Weird. Damus?

Yes it’s always the same half, but I can sometimes get some of them to connect.

Just now I added some of the relays from your profile, and a few of the problem relays are now connected. It’s super strange

For the past month, Damus shows that I’m connected to only half my relays. Anyone else experiencing this?

cry harder I guess

We are right about to switch to a load balanced nginx system that shrinks and caches images, and has way more data-out because it’s load balanced, so should take us to the next level of keeping costs down.

Yes, next next step it something not metered or a LOT cheaper…

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).

Yes but it’s not a strong selling point

Tried to purple pill my friend dev last night.

He asked: why would people choose nostr apps over the current web2 alternatives that are already there and work?

How would you answer that?

how do I link ***

Big if true 😉

I completely agree that people can’t really organize an uprising of any sort (armed or not) because the disinformation strategies are so effective. It’s their most powerful tool by far.

Interesting that there is no gun registry, that’s actually more “freedom” than the US has.

Btw I’ve never been able to own a gun anyways (wrong countries), but I would carry one around to stop crime if possible.

For those who aren’t willing to run their own servers, I think the missing piece is the ability to migrate a user’s images from one void.cat (or Picsur) host to another.

This.

Doesn’t it defeat the purpose? Raising the debt ceiling?

Imagine this showing up in your mailbox 😂

The invitation link appears to be limited to one use.

Trying out SimpleX chat. If you want to connect I’ll post a link in my profile. Everyone who messages me there will be sent a separate unique link for a 1-on-1 channel