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2026-08-16 18:44:42 UTC

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It might break Buzz in how it functions right now, as to what the agents are looking for to have them triggered into action. But I already saw a bug resulting from this where there were two agents with the same ''name'', and it caused confusion when referecing them, because the reference was not based on the npub.
Or not, and im talking shit right now, perhaps your robot can verify :P

2026-08-16 14:14:49 UTC

Since i am going do do attempt 9001 at explaining relays to @nprofile…kqvg i figure i might as wel do it in a general post (i am not shaming you claire, its ok, i understand it is confusing).
So lets just say relays are just websites, that is not actually that far from the truth anyway. And lets say that Nostr apps are just like webbrowsers (also basically the case).
Now Nostr is set up a bit differently than the regular web you are familiar with, and that allows us to do all sorts of cool stuff.
But how about start with an easy example and build from there:
So lets say you use 1 single relay and you are the only user on that relay, lets call it claireshome.com. now claireshome.com does not look like anything, unlike a regular website. Normal websites have like a homescreen and a theme and buttons and colors etc. whatever. But claireshome.com does not, it only has content, for instance all those pictures you post. What it looks like depends on the browser I happen to use. It can look like amethyst, or it can look like Ditto, or whatever app you happen to use, they all look different and show things differently; but when they are used to go to claireshome.com, they all show the same content, they all show those pictures you post.
So if i want to see your content, i use whatever app i want, and i go to claireshome.com and poof its there.
Now we can go into various directions and build it up. Lets first assume that claireshome gets a second user, called Bob. Bob also starts to post things, so when i go to claireshome.com, i don't just see your posts, i also see Bob's content.
Ok great, lets add another relay to the mix, called Aliceshome.com. alicehome.com has 1 user, called alice, and she posts her stuff there. If i want to see alice her stuff, i go to alicehome.com.
Alright, thusfar, this is basically how the current web works right? Aside from the fact that websites have their own make-up whereas with Nostr it depends on the app what things look like. If you go to reddit.com, you see what the users of that site post, if you go to instagram.com you see what those users post etc.
Back to our situation, two relays (aliceshome.com and claireshome.com) and 3 users (alice bob and claire). Alice is on aliceshome.com and bob & claire over at claireshome.com.
What i thusfar have described is what we call a 'relay feed'. You connect to a particular relay/server/site and you see all the stuff that is on there.
Now lets explain "follow feeds", the thing you are familiar with and how you probably use Nostr right now. Lets say I follow alice, and you, claire, but i don't follow bob.
My app knows that alice uses aliceshome.com and you use claireshome.com. So what my app does, is connect with those two sites/relays, and only fetches the content on those sites based on the publisher. Now, my app shows me a feed with your and Alice's content, and not Bob's content. Figuring out what site/relay to connect to and the fetching all happens automatically in the background, all I ever did was 'follow' both of you and my app knows enough to do the rest.
But what if claireshome.com goes offline for some reason *dramatic ascii expression*? That would mean all your posts are now gone. Luckely, you are a smart girl, and do not actually rely on a single relay. You also use bigpublicrelay.com. so when my app tries to get your content, it does not just try to connect to claireshome.com, but also to bigpublicrelay.com. claireshome.com is offline (sad panda), but luckely bigpublicrelay.com is not, so i get your stuff in my feed all the same!.
Bigpublicrelay.com has a million users. Its not really suited for a relay-feed. Doing that would result in a giant random mess of the posts of a million different people with no rhyme or reason to it. But thats ok, as a place to store your content for my follow-feed is works just fine, because i only fetch your stuff, and don't care about all those other users.
So in a way, you are super flexible now. On the current web, the content on reddit.com is particular to reddit.com, and you won't find it on instagram.com. maybe someone posted the same thing twice on both sites, thats possible, but the accounts under which they are posted are atleast different, one is a reddit account, the other an instagram account, and instagram accounts don't exist on reddit and vise versa. But on Nostr, the same exact post, under the same exact profile can exist an however many relays at the same time. Because of this, one relay/site doing down won't necesserally mean your stuff is gone/inaccesable. This is what we mean by "censorship resistance"; you can resist censorship by using multiple relays, and/or migrate to different relays over time.
Now because you are no longer stuck on a particular site (and remember, you were also not stuck with a particular app to begin with), it does not just liberate you, it also liberates these sites.
Instagram.com has to have these long meeting and discussions, and think really really hard, as to what their moderation policy is going to be. They have billions of users (basically everyone on earth), and all those people have different oppinions on what is supposedly moral or right or preferable or whatever. And becaue all those people are stuck on that platform in order to communicate with eachother, instagram all the sudden has the stupid moral responcibility to juggle all these interests, because banning people from their platform all the sudden socially isolates people, or destroys peoples businesses because of their reliance.
But because on Nostr users are flexible, those sites no longer have this type of responcibility anymore, they can just do whatever they want, for whatever reason they might have.
For instance, bigpublicrelay.com is ok with hosting the content of a million users, but they can't be bothered to keep all their stuff forever, so they just delete everything that is more than 6 months old. They also provide the service for free, so they are not super dilligent about it. If the site goes down on a saturday night, they wont haste themselves out of the club to fix it, they will wait until monday or whatever to have a look....or maybe sunday if you are lucky.
So if you want reliability, and clear expectations and professionalism and whatever, you go to a paid service.
Maybe a site/relay only hosts stuff from people they like, maybe claireshome.com is only available for pictures, maybe only swifties are allowed.
If I / my app wants to fetch your stuff, it has to connect to the particular relays you stuff happens to reside at that moment in time, so there is no magic here, you stuff is still 'somewhere' specifically, and where that is may change over time. Peope might use all sorts of different relays, but thats ok, my app can connect to 100 different sites if it needs to.
Now to round up things, let me give you one last example of what current web can't do. Lets say that in 5 years you and your vibepicturewhateverposting are world famous. And you post a picture. All sorts of conversations result from that posts. Your regular comments, but also blog posts, video essays, podcasts, academic articles on the cultural significance of your collage. All these conversations in various mediums happen all over the place on various sites/relays. Instead of me having to visit one blogwebsite to read one blog praising your post, and then another different site with blogposts hating on your stuff, and then 10 different news sites reporting on your posts etc.; my app (that is this crazy super app that supports all sorts of things like amethyst) can just look around on all these relays out there, and look for things in responce to your post, be that comment, articles, videos, podcasts, does not matter. They all directly reply/mention your post, and therefor my app can ask around on these sites if they happen to have content that references your post.
I never had to visit 100 different sites, i just did a single search on my app. And if i don't like that app, i can use another app all the same.
Nostr.
(Hope this helps....i gues it was a bit long, but it is what it is)

