Nostr Web Client

How did Lemmy and Hive get mentioned, but no sign of NOSTR? 😂

Not sure 🤣. I know that ActivityPub stuff tends to be popular (well, as far as decentralised social media can be considered "popular") in Germany. Or at least a lot of German posts make it to my timeline. I'm not familiar with Hive myself.

I've actually heard of ActivityPub. I had to Google the others 😂

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 😂 😂 😂

smallworlnd 4mo ago

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:npub1qdsjkr46urkg6vqrr3zqhgy8l7dazc5k9hlm5jmwqg0vft7hzgtqamgfw3! (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).

sudocarlos 4mo ago

thanks for maintaining the project. i hope to contributing when life gets left hectic

smallworlnd 4mo ago

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.

smallworlnd 4mo ago

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.

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I don't think you'll get zapped for your time, but if you want to change the course of German academia for ever, this might be interesting 👇

Email? Ugh... I definitely would like to participate but nostr has spoiled me.

I sent them a link to this post. I can’t say what levels of accommodation are considered acceptable. I had a Google Meet call and was asked if I would give my consent to be recorded.

Google.

Studying decentralized tech using... Google.

Naw... That's a hard no for me.

There are way better FOSS alternatives, even not on nostr.

Ave Delphina 4mo ago

What’s misinformation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation

Ave Delphina 4mo ago

So the study is conducted according to this definition?