Aspie96
Valentino Giudice

https://www.functorfault.net/

Public Key

npub13mjzjryckg9jnxgn3vez73nw5gx82cy0269t2083zjftlxewsjwqny8hs2

NIP-05 Address

aspie96@Nostr-Check.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsgaepfpjvtyzefnyfckv30geh2yrr4vz84dz448nc3fy4lnvhgf8qpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduvzugnq

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relay.damus.io

Author Public Key

npub13mjzjryckg9jnxgn3vez73nw5gx82cy0269t2083zjftlxewsjwqny8hs2

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2024-09-17 03:49:18

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There is Markdown too, which also shouldn't happen.

2024-08-31 17:46:01

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Countries can also ban Nostr relays within their borders and block those outside of their borders.
Relays need to be available as hidden services behind darknets such as Tor or I2P.

2024-08-31 17:44:44

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I think freedom of speech could also be mentioned.
Reddit used to be a free speech platform (although it was never resistant to censorship). That didn't keep it from being successful.

2024-08-31 05:44:31

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The issue is tracked on both Gitea and Codeberg:
- https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/517
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/17236
The change was also tracked in both:
- https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/194
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/15623
It's not the (very small) inconvenience that annoys me the most but, rather, the motivations behind it.

2024-08-30 22:53:56

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Why do you think so?
Again, spammers are absolutely willing to pay. It's by paying that they have become so prominent on the web. The fact that the cost is "verifiable" doesn't make much of a difference.

2024-08-30 16:48:58

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PoW is also not a verification system.
Spammers are more than willing to pay to spam better. They will even buy batches of email addresses, run bots etc…
Spammers pay. "Normal" users, commonly, do not.

2024-08-30 16:47:37

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Indeed, NIP-05 isn't meant at all as a verification system.
#naddr1qv…4z98

2024-08-30 16:44:57

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I think decentralized verification, based on any criteria verifiers decide, should indeed be based on a badge-like mechanism, but it probably should rely on a separate NIP and different event kinds.

2024-08-30 16:43:38

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> The whole concept of "verification" is bound to centralized structures, it should be buried.
It doesn't have to be. There can be multiple verifiers and a single pubkey can be verified by many of them. If among the verifiers that verify me there is at least one which is included in your trusted list, your client should show me as verified.
This would be a level of decentralization similar to that of relays (in the inbox model).
The issue with NIP-05, if it were a verification system (it's not), would be that an account can only be "verified" by one "verifier". So an account would have to pick just one and you'd be forced to "trust" any widely used one (if you want to rely on verification at all), leading to centralization.

2024-08-30 16:39:48

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I agree, NIP-5 has nothing to do with verification.
I think a (decentralized) verification system on Nostr is possible, but it would have nothing whatsoever to do with NIP-5.

2024-08-29 20:38:35

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Codeberg would be awesome if they allowed to set the default branch name for all repos.
Currently, GitHub and GitLab both allow you to set it to whatever you want, including (the standard) "master".
On Codeberg, on the other hand, it is (the non-standard) "main" and has to be set to "master" manually for every repository.
I find this policy quite disappointing.

2024-08-28 16:51:20

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Media content is the whole point of the hosting services that I am referring to.

2024-08-28 16:34:00

Nostr community be like: "Fiat is not decentralized" and "Shitcoins are not decentralized" and "Censorship resistant".
Then go ahead and use centralized hosting services which just happen to have "Nostr" in the name and think that makes them in any way more resilient.
The idea of the protocol is good, but much of #Nostr seems honestly like a cultish bunch of trends, buzzwords and group thinking.

2024-08-28 16:31:13

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A thing which doesn't make those services any more decentralized than Google Drive.
These services probably shouldn't have "Nostr" in the name at all, but the fact that many people on Nostr think that they are decentralized, or in any way whatsoever censorship resistant, shows that much of the Nostr community doesn't actually understand (or care about) either decentralization or censorship resistance.

