I 'member.... New versions of #amethyst is one of the only times I have this experience anymore.
Not a fan of the font.
Also feels very "AI made this", as others have pointed out.
It's effectively one-way. The developer seems to have given up on it:
nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzptujz495l5qzjfqrzwr0wyenkzhajaq6qah4cuutcfsr5k6e6eclqyfhwumn8ghj7am0wsh82arcduhx7mn99uq3wamnwvaz7tm9vdkxjurnv5h8qatz9aex2mrp0yq32amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wdau8gu3wv3jhvtcqre2xsetnv5k5yunfv3nk2uedfejk2epd2ahhy6ed8pax2eeh0gqsepwq
I suggest using momostr.pink , which is more difficult to use, but seems to actually work for 2-way communication with Mastodon.
I mean, that makes sense but -- isn't a lot of the Eurostack stuff specifically about more of the "infrastructure", and/or business software layer?
Like alternative to AWS, etc -- these things aren't really about protocols vs closed source, it's more of building data centers?
Yeah it's interesting to look at this in the context of legacy social media: Facebook and X literally *can't* interoperate, not necessarily on any technical level -- although as these platforms are constantly introducing and taking away new features that becomes fraught -- but because of legal and fiduciary issues.
Meanwhile, I think there are certain common "nouns and verbs" to microblogging social media that at least allow for some "floor" of interoperability -- posts, likes, comments, reacts, boosts, quotes, etc -- these things in their basic form are pretty universal.
Obviously Zaps aren't going anywhere outside of Nostr, but signalling an "intention to Zap" could be a powerful way to attract people to the network.
On the one hand, I want this to succeed because of the state we're in of the Quasi-Nationalization of American Tech...
On the other hand, this looks like exactly the kind of bureaucratic morass that keeps the EUs economy stagnant.
The bridge are IMHO only meant to be temporary solutions, but they're important ones. Facebook's early success had a lot to do with "bridging" to MySpace.
Eventually there's going to be "one ring to rule them all," and my guess is that's Nostr. But in the interim we can use bridges to communicate with a much broader user base.
Actually, Mostr is pretty broken, as I've described: nostr:nevent1qqsdpsmq6zx6aq83p3gs7w2720m9a9l9cuzv9r2s79u00jkkutaxzdspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsyg90jg25kn7sq2fyqvfcdacnxwc2lkt5rgrk7hrn30pxqwjmt8t8rupsgqqqw4rs3snhy6
Agree that this is a pathway to what nostr:nprofile1qqsyk3sjx32e4xs5qj2rtcwapeyrj95yfn4d4h7kkhdgyjc409fmmespr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmnt9urzqpjr has described as "adversiarial interoperability."
Personally I think this is a great way to jumpstart Nostr's growth, but I don't think it's a long-term solution for the reasons nostr:nprofile1qqst9ge7953et4c854glcpp7ctdcke2ml0jf2m4dltdav9dppalp5usppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyfhwumn8ghj7mmxve3ksctfdch8qatz9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcywv3cf describes.
Yeah I'll have to check that out... I have to say Balaji Srinivasan (hey look he's got a ghost profile on Nostr, nostr:nprofile1qqsrvuevcd072cv94ud3z9s28y7kcuapleqamugcfsgrjnpgefwky7c0te9us ) was a pretty inspiring figure in the 2010's, as an outspoken advocate for "digital exit." This got him quite a lot of opprobrium from the NYTimes etc.
But I found The Network State to be sort of .... hollow. I think it's like you said, it still pre-supposes States, but tries to invent some category of decentralized State that I guess.... "somehow".... supplants or replaces existing States? As if any major Nation-state is going to create some kind of special "un-citizen" class that are governed by entirely separate sets of laws?
This seems pretty fanciful to me, especially in the current moment. I imagine someone being tossed on the concrete by masked ICE goons desperately reaching for their QR code, "no wait, I'm a citizen of a Network State!!" 😂
Bet on the over/under for wen "end poverty"!!
well gotta admire the hustle, I guess...
This is what bumped me about "The Boys", right off the bat. The inciting incident in S1 E1 is the main character's girlfriend gets vaporized by one of the Corporate-sponsored "Supes".
