Rudolf ter Haar

Naval & Software Architect

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2026-03-25 19:56:04 UTC

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Good initiative, a lot of people had good feelings for that platform. But lets not forget why people moved to facebook. What were the pros and cons of both platforms and what can we learn from that. As i remembered the older people remained loyal to hyves and the young people moved to facebook as they could not encounter their (grand)parents there wanting to be friends with them there

2026-03-25 05:41:00 UTC

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You mean Hyves ?

2026-03-24 06:54:26 UTC

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all those talk about bitcoin and nostr is boring to a lot of people, even to tech guys. that is the problem, we need interesting subjects

2026-03-24 06:51:19 UTC

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I think that the problem is that Nostr can be used for anything, and thus feels unfocused. I think a killer app is needed , focus the growth there, and then build around that and grow the ecosystem. For example a dating app. Why a dating app, well because a lot of secrets are shared there, where a lot of people dont trust the big tech companies. Focus is on dating, a subject that concerns everybody, and not just tech and bitcoin dudes. From there you get the numbers, and then you can append apps to expand the dating experience, based on the nostr protocol

2026-02-25 08:55:09 UTC

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Delta chat looks promising

2026-02-25 07:50:33 UTC

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so basically there is a need to be able to create relay's from existing servers. I suspect the weaknesses can be found in those who are enforcing the block, as they want to download the latest movies for them self and so on. But i guess it is practically only to be seen from outside Russia, as we can monitor from which adresses traffic comes from. So the best way to help is to provide those adresses. I for example suspect that github, gitlab and those sites will remain visible.

2026-02-24 23:10:23 UTC

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And i meant surveillance in stead of censorship

2026-02-24 22:57:22 UTC

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Well, i can assure you that i am fully human (trust me on my blue eyes ;-) ) No i am trying to help some friends in Russia that are non technical guys with a safe way to communicate. I have the feeling with many secure messengers that the reality beats the theory in many ways, like signal and matrix are easily blocked due to their centralized nature. You have a particular recommendation, before the full internet block is implemented ? (For now a Nostr based thing seems most robust... but then again that is the theory)

2026-02-24 17:46:29 UTC

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Obviously a lot of bots are present, praising the gospel of bitcoin and ai. I dont like that kind of algorithmic astro turfing. I foresee that we need a registry of verified npub keys that belong to a human. Question, is NOSTR a bit proven as censorship proof? For example with whitenoise.chat? And have you also tried out bitchat?

2026-01-16 05:34:37 UTC

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Ehh a cybertruck, speaking of inflation... I'd wanted a BMW

2026-01-11 10:51:37 UTC

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Censorship in the EU is non existant, reports on that are more likely some psyop, by russian, chinese or american actors

2026-01-03 16:07:43 UTC

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That is not possible, since it is completely decentral and, depending on the implementation end to end encrypted. It is only possible to nuke individual relayservers, but near impossible to do this for all relayservers