I currently have more-speech connected to 22 different relays. I keep thinking that there must be an upper limit; but so far none has asserted itself. In the last few hours i've received 80,000 notes, 35,000 of which are duplicates and 25,000 of which are "likes", 1800 DMs, and 5300 zap receipts.
Learn to fly and buy and airplane. They aren't as expensive as you might think, and it makes a huge difference.
#nostr was inevitable. Many people, including me, were on the verge of creating something like it when we stumbled onto it. I remember, two years ago, I was so relieved that #[4] had done all the heavy lifting.
In more-speech you explicitly trust a user by right clicking on a note and choosing "Trust this author". This allows you to create a pet-name for the author and adds the author to the "trusted" tab.
The more-speech client treats trusting and "following" differently. You can follow anybody by simply adding them to a tab. Other clients make trusting and following synonymous. This is problematic because trusting is _public_. Everyone can know who you trust. Using more-speech, nobody knows who you follow.
github.com/unclebob/more-speech
People just weren't thinking much about security in those days. Nobody thought that there would be more computers than people or that every person would always carry an internet node (or 8) with them.
Similarly, when SQL was designed, nobody thought that creating a textual interface to the entirely of the data, including its structure and persistence, would be a security issue.
Hindsight is a bitch.
more-speech now adds "t" tags for #hashtags to facilitate hashtag queries.
test #test #hashtags
f*N grows faster when N is very large. The base of #nostr is small compared to twitter and threads; but the f for #nostr has been very high. Irrespective of that, however, is that the motivation for using #Nostr is different. For those of us who want control over our words, and our ideas, using #Nostr for that purpose is important.
It may be that the "popular" networks _always_ have more users than #Nostr. That's OK with me. I don't use #Nostr for reach. I use #Nostr to communicate without the impediment of censorious overlords who think they are smart.
From: (udi) at 07/15 09:39
> So far the it has been trending the opposite way. Twitter and Threads are growing, adding more users every day than the entire user base of nostr
CC: #[4]
CC: #[5]
Pardon me that should be #[4] (no duplicate R)
From: unclebobmartin at 07/15 09:29
> @NostrReport is the most entertaining follow. All the awful chatbots are the worst.
>
> From: ThisIsTheEnd<-Ran... at 07/15 00:07
>
> > Who’s the most entertaining follow on Nostr?
CC: #[5]
@NostrReport is the most entertaining follow. All the awful chatbots are the worst.
From: ThisIsTheEnd<-Ran... at 07/15 00:07
> Who’s the most entertaining follow on Nostr?
I get more reach and engagement on threads with 3,000 followers than nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m gets here with 150,000 followers
When I want people to take action I have no reason to come here
Thoughts?
When you want to reach a lot of people then use twitter or threads or any of the "popular" networks. When you want to express your opinions without interference, use #nostr.
As more and more people start falling into that latter category, the weight will shift towards #nostr.
From: (udi) at 07/15 08:15
> I get more reach and engagement on threads with 3,000 followers than nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m gets here with 150,000 followers
>
> When I want people to take action I have no reason to come here
>
> Thoughts?
CC: #[3]
... "It's the smell..."
I just added a new permanent "trusted" tab to more-speech. It shows a list of all notes published by authors you have explicitly trusted.
The #nostrdocumentary by #[4] is brilliant! Nicely done!
You can use a client, like more-speech, that saves all notes to a local database.
From: fractalchris<-Nos... at 07/11 11:44
> So is there any way currently for a Nostr user to protect/save/backup all their own posts and media files? Or must all Nostr users currently trust and rely on larger 3rd party relays to host their media files?
CC: #[4]
CC: #[5]
CC: #[6]
“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.” -- Douglas Adams
From: (rammah) at 07/09 04:07
> There will be no more wars or corruption
CC: #[4]
I envision a lot of encrypted DMs. ;-)
From: JackDorsey at 07/08 15:30
> Imagine your government built upon open protocols that they can’t own, control, or manipulate…every interaction visible to all. What changes? What fails?
I love watching Peter Zeihan videos. I also love his books. He’s the master at geopolitics.