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That is not normal

It would be fully okay to have relays with local moderation rules. See nostr as a connection hub of multiple forums into one feed, and that's how it kind of works.

One must just make sure to be picky when choosing relays. Today the variation of relays aren't large enough, but the selection of more moderated relays will grow, I'm sure of it.

Client side it doesn't make much sense to implement much more than ignore, mute and block. But Relays could implement ban and complex spam & moderation algorithms. Someone just got to do it.

People convinced me to move to Signal, and then to Nostr.

Then they said Bluesky and Threads which I have resisted. I can't be everywhere.

Now they are saying Simplex.

I'm on Twitter, Email, Signal, Nostr, Whatsapp, and DMs.

Give me the Simplex case. Make this Herpes-adjacent name sound good to me. Is there critical mass there? Should my scrambled attention start to spend some time there? Tell me.

Every year, I spend 1-2 months living in Egypt. This is because my husband is originally from Egypt, his family is much larger than mine, and so while our economic base is in the US, our social base is actually in Egypt. I thus became multinational many years ago.

However, my husband spends 3-4 months each year in Egypt, while I only spend 1-2 months there. So, there are 1-2 months where I’m in the US alone. The reason I choose to do this is to look after the household and business, and because I’m not as productive in Egypt (inconsistent internet, less optimal workstation, way more social pressures, and so forth).

In some ways, we find that spending some time apart strengthens our relationship and lets us focus on our separate things for part of the year. And when we meet after 1-2 months, it’s such a great reunion. We find ourselves wanting to catch up on so much and spend extra time together. But also, even though in some ways I look forward to having time alone and indeed get a lot done during that time, I immediately regret it once I am alone. I find myself constantly looking forward to going to Egypt, as I am now. During these periods, I end up posting more on social media, either constructively or non-constructively, in what tends to be a replacement for diminished in-person contact.

This seems to be amplified by my work situation. When I was an engineer, I worked with colleagues in person each day, but now that I work from home, my colleagues are virtual and I meet them in person only at major events. So, this relatively brief window each year of being in a different place than my husband tends to be oddly monk-like, with me at home alone 24 hours per day, working and living and doing whatever I do. I think one of my future goals will be to increase my deliberate effort at spending time with local friends, especially during this part of the year.

Anyway, I’m doing a series of “real thoughts” uniquely on Nostr, and this is the first one.

Conclusion: Social circles are (obviously) a very important thing, including for workaholics and introverts like myself. Social circles affect us in various ways, and having gone through many cycles, I have become increasingly aware of the changes that take place during these seasonal cycles of being close to others vs far from others.

Mystical concept? Says who? What standard classifies that as a mystical concept?

Mystification of what they deserve? By what standard are you using to measure this? Are you aging it’s something we can’t know to be true or not?

Random thought for today…

In a world with already too much sex exploitation, the #Nostr protocol has continued to grow with more and more notes with women posting themselves naked, half-naked etc. the problem I see is that these notes have earned more #zaps then most devs and notes that hold value in themselves for people to be educated. I know that most men wouldn’t be ok with their girlfriends, and wives posting themselves naked for the world to see to earn money, let alone fathers. It’s time to end this and really stop objectifying women and treat them like ladies. They deserve it. #grownostr #EndPorn #MasculineMen #TimeForChange