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chronic early adopter of decentralized tech :)

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2026-07-07 13:23:36 UTC

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It’s definitely two different pathways. ASIC-resistance is also a moving target. So more updates needed, more reliance on the core developers. Current Monero algorithm seems to have lasted fairly long though surprisingly.

2026-07-07 13:13:02 UTC

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If I understand correctly, you’re saying that Bitcoiners would build Monero on rootstock if it would increase demand for bitcoin?
Something to consider is that Monero has 30% of the daily transactions volume of Bitcoin despite being only 0.5% of the price of Bitcoin. The usage/volume is the proof. No “belief” needs to be involved.
Why is the volume on Monero so high and why is it so low on mixers and other privacy tech? Probably because those are little fiddly tools that are error prone and make people feel like perverts. Monero is just simple like regular cash. Monero feels normal. Take that with a grain of salt but it’s my theory as to why people like it.
You are one of the people that says Monero can just be sidechain on Bitcoin. I never said that. I’m just replying to your idea like, “sure, that sounds great”. It wasn’t my idea in the first place. Again, Monero people have zero incentive to build this. Meanwhile Bitcoiners would be adding 100k more daily transactions to their usage.

2026-07-04 18:53:49 UTC

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They say Monero can just be a side chain of some kind; okay, I would love that lol

2026-07-04 17:41:29 UTC

BTC maximalists project their own closed-mindedness onto others. XMR users *want* to use BTC.
#nevent1q…0zyu

2026-07-03 16:00:31 UTC

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Literally two Swiss guys on the Swiss team. Manzambi, Vargas, Akanji, Ndoye, Embolo, Who gives a fuck

2026-07-02 21:07:29 UTC

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I do pay. roughly $3 a month I think.
I like the idea of a clear business model. Why would someone run a relay for free? Makes no sense. They must be some kind of freak.

2026-07-02 15:55:41 UTC

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I think product management is a more valuable skill in the era of AI. Because it’s much more important figuring out what to build when you can now theoretically build anything.
But I’m also not going to sit here and pretend it’s difficult to learn this stuff just bc I was a product manager 😅 IQ is probably a more accurate “skill” than anything (like with everything)

2026-07-02 15:37:03 UTC

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Agile doesn’t teach you systems thinking though. It teaches you make-work process management. Agile is India slop

2026-07-02 15:32:30 UTC

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I didn’t select to put mine on the DHT bc I didn’t set up tor yet

2026-07-01 18:24:57 UTC

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Ah this worked!

2026-07-01 18:23:59 UTC

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Hmm not sure why it’s not working. We need the creator of this thing to start testing with people. Gotta dogfood it

2026-07-01 17:41:16 UTC

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Did you also turn on Global Discovery (DHT) in the preferences?

2026-07-01 17:40:14 UTC

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Hmm I got
“Error: failed to query identity from f2d326a0: No addressing information available”
It says paste a Node ID to follow. Is that for sure your Node ID and not your public key ?

2026-07-01 15:20:42 UTC

I would like to see a Nostr app focused almost exclusively on contact management. A Rolodex for “permissionless phone numbers”.
Maybe bring in a few additional functions that make sense ( like event signing @npub1cla…539g or secret sharing a lá Horcrux @npub16zs…92l7 )
So you have an app whose surface area is just managing your own account and the relationships that you have to other accounts. A little black book.

2026-07-01 14:33:17 UTC

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I’m no expert (there’s a lot here) https://docs.iroh.computer/protocols/using-quic#custom-transports
But I think that https://p2panda.org also builds on iroh’s custom transports to reduce reliance on UDP.
The thing I like about the Proscenium design is the p2p foundation with the optional discovery servers. So users that don’t use a discovery server don’t lose anything other than…. discovery….

2026-07-01 03:58:13 UTC

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https://github.com/iohzrd/proscenium
Read that and lmk what you think

2026-06-30 19:57:53 UTC

Wait, ecash.com has privacy, scalability, and quantum resistance all on their own separate side chains (Thunder, Z-Side, and Photon)? Meaning they still do not have private and scalable money…. What is the actual point lmfao

2026-06-30 16:30:09 UTC

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nice troll.
BTC didn’t increase it. Its blocks are now empty and purely a speculatory asset.
Where is your god now ?

