I think there will be value in it for things that people want to drive the price down for. So small business marketing design, basic website stuff, things which people just want to be faster, easier, and cheaper. Not saying that I think it will be good quality, or that I think it will be good for the world, but just for example most small business owners don't want to pay any money at all for the website. If that can be AI generated, they'll take it. Most people don't want to write their own documents, write their own emails, or really make any effort at all.

I think that will drive a lot of information/service workers out of the market, but to be fair if you're a gardener for example, AI isn't replacing you, it's just saving you money on your marketing/design costs. So from that perspective it's "exciting", or rather completely unexciting but at least a bit useful.

I know the feeling. But that does also highlight the beautiful simplicity of the Bitcoin base layer. It just works.

How does one defeat #replyguy once and for all? Thank you!

Yes!

GM from my border collies.

Keep up the amazing work.

Thanks for the tip! I've added that relay now.

Beautiful

I just feel like if you see a list of where to find me, and the top 3 things in the list are all places that you've heard of already and you already have an account there, why would you ever bother with the number 4 spot on the list.

I think we need to achieve a critical mass of people saying this is no.1, and there is no 2nd best.

I was actually hoping you'd post that! And Dickens is my favourite author.

Scary stuff. As you say there's a glimmer of hope with relays on phones and other innovative solutions.

But on the whole people it's a pretty bleak time for the way people understand and use computing. But also the best time because now we've got Nostr, it's strange how there's always a paradox between it being the best time and the worst time and the same time.

So how do we make sure that we can control meat space too? How do we bridge that gap?

What I mean is, yes we can opt out and that's good and useful, but what about when we want to achieve things irl? Even you're using your real identity here as an example.

Or do you just mean that being able to selectively keep certain things private such as transactions and private messages is enough of a shield? Just asking for clarification.

Woah that's bad. Thanks for the heads up.

What were the shadow ban incidents? I hadn't heard about that. Thanks

It goes to show that we've still got a long way to go before the user experience of LLMs is good enough to just be seamless and totally integrated.

I don't think people even realise any more that they own their computer, and they can do whatever they want with it.

I think people have been totally brainwashed by 'the cloud'.

I'm not sure that Nostr will have any reach if people look at it that way though.

If it's just an afterthought, and it's not where the audience has to go in order to interact with people, where's the incentive?

Surely enough people have to do decide to go Nostr only to actually get the snowball rolling?

Exactly, people don't even realise how conditioned they are. It's your computer, you can do whatever you like with it!

Exactly. Not your files, not your data. Just like not your keys not your coins.

We can't rely on someone else to keep hosting the files because they've said they would. Digital preservation is vital, and decentralisation is the only way to make that work.

Exactly, and this is why they can't just ban Bitcoin or Nostr. It would make the government illegitimate over night. Same thing Bangladesh where they just turned off the entire internet (literally) for days for quell protests. Yes it worked, but at a huge cost to the economy, and it cost the government any last shred of legitimacy they might have had in the eyes of the people.

I think you've answered your own question below when you said about unplugging from the matrix. That means you are in the real world. Bitcoin is technically illegal now in the sense that it's not legal tender, and yet that doesn't prevent you and another person from agreeing to transact in Bitcoin. Same thing with Nostr, if it's illegal, it will be up to people to just decide to use it anyway, but for ethically sound reasons that don't break anything morally enforceable laws. If enough people do that, an illegitimate government which had made that protocol illegal would crumble in days. And that's why they won't ban it, because they know the ban would weaken them.

They can ban X in Brazil because they know it doesn't weaken them. X isn't a protocol, it's a platform, so it's not morally neutral. Banning Bitcoin and Nostr wouldn't be like banning X.

What happened. Did it say something embarrassingly incorrect about building?

Wow, I hate to say it but I'm surprised how economically illiterate of a thing that is for them to do. Surely people won't be fooled by that. They'll just try to spend that currency as fast as possible and as you say prices will go up. Shocking.

Well I can certainly recommend a good tea, but it's not black. Have you ever tried white tea?

It's so refreshing and energising. It's a totally different type of feeling just in how it interacts with your nervous system.

I would say though, if you do try it don't get too addicted, because if you drink several cups per day there's a real cumulative effect after a few months 😄 . But if you treat it as something very special, it's the best.

This is my favourite: https://www.teapigs.co.uk/products/silver-tips?_pos=1&_sid=337ceb0bb&_ss=r

Would be good to have import options for subscriptions. Selecting the opml import option actually does nothing, because it just tells you to export from another app, and if that function just doesn't work for whatever reason, or if your other app just wants to export to a file, then the practical effect is that Fountain has no import options. Would be better to support several file import options, or even other sync services.

Does anyone know why some of my #nostr direct messages don't show up in some apps but they show up in others? I've got lots of relays, and I've also paid for a few including nostr.wine, but I guess I'm missing something. Just as an example, one of my direct messages shows up in Amethyst on mobile, but not on any of the desktop apps that I've tried. #asknostr

Thanks

How does one join a Nostr paid relay?

I've found a list of them, but I can't find any good information on how to join/pay the fee.

Thanks #asknostr

Fr, when you own Bitcoin, anything that happens is like 'yes, fiat harder, do it'

That's the other thing about floss devs, they don't know either half the time.

But then someone figures out a use case. No idea how!

I presume you know that's a long running tradition in all open source projects 🤣

IMO, all that matters, especially where ordinals are involved, is does this hurt or help Bitcoin?

Politicians and grifters may think they're using Bitcoin to get 'rich' but all that matters is whether this is increasing adoption and whether it could harm the network.

Beautiful.

By the way who's the singer?

https://fountain.fm/track/rDftqjxXwCysceWH2IXw

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