrup isnāt widely used as an ingredient because otherwise itās hard to avoid.
#note15ttā¦5ssk
Itās not Nostr focused but when apps like flipboard leave Twitter and join team open it matters to Nostr too.
I didnāt pay much attention to Bitcoin beyond having cash app set to do daily small purchases for dollar cost averaging before Nostr. I knew Lightning was some way to make Bitcoin faster / better, but that was it. I now find it kind of useful for more than just a hedged stored value.
Apt is the original big AppStore. Itās all free and open source but it functions with updates, builds, support, quality controls, security, etcā¦
Iām sorry thatās happening to you but Iām not surprised. Case in point, this very reply. https://image.nostr.build/6c3baff6dded57202fcb1f7b193a486d8b758e47a506e0ab40eb9b0fb236b44a.jpg
I think we need to improve the previews from njump on linksā¦
https://image.nostr.build/45562d4af7e76ffcbd975a16d22dc8781da263e5e120a30a0ebd625aa18b344e.png
One thing which shocked me about Xiamen, China was how quiet it was. All motorcycles and scooters are electric, and many, maybe most, of the cars are too. Crowded intersections and roads were as quiet as an empty park. It was a bit dangerous because no vehicles made sounds, I wasnāt used to only using visual clues to avoid getting hit.
Part of what makes this account great, is that it only posts every couple of months, always as repliesā¦ Just popping up to say āfuck carsā ;-D
When I lived in the US I avoided the doctor for just about anything because it had the potential of being very expensive. Now I live in the socialist island of Aotearoa where healthcare is a fundamental right, paid for by my taxes. Now I have to admit that I just donāt like doctors and the medical system. Even when theyāre exceedingly nice, and kiwis really are saccharine nice, I have to admit that I just donāt like going to the doctor.
It was scrapes only and I didnāt hit my head, aloe verde will do the trick.
I think my new favorite nostr account is @npub1cyuā¦h2er! Could be Iām still smarting from being hit by a car yesterday and my hand hurtsā¦ but stillā¦ @npub1cyuā¦h2er is weird and makes me smile.
You do know he hasnāt run microsoft since 2006 right? Heās not even on the board.
Complaining to Gates about MSFT is like getting upset with Jack because of something Elon does with Twitter.
It is possible to accept btc and other crypto over Open Collective but you need to talk to them to turn it on. Weāre working with them to try and get that better and to allow for lightning too.
And unfortunately the only post so far.
Debian has an AppStore and it's not a problem. They manage quality and security just fine. It's the locked monopoly choke point AppStore that's bad.
So what the hell was the point of the OpenAI firing and re-hiring Sam Altman? Nobody seems to know or those who do arenāt saying.
I got hit by a car, knocked over, but the cuts are minor and I was able to fix my bike. And as a reward I get this sunset view. https://image.nostr.build/c4393e7509fcaa1c635df151af812ad8588a9513f15210cb43bb6767e6408083.jpg
I think you get this with an embedded relay, using a single caching relay, some updated queries for relays, and lots of optimization.
Talk to @npub1uucā¦atty whoās working on iterating on tweeter. We definitely want feedback to improve it.
Itās an open source project. Please file tickets: https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service/issues
And if youāre a go dev we welcome code contributions.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service/
Itās in the roadmap.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos/issues/206
Nos nos nosā¦ ;-D not now, nos. ;-D
Come work with us on now.social. Get paid to help build Nostr. #note1fzrā¦7u4j
Sounds like a bug. Weāre working on rewriting how we poll relays for content to try and make it better right now. Mind describing the behavior youāre seeing vs what you expect?
There is actually good representation of some of the āotherā groups in Parliament. There are representatives from Africa, Latin America, and the US. https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/library-research-papers/research-papers/the-2020-general-election-and-referendums-results-analysis-and-demographics-of-the-53rd-parliament/
No, there are some people whoās identity cleanly fits within the provided categories. They are after all by far the most common ways people identify ethnically in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Iām always a bit confused when I get asked what to put on these New Zealand demographic questions. Sometimes they also add āEuropeanā and āAfrican, Latin American, or Middle Easternā which seems like a category so broad they might as well just admit itās āotherā.
https://image.nostr.build/55bb3377b457ceb3fdfed01ed2b7e475c4d772edf549da34c722fb46a6c73f69.jpg
Thatās how the nos feed works. Itās who youāre following. The discover screen is either friends of friends or content on a specific relay.
I was looking at this last week. I was hoping to get them to support nostr. I think the post to multiple services should probably be web / cloud not native app but that depends on the use case.
Heās wrong more often than right.
https://image.nostr.build/f802a03583098a7ecd470bd402d9bc7a230dc9acf50a0900835bf5ac264d1f34.jpg
Anyone know if there is a podcast version of the nostrasia talks? I was thinking Iād like to catch up on them during my bike rides.
I wonder what an app which let you share from centralized social media to nostr would look like. I share lots of stuff on instagram and tiktok with friends, and they do let you share OFF of those apps and on to other platforms. If we added to Nostr apps support for the share sheets so you could share from them to nostr, it might be interesting. Especially if we add better support for curation and lists, add x post from instagram to y list on nostr. Then let me subscribe to that list.
