Blogs were the beginning of social media but short form, instant-feed pushed them out.

I doubt they’ll ever come back. Yet…

I’d rather read a blog post instead of a 1/21 twitter post…and in truth, I always skip long-form Twitter feeds.

Keep social media short.

Link to long-form.

It’s so easy to publish blogs on nostr now. No server required. Nice rendering in damus and other clients. One of the main reasons i rarely blog is because it’s such a pita. You need to host a server or signup for some centralized platform. If you’re running your own site you have to deal with git files and static site generators, or god forbid wordpress. On nostr you just go to habla.news, push publish, and then BAM, its on all the clients and in peoples feeds of people who follow you. soon damus will be able to create custom lists, so you could create a longform-only list for browsing them. You could even create a longform list that follows a specific hashtag, like all longform #bitcoin blog posts. It’s a beautiful thing. I’m going to be doing this more often.

The beautiful thing about nostr is that it can:

- Help you make friends

- keep you in touch with family

- educate you

- entertain you

- occupy time when you’re bored

- help you find deals

- help you with your work

- help keep in touch with colleagues

- help discover new places

- find you a recipe

- help you earn

- build your network (personal and professional)

All in one client 🤯

I see Bluesky pretty much stuck in the middle and probably Dead on Arrival. I little bit of censorship is like a little bit of poison. Just use Nostr be free. if you are okay with any type of censorship there is plenty of options out there with much bigger networks already no need for BlueSky.

I believe it can! we already have support of images, but just a cover image for each board, so far.

Yeah good point. But the issue is that a person has to sign up with nsec bunker too. Essentially doubling the signup process. It’s too big a UX hurdle for mass adoption imo. But, meta mask kinda works similar and that hasn’t stopped people from using it and everything it connects to — but then again those are “crypto “ people and not average users.

I’m just thinking about ways to expand reach safely while potentially offering some minor compromises to people who are ok with them.

Was thinking about that some months agoo

at the end wallet of satoshi works by email, (of course you are not trusting with a lot of money) but it's only a simple email not the whole cloud stores thing..

nostr key are very simple to generate and store 🤔 actually making it super interesting as a first impact for someone new !

I mean the first impression of " I am the one owning what i post here" will go disappearing ( for that kind of users).

Nostr could grow by some clients using this ( that will also lock user in THAT client, since property log in connection).

But it will not spread the nostr protocol meaning.

New user simply won't get what is this about and will be set apart.

I'm late at work for writing this 🙃 🤣

Well yes. For everyone who wants (in other words, who is willing to put some effort into it)

I want to build a Nostr relay that bridges something that really shouldn't be bridged. I already bridged Miiverse to the Fediverse once, so that's off the table. Domino's pizza tracker?

1. It's for everyone. You don't need to be technical to use it. There is a lot of technical talk because there are a lot of devs and enthusiasts who like those details. Over time people will build clients that take care of the technical stuff or make it easier for you.

2. Zaps are Bitcoin sent via the lightning network to other users. You can zap someone's note and the amount will show up publicly on the note. If you are using Damus though that feature was removed because Apple couldn't take a cut.

3. No client can be ban anyone completely. Some will block potentially bad users for you. Some relays may also attempt to filter out unwanted users. Amethyst on Android is one client that uses the report system to decide who to filter for you, and it has be turned off if you don't want filters.

4. Someone else will have to answer, I'm not a dev.

Principle 1: every user sees a different App Store. There is no single App Store.

Principle 2: users choose explicitly who gets to curate their App Store. No more scraping from the follows list.

Influence score sounds dystopian to me 😆

Way easier to have a community vote and feature top voted apps if they meet user experience criteria.

Also, pay sats to review and must be at least x month old account to count.

Perhaps at some point as relays grow they may need a way to

- accept reports of alleged violations

- review for verification

- remove the referenced note.

The problems are obvious human cost to review, and adding the features to report, review, remove or reject, and prevent reposts of same note or content. It becomes a rising cost issue and is tantamount to censorship and subject to different laws by jurisdiction.

All systems go through this as they get more usage because there is always bad Apples

While not censorship in the literal definition, I think in a way solar power could be also considered a censorship resistant technology as a government or company can’t practically block someone from sunlight. Like communication & commerce, energy is essential and solar enables anyone access to electricity without relying on or being blocked by others