London > NYC

I think you're a minority. Not worth the fight.

this is what happens in the future if the "outbox-is-broken-let's-use-smart-proxy-relays" people win:

- people start relying on "caching services" to fetch their notes. now every client must run their own caching service to remain competitive.

- as the network grows, syncing from all relays becomes more and more prohibitively and databases grow to the infinite.

- less and less caching services exist, but a "local best scenario" would be if we had like 4 different clients/caching-services to read from, but then if one of them banned alex jones that would mean 25% of users lose access to alex jones. there is nothing alex jones can do to change that.

- users could switch from app A to app B that hasn't banned alex jones, but app B had already banned donald trump, so that move is questionable and uncertain. anyway, it's too much friction for a user who doesn't know how to find this caching-service setting buried deep in their settings (because UX specialists said that's the best place to put it).

- eventually it makes no sense to switch anymore and as one of the caching services gains more market share they merge with the others, saving costs and regulatory burden (these caching servers are so big they need to do spam moderation, find and delete pornography and scam bots, comply with government takedowns, defend themselves against lawsuits, it's a huge cost), so it's much better to just have a single caching-service.

- everybody still publishes to their own relay, so nostr becomes exactly like bluesky and the central service can censor anyone. eventually people give up the stupidity of using intermediary relays and just publish directly to that central service.

- that central service now can serve you ads and blue checks, shadowban everybody who doesn't pay, modify your feed with amazing AI techniques to keep you engaged and prevent you from seeing anything they don't want you to see but keep you nourished with memes.

your body can tell the difference between some fake ass blue light and the fucking SUN

good morning

Now the next steps are to create a Nostrpedia page explaining your reasoning. You are now on the "Bitcoin issuance should be 3.25 forever" side.

I can start the opposite side in this controversy. "Bitcoin issuance should never be changed".

Interesting. But I would have to constantly thinking whether to keep or let my note expire every time I post it. Besides what will happen to the replies? If one reply in a thread of reply expires then the whole thread is meaningless, ie if other people don't let their replies expire.

Everything is fine

Aahahaha I'm sure everyone is against that!

That's just a part of it. Show me the whole path!

How will Bitcoin push Nostr to be used by billions?

The basics

What's an opinion that splits Nostr into two groups?

I want Nostr to be bigger than Twitter, Facebook and Tiktok combined. Can someone show me the path?

It's the Keyboard. Try AnySoft, unexpected keyboard, Gboard or Florisboard beta.

End this shit show guys. This has gone too far!

Growing up, I did all sorts of stuff on the internet and it was fun and exciting. You could discover something new every day and do something weird that you didn’t know was possible. It was a place to play, hack around and experiment. An exciting playground.

Then the suits started taking over and things became more boring, cookie cutter and stale. Pulling the same stunts as before could get you in serious trouble.

Nostr brings a tiny bit of the early internet joy back. Things like the autozapper- a seemingly useless tool, make the web fun again. Zapping across the world in an instant, cross-device, cross-platform feels magical. Same vibes as the early web. Every new update that introduces weird possibilities brings back some of that spark. You can zap lamps, zap to feed goats, zap someone a coffee, buzz some literal energy into their hands, as if reaching from across the world. The playground is back!

I don’t know where I’m going with this. It’s time to sleep 😴

Good night nostr 🫡

Keep on playing 🙏 🙇‍♂️