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Nostr already is providing a more valuable feed.
In traditional social media only scammers profit from giving (mis)advice.
Giving a truthful answer risks getting banned or attacked
The incentive is not there to add value by being honest.
On nostr zaps reward value and change the incentive dynamics
Evidence that switching from Apple to Android 5 years ago was the right decision
Because we react more to negative stimuli than to positive stimuli, social media iterates naturally to a negative cesspool. Zaps weight interactions to the positive, creating a exponentially positive environment.
Send to an aquantances address and let them deal with the $5 wrench attackers 🤣
There are a few businesses running it now. The original one shutdown with COVID
Andreas 🐜 on cozy relationships in conventional financial infrastructure in 2014.
🧡 #bitcoin https://nostr.build/av/4ad7ae9d5f1a5fc6dd12954ec08bdec8125b630bc9f0963909dc8f2e99157adc.mov
It was so much easier to find truth when no one was listening. Now you need to sift the truth from amongst all the scammers.
How do we do a bounty for fleshing out the Nostr wikipedia article? Because right now it's just sad af: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostr
Should add that Edward Snowden is an early user. At least he was actually active
Iris now supports secret chats that don't leak metadata, implementing the https://hrfbounties.org/ bounty #3. It works also for group messaging.
It's a quick & dirty solution, but works. A shared nostr account is created for the secret chat / group. Its nsec can be shared via link, qr code or invite message from a single-use anonymous account.
Users can then communicate using the shared account's messages-to-self. Iris signs the inner messages with your own key, but the arrangement could be used for anonymous group messaging as well.
I'll also add inner message encryption at some point, so you can ensure that only certain group participants can read the message.
This arrangement doesn't introduce any new event kinds and works also in clients that haven't implemented a special UX for it. You can just log in with the nsec and message yourself.
I had to disable the Iris social graph filter to let invites through, so now Iris DMs are open to spam again, but I'll try to figure out a better solution.
As always, the UX needs a lot of attention, but I believe here's an MVP.
Screenshots:
Alice wants to message Bob:
Alice sends a secret chat invite to Bob:
Bob automatically follows the invite from Alice. They can now message each other in the secret chat:
Here's how the invite looks in another client. I will add an "nostr:ninvite" URI in addition to the nsec.
If nostr can do secret chat without leaking metadata, could it be used for smart device control?
This could help nostr get a foothold in mainstream adoption. Companies that make devices are rarely tech companies, but specialists in lightning, airconditioning, security cameras etc. Unlike twitter or Facebook, they have nothing to lose to an open protocol but would gain from interoperability with other smart devices. Secure platform that doesn't collect user data would be preferable to Google Home. A lot of people bawk at having google listen to their bedroom conversations, who wouldn't bat an eyelid with google knowing their browser history.
The many different smart home device drivers
I enjoyed it. But I went there with low expectations.
The difference is the fixed supply vs one that is constantly being debased in waves of credit followed by periods of contractions.
#Bitcoin is Big Ken Energy. 😇
Margot Robbie says her husband talks about #bitcoin and she calls it “Big Ken Energy”
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My wife and I dressed up as Ken and Barbie (the best we could muster from our wardrobe) and saw the Barbie movie today. Can recommend.
Why is that?