Local coffee shop (PH Coffee) is now digital only and has a pay it forward system to help prime without digital means. They've been robbed probably 4-5 times. They were actually just broken into again, but they didn't get much this time due to the change. For most basic ass people small things like not getting all your money stolen (without making a huge daily security process for lower wage workers opening and closing the store) will rank above ideological quests. Anyways I see your point but I don't blame them.

I wonder how many singers are known for a distinctive style that's really just a product of doing an impression of something else, and it's so god-awful that it sounds original. I mean something has to be going on with Elvis Costello.

I get it. Sometimes your in the middle of GitHub and it hits you: "I need to quit this mess and join major league soccer." Good luck on your sports career.

funny how lofi term was stolen and now means like hi-fi produced chillwave with samples of reality inserted in or whatever. lo-fi usually was loud noisy recordings of diy bands but want necessarily genre specific. I just funny the term is now convoluted and the most common usage now is paradoxical because it's almost all hi-fi produced

you're doing great things

Unless your getting Nostr development news from here this is a terrible source. People are trash and spread what-the-fuck ever reinforces what they *want* to be the truth. Here is no different and it's just as susceptible. The reality is it's just a hard problem in this connected age with division and sensationalist based incentives. I didn't necessarily see it improving soon, but until it does you need to take many sources into account and look into sources and their money.

lol

sorry for typos. I got used to swipe typing before it started to suck more and more the last years. I need to just type like normal or double check before hitting ok, but I just don't care as often as I should, considering that it's inconsiderate. That being said I'm a big supporter of edit with visible history.

Things are improving quickly thanks for all the hard work from all the nostr dev community

This is an overbearing opinion. He's blending specific implementations based on corporate greed with multiple design styles that 1. Are not the same 2. Do not buy themselves opress.

If you had a clean Scandinavian minimalist design that was very abstracted/far from handmade/craft, and every person had an a decent sized personal office that closed (with blinds). People would not feel oppressed. They would decorate with bits if themselves or some people would keep it clear because they prefer clean visuals without distraction. Also you can plug in a fucking incandescent lamp for other lighting while still having the same design. A lot of people like working in light cose to daylight in kelvin. Not me but I know plenty.

This is just like someone thinking, oh throwing the baseball fast is better, so shooting it out of a potato gun is better for the game of baseball. He's just running with it far beyond logic. And he's forgetting that handmade can be just as oppressive with propaganda and forcing a strong specific style on people to say think and be this way or else.

You people thrive on oversimplified sensationalism.

well tofu is a bad meat replacement but it's a good food in its own environment

I'M YELLING

I started a community in the current implementation (librearts) so I'm familiar, but people are working on community specific relays. These would let relay owners moderate their own relays more completely. The makers of nostr all have talked about smaller vs bigger relays being the focus. They don't want a system with just a couple relays that everyone's on because it hurts the decentralization and sustainability, but what that means in a global view is that you're not sure who's going to see what you post similar to the issue with mastodon, and that problem extends to the current implementation of communities. For global view this is less of a big deal since you are generally just posting very general things out to anyone following, but for communities, you want to rely in the fact that the whole community can see it including strangers who don't grow you. Community relays fix this issue. People subscribe to relays/communities that they want that can then be smaller relays (or groups of relays for redundancy), but can also be sure that everyone in that community will see the post. And the reason we would want an app is to create the best first experience where you are seeing things you like, and also it would be needed because it's a totally different app concept to the Twitter-replacement app that we're on now. This would be an app more akin to Reddit or Lemmy but with proper architecture where each community can govern itself, be a paid relay, or complete with another community. And an app would just help people sign up and pick topics/communities they like, and then they would immediate have a main feed of strangers posting about things they actually are interested in. The communities could assist choose to be secret and not report to any people running a directory/app. It solves the problem of too big relays, helps the problem of discovering things you like from people you don't even know to look up, and makes them onboarding process easy to get an app tailored to your interests.

Seeing everything built on nostr is bittersweet: social, communities, survey forms, wikis, journal apps, etc. Finally a protocol that is simple and open enough to see this kind of community input and software growth. But then the community has no urgency to create a more eclectic experience outside of circle jerking Bitcoin. It's very 1 note. Community specific relays and apps that utilize selecting them during user onboarding is one possible way to correct the course.

I like the protocol and don't care about Bitcoin at all but I also probably am not interesting to follow.

Working on a my new compooper so I can repurpose my old one as a home server and get away from a lot of the publicly owned web services and streaming platforms that keep screwing people over and ruining their own products for their shareholders.

#happybirthdaytome #fuckyourcompany #ifarted

I've been hearing murmurs about folks working on community specific relays (or a group of relays for a community). I think it would have the biggest impact so far on user base adoption outside of the bitcoin religion.

It sounds like Stuart from satellite.earth might be working on something, and also the mostr dev was talking about "Ditto" which I think might intersect with the idea.

It would be interesting to see on the client side how a GUI might look like to switch between relays like one can switch through subreddits in a reddit app, or create custom named relay groups you can switch through in the same way.

This would also decentivize people from all being on the same few big relays.

Who is currently working on projects related to this that I can follow?

Yeah my guess is it was inconsiderate idiots bringing their own personal shit into a crowd of thousands. Knowing KC, most of the violence involves idiots shooting eachother over stupid shit like insecurities. It's sad man I wish people works just punch each other and keep living, or better just live knowing you hate eachother without escalating to violence. Obviously that's just speculation, but damn, not cool.

I was referring to the bridge, not xmpp or sip. Because phone numbers are still desired for the reasons I originally posted, a bridge only highlights why most people are still needing to have phone numbers to function in this world. It's about "availability* to more people's situations, aptitudes, services, and locations. And it's about both cultural and institutional *consensus* that the phone numbers are needed to participate with they who run the shit. To be clear, I do not want the status quo, but it's a narrow view for , well yeah there are so many things that could replace phone numbers. I mean if we are talking about this kind of power, I would ask why did people use .mps when .ogg or .flac were superior and didn't cost anything to build for? On a technical merits only level: easy, there is no good reason. But the history, spread, funding, business, power, profit, behind how .mp3 remained relevant so long is what is more discussion worthy. Same thing here. I'm answering assuming he was asking about why people, themselves, in this world, decide to us;l e a phone number (including for a bridge)