Have you read Atlas shrugged? Don’t it’s horribly long and wordy, but in it a group of people who were sick of the rest of the country found a remote place in the Colorado Rockies where they hid themselves away. Islands are hard to come and go from would love to go live in a place that has natural resources like they had in the book with the ability to expand when the rest of the world comes crashing down.
It’s a nostr event so clients will treat your account as deleted. But since it’s just an event I figured out how delete the deletion event to restore my account. 🫠
Im happy to use different clients for different experiences but I feel like the power of nostr would really come alive if there were more “kinds” for various different types of media. Looking at nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg feed when they post a link to a playlist it just links to their website. Why not just let me play that playlist, zap the artists, etc directly from nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg ?
Been dealing with this for 15 years. I’ve come to realize that a lot of the ideas are actually good because they came from a need or problem. But instead of thinking critically about the problem and who might pay for a solution, non technical people jump straight to the first solution that looks like something they’ve seen before. Then they often can’t let go of their original idea that they’ve visualized in their head.
#asknostr why isn’t there a nostr kind for things like podcasts, music, video, and other media for clients to implement. Feels like notes are all just Twitter posts with text and links with minimal support for images and videos. It could be so much better. What am I missing?
I’ve been reading Atlas Shrugged and I’m pretty sure you’re the reincarnation of Dagny Taggart.
I did the poor man’s version. Chocolate chips poured into the peanut butter jar.
I can’t think of a worse way to spend bitcoin than this. 
I’ve been thinking more about this idea since your recent podcast. Would it be possible to create a fully open source Uber (or some useful subset of Uber) identity and payments is already solved with nostr bitcoin. I think the hardest part would be maps, then some kind of decentralized dispatcher service. But with those 4 things it could work. Then you could use that effort to create open Airbnb, etc.
American Wagyu just a decent steak.
I think in this case the "go niche to win" is the right move. You would want to start this idea within the existing bitcoin community, similar to how nostr started with just bitcoiners who had little reservations against zapping people. Other apps can start this way, set a culture of paying small amounts for packages, and as other open source devs from the outside see that bitcoiner devs are actually getting paid for their work instead of begging for tips in their README.md files they'll want to put in the effort to get set up as well.
You’re right. That note took me 2 minutes of thinking to write. There’s a lot of nuance in how you would go about implementing something like this but would a company, for example, pay 10 Sats per install of a module they can’t get anywhere else that’s super useful to their product development and also potentially write off that money as donating to open source? I think yes.
I think there is a social dynamic at play in order to make it work. Module maintainers would need to list exclusively with this system. They could also test out freemium models. Like you get 10 installs of their module for free, if you keep using it then it’s 10 Sats per install after that, etc. needs to be thought out more but it could work.
Ok hear me out. What if we built some kind of paywall into a package manager like npm where an app that’s installing a package would get a lightning invoice as part of the ‘npm install’ flow. The app’s CI tool could could connect to their lightning node and pay the invoice programmatically. I’m thinking very small amounts per install or maybe even a one time fee. Relying on opt-in tips like most devs do now will never work.
nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg and other clients. One feed enhancement I’d love to see is when someone is on the feed and new notes come in at the top of the feed, don’t jump the user to the top of the feed (index 0) jump them to the their previous top spot and, offscreen, add the new notes. Then I can start scrolling up from that spot to see all the new notes.
If that happens I think we would start to see them more in a positive light so maybe makes more sense to add them at that point?
When doing something just to stick to your pre-defined principles, it’s time to evolve your principles. Use this framework: “Will future me be happy I promoted a shitcoin app, or not happy?”