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Still don't understand why my Nostr address (nip-05) is valid on #Amethyst, but not valid on other clients (Iris, Primal, etc).

I follow a few hashtags on #Amethyst and use the 'All Follows' feed generally. It's just a bit irritating being pigeonholed into only seeing specific searches.

Global feed is the same trash as the X firehose.

#changemymind

Reply guy attack

Counting follows is counting the number of contact lists you are on. Contact lists are large so relays will only allow you to pull so many at a time. To know how many people follow you is knowing every up to date contact list on every relay. Clients can’t really pull all of this information down, so depending which relays you are counting from you will get different numbers, but it will always be inaccurate. Follow counts are a centralized concept.

yes, and at the current state of things, he is , IMO, half right, if an umbrel solution and node relays easy to implement and pruned are not deployed soon, that will be the end of this beautiful Bitcoin enthusiasts ECO chamber...

One other project is way more successful and engaging by 10 fold, check Stacker News... (link in my profile) the engagement is excellent and the platform found a way to monetize while providing a service people is willing to spend few sats thanking excellent Intel, articles and thoughts, SN takes a percentage and shares a large portion with creators.

It is always the same, on one side the Satoshi Nakamotos' of the world, building altruistically, anonymously, not in search of glory out of ego or primarily looking to monetize (the minority, we have few of them through history) on the other hand the rest, following predictable human nature, with bills to pay, some professional and down to earth, some greedy, some egomaniacs, some sold out to corp interests and the list goes on...

Nostr needs Satoshi Nakamotos' type of devs to free the relayers from the intention to monetize them (umbrel pruned implementation would do)... although we may have to enter a coma state to proof that the path of paid relayers leads to a death project.

Just my opinion ...

Understood. I'm not as familiar with the environment here as I would like to. I mainly have the takeaway that nostr lets you own your voice - contrary to legacy social media.

Relays are just temporary storage to make sure notes get to the destination even if people are offline. They are not here to protect you or your data. Especially free ones. That's not their goal in the system.

I think the benefit being pushed about being a platform against censorship can be thought of like this:

There are no knobs to turn (not easily) that results in a shadow ban. You aren't bound to a single client. You own your content.

Privacy is in the hands of the user.

On the anonymous front, no, Nostr does not protect your digital identity by default, again, no app built with privacy in mind as it should be, your IP address is exposed by the clients logs and relayers if you are not using TOR Browser or a VPN. Amethyst app at least has in the settings the option of using TOR but you need to combine it with Orbot used as a VPN client on your mobile, so not for the non tech savvy.

Nostr is not fully decentralized in the sense that is not fully p2p, but relays in servers which act as relayers, some public, some private/paid (absurd IMO, since their selling point is censoring content considered spam or hateful etc so basically ironic and non sense considering the ethos of Nostr). But there are so many public relayers at the moment across the world that you can say is decentralized, but there is no current strong solution for true decentralization (no money incentive) nor for how it will scale further, currently is a tiny follow, we get to a serious usage/follow and the relayers will need a major upgrade

As for making illegal any form of messaging app not control or regulated, that is up to each government, those that are openly totalitarian will most probably try to enforce it, which is almost impossible, but they can legislate and make the life of those using it difficult and even incarcerate them if caught... EU is going that way for the surprise of many, USA is not much different, what can't control with back doors normally is legally banned and their devs incarcerated (tornado, Samourai wallet, etc)...

I have the same opinion, voicing it for some time now.

I believe that IPFS is a decent solution, and if any issues with IPFS, working to solve it would make tons of sense. This will make the client side 100% decentralized. Currently, all web based are centralized and therefore subject to closure.

For the relays, IPFS won't do, but an easy solution will be a pruned relay for Umbrel.

While building any NOSTR or Bitcoin related application, security, privacy and decentralization should be the prime directive above all in the design phase, yet, most applications fail miserably

There isn't a sure-fire way of making anything "airtight" against anything really. The systems in place that were used to build to where things are now were flawed, maybe, but not corrupt in the beginning. They were hijacked over time, in a very subtle manner, and warped into what they are now. The consistent vigilance by all parties involved in society is the only remedy to such things.

Censorship resistant, not censorship proof. Getting cooperation from all jurisdictions would be challenging but probably not impossible.

Ideally clients would work p2p