Pretty much. My history at Instagram is quite low, so I may just manually do it.
I do think there may be scraping tools around, if memory serves. Will need to go down this rabbit hole of coding projects at some point I suspect.
See. Problem is, that decade of content isn’t yours. Instagram owns it, and all the years of hard work you put into creating it.
They are not going to permit people en mass to migrate off their platform. & they’re not going to make it easy for people, that’s for sure.
We may need laws that facilitate individuals ability to pull their content off platforms and take it wherever they want.
I myself have a history of around 17k twitter posts over the years, mind you 90% of that’s me, just yelling at politicians - so not something I really care about.
But the face remains, ability to move to alternative platforms with that content is something I’d very much like.
Including the ability to take periodic snapshot backups.
Bugs still in the system, frustrate individuals coming from services that “just work”, so there’s a ton of development and bug squashing needed.
More robust relay infrastructure.
A way for individuals to, discover, interact, import, publish and filter relays from a repository that is decentralized and preferably blockchain based.
For example, if I click relays. I should be met with a list of available options.
This list should be distributed, and categorized.
A mechanism for sharing this list should be a NIP, including its format, how one registers a server to it, including basic metrics, geographical location, and uptime stats. Including notes from those running the relay about the relay.
Group into paid, vs free categories - including filter by price.
Additionally, there should also be relays on the list accessible over TOR and other platforms.
Ability to trigger in app WireGuard, per relay with separate keys should also be available.
So, someone running a relay, can place the relay behind a WireGuard connection. & all data transmitted between the client and the server is WireGuard encrypted.
This should be part of the NIP protocol, where keys are seamlessly issued, and rotated to the client if enabled, based on their public key.
So, I connect to a relay, if it provides the service and my client has the feature turned on. My public key requests a WireGuard key pair, good for say a couple days. Then if the relay is still being used, keys get rotated and re-issued automatically.
This adds a layer of big brother protection against snooping that can be enabled by default on relays. Trying to get users to take their security seriously and run a VPN, is like trying to direct a choir of cats.
I think the protocol has potential, it just needs more work IMO.
Will be digging more into the NIPs and documentation to really sort this beast out and see what other options I can offer.
Garden & Pumpkin patch growing away!
https://fountain.fm/track/TM4Dm2CaodcxJp0dTBv0
Good track, enjoyable.
Aunties Garden.
Need to take one, I’m out of town by 4 hours for a day or so. Here’s a photo of the river I stopped by today!
Ellie. The “Auntie”
Then there’s Larry, his brother Darrel & his other brother Darrel.
I don’t think it’s been formalized, and it would probably be a great opportunity for anyone who did, but nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n and others have had really successful little campaigns and announcements by running around and zapping everyone sats with their announcement attached.
Interesting.
That may be the way of things, maybe allow individual who want to receive these adverts to publish a tag to their profiles, so advertisers can do it programmatically,
Maybe filter users based on last post activity. So old accounts with little to no history don’t suck up advertising dollars for nothing. & active people actually see the adverts.
I’ve been here 3 days. Still figuring out the new concepts. From Twitter zero to this is actually a learning curve.
I think…
Nostr needs an ad mechanism that pays individuals directly for when they view an ad. With the ability to turn it on or off.
This way, people who have no funds, can receive payment for their time and attention to ad’s - something advertisers want and need to pay for.
In return, users can afford to pay for reliable relay access.
Which means, there needs to be a mechanism built into the web of trust that toggles on and off advertisements that are paying.