2026-08-15 15:11:58 UTC

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Weeks*

2026-08-15 15:09:20 UTC

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Ive been out in the full sun all day for week, never used suncream and have not been burned 🤷‍♂️. I walk an hour every day, so i had propper build up

2026-08-15 14:58:44 UTC

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What is your summer job? Mine is working with an electrician melting on top of rooftops in the summer heat among the solar panels and connecting large battery systems with stupidly large cables.
https://blossom.primal.net/5836c4565fe40a2e21f9ecac432c88bf9be8290a9c349afe8d9b3e5afee2537e.jpg

2026-08-08 08:23:21 UTC

Dear Nostr,
On the 7th of October, there will be a Open Source Conference in Luxembourg. I suspect the target audience will be the semi-normie public/private sphere, but mostly public sector, education etc.
Also i suspect this is very much intended as fediverse party. The whole fediverse thing got some traction ever since the EU decided it needs to become more independend from US "Big Tech".
I am pretty sure most of not all of these people are not even aware Nostr exists, it is simply not part of the conversation. Lets see if we can change that.
Ideally we hit them from all angles, demonstrating how Nostr already managed to eclypse in a few short years what this fediverse has been struggeling to acomplish in a decade.
Their theme this year is ''Leading by example in Digital Sovereignty'', and we are, so lets make them aware of it. At the very least we can shoot our shot; if they happen to be so biased towards the fediverse that we are not even welcome, so be it, only one way to find out.
There are 2 weeks left to submit. Lets see if we can coordinate a bit such that we are not in eachothers way. Hopefully if we can manage to get all the type of talks/workshops/training established among all their main tracks, and throw these people a curveball.
https://conference.opensource.lu/
@npub1q3s…d26p
@npub1xts…kk5s
@npub1m4n…c2jl
@npub176p…vgup
Tag anyone relevant below, these were just the first 4 names that came up with and figured i would not make the list too long.

2026-08-06 17:41:30 UTC

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Back?

2026-08-06 14:14:12 UTC

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If only there was this system where you can just publish signed stuff that natively indexes on pubkeys 🤔

2026-08-04 17:13:52 UTC

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he knows they are the one colluding right?......right???

2026-08-04 15:48:55 UTC

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You know who never has to fuck herself?

2026-08-04 13:21:35 UTC

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Fortes Fortuna iuvat!

2026-08-04 13:16:09 UTC

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Well, i would argue that i know a way. How about getting rid of a whole bunch of shitty men. That way,the others dont have to improve for the world as such to improve by lack of drag. #clubhanging #noosevirtue

2026-08-04 09:40:11 UTC

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@nprofile…mq6x well well well, who would have thunk

2026-08-04 04:50:52 UTC

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And Nostr is not even a gimmick here! because these files need to be shared somehow, Nostr is a pretty good fit.
Its so many damn quirks and things i have to navigate, and the only way through them is just endless testing/trying, because despite the A.I.'s best effort to actively inspect the memory to see what the game is actually doing when it is running and stuff, most of the bytes it only successfully identifies by isolating them and testing their function (and it requires me to do that on two computers going onto battlenet).
Already noticed for instance that in the demo video, both teams have the same color, already fixed that. It was another of they bytes that the A.I. just now noticed the purpose of🙄

2026-08-04 01:15:28 UTC

The proof! It may take a while before a cool fancy app results from this. But i wanted to get this part done and tested (the price is i have 3 hours of sleep time left for what will probably be a 13 hour work day tomorrow but it is what it is).
https://blossom.primal.net/415dedc183075f74885410e3f09284bd9f05ccbe8d13f4780c3ba14f08db81bd.mp4
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2026-08-04 00:28:25 UTC

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Well at some point i started assuming you don't know anything about bitcoin at all, so there is that... but i was just wondering if the 'real bitcoin' was a joke or a misunderstanding or a tongue in cheek remark towards below dust amount wallets. Thats all

2026-08-04 00:18:59 UTC

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Do you understand what a utxo is?

2026-08-04 00:16:00 UTC

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Honest question: do you even understand how lightning works?

2026-08-04 00:06:54 UTC

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i think the ven diagram of Nostr users and Coldcard users are the same tiny tiny tiny circle and everything outside of it is the rest of the 8 billion people on this planet

2026-08-03 22:52:31 UTC

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dunno.....my life has been fucking hashtrees for a long long while now due to Bitcoin, and i remained perfectly normal

