the second word of your first question contains its answer

You are completely wrong on the first paragraph. Opensats has funded a lot of anons that have work to point to. All applications are evaluated solely on merit.

And correct on the second one. People shouldn’t apply to build it; they should build it and apply.

"are we centralizing or decentralizing?"

"how central are the biggest relays? how many relays would need to be taken down/censored for X% of nostr hsers using clients that dont shopoet the outbox-model?"

"what % of events with e-tags leave relay hints?"

important questions we don't have tools to answer yet

maybe someone will build them and get their work funded with grants

I'm using hexagons for little territories in a game

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zaps already optional.

Like the very successful and friendly Nostr ad that circulated on insta some time ago had no mention of any crypto economy and promised non-polarising cesorship resistant social media..

It was good

Agreed, but as long as this place broadcasts bitcoin and lightning then this is all it will ever be.

Nostr stinks of crypto scam to normies.

My suggestion is to build a client without a zap button, host a relay that rejects bitcoin influencers.

Let local culture take root.

Maybe trying to appeal to "normies" at this point is wrong and we should first get computer nerds or activists or something like that first.

It mentions usage within DNS... Any idea what that would entail?

I am always curious about projects like this that seemingly do something cool and I just dont know how or why... yet. x)

My birthday is in four days and I am positive on the rona.

My friends bought train tickets for the 30th so I must be negative on the rona.

If I am positive on my 30th birthday ON the 30th, I will be pissed. This is the ONE time I really want to be healthy, top to bottom. There are so many cool things happening on this single day all at once and I would hate having to isolate because of the goddamn rona. xD

Whoever brought this stupid virus into existence needs a slap. A mighty, loud, echoing, vengeful, eardrumripping, slap. It must be so strong and loud that even a blockchain shall feel the shaking of the resulting sound. Seeeeeeeeriously.

It’s a client (what ever is used) adding information about the image using # that is not passed to the server. Damus handles it well, I guess Amethyst is not 🐶🐾🤷‍♂️

Can we build a Nostr-native onion routing for private events using DVMs?

Each onion hop is a GiftWrap using an Ephemeral event kind encrypted to the next onion DVM. The client assembles all hops and sends the private message to the first DVM via the user's main relay. That DVM decrypts the ephemeral event and sends it to the next DVM. The last DVM will send it to the user.

This minimizes the user's IP leakage to the set of trusted relays that user likes while sustaining the relay decentralization properties of NIP-65.

User's would never connect directly to the read relays of other users because they might not be trusted.

Since the relay knows your Nostr filters, it does know which pubkeys you are interested in (including your own key). Decoupling sending an event to a pubkey and filtering events for your pubkey in the same connection/IP is key to reducing the power that the relay has over you.

This would be akin to using several Tor sessions, a new session for every new message you send, while giving the Client the power to choose different "exit" nodes (DVMs) at each new message.

Am I crazy or is this actually better?