Nitter is a kind of automated way of getting content off of X, but what if wanted a way to do like tweeter, but take my personal posts, stories, and reels from IG and post them to my account on nostr, either primary or secondary.
I love the evangelical energy but i think we need less selling and more listening, conversation, and welcoming. People donāt join a church or social movement because of its structure or details about the belief system.
For example it is unlikely for someone to choose to be a Unitarian vs attending United Church of Christ. The two churches are very similar, they come from the Christian tradition with service on Sunday and broadly lefty political views. You decide you want a community and that one or the other feels welcoming. Nobody decides just because UCC is Christian vs Unitarians dropping that label. You choose based on the people and for social reasons.
The same is true in digital spaces. We need to learn how to make nostr meet peopleās needs. We need to do that by talking to potential users and learning about their needs and desires. Then we need to communicate that to our community of developers and designers.
What weāre doing is called co-design. Itās messy but thatās ok because it is human and humanity is messy and complicated. I co-taught a studio class on co-design at the MIT Media Lab a few years ago, so clearly I managed to convince somebody I know what Iām talking about.
Hey did we meet at dweb or the aspiration tech non-profit developer summit? I think so but iām terrible with names and faces.
Eitherway, welcome to the #nostrverse.
Iām going to wait until itās not covered in snow and ice. This rock is in Norway afterall.
Wellington is full of terrible systems for bike locks. The one I hate the most is this locky docky which requires you use your phone and install and app to lock your bike.
https://www.lockydock.co.nz
It is not very reliable, which makes the nightmare worse.
Standing on that rock has been on my bucket list for over a decade.
Yep. @npub1l2vā¦ajft has been working on that. Weāll get there if we make it a priority.
We need to get @npub1x2eā¦3dt6 to post more. Heās got such epic rides.
Iām about to go ride the bays in Wellington. What should we be posting?
I found this horrible bike stand I could barely figure out how to use to lock my bike the other day.
https://image.nostr.build/f10ce664a6a53382381fca07c7354b208b7db2749163af895782ff1bca67663e.jpg
What would that be? Like a service that pushed the about / relay list events to many relays to make them more accessible?
Not hard or a terrible idea i guess.
WorldCoin is so creepy that I couldnāt parody it.
Sounds expensive but given itās norway and a long trip from New Zealandā¦. I might pay one btc in order to stand there for 5 minutes.
Oh
You mean be paid?!
Yeah. But thatās not how the world works. We pay for travel and amazing experiences. We donāt get paid to have them.
Interesting indepth exploration of the #letteramerica trend and controversy over on TikTok by @npub1u6pā¦7r2g
#note1z2sā¦pa03
Works for me. Iāve got way more of the former than the latter. š
Exactly. They need audience building support.
Installing the native apps and making an npub/nsec is easy. Seeing content is also easy. Unfortunately itās hard to get from the global feed which is mostly Bitcoiners posts to other kinds of users / content is hard. Some apps like @npub1yzvā¦rf8q do make interesting attempts at directing users to different content. Learning how to use a browser extension to access nostr web apps is hard. So is understanding that youāve got keys and not an account on a server.
To me the biggest issue is new users join and weāre not making sure their first āhello worldā type posts are getting interaction. Folks join and feel ignored and leave.
Iām not a bitcoiner but i think making it easy folks to fundraise using zaps is a kind of killerā¦. Err uhā¦. Key feature which will draw some people in.
That said they need to be able to join, build an audience while also making it easy for their existing users to follow them over.
Some nostr relays and clients support using Tor. If we could get it so that was an option in more apps, a default on relays, and a fall back if clients fail to connect over the normal network then weād really have something.
Most social media patforms have teams which help high profile users migrate. Substack, TikTok, twitch, spotify, and others even promised minimum revenue to incentivize the switch. We donāt have the VC dollars to burn on that but we should think of what we can do. A kind of white glove onboarding service.
Iām not a fan of him personally, probably for different reasons than you, but heās got an audience and heās being hurt by the platforms.
Yep. Weāve switched to it. We need to add some better docs on what is nostr and how to start using it on njump. Maybe some ux testing for users who get an njump link but know nothing about nostr.
We have tweeter.nos.social if they want to move but keep back posting to Twitter. I think weāre close to having the pieces we need. Perhaps some ux but also explainer videos, tutorials, etc. Not for Bitcoiners but for Arabic speakers and others going in to how to use nostr as an alternative. Especially how to find people and build an audience.
Come to Aotearoa New Zealand next time. Sure itās far from everywhere but itās nice once you get here.
How can we use Nostr to solve this?
Governments are putting strong pressure on social media companies to change whatās said about Israelās invasion of Gaza.
Nostr is about censorship resistance and autonomy. Letās get these folks onboard as they get removed, shaddow banned, or demonitized on centralized corporate platforms.