2026-08-03 22:51:14 UTC

In light of the coldcard thing, allow me to zoom out for a second.
I have always considered the 'adoption' of cryptographic key-pairs in the hands of users, to be an intergenerational affair.
Its not particularly hard or mystical (the actual cryptography perhaps is, but the bottom line of a secret random number is not), but it does require 'ritualization' in order to facilitate the masses. Creating your own key-pair is very much like a rite of passage, and ''we'' all did it by ourselves, on our desk, perhaps while watching some youtube tutorial.
We already has the first wave of parents the taught their children. And i guess in some schools, among some teachers, they had a little lesson about this stuff as well.
But, albeit implicitly or perhaps you were not even really conscious of it, ''we'' are proposing that society as a whole starts to operate based on the fact that people hold their keys, be that with Bitcoin for money, or now with Nostr for...well...everything else (lol). And, this, albeit you might not be aware of it, implies rituals. Known, understood procedures with a particular cultural flavor to convey meaning, understanding and correct behavior.
Now i am all for chanting cypher monks and getting entropy from smoke and lasers, but the point is not what shape of form this stuff takes, and it can take many different shapes and forms, and will probably evolve over time anyway. The point is that someone like @npub1rxy…hnp8 in this frame, is like a priest. He preaches to you, and facilitates the rituals for the common pivotal points in life. Sure sure, he wont batiste you as a baby, conduct your marriage, batiste your own kids, and will guide your loved ones in the process shortly after your death....but he does something similar with this ''new'' thing we are injecting in into the set of ''common pivotal points''.
You can't do this stuff without ceremony, the anxiety that comes with the process of key-creation requires some re-assurance you are actually doing things correctly. It requires some training leading up to the point to give you a sense of competency. All of this is covered by ritual ceremony.
I know there are some programs in Africa, and El Salvador and whatever, that teach classes and make them 'graduate'. This is good, excellent even.
If the future is one of holding key-pairs; that future is not for the uninitiated.
https://blossom.primal.net/e5b6a8fde0a1821e8e7d053b818d75594944d8c8278f71d3313a86c10fd3916b.mp4

2026-08-03 15:08:58 UTC

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So, in this case just 1 step?

2026-08-03 08:02:02 UTC

One can wonder if the bricking of coldcards is more of a feature than a bug.
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2026-08-03 07:41:06 UTC

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Provided dice!? Weighted dice you mean! Let your A.I. check the .py of those dice before you roll them people 🧐

2026-08-03 07:35:24 UTC

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Yeah

2026-08-02 21:00:31 UTC

Update: i did it....for real this time, because it did not work properly at first.
Ive been banging the A.I.'s head against the wall a lot with this one, doing a lot a manual test with two computers trying to contiue with a save file that was created from some arbitrary moment between whatever players.
Maybe it is opus5 (fable did not dear to touch all the reverse engineering going on in this project), the prompt...the zillionth try, who will tell.
But it works. Now lets see if i can turn it into a lean working app and get some koreans to pay attention. Does anyone know Flash his phone number?
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2026-07-31 15:25:17 UTC

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I cut off some branches until it finaly fell put of the other tree

2026-07-31 15:20:42 UTC

So i had this issue:
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Dead fallen oak, stuck in another tree. This has been the situation for about 2 years, because its this whole thing and blablabla.
So this week i decided i was just going fix it.
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2026-07-29 15:05:41 UTC

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I will point out that Alex did state that his remark in the context of it being decentralized. So in that sense he is right. The point is that decentralization and scaling/efficieny don't mix well in this regard, so we can't expect that method to do everything for everyone all the time.

2026-07-29 15:01:32 UTC

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I think it important to point out here that the crucial factor here is scale and efficiency. Grimmoire was/is a client that demonstraded more fancy queries, and you can do all sorts of things that way. But insofar every-day use concerning large sets of people and a lot of events etc etc, the day to day way to do this is to rely on relay-feeds (that may or may not have done all the heavy lifting for you, leveriging those fancy queries themselves).
What is boils down to, is that 'location' is still important, but that identity (by extension social graph) and content/data is not strickly bound to a location/server/relay. So whenever for whatever reason, one of these relays you have been leveraging (for what they are good for) starts acting up, you have means/alternatives such that you don't instantly become marginalized down to your own website or some alt-platform neither of which anyone will ever visit ever....you probably won't even have to leave your app to 'reconnect' with someone

2026-07-28 12:58:24 UTC

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I understand, but you run into the same issue the moment your master key is compromised. You buy a rotation scheme and allowing for 1 key in cold storage, by paying for intepertation complexity/demands.
Im not saying that is a bad thing per se; one could argue that for high profile ID's, like a president or something, this is warrented; those that want to run this extra type of verification know that they should irt this ID, and can be bothered to do so (perhaps, assuming).
But as a 'general' scheme, i:
1: don't believe there will be one scheme that manages universal addoption.
2: think that should not even be the case to begin with, regardless of whether that is manageable/possible/achievable.
To expand on 2 (i deem 1 to be self-explanatory): all (rigid formal) defenses like this that you implement turn against you and benefit the attacker the moment an attacker succeeds in penetrating them. If the running assumption is 'this master key is truth/my guiding star the moment there is appearent chaos', and that assumption is invalid, you just increased the problem.
Frankly, i suspect i think that all rotation schemes should be abandoned, but like i said i leave the door somewhat open that they could be valid in certain instances (though i am almost convinced they are not....almost).
Ive written an article on this, but in short:
If all you can do is extend what is ultimately the same problem, i much rather just deal with it head-on, and accept that the only way to fix this is 'social recovery', i.e. leveraging 'side-channels' to re-establish the same 'identity' under a different keypair via the 'social' context of the old keypair. The more significant an ID is, the easier this probably is to achieve, so the risk is mitigated in that sense.
Where we find eachother is our love for OTS haha, because i think OTS can be used to preserve your post-history under an old key, by stating under the new key until what date the posts are valid, and outside observers can, using OTS, determine what is part of that history/the validity of it, after the fact.
Anyway, you will probably always going to find me countersignalling any (formalized) rotation scheme, but don't let me discourage you :)

2026-07-28 04:53:36 UTC

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You know what is nice about NIP-29? That it is not rocket science crypto voodoo magic.
Ergo:
What is the solution to data-loss? Back-ups elsewhere.
What is the solution against an unresponsive relay (for whatever reason)? Another relay.
Are these things clearly described inside the NIP? As it so happens, yes, they are, go read it. https://nips.nostr.com/29
Perhaps decent clients and a sense of responsibility towards a community among just a single participant of those 1000 users (not so) magically addresses these concerns.

