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Yaël
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deputy director @ consumer choice center fellow @ bitcoin policy institute québécois-american innocent abroad in Wien

Absolutely — I’m just wondering how to move more people over to these apps on the first place

In my experience, getting Americans to adopt Signal happened much quicker than WhatsApp. iMessage being a strong product and iPhones being so ubiquitous explains why WhatsApp isn’t the US standard, but the only way to explain Signal adoption is the combined privacy + encryption.

Europeans/LATAM/Asians/Africans are still predominately android, so WhatsApp makes sense.

This is all until there are encrypted messaging apps using Nostr!

I’d say it’s useful as a telegram group replacement for very focused project (I’m thinking of the Podcast Index and Podcasting 2.0)…until there is a great Nostr client that serves as an encrypted group chat (also to disrupt WhatsApp)

Forest management and forestry are vital. Go out and shake a lumberjack’s hand.

“But at what cost?”

have been obsessed with the homelab jellyfin/radarr/sonar solution these past few days. have basically killed my bandwidth. enough with the walled gardens

I don’t see enough people talk about the “buy sats on cash app, send via lightning to a swap service or integrated lightning/chain app”

it’s an interesting baby step into privacy, still using a KYC service. Peach is one of the best for non-KYC, but mostly Europeans at the moment

my favorite Bitcoin influencer of all-time is my node

U can adjust the relays — it mostly works on your follows. Don’t even check the global feed

just zapped u for that casual f-bomb

May be stupid question, but where does one fill in the relay “contact information” that now shows up in some clients?

it’s not in the settings JSON file as I’ve added the info there. I’m using ts-relay (now nostream)

also check out https://hamstr.to — it’s super slick

yo sup usually does if the extension is logged in