2026-06-30 14:58:54 UTC

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Won’t be displayed by the clients. Bitcoin maxxi libertarianism has already done irreparable damage

2026-06-29 15:55:08 UTC

Most nostr clients have disallowed custom fields in bios specifically so people can’t put shitcoin addresses in their bios
#nevent1q…gh63

2026-06-27 13:05:37 UTC

IRL for the longest time, a phone call was the only thing that was “push”. And so many people hated the ring that they often just left their phone unplugged lol.
People might show up to your house for a visit. That’s push.
Or if you specifically go to a social gathering, you get “pushed” by a lot of people, but that’s specifically when you want to be social.
Everything else was pull.

2026-06-27 12:21:59 UTC

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That’s how Jane Austen wrote. Duty compelled characters.

2026-06-25 18:06:38 UTC

I upvote every bitcoiner that doesn’t understand the halving cycles. We love our retard bagholders, don’t we folks.

2026-06-25 00:48:50 UTC

The Grin community has started integrating with Nostr.
The new Goblin wallet is using Nostr as a way to get Cash App style UX by messaging slatepacks around https://github.com/2ro/goblin

2026-06-23 16:50:50 UTC

The genius of substack is that the “credible exit” is just a list of email addresses you can export at any time. That’s it.
Post your email to their indexer / discovery server if you wish. Or don’t.
#nevent1q…l2rt

2026-06-23 16:45:02 UTC

I’m struggling to imagine how Substack could be improved upon. Can anyone think of a way?

2026-06-23 16:29:54 UTC

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Substack is still better though. Not everyone has a nostr pubkey. But everyone has an email.

2026-06-23 14:35:28 UTC

Another one https://www.rhomeapp.com/
3,500 followers on their Instagram account. That’s more active users than any Nostr app has.
#nevent1q…55kq

2026-06-22 17:26:06 UTC

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To not go to jail

2026-06-22 15:17:29 UTC

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I’ll remind you that your first reply to this whole convo is that people are using bitcoin wrong.

2026-06-21 16:27:07 UTC

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Split transactions up, mix them and recombine them? State actors could do that extremely easily. They’d have entire tech teams and processes for managing those flows

2026-06-21 00:14:52 UTC

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How is the pubky nexus indexer comparing to atproto’s appview indexers?

2026-06-20 13:30:05 UTC

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What is easier on bitcoin though: someone with infinite resources hiding their transactions, or someone with almost no resources hiding their transactions?
Again, this idea that bitcoin is intentionally designed to make small transactions private and larger ones public just isn’t true. It will be easy for a state to have the best tools for privacy and difficult for a poor individual to have them.

2026-06-20 00:14:54 UTC

Is anyone making Pebble watch apps?

2026-06-19 14:43:46 UTC

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I like the idea of “the larger the transaction, the more difficult privacy becomes”. I just don’t think Bitcoin is intentionally designed that way. That’s why the “privacy for small transactions” still isn’t reliable (KYC, coinjoin is never default, base layer doesn’t scale, etc)

2026-06-19 06:33:28 UTC

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What would you recommend specifically? Any guide on how to do it correctly?
This is for small transactions, right? So is it actually affordable to do?

2026-06-18 21:04:08 UTC

Throwing this out to all bitcoiners: the inverse is not true, but how do we make it true?
#nevent1q…usqa

2026-06-18 17:34:48 UTC

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> The inverse is also true.
No it’s not. That’s why bitcoiners are always saying “you’re using it wrong” and you gotta do a 6 step process and trust a custodian

2026-06-18 14:49:34 UTC

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> The bigger the transaction, the harder it should be to keep private, which is exactly how bitcoin is structured.
That’s not how Bitcoin is structured, but if it was, that would be great. I agree.