2024-08-27 21:52:24

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> husband didn't say they looked like shit 🤷‍♀️.
Husband wishes to remain an alive man.

2024-08-27 16:34:14

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The issue is that gaming such trending algorithms would probably be even easier (and by a lot) than no mainstream social media.

2024-08-27 16:32:08

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> They can’t get the same dopamine fix on Nostr that the centralized platforms deliver so effectively…
That is an extremely gracious way to say being on Nostr is a shitty experience for most.

2024-08-24 17:10:18

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Controls should only happen at the client level.
Not server, not ISP.
At most, there could be the requirement, for the website, to mark certain content as adult content, trough specialized HTML attributes or something of the sort.

2024-08-24 17:08:44

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Age verification by the provider, in the case of porn, is absolutely a completely moronic idea because it shouldn't happen at the server side, at all.
There should simply be an HTML attribute (or something of the sort) that marks adult content. Blocking can happen on the client side trough parental control software or browser settings.
It would be easier and more efficient from a technical point of view, it would work better and be more accurate and it would preserve privacy for users.

2024-08-24 17:03:40

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This post is a good example of Poe's law.

2024-08-23 22:00:11

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Are the video hosted in a censorship-resistant way that makes it impossible to censor them or are they hosted by some centralized party which you just hope will act by permissive policies and not remove them?

2024-08-20 16:53:42

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> nostr.build pro account for unlimited hosting of image and video files
How is it better than using any other centralized hosting platform?

2024-08-16 17:04:20

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There is no such thing as an "algorithmless" anything that relies on computers. Absolutely everything a computer ever does relies on algorithms.
Even just showing published posts in reverse chronological order requires algorithms.
> But if nocoiners publish their stuff in a private platform
Nocoiners, just like Bitcoiners, can use whatever platform they wish, including Nostr.
There is nothing preventing nocoiners from using Nostr (or any other censorship-resistant system).
> and then the government wants to
Well, authoritarian governments can do pretty much anything they wish, including pressuring relays (just like they would individual platform), censoring them or disabling access to the Internet altogether.
Of course, liberal(ish) governments are unlikely to do this (and to even care about Nostr as long as it remains as utterly irrelevant as it currently is), but if it's governments you're "fighting against", you'll need more than Nostr. At minimum, relays must be hidden in a darknet.
Nostr, on its own, however, is mostly immune to corporate greed, which is often the cause of censorship.

2024-08-16 00:31:08

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Armed organizations, governments and ideological lobbies are not going to get fined or arrested. It's individuals among the people that are.

2024-08-16 00:28:49

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I think it's not just about balance.
The fact that an immoral idea can be spread should never, in a democracy, be an argument against whatever it is that spreads it.
That's because it's the people that are the ultimate authority and listening and spreading ideas is part of that process.
If the government pass a law to decide what idea can't be allowed, this is against democracy. And even if almost all of the population agrees with this norm, approving it would, similarly to electing a dictator, hamper democracy for future generations, who didn't get to participate in that decision.
The limit to democracy shouldn't be freedom of speech. It should be destroying democracy itself.

2024-08-16 00:24:45

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Neither side should be censored.
Not anti-Jewish hate, not anti-American hate, not anti-Palestine hate, not anti-Italian hate.

2024-08-16 00:20:49

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> and most legal scholars don't consider it protected under the 1st amendment.
While I don't think incitement of illegal violence should be legal, I think whether scholars think that something is legal, under the status quo of some country, is a terrible metric for whether it ought to be legal, and the standards it should have.
Laws must be followed, but can be wrong and can be opposed.