#growstr #nostr #censorship #tiktok #meta #instagram
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https://image.nostr.build/5e6528b13faf90d99fa4ebee30d36e3c8a1127fb6275aed72835ecc400c5a9d3.jpg
Yeah Iāve worked with standards bodies and there are problems. In particular there is the way language around inclusivity and support are used to create overly complicated standards that are subject to capture by institutional players. I worked on OAuth and saw how the original vision, elegant security, and simplicity of OAuth 1.0 was lost so we could neet the needs of google.
IETF does a better job than W3C but theyāre all operating under a paradigm of big companies making very static systems.
Rough consensus and running code is bettet than a consortium where you need to pay $50k a year and have full time staffers in order to participate in the open standards process.
I lose track of all the nostr apps myself. And listing functionality is by far the easiest way of comparing. We just need to make sure we donāt make that the only or primary way of understanding the ecosystem.
That sounds like a ton of fun. Iām sorry i wonāt be able to make it.
What makes it feel dead to you?
Looks like a couple of days ago @npub180cā¦h6w6 reorganized the GitHub org and team for nostr-protocol. Is this what youāre talking about? I see 19 people in the team as having commit access.
I spent years in and around the Ruby on Rails community. They eventually developed rails-core which had a process for joining and leaving. While a protocol is different from a framework, this feels broadly similar. Rails wasnāt perfectly managed but it has worked for almost 20 years and handled a bunch of conflicts while staying open. Nostr feels broadly similar.
I like this and think it should be maintained. But i also think check the box listing of which app supports the most features isnāt a good way of choosing which app to use.
Take the calendar / events apps. Theyāre good at what they do, they arent trying to be a superapp. We donāt want something like a single wechat or ms word. But if we rank apps based on which has the most features then we prioritize features or the number of nips they support.
Instead we need ways to explore and choose nostr apps based on what people like to use. Like make a way for users to share their list of nostr apps they like, then we could compare it to your contacts on Nostr, using that we can make recommendations. Make it social.
Whatās the one company behind Nostr?
My critique of Nostr is that it suffers from a bit of the tyranny of structurelessness.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness
I strongly prefer the system weāve got with nostr than a system by which the code is open source but the control over the protocol is tightly controlled by a single vc backed company.
They just moved off of a single PDS to multiple which the company controls. A step towards decentralization.
A couple things. If youāre pulling away engineers, product people, etc from FANG companies whoāve been at the scale signal needs to grow then 30k a month for fully encumbered cost itās that unbelievable. Remember a lot of the cost of an employee doesnāt end up in that employees bank account. Remember you qualify for public housing in San Francisco if you make less than $150k a year, essentially thatās the real poverty / living wage line.
Also American non-profits are MUCH more restricted than benefit corps. Essentially they arenāt legally allowed to do the things which a normal business would do to be profitable.
Running large tech platforms is very expensive. Scaling is expensive. And Moxie told me one of the hardest parts of building and growing signal was the way non-profit rules limited their options, essentially crippling them.
Thatās deciding a lot based on his face. Whatās phrenology but for faces?
How do you do your notifications?
Itās amazing how the experience on social media is so driven by what timezone youāre in.
I think we should not exclude projects from nostr sites and lists just because theyāre closed source. List them all. Just tell people whatās open source vs not.
Is it even on nostr is awesome and the nostr app lists?
What is an iCloud only app? As far as i know the only iCloud apps are made by apple. I installed freeform from the AppStore on my iPhone. So it sure as hell seems to me to be an iOS nostr app.
Hereās a pic of your reply being displayed on a iphone running freeform.
https://image.nostr.build/8774de2260f6451fcadaf50076e447281c9b3ae0bc53f61560928bc1f32b76de.jpg
The freeform.space iOS nostr app is pretty good. Why did I not know it existed until just now?
The double @ is what mastodon uses. Personally I think emails are losing their dominance and we should just use it as user @ server.
Thatās not something Iāve ever heard anyone say about me. āš¼
Delicious. All fresh food is better tasting than anywhere Iāve been.
Blueberries in Aotearoa New Zealand are enormous.
https://image.nostr.build/7aaf8d1047a0bf50735e8f451bbb8acf65e4ea99eb03267f198734007e29600b.jpg
Yes, she was considering options and debating the value of going public. Thereās a tremendous cost to a womenās career and personal safety if they go public. Iām going to respect her privacy but I do wonder if the board learned of this, asked Sam, and he lied.
I kept thinking the Sam Altman fired from OpenAI was the LLMs hallucinating. Checked twitter. Didnāt believe it. Then confirmed at google news.
I heard rumors of sexual harassment and assault by senior people at OpenAI. No way to confirm if theyāre legit but it seemed credible to me, and that Sam was covering it up. I wonder if thatās what he lied to the board about.
There was a whole crew that did a Kyoto to Tokyo bike ride leading up to Nostrasia. Riders included @npub1gg5ā¦ke5x, @npub1z6jā¦p8xs, and others.
I have two MetroNorth tickets to Poughkeepsie I need to use in the next few weeks, so gonna do a ride up around New Paltz and Kingston. There will be a lot of gravel, so hoping that goes well.