2026-07-27 21:06:49 UTC

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Dont have the time or mental bandwidth to actually study your post to understand if i agree. But one note:
Nostr/relays (the "dumb" sort), solve a coordination problem, due to it providing a...how shall we call it, native index based on ID's, such that you can subsequently leverage specialized servers(not relays), in a decentralized way. Prime example of this 'trick' is GRASP. But i gues we do something similar with blossom servers and video calls already (ignore hodlbod's crazy thing for a sec, actually doing that over relays lol). Knowing the who or what (in any case this magical otherwise meaningless 256bit string), very easy allows you to figure out the where ( and when if applicable).
Ive made some post about the 'dumb' relay notion in the past, pointing out that the dumb mostly refers to the reduced responcibility narrowing it down to accepting, holding and making available of events; but subsequently it is in full controll over those things, and can leverage that controll in various 'smart' ways to provide a variety of functions.
Maybe i will return to you post later this week to figure out if it was not actually stupid so i have an excuse to yell pedantically.

2026-07-27 07:26:04 UTC

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I don't follow at all(no seriously, perhaps you were replying to something else?). Can you rephrase andor elaborate?

2026-07-27 04:47:46 UTC

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Do you mind if i point out that FROST is not multisignature, but results in a single signature? Its actually one of the major benefits of FROST, removing the complexity away from the script.

2026-07-27 04:38:31 UTC

tldr in caps at the bottom.
Everyone has this list of demands that can never all be true as far as 'groups' are concerned.
The most sensible straightforward, ensured to just work now, and in the future, thing is NIP29. But in the long list is demands, NIP29 does not comply because it is tied to a specific relay, and it is not encrypted.
Now is that a problem? Not really, you can migrate to another relay if there are any issues with the relay you happen to use. Relays are also one of the easiest type of server to run, so its the lowest threshold thing we can offer the world in terms of infrastructure requirements. If you want privacy, use a relay you trust for some reason, which is probably the least of your worries anyway because you also need to trust every participant not to leak stuff.
Its already better than everything else we use, be that telegram, or discord or whatever in terms of being able to use whatever server/relay you want, use whatever software/client you want and those clients can interface with whatever group, regardless of what relay they happen to run at. All of it better than what is already out there in the world.
But again, this impossible list of demands...
So people much rather just chase their own tail going in circles and circles, coming up with "new" things, in a domain of known trade-offs. that are bound to break at some point, or at best end up working shitty; but you won't notice that directly because any silly system works at small scale in a low complexity environment. By the time things do break down, or start to stutter, people won't understand why, because it is obscured with all these bells and whissles. And to fix or patch them, you are bound to move closer to what would ultimately look like NIP29 anyway.
Underneath it all is actually a fundamental misunderstanding concerning Nostr...or lack of complete understanding rather. This lack of comprehension is exemplified by the 'Nostr is the identity layer' crowd; they understand they key/signature part of Nostr, they ignore the Relay part of Nostr. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to diss anyone here, it took me a long time before i got it myself:
The point of Nostr was never to get rid of servers; the point of Nostr is to be free again to leverage them for what they are good for. "Platforms" conflated purposes, also taking responsibility for identity and by extension the social graph, resulting in the capture of the user. In that model, users and the network-effect-value they bring is locked in and tied to a particular server. And because those users are stuck, the server can force feed them any algo it wants. The whole point of the keys is that users themselves are able to generate them, subsequently sign their publications making them tamper-proof, which in turn reduces the trust-relationship and purpose of servers into simply relaying those publications, giving control back to users as to what they get to see. The point of Nostr was to shift our relationship to servers, using this 'trick'. But that also means a shift in the relationship between servers and their users. It free's servers, just as much as it did the users, no longer being beholdend to juggle the impossible combination of interests.
All of this opens up an entirely new landscape, and the implications create a spectrum that runs with that twofold liberation of both the user and the server on either end.
On the one end the server/relay is general and non-specific; and on the other the server/relay is particular and specific. Outbox-model on one extreme, NIP-29 on the other; and all the flexibility in between.
We are all figuring this out as we go, especially because most of it was/is stuck inside of the head of some mumbling guy with a silly accent that just assumed all the implications would be obvious to everyone from the get-go. But mostly because its all new, and we are all a bunch of uncoordinateable cats tinkering in decentralized chaos.
These posts always escalate to the point where they were probably better done as a long-form post with some care to remove the typo's and things...but i got to go, so it is what it is. The take-away:
USE RELAYS FOR WHAT THEY ARE GOOD FOR WHICH IS CURATION AND ORDERING; USE RELAY FEEDS, USE NIP29, USE NIP63, ETC.
Nostr.
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2026-07-27 02:56:46 UTC

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Are any of these devs on Nostr?

2026-07-26 15:12:12 UTC

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Let me copypasta what someone wrote in a chat i am in a while ago:
"The EU privacy takes in general are like they assembled a group of people to make good reccomendations and then deliberately did the opposite. It is overwhelmingly for the worse.
GDPR is an asinine burden on both companies and users, thanks EU for every single fuckin website having a cookies popup now before I can read anything. I definitely didn't already have a browser extension installed to handle cookies.
"Right to be forgotten" abused by people who are actual degenerates and criminals to remove google links about them
Bad reviews are "defamatory"
Not a single EU effort to go against the laws making it illegal to criticize or insult politicians
I have to admire how much worse they can make it. Some of these I couldn't even have thought of myself as bad ideas"

2026-07-26 15:05:10 UTC

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Sjors.....they could just delete their own tweet. Oh what, they are not in full 100% control of those servers? Is that it? On all practical levels that is a silly argument to make. Both from the fact that i can just safe the complete webpage they themselves published, as well as that this picture is ''out there'' and that genie is out of the damn bottle already

