Lol. We’re all suffering through horrendous UX and the companies are not even honoring user choice.
Beautiful shot!
Woah Steve from Stranger Things is a muscian! And its pretty good! https://open.spotify.com/track/3qhlB30KknSejmIvZZLjOD?si=VVW56mduTFKAPBH0GOTtvA
Dan Hon’s latest newsletter asks an interesting question about whether we’ve solved all the easy problems with maths and what remains are the people problems which are much more difficult to solve. Scratching the surface of content moderation tools in recent weeks, it certainly feels like the people problem is going to require more than maths…
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s16e06-low-hanging-fruit-information-processing/
ur wildlife neighbors are very busy and not afraid to take on a large task.
Almost everyone we spoke with (even the Bitcoin enthusiasts) said they would like to see more types of content on Nostr. Some barely use Nostr bc they have trouble discovering other types of content. People who like Nostr still us X or other platform social media bc they can’t get all of their content here.
Nos is launching a Creator Residency and Journalism Accelerator to increase the variety of content on Nostr. Check out nos.social for details. Share it with people you’d like to see come over.
Edit - Primal’s default ordering of the home feed is:
Trending 24hr
Most Zapped 4h
Nostr Hightlights
Latest
Latest with replies
The last 2 are the feeds of people you follow. The other ones are aggregate feeds.
I understand this is a discovery mechanism for people new to Nostr however it has unintended consequences we should examine.
We need more journalism like this. It is straightforward and real unlike most of the linkbait garbage that proliferates today.
We should invite Jon Stewart to Nostr.
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The Latest home feed of Primal is likely the main source of harrassers finding women. or any place where someone has visibility into more of Nostr.
When I am testing Nos people see the posts and respond even though I generated a key 5 min prior.
There are lots of experiments Nostr could try to resolve this issue:
- Turn off aggregator feeds like Latest for a few months
- Ask people to opt into aggregator feeds
- A variation is only make this post available to my followers, so it will not post on aggregator feeds
- Multiple women have asked for blocks which would prevent people you dont want to see your content from receiving it.
The argument “you should stand behind anything you post” falls apart when women post innocous content and they receive harassment. There’s an assumption behind that argument that Nostr exists in a cultural vacuum. However Nostr exists in a world with all sorts of toxic behaviors and those of us building it need to do a better job of not enabling the toxic behaviors within Nostr.
I’d also suggest removing Trending overall as it seems to be a reinforcing feedback mechanism “of free speech is the only speech and everyone else just needs to suck it up. “
Max Fisher wrote a book called The Chaos Machine which takes an indepth look at how Trending feeds reinforce tribal behavior.
Here’s a poorly taken screenshot from the book. Anyone who wants to better understand the mechanisms behind online harassment should read it. 
Great read on why startups fail which can also be applied to products. https://longform.asmartbear.com/avoid-blundering/
#1 on the list
Didn’t talk to customers (and listen)
If you didn’t talk to customers before you started, and especially after you started, that’s a blunder. If you talked to them and weren’t honest with yourself about what they were saying, that’s your faulty analysis. You should have used the Iterative Hypothesis Method or some other reputable framework.
I’m also a side sleeper and I highly recommend this pillow. We’ve had them for over 2 years and they are still great. https://www.tuftandneedle.com/products/foam-pillow
Reflections of the evening light 
One of the opportunities we have with Nostr when it comes to building both apps and even NIPs is the ability to shift our current ways of thinking.
Today we think of a post almost as something inscribed in stone - someone posts something and its always there.
But that’s only one way of looking at a post. We could instead think of posts as something that sprouts and grows over time - similar to the garden metaphor used in this article regarding feeds. https://v5.chriskrycho.com/essays/feeds-are-not-fit-for-gardening/
We should embrace the freedom we have to think outside the box.
Having worked on several projects involving PII, PHI, and high level security - its deeply concerning he is so cavalier about personal data.
Yeah our mentions couldn’t find her and then thr post screen indicated the npub was linked and it appeared this way when I posted it. I’m definitely leaning towards edits as a tool Nostr needs. Lol
I’m excited for a popular resurgence of the humanities. https://open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p/the-real-crisis-in-humanities-isnt?r=kx2v&utm_medium=ios
Insurance companies have been increasing premiums for house and building insurance for several years due to climate change induced disasters. Simultaneously these same companies have been insuring fossil fuel projects. CT is proposing legislation to put a fee on companies who continue to insure fossil fuel projects thus enabling them to move forward. Its nice to see some innovation in-the legislative space.
https://grist.org/regulation/connecticut-disaster-insurance-fossil-fuels/
https://grist.org/regulation/connecticut-disaster-insurance-fossil-fuels/
@nostr:npub15s3hussvmv9nyvw3w8lg0x72udazmdat7tcj5vmmjafnwcvv8tpqzz6r6y is correct, the left does need to pay attention to free speech and the increasing concentration of power of platform social media.
“The problem here is the platforms themselves. There is something deeply wrong with the whole form. With their self-reinforcing business models, their reliance on surveillance, and their role in undermining an independent media ecosystem and replacing it with their monolithic feeds. “
“The right is fighting to take control of these platforms, while liberals and some on the left are fighting to expand vectors of platform control, without thinking hard enough about who will wield this power and who is likely to get hurt.”
https://lpeproject.org/blog/social-media-authoritarianism-and-the-world-as-it-is/