Good old times. :D

Just learn Japanese, though.

Yeah, there's a decade old debate about whether creationists or iPhone users are stupider. 🤔

While you are not incorrect, this sounds like one of those psycho mechanics from proprietary social media, which try to bind all users as long & much as possible to the screen. Just saying.

If the app is really good, people will return.

It won't be that good, if it uses the same psycho shit which many here try get away from.

So, you need to see all shit first, you didn't want to see in the first place, just for the sake of muting them, so you don't get hit by this account with shit, but 99999999s of new accounts daily will follow & make you see all shit, to press the mute button the same amount of times?

Does not make sense.

If one doesn't want to see it ever, than muting is not an option, because the damage is already done & even then it does not make sense, because muting a million accounts sounds like a job Google should pay for.

I found this to be an advantage. You are not even tempted into getting bombarded with notifications if you are not strictly disciplined about your follow or interaction base.

I also generally tend to disable most notifications for all kinds of services & try to keep only notifications for the most important stuff. As of now, #Nostr, as far as I know anyway, is used mostly for chill communication rather than something you need to be aware of, right when someone reacts to whatever.

Was thinking about something like that already, as well.

Generally speaking, #Nostr gives us huge opportunities to rethink social media mechanics, so we shouldn't just copy features from obsolete apps, without questioning them first. :)

Maybe people with proprietary apps should get a ransomware attack every week. That should be incentive enough to change to a secure, open source alternative. :)

To release on F-Droid, your app needs to be open source in at least major parts of the app. This is what many greedy bastards don't appreciate. 🤷

Been saying this all along. & yet there are still people getting apps from Google Play, even when they are available on F-Droid.

Sometimes you even get a free Pro version of the app on F-Droid, but people still get the "free" version on Google Play.

This is how stupid your average mobile phone user is.

Shadow of a Colossus. A Legend, indeed.

There was also a Dragon Quest sequel on PS2. Really enjoyed it!

There were also Genji, Naruto fighting gems, Star Wars Battlefront II (the original great one, not the new fuck-up one), some Sly sequel & other classics which I forgot by now, but played back then. :)

I even played Age of Empires II on the PlayStation 2. :D

Aaaah, yes. :)

Except it won't break down after a couple of years. :D

Which gems exactly are you looking out for? Please, a list. :)

Who said, iOS was secure?

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You mean their iOS app? 🤔

👏

If they know what they are doing, the garbage that's left is not even worth looking at. :D

Maybe you find a mislabeled piece, that is worth a damn, still left. :D

The reason why I resorted to Alby in the end, was because the whole Lightning on self-custodial premises was too much of a jump, just to Zap on Nostr. I didn't wanna go all in, just to have payments, which don't take forever. I saw Edward with Alby, so I thought it shouldn't be too bad for a couple of cents.

Additionally, self-created channels didn't seem to work & I didn't wanna waste money, even if it's low amounts, just to test whether it works & afterwards still now know, whether it actually works in real life with strangers.

Just look at your Lightning journey you shared here. You already had enough trouble too, because you wanted to do it the right way.

I don't wanna waste days of time, just to set up a Lightning wallet, which is technically not even the real deal, as long as it's only the second layer on top of the actual Blockchain.

I'm pretty sure, as long as Lightning is self-custodialy as difficult to setup as now, nobody should complain about Alby or some other service because for most non-techies this is the only possibility to actually use the Lightning layer, at all.

The self-custodial setup is too time-consuming for people like me, who are versed in tech but new to the Bitcoin eco-system & I think almost impossible for any non-tech person, except their hands are held by a Bitcoin Pro the entire journey from having nothing to having a channel, etc.

What always annoyed me about Bitcoin fanbois is that they call everything else a "shitcoin" by default, supposedly, because Bitcoin is the original coin.

Like, yeah, when it comes to popularity, Bitcoin is the thing but when it comes to the actual math, cryptography & overall satisfaction rate with how the technical aspect of Bitcoin works, it is actually one of the biggest shitcoins I have ever experienced.

I am interested in the Blockchain & Cryptocurrency tech since a pretty long while & have ventured across many coins out of curiosity, without committing to any coin. Was just reading about how they work & sometimes participating in their communities & always mining a bit to test & for fun, not for profit.

After all these years of experience, I got to Nostr, set up my Lightning stuff & this was the hardest Cryptocoin related setup I needed to ever do in my life, regarding any Cryptocurrency setup. I set up so many different wallets & systems up in my life, but this Lightning stuff was an utter nightmare, even when it has the most documentation available of all on the entire world. (Bitcoin wallet itself is a piece of cake, though.)

You know, some coins don't need a Lightning network, because they are already fast enough themselves. No need for a workaround as a second layer on top.

The other big thing annoying me about it is how Proof of Work needs so much power & yet fanbois accept & ignore that fact. The biggest argument I hear about that is "well, if you compare this energy waste with all the Fiat energy waste, Bitcoin uses much less power" or something like that. Like, even then, Proof of Work still uses up immense quantities of power, when there are already plenty of alternatives available.

Now, I know, I won't make friends here with these statements, but I don't give a fuck, because I am against fanboiism in any regard.

Like, I'm a Linux Pro & I'm even annoyed by Linux shills, because I object to the concept of fanboiism.