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I think one important aspect that was normal for centralized Web 2.0 apps, but is difficult to design on Nostr, is various permission/visibility levels for certain details of data entries. For example I want my approved mutuals to see where I just checked in (and even get a notification if it was close to them), but not anyone else. A single service with its own user database can easily manage these kinds of permissions, of course.
Check-ins could go far beyond just BTCMap and be a full Foursquare (before Swarm) alternative. I was thinking about that use case recently, because I miss using a check-in app for essentially collecting place bookmarks, like I was doing in the mid 2000s.
BTCMap could then also integrate that functionality (or do it first) and be an entry point for new users to find the check-in app(s).
A friend of mine is recording a Ripple/finance event in Switzerland right now, where a woman from Bhutan is schooling the whole room on bitcoin, and she's saying that her government is literally trying to on-board every single citizen to it.
Furthermore, apparently BTC is already the effective reserve currency of the country, and they're using it for Forex trading of their own currency as well.
It's from an opinion piece that you can easily find by following the links: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/my-carbon-an-approach-for-inclusive-and-sustainable-cities/
My Amethyst literallty just crashed while looking at this reply. Hilariously buggy and janky.
Fair enough. Didn't mean to be rude. Just disagree strongly with Signal *the app* being on the list, because so many bitcoiners are still on Telegram and I'd rather have them move to a decentralized messenger than another centralized service.
How so? No federated app is using only the Signal Protocol by itself. You may as well say that Merkle Trees are better than Bitcoin, or Git is better than Bitcoin, because it used Merkle Trees first. Nonsensical to me.
How is that relevant to my post?
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This statement is nonsensical. OMEMO for XMPP also uses parts of Signal's protocols, and yet both SimpleX and XMPP allow users to not give their metadata to a single centralized entity that is running a single endpoint with software they are unable to verify. Ingesting literally every user's metadata, while actively preventing them from connecting to users outside of their own service is pretty much the antithesis of bitcoin, nostr, and the rest of that list, message encryption or not.
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And https://nicotine-plus.org is an amazing UI for it (at least on GNOME). Can't live without it anymore.
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