Replying to Avatar Ross Ulbricht

Been reading up on the nostr protocol and comparing it to the DSP I wrote about in 2021. Many of the details seem to have been worked out brilliantly, but one thing that worries me is the reliance on volunteer nodes.

It would be nice if there was a business model for nodes and node competition at the protocol level.

As it is, I wonder if nostr can scale.
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The Beave 8mo ago 💬 3

The team nostr:npub1s3ht77dq4zqnya8vjun5jp3p44pr794ru36d0ltxu65chljw8xjqd975wz has had some success with starting to host a github replacement on Nostr. And, eventually, we will offer paid tiers for the #Alexandria project, an entirely new way to publish literally anything, with the intention to build a truly uncorruptable, hyperlinked knowledge base, and especially providing the means for breaking the back of the likes of the paywalled research journals, and eventually the whole publishing industry. All integrated with nostr's emphasis on community through interoperability.

We would welcome you to reach out and ask anything. Our resident media mogul, nostr:npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z is asleep (she's in Germany) and will be very busy tomorrow (as many of us will be, since it is Easter), but... I'm usually responsive if you @ me.

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Silberengel 8mo ago 💬 1

Didn't get much sleep, unfortunately. 😂 Maybe I'll have an Easter nap, later.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 8mo ago 💬 1

i barely have enough time to get ready for mass this morning haha... slept in until 7am

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Silberengel 8mo ago 💬 1

😂 I also slept in, until 6:30 am. Truly decadent.

Happy Easter!

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 8mo ago 💬 1

the mass was beautiful... the red banners and the candles all lit, the priest in a pretty gold and white cloak, all the deacons with their red over-vest things, the 5 little girls in the red dresses with the golden caps, the procession around the church, the sung version of Our Father, the extra special communion, oh and to not forget, the censer... i think it was partly rosemary, that has featured frequently in the Fatima Catholic Easter i have witnessed... and i got splatted with the holy water twice :)

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Laeserin 8mo ago

Sensory overload. Love it!

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Silberengel 8mo ago 💬 1

Yes, the #Alexandria client has the paid wss://theforest.nostr1.com (social) and the free wss://thecitadel.nostr1.com (publication/documentation) relays.

The #GitRepublic project, which includes the upcoming publicly-viewable git server, also includes the private, paid wss://gitcitadel.nostr1.com relay.

Each of the three relays are just the first of a set of relays, run by different professional operators, on different continents. Our income is currently over Geyserfund, zaps, and the paid relays. You pay us and we pay the relay operators.

We also self-host an instance of the #Realy relay, now, which is important to us for some of the features (RESTful API), and to have a non-strfry backup. We're debating adding that as publicly-readable, to our overall user landscape, as it would help with the #epaper implementation and add more redundancy.

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Silberengel 8mo ago

I don't know, if you have heard of #Alexandria yet, nostr:npub1pzzrdngrnlufqazx3lfj07k0vfuya6ehfy8q5yv2h8c5e8fxgmxqhxdsr8. It's for books, magazines, research papers, scientific journals, technical specifications, treatise, etc.

https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/about