I'm pretty sure that thread is a very biased sample though, so I wouldn't generalize to normies
I don't understand users feeling they need centralized moderation. On nostr, and really most social media to be honest, you are basically your own moderator. If you don't want to see some material then you don't follow the people that post it. Very easy.
nostr:npub1e4qg56wvd3ehegd8dm7rlgj8cm998myq0ah8e9t5zeqkg7t7s93q750p76 is working on a new logo for nostr.build, what do you all like best:
A, B or C?
C looks good at this resolution but it probably needs to be simpler if small icons are going to work. What if you removed the nostrich?
TIL Bitcoin software used to use IRC to discover other nodes
The odds that they can are high, the odds that they actually do are low
Assuming this story has legs, as US phone carriers start to fine ppl $500 bucks for wrong think of bird app, Nostr and SimpleX anon accounts will start to look so-hot-right-now.gif
https://x.com/michelleweekley/status/1739340560106721297?s=46 
An innovative new way to monetize user data
Just tested it out and indeed there are significant bugs
We interrupt these tidings of joy, in light of recent cheerleading for Threads’ purported embrace of interoperability, to remind you that Threads is a hyper-efficient piece spyware masquerading as social media.
Meta and everything they produce are incompatible with freedom. Full stop. https://v.nostr.build/o8Vl.mp4
Sadly total corporate surveillance has been normalized. Many zoomers acknowledge they don't even care about privacy.
Fees are temporarily somewhat affordable. Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄 🎁
Hard forks to support more jpegs undermine the integrity of their entire revenue stream by threatening the value of bitcoin itself. It seems pretty short-sighted and suicidal to me.
Let's hope we can improve content + discoverability of that content. Most people probably don't want to join nostr to talk about nostr.
Isn't operating on a forked bitcoin essentially just another independent chain? The bitcoin affinity scam wouldn't really work because it would be real bitcoin in the same way bitcoin cash is (i.e., not at all). I think some kind of pegged side chain makes more sense for them.
Nice, Ulysses S. Grant's house is there if you all want to check out some history
The ordinals folks seem to be piggy backing off of the permanence and immutability of the BTC blockchain, but that permanence only exists in conjunction with the consensus rules.
As soon as you start hallucinating new tokens and protocols based on arbitrary data, you've already diverged from consensus and there's nothing permanent to your subjective interpretation of that data.
Many people will probably use "normie" applications like CashApp that are centralized but backed by respectable companies that have a reputation to protect. Most will hopefully have on-chain "peg out" options.
Self-custody will most likely be a luxury or something that's only used for long-term savings.
For me the absurd slowness of Whirlpool was the deal breaker. Had my laptop running 24/7 for a month and barely got 2 mixes on each of my coinjoining UTXOs.
I left my signing devices in another part of the country ☹️
My #newpipe app says I have an update, but #fdroid says I am up to date. The general settings on #GrapheneOS ( nostr:npub1gd3h5vg6zhcuy5a46crh32m4gjkx8xugu95wwgj2jqx55sfgxxpst7cn8c ) do not allow installation of packages dowloaded via the browser, do package managers/repositories like fdroid just lag behind a bit or what? Should I disable the browser apk install protection? I assume if the app itself prompted me then the apk probably isn't malicious...?
Also I have a few apps in #aurora (for like a week now) which currently have updates available but won't download/install, of which #Amethyst ( nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z ) is one. I think this happened once before & it eventually worked itself out, but I would love to know the cause, or if there is a solution...?
#asknostr
Newpipe is great btw! Many thanks to all who recommended it ❤
Amethyst & Graphene also make the general #Android user experience feel like a massive step up from iOS. Nostr is better, battery life is better, security is better, etc. Genuinely happy with all software mentioned, thank you!
From my experience Obtainium is the best way to get apps on GrapheneOS, so maybe try that.
F-Droid is slow to get updates and the app itself is buggy. Aurora for me barely worked.
I feel like we need to dispense with the horribly wasteful university system and focus on vocational education / apprenticeships