nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 thinking aloud but is there a way, if we bought and created the .npub tld that we could set up a wildcard domain registrar with some kind of dns redirect so that whenever someone pumped in any random npub string it would show as an http link and open their Nostr client, similar to the way clicking any other link opens a browser? The thought is that this would make it much easier to share npubs, could just drop a ".npub" at the end of the string and then—if this method is possible—the TLD server would handle the rest? What does it take to get apps to recognize TLDs as hyperlinks? Is there a protocol for this or does it have to be added manually by the developers?
To be more elaborate I guess what I'm saying is that the tld would also need to be its own registrar and DNS service wrapped into one thing. But I feel like this is probably possible to build. Just not certain the external apps would recognize the TLD — does that happen automatically?
nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 thinking aloud but is there a way, if we bought and created the .npub tld that we could set up a wildcard domain registrar with some kind of dns redirect so that whenever someone pumped in any random npub string it would show as an http link and open their Nostr client, similar to the way clicking any other link opens a browser? The thought is that this would make it much easier to share npubs, could just drop a ".npub" at the end of the string and then—if this method is possible—the TLD server would handle the rest? What does it take to get apps to recognize TLDs as hyperlinks? Is there a protocol for this or does it have to be added manually by the developers?
Well said. And FWIW I meant only to use the case as a way of talking about the phenomenon in general, as a feature of the protocol and the technology determinism it may impose on us, not that this was a particularly egregious case—it was not. Like the AI, I myself had assumed Jack had sold his shares until someone recently highlighted this issue in a separate note. Also FWIW I felt you handled it as elegantly as possible. In general I think we owe each other—and maybe more importantly ourselves—much more existential slack with regard to the way our thoughts are iterated online. There's an impulse to circumscribe entire human beings—despite all the complexity of our lived experiences and internal contradictions—within the confines of our expressed and recorded ideas. As if we should all be only as evolved as our last most visible speech—or to nod at Lacan, as well put together as the image in the mirror.
Bard seems to be judging nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m. Read the last sentence.
An interesting moment below this note that is worth pointing out. The note implies a factually inaccurate conclusion. The target of the implication corrects the record. And then the insinuator has to apologize. All of the exchange permanently etched into the nostr timeline.
In all of the other platforms, the comment would have been taken down and memory holed. But nostr is permanent, so the best thing the OP can do is admit wrongness and apologize.
This has a multivalent consequences, but a few that come to mind are that as this mode of communication is adopted and distributed, it will change the way we speak to each other on the social layer, hopefully making us more accountable, conscious and cautious about the language we use—which seems like probably a good thing.
But it will also create a permanent record that can be used to lock future versions of ourselves into the thoughts of previously iterated ideas by older versions of ourselves. This is problematic in public discourse because you can say something 20 years ago and someone might be reading it for the first time in the present moment—and thus rendering present moment conclusions about a version of you that has long ago changed its mind.
This is maybe an old and permanent problem of literacy, and certainly of literature, that the author's older work is not necessarily their best, but always nonetheless sets the bar for expectations.
What does it mean for our consciousness that writing is necessarily a kind of recording, and also necessarily a kind of fundamental lie—that the jumbled mess of thoughts, ideas and emotions that is always in flux un our sense of self could ever be represented and captured in a solid, stable way?
GB?! Really? Why so much data for followers? Do you mean like because of millions of followers?
nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z, is there a technical reason why the clients don't cache posts and follows/followers on the device, then cross check the relays after login? Would make the app immediately fully usable rather than having to wait for it to catch-up. Granted some of the cached content will be phantoms after the relays are surveyed but probably not much. Thinking there must be a technical reason this is not how it's done?
The CCP propaganda operations are in effect mode.
This post gave me a thought. We're talking about the future being based on an algorithm "marketplace" — that background context along with the notion that this very basic framework for a feed model has been named the "network" model feed makes you start to realize that the future of a decentralized social layer will be structured along the lines of a new kind of knowledge, a whole new vocabulary for technologists to invent and learn: the language of the information discovery algorithms.
We need words. It strikes me that some of this language must already exist in the trenches because the developers must already have named the concepts in order to build and work with them. But now end users ourselves need this jargon, a lingua franca upon which we will construct the new epistemological framework for digital communications.
nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z amethyst has a weird UX quirk if we use three button nav where, from some notes displays, pressing the back button exits the app rather than going back to the main feed. Expected function on back button is to return to the previous display until finally landing in home feed. I never expect to leave the app with back button, but this is what happens.
We need to normalize the idea that, in a decentralized technology universe, we will have to pay for digital services. But we will have an opt-in choice to pay by sacrificing autonomy and identity, or with money. But we will have to pay with something.
