Can someone make sure I understand NIP-05?

Instead of sharing my pubkey on Twitter, for example, I can share my nip-05 url. If someone wants to follow me on Nostr they can paste/type that into a client's search instead of the pubkey. The search (assuming the client supports nip05) will generate the same result as if I had pasted in my pubkey. Is this correct?

Best of luck to you! 🤞

Great thread from #[0]​

https://twitter.com/lynaldencontact/status/1641511820060942354?s=46&t=-mus6KRMCVYiBoT8SMf7iA

Haha. Yes!

Is anyone working on a Reddit-style client? Is that even possible on #nostr? #plebchain

My hope is that in the coming months the ecosystem will mature, the annoying quirks ad glitches will get ironed out, the resources for onboarding will get better and better, and it won't feel to newcomers like Nostr is just a place for Bitcoiners. Because - and maybe it's just my filter bubble - it feels like a place for bitcoiners. Even when I spend a bit of time in global it feels that way. #[0]

An important question for #nostr is why/how do non-bitcoiners and non-crypto enthusiasts end up here? How does it break the network effect of other social media platforms?

Even if they don't like Elon's Twitter, their friends aren't here, so why come?

That’s gonna be the uphill battle in my view. The network effect of Twitter is going to be tough to break. But we’re so early on Nostr. The ecosystem with (hopefully) be vastly improved in the coming months and that will hopefully make it easier for people to switch.

Because, honestly, if I wasn’t interested in bitcoin and open protocols in general then I’m not sure there’d be a reason to check it out. Nobody that I know personally is here yet.

“Basic dynamic in life: there is nothing meaningful enough to make you happy that could not make you sad if you lost it. This is the paradox of feeling, and it’s inherent and existential. If things inspire real positive emotion in you then they are necessarily things in which you are sufficiently invested that you would feel negative emotions when they’re gone. One of the fundamental choices that you face on Earth is the degree to which you’ll pursue deeper but riskier fulfillment or practice avoidance that exempts you from bad feelings but leaves you bereft of good ones. We all move in one direction or the other, from one day to another, certainly including me, but it feels to me as if our society is decidedly embracing the latter. Depth and intensity of feeling risk too much; Xbox and hard seltzer and HR culture anesthetize. Pop culture soothes and placates with a steady series of uncomplicated morality tales in predigested narratives where nothing ever really changes and so there’s no worry that the storyline will move in a way that hurts your feelings. Crowdsourced “content” is built on ephemerality. Ask a TikTok megafan, someone who’s totally unapologetic and proud about their love of the service: what’s a TikTok that you still come back to, a year later, two years later, three? I think the honest answer is “none.” Because like so many other things in our culture, those videos are designed to be thrown away. They can’t hurt you, but they can’t move you. They’ll never challenge you, and they’ll never inspire you. All they’re meant to do is help you pass the seconds that make up your life, a finite and precious resource.”

Holy shit this piece is good. All you long time preference folks will enjoy this.

“Here’s a piece about how you don’t need to have actual human conversations, anymore - you can just let ChatGPT talk for you, farming out the most basic and essential of human endeavors to a batch of code that has no consciousness, morals, or accountability. All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever. You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working from home driven by Adderall you got via Zoom from a pill-mill doctor, you order dinner through an app (so that you don’t have to talk to an actual person on the phone), masturbate to online porn, watch several dozen videos on YouTube, none of which you’ll remember even three days later, then take two Xanax to put yourself to sleep. That’s progress now, the steady accumulation of various tools to avoid other human beings, leaving people free to consume #content that is by design totally, existentially disposable, throw-away culture that asks nothing of us and which we don’t remember because neither creator nor audience wants to invest enough for remembering to make sense.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/freddiedeboer/p/you-are-you-we-live-here-this-is?r=7ew6d&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Are these getting uploaded to every relay? If not, where are they stored?

From Irshad Manji's book, Don't Label Me.

Is there a website yet that compares relays? I thought I heard one mentioned on a podcast a few weeks ago but I can't seem to find it. #plebchain

Are you familiar with Daniel Schmachtenberger’s thinking around existential risk?

Artificial general intelligence

The development of stuff that closer approximates AGI is driven by profit incentive for companies and power for nations.

I think you're making a great point here. The biggest problem I see is that I suspect most people would do a poor job securing their own data. Most people do a terrible job securing the little bit of data they have to secure right now, like passwords. It's not clear to me at all that individuals, on average, will be able to manage the security of their own data better than Google or Apple or Facebook or whoever.

Honestly thought he demonstrated something that’s quite uncommon - he changed his mind when presented with convincing evidence counter to his beliefs instead of doubling down and refusing to hear the other side. The world needs more of the that.

https://twitter.com/thevonwong/status/1639690663846375424?s=46&t=-mus6KRMCVYiBoT8SMf7iA

About halfway through this book and really enjoying it.

testflight #[2]