I don't care, and neither should you.
I do agree that we need more variety, so I try to post stuff I find interesting or that may be against the majority's grain here. I post stuff I disagree with, on purpose, even.
And I like to stir the pot myself now and then because I'm a natural born contrarian and an asshole and I don't give a flying fuck about "social media" clout, here or anywhere else.
tl;dr: post more, cry less
I'm amazed by zap.stream. Of course, there isn't a lot going on on it right now, but the mere concept and the fact it exists...
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What's the deal with Primal's relays? I am missing LOTS of notes and notifications on Primal that I get on Damus, and vice versa.
On Damus I can set up relays, including the primal.net relay, but I don't see how to set them up on Primal - which I assume is the problem?
I was writing a treatise on late Roman Empire history here as a reply, because it's one of my favorite subjects and I think there's a lot to say about your statement, but Damus as it often does had silently failed to connect to any relay whatsoever, so when I pushed the "Send" button, the note was sent... to the big Nothingness.
You've been lucky, it probably saved you 15 minutes of reading through my boring ass musings 😂
The Orbs, isn't it?
Remember that the rise of feudalism in Europe (and in Japan, and probably
in China, but I'm not so well-versed) required the collapse of
the Roman urban world, linked and sustained for half a millennium by an extremely well developed and free-to-circulate network of roads.
They can't crush us under their boot unless they destroy long-distance social, economic or even family relations sustained by affordable flight, or affordable private transportation.
They need to enclose you in "15 minute cities" where your horizon doesn't go beyond as many kilometres as you can walk today, or wherever preordained point A to point B "public transportation" route, at the established time and not when you want or need.
Then, when you can no longer fly to another country, or drive a hundred miles, they will also make sure that the internet you get in your 15 minute ghetto is exactly the internet that they say, or rather the one that says what they say, and no other.
1984. nostr:note17phpuml2ge6etr2jqakn5freqk9j2ecmq7kfds2fmtvmh006rvfqvnyd95
Damn, now I have to apologize again :P
Never mind me, friend.
I'm just cranky because today I got paid and when I checked Bisq the premiums were outrageous. OUT RAGEOUS, I say.
Smash the orb en français 🇫🇷
Orb gets biometrics and other data, human gets "passport" and a tracking app with an Ethereum ERC20 no value shitcoin which of course is "better than bitcoin", like all other +20k shitcoins.
Orb wins.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1684939217778946049/vid/480x852/ZOc6J3Od1-dc2WO-.mp4
I think you're French, so don't get offended...
I found particularly... French... how the narrator, ever so subtly, slips in that the concerns are somehow related to "l'utilisation potentielle des donées biométriques des utilisateurs par la societé privée" -> probably not so concerning if it were l'État instead of an evil private company, right? xD
Again, not trying to te casser les couilles -- we're as bad as you guys, in Catalonia :P
Won't name any names. I think we all may have an idea of what names on the list really add basically nothing of value at all to the network.
And I'm not talking about being some BTC/tech/economist wizard. I'm talking about any type of actually value that enriches people here.
I guess we just need to recognize that even desert animals like the ostrich can suffer from thirst...
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WTH I can't just leave it at that xD
... while people who let's say add very little value to the network rank way too high.
OK, I bit my tongue now.
My goodness, Lyn almost at the bottom of the list while... Meh, never mind, never mind... Let's keep the peace...
I guess Nostriches are human after all.
Hm... nope, sorry.
Paycheck's in...
Watch Rob's videos, he gives good arguments for this specific implementation.
When nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac I come up with a lot of ideas he forgot to tell you about the "relay alert" to trigger a consensus vote across the network (relay operators) when unacceptable content spreads across the protocol.
Yes, the child stuff kind of content or anything else posing a risk to the wellbeing of any nostr user aka an imminent threat to people's life.
We will need such a mechanism at one point or we'll risk sacrificing the censorship resistance of the protocol with a rushed solution such a small group gaining moderation / ban powers or developers and relay operators banning content case by case.
There is also the risk of state staged attacks on the network if nostr catches on, onboards over 250 million people. It's easy to flood the content with inappropriate content only to then point the finger and shout "look, only podophiles use nostr".
We have to be ready for these kind of things so we should start working on it now so that we're ready when the time has come.
1. algorithms to filter out content which can be enabled in-app by users to customise their nostr experience including "family friendly feeds".
2. An alert mechanism. If certain contents appears on the network the app who detects that content first would trigger the beforementioned "relay alert" prompting ALL other relays to participate in a consensus vote to ban the relays and related users from the network. At the same time the relay operators my decide if the information of the relays should be forwarded to law enforcement. Again, one of the worst case scenarios, children stuff. There is no excuse to protect that kind of content or those who spread and consume that kind of content.
This is well intentioned, but completely wrong. When you take responsibility for the content, then YOU ARE responsible for it. If you people thnk that will appease State actors with bad ill against Nostr, you are absolutely dreaming.
There will always, invariably, inevitably be "bad" content that they will be able to use to go after people running relays -- if you accept that you are responsible for it.
The fight is to get court precedent overturning the ridiculous notion that a hosting service is responsible for the content someone else creates. Or at least, that a relay, which supposedly just RELAYS, is not responsible for what is relayed, like the it would make no sense to go after a town mayor because a criminal used the roads he ordered to build and is responsible to maintain.
Going down this path is short lived and will inevitable either kill the protocol, or allow bad actors (think Meta) to coopt it by pushing for ever-increasing regulation until they wash off all independent relay-runners and we're back to square one in the walled garden.
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Primal desktop buttons broken... Can't follow people today.
I wonder if this has anything to do with it...? I stopped using Snort because of it...
It ain't Google, or Meta, or AWS, or Apple either -- they do steal a bit from me in the form of important private information, but they do not put their hands in my pocket under threat of extreme physical violence, kidnapping, asset seizure and complete financial ruin.
The real problem with these people isn't the stealing they do, but the potential (and actual) cooperation with the State, to help it do all those things.
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