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If I remember correctly they contacted me and I had a call with a guy from Twitter where he told me Bluesky's goals were to build a protocol for which Twitter could become a client in the future, to which I said Nostr was a perfect match, then he asked me if I would consider becoming the lead Bluesky person they would pick for leading the effort, and I said ok but asked if it would be acceptable if I just used Nostr as it was as "the Bluesky" without considering the other proposals and he didn't know what to say.

Then he put me in a secret group chat with some other people including SSB people, Mastodon people, the GUN guy and people from a bunch of useless IPFS projects. Supposedly the group was gathered to work together in creating this Bluesky protocol, but I read the entire conversation and it was 100% people just shilling their own projects, so I talked a little about Nostr and the first feedback I got was: "how do we ban people? it looks like it would be very hard to ban", so I said that was the idea and the conversation ended. Maybe Jay Graber was in this chat, but I don't remember reading any messages from her.

Some time after that supposedly this group produced a "report" containing all decentralized protocols in existence and a comparison between them, but it didn't include Nostr. I think the group didn't produce anything and this was likely a solo effort from Jay. The group continued its useless, sparse conversation and Bluesky the company was created through some other means of communication.

Your article "Why IPFS sucks" was a big eye opener for me when I first showed up to Nostr a few years ago. Should be mandatory reading 🤣

Nostr needs a disclaimer.

Your level of sovereignty depends entirely on your capacity to give up years of life in order to compete with the bare minimum experience offered by the leading censored spyware botfarms. Side effects may include:

- Headaches

- Confusion

- Malfunctioning clients

- Unpublished events

- Mis-published events

- Uninteroperable events

- Unnecessary debates about freedom

- Necessary debates about freeom

- Sending strangers way too much Bitcoin

- Knowing every word that Michael Saylor has ever said

- Knowing at least a few words that Satoshi Nakamoto said

- Salty friends

- Envious friends

- Ignorant friends

- Lots of history lessons

- Seriously, lots.

- Podcasts

- Fad diets

- Extremist diets

- Anything but a normal, diverse diet.

Consult with your primary physician before taking the purple pill to see if #Nostr is right for you.

#memes

Only eating babies from now on.

If anyone is expecting, please reach out.

#babydiet #vegan #breedmore #imhungry

Uranium glass chandelier at 21C Museum Hotel in Kansas City

#photos #uraniumglass

Hippies were totally counter cultural, which is why it was totally shut down in 1971.

"We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

And so it was. And still is.

Activists projected this on a #Tesla factory in Berlin 🤣 Good job #Elon

Does it already support the "photo album" kinds? I haven't used Olas but from what I gather it allows for scrolling through a collection of images, like Instagram? Reddit apps also do this. It would seem appropriate so long as the feed serves images. If it already does, that's awesome.

Otherwise I would think the ability to only see only images or only videos, might be preferable. I don't see a setting for that, but it would be preferred.

I think there will be more incentive in the future. For now there are only so many users, the network seems to be able to sustain its current operations. Over time clients will continue to evolve and accept that many relays exist around the world, and users might want to keep visiting them. Operations will continue to improve across the board. With this in mind, the interface for renting a relay from another party is far behind. Parallel this issue, clients are still trying to adopt outbox model. Working outward from "functional outbox support" is a bit of a climb, but I think Jumble.social is doing this right. In the settings you can create relay "collections" which double as custom feeds. This means relays can expand to support a more diverse landscape and userbase. Once Nostr has a good footing in these regards, I think a lot of the headaches will quickly dissipate. Free relays will likely always exist, but maybe they aren't particularly valuable to established users. That's how I see it anyways.

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#nostr I do not understand why people do not insist on nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 getting pardoned just the same as #ross.

Edward Snowden did such an amazing thing for Americans. He forfeited his American freedom for what was right.

There are others who also should be pardoned. The democrats had weaponized the government judicial system. Bring it all down. Thank you Trump!

The message is blatant. Information is an economy, much like imprisonment.

Bro I can see your seed phrase in the reflection on your glasses, just a heads up

When I wake up, I'll give an earnest attempt at reading about Alexandria and its relevant specs. Dreaming of a transclusive and omnipotent protocol.

I want to say, I have tried running isolated relays and had poor luck until now. I immediately realized a few things:

A) My users may not know how to use Amethyst

B) I also may not know how to use Amethyst

Funny enough, before realizing these things, I had already (recently) drafted a feature request for Amethyst to expand upon its relay management options. I talked a bit with Vitor about this and overall I can see how this is difficult to approach for any client dev. You can view that here:

https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/issues/1251

In any case, I am looking to pioneer forward with basically a re-design of NoteDeck using bun.sh (for browser) and/or buntralino (for standalone) to hopefully encourage people to work on the same client together. Queue the xkcd competing standards meme.

The reason I'm somewhere between "a nostr client" and "LogSeq" is because my first priority is explicitly relay management. Jumble.social seems to have nailed this, so I will probably be getting comfortable with it this week,. So far I am only interfacing with this relay using Jumble. I don't think I can remove posts, so please note that some boosts in Amethyst may be coming through on these relays.

Back to Amethyst. I don't know how anyone else is using it, but I'm completely embarrassed to admit that I did not fully grasp the control schema. It seems simple at first, then complicated, and back and forth.. But overall it is designed to be useful. I'll break it down just in case anyone is struggling with it still, and I may go on to republish this later for others:

R/W matters. If you choose to write to a relay, it is going to be enabled as a default option when you go to post any note. If you choose not to read from the relay, obviously you will not see the notes that are only posted there. To sum this up, you should probably disable "write" on all of your 'general relays'. This means you will no longer blast the network with each post, but also means you will still have to select each relay you wish to publish to (at time of posting).

The secondary issue that arises from this is that boosting content will no longer "blast" to a bunch of relays. You will need to quote or fork a note to proliferate it across other relays. The only things that WILL work- is dm's and draft. This is the apparent "bug" with Amethyst's relay pooling. There is not a specified way for the app to discern a difference otherwise, except what the user has laid out in their configuration.

Lastly, I don't use the other features of Amethyst myself. I'm a kind-1 maxi for now, until a client can prove to offer a better experience. Otherwise I try to use dm's sometimes, but that's pretty rough lately. So, I disable a lot of the other elements under general relays, leaving only one or two in global, and most have home enabled.

Where we're left with is Amethyst provides the best mobile experience, but can be a real bitch to isolate a relay on, because of how it toes the line with its functionality. Relays can easily clutter up with boosted content and become a nuisance within our home feeds. This is sub-optimal, so I'll just say, I hope for the best experience for everyone! :)