2026-06-18 06:05:18 UTC

The exact opposite. In order to avoid getting doxxed on Bitcoin, you actually do have to act like a rat under the floorboards.
Meanwhile to avoid getting doxxed on Monero, you just buy it and use it. Like a normal person.
Also put another penny in the “you’re not using it right” jar
#nevent1q…5wfd

2026-06-17 21:24:58 UTC

WokeSky, BLMSky, and now MassRapeSky.
What if we had one that didn’t hate white people?
#nevent1q…ncuz

2026-06-17 16:56:45 UTC

If Monero existed on Rootstock, I would totally use that btw. Monero people just want to use something that works. They’re not “number go up” people.
The main issue though is that using bitcoin layer 1 creates taxable events all over the place. Idk how rootstock avoids that.

2026-06-16 16:32:47 UTC

Bitcoin, Lightning, and Cashu
Bitcoin, AIDS, and Super AIDS

2026-06-15 16:30:36 UTC

Pubky’s hackathon projects are all great actually
https://medium.com/pubky/mypubky-a-portable-link-in-bio-built-on-pubky-identity-c15169ae744a
https://medium.com/pubky/pubky-passport-a-familiar-sign-in-flow-for-sovereign-identity-ee07097ba02e
https://medium.com/pubky/pubky-invites-a-reputation-gated-onboarding-flow-for-new-users-2428c2e4beea
They clearly understand the assignment, regardless if they’re approaching it correctly or not.

2026-06-15 15:39:52 UTC

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1

2026-06-14 19:53:34 UTC

Public key protocols are cool, but different protocols use different key formats.
We need a name system that lets everyone have a Linktree type thing, basically. Isn’t that just DNS?
#nevent1q…59wl

2026-06-14 19:48:35 UTC

People that are constantly banned from X still prefer things like Substack over Nostr.
Email is undefeated…

2026-06-14 14:15:36 UTC

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A human can do image generation?

2026-06-14 02:00:57 UTC

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#nevent1q…ggu6

2026-06-13 20:06:35 UTC

Paying for an internet service with Monero is a great experience.
I want to pay for more yearly subscription type services with it lol

2026-06-13 19:29:48 UTC

Save us, @npub1226…grkj…
#nevent1q…2ku8

2026-06-11 15:42:44 UTC

Odell is on the SimpleX Consortium lmao https://simplexnetwork.org/consortium.html

2026-06-09 16:27:19 UTC

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I actually think an honest nostr client would be cool and useful and potentially awesome.

2026-06-09 15:25:59 UTC

Nostr is good when it’s honest about what it is. It’s putting up flyers around town. It’s writing on a bathroom wall. It’s leaving a note under a park bench.
But there are zero clients that make that experience honest. Jumble might be closest, but still not really.

2026-06-08 20:51:58 UTC

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That is true. ActivityPub has a major and deeply engrained culture problem. To the point where blacklists are hardcoded into the primary codebase.
I just don’t need everything I say to be signed and gossiped across the world. It ironically makes me more of a target when I wasn’t one before. Especially true if I am using encrypted notes.
I’m wondering if protocols or ideas could be combined for different use cases.

2026-06-08 20:37:20 UTC

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Any nostr relay can and does censor whatever they want. It’s completely up to each relay. It’s just that the culture tends to promote free speech among relay operators. It’s a culture thing, not a protocol thing.

2026-06-08 20:27:34 UTC

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If accounts were separate from servers on ActivityPub, you really could just be posting on ActivityPub, right?
The only way you can post on nostr is if a relay is willing to host your content.

2026-06-08 17:37:05 UTC

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Correct.
#nevent1q…akpy

2026-06-08 17:35:17 UTC

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Yeah, in your case, that’s the only option. It’s why it should remain an option, right?

2026-06-08 16:17:13 UTC

Guys, Nostr is literally a network of bathroom wall graffiti. It’s flyers stapled to telephone poles.
Sometimes that is the only place you can get a message out, sure. Make it an option, not the primary.

2026-06-08 16:12:20 UTC

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Exactly, so just don’t sign it.

2026-06-08 15:51:30 UTC

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The broadcast use case might still exist though. Optionally sign individual notes for that. Problem solved. Most notes should not be signed individually.

2026-06-08 15:50:45 UTC

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Most of that is a tangential networking issue to which there are easy solutions already today.
And the upsides of data ownership and control are significant

2026-06-08 15:31:44 UTC

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Who can censor your homeserver?

