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There is only 1 bitcoin

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And only 1 lightning-roulette.com

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Replying to Avatar miljan

Dust has finally settled on the “Primal censorship” drama. That’s good to see, but I don’t want to sweep this episode under the rug. It is probably appropriate to do a post mortem, assess what has happened and see what we can learn. Let’s make sure that Nostr is a better place after this episode.

Two weeks ago, Primal’s trending algorithm was attacked by bots. The attacker generated hundreds of thousands of reactions, propping his note to the top of our trending feed. At the time, our only defence was a simple “can’t trend” list, so we put the attacker on it. He immediately posted on Nostr, accusing us of censorship, but his note never took off. The attacker then selected a few well liked Nostr accounts and started stuffing the ballot box for them. We saw a bunch of bogus notes with massive bot engagement, so we resorted to the only blunt tool we had. The attacker jumped on the opportunity to publicize the fact that some well liked accounts were being suppressed on Primal and accused us of “shadowbanning”. The whole thing exploded on Nostr.

What followed was a pretty tough week for Primal. Many of our users turned against us. They took the idea of shadowbanning seriously, as they should. Most feedback was in good spirits, people making fun of Primal via memes. But we also got a fair bit of hate from complete strangers, which was super-weird. All in all, Nostr users were clear about what they think of censorship. This was the Nostr immune system reacting. Being on the receiving end of it really sucked, but still it’s beautiful to see!

The crazy part is that those “shadowbanned” accounts were actually perfectly visible throughout the entire Primal site. They had *exactly* the same level of visibility as they do on Damus, Snort, Coracle, and other Nostr clients. They just couldn’t show up in our trending bar. I tried to explain, but there was little room for nuance with the drama in full swing.

So we decided to disengage temporarily, focus on building, and let our product do the talking. We made our trending algorithm more resistant to bots and removed everyone from the “can’t trend” list. We also built a new content moderation system for Nostr, giving complete control to the user. This is our best take on how to do content moderation on such a radically open network. I cover the features and our reasoning in my blog post below.

So Primal is strictly a better product after this episode. But what about Nostr itself?

Attacks can be useful. While they disrupt our systems and really suck for us and our users, they do force us to improve and become more competent at operating in an adversarial environment. However, we should be careful about making it socially acceptable for Nostr devs to attack other projects in broad daylight. That’s not the most productive way to collaborate. It also creates weird vibes which I think we don’t want here. Nostr is in its infancy and the way we act will set the tone for things to come. There is so much to build and we are all working as fast as we can. At Primal we build open source software and run services for Nostr. If you don’t like the way something works, fork it and do your own thing. If you want to contribute, we accept PRs. If you have found a vulnerability, there are multiple good ways to disclose it.

As for Nostr users, I think you all reacted perfectly. Push back hard at any whiff of censorship. When in doubt, mercilessly create memes, point out things that are wrong, and don’t let up. Even if the target is Primal.

If Primal is real, it can stand the pressure. 🤙💜

https://habla.news/u/miljan@primal.net/1693416828339

Thing is, if it is open source for the user; then it is also open source for the operator. If you guys choose to do something then its up to you and everyone can choose whatever relay or provider they want.

For most of us you cleaning up bots is good; for some people maybe not

There is enough choice now for it not to matter.

Keep building. People will choose whatever they choose.

Replying to Avatar QW

This weeks edition of nostr:npub14kw5ygpl6fyqagh9cnrytyaqyacg46lzkq42vz7hk8txdk49kzxs04j7y0 will be Friday 6:30EST and feature our friend and loyal Nostrich nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424

We will be breaking down the most recent Bitcoin conferences and discuss how Nostr is zapping the social layer.

We will be welcoming back nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s as he decompresses from two weeks of travel, attending BBB & BHB.

As always, nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk will be shocking us all with the weekly Lightning Round.

Set your BlockClocks!

https://nostrnests.com/plebchainradio

Splendid stuff. Look forward to the weekly lightning update; as a matter of interest since we added languages at lightning-roulette it has become very obvious how far and wide lightning has spread.

Non-English activity is already 30% of English activity and its only been a few weeks

I picked up a great deal from Russia Today actually. I found bitcoin there watching the Max Keister show and also a different perspective on the news. I know that is likely a deeply unpopular opinion today but a few years back it had things nobody else had.

So few people saying twitter.....it has to be twitter surely

Zapping won't make you rich....but it will be fun

I don't actually speak Japanese but I just wondered (in Japanese whether they do eat fish). Turns out they don't

実は私は日本語を話せませんが、ダチョウが魚を食べるのかどうか(日本語で)気になりました。結果として、食べないようです。

ダチョウは魚を食べますか?

GPT

ダチョウは主に草食で、植物の葉や種、小さな無脊椎動物を食べます。自然の生息地で魚を食べることは知られていません。

👏🏽Shout out to nostr:npub1v9v56u224987250kqsfr27xy5evjz305y29dscqjyjcm388yqxcqg4jnm3 for collaborating with us on the Bitcoin for Beginners course to award 5,000 sats to our Bitcoin learners!

nostr:note1t68y3gcwu4yhnvxf6ekjqerft0d8x78ajcnnn7ahz96vsmk2hmnsnsm83x thanks.

Hope the new bitcoinsrs enjoy the sats!

Yes but next is plinko

We have

Lightning-poker.com

Lightning-roulette.com

Lightning-mini.com

Most existing visuals probably on lightning-mini https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_5096535154755300811692849447.webp

Evening all, lightning-roulette.com just launched languages. Lightning only as always but just a little bit easier now for those who speak a foreign language. All the links below.

Good luck riding the lightning!

Español está ahora en vivo en lightning-roulette.com

https://lightning-roulette.com/es-mx/play

L'italiano è ora disponibile su lightning-roulette.com

https://lightning-roulette.com/it-it/play

日本語はlightning-roulette.comで利用可能になりました

https://lightning-roulette.com/ja-jp/play

Português está agora ao vivo em lightning-roulette.com

https://lightning-roulette.com/pt-br/play

العربية متاحة الآن على lightning-roulette.com

https://lightning-roulette.com/ar-sa/play

繁體中文現在在lightning-roulette.com上線了

https://lightning-roulette.com/zh-hk/play

简体中文现在在lightning-roulette.com上线了

https://lightning-roulette.com/zh-cn/play

Thanks to everyone who played the game in the last 12 hours. The best issue found was small bets on the splits (which crashed the game). This was because the payout generated an additional decimal place which we were not handling - now fixed.

The bounty on sn@stacker.news still stands. 10,000 for anything good and happy to pay on here as well.

Finally, one piece of feedback around NSFW: the girls are all clothed and the most 'exotic' is probably on the paytable which causes a pop up. Nothing too dangerous but perhaps be careful with that one.

https://lightning-mini.com/