Stacking sats is a misnomer, sats don't exist.

Don't @ me.

Miło to słyszeć. Pozdrawiam wszystkich Polaków! 🤙

Gm #nostrfamila! Test 123… Testing my 4relay set, can all the continents hear me loud and clear, over?

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I’ve been leaving a bunch of comments about badges, and wanted to tie it all together in one note for anyone who cares. Here are my evolving thoughts:

Obviously there’s been a bunch of hype, and that’s cool, but a bunch of people are still confused and some are even upset. Worry not, badges are harmless and much of the hype is likely to die down fast anyway.

First of all, I’m not a game designer, but I’ve played enough games to know that badges are mostly useless. For a badge to feel special it typically needs to:

1. Be difficult to achieve

2. Be available for anyone to try to achieve it

3. Come from some important central entity

It’s not to say that friend to friend badges are useless or won’t last, but I’d wager the hype on those will be the first to die, and fast.

I think the best use of badges is if it comes from important community entities or people who are central to Nostr’s ability to keep going. For the most part this means clients, and perhaps the founder of the protocol. Some developers can also command that kind of influence. One off events might also be good candidates for badges.

The main issue with nostr badges is that they can be created by anyone - and that makes them less special. Also, the fact that the playing field is not even (anyone can create a badge only for a specific subset of people and not everyone), makes them double ineffective. A sense of mission, struggle and achievement is required for badges to feel special. Again, this is where I think clients will be good candidates to issue them.

All that being said it’s still good fun, though I don’t expect it to last long.

Already more followers on Nostr than I had on Throttler. 😂

We need an “account” recovery process because people WILL mess up. That I can guarantee.

Red sign or not? I hate them and find them visually displeasing, I also observe its an increasing trend. It instantly lowers my trust score of a person.

You can’t stand for letting people do as they please and babysit their nsec at the same time.

I understand the security concerns but there are trade offs to everything. We are not at the stage where we should be overly concerned with how users handle their accounts. Exploitation and discovery takes priority imo.

We can work out the UX as we go.

Exploitation 😂 😂 fking autocorrect. ExploRATION 😂

I’m gonna get shit for this, I know it.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but: DO NOT NORMALIZE PASTING PRIVATE KEYS INTO WEBSITES

Chronological Lists was the only way to use Twitter and simultaneously escape algorithms and it will be useful here on Nostr as well.

I remember #[2] (Nostrgram) recently showcased his new List functionality.

I think we're being rather naive with nostr sometimes. Once users have thousands of follows, what is a good way for them to get through their feed, without something trying to pick and choose what is their favorites?

Or at least without something choosing and highlighting their most engaged topics/ accounts?

Just chronological scrolling will take forever to get through everything, and most users really only want to see a group of repeating friends/accounts.

I guess if its open source it is about a billion times better.

It’s going to be so awkward when you find out that this whole time whenever we were discussing AI it wasn’t artificial intelligence but actually just some guy named Albert that we all like.

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100% here. I only know like 1 or 2 persons IRL that didn't take it.

Technically speaking taxation is extortion. Many call inflation theft as well, but fraud is a better description. That's why I called my book Fraudcoin, which I btw would like to send to you, so you can read it to your kid one day.