2026-06-08 15:29:21 UTC

Extremely accurate explanation of Nostr! It perfectly explains the ugliness that pervades this disgusting protocol.
#nevent1q…hdgg

2026-06-08 15:25:22 UTC

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Your claim is that he needed to explain it exactly how you explained it, otherwise it was being misrepresented. His claim is they if you need something explained in certain exact terms, it’s a sign of low intelligence.

2026-06-08 14:42:29 UTC

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Or… you sign the source of the notes rather than each individual note itself.

2026-06-08 14:41:37 UTC

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You’re not wrong. The thing he called you a nostard for is that you need it explained in exactly those terms otherwise you don’t understand it (apparently).
The docs don’t use exactly those terms, but it does explain that system fairly clearly https://pubky.org/tldr/

2026-06-08 14:37:57 UTC

I email people my real name constantly. It’s a great way to open up collaborations, meet like-minded people, etc. It’s great.
Nostr just hates you, by design. People need to learn that the hard way apparently.
#nevent1q…wxfq

2026-06-08 14:34:14 UTC

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Was John wrong though? Wouldn’t it signal ignorance on your part in this case?
I thought pubky’s design was clear at least on that area

2026-06-08 14:25:36 UTC

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If you screenshot my post on Twitter I can just say that you faked the screenshot. Let’s think deeply please.

2026-06-08 14:23:35 UTC

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> it's really hard for everyone in the public square that just heard what you said to un-hear it, or not gossip it with neighbors and friends. The consequence of the public square.
This is what I said was the “Brain dead nostr take” way up at the very top of this convo. It’s about deniability. Stop signing each individual event and then spreading them as fat and wide as possible with no control over who can spread them.
> That's an impossibility to enforce. Many relays already honor deletion events, some relays require auth and other mechanisms to help prevent leakage, but this is nearly in impossibility in any client-server network, I don't care what name is on the protocol.
This is major cope. Access control has existed since the Dawn of servers.
> In the case of actvitypub I don't think anything stops me
Authentication stops you, yes.
> And to clarify "impossibility in any client-server network" nip-70 doesn't prevent leakage either relays can (and do) simply ignore them.
You’re not READING what I write. I literally just told you that. I would say you’re a retard, but I think the real issue is that you just love to hear yourself talk. Go blab to someone else fuckwad.

2026-06-08 14:07:43 UTC

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That’s what I meant when I said
> Nostr devs just genuinely hate users. This place is full of contempt for users. The common theme from all Nostr devs.

2026-06-08 14:04:08 UTC

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Increasing the value of data sent on Nostr (like with encrypted data) is a terrible idea. Bc of the key management issues and also bc of the undeniability issue.
Event owner = Bag holder.

2026-06-08 13:59:14 UTC

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That’s not true though. Outbox is a convenience thing, not proper authentication.
The closest thing to what I’m talking about is https://nips.nostr.com/70 . That’s more like how ActivityPub works, for example. But NIP-70 is also unenforceable and more of a suggestion in Nostr.

2026-06-08 03:03:10 UTC

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Check out these 2 ideas:
#nevent1q…6hgh
#nevent1q…ltuv

2026-06-08 01:15:03 UTC

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> you can never make your data completely safe on a social media platform
Of course you can. If you take a screenshot, I can just say you fabricated it. Simple. But you can’t do that on nostr.

2026-06-08 01:13:17 UTC

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Yep, exactly. Nostr isn’t made for normal people. That’s fine! It’s made for publication use cases. Most people do not want that.
I like other systems. Like signing your server, not each individual piece of content.

2026-06-08 00:56:41 UTC

My Instagram search page is entirely girls with huge knockers and nothing interesting to say. Goyim slave maxxing with the algorithm

2026-06-07 22:39:32 UTC

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> practically this is no different than anything else.
I knew this brain dead classic nostr take was coming, no offense. It’s just so far out of touch with reality and the experience of real users. Nostr devs just genuinely hate users. This place is full of contempt for users. The common theme from all Nostr devs.
The difference is deniability. A screenshot is not provably signed. A copy of text is not provably signed. A signed nostr event is provably signed. And THAT is what is spread across the world and completely out of the control of the original author.

