GM and not-enough-sleep musing: Zaps are really the superpower of Nostr. Once (if?) this platform really takes off, zaps will be the flywheel that drives growth "to the Moon."

Every other social media monetization scheme is a highly permissioned, Byzantine nightmare for the actual content creators who rely on them.

Once they realize that they don't have to do any of that on Nostr, expect a flood of content creators to come here. Mark my words, the only thing holding that back is the DAU numbers.

9 sats for coffee?? 😅

Seriously though, great to see brick and mortar businesses with a Nostr page!

Amazing... Subway station?

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or you know.... become communists 😶

well HOA can't tell you how to decorate the interior...

Hoo boy that didn't age well... Guess things gotta get worse before they get better...

~2013 did feel like a uniquely optimistic time in recent history.

I guess, depending on whether the price was getting higher or lower..

Maybe I'm missing something... Are you a werewolf? Or perhaps a werewolf hunter?

Cows are more skittish than the cat is 😅

Yeah trying to remember gen chem flame test, Mn might be right... Maybe something with Cu? 🤔

Would need to see an emission spectrum to be sure.. Or I guess scrape off some and have it sent for ICP-MS if you're really curious..

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Ooh neat, I'd fire up my spectrometer to take a look at those emission lines...

Google says Rhodochrocite fluoresces red though?

Yes, the Mostr bridge seems to be fundamentally broken... I've told Gleason about this and he responded with a expletive-laden tirade, so I don't think he's in a mood to fix it.

Momostr actually kinda works, AFAICT, but it's an anonymous dev.

I totally respect wanting to have a "Nostr-only" experience and just blocking the bridges completely... My concern is new users who see and interact with these posts just like they're any other Nostr posts, not knowing that the "phone is off the hook" on the other end.

I mean if this is true, we might as well pack it up and welcome the Future of Humanity: Broligarchs vs Eurocrats, forever.

Nostr's a ghost town because nobody's heard of this. I mean, barely anyone knows what Mastodon even is, and they've got 1 million DAU's!

And everyone gets censored, sooner or later. Left, right, it doesn't matter. Millions of teenagers are getting "censored" right now by age restriction laws in Australia.

Yeah fair enough... but I follow a bunch of Mastodon npubs through Momostr that don't post anything about politics... just like a bunch of Nostr npubs don't

I mean yeah he's certainly no anarchist or even libertarian, but he is quite literally arguing for decentralization here:

"Decentralization is itself a defensive countermeasure (code). When a service has diffuse power, it’s harder for any one person to take it over. Federation adds another defensive layer, because users who don’t like the way one server is run can move to another server, with varying degrees of data- and identity-portability."

Perhaps he's naive about the ease of user migration on Mastodon, but he's obviously envisioning a system with robust "exit" options. The sentiment in the above paragraph is entirely compatible with a Nostr ethos.

I'm sure many have that sentiment but I don't think it's universal at all... This essay by nostr:nprofile1qqsyk3sjx32e4xs5qj2rtcwapeyrj95yfn4d4h7kkhdgyjc409fmmespr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmnt9urzqpjr is an argument for decentralization precisely to fight against "fascist friendly" Musk's takeover of X: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-01-23-defense-in-depth-self-marginalization-c13d7ba746a1

gonnnnna need more 💰💰💰 tho

Well sure, a "smart guy" who 100% doesn't deserve to see the inside of a jail cell....

I guess what I'm wondering is, is that the same for all the other MD's and PhD's that, apparently, are incarcerated at such a density that they can actually form a "friend group" in the joint?

Do we really have that many "evil geniuses" in our society, or is this yet another indictment of the American Carceral State that so many people of this intellectual caliber are locked up?

Sure... I'd contrast Bluesky and Mastodon, though... Take it with a grain of salt not having been on either of those platforms, but it seems to me that Mastodon is much more decentralized in practice than Bluesky.

The Mastodon follows I've found practically all come from different servers, most of whom aren't the "big" ones. Many of these are small servers, themed servers, and even single-user instances.

There's a massive infrastructure difference between this and Bluesky... and I think it makes Mastodon users much more amenable to Nostr, because there's used to the idea of federation meaning "I block the people I don't like" rather than "the people I don't like need to be scrubbed from the protocol completely, if not the internet writ large."

I agree. We get the content of 1 million+ DAUs who are talking about things other than Bitcoin (in fact, just about everything except bitcoin)... meanwhile, we get to "infect" the discourse with the "Freedom bug". Everyone wins.

Now we just have to fix the dam(n) bridges!

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I found myself wondering specifically about this line:

"Omar introduced me to several of his friends, mostly doctors and highly educated scientists."

I suppose this could be a facility specifically for white collar criminals, but it did also occur to me what a depressing state it is that any prison has an entire "crew" of people with MDs and PhDs....

Let's see what response this gets on Nostr : "Bitcoin is for everyone, even the Woke Left." 😜

Plenty of Nostr users already advocate for that... But to preserve their own right-wing echo chambers.

"Relay-confined Nostr" is just Mastodon with extra steps.

Freedom Tech fails if it's about "left/right".

Plenty of people on the Left (broadly defined) see the value of decentralized systems that aren't controlled by large corporations...