2026-07-26 14:21:17 UTC

tell me you are retarded, without telling me you are retarded:
https://blossom.primal.net/7f38f8ed887fc59f67c4bb9bb2d304d853613bd586410abd10e42e75562be438.png

2026-07-26 08:45:50 UTC

With all the buzz around Buzz, lets provide the world some context shall we?
It so happened we had a conversation at @npub167n…zu3r on Nostr and AI. If you have any contact with the ''outside world'', who were not aware of Nostr before Buzz came along, perhaps this can provide them with some context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPKMcnOTUag
I would like to thank these three for making up the panel.
@npub1s05…eyhe
@npub1hz5…tysa
@npub1kzk…p65n

2026-07-25 09:08:47 UTC

Mood
https://cdn.satellite.earth/eddeccec5e51b9b62c504af1992932eb47c91c9f3be86e4a24a6d8282ff95720.mp3

2026-07-25 00:58:29 UTC

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Purple, obviously

2026-07-25 00:22:18 UTC

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Honor is all mine.
Late last year, beginning of this year i had this little podcast tour where i did a dozen and a half or so podcast appearances. And as far as I can tell, you are one of the few of those podcasters, if not the only one that took it to heart and dove in head first. Obviously i'd like everyone to have a similar to response by the first mention of Nostr they come across; the bottom line is that I truly feel that 'one is enough' for it to have been worthwhile. You gave me that, for that i have to thank you. But above all you give Nostr just a tad more color with fighting geese, mutant Zucchini, and lovely podcast descriptions that are content gold in and of themselves.

2026-07-24 19:31:21 UTC

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The slopping will continue!

2026-07-24 16:15:01 UTC

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Few can GRASP the scale of the revolution

2026-07-23 20:27:54 UTC

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The client gave me an error (twice), but when i opened on another client to try over there i saw the payments were succesfull; so it was by accident

2026-07-23 18:19:02 UTC

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if even your sticks are stone, you are for sure a dwarf

2026-07-23 18:06:38 UTC

Going live
https://noagenda.stream/#/livestream

2026-07-23 13:37:21 UTC

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don't use their relay 🤷‍♂ (to the extend that is currently possible, im not sure)

2026-07-23 09:24:27 UTC

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This is for using one of their relays though

2026-07-23 02:43:22 UTC

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well, i put the * there for a reason. I would not say ''barely''....lets say that in principle it is trying...it seems like, sort of. It could use an actual Nostr dev, and imo should be more unapologetically Nostr in general. But they have this stupid idea over there that Nostr should fade into the background, as if that is even possible (spoiler, it isnt)

2026-07-23 01:04:02 UTC

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At the end of the day, you can always have your agents interact via Nostr itself

2026-07-23 00:52:24 UTC

In modern discourse, ''tolerance" is presented as some virtue, but it is not. For the most part you should be intolerant and seek to enforce what you deem proper behavior.
From this perspective, tolerance is not the result of some virtuous consideration, but a practical one in light of an inability to enforce against that you in other circumstance prefer not to tolerate.
In modern discourse, ''neutrality'' is presented as some virtue, but it is not. All it is an unwillingness to differentiate. For the most part you should not be neutral, and differentiate between what you deem to be right and wrong.
From this perspective, neutrality is preverable if you have an uncertain relationship to the arbiter that would decide what is right or wrong. You opt for neutrality for the sake of the thing not turning against you, despite that it means it won't also turn against someone else you might dislike.
Ergo, neutral systems, demand tolerance. This demand for tolerance is the direct other side of the neutral coin, it goes both ways.
Bitcoin was designed as a ''neutral'' system. Outside of very clear and set rules, it does not differentiate. The thing is, this is not a technical property (such a thing is impossible), it is an emergent property resulting from decentralization. Within how the system is set up, and how incentives are alligned, even ''Satan'' wil eventually find some miner, or will employ his own, in order to get his transactions mined. And all you get to do, is tolerate it, you have no other option, except for disengaging with the system as a whole.
Now Bitcoin has some sensible guardrails....perhaps a bit arbitrary sometimes, and established in a messy way, but non of that really matters. The moment you started using Bitcoin, you implicitly agreed and accepted it for what it is. Whether that its distribution including patoshis million, or its blocksize limits. The consensus rules are what defines Bitcoin, and that consensus is established over time with every new participant perfoming this implicit agreement the moment he or she started to interact with the system.
But...the rules are not ''hard'', again, they are this emergent property as a result of human behavior.
The BIP-110 crowd (and this is the only post i will be making on this topic), is confused. First up, they don't seem to realise the requirement for tolerance. "Spam" is intolerable to them; well if that is the case, a neutral system is not for you, because appearently you can't seem to bear the consequences.
Second, they appearently never realized that the system they joined, ran under the assumption that 1-4mb per block was the ratelimiting sufficient to not let things go out of controll on the one hand, and the assumption that ultimately fee's will determine what will get mined into a block.
You don't get to say what the chain composition will be. On a per block basis, miners get that say, and on the aggregate, nobody is in control. All you get to do, is sit down, and tolerate it; accept it for what it is, seeking refuge in the notion that it won't get worse than at a 4mb/10minute basis.
This whole BIP-110 business is a neurotic desperate attempt at control, because the lack of control is intolerable. Nothing changed in Bitcoin, the consensus rules are the same as they were before those relay policies got altered. But somehow a whole lot of you were hoodwinked into being anxious; first seeking control on the relay level while that cat was already out of the bag; and failing that, escalating to seeking control on the consensus level with the most retarded set of proposals from a protocol/engineering perspective.
The sky is not falling, if you don't trust in Bitcoin, then switch to gold or whatever, but realize that all of this bullshit ultimately boils down to your inability to tolerate the consequences of a neutral system that has to deal with the realities of information theory that there is a difference between data and information. Information is what results after you interpreted data. And that means that you cannot, fundamentally can not, determine what the intended information is based on the data, based on the bits. SO IF YOU DONT LIKE WHAT THE INFORMATION IS THAT IS ENCODED IN THE BLOCKCHAIN THAN TOUGH FUCKING LUCK BECAUSE NO COMPUTER CODE ON FUCKING EARTH CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT.
Boohoo, Bitcoin is supposed to be for money blablablabla. The only way that will ever be true, is if fee's dictate that that is the only viable usecase for claiming blockspace. There.is.no.other.way. And whether you were aware of it, you already agreed to this the moment you started using the system. It might be a cold shower if you only just now realize this, but throwing a tampertantrem won't change the facts of the matter.
So stop acting like a bunch of pathetic children that are not getting their way.
This was not an argument, this was a public service announcement. I have no interest to debate the matter. You will be ignored.

