I am considering enabling Amethyst to write a replaceable kind 1 (new kind:30111) to allow users to edit their past posts at will.

It would work in a similar way Habla News works, but using Kind 1's style of small posts instead of markdown and long-form content of kind:30023.

Of course, we could also write kind:30023 (blog posts) directly, but it would pollute most of the Blogging interfaces with short posts.

What do you all think?

Goodnight and wabi sabi, Nostr! 🤙🏻💜🫂

I took some pictures of the sky today, and included a few other things in there too.

玩乐队的有秃头的吗？老大哥们的发量都让人羡慕。

One of the challenges with a hyper capitalist economy is that most content / production on a money forward basis returns to its cost of marginal production, which is zero for ideas (and wind energy and solar energy, etc.).

How do you create a network that operates profitably if there is no defendable “moat?”

This is why railroads are such a fascinating industry…the value of a single railroad from A-B can capture almost the entire value of the supply chain from A-B … a second railroad alongside A-B renders both almost totally worthless on a go-forward basis.

Technology (compute) has this challenge … expensive to develop upfront and then the profitability is tied to the marginal cost of production on a go forward basis (low). Same with pharmaceuticals, same with commodities, etc.

The Bit Block Boom relay I paid for went down recently … no idea why …

Is it just me, or does it seem like everyone is super reluctant to monetize services and relays on #Nostr?

If we can’t make these things sustainable then we will either lose them, or they will stay nothing more than a weird little corner of the internet with lots of hope but no chance of ever scaling.

I still haven’t seen the basic model of zap sharing tried by any major client or relay. But I DO see regularly comments about how expensive relays are. I mean it might not work, but can’t we TRY it?

I want to make the distinction here too that this doesn’t mean we are closing off the network, we are adding permissions to the protocol, this doesn’t suggest at all to used closed source code, we simply need the services necessary to keep this ecosystem robust, to be profitable and have the resources to thrive. If they aren’t, then NONE of this works. Economics is everything.

I know building features is more exciting. I know we all want to make everything that we can free, and I agree all of the *code* should be shared. However, I think there is a natural insecurity (and I say this because I have this problem personally) with charging a fair price, and fearing criticism or the ire of people who believe everything should be free (as in price) when we need things to be free (as in Liberty). They are not the same, and confusing the two could stifle, or drastically slow down, the insane potential of this place.

TL;DR We have GOT to divert some energy to thinking about how to make this ecosystem sustainable, or we will lose it.

(Disclaimer: this isn’t a judgement on whoever is thinking about this problem. It just *seems* like few are. If you are building in this way please share your ideas or what you are trying. I’m extremely interested)

Goodnight and wabi sabi, Nostr 🤙🏻💜🫂

Keep being critical of Nostr. We need to work out all of the kinks all in the open. This only makes Nostr stronger.

It doesn’t have one.

Nostr is really fun today! 🤣🤣

We have various custodians in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Yes, I personally prefer non custodial solutions and will always help someone self custody their funds. But the act of the matter here is that the majority of Nostr users are using Lightning wallets for Zaps on platforms in which they control zero keys. Shitting on a Nostr custodian is a bit hypocritical in comparison when there's a good chance you're using a custodial Lightning wallet. We can be better here.

I get the general truth. Thanks for that. But I guess I'm missing something. Anything wrong happened somewhere on #Nostr? Please help me so I learn about it and secure my nsec.

I am a sexy girl with big boobs. I live in a poor country. Rebels looted my village and stole all my books. I need #sats to buy new books and continue my studies at #bitcoin university.