listening to the Rogan segment. i don’t know this Ottman guy or minds.com, but seems kinda shitcoiny, no?
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Made an account, very shitcoiny.
Yeah. Very. Had an account and stopped using for that reason.
Minds was one of the original free speech social platforms, been around for as long as Gab. And it’s the first “established” platform to integrate Nostr (although not very seamlessly). I have respect for those guys.
It's no Damus. Was/is an ok app.
but doesn’t seem decentralized in any meaningful way?
They run a nostr relay but you can’t write to it :(
Using a read only relay is like having a smoke show wife who you can only watch bang other dudes🤣 I did appreciate that JRE episode though cool to see Nostr get mentioned🫂⚡️💜
cool to see the mention of Nostr, NIPs, and Damus!
i’m just bothered that this guy seems like he’s disingenuously associating with nostr without really embracing the principles
I’ve had multiple meetings with him and his team when he was implementing nostr into minds. He definitely cares about decentralization and his team worked hard on nip26 which is a pretty good spec.
Just checked out minds and its got a nice UI but no zaps implemented yet. Hope they add soon. I laughed seeing remind instead of retweet. One day I bet they will have zaps, & relays you can post to. Bill seemed like a good guy based on what I heard from him on Rogan.
I agree , and he certainly deflected