Before I agree to 2026,

I want to read the terms & conditions.

I love you

Do you love me ?

Killing people to stop people killing people isn’t my vibe. Spread as much love as you can to everyone. 🫂

You can't create a workflow on Graphical User Interface ..

Happy birthday to me. This stout is absolutely delicious. Nostr, I wish you were here celebrating with me. 💜🫂🤙🏻

In every Nostr project, there is this moment when the dev realizes that Nostr's decentralization is quite a burden and the project could be faster, simpler, and better if it didn't use Nostr at all. The dev then starts to drift away from Nostr into their own protocol spec, just to realize that they are now alone—the single user of a new protocol/platform—and most of the benefits of a decentralized social layer are gone.

It's weird how much we underestimate the social benefits of Nostr in exchange for minor engineering benefits in our own projects.

I don’t event begin with event or metadata just random event , connecting from one node to one node verified each other , just to visualised .

#wot #graph , #nostr , web of trust look like with 2500+ nodes trust graph in 3D ,

imagine we are globaly worldwide ,if we have like millions of millions node to verifeid each other identities , that would be like ....

i can not even begin with nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z @

Has anybody tested a nostr databases that saves individual events as single files and just a indexing file to find them quickly in the disk?

Idk.. the current idea of all events in a single 60GB file seems bad.

I don't think so. They can track everything. ISPs are in their pocket, Mobile providers too. Most public WiFI spots track your connection to them as you walk by. Cookies link your identity even if you are using Tor. And Facebook can link your account ID even if you don't run any of their apps. Google does the same. Apple does the same. Samsung does the same. There is no way to participate in the web without leaving traces to the government.

Pavel Durov counts.

But but but, vitalk says we should not be mean towards to EU 🥺👉👈

Pseudonym protects against other people in the Internet, not against the government. The gov always knows who you are.

Alexander Hamilton used a pseudonym to write The Federalist Papers. George Orwell is not the real name of George Orwell. Satoshi Nakamoto would've been hunted like a stray dog and dragged through the mud if he would've used his real name.

An attack on pseudonymity is an attack on freedom.

Ship things.

Ship things harder.

You also assume that using that scheme Nostr will (perhaps naturally) get more decentralized and more people will use different relays, but we have no reason to expect that to happen under those circumstances. The incentives are completely in the other direction:

1. people don't want to run servers (otherwise Mastodon would have been a success)

2. people flock to a few relays that provide this "outbox-on-the-server" service for them

3. doing outbox-on-the-server is actually much harder than on the client, and impossible at scale because of relay filter ratelimits, this leads to these servers actually just giving up the outbox model and syncing with some other selected relays, which creates other types of centralization pressure on the publishing side

4. it also creates another type of centralization pressure, which is the specialization of these "aggregator servers": instead of serving a normal relay interface they are more likely to start serving some pre-processed GraphQL queries or something like that to make clients even easier to write for incompetent LLMs

5. now the barrier to running one of these aggregator is higher, which leads to less entrants

You get the idea. If we get to the end of the story we'll have like 2 or 3 of these big aggregators, with 90% of people in one of them (but even if we had 50 that would still be ridiculously centralized and censorship-resistance becomes a joke).

I don't see why we would even get to end of the story though, because why would such a broken protocol be attractive to anyone? What are its discerning features? Why not use X or Bluesky?