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Matthew D
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Dreaming of a front porch fit enough for banjo plucking. Specializing in forestry and agriculture for over a decade.

Morning run scheduled for 5 AM tomorrow. 🫡

it is exploding. I think back five years ago, even when I was in Bitcoin, I had no idea what FOSS was or what it's value proposition held. Today it's quickly becoming a major part of my life, and it's so easy to interact with.

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

This a really good post from Jack.

Part of the answer might just be time. The tech is real, people are building on it, and it takes time for people to be burned by permissioned systems to discover permissionless ones now that they exist.

I do think that bitcoin wallet + social graph is a big combo in the long run. The fact that you can just look up and pay anyone you know without that person taking action to tell you their payment details, especially in an open source and international environment, is a pretty big deal. Not just zaps as tips on posts, but zaps for Nostr marketplaces or for saying “pay me on Nostr” for products/services unrelated to Nostr per se.

And for the social network part, I just like the fact that Nostr is permissionless and open. Twitter has a huge network effect and I have plenty of friends/connections there, so I still post there a lot and use it for research as well. That is irreplaceable until it is not. But Nostr feels different. The tech feels right, the group that adopts that tech early feels right, and so to me it feels right to post things here that I would not otherwise post to 675k Twitter followers. Less filtered, for better or worse.

I used to be involved with individual small forums back before widespread social media was a thing, and was an administrator for one to help run it, and that type of smaller community was valuable. In fact, I inadvertently met my now-husband there 13 years ago, who was also an administrator. The forum had fewer than 50,000 people, with only a few thousand active at any time, but in context that is the size of a significant town.

But while Nostr still has the “feel” of a smaller forum now, its open source and permissionless nature gives it enormous expansion opportunity. While programmers do their best to build new features and capabilities, I try to seed this current smaller version of Nostr with unique content that doesn’t feel right to post in a larger centralized setting but feels more right for a smaller decentralized community of adventurers.

Because I want permissionless and open source tech to win. nostr:note19aldr26lyw2lqatcgqscyt3kpq76hcpwtwmglypvqqgx3m27fsaswa8rr6

Been spending a lot of time thinning about these ideas this weekend too, Lyn. We can look at Bitcoin as a good example model for the growth of a decentralized protocol, which just acts different.

Development is done not for profit, but for a common mission. Profit may happen, in time it should. Adoption should happen too, first it starts small with the people who are paying attention the closest and then we see the ripple effect.

The killer app is existing, the timing is dependent upon external fracturing.

I'll probably unfollow you if I feel like you're trying to pull any legacy social media influencer crap.

Doubling down and engaging more with people who don't.

terrible flub by Morikawa. he's going to want that one back.

don't expect a financial return off of this

#grownostr

Finally some scoring action on the final day at the #Masters

No matter what I just want to see some playoff golf.

Seriously cool. Check it out!

Math rocks one of my favorite lesser known genres.

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Ever hear of nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg ?

Value for value music streaming platform. Integrated with Nostr too.

Followed. Saw Intuitive Guy post your math rock.

Big fan of Math Rock. Minus the Bear, Pinback, El ten eleven.

Real maple syrup mixed with hot sauce.

Didn't expect that to taste good.

Hi there, this is the Nostr CEO. How can I help you today?

no fees on river DCA.

Replying to Avatar BitBees

You were very kind to me when I had wallet and posting issues. I hold you in very high regard re your customer service and product interface. My heart will always be with both of you and nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s (because I onboarded with Damus), and he is similar to you in his support for idiot users like myself . #SupportNostrDevs

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not an idiot. because you're here!

big league IQ move

Replying to Avatar miljan

Primal optimizes for smoothest onboarding of new users. nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg optimizes for maximum freedom.

We still respect each other and are good friends. Working on the same mission from two different angles.

There’s a lesson in there. ✌️💜☀️

Mission focus with different deliverables.

That's how we know we're on the right path.