ehy I like your definition! :)
I studied a bit harari and he is a strong fan of globalism. A global big brother is something he think could be good for humans. I, as much bitcoiners, think at the opposite. But his understanding of bitcoin seems good at least 😅
so affordable... so just good... immortal.... no spyware inside... full of hardware buttons to switch radio frequencies...
also don't forget srcurity: being in a car or another when a drunked guy hits you could make the difference from life and death. Still Toyota rav4 from early 2000 is the car I would put my life on
toyota rav 4 from early 2000 if you want a real car 😳
I agree, the revolution with nostr is "own your identity".
But this don't exclude what I'm saying: on nostr the natural first database become the client.
Imagine this: you are writing a post on mastodon. You send it but no connection; for a connection error the post is frozen in your client. This is mean that this post "never existed"; the post never reached the server where the ultimate database resides.
Now see the exact situation composing a nostr note. One/some relays doesnt received the notes? It still exists in the ultimate database that is your client. A relay not having some notes is intended to be possible; could be also an intentional choice to not send a particular note to some particular relays.
There could be exceptions (running out of storage on device...) but the shift I see is natural: with nostr clients are the new ultimate uncontested databases of information and this could enable a lot of cool feature.
Relays could be backups of this data, multimedia-server-storage (all that isnt "notes", see blossom for example...); but assignin them responsibility on notes-data-retention is a big step in a wrong derection in my opinion. :)
Bitcoin is the most meritocratic distribution of wealth I can think of. There are people who are not buying bitcoin at the price they deserve (too young, not enough wealth, not enough luck...) or fiat billioners friend of the governement that can put new printed money into bitcoin and unfairly enrich themself (so "unfairly luck"/criminals).
But in the grand scheme of things bitcoin is the definition of justice.
The people you describe are real, are the majority, are around me and you, and they will pay their superb.
And I'm sure, in the end, they will be so superb to not recognize the chance they loss and they will pass to the next "current-thing-to-think".
They are so superb.
Fiat world has given them roles, entitlements, jobs, power, privileges. And they think they have obtain all they have thanks to their merits. They fallen for this easy fiat-ego-booster, they are fragile and weak. They have turned into the first enemy of themself.
Everyone have the life he deserve, luck is real, but few are in the extremes of the spectrum and are really "so lucky" or "so unlucky".
The other will have what they deserve.
and fuck off with "android is sooo secureee so modern os" compiting freedom is unix-like self-manageble tiny pieces to put togheter as you prefer, goooogle android is the best we have today, but it a buggy monolith, the development is easy to exploit (to fork this mess is needed "another google"). With grapheneos (the absolute best aosp based OS) you can have a secure device, rethinking smartphone with an unix-like approach and linux-like-bazaar decentralize development you can have freedom👺
frankly noone on nostr into linux phones is a shame
but thats the way you backup everything pre-nostr.
All internet services are designed to store data in the server as a reliable source.
With nostr I see a natural shift to client first-class database storage.
Then, a second backup could be selfhosted with relays to have data redoundancy and for all threat model/preferencies.
A self hosting relay is useful for being indipendent at sharing your content with others, it is superflous, in my opinion, at storing/backupping them as all notes originates, transitates and are stored in the clients.
Keep it simple :)
splitting responsibility is also adding attack surface to my storage; relays are intended to be changed, to fail, be censored and censor. In this cases you can switch relays. They need to be treath in an adversarial way in a lot of ways.
So I think at the total opposito of your statement 😅💜
A mastodon instance can delete my years of microblog because I don't own them in that sense. The person who own the instance own his and my speech. I can own my backup files of what I post.
Client side reliable not-compromisable full storage (with some technical limits or hard cap) is what I would achieve on nostr.
my premise is that you are absolutely infinitely more qualified than me; here's my two cents:
The cool thing about using nostr is that you own the notes in the sense that you store them. I think this aspect need to be maximal emancipated from relay.
This feature is revolutionary: your nostr client as ultimate reliable backup of your microblog. Owning data is a client resposibility as I see it :)
To have or not to have followers-counter is the kind of design decision that every client need to figure out itself.
There is a non-questionable absolute metric to mesoure the value of a npub: the value you as a free individual arbitrarly assign to it.
There is a surrogated to that, and it is something like a ponderated median of followers-zaps-interactions-andsoon...
There is a non-questionable and cool way to choose what NPUBs show up first as "suggested": it's doing advertising. Who pays is publicized. nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 does something like that in his website promoting and ranking its contributors.
