The problem with academic studies is they always want to research the most boring and least significant thing imaginable, "misinformation" 😞
The power of NOSTR with its keypair instead of accounts and running across decentralised, self hosted relays, and zaps, none of that's interesting at all 😂 😂 😂
Researchers are actually all over the new stuff all the time, but starting a project on it is very difficult because of all the bureaucracy and begging involved for funding
Nostr will fix this, eventually. I think.
You can just do research.
Exactly. Research for plebs funded by plebs.
Plebs have been exceptionally bad at funding me so far, not gonna lie 🤣🤣. But yes, hopefully one day!
Sure, but, there are only dozens of us. We can only fund so much.
I wish I had your optimism. But looking at any trending or top-zapped feed contradicts this view. People open their wallets based on likeability, popularity, their mood, or how much they agree with someone’s take. To be fair, this is not a critique of Nostr. FOSS development is a bit like theatre: very few people will ever make money from it.
As a species, we’re not that great at the whole V4V thing. As much as I’d love to be proven wrong, I think that humanity is not there yet.
No, I disagree in that we aren't good at v4v with fiat ruining inventive structures, at this point, almost unknowingly.
And I don't pay attention to the big zappers. They are in a fart-sniffing circlejerk. If you aren't in that club, you aren't in that club.
Thanks for the Zap nostr:nprofile1qqsqxcftp6awpmydxqp3c3qt5zrllx73v2tzmla6fdhqy8ky4lt3y9sprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuum4v3hkxctjd3hhxtnrdakj7qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wghxcctwvshsju7c63! (And I swear that I wasn't angling at extracting anyone's sats with the the phrase above :). Given how much you helped with the Primal stuff you should be getting some sars yourself).
thanks for maintaining the project. i hope to contributing when life gets left hectic
If only I had $$$ for lab equipment so I could just do research
I got more sats for sharing a post about a possible job opportunity than for releasing software used by over 10% of Nostr relays (assuming nostr.watch numbers are correct). So yeahp, we’re still very far from “V4V”-funded R&D. But the fact that I even get to read some research papers shared by other Nostriches is already a net positive. Given some of the stuff that passes as content here, I’m just glad we’re not in a totally science-sceptical environment. Not gonna lie, that was my initial impression, considering all the anti-vaccination talk, carnivorous diet with bars of butter and other trending content on Nostr.
The V4V R&D model strikes me as just a different form of gofundme campaigns. Just not the same vision, time preference or scale for most fields of research.
GoFundMe campaigns are more effective. You rarely walk away from a campaign without raising at least £200. Still, not enough for even the most basic R&D, and certainly not enough for anyone to make a living.
Lemmy is also ActivityPub-based and the original call was on Mastodon, so that may explain the connection :).
I mentioned what I could about Nostr given the scope of the interview. One way or another, if Nostr makes it into a study with key phrases like decentralised social media, it could attract further interest from researchers in Information Systems, Computer Science, and related fields. Or not 🤣... But I might just be on the weird side that actually enjoys contributing to this kind of thing.
I would love to contribute if it was an open discussion where they could actually listen to what I was saying and the direction I was taking them in, instead of asking me closed, irrelevant questions.
Not sure if giving details about the process helps, but my interview was a mix of directed questions (it is a study with a defined scope after all), along with plenty of time and leeway to elaborate on my thoughts. I was also asked if I had anything to add, and we ended with a more unstructured conversation where I mostly spoke about Nostr. Not exactly a Nostr Podcast / Conference environment or a free for all conversation. But it wasn't bad either.
