I like Alan Kay's idea that "simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible." I think this translates into adding features in such a way that the main use case remains simple and unencumbered
Will, how many users on your relay? What is (#sats needed) / (#users) ?
The "ask" a baker and barber put up is the price information that is clearly displayed in their shop for everyone to see. The challenge with #valueforvalue is that there is no standard price, and most people just default to 0.
To be fair it's a whole new paradigm. I can see a huge amount of whining ahead until we figure out how to sail this ship
Is the stapler a reference to Office Space?
Some dragon ball, python, big lebowski & no country for old men, don't know about the rest!
It could work. The problem to be solved (in my view) is how a great but sat-poor comment can rise to the top, even when replying to a big fish. Otherwise the big fish will only have conversations with fellow whales
You mean requiring some PoW per each comment? It seems like sats are superior because a spamming farm would have economies of scale for producing PoW compared to the typical user
I am not convinced by a low fee for commenting. The obvious spamming strategy is then to comment on notes by "high signal" users with a large number of followers, drowning out the real conversation. Your idea of user-specified threshold could get rid of the spam, but it also effectively prevents someone with no sats but great ideas to contribute to the conversation
Should you enable Google's Widevine (DRM) on the browser? The nostr:npub1wnwwcv0a8wx0m9stck34ajlwhzuua68ts8mw3kjvspn42dcfyjxs4n95l8
extension is prompting me to. #asknostr
Very good question, I am still thinking through it, but here are some preliminary thoughts.
I think that spam will become a much bigger problem as Nostr grows. Obviously we will need a way to manage that to stay successful. Since Nostr is permissionless, the onus for spam filtering will fall on relays and end users. With the advent of ChatGPT and successors enabling the generation of infinite variations of natural language, that approach seems likely to fail. I therefore consider it likely that Nostr will turn to the concept of value-as-a-filter; only content with a sufficient amount of sats attached to it will reach its intended audience. It is not clear to me if this is very hard to achieve. Maybe there are simple/organic ways in which this can happen (e.g. just by getting "zapped to the top"). But I would consider Nostr a failure if it takes a large degree of luck for an outsider with great content but no sats to grow their reach in an efficient way.
Half a burger
What's the difference between "repost" and "broadcast" in Damus? #asknostr
Depends if you've inhaled it
Makes no sense to me. If you buy something with #Bitcoin and then buy back the same amount from an exchange, you've net transferred that amount of financial energy from fiat to the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Those links don't provide such a quote as far as I can tell. I've listened to the Lex Friedman podcast that is referred to, and I think I would have noticed his calling for ban or "elimination" of conspiracy theorists
And children are the spectators
I will not have my freedom of shouting into the void questioned
Can you point to an actual quote of Harari that says "conspiracy theorists must be eliminated"?