nostr:npub13ldzrxwy8x066ll5zf45qtcltms40ld7fsy4rejdlcc64my80lcslchmy5 (substitute tequila for whiskey and we’re on the same page 😂)

Shoot. Messed up the hashtag. #grownostr nostr:note1fss8n4xe354ujdtfutxchh5gmv3s4yeeevy0tp566xyvvs6s8u0qk9zgne

I hadn’t thought of this but it’s an excellent point! nostr:note1z9lv9hncwaflx4jewezara93l3y0dcexh86wk26p42g3krnev4nsvy6ul7

My intuition is that you’re correct, but I can’t articulate why.

What is it about the fundamental difference between Facebook/Twitter and a decentralized protocol that makes you confident it won’t *eventually* start to promote bad behavior for vanity and reward?

Right now most people who are here are quite positive and good natured as they want the environment to be welcoming to new users. I suspect Twitter and fb (fb to a lesser extent) were the same way. What is it about the fundamentals of #nostr that makes it less likely to evolve in that direction? #grownstr

Maybe nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m has some insight here as well? Maybe nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 too?

One of my main concerns, apart from the protocol staying sufficiently decentralized, is that we just end up with a decentralized hellscape instead of a centralized one. (Although, it would never be quite the same as Twitter because different types of clients, even within the genre of social media clients, allow users to easily pick up their data and move.) nostr:note1qsnktfmkpte4rvetfjen27pt0rkxk9p49y4r4dxn344gp9mpa24qlmdm94

Following up on this. The same thing happens when I try on safari on my iPhone. Past the connection string and the button doesn’t do anything.

Summer reading. #teaching #education #learning #grownstr

Oof. You're not joking when you say long run. Nice!

Man, this is beautiful stuff. nostr:note1lm98qvxacu7xvsq3pjmjg57nyh3yke3v57dtdddlvqee4spjmjpskc65ga

Do communities maintain across clients?

Like, is an AI community on Kiwi the same community that is on Habla, just accessed through different clients?

Yeah, I think you’re right. Very cool.

Nice! Do you know what kind of bird that is? Some kind of heron?

Gm, friends. A few nostr thoughts this morning.

I’m not particularly technical and definitely not a developer, so when I see people very bullish on #nostr I can’t tell if it’s justified or not. I’m certainly excited about it, and there seems to be a lot of development on the protocol, but I have no frame of reference. Were/are bluesky or mastodon or scuttlebutt the same in terms of user enthusiasm, development activity, etc.?

If you were going to find users overly excited about a protocol, wouldn’t you find them on the protocol? And if so, how much stock can you put in that?

An even bigger question that I can’t answer because of my lack of technical knowledge is, can the protocol scale? Are there limitations that I can’t see and just aren’t getting talked about bc everyone around here is pro-nostr?

At this point I’d consider myself enthusiastically hopeful.

But reading this post from nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 about why he’s switched all his future development efforts to Nostr makes me think there is really something valuable here and that Nostr really has tremendous potential.

For a developer to *switch* to Nostr after spending so much time thinking about social media, how to fix it, and building on another protocol, seems to me like pure signal.

From the post:

“Anybody who joins Nostr will quickly see that its early adopter community has a very different set of values and social norms from Scuttlebutt’s. It’s full of bitcoin bros (or as they like to call themselves, “maximalists”). But the thing is, I was never building tools just for solarpunk anarchists. I was building tools where a multitude of communities could each establish their own self-governing commons. By definition those tools will include many communities which are not mine, or where I wouldn’t feel welcome.”

I feel hopeful in the same way I did when I first learned about bitcoin.

Thank you

​nostr:nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m nostr:npub10awzknjg5r5lajnr53438ndcyjylgqsrnrtq5grs495v42qc6awsj45ys7 nostr:npub107jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2quqncxg nostr:npub1alpha9l6f7kk08jxfdaxrpqqnd7vwcz6e6cvtattgexjhxr2vrcqk86dsn and many others who I’ve forgotten.

Keep building, friends. 🤙

#plebchain #grownostr #coffeechain

https://www.nos.social/blog/pivoting-from-ssb-to-nostr

nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx I know you mentioned that the blue check is Elon’s effort at a social credit system. Is there an article or a podcast where you’ve fleshed out the case for that? I’ve seen short posts here and there alluding to it, but I’m wondering if you’ve kind of laid out all the evidence for it.

I wouldn’t be surprised if you were right, I just am struggling to connect the dots.

Anyone else please feel free to chime in. #grownostr #plebchain

Yeah, I think you’re right about that. My main feed on clients like damus is fine. I pretty much stay out of global. And the approach primal is taking allows for easy toggling between types of feeds, including hashtags.

An, nostr:npub13wfgha67mdxall3gqp2hlln7tc4s03w4zqhe05v4t7fptpvnsgqs0z4fun , it’s been awhile. For a minute there I thought maybe nostr:npub1tsgw6pncspg4d5u778hk63s3pls70evs4czfsmx0fzap9xwt203qtkhtk4 killed you.

And I’m not sure you totally understood my question but I appreciate your response. #plebchain nostr:note14mzf8gnfelpj9xrm6h8n73a2vj560e37zckzpvu0e2wqm5y8rd4syxw0dq

Somebody tell me if I have this correct or not…

Let’s say somebody is worried about hate speech, disinformation, vulgar language, etc. They want everything to be nice and safe on their social media feed.

They could hypothetically only connect to relays that have strict guidelines about notes that can be posted. Maybe a relay bans notes with certain words or phrases (or whatever can be done to make it “safe”). Call it the safe relay or relays.

However, this person has stuff to say and wants to reach as many people as possible. So they recognize that to maximize potential reach of their speech they need to post to relays that are popular and probably don’t have the same restrictions as the safe relays.

If a client allowed the capability, they could read and write on the safe relays and only write to the not safe relays.

Is this practical?

I’m trying to think of the people who just want social media to be fun and protected from a lot of what makes a certain bird app a hellscape.

Let me know if you get it to work. I can’t figure out why it’s not working for me.

Not on Firefox. I just downloaded it. I never use Firefox.

It’s a way to avoid using your private key (nsec) in a bunch of places. All of your data that you’ve posted on nostr is protected by that key. Inevitably clients will have security accidents where private keys leak. nsecBunker allows you to create “keys” for different clients, without giving those clients your private key.

I want to try out a couple of mobile clients so I can’t use the Alby or nos2x browser extensions. That’s why I’m trying to set it up.

#[2]​ has a great explainer here: https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxkuum9vd382mntv4ez6a3jqyf8wumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetnqyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwdehkkmm5v9ex7tnrdakszynhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43qz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygrlts45uj9qa8lv5caydvfumwpy386qyquc6c9zqu9fdr92sxxht5psgqqqw4rswnspch

Plot twist. Now I paste my connection string into the box and I click the button and nothing happens (in firefox). It doesn't say that it's invalid. Just, nothing happens.