How can a relay avoid being spammed?

Shouldn’t there be an allowance of max 100 free posts per npub and then require one sat per post?

Cheap enough to not deter humans, but expensive enough to avoid AI bots spamming.

I changed my mind on inequalities.

I realized that I was against inequalities because it is the politically correct thing to say. Indeed, how can you not be against inequalities when you see super rich people and people on the street?

But when I look at nature, inequality is everywhere. The footprint of an elephant can’t compare to the footprint of an ant 🐜 🐘. Even within the same species, not all individuals have the same access to resources. The trunk has access to more resources than the branches, but the leaves have more access to the sun. ☀️

There is so much wisdom in nature 🌱. It’s the result of millions of iterations to find the right balance ⚖️. And it keeps evolving as the environment changes 🦕.

I want to be more aligned with nature. Learn and take inspiration from it. That’s why I’m now embracing inequalities.

Turns out that inequalities can’t exist without the concept of quantity, which itself cannot exist without a common –human made– unit of measure. 📏

But nature cannot be measured with a single measuring stick. It has a multitude of dimensions. We are nature. We are multidimensional beings.

This made me realize that being against inequality only makes sense in a human society that has reduced everything to a single dimension, incapable of seeing and acknowledging the beauty of life in all its dimensions. 🌈

It’s only when reduce multiple dimensions into one, that you can start comparing, ranking, competing, and that inequalities emerge.

That’s why I’m not against inequalities anymore. I’m just against a world that has been reduced to a single measuring stick, a single currency, a single way to recognize everyone’s contribution.

Once you introduce other dimensions, inequalities become irrelevant. If you take into account someone’s time contribution to your community, then Elon Musk’s billions of dollars don’t matter anymore. He doesn’t have, for example, a single token of the Commons Hub Brussels and he won’t be able to come cowork there.

We all thrive in some dimensions and less so in others. That’s not a bug, it’s a feature. That’s what makes us all interdependent. That’s why we need to collaborate.

Your talent, your contribution is unique and sacred. It can’t be measured with a single measuring stick, it cannot be compared or ranked. Once you accept that, other people’s privileges and inequalities won’t matter as much anymore.

The key is to find the community that can recognize your contribution and that can fulfill your needs. A community that will not force everyone’s contribution to be measured with a single measuring stick as a condition to get access to shelter, food and care.

How can we open our minds and our hearts to many more dimensions? How can we properly recognize and value everyone’s sacred contribution?

Fighting inequalities means that we are de facto accepting to be reduced to a single currency. Let's start new ones and let's make inequalities and privileges obsolete!

Full house for the new yearly gathering of crypto communities of Belgium at the nostr:npub1t992vaal2acea05wfgjynnlqh27uy938fjyzx0m7l28r0xl9ndaq46skkl Brussels. #block25

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With the one and only nostr:npub1356jjqs745wr90x9acm8245qmvd6pg5asdvp964tg7gjwzaexw3sfjhc92. Give her a big welcome to Nostr! We can all use more yin energy over here 😊

Gm Brussels.

Off to our weekly regen walk to stay connected with nature. What a treat to be able to take one metro and go for a walk in the forest.

Where can I read more about that proposal and the current status?

The needs of the first adopters aren’t the same than the ones of the late ones.

(That’s how couch surfing never became Airbnb.)

- What happens when my nsec is compromised?

- You cry

👉 we need a better answer if we want to go mainstream

If there is a way to announce what relays we use, there should be a way to also announce other npub we use (and the ones we revoke). This would make it easy to “add devices” to our Nostr “meta account” and therefore protect it from device/nsec loss (it also removes the need to ever export the nsec which is a big security issue)

Wdyt?

Nostr time at #fosdem with @Constant

Thank you for your work and for communicating openly about this. Sending you love from Brussels.

I understand the intent. But it’s what you want, not what the user wants when you are in between them and performing an action that requires them to create an account 😉

So it’s good to add links to read more for sure (I’d put that in the email), but not make it mandatory reading before proceeding. It will scare people.

It’s all about progressive learning.

Keep up the great work! ❤️

Thank you for your work.

If you are interested to make this user friendly for non Nostr users, I’d recommend hiding all mentions of npub, nsec, etc. behind a more info.

I’d also skip the save the text file step (most non tech people have no idea where to save it and will forget about it). Go straight to the email step and offer an advanced mode.

I’d also skip the follow people step. This entire flow is in the way of me as a user to use the app I wanted to use in the first place. So steps need to be reduced to the strict minimum, unless explicitly asked by the user (eg. advanced mode).

TLDR:

# Sign up 📝

Name

Avatar (ideally, auto generated based on npub with option to upload)

[create account]

# Backup your account 🔐

Email:

Password:

[Continue]

👉 default should be creating a bunker and sending the bunker code along with the nsec by email. I’d refer to them as PIN and PUK to tap into something that people already know.

Skip (manual backup)

👉 give people the ability to save the file and choose to create a bunker or not

# Success! 🎉

- Learn more about Nostr

- Discover accounts to follow

[continue]

It’s like building a symphony together. There are different movements and there is a moment for each. We are just coordinating to make the music flow. Enjoy the dance.

Interested to work with you on how to properly allocate those funds in a transparent and open source way for fast feedback and iteration.

You in Brussels for #fosdem?

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Gm Brussels.

Here is the right link to RSVP: https://lu.ma/37ujzkvy

Gm Paris.

Love this new slow Brussels-Paris train (2h45) for only €25 🚊.

You can book last minute without it costing you a leg. And you have plenty of time to read and slow down, reflect, think. Recommend!

Be your cells

Yes. I’m organizing :-)