how is nostr cool? i am going to publish this note to my personal relay ONLY. however, thanks to several clients that have implemented the gossip model, many users will see this note even though it doesn't exist on the relays that they use. then, once they start interacting with it, the note will then be rebroadcasted to their relays, propagating my note around the nostr protocol, decentralizing my originally centralized content. 😲

First post in the fediverse! 👋

I don’t know who spread the rumor in the west that rice cookers are simply ‘unnecessary single use gadgets for foodies who eat a lot of rice’, I think of them more as ‘versatile device for depressed people with no spoons’

Put rice (don’t even need to wash it really), water, place vegetables, any protein, meat or protein on top. As soy sauce. Close the lid. Walk away.

And if you get a nice one: cook rice and eat off the cooker even 3 days later.

Even the cheap ones are so handy.

#Food

Afternoon Expresso ☕️

I talked to my friend about #Satoshi payment he has an organic store.

he said: come on man it's not interesting for me.

I said: you should use this method for future.

I sent a video clip and some documents for understanding to him. But there is Hard and long way in the profession. #btc #Bitcoin

EU wants to ban #zaps

Fuck them. I will zap anybody that interacts with this note.

Who is going to stop us?

I could use some positive vibes right now. I'm a bit adrift and it's scary, to be honest. You just never know when life is gonna smack you with loss and uncertainty.

It's easy to focus on the stuff that's broken, but if you take a step back nostr works incredibly well

is there really no way to just sign out of one #Google account? #wth

Organic whole milk probiotic yoghurt, strawberries, walnuts, honey 🤠

We've had a lot of talk about relays over the past day here on Nostr. This may be a bit confusing if you're new to Nostr.

What's going on with this discussion and why are many people making comments, jokes, or memes about relays?

The argument boils down to centralization and decentralization. On Nostr, we decentralize our infrastructure by using a potential wide variety of servers. Many of us are reading this note right now that's been retrieved from a variety of servers or as we call them, relays. Some relays are more popular than others. This leads to the questions surrounding decentralization. If many users are only using a top subset of relays, then we're not as decentralized as we could be or maybe even as decentralized as we should be.

I have various opinions on this subject. Even if Nostriches mostly only use ten relays, we're still magnitudes better than any existing social platform where only one entity runs the server infrastructure. We can do better though and we should do better. We have the tools to and the capabilities to make Nostr even more decentralized.

Now, this gets us into the next discussion. Which method of decentralization is best? For that, again, in my opinion, I'm a fan of the Gossip model. Simple put, Gossip makes relay selection not overly matter all that much. You can use any relay that you'd like and your follower's clients essentially fetch the notes and events from the relays that are being used without the need to be utilizing the same relay for communication to flow.

What should you do? Nothing, IMO. Relay selection and discovery aren't that great on most clients. I'd say keep using the same relays that you're using for now. Maybe, at some point, you'll update your relays to use smaller, community relays. For now, this is a developer problem to solve. You just keep creating notes and sending zaps. It will all work out in the end. Our developers LOVE to have problems to solve. Pura vida!

IF YOU CARE ABOUT NOSTR BEING CENSORSHIP RESISTANT YOU SHOULD TYPE IN CAPS.