when your casual side project is used by most programmers on the planet

What are Nostr users' thoughts on decentralisation is a good question. If nostr.stats is correct then Nostr just had it's lowest day in four months, i.e. since the start of the winter Nostr has been shrinking. Why then are people leaving? Do they feel Nostr is becoming more centralised? Or is decentralisation a secondary concern, the issue lies elsewhere?

I'm not sure, but if decentralisation were a top concern then we would not be seeing relay usage clump up in this way. At the very least we would be seeing more of a fuss about the state of the relay network and shouts to get Outbox working well. I suspect Bitcoin and social patterns surrounding it are more top of mind for Nostr users than decentralisation, and the reason people are leaving is they are getting a little bored of that conversation.

I tried to use Brave on Android instead of Firefox and it's super annoying, shows me ads, has some horrific UI patterns, a weird categorization of tabs into boxes that makes everything harder to select and close. Is this what most people use? Did I download a virus?

Given that you have established that starting decentralized or not is irrelevant, what should we consider when assessing the decentralization status of a thing?

Incentives (and possibilities).

Any reasonable person can see that Bluesky will remain centralized forever because of identity centralization and data centralization, in fact it cannot be decentralized at all because the identity system is centralized by design (because they wanted to do a blockchain for key rotation but couldn't figure out how). All one can argue after that is that is that "it doesn't matter" because "login is easier".

While Nostr has much bigger chance of being decentralized, although it could also fall back into a "de facto Bluesky" mode and have its data all centralized in one place, but that would be a very unlikely hard failure edge case from which it could even recover later if developers wanted.

whatchu buildin over der, bobby?

#AUStriches forecast to add 1.8 million people over the next 5 years, a 6.7% increase.

This will blow out by 50%+ and it’s not going to be achieved with native births but rather, UberEats drivers from India.

Australia is the Ship of Theseus - you have to ask yourself how much of it will be ripped and replaced to satisfy the globalists whilst still being able to call it Australia.

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Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

You're talking about those 4 or 5 npubs that spam follow people?

Yeah, you can buy my seedsigner for sats. ;)

I don't understand which service you are using