Nostr Web Client

Gunson

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Low status fiat heretic. Often wrong. 2 + 2 = 4

Good post. 🙏

Your analysis though is missing a dive into the centralization gravity of the tech architecture itself.

I understand your point that there will always be a psychopath willing to subsidize freedom. Maybe that’s true and continues. It’s been true so far.

But psychopaths are not enough to keep nostr decentralized.

Relays are NOT equivalent. A relay with 100k users is not the same as a relay with two users.

Relays equal reach. Everyone wants the greatest audience for their posts and to never miss a post from someone they follow. This creates a natural incentive to connect to the largest relays.

The problem with the architecture is that nostr clients limit the number of relays you can have. For example, nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 recommends ten or less.

This means that when you’re limited to the number of relays, you want to connect to the largest (greatest cache of content and most connected users). Nobody wants to connect to the smallest.

This creates a centralizing gravity where relays get larger and more concentrated. Eventually we could end up with 10 massive relays. There would be no need for the 11th so few people would connect to it.

As you know from your analysis on shitcoin blockchains, they have a natural centralizing gravity. They need to be faster and cheaper than their competitors. This forces them to go POS and run fewer, larger nodes to increase throughput.

Nostr’s architecture has this same centralizing gravity.

This needs to be discussed, verified, and if confirmed… then fixed.

Ultimately, we’re not on team nostr v1. We’re all on team freedom and privacy.

nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z

significant risk imo

then actually much easier for a government to take control of (or start and subsidise) a few of these relays via some mechanism (shell company etc) than it was to infiltrate a public company like Twitter

yes the committed could still use the psychopath relays, but that's basically similar to where we are today if all the normies are on the censored relays recommended by captured clients

the one improvement is that an npub being censored by a relay is still verifiably that npub, and their audience could seek them out on the psychopath relays, but still lots of friction for normies to do that while their attention is diverted by their existing relays' feed

That is interesting, however I very much disagree with L.A. Paul on this. 😉

Really?

I think it's a great argument and I see it in my social circle. I have friends that don't have children because they think it will disrupt their lifestyle, but they can't possibly know how much they would value being parents because they're not parents.

I guess you can approximate by reading, and talking to people who are already transformed (vampires) but you still ultimately have different values until you undergo the transformation yourself.

You are about to become a Bitcoiner. Are you sure you want to continue?

Warning: This change cannot be undone.

Reminds me of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_Experience

"Paul offers a hypothetical example of a decision to become a vampire. Because a person would be fundamentally transformed by becoming a vampire, they cannot possibly know in advance what being a vampire is like."

My 2 year old thinks this lady's name is Banana 🍌

PermaNerd 🌱 💻

I like GrapheneOS. My main issue is finding a decent keyboard. I've tried several, but they all seem to struggle... Perhaps it's just me.

#deepthoughts

GBoard with no network access 👌

I've tried the stock keyboard, Floris, and OpenBoard but they all sadly have some very annoying issues.

The complicated aspect about the Social Security system in the United States is that it was falsely marketed.

It's called an "entitlement" because people pay into it and are supposed to get it back like a pension, regardless of whether they are rich or poor when they retire. And so the Baby Boomer generation views any cuts to their social security as a rugpull, basically. It's not insurance or charity; it's an entitlement.

However, although it was marketed as like an entitlement/pension, that's not how the math worked out in practice. And it's because population growth is slowing. It was based on ponzi math, assuming that every generation will be bigger than the one that came before it. But the Baby Boomer generation was huge.

In addition, when Social Security was created, the retirement age was set near the average life expectancy. Many people would not live long enough to collect it, and most would collect it for a handful of years. Only a small minority of outliers would work for like 40 years and then live off social security for like 20+ years. But then over the decades, life expectancy increased by like 15 years, so the default assumption is indeed that someone can work for 40 years and then have 20+ years of retirement, even though the amount they pay into it doesn't really mathematically cover that. It's not designed for that en masse.

And so Baby Boomers had like a 3.5 worker-to-retiree ratio to support in their peak earnings years, while Millennials will have more like a 2.5 worker-to-retiree ratio or less to deal with. Which means they get a worse deal. Many Millennials don't even think they'll get it at all, despite paying into it.

That breaks up the social contract and sets up inter-generational political conflict. "Fourth Turning" stuff.

It's a big reason why "defined benefit" plans are inherently unstable; they rely on being able to predict the future.

And it's also a big reason why, when speaking about deficits, nothing stops this train.

