"If you want to change the world, don't protest. Write code!"

- Hal Finney (1994) on #Bitcoin & #Nostr

"If you want to change the world, don't protest. Write code!"

- Hal Finney (1994) on #Bitcoin & #Nostr

Something that would be cool to see in later versions of nostr front-ends would be different "views" that basically crib social feed styles that different audiences like.

For example, an Instragram type photo view (which you just swipe over to from the standard tweetstyle pane, or whatever). This is not just a raw dump of every photo on the nostr relay spool (which are as of right now mostly tweet-style), but only the ones people metatag to appear on this pane (for example, indicating they match a fixed aspect ratio, or are just intended for the photo-scroll, or whatever).

By supporting different ways to tag user posts to display in different views (or just handle it invisibly), front-ends can enable Nostr to become basically the "master" social media site that doesn't just replace Twitter, but replaces everything. There's no reason Nostr can't queue up short-form TikTok style videos for you, or long-form YouTube style ones, or Facebook-style event planning, or hell, even a LinkedIn style feed of CVs. All of these sites are just a collection of tags, content refs, and views. Users can just check and uncheck the panes they want to be able to swipe through.

Nostr can be anything to anyone.

The bad news: Twitter's insanely puritan algorithm just massively deboosted my tweets because I posted a baby picture.

The good news: nostr still works just fine.

Elon didn't want to save free speech. He just wanted to be in control of the narrative.

When iOS?

Never forget plebs.

Fuckin social media

If you haven't been experiencing witch hunts, shadow banning, deplatforming, deboosting, being on disinformation lists, get DMCA takedowns, getting mass reported, taken your account and your content KYC hostage etc.

Then sure, Nostr is no big deal, and seem overhyped as fuck.

Been fighting with shadow banning & garbage oppressive algorithms forever on Twitter. Seeing engagement #s rise instantly from using Nostr in just a couple months time is all the verification I need to understand that Nostr is the real deal solution to the needs of many who have had their voices shuttered on legacy social media platforms.

In a decentralized system, there is no system-wide data visibility, no single authoritative version of all the data. That there is means the data is centralized. My condom purchase in Thailand is logged next to your beer purchase in Australia in a blockchain, even stored on the same nodes. Blockchain literally is a centralized database served up over an ad-hoc content distribution network (CDN). Distributed, not decentralized.

Nostr is actually decentralized, there is no authoritative version of all the data, and will get more so. But that literally means there is no global view. Nostr is centralized to the degree the global view is all encompassing.

In a decentralized system, there is no system-wide data visibility, no single authoritative version of all the data. That there is means the data is centralized. My condom purchase in Thailand is logged next to your beer purchase in Australia in a blockchain, even stored on the same nodes. Blockchain literally is a centralized database served up over an ad-hoc content distribution network (CDN). Distributed, not decentralized.

Nostr is actually decentralized, there is no authoritative version of all the data, and will get more so. But that literally means there is no global view. Nostr is centralized to the degree the global view is all encompassing.

Yep, this is where you learn blockchain enthusiasts fucking hate decentralization. They protest at every hint of it.

They love massively distributed, centralized databases.

Distributed, with one 'authoritative' version of 'all' the data. Like Facebook with thei rCDN (content distribution network), not at all like Nostr with actual decentralization of data streams.

Distribution is not decentralization. Blockchains are distributed, not decentralized. Nostr is actually decentralized, and blockheads like @npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj nudge everybody to behave like it's not.

I solely use nostr.wine and filter.nostr.wine

Gamechanger.

Global is a thing of beauty once again.

Performance off the charts too.

Even the algo works because of human curation. I may be wrong but algos introduce an element of what seems like serendipity to the feed.

Basing this purely from my Twitter experience which was crap when I initially followed only "official" accounts of my favourite shows and a few friends. Later on with Trending, x friend follows, x friend has liked kind of posts in my feed, I started following more people & my feed became 100x more interesting. There's probably a critical mass of follows to make for a good feed and sometimes algos do surface posts that one may never see otherwise.

I only miss that kind of serendipity which the global feed doesn't quite have right now. I'm sure it will get better.

Nostr definitely feels like the early internet, I used to remember being excited about meeting my friends from all over the globe.

Why did that stop?

The question is rhetorical . Let’s just build back that magic and not let it stop this time. 💜

I use stacker news and it works for everyone but you, apparently.