Is this because they both want a 6month hiatus from earnings calls?

Analyst #413: Mark, can you run us through this quarters user numbers for the Metaverse?

Zuck: Oh I’m really focused on Vegas at the moment. Have you heard?

Analysts #17F: Elon, when will Starship next launch?

Musk: Hey is that Zuckerberg over there? There. Oh sorry, its just a shadow. Does anyone want extra tickets?

What does Sun Tzu call it when your two largest rivals agree to fight one another in an MMA death match?

Too soon!

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I know this is a bit topical after Apple’s App Store position on ⚡️ and obviously everyone is free to pursue their own routes forward and I think it’s cool to see JB55 taking on something even more ambitious.

But for an example of the performance limits for a PWA, check out;

https://m.aliexpress.com

This is about the limits of speed and stability that can be reached for handling media with a PWA.

It has most of the PWA features allowed by iOS, notifications, push, runs in background, cache, etc, etc.

I think AliExpress is a good example of limits of PWA. But to be honest I personally as a user, don’t notice any of those limits v’s native apps. Ali Express scrolls media faster than any of my native social media apps.

Now nostr apps throw around a huge amount of data because of the way they query many relays in parallel, this is different to how the web is supposed to work.

But I do expect there to be a multitude of web services built on nostr including PWA’s. I think relays will eventually host some of this stuff for download as secondary web servers.

What is really nice here is that all routes forward can be pursued. Nobody needs permission to build on nostr, just be mindful of having proprietary stuff in your tech stack. It’s often great for near/medium growth but comes with handcuffs.

If nostr has 10k Daily Average Users today, how many will it have by year end and why?

What are people expecting for H2 2023?

How does nostr get to 50k and then 100k DAU?

What is the critical mass to ignite a runaway community? I previously guessed 150-200k DAU is escape velocity. Who agrees/disagrees?

UK is going to struggle with inflation for a while as we have effectively ruined our national gas reserves. There are 28 million homes in UK of which 22 million are heated with natural gas.

We are now importing gas from Texas, by cryogenically cooling it and shipping it across the Atlantic even tough we have decades of gas supply below our feet.

We did have a brilliant energy industry cluster around Aberdeen, companies from all around the world would invest in North Sea projects largely just to learn how offshore oil and gas production is done from a world class work force.

But that is no longer the case. Drilling is banned in practice via rollercoaster taxes and extreme interpretations of licensing conditions.

The government used price fixing to try and control the inflationary consequences of this but it’s very expensive fiscally and unsustainable for the government to hold that liability for too long so they will taper out of price fixing which is a big cause of the pernicious inflation.

This has bizarre consequences because the only way to tame the inflation is rising interest rates at the risk of the mortgage market souring and asset prices crumbling.

But hey, at least the gas we continue to burn wasn’t produced here. So we can take some satisfaction from that.

Yes, but the 401k’s don’t control it, the pension investors don’t get to exercise their corporate voting rights.

Blackrock Inc are squatting on societies 401k voting rights.

This is where the capital market system exhibits some dysfunctional expression of interests.

That’s one amazing quote. nostr:note1qtadvz8uymsdqr6kyevjjt7hxfftkndng0hm5nv3wr5urwyw0v8q3nevaj

Online services should use 3rd party identifiers and shouldn’t even need to hold any user information at all.

If you imagine a point cloud (social graph) of users, then the main network would be connected with follows and spam accounts would be atomised satellites.

If the spammers created a fake network of fake accounts and follows then it would be a separate cloud.

If the spammers bridge into the main network, then the main network would respond by unfollowing people who follow spammers until the spammers are ejected from the main network / point cloud.

New users would start as atomised satellites, but finding a human or someone to follow you is fairly trivial because you only have to do it once at first entry.

Spammers would soon give up targeting nostr, and the tolerance level would relax during times of low spam and increase during spam attacks.

But most of all, the whole thing is self policing and self correcting which means it can scale infinitely and is not restricted by moderator resources, or rigid rules.

The entire internet has both a circadian cycle and weekly cycle.

If you ever see the traffic of a large site as a histogram, you can always easily see the Pacific Ocean in the data, also the Atlantic Ocean on closer inspection.

I always find these things satisfying when you notice them.

Lots of difference ways handle some of the edge cases, but this feels like a very easy and available whitelist rule that requires zero setup from the user, and yet it would allow 99% of all your desired traffic to be served with 0% spam.

That’s a game changing signal / noise boost.

It’s also self organising so it scales to infinite capacity and aligns motivation of good behaviour on the network, it allows users to quickly sever any spammers that break into their network tree.

If keys get hacked there’s no recovery.

But I see what you mean, eg someone I follow gets hacked and turns spammer?

What about a 24hr block?

I log in and see 5 people have temp blocked me? Huh? Maybe someone I follow has become a spammer?

Lots of nuance that could be added, but the simplest rule set is to serve a whitelist of all my followers followers.

Everyone would have a unique whitelist and they would shift organically all the time.

It would also promote good behaviour within the network. Potential loss of reach for bad behaviour.

I guess what I am saying is that my network of 17,700 pubkeys, as defined by Primal, should act as a whitelist.

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Please read, I think this works. Between the ** is a reference from Primal, this is important context for what comes next.

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OK to begin, I noticed that Primal.net/explore lists the following categories of nostr users from the perspective of my pubkey…

1). Follows - accounts you follow

2). Tribe - accounts you follow + your followers

3). Network - accounts you follow + everyone they follow

4). Global - everyone on nostr

Breakdown of the numbers (for me) is as follows

1). Follows = 290

2). Tribe = 1,800

3). Network = 17,723

4). Global = 505,671

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Now “Global” or “Universe” is always prone to spam, because new pubkeys are very cheap and a spammer can easily automate the massive creation of new spam accounts. This has happened several times this year and many of the Global accounts are just one-time-spam pubkeys.

Primal’s category of “3). Network” is much more nuanced and may actually be self correcting.

Network, as defined by Primal is everyone I follow plus everyone they follow. My network is 4% of nostr, but I can grow or trim my own network by following more people or unfollowing people.

If someone in my network starts following spammers and spammers get into my network, I can simply unfollow that original follow pubkey, you can prune your network to cut out all the spam. This is self policing and encourages people not to follow spammers, or they will likely be unfollowed en mass.

Even if a spammer created a sophisticated network of pubkeys all with lots of fake follows and followers, this spam network would not bisect with my network unless one of my followers started following the spammers. If this happens, I can instantly fix this by simply unfollowing the fool in my network.

I think this works at unlimited scale and is actually very very simple. It is an example of an emergent system. A simple set of rules that cause complex higher order results.

The only drawback is genuine new humans finding their first follow. But they should be able to do this outside nostr, as it’s a 1 time kick start to their nostr keys gaining traction in the main network.

Have I explained this clearly enough to follow?

Would a couple of social graph pictures help?

Hmm,

It allows you to request events are deleted, which is subtly different.

Would be interesting if a client only allowed you to connect to relays that met specific criteria, eg support nip-09.

It’s quite possible for a client server to test all the relays it encounters and whitelist the ones that pass unit testing.

🤔

Maybe in the future?

The EU has trained 400m people to unthinkingly accept all pop ups, on every website they visit.

Not with the benefit of hindsight.

This is what a wasted decade looks like.

Maybe followers should attach to NIP-05 data in addition to pubkey?

This would effectively operate as 2FA.