When Mr Beast comes to nostr you can thank me👍haha

Unlike companies, protocols aren't under time limits. They don't run out of money and die.

Nostr has come a ridiculously long way from a year ago when we used astral ninja and terminal clients.

Be patient and try to appreciate these very early days that move so fast.

Open networks will always beat closed ones in the long run 🫡

On twitter sometimes I encounter a post and I'm like "What the fuck? why am I folloing this person?" and then I dig in and it turns out they are a local politiican that I need to keep an eye on.

This leads me to think gossip needs multiple lists of people you follow, so I could have a "know your enemy" list, for example.

And I've already coded the setup for that, so it will be a thing in the not too distant future, closely followed by custom feed configurations.

Sea of Cortez is kinda dense no ? From what i remember

What the nostriches been reading lately ? Any good book recs ?

Currently:

1. Normal People by Sally Rooney

2. The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)

3. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

I love the concept... and yet, I listen to podcasts at 2x and want the fade transition to speed up on Zephyr 😂

I guess I'm hopeless.

Great word to add to my spam filter. Thanks for the nudge.

I don’t have a better idea. And there really isn’t a different between xyz monitoring his/her nostr branded image hosting server and monitoring that stored as a relay from an illegal content perspective.

I noticed you defaulted to speaking about images, tik tok is 15-60 seconds but does now allow up to 10 minutes. Is the relay software the same for an image relay, as it is for a 60 second video relay, as it is for 1080p 10 minutes, as it is for 3 hour long 4k videocasts? Maybe the latter, or latter two is torrents stored on relays? Could it/should it all be encrypted and thus dissolve some liability on the relay runner? Maybe they are separate nips and not separate protocols… but does everything that wants to load these decentralized images/video need to be a nostr client? Does that hinge the success or failure of one to the other in an unfortunate way?

The whole internet worked like this in the 90s on my 28.8k modem

Who is the author of The Shallows that you read?

It is extremely important that a platform exists that allows anybody to express any idea they wish to, in order to preserve free speech. And for anybody who wants to listen to be able to plug into that content and listen.

It is not necessary that anybody actually do so. Plenty of people will never say a word. In fact, that is also true of twitter. Many people watch twitter and never post. We cannot count how many people are watching nostr but have never even generated a keypair.

IMHO nostr adoption isn't important. I don't care how many people come to nostr. If people want to join bluesky or post or mastodon, they are free. I don't care.

But I do care about nostr awareness. I want the world to know that there is a place that supports free speech, puts users in control, is open sourced and has many implementations, and is difficult to shut down due to being decentralized. Whether people come over here is up to them.