2026-07-22 22:57:01 UTC

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they are a traveling salesman at heart

2026-07-22 22:46:44 UTC

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watch the video first and actually respond to something they said.
for instance that shorter one talked about the fact you have to download the desktop app to use it. So you can mention that armada is both a web app and a mobile app.
No need to thank me for fucking doing your work

2026-07-22 22:24:14 UTC

I like to live on the edge
https://blossom.primal.net/a3510478eff5634739e894c281020c7473451a065d834790f04f117e84cc84eb.png

2026-07-22 22:20:51 UTC

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btw derek, pro-tip. Get into the comments of these youtubers with your armada stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8dQBSKIGyc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDYfPXkUEm0

2026-07-22 21:50:50 UTC

Yesterday i was monitoring the twitter thread of the announcement of Buzz, and i noticed there atleast start-ups that realized they were r3kt because Buzz was something similar to what they were doing/planning to do.
I was in a voicechat with the soapbox people at that moment and @npub1jvn…89sc responded that they were one of them. But she was wrong.
This is the nice thing about Nostr, is that because you are no longer offering a platform where its binary in terms of users being either on your thing, or on someone else's thing, and the biggest thing being the winner of it all.
No, instead, the users of your thing don't miss out because they are not on the other thing, and you never lost out in terms of competing. At any moment, you can have a better offer, and users can switch with very low to 0 friction. There is no 1 thing that is the winner, other than the standard* itself.
Nostr
*assuming people play nice and are thoughtfull in terms of those standards.
#nevent1q…ryew

2026-07-22 21:43:38 UTC

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@npub1q3s…d26p do we have in view yet what all the weird bespoke/breaking choices are that Buzz made irt existing Nostr standards?

2026-07-22 20:34:16 UTC

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🎵the internet is for...🎶

2026-07-22 20:15:51 UTC

So he executed on his exit strategy, as a true buzzkill
RIP
#nevent1q…qe9q

2026-07-22 18:32:22 UTC

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At current velocity im starting to consider us a break away internet civilization

2026-07-22 18:25:27 UTC

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"Small internet" as @npub1kk0…6xq2 calls it

2026-07-22 18:24:44 UTC

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throwing around long words are we?

2026-07-22 15:45:33 UTC

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more variations of what is effectively cardboard

2026-07-22 15:42:32 UTC

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oh lord, someone gave Alex an idea again...hide yo kids, hide yo wife

2026-07-22 15:41:02 UTC

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Sir, the site buzzing your cpu is a feature, not a bug....well...also a bug i guess🤔🐝

2026-07-22 15:31:46 UTC

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are the hardcoded relays also fixed?

2026-07-22 15:30:44 UTC

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Sounds like being haunted by some ghost that has not even emerged yet. I much rather meet those complaints head on in the public channels, convincing the passive reader with superiour reasoning; those people that will complain for whatever reason will do so regardless, they are an opportunity to educate the rest.
What, are you scared? Why avoid this confrontation? We have all the best keyboard warriors im sure, we will pwn the shit out of trolls, im a level 99 oldfag, let them come.
Bella verborum inevitabilia;
Dominatio per rhetoricam.
Nostr

2026-07-22 15:08:05 UTC

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First the Buzz team has some work to do to fix their Nostr stuff, because what is stated in their documentation currently does not reflect the reality of things in their software just yet. We can give them some slack (hehe), but if they don't do it soon enough they will be bad example of things that gets a lot of attention regardless and will be a first touchpoint for Nostr for many people and will cause discord (hhehhehehe) as a result.

2026-07-22 12:20:50 UTC

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Buzz definitly needed to use Nostr because it is the underpinning of the entire architectural vision behind the product. No Nostr, no blossom, no ngit, no app interoperability, no sovereign identity...non of it.
All of it only makes sense from the paradigm that Nostr introduces, and the whole point of that paradigm is that all the other possible usecases of the protocol can tie-in to whatever it is this Buzz thing is doing, if not just from an identity andor socialgraph point of view, but potentially more.
Ergo, our entire civilization needs to be made aware of this paradigm, at least to the degree they have the intuition that when it says ''Nostr'' on the box, its works with all that other stuff that says ''Nostr'' on the box. In that regard its not ''written in Go'' its ''USB", such that you know you can connect your camera to your computer.
Whenever we get to the point that alteast to a small degree such understanding exists, the twitter thread of @npub1sg6…f63m 's announcement wont be filled by ''why not Discord'', ''Why not slack'', because they already understand how and why that is a retarded question.

2026-07-22 11:26:33 UTC

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I agree with this moral angle. Not that it is particularly effective in ''converting'' people, but i think it is true non the less.
In line with that i can't really bring up any more sympathy for any content creator or whatever that gets rug-pulled. They are very much aware of their precarious situation, so it was also on them to do something about it. The only thing can give them is that these things take time, and that Nostr itself still requires a lot of work, and that they can't just abandon existing network effects because they ''business'' relies on it; but at the same time, all of those things would be massively accelerated if all of them would dedicate just 10% of their attention to Nostr. Instead i encouter a lot of apathy, so....fuck 'm

2026-07-22 08:29:50 UTC

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The list of nostr 'violations' is longer actually. For the time being i optimistically put that on it being an alpha version on the one hand and that the devs behind it not being Nostr devs on the other.

