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It was 27° here this morning, too. 27°C, that is; or 80°F. Quite a hot humid day...

The hidden power of Mastodon is that you can follow hashtags in exactly the same way as people. So follow #podcasting and you see every post that people add that hashtag to. A great way to broaden your follow list.

"can" isn't the same as "do".

Exactly - some relays sync between them, but even if you follow me, you might not see my messages if I'm not being synced, or don't post, on the relays you use.

I still fail to really understand how this is decentralised. Mastodon's model is; but Nostr seems to be entirely based on a few relays.

There isn't a centralised blocklist. Each instance can choose whatever it wants to block. The closest to a centralised blocklist is that admins can choose to share a blocklist with others if they wish.

I'm an admin of a Mastodon server. There's the option to "import" a blocklist as a CSV, but no more defined method of blocking instances exists in Mastodon.

"the fediverse model is confusing people" is a far cry from "it's a single app on a vertical platform", as you say in your original post.

Meanwhile, I only see content from the Nostr relays I'm using, and not others. Surely, this is *much* more confusing - I have one username that works everywhere on Nostr, but if people aren't subscribed to the same relays as I am, they won't see my messages. This is "the future"?

> This conversation has led me to believe that we should proactively share the Nostr story, positioning it as the future of social networking.

It's the future of social networking if the only thing you want to talk about is Bitcoin or Nostr. The technology isn't the problem: it's the lack of any discussion here about anything other than these two topics. This needs fixing before anything else.

> This approach will also help us differentiate from platforms like Threads, Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Bluesky. While these platforms are based on open protocols, they operate as single-app, vertical silos.

Mastodon is not single-app, nor is it a vertical silo. The interop with Pixelfed is excellent - it's the same underlying protocol - and there are hundreds of apps out there for it and thousands of servers running ActivityPub. What's the deal with pretending otherwise?

> It can be difficult to communicate that each nostr app is a interface onto a single common database, rather than a separate silo.

But this isn't the case, is it? Each relay is a separate silo. Nostr's website says: "Clients fetch data from relays of their choice and publish data to relays of their choice. Relays don't talk to one another, only directly to users."

Or have I misunderstood?

"the majority of podcasts" - I mean, there are 4.3mn podcasts available. I'm glad you've managed to listen to them all. Even the D&D play-by-play ones.

Tip: go find a podcast called "New Podcast Trailers", which is a set of new shows every day. I curate it, but you'll never hear me there!

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Impressive argument you got there

The "right" way to fix this is to not allow any edits to any post once it has been interacted with in any way - if it's had a like or a zap or a reply. It's the way sensible discussion systems work, and it would make sense to have it do the same here. This is a definite problem, and without any obvious "edited" indicator, it's quite a concern.

Seeing a flood of posts saying "GM".

Is this short for "Good Morning"?

And does this mean that the only people on here are Americans? It's 11.40pm where I am, and I should be turning off this mobile phone and going to bed.

GN

There's a tag - podcast:socialInteract - specifically for this in podcasting 2.0. We've been looking at activitypub, but if Nostr is a better way to go (and I'm not convinced it is) then worthwhile chiming into the discussions.

Fountain achieves public comments with a 1% value split for all zaps ("boosts") received. Seems another way round it, and has the benefit of opt-in by creators.

IPFS Podcasting, with volunteer-run http gateways, already exist for this, and are used for millions of downloads a month already.

ipfspodcasting.net

Zaps go right to the creators in RSS-based podcasts, if they use the new podcasting namespace. I've earnt more than two million sats so far for the podcasts I do. And splits are baked in to the standard, for multiple show hosts and guests already - and even music played on shows.

Not just zaps ("boosts" in podcast parlance), we also earn sats for people listening, if they turn on streaming sats in Fountain or other similar apps.

What problem are you trying to fix? What is the issue with the current RSS system?

How does this work? My posts are only on the relays I post to, right? And my followers have to follow me on one of the relays, yes? So why isn't that number accurate (for me, looking at my own account)? Surely I'm looking at the full global state of my own following on Nostr?

But, for you (for example), I'm not seeing the full global state, because you're being followed on relays that I'm not on.

Have I got this right? The relays thing confuses me.

In 2019 I made a special trip to the Fry's in Las Vegas, because I had heard how amazing the store was. It was a junkyard of outdated, cheap, bad electrical goods and was clearly just waiting to be shut down. Some aisles were literally all the same product that they presumably had once bought in bulk. Not a great experience.

Why would you want to do that?

You'd break 100% of existing podcast apps; and you'd need people to understand which relays to subscribe to in order to get their favourite shows (there's no "Nostr", just a random list of relays).

RSS is extendable to add new features - and right now is the biggest use of Lightning payments. Nostr is tiny in comparison. And you want to kill that for... why, exactly?

Why would they? What on earth is in it for Twitter to add Nostr? What does it offer that their closed platform does not? Surely Twitter already has more than 300 Bitcoin bros arguing about nsec custody already?

Either this is a problem with ZBD for holding keys... or its a fundamental problem with Nostr.

Surely it's the latter, not the former? A key that I *have* to put into an app in order to post messages here, but that is impossible to change or retract later? That seems very naïve.

One slightly left-field suggestion...

Change the up/down icons to something that communicates the category of payment. A zap, or a podcast payment, or a purchase, etc.

You're already communicating whether it's an increase or decrease with the colour of the sats amount on the right hand side, so you don't need additional cues on the left. You could add a visual cue with a subtle background colour to that entry as well.

My (fancy online) bank does something similar.

There's an excellent podcast (and book) about the whole thing. Well worth a listen (or a read).

https://podnews.net/podcast/ii4v

What am I supposed to be scanning this with? Bluewallet did nothing...

Worth reading up about it. But if you "zap" my show (it's not called that), then the zap goes to 49% me, 49% my co-host, 1% the podcast index, and 1% fountain (who do comments and help promote it). I'm 100% in charge of that split.

It gets more exciting when you use wallet-switching tech to support a music artist I play in my show, so "zaps" during that song are split further to the artists I'm playing.

Curry talks sense (at least in this one note, he adds, hurriedly)

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For many people outside the US, the "wow" moment is a "is that it?" moment. I can put money into my wife's bank account from my (different) bank account here in Australia for free and instantly. I can put money into my business partner's bank account in the UK from here in Australia instantly, too. Money transmission without any issue at all - and certainly without PayPal.

I have an API to my bank account to do it all programmatically, too. The speed of payment really isn't a selling point for most of the planet. We probably need a better way of promoting it.

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_8928943025707757811693531467.webp Good job, Alby, with your fancy progressive web app. Looks swanky in my Android apps list.

It's impossible not to see IP addresses if you use a website. Impossible. It's literally how the internet works.

If more people were using Lightning-powered podcast apps, they'd "get it" almost immediately. Apps like Fountain, Podverse or Castamatic really help this education, I reckon.

I was on the radio today talking about the future of, um, radio. https://www.4bc.com.au/podcast/is-the-future-bright-for-radio/