If you are building privacy technology this video is worth watching. This first part about prioritizing love and intimacy is something we instinctually understand here. The second part dives into how we do or don’t bring regular people along with us on this technological journey. https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feelings-are-facts-love-privacy-and-the-politics-of-intellectual-shame#t=0
This is a great summary of positive things that happened this year intertwined with stats on efforts that started years ago. The latter is a good reminder that sometimes efforts to make a positive impact in the world take a bit to show results. https://fixthenews.com/86-stories-progress-2024/
How does #Nostr enter this conversation and potentially become a new home for some of these folks?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/10/tiktok-ban-supreme-court-arguments-challenge/
What sort of content would you like to see?
A lot of Nostr - try relay.damus.io
Mastodon content- relay.mostr.pub
A mix- relay.nos.social
There are niche relays as well, but others will need to chime in with their favorites!
Hell yeah! Newcastle!
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The inauguration hasn’t even happened yet and the mainstream media is already bowing down.
The opportunity for Nostr to grow is once again approaching.
Let me check with folks and I’ll get back to you. I’m traveling next week for work so my comms may be slow…
Hello there, here is the proof of documentation on whats broken on damus: https://github.com/damus-io/damus/issues
There’s ~1750 open or closed issues.
Maybe there are other projects on nostr that document more and/or more systematically. Happy to learn from others.
Definitely I have missed some things.
Let me know how I can do better. nostr:note1dzp3zknsc8tew27nfjg85egy68wj0vj69dap75mz6sd9rjwh2gvqtlsuey
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It me. 😳
Does nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch not have DMs?
#asknostr cc nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 nostr:npub1j60x528w2g2vkq5kae5uhh8y7sezjyj20zcsg0v9muc72cmdpu0s0md7ua
PS - Linda, my favorite shirt (black and orange nos.social) is wearing out :( who was your friend that was making the swag, and can I send them some sats for another?
No unfortunately we do not have DM’s. I only have xl and xxl shirts remaining. I can send you one of those if you would like!
I’m excited to see a conversation starting about the limitations of social media when it comes to social change. For far too long we’ve been duped by dopamine like hits into thinking posts have the power to incite change.
Awareness is not enough.
“What makes this a cultural event isn’t that somebody killed a CEO, but that millions of people refused to respond the way they were supposed to respond.”
The response from insurance companies was more security for CEO’s and from elected officials mostly scolding. How dare people not grieve the loss of the powerful. Note the Chief Justice John Roberts reiterated his concern about the threats to the Supreme Court in his 2025 look ahead instead of acknowledging that credibility has been severely degraded under his leadership.
https://howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/luigi-and-the-memes
Memes are only the beginning.
The second article is both a critique of how social media has been weaponized by the left for performative politics as well as a guide for how to take small steps forward. The former is a much needed wake up call. The righteous callout culture also sometimes emerges here on Nostr. Mostly between people who are building so it is less toxic, but it may still be unnecessary and distracting.
“We need to have room for disagreement, for trial and error.” Rejecting a know-it-all culture of condemnation, means being honest about the fact that no one has all of the answers. Eman emphasized that “no one knows quite what to do next, because this moment is unprecedented.”
https://organizingmythoughts.org/wading-into-2025-how-to-begin/
While humans should take responsibility for their use of social media, these articles also illustrate that there’s still a huge opportunity for disruption to social app UI. One I’m excited to tackle in 2025.
#devstr looking for feedback on nip-05 as a way to smooth onboarding to nostr
https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability/issues/143
cc nostr:npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z nostr:npub1j60x528w2g2vkq5kae5uhh8y7sezjyj20zcsg0v9muc72cmdpu0s0md7ua
Nos.social gives everyone a NIP05 during onboarding for free. It’s seamless.
To answer the question of why NIP05 I also had the same question bc you can change your NIP05 at any point and the rest of the network can still find you. What it does give you is an alternative to the npub to share with people so they connect with your account and not the 40+ other Jack’s on Nostr as there should only be a single instance of a NIP05 at a given time.
Also if you come to Nos and get a NIP05 it works everywhere on the network. The NIP05’s are not client specific
Yikes! nostr:npub1nwad78hejfewj63p264uf2sxh0a5az753pw7auscrlupefjtr27sp97m8h appears to have de indexed a story about women journalists facing harassment. If the journalists in the story wanted it, that would be one thing but if someone else is asking the paper to hide the story that is poor form.
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nostr:npub1plstrz6dhu8q4fq0e4rjpxe2fxe5x87y2w6xpm70gh9qh5tt66kqkgkx8j receives well earned props for its smooth cross posting interface. Nostr which enables that to work is not mentioned. Perhaps as the author notes it’s not a bad thing. Just build tools people want to use.
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DMCA requests being used against journalists appear to be a harbinger of what’s to come in 2025 in the US media landscape.
This feels like a problem space the other decentralized platforms may struggle with given their infrastructure. It’s also an opportunity for #nostr to step up.
https://www.404media.co/email/49070e27-ace8-4a7c-a1fe-40957e3115a4/
nostr:npub1n7pcd890elndxn3s63syf0ypm5jqsk9jng0khufwgnhu33k4xanq2a9qu4 If you add relay.mostr.pub or relay.nos.social to you relay list and you should be able to get it to load. It is a gift link through the original poster otherwise I would share it myself.
The web app makes it easy to share Nostr content with non-Nostr users. They can open the links in a website and ideally be encouraged to create an account. I’d be curious to hear from those developers what they don’t like about the existing solutions or if they are simply interested in Nostr and the easy thing to build is a webapp?