Everything on nostr is a note. There is no relational database behind the website that prevents me from liking my own post, therefore a note that says:

- I am a like

- I like note with ID: xxxx

- I was created on Monday 1st ...

Not only can you like your own note, you can even like it an unlimited number of times.

Clients often enforce rules to prevent such things so that it feels more like a "twitter" clone, but that's what clients do. They take a technology that is so vast it can do anything, and introduce rules to give it meaning for their specific use case.

Mad

With a camera man recording at the perfect angle?

One thing you can actively do is create pseudonyms and "personalities" to get your messages out, your jokes out, express yourself.

The main thing you can't do here is attribute all your work to yourself in public, feel free to expose yourself in private but know that not everyone is as sensitive to your desire of privacy as you are.

Yes. This is the nature of a public square (aka a social platform).

If you need private conversations, use private direct messaging or private group chats (not currently widely available on Nostr clients yet)

Google is like the nosey parker on the street with a camcorder. They ain't doing nothing illegal, but you know that because of this kid, you have to be extra careful what you say out in the open.

There are also some other ideas being explored, like private relays and time-limited messages that relays keep private as best they can, but this is still an open playground with nothing standardised.

Exciting times... because whatever comes from all of this is going to be so much better than Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and sp on.

For now, if you need private comms, use private end to end encrypted messaging.

Everyone is a bitcoiner. Whether they know it yet or not.

No way this isn't fake. But I love it. 🤣

Yes, this is what I was talking about.

Not always, I've see ones that use multiple hops to deanonymise your traffic... like a mini onion network.

https://restoreprivacy.com/vpn/multi-hop/

For example, I use mullvad, and I never gave a name, email, nothing.

Because to be super secure, not only should they not know what websites you visit, but also they should not know who their customers are in the first place.

Credit cards and other traditional payment systems tell the recipient who you are, they also tell the bank or financial institution that you are using a VPN, adding a third party into the private relationship.

Using crypto, a VPN provider can offer to provide VPN to anyone without collecting any personal information.

The VPN provider will still have exposure to all of their customer's IP addresses, but maybe they do stuff to mystify that too.

Get it Get it Get it!

Less than 90 blocks worth of transactions in the mempool. Down from over 120 just a month ago. Slow and steady, but maybe the mempools will clear 👀.

💪💪💪

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"Pay your taxes, give us money so we can look after you. We will think about global issues and future outlooks on your behalf so you can live your lives."

* Pays taxes

"Look, we have money, let's do irresponsible stuff with the money and not plan for the future"

* Disaster

"We have no money, you guys gotta pay for this yourselves. I know the taxes were supposed to cover exactly this type of thing, but we spent it all on elections instead. #sorrynotsorry"

😡

Bro had the queen bee trapped in his cloak which he never took off or washed.

I can only describe this article as "a silly short post". Feels more like an ad for someone's video more than a serious concerned article with the whole "what else don't we know" tacked on. 🤷‍♂️

Hello?

Actually, email is optional. But the lack of information makes my imagination go wild.

Looks like they only encrypt before storage. Outgoing messages are unencrypted, incoming too, so while SMS Providers don't protect you or your messages, they also don't protect them I would assume.

The only thing this provides is pseudonymity against the SMS providers, but with access to messages, that can quickly be deanonymised.

Also, they say that they protect against sim swaps, but how exactly, it seems they are at the same mercy of the SMS providers that we would be if we used our own sims.

Seems expensive for a false sense of security. Prove me wrong.

With a magic wand?

> Banks have lobbied for permission to take longer to agree to payments

Fuck off. Why are you lobbying to gain greater control of MY money?! Fuck right off.

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This is completely different.