Is that Nyan Cat?

gm 🚀

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to stack notes and send zaps! 🫂💜🤙🏻

Congrats to me, I'm an uncle again! My sister had her 5th child last night. 😱 Five. What a time to be alive!

gm ☕️☔️🌷💜🤙🏻

Living the dream.

What’s up Canada Toronto 🍁 » any bitcoin meetups happening? Would love to network and have a beer

Is Nostore gone?

Lmfao 🤣🤣

I have finished the Wallet Connect (NIP-47) feature in more-speech. You can now get a wallet-connect URI from alby and past it into your more-speech profile. Then you can zap, zap, zap without copying and pasting invoices.

Thanks to #[2] and #[3] who provided invaluable help when I got stuck trying to figure out what was what and who was who.

@fiataf I have submitted a PR for NIP-47 that provides my "Observations from the Field" as well as many clarifications for the next guy...

I may not have a ps5, but I still own a ps2 and ps3

#damus booth was like #plebchain IRL the entire conference. What an incredible experience, nice meeting y’all!

I learned a lot! My biggest takeaway:

We need better onboarding in-app. 90% of people I talked to who created an account never set up a lightning address, never experience getting paid for posts, never follow people, etc. will fix this by including a “finish setting up damus” with red notification dot breadcrumbs for pfps, wallet attach, first post, follow, etc.

Learning this on the ground was invaluable. Overall people just seemed excited for the future of nostr. Talking to #plebchain irl was a nice contrast for the otherwise influensoor-heavy flavour of the conference. #nostr is starting to feel like a serious pleb renaissance: Just real people stacking sats and shitposting, no influencer algos, drama or popularity contests. Fucking grateful to be a part of this. Let’s keep growing nostr to show how powerful this community really is.

Back to building!

Is "Right Wing" now a dirty word? Overheard that Nostr is too "right wing" like its dirty or something.

Doesn't seem overtly right-wing to me. At least I don't see people stumping for Trump and DeSantis or posting videos of Hannity or Ben Shapiro. Then again, I don't see much left-wing activity either: no quotes from the Squad or Joe Biden or Bernie, nor people angrily calling everybody who doesn't agree with their precise ideology a racist or trans-phobic.

I think what you have here are people who are more normal and more centrist, less extreme.

Now OTOH nostr is very libertarian, small government, anti-fiat, free market and free speech. And I'll count myself among that camp.

Libertarians were very closely aligned with the left around 2000, then more closely aligned with the right in 2020. But my opinions (at least) have barely changed.

In 2000s I voted against GWBush, watched the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, watched Bill Mahar and Penn Gillette, believed in free speech, held a soft opinion that abortion should be allowed until mid-term, held nothing as sacred including the constitution/bible/nation/flag, spoke out for gay rights, argued the benefits of small government and maximizing freedom, believed in drug legalization (and used them myself).

Now liberatians (or at least me) are very closely aligned with the right. I would have voted against Joe Biden, watch Steven Crowder, Tim Pool, Bret Weinstein, Jimmy Dore, Bill Maher, Unherd, Triggernometry. Believe in free speech, hold a soft opinion that abortion shoud be allowed until mid-term, hold nothing as sacred including the constitution/bible/nation/flag, see trans rights as not being defined as anything reasonable unlike gay rights were (e.g. marraige) but think they have the same rights as the rest of us, argue for the benefits of small government and maximizing freedom, and believe in drug legalization (but recommend against drug usage).