Still considering if Jordan should be on my list or not

Now that the excitement has calmed down a bit, what are ya'lls thoughts on badges?

Just finished reading ‘When money dies - Adam Fergusson’ after #[0]​‘s advice.

A very important book, much recommended 📚

Off to ‘The price of tomorrow - Jeff Booth’

I’m wondering why there are question marks near relays I’m connected too 🤔

One small step for #Nostr, one big step for #[1]​ ❤️

I’m wondering why there are question marks near relays I’m connected too 🤔

Now officially running public #nostr relay 🥳

#zap for the effort

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It seems I have missed something about the nostr protocol.

"Instead of requiring users to manually type new relay addresses (although this should also be supported), whenever someone you're following posts a server recommendation, the client should automatically add that to the list of relays it will query."

Does this mean if I follow someone that uses and posts on a public relay my client is not using, my client will automatically add that relay?

What exactly is a 'server recommendation'?

Your top 5 cypherpunk movies, go:

Most conversation I’ve seen on a note so far. It’s happening…

#[0]

Imagine you’re at a bar, everybody is talking to each other in small groups,

And a scrawny looking guy is going up to everybody and trying to sell them product X. Nobody is paying much attention and business is not so great for this scrawny advertiser.

Suddenly two people start brawling everyone’s attention changes to now look at those two people. The scrawny guy seizes the opportunity and stands on top of a table next to where the brawl is happening and starts shouting about his product X. Product X catches a lot of eyeballs and starts selling more.

The scrawny guy being smart as he is fixes a deal with the barkeep. The barkeep himself insights a brawl, drawing the public attention, the scrawny guy advertises and sells. At the end he pays the bartender some amount for the attention he got.

This system is very bad for the bar goers, who have to deal with a brawl, or sometimes become the brawlers themselves. But it’s great for the advertiser and the barkeep.

If you haven’t caught up yet the barkeep is Twitter, the scrawny guy are the advertisers, the brawls are fixed by the algorithm and the brawlers are YOU.

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.