"Bitcoin" and "Nostr" tagged on every note, no matter what the subject 🙄

Yeah quite frankly I'm pretty disappointed. This is what we're blowing up the economy over?? 🫥

AI gripe: So I guess even Gemini pro doesn't keep a permanent context? Like, I uploaded an entire codebase hoping to have a permanent "expert" who remembers the code and can answer questions about it ...

I log in today, and it seems like it forgot everything. I can still see the code uploads in the chat, but the chatbot doesn't seem to remember them... So I just have to re-upload the whole thing every time?

Nostr and Reddit are my only two active socials right now, as well. Reddit because of the depth of users it's the only place where more "local" subjects and interests are discussed.

They're very different experiences though.... Microblogging is a very different thing from Reddit's "forum post" model.

Dragons, notoriously greedy creatures, are known to Bogart that joint

The best discussions on Nostr are about the future of Nostr 😅

Yeah NGL I've been having some "censorious" interactions across the bridge recently as well...

Maybe just stick around here until people figure out that "system-wide banning" isn't a technical goal to strive towards.

Yep, Pentagon's failed their audit for ... Every year since they've done one?

I'm not a conspiracy theorist outside of the narrow confines of the #ufo subject, but it's instructive to think about the size and scope of a "shadow army" that could be funded with the literal $billions lost by the DoD every year.

Or.... were you talking about some other example? 🙃

I've been seriously considering setting up a Mastodon acct, just to try it out...

But Nostr's experience of actually owning my own identity is too powerful to go back from, for me personally.

I didn't use any kind of mcoroblogging platform before Nostr and I guess I'm willing to leave it at this until it grows or dies completely.

Devs are still pretty active, so I guess the "canary in the coal mine" for me will be when people like nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9u2mk7fe decide to throw in the towel.

I'd have a hard time envisioning a scenario where Nostr becomes centralized... The architecture really seems to resist that.

I'd be more concerned about whether it ever gets traction in the first place.

Yeah, totally makes sense -- and FWIW the way you're interacting with the ActivityPub network, as a single-user sovereign instance, is basically how Nostr works.

It's just not how "most" of the Mastodon network is, where mods dictate the content choices for everyone on that server.

These are both better than centralized social media. And FWIW Nostr is still pretty small and buggy. I'm amazed that this protocol bridge even works when it does. 😁

Yes, OK... The media itself is hosted on some content server. Same thing as Nostr. And like Nostr, you can move it to another server (we've developed a system called Blossom to be a censorship-resistant means of doing this, but that's neither here nor there).

I'm talking about the "reporting" aspect. What you're describing, as I understand it, is a situation where some user on _another_ Activity-Pub federated PeerTube instance is attempting to ban your media for _that_ entire instance.

This is what can't happen on Nostr. Because there are no "servers" per se. A single relay might ban you, or a single user, or some collection of such. But it's not centralized enough so that (say) of Mastodon.social bans you, you lose access to 100k people (or however many are there).

this is a scam, right? it shows up as a "mention" in my client, but I don't see my user name "at"-ed... so not sure how they pulled that off

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Admittedly, I don't post much video content to Nostr... but I kind of assumed if you're already doing editing, etc, shouldn't you have the ability to upload a "down sampled" version?

Is the issue here that legacy platforms will allow you to upload the full-res, and then the user gets to select the resolution they want (or need) at the time of playing the video?

Content can (and does) still get reported for spam, hate, etc... And users can individually censor certain users, relays, or use more advanced filtering... But you're not forced to "pick a relay" in the same way you are to "pick a server" in Mastodon. You can use one, a select few, or all of them and filter on the client-side.

I'm not talking to you through a "server". What you're seeing is a Nostr bridge that acts like a Fediverse server. I'm not a "member" of that server (momostr.pink), nor any server.

Nostr is a different protocol / architecture. Rather than storing your identity and social graph on some particular server, like Mastodon, identities are simply public/private key pairs, independent of any one server or operator.

Posts and other content are shared by "relays", which only exist to pass notes around. This makes censorship effectively impossible, because you can generally always find a relay that will carry your note.

Thus, there's nothing like the situation you describe, where one disgruntled user can get you "banned" for an entire section of the user base.

No "server rules" to worry about?

You should come to Nostr (where I am, if you're reading this across the protocol bridge)..

No censors and built-in monetization.

This is so wonderful. Especially against the "festive" backdrop.

The Right is having its own "woke implosion", just like the Left did back in ~21-22.

"You're a racist, no YOU'RE a racist!"

~~~~🪞~~~~

"You're the Deep State, no YOU'RE the Deep State!"

🤣

Sounds like a nightmare

LOL what a joke.

Cool half a mil to write policy papers and party with the Effective Altuists

In fact, probably just get AI to write the policy papers 😆

Love the vibes.

Are those miners next to the gas meter? Digital and physical energy 😎

Coracle NIP-17 works just fine too.

I suspect we're around the same age, and similarly I wasn't really old enough to participate "culturally" in the 90s, but... It was clearly a very important time, for a number of reasons.

So much of the values we're still fighting over today, the cypherpunk ideals, both "cypher" and "punk" parts, were sort of crystallized in that time period. There was just something in the air.

I'm starting to think the rough period around ~2012-2015 was sort of similar. The Ron Paul rLOVEution, Cody Wilson, the slow atrophy of neoconservatism all contributed to a resurgence of a kind of cypherpunk ethos, albeit more culturally centered on the Right than the 90s wave was.

Yeah the Nostr'ing is pretty good today 😄

wow that's awesome, at first I was thinking "oh kind of like Wired in the early days".... But this sounds closer to Mondo 2000, which was the sort of "underground" prototype to Wired.

Of course, like a Giant Robot Mailman, Internet Archive delivers;

https://archive.org/details/mondo2000magazine

Yep

Okay, I think this might be what I'm looking for, thanks!

Any suggestions on a hosting service that isn't.. awful?

Oh the USG already has that, it's for transporting gardeners picked up on the street in CECOT Superjail (TM)