NIP 17: You put your own DM relay and it works with any client without having to tell your friends which server to use. It's your server, so you can delete all your DMs at any moment and block everyone else from downloading them.

Full control. Your infra. No central hub. Fully interoperable.

No more trackers from any company.

Sure, if I want to drop from 11 contacts to 0. It was hard enough convincing them to use Signal with me.

eu não tava achando, aí fui lá e atualizei o app. deu tudo certo, obg

Today's democracy is the dictatorship of an uneducated majority.

It is one of the worst systems that exists, because politicians know this and try to make that majority increasingly ignorant, and the validation of this majority also serves as a pretext for politicians to pass totally unjust and irrational laws.

It is very difficult to get out of this mess we find ourselves in, and the only way to do so is by educating your children and planting the seeds of rebellion.

Hey everyone?! I'm new to this space and feel like I'm on Bambi legs, like I don't know the rules of the game or if there even are any rules?! 😳

Mostly I wanna connect and have conversations. I wanna learn a bit more about what it means to do social media in a decentralised way.

I am a mentor and writer so I also wanna share about the things I am really passionate about.

I don't really know where to start. I'd love to find and connect with people who're on a spiritual path and feel like their creative calling / purpose work is intrinsically connected to that path. If you're a recovering perfectionist / overachieving type, you'll probably resonate with my writing.

I stand for presence and connection. I don't want this platform to just be an outward direction of stuff. I wanna get to know people.

Come say hi?

#asknostr #GM #introductions

I don’t understand why most native Nostr applications don’t also function as NSEC bunkers or key signers. These apps already have access to the user’s private key and can sign events, so adding this capability doesn’t seem like a big leap.

By including it, the overall Nostr user experience would greatly improve. Users could seamlessly use other apps within the ecosystem without dealing with key juggling, confusing add-ons, or browser extensions.

This will HELP with user retention, IMO, as it makes the uses cases of Nostr less complicated.

Sî senór sî😁. I can imagine that you want so much privacy

More than 4.5 billion devices around the world are dependent on two U.S. corporations: Apple and Google.

Apple has a monopoly on the operating system and app distribution.

Google has outsized power over the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) and soon full control over app distribution.

Apple has the power to rug users and developers at any given time. The same goes for Android, with the upcoming mandatory developer registration and the progressive closing down of AOSP. Forks like GrapheneOS rely on Android remaining open source.

(The situation is different in China, but control is basically exerted by the CCP.)

What is the way forward?

In 1980 you’d want to be in Western Europe.

In 2030 you’d want to be in Eastern Europe.

FYI there is a massive cyberattack on NPM right now, package developers being attacked, nasty commits being added and published, tokens being stolen and used to corrupt more packages. The ecosystem is currently widely corrupted. We just got an advisory from the NZ government about it.

KNOTS is safe, CORE v30 is not

Running Knots is as safe as you want it to be. Just wait 6–12 months before upgrading, verify releases, and only run versions you agree with — if Luke pushes a commit you don’t like, you simply don’t upgrade. Use Knots purely as a watch-only node, sign all transactions with Sparrow + an air-gapped hardware wallet, and your keys never touch the node. Consensus changes need the economic majority, not a single maintainer, so Knots can’t force anything on you. With this setup, Core stops being a gatekeeper — the real risk of centralization is VC influence steering Core toward Ethereum-style rollups, not one maintainer shipping an optional release.

The “1 maintainer” fear is a myth if you run Knots this way. Consensus cannot be changed by a maintainer — rules are enforced by the economic majority, not by commits. If Luke ships code you dislike, you simply don’t upgrade. By waiting 6–12 months, verifying signatures, and using your node only for verification while keys live on an air-gapped hardware wallet, the maintainer’s role is irrelevant to your security. A solo maintainer can’t steal your coins, can’t force a fork, and can’t override your sovereignty. With this setup, the number of maintainers is noise — your own upgrade discipline is the real security model.

Plebs, can you help repost / boost this?

#bitcoin #knots