2026-07-22 07:44:30 UTC

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Gm btw

2026-07-22 07:43:30 UTC

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The clear benefit is the fact that it is what differentiates his silly app from all the other silly apps out there.
Now do people understand that? No, they don't.
SO WE WILL HAVE TO FUCKING INFORM PEOPLE ABOUT IT SO THAT THE NEXT TIME SOMEONE ELSE HAS A SILLY APP AND ITS BUILD ON NOSTR PEOPLE DO UNDERSTAND WHY IT IS RELEVANT. AND WE WILL FOREVER RUN AGAINST THAT PROBLEM IF NOBODY BOTHERS TO EXPLAIN IT TO THEM IF FAGGOTS LIKE YOU AND JACK KEEP THINKING IT SHOULD NOT BE ON THE FUCKING MARKETING PAGE.

2026-07-21 23:45:34 UTC

Looking at the interactions on Twitter, Jack should have just mentioned Nostr right then and there. All that happened by omitting it was confusion and others having to point to Nostr in order to give some clarity.
Inb4 'but people don't know what Nostr is anyway'
Yes, that is the point. They need to read the word first, before they even know what to investigate to get understanding.
Inb4 'people dont need to know about Nostr'
Yes, they do.
#nevent1q…l2v4

2026-07-21 22:30:18 UTC

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and they are small :(

2026-07-21 22:30:08 UTC

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5 :(

2026-07-21 20:16:16 UTC

I am a grown man, i can empty a box of snickers icecream in 1 go if i want to

2026-07-21 19:09:27 UTC

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windows version

2026-07-21 18:26:59 UTC

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well....not much is happening. I click the accept and redeem button. It spins...and then. Nothing🤷‍♂

2026-07-21 18:17:16 UTC

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can you add
@npub14le…24x0
?

2026-07-21 18:14:23 UTC

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oh, yeah, sure, i guess. Might help to get some feedback on things in case you missed something or someone genuinely has a better idea or addition....
But all of this was permissionless to begin with. Except NIP-01, leave that shit alone, and if you do adopt a standard, actually adopt it and don't mangle it.

2026-07-21 17:04:30 UTC

PSA: The most sure shot way you get a ton of users is to throw a ton of money at it in terms of marketing and incentives for new users.
#nevent1q…c9mz

2026-07-21 16:59:55 UTC

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this post is meaningless, you are not actually saying much of anything here because interpretation can go into any direction on any level.
Are you saying you can just go ahead and build in proprietary server side stuff which by definition can't interoperate?
Are you saying you can just take some kind/NIP and use it in a different way such that it breaks on every other client, and not interoperate in that way?
Or are you simply saying that you can put some NIP/kind out there, carefully not using any number that is already in use, and claim that spot for that number with that feature/usecase simply by becoming dominant which already was the idea of how things work behind Nostr?
Or do you mean all of those things? Something else?

2026-07-20 23:06:28 UTC

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Ribs or gtfo

2026-07-20 23:05:38 UTC

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Its great isnt it.

2026-07-20 23:04:20 UTC

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Sir, looking at the code is for the monkeys

2026-07-20 22:58:59 UTC

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"Welcome to my talk about AI.
So, Nostr is an open internet protoco....."

2026-07-20 20:13:44 UTC

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You have to understand that this assumes a cultural strategy.
What if my cultural strategy is to actively undermine the outgroup?
I don't disagree with you, but there is an assumption of universalism there, and that is not a universal mode of operation.
So....better gear up brother, we have a crusade or 2 to go on...oh and a whole lot of hanging, because that is how those norms got established in the first place🤷‍♂

2026-07-20 20:06:11 UTC

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https://www.facebook.com/help/212802592074644
You can pick between html and JSON format. The JSON one is a bit richer so easier to deal with.
This site was innitialy purely as a demo for those SETUP people, and unfortunatly if you want to use it its a bit too buggy at the moment. Only will spend real time on it if that cooperation with them goes through, so for now it will remain mostly slop :(

2026-07-19 21:00:04 UTC

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Now i generally don't trust you to design anything right in terms of Nostr, and ive been contemplating a Nostr based OS for a long while now. So lets have a call before you make a bunch of things replaceable events for no good reason at all 🧐. After that you can ignore me anway and fuck it up regardless

2026-07-19 16:59:37 UTC

De groei in technologie brengt groei in potentie, maar verminderd niet de algehele moeite die in het leven moet worden gestoken. De groei in potentie betekend de groei in risico, en de groei in risico betekend vergrote verantwoordelijkheid.
Kort gezegd, vuur is link, maar een kerncentrale is stukke gevaarlijker.
Probleem is alleen, ik zie onze samenleving verkeren in het laatste stadium van een imperium in verval: Decadentie...but who cares, YOLO right?
We zullen steeds meer tijd en moeite moeten gaan stoppen in het overdenken hoe we nieuwe technologie gaan implementeren, maar dit doen we te weinig.
Verwonderlijk is het niet, als je na gaat in welk kamp ''the cutting edge of sience'' zich bevind....bij ''the 1%''. Wanneer we het hebben over nano-tech, bio-tech en alle andere vlakken van technologie die de transhumanistische natte droom werkelijkheid moeten gaan maken zien we een grote overeenkomst...ze zijn rete duur. gigantische onderzoeksinstallaties, duur betaalde wetenschappers en lange onderzoek periodes maken de volgende stappen in technologische ontwikkeling nauwelijks te bekostigen. Gelukkig bestaan er zoiets als multinationals die inkomsten van over de gehele wereld bij elkaar schrapen zodat ze instaat zijn tot dit soort ontwikkelingen....met een patent natuurlijk.
Het zijn ZIJ die bepalen hoe JIJ je technologie zal gaan gebruiken en onder welke voorwaarde. En hebben deze mensen jou belangen op het oog? JA! Tenminste, als ''a brave new world'' toevallig ook jouw beeld van een utopie is, en je welwillend staat tegenover het opgaan in ''the borg collective''.
Waar en of de mensheid een lijn gaat trekken weet ik niet, maar het wordt een keer tijd, anders komen we in een situatie waarin we onszelf niet eens meer mens kunnen noemen. Ik vind men maar iets te wel willend om zich deel te maken van een gecentraliseerd netwerk in ruil voor kortzichtig comfort( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDYqclPUmYM ). Fuck mijn privacy, ik wil mijn Iphone, tablet en GoogleGlass, stfu en take my money! Want de gedachte dat je MOEITE moet gaan steken om er voor te zorgen dat je op verantwoorde wijze omgaat met technologie is natuurlijk bizar....ik bedoel, dat betekend verantwoordelijkheid....en dat is iets voor volwassenen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDYqclPUmYM

