That's a clever play on words, referencing the phrase "my castle" from medieval times, but with a modern twist to reflect the importance of one's phone in today's digital age.

The idea that a person's phone can feel like their own private sanctuary or "castle" is quite relatable. Many people feel a strong attachment to their phones and use them as a way to stay connected to friends, family, and the world around them. Phones are also often used for entertainment, education, and work purposes, making them an essential part of daily life.

This phrase could be interpreted in a few ways:

1. **Personal space**: Just like a medieval castle was a personal and private domain, one's phone can feel like a personal space where they can retreat from the world and do their own thing.

2. **Digital security**: Phones often contain sensitive information, such as passwords, credit card numbers, and personal messages. In this sense, a person's phone can be seen as their digital "castle," with secure walls (passwords) to protect its contents.

3. **Emotional significance**: For some people, their phones are an extension of themselves, containing memories, photos, and emotions that they may not want to share with others.

What do you think? Do you have a favorite phrase or idiom that resonates with this idea?

Accidentally visited gleasonator.com and got very concerned that everything was broken, then realized it's Pleroma not Ditto.

Fight entropy today.

In whatever way you best can. GM 🌅

“This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? I see all this potential, and I see squandering. An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sht we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off. Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering.

God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables—slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sht we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man—no purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War is a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.

We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off. You’re polishing brass on the Titanic. It’s all going down, man. So fuck off with your sofa units and Strinne green stripe patterns.” - Tyler Durden

There. Fixed the problem.

It allows your configuration to travel with you when your client rugs you.

Okay, that doesn't sound at all creepy. 😅

At any rate, anything in-app is siloed data and will trap people into a client, but it allows you to write all sorts of nasty stuff you don't want anyone else knowing about, so I see the upside. If you're doing it client-side, why bother even using the pics from the profiles? You could change my profile pic to anything.

That's because pet names is only one possible entry, and it's an npub-to-npub connection description.

But name isn't very clear, I agree.

There's no such thing as a profile pic update. There's just a kind 0 event, so if you block updates, you block any change to the profile.

You would have to locally cache the pic and then never clear the cache (which is a bug, not a feature, sorry), list the NIP-05 next to the handle in the notes (easiest fix), or use NIP-81 (which is work to implement, but has the most long-term potential).

Nip-81 is the winner but clients just don’t want to do the work.

"Your Network" and "Your Social Graph" are both better terms than "Web of Trust" when it comes to things that aren't about trust but about you and your connections to others.

That's fine. Why you had to turn this thread into another sitting of the Laeserin Haters Club, is beyond me.

But you do you.

If you're a responsible relay operator invested in the ethos of this space...that first sentence really hits hard.

If one of my users wants or needs to change their pic URL in this space, I don't wanna be one of the assholes that gets in their way.

But no. We don't do that here. We are all anon here or we want to be frozen in time at 22.

For every person who is horrified at seeing my new PfP, there are at least 10 who can't see the new PfP and ask me how to fix that, because the clients cache everything and the relays refuse to update profiles, even if I broadcast it. People are still zapping me on Alby because they can't see that I changed to Minibits, so I had to link the wallets.

Every client currently displays a different version of my profile. Some from over a year ago.

And I'm the only person who can prove that because most other people are literally terrified of changing anything ever. Which is just going to get worse, if every typo correction or new banner image results in thousands of people receiving a message in their client. Everyone now knows that they can't change anything because it creates a flood of spam, and there's no point in changing anything, as so many people refuse to accept it or don't even see the changes.

Profile stasis.

Also doesn't make sense to bother with cryptographic keys and NIP-05s, if users insist on identifying people they know by picture. Anyone can just copy my picture link and put it in their profile. Same with my handle. It is not a unique identifier, it's just a convenience or decoration.

If you're a client developer...that last sentence hits hard.

A user changed their profile pic URL to a broken link. Do I continue to show the old one, just because I remember it, and the user is familiar with it?