For some reason zebedee still dows not have an account. I guess #[2] is too busy to bring them here 😅

Why not build a torrent service on top of nostr? #[0]

Don't know how difficult that is. I failed to get "hello world" on my screen in 5 different languages, so not for me. But would be quite a nice idea I think.

This is good, as you can have relays with diverse groups and read the global feeds of each of these as you wish. An outsider may be able to immediately gather what is considered the best by each group in a glance.

I’ve seen that before. Like 100,000 times.

There are probably 1,000 defunct projects who tried something very similar.

But I bet you’d make some money

Meh.

I rather get eCash shares, fedimint or cashu.

I, for one, would love a curated relay that gives high quality "global" content

My intuition is that this will be a terrible idea, 100% the "Road to Abilen" can happen. 0% signal because everybody is playing "safe" being politically correct. At least that is my prediction for the time being. I usually find your odeas really good but not this time

I'dont offer any proof, just my intuition. I think a variation of what you propose is chargeing per-interacion like stacker news does but giving the relays room for exploring different prices and models. Some can be extremely expensive to post in, probably fostering long and dense content and other may be cheap and offer some spam prevention since you need to pay for posting, boosting, etc...

I like it

I thought you said zaps were broken - that they could be misrepresented by someone pretending to have zapped you. Is this fixed or am I misinformed?

Nostrdemons, I taught a class today. Clean Code. Over 500 students. Had a blast.

Grandkids are home; and I'm beat. Tomorrow I teach another class in the morning and then fly the countess to Austin to see more grandchildren. Busy week.

Meanwhile more-speech is behaving nicely. I'm going to have to implement zaps pretty soon.

Cron job 🙄

I certainly don't want to impose anything on anyone.

My post is merely an open letter to draw attention to the fact that this NIPS is getting stale and it is something I believe is needed, though I could be wrong, I would like to try it out.

Email could add work to stop the spam in that decentralized system, but at this point there's too many different implementations and too many applications to even hope to get anywhere in adding it.

At some point a protocol hardens. In email this means that the spam blockers, the Outlook, the Google, etc. They dominate the system by way of the impossibility of a little guy keeping his email server up and performant and free of spam. I'd like Nostr to be little guy friendly. Let's not be email.

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There seems to be some dismissal of PoW as a part of Nostr resisting spam which is very disruptive to the ability for hobbyist users to run relays or for users to enjoy an experience using Nostr to meet people. I'm quite disappointed that PoW has basically been ignored even as one of the earlier NIPS proposed.

Paid-Only relays create walled gardens which harms the user experience. We need to maintain an open global protocol and spam is still a problem if we don't wall ourselves off in paid and divided gardens. It seems to be that we're hoping public relay operators and clients are going to implement filtering that is invisible to users and done by policy that is undeclared, taking on the same role of the institutions we're fleeing from, Twitter and Facebook, etc.

Proof of Work is not about who has the resources. Spammers do have plenty of resources, the important bit is cost to rewards. Bot nets have an economic value., and other means of monetization and all Proof of Work has to do is ensure that a bot net is better used doing something else. Users don't have to outcompete a bot net, they just have to make it cost more than it could earn doing something else.

Please keep Nostr open and free and implement PoW at the relays and the clients.

Thanks

Likewise. It said error fetching invoice.

Over my dead body.

Yes and yes

OMG OMG OMG.

FINALLY CONNECTED WITH ANOTHER BITCOINER IN MY AREA. 🧡

I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE.

WE’RE GOING TO WIN!!

Bitcoin Pre-mortem:

It's 2033. Bitcoin is irrelevant. Why did it fail?

(and how can we avoid that fate?)