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A classic. This song fills me with pure bliss and so does the whole Madison Square Garden concert. Never fails to make me happy.

nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm Just made the leap to Alby Hub—loving how seamlessly it taps into the Lightning instance on my Umbrel node. Thanks for the smooth integration!

I don’t celebrate the gains. I celebrate that we managed to create an alternative to a broken system. A system where a few profit by telling the rest that money is complicated, thereby maintaining an absurd mess that tries to imitate money—with sleight-of-hand tricks and dark blue suits.

I celebrate that a grassroots movement has created a simple and incorruptible system that offers near-absolute inclusion. Something that represents the best implementation of the idea of money today and is steadily and gradually making its way into society through a peaceful revolution.

Democracy is under pressure: manipulation, echo chambers, disinformation, and populism hinder informed debates.

Solutions? Promote media literacy, strengthen critical thinking & use technology to foster dialogue instead of division.

A perfect example of a solution without a problem. One day, I’d like to research the whole story about who exactly is responsible for this, what the motivation was, and how all of this senselessness came about.

Rays pierce through the clouds,

Shadows dance on quiet earth,

Time whispers, then fades.

«Social media is how we speak, transact, and shape our identities. We can't entrust our primary communication protocol to a handful of corruptible humans. And now we don't have to.»

For your Sunday read, here’s a beautiful long-form article on nostr: https://reason.com/2024/08/13/can-nostr-make-twitters-dreams-come-true/

Replying to Avatar Ava

I have been using Nostr for two years now, and the lack of a NIP-09 (event delete) or its equivalent standard on Nostr is, more than ever, a significant privacy and safety issue built into the current version of the protocol.

Snowden warned us of the dangers of a permanent record. Have we not learned anything?

Nostr, as it is right now, is a permanent record that seeks to tie all of your apps and your coin transactions to one key pair.

If that key pair is ever compromised, EVERYTHING is compromised.

If you accidentally doxx yourself, you are HOSED.

It's bad OPSEC. And it sounds like a honeypot waiting to happen.

Amber (event signer) is a decent workaround, but it has not passed a third-party security audit, and I still believe a parent/child key system is the way to go as it does not expand your attack surface by having to depend on a third party to keep all of your Nostr business safe.

Now back to event deletion...

The protocol is the protocol. Relays must use the protocol to participate in the network.

If the protocol requires honoring event deletion requests to participate in the network, then Nostr will have avoided this festering security and safety issue.

If certain #Nostr devs don't stop saying universal post deletes can't happen because of xyz (insert biased limiting belief/excuse here), and start figuring out how it can be done... it's a protocol design that's dead in the water to anything but mostly nameless, faceless anons.

The future is privacy-first, client-side computing, not relays. The clock is ticking.

What is your take on privacy regarding the npub? Anyone who knows it can see Nostr through my eyes. The broader the user base and the topics here become, the less I want everyone to see who I follow and what I’m interested in.