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Hey guess which airline I won’t be flying. Probably all of them when they start copying this approach.

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Nostr will fail to the extent that people can't tell an impersonator from the real thing. The number of reports I get about my impersonator indicates to me that nostr is failing. But it doesn't have to be this way! Web of trust fixes this.

Let's play a game of "spot the impersonator". I created a fresh impersonator account with a valid NIP 05 from nostrplebs and all the same profile data. I didn't bother to clone my notes or create a bunch of sock puppet followers, but that could easily be done, and would improve the resemblance.

Coracle:

Pretty good if I do say so myself. Social trust is shown in two separate ways: web of trust indicator and followers tab (although followers is not complete or sybil resistant).

0xchat:

Exactly the same, other than NIP 05 address, which I don't consider any sort of validation at all. This is a classic phishing maneuver, and recently allowed nostr:nprofile1qyfhwumn8ghj7am0wsh82arcduhx7mn99uqjzamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwd5xzamw09jkzem9wghxxmmd9a5kucn00qqjqamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwd5xzamw09jkzem9wghxxmmd9a3ksct5qy38wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndpshwmnev4skwetj9e3k7mf0da6hgcn00qqjxamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwd5xzamw09jkzem9wghxxmmd9ac8y6tkv96x2qpqclk6vc9xhjp8q5cws262wuf2eh4zuvwupft03hy4ttqqnm7e0jrqlg4lcf's impersonator to trick some people.

Yakihonne:

Some social indicators are shown, but are not sybil resistant. They're also down the page a bit, and might not be noticed by users.

Jumble:

No social proof indicated at all — the tabs at the bottom can easily be faked by the impersonator.

Nostter:

No social proof, and failed to validate the NIP 05 for the real user.

Nostrudel:

Nostrudel does something original in showing the public key color. But how often are you going to memorize a user's color? I'd argue this is even worse than nothing because it obscures the NIP 05, which _might_ tip you off.

Iris:

Iris shows wot-vetted "known followers", which is good. In other places, a wot-based check mark is shown next to user avatars. This should probably be added to the profile page too, but still, pretty good.

Amethyst:

Amethyst shows some social proof, but it's hard to tell exactly what those profile pictures mean.

Primal:

Like yakihonne, social proof is visible, but not sybil-resistant.

Let's take a look at search now. Some clients do a much better job at this, some do a MUCH worse job.

Coracle:

WOT indicators, correct sorting, complete results. Arguably, the impersonators should be filtered out entirely, but I personally prefer to have them included.

Jumble:

Same thing, minus WOT indicators. Not bad.

Nostrudel:

It's a pass, but I'm not sure if duplicates are filtered out on purpose or not. The check marks indicate NIP 05 validation, not wot validation.

Yakihonne:

Only shows the legit version, along with a badge (I'm unsure if it's NIP 05 or something else). Pretty good.

Iris:

Very limited results, WOT-based check, pretty good.

Primal:

Eliminates impersonators, show follower count, pretty good (though not sybil resistant in all cases).

The winners are Iris and Coracle for web of trust indicators, and Primal and Yakihonne in the "global view of the network" category. I'd love to see this get better though, and not just because I am now famous enough to have an impersonator. WOT calculations are low-hanging fruit, especially with the vertex DVM by nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qyt8wumn8ghj7ct4w35zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpzemhxue69uhk6mr9dd6juun9v9k8jtnvdakz7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uqzpa5rapcrtaadfazwpwvvl0v4xlskg4df9nfcem7yevcaka2h7hhjm9zju5 around. Getting this right is a core value proposition of nostr and is worth the effort.

A happy life: Go to the Gym, stack #Bitcoin, sun your balls, eat steak and sleep.

TIL it's been 20 years since I graduated high school 💀

I've been spending so much time writing these days and it's wild to see them get traction everywhere, BUT where I expect them to.

Things just disappear into the void on Twitter, but have ironically caught traction on Threads and LinkedIn as well as NOSTR.

The former two are places I just automatically cross post to, but NOSTR gets everything right away. No scheduling. No strategic timing. Just when I finish, post it.

What I engage with here as far as responses feels so concrete compared to any of those others. Interacting with other people living outside of the matrix feels so solid.

I'm going to keep posting in those other places because it's easy, but after working a wine event pouring wine for the general population, I've decided that I need to start saying no more.

I found my people. They support me and I support them. We will do great things together. This is all I need.

Everytime I poske my head back into the matrix it seems to point its finger and laugh at me.

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Explain the weights.

A bully that props up their economy while they let fentynol through to harm are young people.

What can they possibly do? The guilt will be immense.

I was also in the early pre-Bluesky group. It was chaotic and there were a lot of contradictory pressures on the group. Some people wanted Bluesky to be a twitter replacement, tech Twitter itself would eventually use. Others wanted it to be a way of solving the problem of social media platforms becoming stagnant because the platform owners could control and limit innovation by locking down the API. Still others wanted it as a way to get out of an impossible moderation problem where a single entity or person had to decide who could say what how.

nostr:npub1eejna2znm5vjf7lu5zwas6jnm0wlqw3psh89yxusdkeldq9kd7ns2npt3l was a former zcash dev / nostr:npub1jcwuf0dh5vqsq44qavygqwjfecawf53fmx7gadlcdtuexz0548hqy4jyrz activist who’d been building a decentralized social events app / meetup clone called happn. She’d done some SSB (secure scuttlebutt) development but I think happn was on its own protocol she made. It never took off so she had time on her hands to work on the Bluesky research. I remember being very impressed with her work and spent a while trying to talk her in to co-founding the company which made planetary.social and now nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch. The thing is Jay was available and did the work on Bluesky before it was Bluesky the company or they’d created the ATprotocol.

It wasn’t clear that Bluesky would need to make a new protocol. That was the reason for the research paper. Lots of people showed up and participated in those invite only discussions. Most had a project to pitch, lot of them used some shitcoin or another. Jay was pretty agnostic. She did the work of looking at the protocols and wrote up a good summary. She was also paid by Twitter as a contractor to do that writing. Probably that was what let her have the time and focus to become the founder. Lots of us pushed for Bluesky to be a separate legal entity because we felt if it was Twitter inc project eventually someone would kill it.

A bunch of us applied to be the CEO of Bluesky, myself included. While there is a lot Jay has done which is different from how I’d do it and I’ve got some big disagreements with some of her choices, you can’t deny that what she built is working. Does it do everything I’d want, how I’d want? No, not at all. But it has provided Twitter with an open protocol alternative.

I think Bluesky went off a couple ways. One is a lot of IPFS folks got involved and over complicated the protocol. Layers upon layers of tech and abstractions. Secondly is trickier, their user base wanted a more moderated and tightly controlled system than Bluesky was trying to build. They moved away from openness in part because they were listening to their users. But they could have build ATprotocol to work in a permissionless way and made the bsky.app part permissioned as their users demanded. They also could have built the protocol in the open, but instead if you want to contribute to ATprotocol, you need to be an employee. Jay herself signs off on every change to the spec. It’s a very top down way of working, which has worked for them, but isn’t prefigurative in building the world we want with the values we want that future world to have.

scrolling linkedin is pure torture. who is unironically using this app