2026-06-07 22:01:33 UTC

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Only the relays own the data. Because the power to destroy a thing is ownership over it. And only relays can choose to delete or not.
Even if you run your own relay, you have no control over where your data spreads to. You can delete it on your relay, but have no say over the other relays you’ve given it to. It’s a gossip network with no access control system

2026-06-07 20:08:47 UTC

Users do not own their data on nostr. The relays do.
Nostr has never been about “data ownership” or “user respect”. It’s simply a gossip network designed to spread data as far and wide as possible (for an unknown amount of time)
#nevent1q…eq9z

2026-06-07 20:04:04 UTC

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> Where does a user comment on another user's post live exactly?
Your data only ever lives in your own PDS. Even your “likes” are just “files” in your PDS.
I don’t fully know about the last two questions but indexers are indeed a big thing.

2026-06-07 20:00:50 UTC

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They recently added stablecoins to cash app that auto-convert to BTC.
Get back on X if you want to start interacting with him.

2026-06-07 17:00:36 UTC

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I’ll only tell you if you whitelist me on your relay afterwards

2026-06-07 16:29:53 UTC

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What if we just checked if someone had a phone number

2026-06-07 16:26:22 UTC

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I think it already is in many ways.
It nailed the identity/trust and the commerce/services part. Just needs to add a couple small things to make the social/messaging a bit more robust.

2026-06-07 16:03:34 UTC

Nostr devs, you are in a race. And the race is to remove features. The race for the Everything App of the West.
- identity/trust
- social/messaging
- commerce/services
Whoever can whittle the features down to just that and make it the best UX in existence, wins.

2026-06-07 15:51:44 UTC

@npub1q3s…d26p , you have to beat @npub1sg6…f63m at his own game.
#nevent1q…tcg3

2026-06-07 15:49:28 UTC

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I follow some influential product people at Cash App / Block and every new feature lately seems to be influenced by things that came about from a nostr-related Jack-idea. For example, they use the BitChat idea to make local cash send. Then they add parental controls and allowance (two accounts connected in a relational way).
Things are pointing towards Cash App becoming an everything app.

2026-06-07 15:45:31 UTC

A Catholic preterist (presentist?) talks about the evolution of futurism in the early church.
https://www.youtube.com/live/7pR13KTNV9c

2026-06-07 15:09:54 UTC

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I suppose it could be an issue on @npub1226…grkj side? Doubt it, but it could be idk

2026-06-07 15:08:48 UTC

@npub1n0s…k6h0 @npub1n0s…lahe on Nostur iOS my posts aren’t posting to nostr.land. I usually have to go to “post details > republish” in order to get it to post on nostr.land.
Note that nostr.land is the only relay that requires authentication and I have that authentication toggle selected in the relay management.

2026-06-07 15:06:04 UTC

https://tangled.org/tranquil.farm/tranquil-pds

2026-06-07 14:55:53 UTC

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Jack is building a social thing himself that will be part of Cash App.
But I wonder now if he’s thinking “maybe AtProto wasn’t so bad after all…”

2026-06-06 23:02:24 UTC

Ngl I really want a non-gay AtProto indexer now. They literally starting shitting and throwing up when the sitting Vice President of the United States joined BlueSky and said hi.
The protocol is kind of awesome but the libtards make it so unappealing to anyone with even a small degree of openness.

2026-06-06 17:06:35 UTC

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I’ve heard that for access control they’re thinking of doing a namespace system. Which would be effectively like folders.
So analogically your atproto repository is a drive. Public and private namespaces are folders in the drive. Lexicons are file extensions.

2026-06-06 16:58:17 UTC

Nostr NIPs are sort of putting the cart before the horse. They try to enforce a standard before anything has even been tried.
Compare to AtProto which just lets apps each make their own lexicon and then later on down the line competing apps can come together and settle on something like an NIP if they wish.
https://atproto.com/blog/standard-site-bluesky-timeline

2026-06-06 16:24:16 UTC

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@npub1jvx…7yqz any thoughts on that aspect of atproto? I assume that DID and key management is sort of the well known (pun intended) pain point for everyone

2026-06-06 16:22:59 UTC

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Same. At first I was like meh, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized file formats are basically exactly like that too and they work fine