yes

#YESTR

but they won't work unless receiver is online and subscribed to the relay ofc.

by default most relays respect that 20000-29999 are not to be stored. probably would want to vet this somehow. like, a certification service that you give it a relay address and ask it "does this respect ephemeral events" and it would send and then from another IP be subscribing and then another IP querying for it after it should be gone.

Keys over accounts, protocols over platforms.

Is your AI encrypted?

#memes #memestr

Have you tried switching them off and on again?

a true ode to freedom. it also inspired me to travel alone in my twenties and met a lot of mad ones!

The whole theory behind it. It’s a plain fallacy

Nonexistent, because it’s pointless

Is there an app where I can drop voice notes the way I do typed notes and they would show up in the NOSTR feed? I’m on an iPhone.

Censorship will only get worse. With AI, the real risk isn't censorship but dilution—diluting one's opinion so much that it never attracts an audience.

AIs can agree, disagree, present real and fake data, and even laugh about your opinions to publicly discredit you. And, at the nation-state level, almost everything speech-wise is fair game.

Even the Antropic developers don't use MCP yet

Interoperability is not negotiable

ISP blocking VPN

Spotify face ID

Algos blocking youtube based on profile

Age restrictions

KYC/AML

Plantir / AI

#grownostr #freedom

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GM

I had ChatGPT summarize my research and thinking about message queues into a blog post. Please excuse the clippy tone, there is some useful info here:

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Why Nostr Messaging Queues Are More Resistant Than REST APIs

In the world of digital communication, REST APIs have long been the standard for client-server interactions. They’re predictable, easy to integrate, and widely supported. But they also come with structural vulnerabilities that make them brittle in adversarial or decentralized environments.

Enter Nostr—a lightweight, censorship-resistant messaging protocol that’s quietly redefining how we think about message delivery and system resilience. While Nostr is typically seen as a social or publishing protocol, at its core it functions as a kind of message queue—and a remarkably resilient one at that.

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🌐 REST APIs: Centralized and Fragile

REST APIs rely on a centralized request-response model. The client initiates communication by sending a request to a known server, which processes it and returns a response. This tightly coupled interaction assumes that the server is online, reachable, authorized, and responsive. In adversarial settings—such as environments with censorship, high latency, or denial-of-service attacks—these assumptions often fail. REST APIs become single points of failure and are easily blocked, rate-limited, or decommissioned.

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⚡ Nostr as a Decentralized Messaging Queue

Nostr flips this model on its head by embracing a decentralized, publish-subscribe architecture. Clients send signed events to one or more relays. These relays, which are untrusted and easily replicated, store and forward events to any subscribing clients. This decouples the sender from the recipient and transforms the relay into a kind of stateless message queue. The result is a system where message persistence, delivery, and filtering can all occur independently of centralized control or even direct client-to-client awareness.

Unlike REST APIs, which depend on a single endpoint, Nostr clients can broadcast messages to many relays simultaneously. Subscribers pull data based on their own filters, creating a robust, self-curated stream of relevant content. No single relay needs to be trusted or relied upon, and users can switch or self-host relays with minimal friction. The result is a system that offers inherent resistance to censorship, downtime, and infrastructure fragility.

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🔄 Nostr Wallet Connect: Evolving into a Resilient Message Queue Server

One of the most promising evolutions of this architecture is Nostr Wallet Connect. Originally designed as a simple method for wallets and apps to communicate using Nostr events, it has increasingly taken on the characteristics of a resilient message queue server. Instead of relying on tightly integrated APIs, wallets can push and pull payment requests, invoices, and metadata using Nostr events routed through relays. These messages can be signed, broadcast, persisted, or retrieved later—making the system ideal for asynchronous financial messaging. In this role, Nostr Wallet Connect inherits the strengths of Nostr: decentralization, offline tolerance, cryptographic authenticity, and graceful degradation. It opens up the possibility of building a new class of wallet infrastructure where critical financial communication does not rely on any single API endpoint, service provider, or uptime guarantee.

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🛡️ Resistance by Design

What makes Nostr fundamentally more resistant than REST APIs is that it doesn’t rely on a single communication path or authority. While REST APIs are tightly coupled and exposed at a known surface—making them ideal targets for censorship or throttling—Nostr clients can communicate with any number of relays, choosing freely from a global pool or self-hosting their own. Authentication in Nostr is cryptographic and embedded in the message itself, not granted by tokens or roles managed by a central server. Messages are not only signed and verifiable, but they can also be replayed or cached across multiple relays. This means that outages, censorship, and infrastructure decay have far less impact.

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🧪 Use Cases Beyond Social Media

Although Nostr was born out of the decentralized social media movement, its underlying pub-sub mechanics make it suitable for a much broader range of use cases. Sensor networks can publish telemetry data to relays without relying on a central broker. Secure audit logs can be written once and replicated across multiple untrusted relays. Peer-to-peer communication, even across NATs or unreliable mobile networks, becomes feasible with store-and-forward relay logic. In each case, Nostr acts not just as a messaging layer, but as a resilient, programmable queue infrastructure for decentralized applications.

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💡 Conclusion

Nostr isn’t just a protocol for social freedom—it’s a resilient backbone for communication in adversarial, distributed, or degraded environments. By functioning as a lightweight, stateless message queue, it offers a compelling alternative to REST APIs in systems where robustness, decoupling, and decentralization are strategic advantages. As tools like Nostr Wallet Connect mature, the ecosystem is evolving toward a future where even the most sensitive communications—financial transactions, identity negotiations, or supply chain signals—can flow through a network that refuses to be silenced, centralized, or shut down.

In a world increasingly defined by systemic risk and contested control, Nostr’s design isn’t just clever—it’s essential.

(Un)related:

Is there a literal Timeline spec yet?

Out of curiosity, what has it got better?

🤔

Anyone tried Trae yet? Pricing seems reasonable. #asknostr

I tested RAG but I'm getting poor results, I played a little with chunk size and chunk overlap, but it doesn't seem to help. I only got decent results (but no better than the standard query) with Open WebUI enabling "Full Context Mode" (so the whole document is fed), but it took 30% more time to reply compared to the standard mode.

Any suggestions?

What'sthe best AI model to analyze some video transcriptions (VTT files)?

I tried Llama3.1-8B with AnythingLLM but the results are really bad.

In comparison Claude has a perfect understanding of the content.

#asknostr

Eeeeeeek... im sooo excited 4 tonite

Wat I'm shipping is soooo good

Right, I'll take a look then thanks

Someone has to make a short animated film about a dude falling in love with a toaster 🤣

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GM #nostr fam ☀️☕️💜

#streetart #barcelona

Don't influence, inspire

OpenRouter.ai "pay with crypto" 💩 Is there any similar service that takes lightning or even on-chain bitcoin?

Additionally one could say: the less room for choice you have, the more responsible you are for your actions – because they matter. So exactly the opposite of your statement.

Not sure. Shouldn‘t this scale somewhat along people per square meter?