I thought about listing it as a @npub1feasvyttsd3kmqek54n9w5e6lhfp3a7jhzkak4zkxzklngftuy0s9wahxp ride, but Iām not quite up for that level of organizational work. I did list it as an OutCycling š³ļøāš ride knowing far fewer people would sign up. Looks like one of my old ride buddies will be joining me - which is great.
Months laterā¦ still no bike stuff on Nostrā¦ :(
This time? Because they were perfectly happy to work with Hitler.
https://image.nostr.build/ab7b56f6ab3abe682eeb9e1395e1bc88460323ce2f36343944721fbeb5c658d5.jpg
You could run your own push notification service or generate them locally within the app or have empty silent notifications which trigger the app looking for new content on relays. But the notifications have to have a key for the āserviceā and the client app.
I think most nostr apps that do notifications do the cloud bot method. The code for the various solutions are on github.
I mean, itās optional text that can be included in an event. I agree we shouldnāt put a nip in which says itās required. I think this should be a clients MAY add āclientā: āapp nameā to events. Thereās no nip for it right now, which might be why some clients dropped it. But thatās easy enough to fix.
Ok, weāll add it to nos.social, and find a way to display it. Hopefully others do too.
Is that really a problem? Somebody wants to use their own custom client pretending to be using Damus? If you want to have android but want to pretend youāve got an iPhone, more power to you. This is about casual discovery of nostr apps.
What should be configurable is really up to the app developer. Some apps are all about configuration, others pick settings and design for them.
I guess Iāve got a task to do then, start adding client: Nos to our posts and asking @npub1uaaā¦87z6 to come up with a design for where to display it. ;-D
Blueskyās PDS server has gotten a lot easier to installā¦
https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds
It runs on a testnet and not the. Main āblueskyā service which is closed and invite only.
A bluesky PDS is like a relay server. Theyāve also got a concept of a GDS which is an indexing server which provides other services, similar to the primal caching relay.
Back in the early days of twitter clients could say their name in posts. It was a really good way to discover new twitter apps. It was dropped in 2012 as part of twitter abandoning the open app ecosystem.
Iād like to have that feature in Nostr. For example, today Iāve posted from nos.social, damus, coracle, listr, and primal.
To make it short, maybe we donāt do a user-agent like string, but instead add a field or tag to events with the app name. Then apps can store a name to link url depending on how they want to use it and make it visible and clickable or not.
https://martech.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/via-Twitter.png
Cool, yeah I donāt know much about your work. Solidās an interesting project, but kind of reminds me of the semantic web. If you build it without talking to users then theyāll love it when itās ready. Kind of like instead of a chicken and egg problem, you just started with āImagine there was a healthy ecosystem of chickensā without thinking about how they might come in to being.
Good ideas but things need to be evolved bottom up in order to become useful complex systems.
I think youād need a money transmitter license for each jurisdiction youāve got users in order to do that. And a way to get the fiat out of the app and back in to peopleās bank accounts.
Thereās something super powerful if we can make it bridged and work. The fediverse has a broader set of communities and a strong social graph, especially if / when threads joins. Nostr lets you take advantage of that network to run many more interesting apps than just social sharing of a feed, a la twitter.
I haveā¦ one of my todo items is to install ditto at rabble.nz. Right now Iāve got it running micro.pub but I couldnāt get the bridgy fed thing to work to connect it to nostr.
Thanks to @npub108pā¦yev6 and mostr.pub most of the fediverse is on nostr. ;-D
@npub13v9ā¦w5eu has a good guide to using and building the new GPT plugin and how to understand what OpenAi has just launched / announced.
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/15/gpts/
@npub16c0ā¦6nvr Is there primal api? I know primal does custom requests to your relay, i was wondering if there was a way to look up the number of followers count you display.
So tell me, howād you find us in this corner of the internet? What drew you and what are you looking for?
As long as you donāt mind giving apple itās 15% / 30% cut then you can just buy sats with applepay from within the app. For folks buying a lot, ore regularly, itās not a good idea, but for folks who want to have some sats to play with itās good.
Hereās a list I pulled from nos.socialās initial recommendations: https://listr.lol/npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240/30000/naddr1qq4xc6tnw3ez6dfnvvexydryxvknzdpnxqkngvfcvgkkydrxvcknqefk8q6nqdnzx9jnweqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzypmvwx4w8fy378v7a3ruhgt7y2wd5sgn5zamde4wzamdwep798905qcyqqq82vqa9r6ra
So thereās a bug that keeps you from adding more than one in the initial create, and also the āadd to listā is coming soon, which is confusing.
@npub1zuuā¦c2uc Did list lose the ability to update lists? It now lets me add one and only one item when creating a list and I canāt update lists.
https://image.nostr.build/d26128b37be519f0634bb57ef915061e0fecd509ecb008d9f7d3902922b03a4d.png
Jacinda hasnāt been PM for a year, but good on you for keeping up to date with things. And the new center right government wants to open up immigration even more than Labour.
