America innovates, China imitates, Europe regulates, India masturbates.

True, but it can't be worse than email, or can it? 😄

I really don't know - my reputation is to be stupid 🤣 - but we already use the same address format (at least with nip-05), and we already can send money to these addresses, not only text.*

Lightning is there, so in a theoretical hyperbitcoinized future my electricity company could send me a lightning bill embedded directly, and things like that.

* Shameless pluck: Want a free #nostr and vanity #lightning address? Be my guest at zaps.lol

Oh, they have a bunch of names. Yeah just search that, its all the top results, all different names but same thing

I don't remember the name, but if you search "saint Germain purple flame" it'll come up. I found several reddit posts talking about them, especially their weird perfectly maintained mansions they keep in major cities. Oh heck I can search it... One sec...

I'm a sucker for weird cults, can you send me their name (DM is fine), I want to look them up lol

And yes, name changes are confusing here, but if you keep your picture for some weeks longer it's usually also no problem. Just don't change both at the same time. And if you wanna be double safe, DM those people you value

And just to get that out of the way, in case anybody think about this: I would never ever support a "clear name policy" or so other BS the corpo networks try to keep their users on bay. In my experience, even if you are a nym there is a reputation to lose (or to gain lol). And during my last years here I realized this is enough social pressure for most to stay reasonable. If not, I block them and carry on.

I don't know how NIPs are realised tbh, not deep enough into the process. Sure anyone can implement stuff I guess, but other clients and also relays have to support that. So I guess in the end it's about which version/fork has the most users.

All I can do is push out my thoughts and hope devs and users alike consider them.

This discussion is around since at least two years here I think 😅 but I increasingly see it again these days.

I get it that it's unusual for newbies, been there myself. But hey, everyone else here also has to live with their typos, too.

Just shows me who's human and who's a bot 😁

Love the idea but how to break it? Got some billions under your pillow (and wanna share)?

Ok, last addendum.

The email comparison might sound funny to some but I think it's worth thinking about it for a sec. Why is email, this horrible, unsafe thing still alive?

And would you like to receive your bills, contracts and so on via Facebook, X, etc where the company can just edit these documents after they sent them?

#nostr could replace social media AND #email

#noedits

Just my opinion: the downside is massive. Being able to edit means anyone at any time can reverse anything they said. Not a basis for discussion imho. To me this is the same as a blockchain that can be rolled back.

Aaand I personally don't care about typos as long as I can read it. Nobody is typo-free and truth > perfection

Last night I was supposed to install GrapheneOS on a friend's Pixel so he could speak and listen more freely.

Unfortunately at the last minute he decided to buy a Xiaomi instead.

It got slow after the first update and now he wants a refund that he's not going to be given. Pixel now after all.

People acquire technical smarts at the price they deserve...

Dude was some time traveler or some shit.

Unfortunately, nothing. Most people cope with alcohol, algorithmically-censored social media, and reality TV. Dissent is disloyalty, and sometimes punishable. Middle-class people have had their doors smashed in by police and dragged off into the night for posts on social media.

Some of our states are much better than others, thankfully. Mine (Victoria) is the worst.

I might regret every 2nd note, but I'll still die on this hill: No edits.

This is a #nostr USP to me. Keep the nostr truthy.

People do. I know some.

But if you get caught, the govt seizes your gun license (permanently), fines you hard enough to sell your home, and may choose to jail you.

Its a $5000 fine just for taking fallen timber from beside a road now. "Free World" we aren't...

'Thinning the herd' (aka population control) and killing to survive are separate concepts, though they can overlap. Plants are also alive and die when eaten, but that is outside the context of this post. The point is about the ethical difference between choosing to kill to control populations versus the necessity of survival.

Since we have multiple proven, non-lethal methods to manage wildlife populations - methods that are both effective and humane - lethal control is clearly a choice rather than a necessity. This choice reflects our values and priorities as a species.