Its so good because it is not really a Nostr app. The reason people think it is because it also uses signed JSON.
I agree. The 'primal problem' was not front and center in my mind, until yesterday i tried out their search for a bunch of things and got suspicious as to how on earth it could possibly work. I asked some jungle dweller just to check, and he confirmed my suspicions.
What is most confusing is that when you listen to them talk they say all the right things. If the idea is to do the right thing 'eventually', then when will that eventually be? Its now right? Right?
The risks arguably get smaller over time, when interoperability among a larger ecosystem is the norm. Its especially in this phase of the protocol where something that is not (as) interoperable can become really popular and undermine the protocol.
In terms of ensuring, dunno, perhaps we can finance a crew specialized in breaking kneecaps of bad actors or something like that
This NOSTR stuff is not going to bring a 'better internet'; rather its embracing we passed peak-internet-goldenage already and things are bound to only get worse.
Now to be fair and clear, that internet golden age was a short term fantasy where capital subsidized the server capacity believing they could effectively monetize the platforms eventually, on the one hand; and intrinsicly motivated sincere content creators able to do their thing before getting harrassed by the censorship and noise inducing wrestle for power/controll by political interests, on the other.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_3093180763713125261700377523.webp
My thinking on this recently turned things around in a sense. These platform have a luxury Nostr has not, in there being a complete global state of all the things on a 'single' database.
This means that before you can even filter, you need to explore. Now i guess the main underlying thesis is that with 'dead internet TM' we are forced to do this regardless (eventually), and that the platforms only provide an increasingly crumbling facade of a sensible world. Bias is not just the way we achieve finding the content we prefer, it is how we differentiate signal from noise, the real from the fake by distributing trust via the social graph, in the first place.
My point is, the 'pick your own algo' meme is not some cool feature as a result of liberating ourselves from the platforms; it is the unfortunate necessity as a result of the impending wave of chaos that would otherwise engulf us; something platforms won't save us from, regardless how totalitarian they become in an attempt to keep their facade alive.
Then again, I started out by saying ‘recently’, but in a sense I have just been spinning my wheels for over a year
Send 1 get 2 back scams are nasty too. nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7erfw36x7tnsw43z7un9d3shjqpqt6jxfqz9hv0lygn9thwndekuahwyxkgvycyscjrtauuw73gd5k7s5ut0d4 (Send 2 get 1 back 😆)
Offer is still open
Reflecting on the passed year, as one does around this time, i am looking back at a book that does not exist yet.
My original intention was to have finished written this ‘book about Nostr’ months ago. This was mostly due to the fact that the first part about the problems with the status quo and how we got into this mess was so easy to write. On the one hand because this year just kept handing out example after example where the problems lie, be it the Brazil X-ban or the myriad of other occurrences; but on the other hand more importantly because i already had that narrative down years ago. While digging through my hard-drive i found an interview i did in 2019 that was never published, where i laid out all the fundamental problems, and the story is basically the same (video down below, it is in Dutch). This part of the book has been mostly done for many many months now. The issue was describing Nostr itself.
I can’t pin point when I got aware of Nostr, and I mainly build my intuition around the protocol outside of the ‘community’ or use of the protocol itself; partly because I am not a developer nor much of a ‘social media’ user. It is only recently I actually started looking at NIPs due to my work with Nostr Special Forces, and for the longest time I never even read NIP-01. This way of going at it was facilitated by the fact I could just discuss Nostr matters with its creator, to the point where he rather have me stay blissfully unaware of the NIPs out there to keep my thinking uninfluenced by them.
But when it got to describing the Nostr phenomena for the book, I felt it was not enough. I started using the clients, turn NAK into a new best friend and engage with the broader (developer) community. The hardest part is that Nostr is still so actively evolving that describing it in its current state would make the book outdated by the time it comes out. Giving projections as to what it will become has its own problems because it might as well turn out to be completely wrong. It forces me to gain enough confidence in my perspective. Having enough confidence is one thing, but that still leaves me in finding the words to shape an accessible narrative in describing a new paradigm. This is ultimately the point of the book and I figured the only way through that problem is iteration.
I am passed the point of diminishing returns on my narrative iterations, so the only thing that is left to do is put is down on paper definitively. So there you have it, my new years resolution. Basically the same one I had last year, but it is what it is.
Merry Christmas Nostr.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/3d9fcab72c20ee6bb4c8a3e54e2490dc7e281b643f4ce24ba8954a60e40d4ebe.mp4
I am making an epistemological statement you midwit; yet here you are rambling off assumptions as to what my position/beliefs would be, lol.
No, the point is that its a nice story but ultimately just a story. If you want to believe you dont have free will or whatever, go ahead. Its in the same realm as 'God', or questions as to what constitutes 'energy'. We dont know what energy is, we only know its expression.
Anyone making definitive claims on any of this is overstepping their bounds
'Rules of the internet' are descriptive, faggot.
There are epistemological limits wich make it such that we cant make these definitive ontological claims. Its a nice hypothesis though.
Belgians are so fault tollerant that they decided to have 6 governments
Stop being a retard that just posts screenshots.
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/bluesky-s-payment-platform-pri-2XBEDAKESYCDnvpcV8VCCA
If you train you can enter competitions (its 99.99% w4men though, so bring earplugs)
Reminds me of Bnet crashing after Remastered because my map folder was to large
You know Kabouters!? The only beings im aware of that are in direct contact with them are the animals, trolls and fairies.🤔
Animals dont know how to type, and fairies have no need for btc, so.....what is your favorite bridge?
Luckely enough, because all the vampires almost concluded that it was safe to come outside