Phat chance anyone actually deletes your data. POPI act or not, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone actually do it

Unfortunate. Google and other search engines struggle to resist the urge to shove products and location base information down my throat while I search for obscure things

Eh, I use chat GPT every day for research. Better than google as I’m not just being thrown ads.

That being said, company valuations are so over inflated, it’s all a ruse. That or it’s a money laundering scheme for rich people to make a turn around and wash some funds.

Which app or website does comments / threads well?

Doesn’t have to be nostr related.

Thank you my friend. Let’s build togheter

Hello guys. Noce to be here

Mmmm, its not something that could be practically done by a user. There have been some discussions about changing the format, but that's happening at the client or protocol level. Someone smarter than me could probably make a "seed phrase" out of it that's easier to remember or write down, like how bitcoin seed phrases work, but it wouldn't be shorter. The length of the key is important so that it can't be physically hacked by a strong computer.

Is there a way to shorten the private key making it easy to remember? Else I would have to keep a copy of it somewhere. I am not a big fan of using any password manager.

Yes, you are correct. I am talking to you from amethyst, others are using plebstr, there are desktop clients too. You could also copy your secret key to another client and your user profile should load right up, just don't post that secret key to any of us.

We should encourage devs to innovative and experiment with all sorts of stuff not push them to replicate what we already know and have. Get excited and be surprised by upcoming features that will transform how we use social media for the better. 🪄🔮

I don't have a video, sorry

In essence, there is a protocol called nostr, think of almost anything you use relying on a protocol; when you plug a mouse into your computer you are using the USB protocol to plug it in, its open, anyone can develop or implement USB if they have the technical know-how. Bitcoin is a protocol, anyone can build their own software to mine it, to verify it, to transact with it, so long as they follow the rules of the protocol. Nostr is a protocol, anyone can post or view nostr as long as they obey the rules of the protocol.

As such, anyone can build their own software that interfaces with nostr, you can build your own client, you can build your own relay, you can build bots and all types of stuff as long as you follow the rules of the protocol.

The protocol itself works by allowing anyone to generate a profile (your public/private keys) simply through some math, you could do that with a pen and paper if you had enough time. Once you have that profile, you can use it to write a post, what's happening on the back end is that you signed that post with your private key and sent it to a network of relays, everyone can see that you signed it with your private key (which only you have), simply by their clients checking it against your public key (which we all get).

The relays are anyone with a computer that installs the software (which anyone can create themselves too). Those relays receive the messages you post, store them, share them amongst each other, and send them out to the rest of us.

Since no one could stop all the relays, nostr can't be censored. Since anyone can create a user profile without anyone else's permission (like you did, when you created your profile here) , you can't be stopped from posting here.

Devs will have their own preference at the end of the day.

We do it unconsciously on twitter. We have been accustomed to look at the bottom panel of every post on all social media platform for CTAs.

Views being non-CTA catches our attention (The Von Restorff effect, also known as The Isolation Effect, predicts that when multiple similar objects are present, the one that differs from the rest is most likely to be remembered.)

I haven’t heard of anyone doing it. That would be interesting. How would that compare with existing data for comment/like/zap ratios and amounts?