Nostr Web Client

#RageQuitAlert 🚨🚨🚨

My dad used to say this to try to minimize the sting of not getting what you want: “if we had eggs, we could make eggs and bacon - if we had bacon”

Well, i’m not sure who needs to hear this, but it could be all of us

Just because you and me and others see amazing potential in something does not mean it will come to fruition, especially not in the way(s) we expect

Bitcoin has already shown us this by going from for cypherpunks by cypherpunks, to being for everyone - including the “commies” and “normies” and “trannies” and “joos” and “suits” that some of you shit your pants over regularly as if that’s a healthy mentality. It’s still heading towards what i personally believe is its destiny, full-blown global money. So that’s cool. Could be wrong, but that’s my highest conviction in terms of any belief regarding the potentially distant future

BUT, and sorry but i’m just being honest here… i am not so sure about nostr. I’m not saying it’s due to the predominant topics of conversation or the onboarding flow or the funding structure for development or really anything in particular

But the truth is that this is a niche community on the internet. A very small niche where a lot of incredibly smart and talented people enjoy each other’s digital company and many build things together on this dynamic, incredible, open protocol. It has a lot of potential for sure… but stay humble, i guess that’s ultimately what i’m trying to say.

Think for yourself and be honest with yourself. Double check three times daily that your head’s not up your ass and you’re not in a small deadend cult-de-sac, and if in doing so you find that you are, genuinely assess whether you’re truly ok with that

Personally i’m not ok with that and right now i’m feeling like that’s sorta what’s going on here. I am certain the potential is real, and i hope the potential for the potential to be realized is high. I guess i just need a break!

So that’s what i’m gonna do. If history is any indication, i’ll be back shortly. But in this present moment i hope i can give myself more time this time. I’m a poor mfer living in obscenely expensive fiat world. I have to focus my energy on productivity for the sake of my wife and myself and the son and daughter i’ve been having visions of someday raising, and stop embracing diversions

My sincerest apologies for expressing such uncomfortable feelings. Don’t wanna harsh the vibe here any further. This is 99% a me-problem to be absolutely clear (probably comes through loud and clear huh 🤣)

Pura vida, gfy, and keep stacking those sats little by little mfers. Keep doing and building cool shit and realizing more of that potential day in and day out. I’m rooting for us, i promise

But for now… peace! 🖖🌽

ponymontana💜⚡ 1y ago

GFY my friend, I franly think that social as now, even nostr-as-twitter-replacement is bad for most people, or at least for me. I'm here experimenting and living the social aspect of nostr day-to-day while I'm studying the tech and undertanding what happening here. I think I will quit from this usage of nostr in next weeks, but I found here a real good set of tech that is just too good.

nostr:nprofile1qqs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7rn7acz will still be my main source of apps because is better than alternatives and can only become better;

when nostr:nprofile1qqsth7fr42fyvpjl3rzqclvm7cwves8l8l8lqedgevhlfnamvgyg78spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqj9swg4 will be mature I think will be the optimal way to do dms cause the clever design choices, better than anything else;

I'm super bullish on doing coinjoin using nostr keys for the possibility of integrations that offer, like the nostr:nprofile1qqsxdqfx3t8ywjx5rfx0es0xgqr0hy6mhs6e0q4nm9s37ex4r3n49kgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq3samnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvekhgtnhd9azucnf0ghscxzjva electrum add-on or wasabi coinjoin implementation;

nostr:nprofile1qqsdxm5qs0a8kdk6aejxew9nlx074g7cnedrjeggws0sq03p4s9khmqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmnt9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30tm34kv shopstr integrates the best technologies to create one, if not the most, important thing for free society: finally good, private, scalable, uncensorable FREE markets.

There are a lot of other projects that I'm too dumb to even understand.

Hangout/shitposting with a twitter-like client is just the welcoming-hub. As I lived well without a twitter account before, I will live well without coming here everyday loosing too much time on thi social network.

But I will use nostr.

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ponymontana💜⚡ 1y ago

reposting myself cause my feed my rules and if you want the truth you need to speak it yourslef cause others are cappin here

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

nostr is like a weed, it will persist because of the fact that no other protocol has enabled real decentralized social networking, and the stubborn hard core who will be nostr or death are not going anywhere else, most of us, the elders, perhaps you might call us, who have been in internet social networks since the 90s, will all say the same thing:

every social network gets captured, nostr lacks the levers that let those all get captured

sure, maybe some cluster of relays and clients will get captured, but there will always be the dirty wild proles outside the gates of the walled gardens, and we will run our own relays and build our own clients, with our own time and effort and mainly for ourselves and to enable connecting to other stubborn bitches like ourselves

it is true that social networks can be unhealthy addictions but when the control levers are missing, the harm is less, and the benefits greater because they are not being squashed to trade off for the interests of those who want to shape opinions and feed off advertising budgets