#Nostr was created as a free and censorship-resistant protocol, not as a "missionary church" that must convert masses of "ignorant" people, saving them from the stupidity of centralized platforms.

The beauty of Nostr is that it exists and works even if only ten people use it: it doesn't need to become mainstream to have value.

It's true that many people are passionate about the idea of "bringing people to Nostr", perhaps because they see how much freedom and autonomy it offers compared to traditional social media, but often this zeal becomes a bit of a crusading obsession.

In the end, everyone will come in their own time, when they feel the need, when they want to experiment, or when they experience firsthand the censorship or limitations of closed platforms.

In other words, Nostr doesn't save anyone: it simply exists, and anyone who wants to can use it.

And that's a huge value: it doesn't force, it doesn't convince, it doesn't preach.

It's there, open and welcoming, ready for anyone who wants to be part of it, without needing to be shoved down anyone's throat.

#meshtastic packets are only 200 bytes.

#cashu token is 953 bytes

🤔 Going out of band is cringe. Manually copying and pasting is cumbersome. Using additional software has a lot of friction.

What to do...

chachi is the best thing since penis butter

if you ever see a GM from me, it wasn't scheduled

Nostr is like a box of chocolates 🍫

I just built a tool.

Video on-demand from encrypted chunks on multiple Blossom servers 🤯

If you have (or can install) nak, nodejs, ffmpeg can you check it works for you?

nak req --id ec1688e87843e8774d1813c371fe65af890be090bdb831f03ceefdd2144ad679 wss://relay.damus.io | npx --yes github:franzaps/n2m3u8 | ffmpeg -f hls -allowed_extensions ALL -protocol_whitelist file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto,fd -i - -f mpegts - | mpv -

This:

- Fetches a nostr event with hashes of video chunks

- Input into my tool that finds the working chunks in Blossom servers and outputs a HLS playlist

- Input to ffmpeg that decrypts and decodes the stream

- Input to video player. (Replace mpv with vlc or other video player, can also save to a video file)

Volume UP!

#asknostr #blossom #devstr

Real time is never gojng to be the same

I vibe-coded castr.me to turn every npub into an RSS feed. I didn't even look at the code so it's probably bad and half-finished but it works and it's already useful to me.