Entitlements $ = Number of retirees * avg. post-retirement lifespan * avg. annual benefits $

One or more of these will have to decline. The 3rd term is a given because it will decline due to inflation without anyone voting on it.

nostr:note10elqdmn0xf60x7mpyfp7w9zcctle69trhtr4dmvgddemjfrxhmtsyvrghz

Shouting fire! in a crowded theatre:

*It's not actually illegal

*It's better for someone to inform the crowd that there's a fire with the risk of being wrong, rather than not at all

*If theatres were so concerned about this issue they could build more exits, let less people in, install fire alarms

Arguments against free speech are bullshit.

Hardware next!!

Tbh I'm okay using some of my old devices in a limited way (e.g. ipad for drawing) so long as my data remains local. The main thing is not to rely on Apple and definitely don't buy any *new* hardware from them.

For mobile I've been using Pixel + GrapheneOS for a couple of years now, and my main laptop is Linux.

Been slowly removing all Apple services from my life, and finally deleted my iCloud account today 💪

HR and Finance departments appear to be some kind of DDoS attack on the productivity of companies

Fascinating to see how journalists call for more censorship for people they don't like. I used to wonder "but don't they see that more censorship will hurt them when their side is out of power?".

I think the paradox is solved when you consider that their side is global elites who speak and navigate the fashionable language of wokeness, and their arragonce makes them truly believe that they will always come out on top.

Trump came out better than Elon in this discussion, imho.

Minimal gaffes from Trump. He strategically took the moderate approach here. Elon fished for outlier opinions and controversies but Trump used Akido on them and dominated the discussion. One might like or dislike Trump's positions but in this particular appearance the gaffes were minimal and the positions were purposely moderated and careful.

This was basically the opposite of the Elon and Jordon Peterson interview. In that interview, Elon clearly entertained Jordan and outmaneuvered him. Elon barely wanted to be there. Jordon looked silly.

In this interview with Trump, Elon basically cucked himself for Trump. He knows where his business bread is buttered: Xi, Modi, Erdogan, and whichever US president has momentum.

But meanwhile, for those who say I am biased against Elon, I'm on *his* side for the EU and UK activity against Twitter. Elon is absolutely right there. The only proper American response there is to fuck off. And his memes have been great against Thierry Breton and others. UK and EU should get rekt on that front. I'm pro-Elon there, which is not common outside of SpaceX which is great.

But the proliferation of Nostr would beat all of that latter part regarding communication. It's good to push back and meme against Thierry Breton. Tell him to get rekt. It's even better to make Thierry Breton irrelevant by making it so that he can't send his Karen-like letters to anyone, since Nostr has no CEO, as we swarm around him and invite Britons and Europeans to join us.

Anyway, good evening.

Gm 🇬🇧

Missed this from a few weeks ago - apparently BitClout was such an incompetent scam that the founder has now been arrested and charged for fraud.

I remember when this obvious shitcoin scam came around and Robert Greedlove tried to pump it, then denied it. I'm really going to miss the shitcoins during huperbitcoinization because they make grifter spotting so easy.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/07/30/bitclout-founder-charged-with-wire-fraud-civil-securities-charge/

"When the truth is found to be lies

And all the joy within you dies

Don't you want somebody to love?"

#Bitcoin

The Guy That Looked Into It

Which part exactly confuses you? If you believe the opposite I challenge you to showcase the scientific poof of any so called viral particles being able to make anyone sick. This hasn't ever been done and all attempts failed miserably, wonder why...

no no cool dawg, you just go ahead and don't wash your hands. maybe lick a few elevator buttons and toilet seats while you're at it, I'm sure you'll be fine 👌

Pity the Pret coffee is so terrible. I can't boycott this because I never go there anyway :/

"I remain convinced that the policing of protests holds up a mirror to a society."

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-truth-about-two-tier-policing-in-britain/

Bit-life crisis: The moment in your bitcoin journey where…

- your stacks stop moving the needle

- net worth fluctuates more than annual salary in a single day

- fiat job losses all meaning

- you lose the ability to self censor

- things that upset those around you barely register for you

- you just stop giving a fuck entirely

The trick is to find work that you care about regardless of salary. The bit-life crisis gives you this perspective. Take a fiat pay cut, but wake up happy and spend your time well.

Wow

Oops - I guess The Met will have to track me down now

This Imane Khelif saga shows how powerful framing and selective info can be in swaying opinion.

When I came across content from the right I thought it was a typical case of a trans woman competing against biological women. Wrong.

When I read Wikipedia and watched a Daily Show clip (both left wing) I thought that the right was making up lies because apparently Khelif is a biological woman, grew up as one, always competed as one etc. Wrong.

The truth is far more complicated it seems, and actually the 100% truth is not available to anyone commenting online. Khelif failed a gender test at the IBA World Champs last year, but then some are arguing the testing process was flawed and motivated by Russian leadership. So there's clearly smoke, but no conclusive evidence one way or the other.

It's all so tiresome 😩

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