Part of me wants to move to El Salvador. What do you think?

love how https://nostrdesign.org/ doesn't assume in depth knowledge or exposure to human-computer interaction and exposes people to the principles behind it

okedoke folks. i've created a nice pipeline to onboard people to nostr from Tiktok so I'm going to be actively promoting and marketing nostr for a couple of months.

conversions are pretty difficult but it's time to do the lord's work fr

question for nostr devs... is it a bad practice to store the secret key in local storage?

I used too many words in the last post so that will get no reach on TikTok.

People on tiktok are similar to heroin addicts in their behaviors.

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When you reconnect with the original intention of the internet, you remember that success online looks like collectives reaching a common goal rather than “blowing up” and doing commercials for corporations.

So I invite you to join. All you need to do is create a username and voila - you’ll be subscribed to multiple networks where you can connect with skilled activists, engineers, designers and good natured folks that want to make the internet better. This is where I hang out to improve as an engineer after 10 years of code.

If you do happen to join, drop a post with #introductions and you’ll be warmly welcomed by friendly folks eager to level up your familiarity.

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These algorithms are also a dystopian blackbox. Many people on TikTok speak in code to avoid the automated moderation that silently mutes content as inappropriate. For example, after Donald Trump’s assassination attempt, many creators started to say “pew pew” instead of “gun”. Many say un4living or g3n0c!de

That is horrifying.

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The problem with social media right now is that it’s closer to a bad single player game where you’re being watched rather than an online game where you can connect and actually work with others to achieve goals.

This is because the algorithms are designed for advertisers. A creator creates, you react and then you scroll. It is terrible for building community and is a source of unhappiness in modern society.

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Hello TikTok. I’m posting using a protocol called nostr. It’s a censorship resistant protocol that lets you own your data, like your following, content and even money so that you can publish it in multiple places at the same time.

Let me have the privilege of your time to explain why I believe this is important.

hmm... I should have students create an #introduction post as soon as they create an account. it'll be a little automated in an otherwise organic place but the friendliness factor here is a good retention condition for someone experiencing using nostr for the first time. I've learned not to give the TikTok much air to breathe after users leave the FYP. It doesn't afford much time before users return to fry the brain

is quoting posts bad etiquette? 😭

tying one's identity to hating trump as a reaction to the hate by the Right inevitably results in consuming and distributing hate rather than overcoming it.

Hispanic Americans have a hate problem. It makes me profoundly sad.

The difference is that the current system doesn’t allow for choice. Custody isn’t evil, denying choice is.

I’m replacing web5 DIDs with nostr. Here’s why:

1. The NDK is intuitive to work with out of the box. Web5 starts to decline in developer usability after the basics.

2. Nostr has more coordinated focus around making the internet, social media and Bitcoin better. When someone makes something awesome, it motivates everyone to improve.

3. Nostr is easier to understand for end users and offers things to users that are apparent, like owning your content or social identity.

Other than that, I think web5 DIDs are more robust overall and behaves sort of like a parent identity, but there’s a coordination problem too great to promote content, community and progress right here and right now. I was very happy with web5 DIDs because it let me launch an instant & durable profile that you can migrate which inspired a lot of imagination on how the internet ought to work.

I don’t expect to ignore web5 at all but it seems more fitting that I learn web5 to consult businesses rather than to develop with it as a lone product wolf. They have fantastic developer relations but the open source and highly motivated nature of nostr is difficult to compete with.

[refactor in progress]

8 years ago

I failed again

Must stay awake

This feeeels right

The nostrification of rox