2026-07-19 16:59:37 UTC

Dames en Heren, bij deze een korte docu over de reformatie:
Deel 1: http://youtu.be/g68tGKm-Ios
Deel 2: http://youtu.be/u0Iagn-bjm4
Geeft een verloop van opkomst Luther tot en met 1547 de oorlog tegen de Duitse protestantse alliantie.

2026-07-19 16:59:37 UTC

Afgelopen zomer heb ik een driedelige interviewserie gemaakt voor Café Weltschmerz over de implementatie van Blockchain technologie. Ze staan nu eindelijk online, en aangezien ik nu met m'n harses op 't internet sta, deel ik het maar:
De institutionalisering van de Blockchain
https://youtu.be/w49ZbwHc31c
De problemen met de politieke kant van de Blockchain:
https://youtu.be/8D28BPmrUj4
De mogelijkheden en beperkingen van de Blockchain:
https://youtu.be/FZzQrM0RFKI?t=15s

2026-07-19 15:19:38 UTC

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read this as your mom yelling towards the backseat at the start of the vacation roadtrip

2026-07-19 14:40:08 UTC

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Alright, lets tackle this:
First, privacy is not really a Nostr talking-point. Aside from apps not needlessly spying on you, and if they do want all your base to be are belong to them, you simpy use another app because you can.
Nostr is first and foremost a publication protocol...i.e...public; it was not designed to be private.
Second, censorship-resistance from its political angle indeed is not all too interesting to most people. But the internet itself is censorship resistant, was build for that purpose, and is very much the reason why it caught on because it also means fault tollerance. The fact that some content creator gets away from view because it gets (shadow)banned for whatever reason, or platforms simply stopping existence, or some AWS panick shutting everything you use down ARE reasons why Nostr is simply better; because it does not (necesseraly) suffer from those things.
You don't need to self host anything, Nostr is delibaretly not P2P. To quote the intro of the ''white-paper'': "it does not rely on P2P techniques, therefore it works.".
As for keys. Humans generally are perfectly capable of savekeeping things. It is not some foreign concept, we do it all the time. They are just not as familiar with cryptographic keypairs yet. This is just a concept that they need to develop intuition around, in order to addequately leverage the practices, tooling and systems we have and can come up with to mitigate some of the rougher edges.
Saying ''they are not able to grasp that concept'' is frankly stupid if you look at a bazillion of everyday things we ''demand'' the general populace to ''grasp'' in order to function in daily life; you just never reflect on them because they are already normal to you.
Data-loss is first up a bad relay setup; and second not some incomprehensible thing. What, are people suprized they lost their stuff if their house burned down? Same thing with the key stuff....do we have ''house rotation'' for the moment your house burns down? Are houses doomed and will never take off because a lack of ''house rotation''?Do people expect that magically their valuables, like photo-albums to re-appear and are they confused they are gone if their house burned down? Ofcourse not.
All of this is such a cold take, because basically what you are complaining about is the fact that people have yet to develop an intuition around a completely new paradigm. Well...duh, obviously. Zoomers can't read analogue clocks anymore, is that because analogue clocks are some mysterious ultra-turbo-mega complex thing?
How about you try to explain how to draft and post a letter to a zoomer, or how banking worked before the internet. You will probably have just as much of a hard time explaining that as you have explaining Nostr to newcomers.
In first instance, this has nothing to do with Nostr as such, but just with the fact it is new, and therefor unfamiliar. They lack the concepts, the words, and some image on how things roughly fit together in order to incorperate it into their world-view.
The thing is, non of this actually stopped any new paradigm from ultimately becomming normalized. So that brings us to the question as to why a transition to the new paradigm would occur at all. That, i already gave a brief outline for that.

2026-07-19 13:26:07 UTC

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Yes, asks a lot from both the newcomer as well as the community to get people through that process. But this is normal. If you look at all those 90s internet instruction videos, you on the one hand will laugh at how silly they are sometimes, but also realize how much ground work it takes before a general intuition is created among the broader populace; its only after it has been well integrated/normalized and a generation grows up inside that environment do all these things start to feel self evident.
@npub1utx…50e8 the referencing in the post above did not go so smooth, time to throw fable in 10 parrallel workflows on the matter.

2026-07-19 13:16:13 UTC

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Well, you can say that, but what is your thesis behind that statement?
I can shortly re-iterate my reasoning, which is based on the fact that the (potential) UX is better (pick your app, pick your algo, not having to manage multiple accounts to access various silos of content, smoother paywalls). And that the horizontal network-effects throughout various social-graphs/usecases ultimately is more powerfull than the vertical social-graphs per use-case.
I.e. we are not competing head on, we are ultimately on a different plane all together.
(i did not mention timelines, i have no idea on the timelines. There are also various domains as wel as geographical and social groupings that may run on different timelines)