the personal server revolution is coming. people are beginning to see. it is the only way through.
we just need reliable, easy, low-maintence, sovereign compute and networks.
we're working on all of the above.
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I’m the founder of the Plebeian.Market & app and the creator of questionably funky Bitcoin’n’Nostr laser cut art at https://hodlr.rocks
Hi. We're building tools that will become very relevant to Nostr (especially personal proxy relays) in the near future.
blog.vaporware.network
Yes exactly. You're getting it.
I had worked on a WoT style project on another decentralized network - one in which each user has a full VM (which can do your WoT computation, as you rightfully point out as a need). You may be interested in reading a summary of it as it stood at the time: https://gist.github.com/vcavallo/e008ed60968e9b5c08a9650c712f63bd
(I plan on rewriting this for a Nostr context)
The language is specific to the platform (Urbit) but you can glean the general ideas. We're working on bringing the "personal algorithm" and WoT idea to fruition generally, for all decentralized social platforms.
Totally fair! So use relays that ignore reports. Or run your own relay that does this.
This is one of the many cases for working hard to avoid defacto relay centralization.
The goal is to make such things impossible or irrelevant. Know the system and work around it.
One way is for every user to have their own proxy relay that directly connects peer to peer to other users' proxy relays, running on sovereign personal servers in the cloud (or in your home + an IP-cloaking remote proxy).
This is what we're enabling at https://vaporware.network
Another way is going extremely hard on mesh networks and various darknet protocols.
There is always a way. Privacy will win.
You can read the rest at blog.vaporware.network
Right. And if a platform *does* allow it, you should expect it. And it's fair game. Move to an alternative
I didn't know it was Norm. Thinking about him delivering it makes it even funnier
"publisher censoring" is irrelevant when there are infinite publishers available all connected via the same network. You can't be "censored" on Nostr, but a relay is well within its rights to block you (including after user suggestions. "reports", as it were)
If you're on a "single publisher" network (like Twitter):
1. You're asking for it.
2. They own your content, not you, so it's not censoring. It's their property to do what they want with.
If you want to truly be censorship-immune, you must be fully sovereign in your compute and your network.
# F-Droid Open Source App Store
F-Droid is the free and open source (FOSS) app store that only has open source apps, without any of Google's spyware or anti free speech code embedded.
You can use a web browser to download the F-droid.apk file from https://f-droid.org and sideload it onto any Android phone.
You can then use the F-droid App Store to install open source apps, and replace the spyware apps that came with your Android phone, such as a keyboard that doesn't log or spy what you type, an email client, camera app, photo gallery, etc..
Since the F-Droid apk file is not coming through Google Play, you should verify the file signature before you install it. This helps to ensure that it was not modified by anyone when you downloaded it.
Instructions for verifying the F-Droid.apk file can be found in the next post. There is no known GUI method for verifying the .asc signature.
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Pairs very nicely with GrapheneOS (and Aurora store! For Google Play store apps without signing into Google)
There is no "Nostr banning" of anything. Relays and users can do what they want, including censoring.
If anyone is looking for an ELI5 UTXO consolidation explainer, I got you:
If your stash is made up of very many small UTXOs, you pay higher fees when doing stuff onchain. So people consolidate their UTXOs into larger chunks.
Imagine you had 100 $1 bills or one $100 bill. And for each individual bill you want to send someone, you have to pay a flat fee on the envelope.
If you send 100 envelopes with a single $1 bill each, you're paying fees you can avoid by sending a single envelope with a single $100 bill in it.
This is about as old as you can get in the US. My house was built before this was a country.
You can't tell me what to do. I am ungovernable!
Beautiful. I feel similarly when I'm sitting in my nearly 300 year old house building radically new personal server VM tech :)