2024-08-16 00:18:38

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I fully agree. Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.
I am also very much an anti-racist and anti-sexist.
I think if we give freedom to speech to dose that will use it for hate speech, and we should do so, we should also use it to learn from it and counter such hate. Daryl Davis is the master of this.
I would also like to note that, unfortunately, many other kinds of speech are restricted, in the West, too.
Depending on the country, we have blasphemy laws and flag desecration laws.
The United States are regarded as permissive by many, but have laws that allow for censorship of certain acts of expression which, in my view, should very much be allowed. This includes obscenity, certain kinds of software (DRM circumvention and encryption) and certain kinds of information (how DRM systems can be circumvented).
All those restrictions are, in my view, unacceptable, and I remain consistent in the case of hate speech.
I also think racism is a disgrace to humanity and anyone who hates others based on their ethnicity does not have my sympathy or support.
I wrote a blog post on freedom of speech in which I describe some restrictions. I hope it's ok if I "spam" it here: https://www.functorfault.net/posts/free-speech/

2024-08-16 00:11:01

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> even if there are many people among the group that hold evil ideas and desires
Which also happens to be true for practically any large group (unless you define a group as "the group of all people with no ill desires").

2024-08-14 16:48:04

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> Any PII protection law does not apply to non-personal information, including your notes
Why would your notes be included?
Personal data, by definition, is any information about an identifiable individual.
Any information.
It could be sensitive information (such as medical information, information about your sexuality, et cetera), it could be your height, it could be where you studied, it could be your favorite color and, of course, it could be what you posted.
You could make the argument that the individual isn't identifiable. Users have a public key, which identifies their account uniquely. You can argue it's pseudonymous, but users optionally can (and typically do) publish a kind 0 event, which often contains their full name and/or other identifiers.
It's not fully specified what counts or doesn't as an identifier. We do, however, know, for example, that IP addresses do count as identifiers by the GDPR, so anything which is connected to IP addresses can be personal data.
I would argue that what's connected to a social media account, including whatever is posted, can and should generally be regarded as personal data, even if no other identifier (such as an IP address) is present, if there is information associated with the account used to distinguish it from others and which commonly (even not as a requirement) is set to something which is sufficient to track back the identity of the user. A Nostr account on Nostr relays should be regarded with roughly the same standards.
> The GDPR for example also does not grant you the right of erasure if data is kept for archival purposes in the public interest.
Exceptions are whole different points.
It doesn't mean notes are not personal information.

2024-08-13 18:13:25

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By your standards of assuming that bad parties will follow protocols, Bitcoin could just say "please, don't double spend" in the spec.
But it's not what happens. Bitcoin is designed carefully to make double spending effectively impossible (or, at least, so expensive that it would never be worth it).

2024-08-13 18:11:35

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> Ava, you're the security professional.
Oh, no.
Oh, no, oh no, oh no.
Oh no.

2024-08-13 18:10:40

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> A protocol can be modified and updated just as it was created.
How do you modify software running on other people's servers?
You tell them "delete notes" in the spec. What do you do if they don't?

2024-08-13 18:09:30

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> The protocol is the protocol.
"Bad people" do not follow the protocol. They do whatever the fuck they want to and there is nothing you can do about it.
In security you *NEVER* assume your opponents will follow any rule. That's not security at all.
Anything which is possible mathematically and physically and ins't too expensive *will* be done by your opponents. That's what you assume in security. Act accordingly

2024-08-13 17:52:28

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Yes, that's a good way to put it.
Writing in a protocol not to do bad things isn't security.

2024-08-13 16:47:47

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> For relay to be compliant with the protocol (now or in the future) is enough to not return deleted notes,
Also, they can choose to not be compliant. What is anyone gonna do about that? Be angry and scream "you're not compliant"?

