I just found out about this thing a couple days ago because apparently I live under a fucking rock but... Holy crap total Final Fantasy vibes what the hell.

Used to when I was activly working on lucid dreaming. IMO it helps strengthen your recall after waking up. I wouldn't really go back and read them unless I felt like a couple different dreams were connected or similar. Or if I had a series of reoccurring dreams.

I spent all day in the sun yesterday. It was glorious.

It's going to be so hard to focus on work with all the nice weather all of a sudden, I know this is technically a false spring, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to take at least a little bit of advantage of it.

Gonna have to go drag my laptop to a nice sunny spot or something.

Corical and nostur

+1

Fuck proper sun feels so good when you havent had it in months.

That's definitely a very good question. So I guess the first thing I will say, and this will probably sound a little bit pedantic, but Nostr is a protocol, not a platform. And that is a very important distinction. platforms are usually centralized entities. Nostr is decentralized and infrastructure is mostly run by people in the community who care about it.

As for the first part of your question, how would it support a high-inflow of users? Honestly, I don't know. Kind of circling back to the decentralized nature of Nostr. Considering that pretty much all of the infrastructure is ran by enthusiasts, It genuinely depends on the strength of their servers. Smaller relays ran at home on a Raspberry Pi, or sufficiently weak hardware might have problems if a shitload of users decided to connect to them all of a sudden, some of the larger relays ran on cloud infrastructure, could easily scale up and probably deal with a high influx of traffic.

As for the other part of your question, which kind of sounds like the problem of onboarding new users. I think the only proper answer that I have for that is it's still a work in progress. Onboarding new users is something a lot of client developers are actively working on. I think partially it will come down to education considering the fact that a "nostr account" is actually just a key pair and if you're only used to the username and password model of doing things explaining a key pair can be confusing. So I don't really think advertisement in the traditional sense of advertising is probably the best way to promote nostr.

Also as you probably realize content and user discovery is weak at best. And still needs a lot of improvement. Hashtags seem to be the most useful at the moment But again, discovery is a problem because discovering the hashtag that people are using for whatever type of content you want is not easy at the moment.

The client interoperability issues partially stem from the fact that Nostr is a young protocol and most of the protocol is not set in stone yet. They're still trying to figure out ways of doing things And people being people, everyone has their own opinions on how things should work. 😅

So I guess, in short, I'm not exactly sure that nostr would be ready for "prime time" of millions of users coming on all of a sudden. But at the same time, having a high influx of users would help battle test the protocol and figure out how things can be done differently if we had more people using it and giving developers feedback on what works and what doesn't.

I hope that helps. I'm personally excited about Nostrs potential, but I also realize that it's current limitations And non-standard way of doing things Will be a hurdle to overcome.

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I definitely do this more often than I probably should. But if you call it intermittent fasting instead of being a dumb idiot who forgets to eat, then I guess it's cool.

Again, without going into technical detail, it is not totally private, but that is better in terms of privacy than a Zap.

Although all the problems of using a custodian apply. Someone sending to you might only realize that they are sending to an Alny account, which I guess is fine, but Alby knows your account balances and who you're sending to and receiving from.

I'm not exactly sure how amethyst's private zaps work, so I guess there is that, but I'm Not sure if any other client has implemented private zapping.

I would at least say in the context of ZAPs it is not private at all due to the fact that it's a lightning payment that attaches nostr public key data to the payment it is a public record of who sent money to who.

Lightning privacy is complicated. The receiving side still has a lot of work to do in terms of privacy. Sending is a little bit more private, but it's also by no means perfect.

And zaps by nature are pretty much a public record of who sent who money. A Zap is a lightning payment that attaches Noster public key data to a note. And it's all public.

No. It's a bit more complicated than this, but from a technical angle, lightning is Bitcoin. Lightning is not as private as some people make it out to be.

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I like the way your brain works. Thats really kind.

God speed ser.

But that doesn't excuse the coffee abuse. 😂