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But is it ready for the masses if/when they do come? Not without a built-in solution to spam (i.e. cost baked into the protocol, not bolted on like with zaps).
Nostr right now is a better IRC with nice app support. Which is very nice and I enjoy it, but I'm under no delusion that it actually plays in the same ballpark as social media platforms.

2024-04-03 06:41:17

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kidding aside, anyone actually managed to get zaps working on a mac? nothing works for me...

2024-04-03 06:38:06

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Yea Hamas cannot be trusted I agree.

2024-04-03 06:18:01

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holy shit this is epic. Very nice work, man.

2024-04-03 06:17:02

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Learn to code? Math is orders of magnitude harder to learn than most programming languages.

2024-03-20 20:42:24

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For the last time, it's no Barry deciding to sell coins. It's GBTC lettuce hands.

2024-03-20 16:45:45

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pro tip: you can re-map the caps-lock key to esc on most operating systems.

2024-03-20 15:02:49

I've failed to get Alby to work on the desktop as a way to connect a LN wallet and send zaps. Is there another extension that I could try?

2024-03-20 14:54:47

https://image.nostr.build/351fc533e5ca82b54df9a28fc437c1ae67f7b2277c5bb5f67365ab0f8fecd78e.jpg

2024-03-20 14:52:45

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What utter garbage. By the same logic heart medicine is linked to an increase in risk of death from heart disease.

2024-03-20 14:45:31

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Nostr has no economic spam countering mechanism on the protocol level (the protocol is inherently free, like SMTP) which means it's up to relays to fight spam and that's an inevitable centralizing force.
Fortunately the protocol could yet be overhauled to fix this using something like HTTP 402 (i.e. make everything paid).
Till then the network is zombie walking towards an inevitable censorship reality once it's big enough and spam is burdensome enough.

2024-03-20 14:41:56

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You can choose what to send with SMTP - does this mean SMTP is not centralized?

2024-03-20 14:41:01

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You cite one reason - one way in which nostr is centralized today, and because that particular reason, you claim, is not due to the protocol itself, then nostr in general isn't centralized on the protocol level. But that's a mistaken conclusion because there are other centralizing aspects of the nostr protocol aside from the one you cited, and Peter has discussed some of them.

2024-03-20 14:36:29

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SMTP is also a centralized protocol, and it has nothing to do with official implementations or servers. The centralization pressure is baked into its design. The same is true for nostr unfortunately.

2024-03-20 07:40:26

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https://m.primal.net/Hmez.jpg

2024-03-20 07:39:06

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what’s the point of stablecoins?

2024-03-18 20:21:11

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bitcoin has more value without being accepted as a medium of exchange than nostr has with an empty feed

2024-03-18 13:30:13

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don't forget to swap the SIM!

2024-03-15 15:49:58

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These brownies look delicious! 👍

2024-03-15 15:44:59

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make me rich make me rich!
https://m.primal.net/HlKu.png

2024-03-14 06:58:29

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What is the solution to spam/bots on nostr? The basic protocol is free (as in beer), which puts a centralizing pressure on the network topology.
The system should pivot to paid-only use. Charge for reading, get paid for being read, etc.

2024-03-12 21:44:05

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No they don’t. Your ISP doesn’t get to decrypt https packets. That’s not how the internet works. At most they see the domain name, but none of the personal details like the website suggests.

2024-03-12 10:02:56

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What are the odds of it being implemented?

2024-03-12 08:28:42

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this is plainly false.
VPN providers cannot see https-encrypted traffic like on chase.com
Not a good way to start off your business - with misleading claims about competitors.
https://m.primal.net/Hjzp.png