It seems pretty easy to find topics with "#". Nostr clients like Satellite operate pretty much like reddit where you find communities that grow up around topics. What improvements would you suggest? I worry someone will wind up making another BS algo to lead us all around by our noses.
Agree, freedom don't come free. I just went with hosting all my images on a public s3 like bucket with a domain pointed at it. I don't host my own relay but I would like a relay or something I can host to pull down all my posts for archival purposes should the public relays let me down. Know of anything like that?
This sounds tangential but the only thing I can think to do is let them expire and have other mitigating controls: freezing your credit, watching your credit reports, retaining a lawyer, and squatting on your gov benefits accounts even if you're not eligible for them yet. :thisisfine:
I never thought of how awful it would be to drop one if you used it to help maintain your identity or serve up something tied to your offline self. This is a real landmine now that I think on it. :sadpanda:
I suppose I can take comfort in the fact that I've only done this once and only in a limited capacity!
I'm having a terrible time getting into the bitcoin game. I've got my own lightning and bitcoin nodes but I'm stalled out trying to get funds / channels in there. I've been to over half a dozen sites that promise it will be easy to buy bitcoin but there are myriad ways it goes wrong:
- Using a vpn or tor? Many sites just block you for "abuse"
- Want to go p2p for no KYC well then you need some sats to pay for the collateral
- Hell, half the "no KYC" sites just use third parties that want everything including your SSN.
- Not to mention all the sites that just fail with unhelpful error messages like "try again later"
I was able to ditch my last windows PC this past year. Valve's desire to protect their business from the threat of walled gardens and the tremendous effort by the opensource community really are a beautiful thing to behold.
What difference can a little headspace on your secondary make?
These two carboys of pear wine were poured from the same primary! Look at that color difference! Which one do you think caused this color change? Is it the headspace? Was it because I poured the darker one last? These have been sitting about a month now.
I was looking for a familiar reddit like client to bucket some of my topics here on nostr and started a new community over at https://satellite.earth/n/winemaking/. #winemaking #wine
Alas, no. However I find it easy to run in a browser on my phone.
Welcome
Lets get a wine community started on the nostr network! I look forward to hearing from all the winemakers out there!
Welcome to winemaking on nostr/satelite. I'm pretty new to winemaking but I'm excited to share my new found passion with others. Cheers for Liberty and Wine.
How can you avoid seeing feeds that you do not like here?!
I am echoing the thoughts of nostr:npub1fxzdkxlls7lk0jeamlhcgcjae2fzldhm9mp584vl5qn0e8pfshysyfax93 here. I noticed that Primal's trending mostly #btc #politics & #nostr.
Other than the animal video that I see from Amethyst, I hardly see positive content that is trending! Perhaps it is only my feeds?
#asknostr I deleted twitter/X because I do not want their energy! I am moving away from Tiktok because I do not want to be censored. I want more control on my contents.
However, if we are only drawn to those top 3 topics, are we not limiting the potential of this PROTOCOL?
Or is it just my feed? I am completely new here and I am simply sharing my observations.
Seeing negative posts and angry narratives are not healthy. I am guilty as charge because I noticed that posting topics like POLITICS ( whilst it is important) it is getting more views and engagement vs my usual content - life lessons! I am changing this!
Let's encourage more positive contents here.
PS. I am not saying the top 3 topics are less important. I am saying those are drawing different energy and to some extent, negative ones!
Cheers,
M💋
I haven't used it yet but https://satellite.earth/ looks promising. Maybe one of the other clients on this list will scratch the itch: https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr
Some clients do let you search hashtags and you can follow those. I'm using nostter.app and messages with certain hashtags do show up in my feed.
Incidents of harassment against upstanding members of the opensource community by woke lynch mobs need to be exposed and condemned.
I could be wrong but i think nostter client is using media servers by default. i may be misunderstanding the preferences page. i also self host my avatar and profile banner. good on you
Humans are really good at finding fun and creative ways to poison themselves https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/ed445a78cf1adcc06e9351c6eee10aadf700a4cbc24cddf445c3b51fd70f5750.webp
live a little :party:. I do love me some frankincense and myrrh
Gotta be careful with those passphrases friend! :lol:
Paid relays are going to wind up leading to centralization and censorship. Once money is involved you gotta worry about lawsuits, censorship, control being in the hands of a very few. If you wind up with a monopoly or duopoly or where a few companies buy them up then what? Your right back at those relays choosing who can talk to who on their massive centralized server. Maybe they refuse to let you even use their service. Once they are big enough it won't be any different then blocking you from twitter. Sure, you can go somewhere else but what if everyone is using a relay that won't let you participate.
What the heck did you do Lunduke. I keep digging but I can't actually find anything. Is there an event that kicked all this crazyness off? Here are the only things I can find and they aren't very convincing:
- Started charging for your content
- General disagreement on woke policies
- General opinions that you're anti trans.
All this stuff seems pretty weak to kick someone off a network. I'm just a long time fan wondering what the hell kicked up this hornets nest.
Nation-states and the media will never stop attacking Twitter.
Today, it's been made clear that Nostr is the only long-term viable free speech platform. Everything centralized will become the mainstream media.
And the press' incentive is obvious: take these centralized competitor platforms down to their level: https://www.techmeme.com/240807/p7#a240807p7
Twitter will always have a direct attack vector, whoever is in charge. Right now, that's Elon: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/07/uk-riots-elon-musk-accountable-to-no-one-uk-tech-minister-says.html
You see, the riots in the UK are all Elon's fault. Not the last 40 years of shit policy, not the last couple of years of astronomical inflation, and certainly not because people are at a breaking point.
Through their mouthpieces of correct information, they'll tell us that if it wasn't for that evil Elon and his radicalization platform, spreading disinformation, things would be fine. We should let them solve the problem. You're too stupid to sort out reality from cheap fakes. They'll imply that they are the experts and that average folk can't sort out truth from misinformation without their help. And right now, they are helping us, by attacking Elon and Twitter.
But it's not really about Elon or Twitter. That's just today's problem. It's about controlling the narrative in an age that is getting increasingly difficult. Whoever or whatever gets in the way of that will constantly be attacked. Through the complicit media, they will find a soft target and relentlessly attack, even if it takes years.
Mastodon is even worse and more straightforward to attack. It just needs to be more relevant to the matter, but once it does, it will be under attack, too. Compared to someone like Elon, who has a massive reach and resources, it will be relatively effortless for the state(s) to go after these Masto instance operators.
Nostr is the only thing built to solve this at the protocol layer.
You probably have figured this out already, but it crystallized for me this morning.
Sadly many countries are following China and slowly walling up their networks so they can have greater surveillance, influence, and control. Soon I'll be resorting to messengers on foot a la Mirrors Edge.