Very nice mate.

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Where's the reliability issue? The software or the service?

With localtunnel, I can run my own relay locally on my hardware and everyone else can query it. nice. (this is a test event btw)

Why nostr:

- You own your identity

- Your speech stands on its own

- You can run your own everything

- You own and control your social graph

- You are free to say and do anything, but you are not free from consequences (non-repudiation of cryptographic signatures)

- You can proof realness via proof-of-work, either directly or indirectly

- Proof-of-work is what allows you to successfully combat bots, spam, and trolls, as it brings real cost to destructive actions

- Ownership and realness allows you to build and curate webs of trust, which allows for canonicality without central authority

Some people think Nostr cannot work with things like a "universal consistent like count" and other basic social media malignant tumors.

Even if we ignore the bad psychological and societal effects of such practices and assume they are good, and even if we assume that Nostr is all running in a single server that has all the events (a Bluesky-like unavoidable requirement for such universal consistency) these people are still completely oblivious to the fact that anyone can create a bazillion keypairs and spam like counts.

So when they ask for a "universal consistent like count" what these people are really asking for is for a centralized KYC barrier at the doors of Nostr that ensures only a single keypair can be created by each human.

Had a few too many beers, and went full McAfee in a speaker application.

4pm coffee! have fun sleeping tonight.

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Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.

One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."

Question for the "do not break Bitcoin" crowd: would you be in favor of fixing Bitcoin if it is half-broken or is that too dangerous? And what is the criteria for recognizing it is broken?