2024-08-13 16:44:23

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Even if the protocol very strictly mandated, in NIP-01, from the very beginning of Nostr, that relays delete events upon request, how would you ever be sure that they do? Anyone can develop a relay that doesn't. You could argue that such relay wouldn't qualify, technically, as a "Nostr relay", but so what?
Also, even if everyone avoids such relays (how would you? They could just selectively refuse to delete some of the notes. They could even hide them for two years, just to trick you, then put them back online), anyone can build a Nostr archive which pulls from public relays, then publishes all notes and refuses to delete them.
You could rely on the law and sue such relays, but they can be in any country and/or behind a darknet.
> Nostr, as it is right now, is a permanent record that seeks to tie all of your apps and your coin transactions to one key pair.
Don't use it for anything related to "coins". Use it for things you want to stay published.
> Relays must use the protocol to participate in the network.
No, they do not have to. They can break the protocol in tactical ways that will still allow clients to interact with them.
> If the protocol requires honoring event deletion requests to participate in the network, then Nostr will have avoided this festering security and safety issue.
Absolutely not. You can just build a non-compliant relay.
In the context of security you *NEVER* assume that your "attacker" will comply with any rule whatsoever.
Every party gets to decide everything about their own behavior and you must act in a way which will be secure regardless of the ways in which others will act.
You can't "defend" yourself from "bad" relays by telling them to delete events. There is nothing you can do that will make them do so, unless they are well-meaning.
But even if all relays you use behave the exact way you want (which you can only know if they are run by parties you know and trust), anyone can and will do whatever it is that you hope won't happen: get on Nostr, fetch notes and publish them again, refusing to delete them.
If you aren't assuming someone *will* act against you, in the smartest way they could, you are not doing security.

2024-08-12 22:35:11

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You can't "get away" from anything.
Clients still have to support "old" Nostr standards because old notes will still exist.

2024-08-12 22:32:13

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What's on the other hand than that which freedom of expression and information doesn't matter.
Freedom of expression and information is fundamental and it must prevail.

2024-08-11 23:34:09

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Hello and welcome!

2024-08-10 16:42:03

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Why not supporting badges?
They shouldn't be too heavy and, while I don't think they are very influential currently, they could conceivably be quite useful for pubkey discovery, which is a problem for new users, so it might fall nicely in the social usecase.

2024-08-10 16:36:32

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> the freedom to transact also appears to be a right.
Access to water is also (according to many) a right. Not everything that exists has to be about the same right.
If supporting something (not just a human right) comes as a package deal with supporting other things, the amount of people willing to support it will be smaller and both things will have fewer supporters.
> But you could make tips in whatever you want, recently monero.
My point was that, in my view, the ecosystem would be better if non-economic incentives, of the kind that have been proven to be very successful in the free and open source software environment, were valued more as sufficient motivations within Nostr.
Running a relay wouldn't be very expensive, compared to many other activities performed by nonprofits, but it would obviously have some cost. And yes, as I mentioned, accepting donations in multiple forms will widen the range of donors.
Donations don't have to be trough Nostr-related features (the org could be about free speech in general, such as many existing orgs are, and have the relay as a minor activity) and, contrary to what it seems to be a common opinion, in my view there wouldn't need to be a positive margin (i.e. profit) made by running relays.
Orgs such as FIRE and the Human Rights Foundation are among those that could reasonably have a Nostr relay as one of their activities.
Ideally, there would be several in different jurisdictions.

2024-08-10 05:32:57

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But people do donate to humanitarian causes to protect fundamental human rights and to non-profit organizations, including in the world of software (think of the many foundations that make free and open source software and collect donations).
Obviously, accepting donations in more forms would be beneficial: look at the Blender Foundations, which accepts fiat as well as multiple cryptocurrencies.
But people on Nostr are focused on money, and Bitcoin in particular, so I don't expect things to work well soon without monetary and Bitcoin-related incentives. Nostr will remain shit for as long as it's Bitcoin focused.

2024-08-09 17:58:39

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> There was completely no sense to run a relay except for altruism.
Which has always been a *massive* motivator, often sufficient on its own, in the field of tech, especially software.
Many platforms, organizations and projects are run for this purpose alone.
I do not understand why Nostr specifically needs to have economic incentives, or really any incentive other than furthering the fundamental human right to freedom of speech.
Obviously you need economic incentives for "enterprise" relays, but I disagree with OP anyways.
Enterprises haven't been what has promoted freedom in anything related to software, and I don't think they will be.

2024-08-09 17:49:32

We need non-profits running relays.

2024-08-09 17:06:11

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This is interesting when only one possible value of "d" is documented.
It's effectively non-parameterized, but still parameterized according to the spec.