Did Nostr just get another 60k users in a bump or was there a change in the way primal counts active users? Growth up until nostrasia was very slow, so i'm surprised to see the jump. Happy, but surprised.
https://m.primal.net/HQOX.png
https://primal.net/explore
New Zealand's population growth is primarily driven by immigration, there's a lot of it. Every year, 3.8% of the population are new immigrants who arrived that year. And it's going up quickly. There doesn't seem to be much of a backlash against immigration here, there's a feeling that the only way to meet the labour needs of the country is to open the doors to immigration. Unlike some countries where people who immigrants don't have rights or a path to citizenship, New Zealand grants voting rights to residents and most work visas lead to permanent residency. In fact, most people who were trapped here due to covid border closings were offered permanent residency simply because they'd gone through the pandemic in New Zealand and developed ties to the country. I also think the idea was it would keep those potential workers here at a time when borders were closed.
https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/125242/migration-driven-population-growth-has-more-doubled-compared-pre-covid-levels
Thereās no profitable business model for relays yet.
I think I need the ability to post to subfeeds / streams / multiple accounts just so I can post coffee pics without worrying about spamming people with flat white tofu.
https://image.nostr.build/6748ecd707c3226111f10ec0f2a9cb84735ccf064cace38a370fe04231b7e692.jpg
Looks like you can control it in amethyst!
Displaying a āglobalā feed is actually a client showing all posts from a set of relays. I never really like the concept of a global feed because it isnāt socially scoped.
Anyway itās clients and not relays that decide what to display.
@npub1cd6ā¦w96r Somewhere between 150k and 600k. Probably towards the higher end of that range.
looks like the license is MIT: https://github.com/zmeyer44/flockstr/blob/main/LICENSE
Whatās the state of nostr events / calendar apps?
There is:
* InMyTown.social - Open Source - Rough Design - In Development
* Flockstr - Polished Design - Close Source?
* Nostrtime - Part of Coracle?
* Nosdav.com/calendar - rough simple calendar display
I feel like there are othersā¦. The first two arenāt in nostr is awesomeā¦ https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr
Itās 9pm here in Aotearoa New Zealand and Iām on my last call of the day, the 8th callā¦ starting at 8am. The post nostrasia rush is on.
Yeah damus and nos donāt use the libraries for their nostr stuff. A new library could be extracted.
The NDK libraries are actually pretty good for rust and js. We need tools for the services around content warnings / content discovery / pluggable algorithms. Right now the way user and content search works on relays isnāt good. And weāve got a kind of broken system for looking up what relays have an npubās content. Purplepag.es is a stop gap, but most clients donāt use it and pablo doesnāt have incentives to maintain it as a critical service.
https://github.com/nostr-dev-kit/ndk
A little over a week ago I had an hour long conversation with two women in a coffee shop. The conversation centered on Gravel NY - a cycling group I started a few years ago. I was only expecting to meet with one person but she brought another woman with her to the meet up. Afterwards I started thinking the second woman seemed really familiar. I mentioned as much to my husband when I got home. Then I started digging and realized it probably was who i thought it was.
Without giving away too many details - I think sheās a fairly well known celebrity. She introduced herself by teling me her nickname and mentioned her legal first name (to explain her nickname). Since I didnāt realize I was talking to a celebrity until afterwards, her celebrity status simply wasnāt an issue and we had this great, really connected conversation.
Afterwards the first woman mentioned that the celebrity(?) really appreciated our conversation. Iām guessing it was because for an hour she just got to be a regular person.
Iād love it if I saw her again sometime - we bonded over her love of gravel cycling. Would be incredible if she brought her bike to NYC and rode with the group. But the chances of that happening are pretty slim. Still, I can hope, right?
#CelebritySighting
#Insurance companies are refusing to pay on old #SexualAbuse claims brought under a #NY law that allows a lot more time for the claims to be filed against groups like the #CatholicChurch and #BoyScouts.
To me the solution is for the organization to pay - then let them sue their insurance companies. I mean if the Catholic Church sold St Patrickās Cathedral to a developer - that should be enough to pay quite a few of the claims, right?
https://apple.news/AmC_xSoGuRtSZtnRX10SplQ
#religion #abuse
I donāt think weāll win with more features like polls. We need better UX around using the apps, joining, explaining nostr to people who are neither bitcoiners (or other crypro folks who get wallets / keys) nor developers.
We can do this.
We need to make the new user and discovery in nostr. While we all win when open protocols win, but we need the users if we want the diverse open app ecosystem we want then we need nostr to build its user base.
https://image.nostr.build/0ba8048a214abdbb421f25ed1c8492c93f83143bccf724fd24d2925df04da31b.jpg
On my way back to Aotearoa New Zealand I stopped off for a couple of days in Melbourne. The hotel had loaner bikes and I spent an afternoon exploring. What wonderful infrastructure.
Iām reminded of this when I saw this clickbait piece on bad cycle lanesā¦ oh myā¦ theyāre so bad itās fun to see the pictures.
