If you want cool animations and colored letters to show up on Amethyst now you can have it too!

If you have Go installed on your machine you can do this:

go install fiatjaf.com/edit-magic@latest

(Otherwise let me know and I'll provide a binary.)

It's a CLI tool that you can keep running in the background and it will automatically act on all your kind:1 notes as you create them. You can customize what it does with many flags.

When we activated Taproot, people were raving about it and tweeting by tagging miners when they would signal for it, yet 99% of the people had zero idea of what it would bring to the table. Today simpler soft forks don't get consensus. It's all about marketing, every single time.

Remember who told you to sun your junk before Sol Brah and the other health brahs made it cool?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

☀️🥜

There are 2 types of clowns in bitcoin. One that use custodians and other that buy MSTR. Both pretend to be some sort of cypherpunks but following their cult leaders.

“Are you ok?”

no. no i am not

3blue1brown may be the greatest educator that has ever existed. I've learned more from his channel than I have during my entire ~20 years in school.

I don’t really understand this kind of criticism (and not to pick on Will here, it seems to be from ~everyone).

Bluesky took a different approach - first build a product people want whose technology supports decentralization, and add the features the geeks want later. It’s easy to shit on their lack of decentralization, but Bluesky has made clear and consistent progress on that front since day one, and I assume they will continue to do so.

The result has been a product that’s growing (those user stats are pretty realistic, doubly so when you look at the number of accounts actually posting real content) way more than nostr with tons of anti-centralization features that nostr is missing (anyone can create a feed algorithm, and there are many, decentralized content tagging is a really cool innovation - different “adult content” tagging services, opt-in different moderation services, etc).

The federated model of Mastodon led to a trainwreck of fiefdoms run by weirdly obsessive and controlling mods, but Bluesky took that and addressed the issues by splitting moderation from hosting.

Sure, Bluesky’s hosting model means you don’t get the relay-redundancy that sets nostr’s censorship resistance apart, but that’s not all that hard to add in the future (with the sync assumption they make making it easier to make efficient, too).

Building the kinds of stuff Bluesky has on nostr is gonna take a huge investment, we can’t leave folks like Will stuck building critical nostr apps by himself. nostr:note1vpteqdxxlgkjndhghhlu4n47aj2sra5vgmdr465y4yfzwcshglvqrqann4

Nostr fixes this

my use of the internet makes no sense to most people now. I dont even have a web browser with javascript capability on my daily driver anymore.

almost everyhting is being done with nostr, ssh, rss, 9p, webfs, git, irc, mail, gemini, and gopher. when I need to access something on the normie web, which is infrequent now, i use a tablet.

Gottfrid Svartholm (co-founder of Pirate Bay)

My sister and her wife asked about moving from Arizona to Uruguay because reasons. I went to look up the expat forums and they’re full of families with trans kids who have moved from the US or are considering it.

Getting ready to dm all the girlfriends who broke up with me

When you make a payment on lightning from your own node, there is no public record of it, and no way for the receiver to see the sender node.

This is way more private than a public chain with a ring signature