2024-08-09 17:05:46

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The address stays the same, but you can send a new event which will have the same address.
It is assumed that the most recent one is the valid one.
(Of course, there is no guarantee that clients will actually receive the most recent one, so outdated information might be displayed).

2024-08-09 17:04:06

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That depends on the client.
However, note that kind 0 events are also, effectively, replaceable. Those contain the information on your profile. You wouldn't want that to be irreplaceable.

2024-08-09 17:00:50

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This would maybe help clarify that the reference to the event can be called "address", something which seems part of the Nostr jargon but not really consistently specified (although consistent with the tag name for such a reference being "a").
However, I'm not convinced it's a good name. "Addressable event" merely suggests that you can refer to it, which is true for all events. "Replaceable" gives more information about what they actually are.

2024-08-06 17:59:29

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What client do you use?
Also, you have my follow for not being a Bitcoin-centered account.

2024-08-06 17:17:52

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Personally, what makes my Nostr feed rather uninteresting, to me, isn't the fact that my feed is filled with posts related to Bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency, or any other decentralized means for economical transactions), specifically, but rather the fact that it is mostly about money.
If most posts were about euros, or US dollars, or whatever other fiat currency, and some of the most discussed features in clients about monetary transactions, I would also hold that as one clear reason many wouldn't be many wouldn't be willing to join.
That stance wouldn't be anti-fiat, per se, and although @npub17k6…hcd0 is anti-Bitcoin, saying that the Bitcoin focus is what drives people away from Nostr isn't anti-Bitcoin, in itself.

2024-08-06 17:12:11

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> Money has to be involved somewhere.
Why?
People can do things for reasons other than money.

2024-08-06 17:10:40

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> A lot of normies are expecting Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc and that gets really expensive quickly.
No, it doesn't get expensive because most of these users are failing to decentralize the storage of images and videos anyways, and merely linking to them.
Links are text, no more expensive than any other kind of text.
There is still an advantage in sharing links this way because, although the linked assets are not resilient, one's audience is and if some hosts start censoring stuff one won't have to rebuild their following, one can just use a different host for new images.

2024-08-06 17:07:22

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People don't pay for a lot of stuff that seems to work just fine anyways. Think about Tor nodes, many open source programs which don't take donations (some of which quite relevant) and a lot more that people do, even outside of software.
Of course, figuring out ways to get more money would be beneficial, but the lack of payments doesn't prevent many services from existing.
Running a relay with reasonable policies doesn't have to be very expensive. It will cost some money, but it's one way to further the fundamental human right to freedom of speech, not much different than many other kinds of volunteering or donating to a good cause.
There are also plenty of nonprofit organizations, many of which have the defense of human rights (including freedom of speech) as one of their stated goals. Running a relay might fully align with their activities and not be a large portion of their budget.

2024-08-06 03:41:51

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Mute the hashtag to achieve a feed full of Bitcoin stuff but without the hashtag.

2024-08-06 03:39:28

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I am developing a client myself which will not have any money-related feature (counting Bitcoin in "money" in this), so there will be.
("Developing", not "have developed". It's WIP).

2024-08-04 23:51:23

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No, but Apple may be "coming after" the app if enough people on Damus violate the terms of service and it gets in any way controversial.

2024-08-04 17:23:37

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It is an act of censorship by Apple.

2024-08-04 17:16:54

The fact that @npub18m7…q955 is so popular on Nostr shows that quite many Nostr users rely on Apple devices.
Apple, obviously, doesn't stand for the freedom of users.
A wholly free system is hard to use, true, but even Windows give users a lot more freedom than Apple does.
Damus has rules on what content can be allowed. Why is that so? Because Apple requires it. Because Apple wants to control what users do and see.
This is why even Minds (https://www.minds.com/), which, while no longer censorship-resistant trough Nostr, still has very permissive policies, doesn't allow NSFW content on the iOS app: it can't, due to the terms of service of the iOS App Store.
What is the point of using Nostr trough an Apple system? You would have more freedom using Windows and interacting with a proprietary and centralized, but permissive, platform.
#Nostr #Damus #Apple