In Wellington right now thereās a whole political faction on city council whose only agenda is opposing cycling infrastructure. Thankfully theyāre not a majority, but it is odd because almost all transportation infrastructure funding goes to roads, but somehow any support to bikes are the problem. What is it about bikes that cause so much anger?
https://momentummag.com/worst-bike-lanes/
Iāve been using copilot for xcode to get up to speed on swift. Itās not about learning code concepts but it helps a ton translating pseudo code in to swift. I found the LLMās get confused by big changes, but smaller things, like refactoring a method, itās great.
#art is this slaying? https://image.nostr.build/8885bb51b5ab20163bb2e050eaa3d54a28a6f30062c35f54b236ced9e9d26663.jpg
Yo guys I feel dumb. I was using an iPhone 12 recently until I bought a new iPhone SE third GEN. I did this because I was convinced that my iPhone 12 wasnāt eligible for trading with AT&T. But then after I get my new phone, my partner says that it is eligible for trading and that she is going to trade it in for an iPhone 15 allowing me to use her iPhone 14 she currently has. And now Iām stuck with this phone that I need to figure out a return for. Because damn the iPhone 14 battery is just way better as well as the camera.
Nah nah nah. I came from that kind of evangelical background growing up. I can testify itās operating in a different reality
Mike Johnson is the goofiest man alive. And I love how he tries to scrub the internet of the wild things he says. I thought it was āGods truth.ā
https://youtu.be/Fwi0Jpa-xVo?si=hLTPcGoOtP2JAY1Q
What kind if peoject needs that big a diesel engine?
Me too. Amazing food. I found so many wonderful vegan restaurants.
We want to support it. Been meaning to post a bounty. Both zap and NWC support in @npub1pu3ā¦tfch. PRs welcome.
Weāre totally up for it. Will pay a dev who wants to add zap and NWC support to nos.
Maybe Iām just being reactionary right now.
https://youtu.be/joUin54YWak?si=I78pMjPhypsFaR1F
See I think this shit is an example of people not calling it out because they want to not be considered islamaphobic. If a Christian group prohibited hugging and handshakes between genders I think most people would think that theyāre in some sort of fringe Christian cult. Am I just major American brained right now?
Heās beautiful
https://youtu.be/GtVeZdw-1pY?si=SC7N56PrhMF8I1wE
Please laugh it is actually a funny predicament. The excesses of western capitalism babyyyyyy
I think I ate too much ice cream Iām feeling sick
The guid for imported / bridged feeds is a good idea. We should do it for rss too.
Iām not sure but Iām assuming fentanyl.
A friend of a friend of my partner just ODed. Second time this has happened to someone connected to me this year.
Iām #ProIsraeli, #ProPalestinian, #AntiNetinyahu, #AntiHamas.
To be even clearerā¦
š People
š« War criminals
This seems to be a pretty big shift for a country typically considered western aligned!
Common carrier status for Internet service makes sense to me.
Getting people connected makes sense to me as well.
What doesnāt make sense IMHO is the emphasis on wired/cabled connections.
No one forced them to get vaccinated. They chose fear over their career. They chose fear over their own health. Their job was to protect others. They chose fear over that essential part of their job.
https://apple.news/AHkT_FiI0SJCtPHyPsT-xqw
(Footnote: vaccine mandates for essential workers like police & fire fighters were important early on. Now that most everyone is vaccinated and thereās clearly herd immunity itās right that theyāve been lifted. They were a tool in a critical moment. The moment has passed.)
Anyone else watch the recent Hassan/Ethan drama?
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I miss my childhood pianoā¦that mfer was a beast. Itās unlike any other piano Iāve ever played. You could play any notes with confidence and they would sound amazing just due to the fact of the craftsmanship and tuning of the instrument.
The vending machines in China let you pay with facial recognition. :-(
I havenāt. Iāll take a look. The hardest part about these protocols is not the tech itās cultivating a community of users and ux. Mostly the tech is remixing a few concepts in different ways.
They each tweak what kind if requests they make to relays differently so that probably explains it. I also notice differences between apps.
This poses some crucial questions no one should ignore.
https://image.nostr.build/4a3cd152d85397637c1cc885d2966808900674e07909b6db6e1af19eed960446.jpg
It is actually a protocol, just a complicated legacy permissioned one.
It could be added but right now read state is stored or not in a per app basis. Some push events for that to relays to keep track between sessions. Others store it locally. Some donāt track it at all.
Just take a look at the Kentucky governor race win by a dem in an otherwise red state. Or look at Mississippi and how close the dem got in that race, in a deeply red state nonetheless. We need to be more aggressive in red states across the board and providing an actual progressive alternative to the hellish proposals they have to live with. Every state deserves a progressive option. Just my 2 cents take it as you will.
Iāve always wanted to visit. It seems really cool.
Those phone banking efforts are really next level when it comes to this situation
Default apple keyboard experience kinda sucks ass ngl
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Maybe I was aggro because I just got off a long argument with two openly nazis just recently. Responding to a post about elites being pedophiles with quote from the Talmud usually signifies that someone is quite far down the pipeline. š¤·āāļø but perhaps I assumed wrong
Yeah but you can be a neo-nazi ideologically lol. That is a thing.
