Nostr Web Client

No worries! You and I are like the first customers thrown in with the devs. It’s kinda interesting to see how the sausage is made I guess… We have a rare opportunity to look behind the curtain of something, but in reality I could care less about the hash and the latest nip and all of it. Their knowledge will sink into us through osmosis, and we will be l33t by the time others arrive. The OG nostr überchads.

poe😱 2y ago

I can't keep up with the Nostr stuff as well. Too much too fast from too many directions, as not a dev or coder I have a hard time following a lot of the terminology. I understand Bitcoin a little bit better, so being around a lot of others who are equally as enthralled by it, and more technical, is nice.

The social thing has never really appealed to me before, but I also never saw the point in arguing with people you'll never meet over the Internet over every stupid ass thing.

However these last several months have been a weird and exhilarating experience. Sometimes I can't believe any of shit shit works 😂

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Jed 2y ago

The social thing has never appealed to me either, but that’s because modern society is contrived. Here it feels so different, raw and real though. ..Almost enough to make a man believe dead Internet theory is at work in other places.

The algorithm would never have shown a Poe😱 to a Jed🐸. I don’t know your real name, what you do for a living, what continent you’re even on. Doesn’t matter. We happen onto eachother, and here we are talking. You seem more real to me than people I’ve actually met and then friended on FB. Nobody can act real on legacy media, whether they’re real or not.

poe😱 2y ago

💯

It's crazy too how good the translation is most the time. I forget I'm interacting to people who aren't even speaking the same language as me. Which is glorious. It feels way more global here.

Like an eclectic group of outside the box thinkers stumbled into each other across the world and all have this crazy idea that we don't need to be shown what we are supposed to want.

Honestly that manufactured feeling has become so prevalent that everyone fits like check boxes now. A lot of YouTubers and "influencers" all tick the same list of "how it's done" and it all feels samey.

This feels like the raw early 2000's internet of experimenting and bafoonery.

@me 2y ago

is this a new my space?

poe😱 2y ago

Myface yourspace headcase shoelace.

@me 2y ago

hahahaha !

Jed 2y ago

Sadly no, I don’t believe so. This is Xanga.

Remember Xanga came before MySpace? Neither does anybody else. I don’t know if nostr will continue in primacy among this type of media, but if it doesn’t we have the leg up. Just the same way as early adopters of Xanga became the cornerstone influencers of MySpace and Facebook, we have a seamless transition. Imagine all the Karens waking up and realizing they needed 20sats to angry face a FB post. They won’t know how to fund their wallet, they probably just won’t react to any posts, and they’ll wither away societally. They will have a hard time adjusting. We are already there.

I’ve seen a lot of things come and go. Bulletin boards, and then forums. Xanga, and then MySpace. “Email” over ham radio, and then emails on your smart device. The biggest example, intranets, and then the Internet. Welcome to the future. It’s already here.

@me 2y ago

what?

how did you type these sentences on a phone or lap top or hard plastic keyboard?

poe😱 2y ago

What's a keyboard?

@me 2y ago

behave

poe😱 2y ago

I'll do my best 😂🫡🤝

Jed 2y ago

Damus on mobile bro! My thumb muscles have thumb muscles.

Sunchaser 2y ago

Like creating a bar to entry for the 0 INT people. You want it, you got to earn it.

But we have to help the people who want in if we want it to "succeed." That includes the average people who don't know how to use bitcoin or sats.

And I'd rather enjoy having some average people around. Maybe I'm crazy.

Sunchaser 2y ago

Oh and I have no idea what Xanga is.

"That's the generation gap for you *shrug*"

Jed 2y ago

MySpace was basically a Xanga clone but it tried harder. Xanga didn’t have image hosting, so it was doomed to the way of the dodo but nobody knew it until it happened. Everyone used imgur or photobucket and just used html script to imbed the photos in their Xanga posts. Drastically different times on the Internet.. There may have been other functionality added, but when Tom said “here’s a platform you can host pictures AND talk about them” everybody migrated immediately.

I suspect Nostr has blind spots or is tone deaf in some aspect. I think since it is a protocol instead of a platform, Nostr can adapt way faster than Xanga could have. We shall see.