Onedrive / Sharepoint !!! Did it ever work :-) ?
I was hoping everyone posts to their on device relays .. and they get synced to the popular ones (Damus etc) as and when user gets online . . or through mashtastic or something - without having to go through an ISP ..
That was the point .. how do you know what is the right DNS for popular accounts .. who have many imposters ..
I use #Amethyst on Android .. mostly Tablet and #Gossip on desktop .. but switch to web (nostrudel ) if I need to dive in deeper ..
This screenshot was from Amethyst
love #nostrudel ... the best social client on web not only for #nostr but any social ..
Explain this more ... I dont want to custody any thing ever .. not even a cell phone .. does that help the spread of #bitcoin ?
Bitcoin is sure lion -- but #gold is the cat where it learned the trics .. so
That is right way to think about it .. May be hate is not the right word ..but people who claim they are doin #bitcoin for the good of poor etc - goes over my head ..
Fix yourself - world shall be fixed on its own ..
Hey #Gossip - I have a tough time getting gossip to play nice with dual monitor situation .. Is there something like a guide post or readme .. few of the problems
- When gossip starts the screen flickers and it splashes across the monitors ..
- If I somehow resize it with mouse - it doesnt play well with the windows tile commands - left or right side of the screen ..
any pointers nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c
nostr has no global source of truth, and that is a good thing
Out of interest, I follow the progress of a lot of other projects similar to nostr, and a couple links surfaced today:
BlueSky has a big "firehose" connection that streams all updates (new posts, reactions, etc) to subscribers. Unsurprisingly, this is difficult to process except on beefy servers with lots of bandwidth. So, one proposed solution is to strip out all that pesky cryptography (signatures, merkle tree data, etc): https://jazco.dev/2024/09/24/jetstream/
And over on Farcaster, keeping their hubs in sync is too difficult, so they want to make all posts globally sequenced, like a blockchain. The details are still being worked out, but I think it's safe to assume there will be a privileged global sequencer who decides on this ordering (and possibly which posts are included at all): https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/193
In my opinion, both of these issues are symptoms of an underlying errant philosophy. These projects both want there to be a global source of truth: A single place you can go to guarantee you're seeing all the posts on a thread, from a particular user, etc. On BlueSky that is https://bluesky.app and on Farcaster that is https://warpcast.com .
Advocates of each of these projects of course would dispute this, pointing out that you could always self-host, or somehow avoid depending on their semi-official infrastructure, but the truth is that if you're not on bluesky.app or warpcast.com, you don't exist, and nobody cares that you don't exist.
nostr has eschewed the concept of global source of truth. You can't necessarily be sure you are seeing everything. Conversations may sometimes get fragmented, posts may disappear, and there may be the occasional bout of confusion and chaos. There is no official or semi-official nostr website, app, or relay, and this is a good thing. It means we are actually building a decentralised protocol, not just acting out decentralisation theatre, or pretending we'll get there eventually and that the ends justify the means.
Back when computers were primitive and professional data-centres didn't exist, it was impossible to build mega-apps like Twitter. Protocols had to be decentralised by default -- there was simply no other way. We can learn a lot by looking back to protocols of yesteryear, like Usenet and IRC, and still-popular protocols like email and HTTP. None of these assume global sources of truth, and they are stronger and better for it, as is nostr.
and it has a cool name ring - noString :-)
people outside #nostr - wtf is going on in here !
#Amethyst how do I search my notes - or filter my notes in search ? #askNostr
when you seek a big candle - this is what you get ..
what is the minimum number of followrs you need on #nostr to reduce probability of getting lost to less than one in 21 million ..
#askNostr
