you have to curate your own feed by muting hashtags and users and following hashtags that interest you. It takes a minute, but you will find all sorts of other topics being discussed here. In the Damus client, you can set it to show you ONLY the notes and replies from those you follow, which can include zero bitcoiners. Other apps dump their algorithm on you, nostr invites you to create your algorithm, but yes, on a new account with no follows or blocks or mutes, you’re going to see a lot of bitcoin talk, but PLEASE come drown it out with discussions about other topics, because you’re not the only one complaining about this!

seeing this YES is when it finally hit me after about a week playing around here. #nostr is the absolute killer app of social, and because of the endless collaborative possibilities between projects and the open publication of content duplicated on decentralized relays, I think it will eventually displace everything else that’s trying to compete with xitter, reddit, ig and the rest. I have experimented with a few other apps like wavlake and fountain, and you can easily log into these apps with your nostr identity, enabling sharing of information, like what you’re listening to on #wavlake to be transmitted over to your nostr profile. Unbelievably cool. I know this isn’t news to many of you, but I thought sharing my noob realizations here might spark a flame for someone else new, because none of this is obvious at first glance.

The one fear I have is the single point of failure in the nsec key, and what happens if someone gets a hold of yours. Is there a permissionless 2FA that can be introduced to the login process? I saw Damus has the ability to sign some kind of termination event on your account if, say, someone started rogue posting with your stolen key, but I don’t know how the relays handle this or if other clients would still let them post as you. Someone could decrypt all your DMs with your key, etc. I suppose signing apps are one answer, where you only import your nsec key once, then use that app to sign an event that proves it’s you in order to log into other apps, but this key slinging is a bit scary, and should be treated with the same seriousness as guarding a seed phrase to a cold wallet. More is needed here to protect nostriches from key loss/theft.

tl;dr: it takes the purple pill about a week to dissolve in your gut.

nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424

#gm #music #musicstr #tunstr Andrew Bird & St Vincent | Soirée de Poche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q37IAlsw8r8 #art #artstr #coffeechain

likewise 🙏

turning off location only prevents some installed apps from accessing it, but your mobile provider still knows where you are (even if you’re on a VPN and websites think you’re in Amsterdam) and Apple & Google know your constant location on iPhones and androids no doubt. I would be extremely skeptical of Airplane mode on these devices because who knows? Best way to prevent smartphone from phoning home is a modification like this printer got https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8

You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one conspiracy theorist with 40 facts

to demand the best for myself

to find new friends in the real world who share the ideals discussed here on nostr

to consolidate my UXTOs

to continue to reject alcohol as a poison with no good qualities

for every day spending, I convert as much fiat as I was already going to spend on something to bitcoin as possible for my purchases (if the entity takes Bitcoin of course) so that I’m still invigorating the network without touching my cold storage

agreed! This reminds me of how one day the recycling truck came by and dumped all my washed bottles and containers right into a truck with all the regular garbage headed for the landfill. I watched and this happened more, not every time, but often enough. After this realization, I stopped putting the recycling into the container, and this reminds me of when I came to understand bitcoin, and how my beloved fiat savings were being trashed, that realization that can’t be unseen, and similarly, at that moment, I stopped putting my fiat into trad savings and drained every account into bitcoin. I like to say hyper-enthusiastic instead of obsessed, only nocoiners will call you obsessed because the rest of us get it and think of the enthusiasm as a good thing

maybe they will follow over to nostr

there’s DOZENS of us!

I totally respect your decision, and Blockstream Green is a solid, trustworthy product. However, from a privacy standpoint, I would suggest you also consider the data these apps collect. See Blue vs Green vs Nunchuck App Privacy notices and compare:

maybe a cultural difference preventing the realization lol. Also, bonjour is one word 🤣

“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own” — Epictetus on the virtue of Wisdom. #stoic #stoicism #philosophy

Continuing in my efforts to dilute the left/right BS binary choice forced on us all, instead of seeing evil in the ‘other’ sides of society, I’m working to change my internal narrative and look within to root it out. Tune out politics and tune into your passions. Create something! #proofofwork

I zapped you from Damus -> lightning wallet

What client are you using?

united with #bitcoin : divided with parties

#p2p peer-to-peer does not mean ‘directly from one party to another with no intermediary’ A p2p network is described as a distributed application architecture which relies on a robust network of clients to work

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer