Yeah same. I lost everything. I thought JRNL was the next big thing.

My complaints are about his design philosophy which I think is too rigid. I want an app with devs that are interested in giving the user more power over their own experience, not deciding what the experience should be for them. Something like that can't be solved with a quick fork, I need a whole new app.

If I have to make a list of reasons why I am on Nostr, client features and designs don't even come in the top 5.

For me, the biggest reasons are this beautiful community and the hope for a better & free future.

The idea of nostr is way bigger than any client or app.

Each of the clients defines how you experience the Nostr network and the protocol. That's the point of clients - they run on your device and you are in charge of them. Now I think you got caught on feeling that someone tells you how you should experience something. But I don't think that's what's happening here.

In this case someone made a packaged opinionated experience available to you and it's up to you whether to use it.

And so I think if you like Amethyst, then you should just continue using it.

Either way there are other options on Android, like Plebstr, Iris or even using one of the PWAs.

That's ok, you have options.

Lot's of questions for Amethyst today. I was mostly away doing other things but hopefully, I addressed some of the concerns.

One of my biggest beliefs in computer science is that apps/frameworks MUST be opinionated. The author should make decisions that drive a certain type of experience from his/her app/framework. Failing to make those choices only reduces competition and further diminishes the value of the app. Open source takes this vision one step further since anyone can fork a given app at any time and implement their own ways of doing business. When the two concepts are combined they create the perfect decentralization vector.

I am distributing Amethyst with an MIT License because I want to see others using the code. Forkers can do whatever they want with it, including opening a for-profit company based on my code. I sincerely want to see multiple forks with different decisions and, hopefully, new features/designs being offered. And the best way for me to enable forks is to be opinionated. This opens the door for other developers to pitch their own ideas for the future of the app. It would be very "corporate" of me to just implement options for everything. But I firmly believe that causes more damage than creates solutions in the long term.

So.. Keep forking. Let's see what you got.

Should I increase the number to 10 follows? Maybe a percentage?

As with many things, the worst attacks often come from within. nostr:note18z7rqv87qt0nu3v0rajf4ghnrqcnnc3ujgeqy3zswgs2nwh3nq3qmwhnlh

I consider this to be simple game theory. You now know who reported her. You can talk to them to delete the report. Or you can simply unfollow them. Either way, you are seeing this happening in your account. It's not hidden.

Reports have consequences as well. That's the only way we can make this system work.

You already know what choice is

I searched for it with no results

What's the deal with this? It showed up in my notifications and then disappeared. I'm only able to find it again because I replied to it right away. Is it something a client sends when someone mutes you?

nostr:naddr1qqzx6at5v5pzqczwjmsfnym2zpyg89vtqs95weewpuzgex9v0yln0llycusz084jqvzqqqr4xq6vuj2u

Imagine convert to fiat instantly. Don’t think we are that far along.