2024-07-30 16:44:18

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For something to be "failed" it needs to have an objective first and then fail at that objective.
I'm rather confident many people have failed at doing what they were trying to using pretty much any kind of technology or software.
If the whitepaper doesn't contain the word "cryptocurrency" or "blockchain" it, naturally, doesn't get to define those terms.
According to Wikipedia, the a cryptocurrency is "a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it".
Bitcoin is a digital currency (in the sense that it's digital and it can be used for the purposes that currencies have), it is a medium of exchange (people buy and sell items and services trough it) and it is not reliant on any central authority (because it is decentralized), not even a government or a bank.
It is a cryptocurrency by definition of the word.
Now, you might think all other cryptocurrencies are to be rejected, and ought to fail.
That is a matter of opinion, which I am neutral about (I do not care).
It isn't a matter of language or ontology.
Are those concept all made up?
Of course they are. All words are, all human concepts are. Concepts that can be communicated are all made up and everything in relation to computers is made up.

2024-07-29 23:03:10

Open source, Linux, Bitcoin (or whatever my favorite cryptocurrency is) and Nostr (or whatever other way for censorship-resistant social networking I use) is gonna win this year, bro.
I swear bro, this year. Bro. Just one year. Give me just one year, bro, the world is getting digital freedom.
Everything is going to be open source, bro. Bro. Linux desktop. This is the year of Linux desktop.
People are going to use all open source software, bro. All open source. We will decentralize everything.
Just one year. Everyone will join us. We will convince everybody. Everything is gonna work so well.

2024-07-29 22:52:54

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How about not tying publicity of it with Bitcoin, so that they can get on board with Nostr even if their social media activity isn't tied to monetary incentives (and they don't want it to feel like work)?

2024-07-25 22:59:36

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My stance, in both centralized and decentralized platforms, is that noboydy owes anyone a tool for free speech (especially if maintaining it requires money) and anyone can censor what they want, on their own server (in both centralized and decentralized platforms).
However, maximally permissive rules are to be preferred in general-purpose platforms. Not in the sense that the opposite is immoral, but rather that preferring them and providing them, although not mandatory, leads to the best consequences and is a better contribution for society.
Of course, anything which threatens the existence of usability of the relay (spam and illegal content) should be removed (else everything would).

2024-07-25 21:30:02

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I'm not much interested in crypto, or money in general (compared to the norm on Nostr at least), but it's interesting to see that Monero is one of the few cryptocurrencies, besides Bitcoin, which doesn't get one accused of heresy on Nostr (the other one being, possibly, Namecoin).

2024-07-23 22:51:59

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He absolutely does have access to your account, yes.
Tweets are stored in their database. They do have the technical capacity of modifying them.
Again, I don't think they would. There might be (in fact, I think there would be) legal repercussions if they did.
But, from a purely *technical* point of view, they absolutely can.
This isn't a matter of opinion. It is how it is. It absolutely is exactly how it works.

2024-07-23 16:39:41

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It should be noted that Elon Musk could absolutely post from Joe Biden's (or anyone else's) account. And he support Trump.
I'm not saying he ever would do such a thing. He probably would never.
I'm just saying he technically could.

2024-07-23 16:29:30

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Given he censored Nostr on his "free speech" platform (although for very little time), I don't think he is.

2024-07-21 17:57:30

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Ok, but there is a massive difference.
The point of Nostr is to achieve resistance trough decentralization: even if some relay fails, or deletes your notes, they remain available as long as as some other relay continues to store it.
Obviously even that which is on relays won't last *forever*. The sun will explode some day. But it does have a kind of resistance which isn't achieved without decentralization.
Nostr.build, despite the name, has nothing to do with Nostr, relays, or decentralization. It's a classical centralized image hosting platforms, like we've always had. It's not censorship resistant, it's just a plian-old image host like we've always been using.
Linked images don't become "immortal on Nostr". Not only are they not immortal, they aren't even *on Nostr*, they are just on a typical image host and there is a link to them on Nostr (a link which will become invalid as long as the host goes down or deletes that image).
I can link Reddit on Nostr. There: https://www.reddit.com/
Did I just make Reddit immortal on Nostr? I don't think so.
There absolutely can be resilient censorship-resistant ways to distribute images using decentralized systems, but placing them on a typical image host and linking them on Nostr isn't one of them.