What kind of question is that
I used to live on burnside in Portland. It has a very similar vibe to the burnside cafe in Fitzroy, Melbourne.
https://image.nostr.build/8a45a56d449deb1aa71e3a30575588bcb8a4ea0505a77defc2409f4f224ec68b.jpg
We need to scream about project 2025 from the rooftops. No one can stay home this upcoming election. The stakes are too high to give up the country we have (deeply flawed it may be) to religious extremists. Fight the good fight ladsāš³ļøāššŗšøš“āā ļø
The party of freedom hard at work š¤”
Hear me out. I think that if humans got wiped out thereās a non zero chance that kangaroos take our place as the dominant mammal predator. #prediction
I completely agree with this. We need to uplift the dignity of human life across the board.
You may be free to post nazi shit but I called a spade a spade. He was to cowardly to own up to his own ideology.
Looks like Automatic is giving up on making Tumblr a sucess. Theyāre reassigning team nembers and going to keep the site going with a minimal staff. According to @npub1qruā¦afxp, this internal memo outlines the changes.
Iām saddened as i hoped tumblr would be revived and I see antidotal evidence of it getting new traction. My teenage kids love it, for example.
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A bill has been introduced in #Ohio which will criminalize #porn and make it a misdemeanor to use a #VPN (!)
https://www.clevescene.com/news/proposed-ohio-porn-age-verification-bill-raises-serious-civil-liberties-concerns-42996253
While the GOP was able to get some Democrats on board for some of the (unconstitutional) anti-porn bills recently - I would hope Democrats can see how egregious this bill is and it will go nowhere. š¤
The next 12ā18 months are critical for #FreedomOfExpression
#Project2025 #AmericanTaliban #FirstAmendment
Read Reuters. Its roots are ājust the factsā business news.
My favorite conservative news source is Deseret News - Mormon, out of Utah. I really respect them actually.
More top-down, but it enabled bottom-up.
lol. That would be a very first world version of an apocalypse. Gaza is far closer to a real apocalypse.
Just curious- whatās falls in the category āpedophileā in your opinion? I find itās often used rather loosely. Personally I use it literally when I use it. Donāt even use it for #hebephilia and #ephebophilia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronophilia
Anyone who is not a nazi should be able to tell that you are in fact a nazi.
Is it one groups interest (dog whistle the jews). Tell me how you arent a nazi again and how its a word without meaning? Just one more time
Youāre a Nazi. I used to be a Nazi too so I should know.
Can you define whatās included under the term āpedophileā and point to an example of pedophiles agitating for freedom?
Iāve got my ear to the ground on this stuff and have never seen what youāre talking about - unless we have different definitions of the term. (The word is used rather broadly these days).
How can I ban all messages from mostr.pub someone help #asknostr #nostr
This guy is an actual terrorist and itās disturbing to see support.
Mullvad is the best VPN service in my humble opinion
Typical example of deflection from the thing I actually said. Sorry if my tone is on the professional side, thatās how I talk.
What issues are you having? What type of labeling are you trying to implement?
And the Bible endorses slavery. Whatās your point. All religious texts from thousands of years ago have vile shit. But this is obviously a text thatās historically used to justify anti semitism. And to post such things in a time where anti semetic violence is on a global uptick, is irresponsible and dangerous. Especially when you imply that the āelitesā are following the Talmud, ie that their Jews, which is the definition of Nazi shit.
Thing is, Iāve never heard the term islamaphobia when describing the attacks on Gaza. Perhaps some people do, but I think thatās a bit silly. I have only heard of it when describing secondary violence globally on Muslims. Are there issues with religious extremism in places like Europe getting a pass historically due to fears of being called islamaphobic? There have been examples, Iām sure. But broadly, I think words like anti semitism and islamaphobia are getting weaponized in many different contexts, even if they are both valid and tangible issues.
Why am I suddenly seeing so many nazis. I thought this was just a mostr.pub thing but perhaps itās more widespread.
Nazi posting this early in the morning?
Thankfully Iām not a Catholic š¤
https://youtu.be/OdENyo4HvX4?si=3GpuY-Ghv9bDPNYs
I havnt watched this completely yet but this creator is someone I deeply respect for his integrity to create nuanced content. Perhaps itās valuable for context so I thought I would share.
We didnāt have islamaphobia in America after 9/11? Iām pretty sure that was a wide spread phenomenon. Donāt get me wrong, Iām extremely critical of the religion of Islam, particularly its fundamentalism. But at the same time we have a bunch of racists who will jump at the chance to do hate crimes against foreign brown people who come from a completely different cultural context. I think that xenophobia against people from the Eurasia gets lumped in with islamaphobia most of the time unfortunately.
Sounds like this has potentially racist undertones š
Such a tragic loss of life š
Left memes have excessive text and Iām honestly here for it šš„
The alt right is filled with fascists and nazis, I should know, I used to self identify that way back in my teenage years *shudders.* I realize that right populist movements can co opt Marxist rhetoric for a time, but they always have historically leaned towards excessive state control.
