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Andrew
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Software Engineer by day, aspiring beet farmer by night. ☦️💻⚽🏥📷📈💪☕️🇺🇸🇪🇬 Things I like: - #P2P/#decentralized/#opensource stuff - #History (esp Rome/Greece/Egypt) - #Transit oriented city design - #Gadgets/#ElectricVehicles/#Solar Power - #Space exploration - #Videogames (especially #GTA) Things I've Built: - Agora: Follow your favorite topics across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads https://agorasocial.app - Chronicl: Decentralized web archiver that distributes archives across Nostr relays https://chronicl.vercel.app/ “Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor” - Roman poet Theocritus

This is one of the fundamental problems of the

Fediverse/ActivityPub model, where your chosen instance is the

arbitrator of what you see.

In comparison,

even if the operator of a big Nostr relay bans/blocks an account, users

who follow that account can still see their stuff because they're

generally connected to multiple relays at the same time.

On

top of that, even if every relay in my list blocks an account I follow,

NIP-65 makes it so that my client will find which relays that account

posts to and pull in their content. Only I get to choose who is blocked

from my feed, not the relays.

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You’re always welcome to relax over at nostr! https://agorasocial.app

Rare to find NIMBYs like this in the wild, they’re usually huddled in town hall meetings shitting themselves over the idea of people doing things with their own property that they can’t control. https://t.co/BqHueVGLN8

The Arab Gulf countries forever embarrassing themselves and showing money can’t buy class or a culture of any worth. https://t.co/WMzclP7A5t

Fun fact: the Arabic word for the orange fruit "burtuqan" (Egyptian Arabic)/burtuqala (standard Arabic) is literally the Arabic word for "Portugal"

This is b/c when the Moors colonized Iberia, they used Portugal as a cultivator of oranges and shipped them across Europe & the Middle East

#funfact

#etymology

#history

Fun fact: the Arabic word for the orange fruit "burtuqan" (Egyptian Arabic)/burtuqala (standard Arabic) is literally the Arabic word for "Portugal"

This is b/c when the Moors colonized Iberia, they used Portugal as a cultivator of oranges and shipped them across the Middle East

nostr:npub12tyk735v52ju032qahe3k2r520jlsujaem6xr8n0ex6u7eqj0anq59vnqc fedi admins meeting with Meta under NDAs is shit, that's what it is.

It's effectively giving Meta power over fedi, by giving Meta power over what fedi admins can and cannot share with their communities.

Which admins went, do you know?

#Fediverse #FediAdmin

This is the issue with the "feudal lord" model that exists with Fediverse instances, and why the Nostr model of relays makes it more resilient to things like this.

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♫♫ You can check out any time you like

But you can never leave ♫♫

Didn't realize the song Hotel California was about immigrant parents marriages ayyoooooo

"2024 Lexus TX: Getting The Three-Row Luxury Crossover Formula Right" #cars

https://www.lexus.com/TX

Fun fact: the richest person in Mexico (and 9th richest in the world) Carlos Slim Helu comes from a family of Maronite Christians from Lebanon.#TIL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Slim#Family_and_personal_life

The gallery of all their different tailfin designs is super cool!

#aviation

#travel

https://www.jetblue.com/flying-with-us/our-planes/tailfins

This is the closest thing, though it does require a bit of set up, and is something the average iOS user won't bother to do: https://altstore.io/