And there's not even (a) any attempt to contact the police, (b) any attempt to contact the press, (c) any notion of what that girl's family was doing along the same lines.... nothing, just "oh nobody's going to believe you." The GF just gets "fridged" to serve as the inciting incident for the main character's revenge quest.
Yeah, to a certain extent I get it... 🤡 world and all that....
But that only goes so far, narratively, if you're trying to explain things away. Trash still gets picked up. Murders still get investigated. Families still make efforts to find out what happened to loved ones who mysteriously disappear, or appear to be suddenly different, etc.
Yeah this is a gripe that I have with a lot of contemporary speculative fiction, particularly horror and some science fiction that places its setting in the "contemporary" world.
It's one thing to have individual characters react in "dumb" ways to the threat... The classic "don't open the closet!" thing. But when there's some kind of mass public event, you expect certain things to happen by the authorities.... Questions to be asked, actions to be taken, etc.
When those things just get waved away in service of the narrative, which happens in this movie and many other movies/shows, it really bumps me.
"Weapons", which I spent part of my NYE watching, is a decently serviceable horror flick in the "what's wrong with the children?" sun-genre.
In retrospect there were some pretty significant plot holes, but I guess if this is your jam you can look past that stuff.
As we straddle the New Years, let's just hope we don't have a "groundhog day" situation and we all wake up back on Jan 1 2025
Pentagon loses $100's of billions -- I sleep
Somalis defraud $millions -- REAL SHIT
I'm pretty sure what Trump meant by "drain the swamp" was "line up to kiss my ass and give me trophies if you don't want your businesses to fail"
You're right, it is a practical protocol choice... One that I think does have arguable impacts on decentralization.
This is similar to the "blocksize wars". The argument for decentralization was that, if you increase the block sizes too much, it will be too costly in terms of computation to run a full node.
There's something similar there in comparing (say) SSB or ATProto to Nostr. The former systems require you to update the entire state of the system, and keep it live-updated, to be able to participate in the network. This, in my understanding, is a big reason why ATProto isn't more decentralized.
As for the experience of legacy social, say X users, as I've argued both the "permanence" and "deletability" of posts on those platforms are sort of illusions. Do X users really trust that some tweet they made 5 years ago is still on the platform? Conversely, does Kanye really think that when he deleted all his tweets, nobody's archived or backed them up? Of course not....
And it should be mentioned too that you can always make your or anyone else's posts permanent by backing them up + OTS signing....
Well yes, it's undoubtedly a shift in mindset that's required, just like fiat ---> crypto.
Deletability is another is issue. While "expected user behavior" for legacy social media is that posts can be deleted (even if that's kind of a meaningless "Kabuki" because of screenshots etc), that functionality is very limited on Nostr.
In a similar way, people expect that their banks can reverse transactions, which is by default impossible with crypto.
Yeah this is one area where I really side with Nostr.
Kind 1 microblogging should be at least somewhat ephemeral. This is somewhere between a blog and a chatroom, I care far more about immediacy than infinite logs of everything.
yeah... Sorry to ramble, but a lot of silicon valley people are into this, which leads to some .... "weird" places. Like Elon's support for Trump, he's let slip occasionally stuff like "this is for the future of humanity", etc.
They make some "calculation" that they need to do one thing over the other because of the idea that it will mean life or death for the entire human race.
Obviously, I think those "projections" are overblown, particularly if you're applying them to something like the US POTUS race.
Well the EA's have designed their moral philosophy around the imagined trillions of humans who might exist in the future.... So that's why they, suggest donating to AI safety or anti-bioweapons causes, etc, over, say malaria treatments.
The calculus is, making sure that trillions of humans exist in the future > helping human beings today. It's a "Star Trek" time travel episode turned into moral philosophy.
Oh ... I mean to each his own... Carbonated water is somewhat acidic AFAIK so it would upset my stomach in the middle of the night
I don't think there's any substitute for just pure water.... I like carbonated water too, but do you wake up in the middle of the night thirsty and crack open a bottle of Perrier? I sure don't...
It's always a shock when you meet people who just don't drink water. Like, they exclusively drink teas, sodas, etc."Don't like the taste" of pure water.
I'm just thinking "how are you even alive??"