I will check out that Rubel tho, he does look interesting, I just read his wiki. It seems right up my alley.
Okay so weāre layers deep of conspiracism. I sincerely hope you meet some amazing queer people in your everyday life that perhaps will shake your strong convictions in this belief. Iām queer personally and ever since embracing my identity and gender expression, Iāve never felt better about myself. I feel amazing. And I hope every queer child gets the same opportunity growing up to explore themselves and their identity.
Cultural Marxism is a made up term used to replace the term cultural Bolshevism that has roots in anti semitism and nazism. Perhaps you werenāt aware.
Viva Gibb studied at the National Gallery School under John Brack, and was awarded a Diploma in Painting, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking.
From her student days, she was involved in radical left-wing politics, as well as social and feminist causes. She designed dozens of political posters in the 1970s and 1980s, which were made in direct response to specific events and debates. Gibb printed the posters at home in editions of around 100, and cycled around Melbourne at night to attach them to walls near newsagents.
The following day, when Melburnians would read the newspaper headlines, they would notice the nearby posters that presented a critical commentary on current political issues. The design of the posters is simple, and the message immediate, to make the point as effectively as possible.
Viva Gibb
Australia 1945-2017
Resist!
1978 Naarm/Melbourne colour screen print
Gift of Sybil Gibb and Rupert Duffy in memory of Viva Gibb, 2019
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No itās a museum piece in Melbourne.
Tony Albert
Girramay/Yidinji/Kuku Yalanji born 1981
History Repeats
2022 Meanin/Brisbane
found vintage kitsch objects and timber
History Repeats uses found materials from the artist's vast collection of what he specifically terms 'Aboriginalia'.
'Aboriginalia' objects are linked by their appropriation of First Nations Australian iconography to serve as domestic decorative design. History Repeats is part of the artist's ongoing interrogation into the appropriation of Indigenous histories and cultures and the implications of inauthentic cultural engagement.
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So its not just men and women. People can be in the middle.
I think we are fundamentally using different definitons of these words which I admit can be hard to definest times.
I wont deny im not familiar with marx as I should be. But i do acknowledge that marxism had been bastardized as a state ideology by the likes of lenin and stalin, which id a complete farce that is still perpetuated by tankies today. I appreciate your level of nuance when it comes to this, its hard to come by when discussing communism.
Intersex people are a mental disorder? Yes or no.
I think you should read up more on communism before you speak on it. I donāt necessarily agree with communist solutions alot of the time, but that doesnāt mean I critique the ideology for things it doesnt propose.
Those are lock boxes for keys to apartments. When you rent an airbnb, they give you the code to a specific box, you unlock it, then get the keys to the apartment. Many times the building owners or city restrict short term rentals, so you put the keys somewhere else near by.
The weather is nice, a bit of rain, not cold, not hot.
Yeah, Iām staying in Collingwood/Fitzroy. Itās nice.
Weāve thought about how to bridge replies back. It is possible but wonāt be really elegant. @npub1uucā¦atty is doing the dev work, and heās got a list of backlog things to fix / implement post-nostrasia.
I strongly suspect we have vastly different politics and tastes.
I donāt travel much in comparison to my past. At one point I had over 30 weeks in a row on a plane. Now I sometimes go a month or two between trips.
Melbourne feels like a bigger version of Portland. Which is to say, exactly the kind of city I like. I want to spend more time here.
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Iām not convinced that we can have viable alternatives to the state without significantly sacrificing our lifespans do to a lack of infrastructure to support the world populations.
Yeah like I like the part about the international transactions and not having to pay exchange rates and the like. Thatās probably my favorite part about crypto.
Itās not my favorite thing in the world*
Iām not opposed to the idea theoretically because youāre adding value to the consumer but I want to know what safeguards are in place to not spam. Cuz I get really small zaps from bots frequently and itās my favorite.
What is communism to you lol
If you can make a case why this would solve any social problems, go for it
The saying is actually āthe love of money is the root of all evilā
I think Iām in the minority of nostr users who doesnāt believe that getting rid of fiat would substantially solve our problems š
Money is made up. Post-Keynesian economics ftw.
What about someone who dove into a pool while drunk and paralyzed part of their body. Do they get a handicap sticker?
Virginia holds out blue!!! Abortion rights secured!!! #virginia #election
Also you, like almost all people who are reductive in this issue, completely erase intersex people from the conversation,ādespite making as much of the population as red heads.
You could say ādoctor looked at you for a little bit when you were born and placed you in a sexual and social categoryā but its easier to say cis
Thankfully due to mutes and reported accounts / content I donāt see any of that. I think a next step is for clients to be able to respect the wishes of the original poster and not show to others what theyāve choosen.
Itās almost like Iāve never brought up children. Are you a bit too? Did you both get created by the same dev?
Never been to Adelaide. This is my first time beyond Sydney. Iāve got to explore Australia more now that i live so close.
Show me there are a ton of Airbnbās near by without telling me.
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