2024-07-21 17:47:42

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Nostr isn't about anything being "zappable" (that is an optional afterthought), but it is about social networking.

2024-07-21 16:34:31

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Are your paintings on relays?
Or are hypertextual links on relays?
Anything which isn't part of the text note itself, and actually physically stored on relays, is not resilient.
Services like nostr.build, which you use, are simply classical web image host, not at all more resilient than any other image host like Imgur or the like, or even Instagram.
They are all centralized Web image hosting services. The fact that some of them happen to have "Nostr" in the name doesn't add any more resistance.
What paintings have you actually stored on relays? And how?
Because the latest relevant post I see from you contains nothing but mere *links* to paintings, while the painting themselves are on the centralized nostr.build platform.

2024-07-20 17:50:04

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Link to my own profile on Padclaws: https://padclaws.org/#/user/8ee4290c98b20b2999138b322f466ea20c75608f568ab53cf11492bf9b2e849c

2024-07-20 04:53:01

I am developing my own Nostr client: @npub1vpk…ts8y. It's still at a very early stage of development, but I decided to share it anyways.
Even once developed, it will not match everyone's preferences. It's not meant to.
Tomorrow I will apply some changes.
GitHub: https://github.com/Aspie96/Padclaws
Online version: https://padclaws.org/

2024-07-20 04:05:13

I am writing this from my own client.

2024-07-17 16:46:22

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Ok, but if they are part of the problem at least that issue can be solved very easily at a very low cost.

2024-07-17 16:44:17

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The advantages of this are obvious.
It's good for decentralization (an image host is no more resilient than any other web host) and it's good for a privacy-centric experience (the client can communicate only with selected relays, without sending any information to an image host).
The disadvantages are quite as obvious.
It's bad for relay operators, because it makes events bigger.
It breaks Nostr's fundamental property that kind0 events are meant to be just text. Not text with markup, not text with images, not text with formatting, not text with anything else. Text, just text.
It should be noted that if this is coupled with allowed modifications of events, the client will receive the whole event, including the image, multiple times, because it has no way of knowing ahead of time which relay has the latest version of the event and the order in which relays respond is irrelevant.
The implementation, also, isn't good, in my view. I see there is no tag signaling the presence of an image. I think there should be.
Overall, I think it's important to decentralize storage of images and make it censorship-resistant, but I don't think placing base64 encodings in Nostr events is a good way to do it.

2024-07-17 16:31:06

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If this is due to base64 images, I suggest that you consider excluding those selectively, both from your relay and from bostr.
I'm not saying you shouldn't have an event size limit, but you can have both (exclude events both based on size and based on the presence of base64 images).

2024-07-12 16:34:04

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For context, for those who do not know (maybe you do know, but not everyone does).
The European Union is a thing.
The Council of Europe is another thing.
Both organizations are groups of countries in Europe (which is just a geographical area), but they are not the same organization.
In practice, no country has ever joined the EU without first belonging to the Council of Europe.
The European Court of Human Rights is not an entity of the EU. The ECHR is an institution of the Council of Europe.
Chat Control is a EU thing.

2024-07-04 18:29:39

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Unless that relay hates you and deletes your relay list too, which it absolutely can, of course.
It only helps if relays want to censor one post made by you, but are unwilling to censor everything else you post.

