Continually, being catholic is hard. At the moment I am agreeing that trying to convert people is the only logically consistent stance.

No, I am from freenode. We've had our share of trying to convert each other to the real catholicism. I can still hope, even if the mess we've made of the church makes it unattractive.

This is why I think you'd make a good catholic some day. 😉

That is feature, I am not entirely sure my life would be better if people could hear what I have to say, but it is nice to pretend.

I am incredibly bad at crafting headlines for blog posts.

I am sure the community will eventually be large enough to support development of a client that does just that.

I just built a family computer. I need to figure out how to run a trunk line to it and restrict certain users to a vlan. Not sure if that is possible without doing some lxc trickery.

I have a separate network for the kids that only allows specific IPs through. They are pretty young though so mostly to let updates through.

Six years ago I took on stay-at-home dad duties with the condition that I would be able to work on a distributed re-imagining of the internet. I learned rust, sat in coffee shops, agonized over cryptography algorithms, wrote code, .... and had two more kids. Now the code gets dusted off only when some new technology again fails to address the critical problems of communication. But now there is Nostr and perhaps, just maybe, I don't have to be the one to write the next thing.

Instead I'll give it a try by posting some of my musings from the past decade or so of thinking about the attendant problems. Here is my first effort. https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzd3c8ymnjwpexgcngdp3qgs82et8gqsfjcx8fl3h8e55879zr2ufdzyas6gjw6nqlp42m0y0j2srqsqqqa28z6sjlu

I am here for all the non-blockchain parts of the nostr tech. I think blockchain will eventually be niche and that some kind of likelihood of trust will prevail. i.e. The people I trust say this will spend so good enough for me. You can get burnt sure, but completely trustless is impossible, everyone else may agree on a change to your detriment. So why not rely on trust to begin with and loose the speed and energy use problems of blockchains and proof of work?

I am unsure how the people enforce the open protocol. It can work with money because people use money for non-government purposes, but for something like voting the government isn't forced to use the popular solution.