need to open 1 or 2 LN channels, preferably to something with good routing that will not (hopefully) spy too much on me. what are my best options?
top of the morning nostriches
yep
you pay the company that bought the rights for that TLD from ICANN, so ".com" is owned from Verisign, yes, one company controls all .com sites, then you have countries owning their own TLDs, that's ".co.uk", ".fr", ".pt", ".de", etc... Then those companies with a TLD rent you SLDs.
To have the rights to a TLD, you'd need about 100k just for the process of approval (which might get rejected), in the end, ICANN has the full control of everything as they control the root zone. Our only solution to bypass it is to create our own root zone and use that instead.
yeah I started letting domains expire last year, this year I already let go a couple. it's insane what used to cost $5 is now costing $30 for absolutely no reason other than greed, don't tell me it's inflation because this has absolutely no extra cost for the registrars.
It's a fucked up model and I simply stopped playing. I'm trying to reduce my domains to only a handful that I really use and will not "buy" anymore. a rent model without an option to buy is really a time bomb waiting to blow in everyone's faces.
I also use Gemini alongside DaisyDisk to find duplicate files when doing cleanups
If you know it's real name, you should not write it anywhere, even encrypted or whatever because clients can get access to unencrypted data when you use them. It's up to you not to doxx your friend, just like you wouldn't reply to a kind 1 post of is with "hi bob!". My point was, anyone with access to sensitive information should not put it online on a social protocol, or at the very least, not on a public list like you said. This doesn't mean petnames shouldn't be used on public lists. Also you could just make a up a petname that you can recognize without explicitly doxxing him.
any address already on your kind3 is public, and they probably have a name setup in kind0. if I assign the petname "fiatjaf", i'm not doxxing anything. if the contact is supposed to be private, it shouldn't be in kind3 to begin with..
not every one can be saved, even less those that don't want to. we need to stay humble and keep educating those that want / need.
the vast majority have no opinion and will use whatever their friends do
but I get your point, though it feels the same battle as telling people to use btc instead of paypal
the incentives are freedom fuck you money vs ad led censorable cuckbucks
the difference is on nostr, the payouts are organic, from user to user, on twitter it's ad revenue shared right? so those advertisers can go somewhere else if they start disagreeing with Elon, leaving the platform without revenue to share. At that point, the revenue model of nostr will be far more resilient. Also, advertisers have a long history of pulling out of controversies and opinions that directly threaten their business.
If I got this right I think Damus includes "e" tags for all events in a thread, which is weird to me, it makes more sense to include just one for the event actually being liked.
nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s
I think it tags the root event with reply and includes another e without marker which I guess should be the "supposed" like event
what do you mean it aggregates?
for example, this note which prompted my post:
https://njump.me/nevent1qqswjwdjp92gy0rfkucjsrmrtps53jp5e4ayr0v8nfpn2clt2wpk39gncha9s
has these reactions (there's more but this should be enough):
https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8j4zhvmp46dtqlxn4snxxa4774lzz5se4p2u5a74vtnk2eq8n4dqjtnwgz
https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr5jpk47lvyjhje7kpeczah4x58qnyllm6ldp8zkcwa8c8lenk3cgl94esl
https://njump.me/nevent1qqs09mv2s0euawuavwuh90t8m3un3h5ep0r6fsevgpuz5l43t28cc6qxuxsnd
I noticed this behaviour since forever btw, not a new thing..