2024-06-28 16:33:49

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L'italiano non è una lingua comune.
Mi è parso di notare che sulle piattaforme decentralizzate siano comuni lo spagnolo e (per qualche motivo) il giapponese.
La verità è che la lingua serve per comunicare ed è utile solo perché è condivisa da altri. Di fatto, scrivere in una lingua franca, che oggi è l'inglese, tende ad essere la scelta più conveniente.
I traduttori automatici possono aiutare, ma hanno i loro problemi: richiedono risorse di calcolo, possono non essere accurati (anche perché traduzioni perfette sono spesso impossibili), sono spesso centralizzati, non risolvono il problema della ricerca ecc…

2024-06-26 17:01:48

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

2024-06-25 16:33:36

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

2024-06-23 16:33:27

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You shouldn't use systems of this sort to ask questions and then believe the answer. You shouldn't believe any answer by anyone, let alone an AI system, unless it's a reputable source or the answer contains a good argument or you can verify it.
AI language models are useful for exactly that: modelling language. For example, they can change the style of writing of a paragraph. Even in that case you should verify the output every time, and it will be wrong many times, but it can still be useful with a decent success rate.

2024-06-22 16:31:56

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What AI says should not matter under any circumstance whatsoever in any discussion which isn't specifically about what AI systems would say.

2024-06-20 03:25:25

Fiatjaf wrote me a while back asking for help setting up content for his websites about Nostr.
As I was asking him what he needed, he seems to have suddenly got upset, unfollowing me on Nostr and no longer responding at all.

2024-06-18 03:35:47

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Loosing one's follow list seem to be a rather common issue on Nostr, which has been discussed multiple times, indeed.
You need to fetch your kind3 notes.
For example, from two months ago this is still available (you need to check the "p" tags, not the relay list): #note1jaf…ew4s

2024-06-18 03:19:31

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

2024-06-18 03:04:56

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

2024-06-18 02:57:54

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So, I see @npub1x0r…shtn changed profile description.
It was:
> Poster.place provides a free-speech Nostr relay at wss://relay.poster.place and offers Nip05 names upon request.
>
> Looking for a Zap wallet? We have a lightning node that you can use to setup a wallet at https://lnbits.poster.place/
Reference: #note1slw…kwvn
Now it is:
> Christian. Veteran. Open Source Developer. Linux Enthusiast. Live in truth and nothing else. Jesus Christ is king.
>
> “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.”‭‭ Ephesians‬ ‭5:11 "
>
> Truth is the best propaganda" - Adolf Hitler “
>
> The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly." - Adolf Hitler “if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.” - Adolf Hitler I use Debian by the way
Reference: #note1ghv…mfaz
Yes, it went for claiming poster.place is a "free-speech Nostr relay" to having three Hitler quotes.
I guess it's more honest now.

2024-06-17 04:57:53

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And? So what?

2024-06-16 21:43:55

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It's interesting that, according to @npub1x0r…shtn, this is, specifically, a *free-speech* Nostr relay.

2024-06-16 21:40:57

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Oh, ok, thanks.
I thought this was either the default policy or one associated with one of the "official" instances. I see that, instead, it's from an independent instance.

2024-06-16 17:05:13

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> Now, as Soapbox moves *it's* focus to Nostr,
Please, no. It messes up my parsing process.

2024-06-16 17:01:42

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I am confused.
Aren't you the CEO of the organization that manages Ditto? Have you no control over Ditto's policies?

2024-06-14 04:58:39

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The OP never said that "being the product" had anything to do with privacy. It doesn't have to be about personal data, that was your own strawman. What social media platforms "sell" is, mainly, interactions.
Also, and I repeat this, you don't know what personal data you share when using a proprietary app. If you use Nostr, you know exactly what you are sharing.
You have no clue what data a proprietary app will share. It may have all sorts of identifiers. You don't have the source code. You don't know.
So even when it comes to personal data, Nostr is widely different.

2024-06-13 22:09:49

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

2024-06-13 21:43:32

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

2024-06-13 21:33:22

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

2024-06-08 16:46:53

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

2024-06-08 16:43:00

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Well, Satoshi Nakamoto was never doxed.

2024-06-08 16:38:02

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