Yeah exactly. Basically the BAT model of Brave.

Yeah that's a great idea! The good thing is that there are several alternatives. It's complex but it actually might work.

I honestly also wouldn't mind paying for a premium relay that was free speech friendly.

What are Nostriches? Couldn't find much info... 😄

How do you use your #bitcoin? Do you #invest in projects/startups/businesses?

Are there any websites you'd recommend for finding projects/business to invest with Bitcoin?

Anything like this?

#asknostr #business #startups

Good morning Derek!

A curiosity, where do you use your Zaps? Is it just in Nostr posts?

Is there any other use list? Perhaps for financing projects? Stuff like this?

Thanks!

Yeah, I think, from my understanding that could be implemented in a specific relay/client or Nostr-wide.

Hi! Today I was thinking about the same. Linkedin is expensive and for absolutely no reason...

Do you think it's possible? I honestly don't see why building a Nostr alternative to Linkedin is not feasible?

Am I missing something?

Can #nostr replace #linkedin?

One of the things I like (and I think we all do) about Nostr is the fact that you own your identity and no single centralized entity can remove it from you. An npubsec is unique and it will always be yours. You own your identity forever. Of course all relays in the world can block you but will they? There's always someone interested in what you have to say isn't there :)?

But anyways, owning your identity on the internet is revolutionary and it is one of the advantages/precepts of the Web3 and in my opinion one of the reasons that Nostr will win in everything social network related, and eventually also replace Linkedin. Why is Linkedin so expensive anyways? It's a database of profiles for god sake 😃

Anyway, in my view, people will slowly use Nostr for everything. Maybe there will be a more safe-for-work relay and client for professional people. For example, Listr (https://listr.lol/) by nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc looks like something like this. Something safe-for-work and with Linkedin-like functionalities.

What do you think? Do you think Nostr can replace Linkedin?

#asknostr

Milei just won in Argentina!!

Very interesting! Let's see what happens in the next months/years. Very curious to see this change!

#argentina #milei #libertarian #bitcoin #monero

Today I've discovered (or maybe rediscovered as it might be it's one of the earliest most beautiful expressions/forms) of another beautiful form or expression of the #nonaggressionprinciple or #nap, more info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle. It's called....

The Ahimsa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa

The Ahimsa is "is the ancient Indian principle of nonviolence which applies to actions towards all living beings. It is a key virtue in Indian religions like Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism. Ahimsa's precept that humans should 'cause no injury' to another living being includes one's deeds, words, and thoughts." It is a non-violence precept. Perhaps one of the earliest ones.

For example, did you know that 42% of Hindus are vegetarian? That's 504 million people currently, by the way. And this is religion/belief/ideology that exists for thousands of years. Taken from the Wiki, at "least by 500BCE all major Indian religions were championing non-violence".

Just imagine, 2500 years ago there was already a group of people championing non-violence in all it's splendor to the point of being intentionally vegetarian. Just imagine that. Isn't that remarkable in itself? The Ahimsa they called it.

I don't know, it hit me with quite a lot of beauty. In a world with so much hate and conflict, it's good to discover inspiring non-violent/peaceful visions. For me religion is poetry, there's good and bad poetry. I like this kind of poetry.

I think the world needs non-violent principles more than ever. Non-violent, non-aggression, forgiveness poetry or ideas. I think that's the ideology that the world truly needs right now. Ideologies of forgiveness.

What do you think about non-violence, #nostr? Can we have a non-violent world if people aren't inspired for non-violence visions and principles? How can we inspire people for non-violence if there's no inspiring idols, symbols, poetry for it? Do you think people have enough education on these kinds of deep philosophical, spiritual and psychological topics? Do we have enough principles? How can we have people with more principles?

Do you have principles? What are your principles?

Have a great day. :)

#libertarian #nap #bitcoin #peace #psychology #religion #philosophy #society

Yeah, absolutely, I hope I didn't sound to pessimistic :), the protocol is better than anything that ever came to be until now. LBRY is the first ever Bitorrent + Crypto model so that's incredible. A lot of respect and admiration for that in itself.

For sure it will be used in combination with other projects. It's one more iteration in the path of freedom :)

Really?

That's sad. The protocol was also a bit too complicated in my view, technically speaking. And the incentives were not the best.

I think in the end Rumble, Bitchute, Peerhost and all these uncensored/federated hosts will be the solution for hosting stuff and then one single global video link from Nostr that points to any of the working host. At least for now.

Yeah, absolutely and understood, it's so incredibly complex.

One thing I was thinking is that it might be as easy as having ads on Free Relays.

The biggest Free Relays would be open to as many peoplepossible as possible, thus in words be pretty uncensored AND could just monetize using ads.

That's an old school business model that works. That plus the Premium user model would allow the network/protocol to be sustainable I think?

Yeah, I don't mind paying for a relay. I'm just curious if the network will ever be publicly sustainable without some sort of global incentive to host it.

i.e Mastodon/ActivityPub is a series of echo chambers and the ideal is that #nostr never becomes an echo chamber, right?

I do like the line on Github: "there's always gonna be someone with a server in Russia that will accept money to host your stuff"

I would say that's very legit 😄

A bit of an architecture/incentive question.

Why would I create a free relay on #nostr? What are the incentives to do it?

Will free relays survive on Nostr?

Thanks!

Yeah exactly, that's a very important point. Views are definitely not ideal as they might create echo chambers and thus an unbalanced reality. Zaps instead might reward hard work because they potentially come from hard work themselves. And hard work is always good (at least in my view) 😃

Either how, the fact that the architecture allows for different incentives/signals is the absolute key. The best mix of incentives will win.

I'm still not 100% clear on what are the incentives of relays themselves, need to study some more. Why would I setup a free relay for example?

Thanks for the answer!

Honestly, in the end I don't think we need need **one** single global video protocol/platform. Is there really such a need? I honestly don't think so in the end, there's ways to get around it, using several of those platforms. At least for now.

Now when it comes to social networking, I definitely think we need something global and one central protocol, in order to define ownership and share content (on one of those platforms above).

#nostr and #activitypub or anything that's open is fine.

Great work with #mostr!! Thank you!

Long live #nostr!

What's the best alternative to Youtube? Odysee? Can Odysee ever survive now that Lbry is under threat (or vice-versa I'm not sure exactly what happens after the SEC)?

#nostr #decentralization #bitcoin #monero

What's the best alternative to Youtube?

And by the way, on another note, what do you think about incentives and rewards? For example, Steemit I think has an interesting model for rewards where each post gets attributed a value based on views/clicks I think. Do you think this could ever be implemented in Nostr?