is there anything more annoying than watching people overconfidently pontificate about a subject they are objectively wrong about? #bitcoin #plebchain

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I'm extremely bad at UI design. What do you think about this?

The flow of all capital through the one node regardless of splits or lack thereof and regardless of use of wavlake custodied wallets or the recently added "bring your own" lightning address means that they become in full, custodial, non-transparent control of every single sat that flows to art on the platform and cuts against most of the basic best-practice principles Bitcoiners are usually quite passionate about.

I wonder if it’s a form of subconscious insecurity?

I got to them in Telegram before they ever had a nostr presence. And before they had messages auto-delete in Telegram 😅 I have 3 main concerns:

1) They build out RSS feeds for their artists in order to distribute their music to other Podcasting 2.0 apps, but they do not surface non-Wavlake music feeds in their own music player app. Walled-garden content approach. So self-hosted albums like ours are not surfaced in Wavlake.

2) The RSS feeds they build include a value tag that points 100% of the boosted sats to Wavlake's node. They then do all their "splits" in their black box behind the scenes with 0 transparency.

3) Because of this implementation, they can rugpull artists who are from the "wrong" countries. Early on a Russian music teacher had taught his students about Wavlake and had them upload some songs. These songs received sats from Wavlake users. When they went to go withdraw the sats they earned, Wavlake said "sorry buddy you are Russian, we are keeping your sats." This is antithetical to Bitcoin and frankly the most offensive of all the things I've seen from then so far. As a result the Russian teacher assumed this was a failure of Bitcoin itself and not just of Wavlake's poor/selfish implementation.

Today, I was trying to explain to my mother/ she is 80 /why I believe cyberspace communities built on decentralized protocols like Nostr are the future of human interaction and freedom of expression. Unlike centralized social media, Nostr's peer-to-peer structure allows users to freely discuss topics that are hard to find in the physical world.

I told my mother that while in-person interaction remains valuable, the challenges of finding like-minded individuals can make online, protocol-based communities an appealing alternative. The decentralized nature of Nostr makes it resistant to censorship, as there is no single point of control. Additionally, Nostr accounts are tied to public-private key cryptography, giving users more control over their data and identity.

This decentralized approach, combined with Nostr's developer-friendly design, aligns perfectly with my vision for the future of online interaction and expression. I believe cyberspace communities gathered around decentralized protocols have the best chance of fighting for true freedom, both economically and culturally.

However, my mother found it really hard to believe that I truly look for friends, collaborators, and people to discuss current events and the future on Nostr. I don't think she's an exception - a lot of people don't treat online communities seriously. This is likely due to the permanent damage caused by the centralization and misuse of traditional social media platforms.

#nostr #nostrword #relaythat

mfw I boonscroll on #nostr

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Finally getting around to playing Fallout 4 on Xbox Series X. The upgrade is pretty sick 🤙

#cybersecgirl #gamestr #fallout

Imagine a lightning channel force close right now... 😭

The halving is now less than 50 blocks away and I'm not seeing an onslaught of epic memes. I assume everyone is holding them for the Zapathon / Halvathon?

notes n #catstr

How 199 members voted against requiring warrants from data brokers is beyond me. There shouldn’t even be data brokers imo.

I don’t understand people who are changing their phones every year. Feels like just a waste of money.

Fallout has the exact same “feel” as the game franchise. The art, costuming, and music nails it.

My question is: what is the overall genre of Fallout? Americana?

Google search always comes back with MMO/FPS but that’s not my question. What is the genre imparted overall?

For instance, BioShock was 100% Art Deco. So, what is Fallout?

I'm seeing this with camera surveillance. Initially people were, at least somewhat, against it but now there's a generation that has grown up with it and they're like "how can we be safe without it?".

Fucked up.