You zapped yourself 😂. I've heard of that but it's the first time I've seen it

Web of Trust feels a lot like Proof of Stake 🧐

Trust is like social capital: the more trusted you are, the more influence you have, which can leave new users stuck in the shadows. Their less trusted (but often valuable!) opinions barely get noticed.

Trust works as a resource—it’s built and extended through explicit endorsements (like Alice following Bob). But here’s the catch: the early adopters hold all the cards. If you weren’t here first, your influence depends on whether the big players decide to trust you. And trust? It’s scarce, especially the kind that matters most—follows from users with high social capital. These endorsements aren’t handed out easily.

The system has a built-in centralization problem 😬. Popular users with a ton of followers tend to grow their influence exponentially, while newcomers struggle to get noticed. People are incentivized to follow others they trust to protect their reputation, which just makes the rich get richer in terms of trust.

And let’s talk about power imbalance 🔥. A follow from Alice, who’s been on Nostr for two years and climbed her way to the top, is a big deal. Compare that to a follow from Charlie, who just signed up and posted a humble #introduction . Alice’s social capital makes her endorsement hit way harder 🥊.

To top it off, there’s some “pre-mining” going on. New users often automatically follow certain developers, making them super-trusted by default. It’s like trust farming for the OGs, giving them a massive head start over everyone else.

There are so many indie-published novels with mediocre ratings on Goodreads and Amazon and such, and I always find myself thinking, “who reads these?”

Since I don’t have as much time as I’d like to read fiction, I generally end up reading just the big hits and then continue reading sequels on them.

Not sure if my boss would be cool with that 🤔

the algorithms are getting to the point where they are sending the same content to everyone. almost every platform. copy of a copy of a copy only to maximize ad impressions.

straight programming, just like the programming of radio, tv, and cable.

i want to be able to create, choose, and share my own algorithms. only way out of the bubbles being created. 🫧

She wants to do the work (editing a short clip) but she doesn’t want bitcoin.

What are next steps?

A) I insist

b) I get some usdt

C) I ghost

D) I post on Nostr for help

E) something else

Okay so I chose D. What do you say Nostrichez

We are working on a bunch of new feeds at Primal. They will all be open source and exposed in a public feed marketplace (as DVMs). In addition, all Primal clients will support 3rd party feeds via the same mechanism. This already works great in Amethyst; nice work nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z.

If you have suggestions for feeds you'd like to see, let us know and we'll try to make them! 🫡

Nah. I think Zaps are largely useless.

Nobody cares and they’re not very different to likes.

I AM A NOSTR NOOB, TEACH ME WISE ONES

I want to love Nostr and use it more. My problem is discoverability - it’s very hard to recreate a social graph + algo that beats Twitter. I see less content here and people see my posts less, so I have fewer conversations. How do I bootstrap the nostr graph without so much drudgery?

Help nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc and anyone else I know in this place

JOHN WICK IS GREAT LYN.

Could be done with a remote connection, yes.

NWC is getting popular.

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walking buddy would be cool

If Alby weren't called Alby...

what would it be called? 🤔💡

The zapvertising astroturfing risk?

It could end up as yet another pay-to-play economy, except advertisers really ought to be paying the end-users for their attention, rather than paying themselves to climb the relevancy ladder.

What book are you currently reading? Looking for inspiration...