The Q3 2023 Twitter Migration report is out: https://www.deweysquare.com/digital/twitter-migration-report/
It shows Nostr is holding steady after Threads tsunami. We’ve got users, interest, and development but we’re stuck in a bitcoin / crypto echo chamber. The problem isn’t the tech directly so much as culture. How can we cultivate millions of communities with their own values and norms. Sure they can use lightning for payments, but mostly people won’t be here because they believe in nostr or bitcoin. In fact for both to succeed we need folks who don’t care about the underlying tech at all.
"Tokyo had been in a long slumber since the end of World War II. Yet, Japan is adjacent to China and Taiwan and is allied with the United States. Once a contingency occurs in the Taiwan Strait, Japan will very likely have to become a party to it."
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/editorial/political-pulse/20231021-144529/
This is a useful quick look for friends coming to #nostrasia who only pay casual attention to the geopolitical context. The world is changing and Japan is keeping pace 👇
"Tokyo had been in a long slumber since the end of World War II. Yet, Japan is adjacent to China and Taiwan and is allied with the United States. Once a contingency occurs in the Taiwan Strait, Japan will very likely have to become a party to it."
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/editorial/political-pulse/20231021-144529/
"Skylar Mastro actually argues that the people with the knife at their throat should be allowed to “work out their differences” with the knife-wielding assassin"
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2023/10/23/2003808084
Would be nice if a large corporation would try to buy Bluesky while it's still a small network. They probably wouldn't sell but the news cycle would wake the people using that platform to the reality that it's not any different than the others.
Is this a Socratic question? 😬
I honestly can't think of any downsides as far as the end users are concerned. Definitely bad news for the monopolists tho...
Hot take but I think this law is a pretty big deal. Will have big implications for the consumption model in the long tail. Props to California for getting this right 👍🤩
https://www.theverge.com/23910066/right-to-repair-law-newsom-california-sb-244
Be clear: this publication is the "velvet glove" of the CCP's iron fist. That they're covering Nostr is a signal to the broader CCP elite intelligentsia that a serious threat to their control exists.
Assume as a matter of course that the CCP is already dedicating resources and planning to defeat nostr—it's only going to get worse from here. Strap in.
nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m nostr:npub1efhkvhcltc75y2h3pd0cc4eskgs49hzr8l3cf66h5wh7xjmlgkhq7jf9wg one of the ways WordPress has taken hold as the biggest and most influential FOSS community is by developing a Meetup ecosystem. I feel like Nostr should try to emulate this approach. Granted there are some clear differences, but maybe we should also pay attention to what's working? Can we talk about organizing Meetups at nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l?
Y'all seeing this "enter a pin to encrypt your private key" notice on Snort?
nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 is this legit?
This is definitely most folks first impression, and that's mostly because it's an accurate description of the experience—although it's less generally a "crypto" community and more specifically a Bitcoin community. Not all of us here are laser eyes tho! Stick around and help us build it 🙏 Those of us with other interests can be the earliest seeds for new community adoption.
Just saw that this producer also deejays at the Marriott Aloft in Tokyo. Sharing in case you guys are still looking for someone to do music in the event he may be available?? nostr:npub16vrkgd28wq6n0h77lqgu8h4fdu0eapxgyj0zqq6ngfvjf2vs3nuq5mp2va nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
I would pay money for this statement on a t-shirt 👇👇🤙
Maybe instead of thinking about it as a "style" layer it is more helpful to think about it as a "quality" layer. So nostr is the protocol for the object itself, this other layer indicates some kind of quality of the object.
I'm not a developer and I'm not paying close attention to what's happening with the evolution of the nostr protocol, so maybe this already exists or maybe it's nonsense, but my understanding is that there's a danger here to bloating the protocol.
My thought is that, without modifying the underlying nostr protocol, is it possible to build a parallel styling protocol that clients can implement in their own way, or choose not to implement? An analogy would be that this could serve sort of like a CSS layer to nostr's HTML?
The solution in this case for editing could be some kind of "tag" that indicates the user intends the post to be "deprecated" and if the user goes back to the post and assigns the tag, the clients can honor it or not using their own implementation of the style for that tag—for example, greying out the text or adding strikethrough?
The idea being that the style layer can be separate from the data protocol—and optional and customized—and that way not bog down the underlying framework?
This also gives the clients some room to flex differentiation in their interpretation of the style tags?
nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6
Would love to check it out. Is it different from this one?
That service stopped working for me—the sign-in with Twitter integration is broken.