#WhatsHappeningInThailand #MilkTeaAlliance
["Prominent anti-junta protest leader Sombat Boonngam-anong said Mon the junta-appointed senators have become insolent after they overwhelmingly rejected PM candidate Pita & people should prepare themselves for a massive demonstration very soon. #Thailand #Pita #พิธา #โหวตนายก #สว"]
https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1680796532537458688?t=zlaJDwZWfdl2OuqX9JkTzw&s=19
Pro tip for nostr devs—learn to think about engagement in different ways than "likes" — imagine a new ontology for the UX. At a fundamental level, users want to participate in the construction of a worldview via the social layer. How can we present an opportunity for people to do this in a way that is healthy for the society and the individual, a way that maximizes autonomy and further distributes the values we subscribe to most?
Friends on Nostr, a really big political moment is taking shape in Thailand. It occurred to me that, unlike the Arab Spring movement that used Twitter to grow its international exposure, the conservative changes recently made to the information distribution algorithm on Twitter will make that platform less helpful to the democracy activists and protesters.
But now we have Nostr, maybe right now is a good opportunity to work as a community to bring this protocol to the attention of Thai people and their allies so we can try to attract attention frim a worldwide audience and international media who should be paying attention to what's happening in Thailand.
Let's start paying attention to this. Help amplify and keep the conversation going.
#MilkTeaAlliance
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I think I was not clear enough here underlining my assumptions. If the Thai people truly launch a revolution against the junta, as the very well may if things continue down the road they're going, the state will shut down their comms—exactly the same way authoritarian states have done in the past, such as in the Arab Spring, and recently in Iran, or as is constantly done in a censorship driven PRC.
Nostr fixes this, because it's not possible to shut down nostr without turning off the internet entirely. And even then we have methods to keep nostr viable that are, albeit, undeveloped.
So the time to get Thai democracy activists on Nostr is now, before their government shuts them down.
If nostr becomes the channel on which the Thai democracy is able to assert itself, mainstream press will cover it.
The turmoil in Thailand represents a possibile way for Nostr to assert its value, and could also be an opportunity for nostr to achieve a significant adoption stage.
Something I have wished for on Twitter is a way to bring tweets into the Google maps experience. When someone I follow mentions a place, maybe a restaurant or an interesting historical place, it would be neat to be able to access that information layer when I'm inside Google maps to provide some extra context. "Hey, I wonder if there's anything good to eat around here? Oh look, that guy from XYZ that I follow on nostr says the french fries at ABC are great."
What's the best open source maps platform? Does nostr have a way baked into the protocol that would make it feasible to deploy this kind of feature? nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z nostr:npub1ng0gxxuxwldpt8n98mgsthnxaahcd5t45343gsymmpwfmaz4m3gqhqkpmf
Friends on Nostr, a really big political moment is taking shape in Thailand. It occurred to me that, unlike the Arab Spring movement that used Twitter to grow its international exposure, the conservative changes recently made to the information distribution algorithm on Twitter will make that platform less helpful to the democracy activists and protesters.
But now we have Nostr, maybe right now is a good opportunity to work as a community to bring this protocol to the attention of Thai people and their allies so we can try to attract attention frim a worldwide audience and international media who should be paying attention to what's happening in Thailand.
Let's start paying attention to this. Help amplify and keep the conversation going.
#MilkTeaAlliance
👀👀
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Would it make more sense to think about private keys and public keys as a "lock and key" ?
A public key is your "lock" in that it stays open and public facing, everyone can see it, people can mess with it but to do anything useful with it you need the "key", your private key, needed to "open" the lock.
I dunno, maybe that language just makes things more complicated than they already are. Naming is such an important part of knowing.
Nobody reads my posts so this is more of a thought bookmark than anything else, but: as Threads exploits the momentum of its existing network, a useful reminder to nostr advocates to pay close, strategic attention to the adoption paradigm. Nostr is starting from 0, whereas Threads starts at 9 on a scale of 10.
Aside from all the ideological and technical reasons nostr is the superior offer, inertia matters for the adoption cycle.
If we want nostr to succeed, we should not only make onboarding more simple and straightforward, we need to be building footholds for influential users to join. Who are these potential users? What benefits can we offer them here that they can't find anywhere else? How to convince them to join and become platform ambassadors?
These problems are easier to solve when you have a team of growth hackers and marketers on payroll with lots of spend. How are we going to match that as a decentralized community?
My suggestion on this is to focus on journalists. If nostr can become the "go-to" channel for journalism distribution and monetization, if journalists choose to join and anchor themselves to the nostr ecosystem, everyday users will adopt. We need to make it beneficial for journos to join. How do we do this?
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