Whats so good about Damus? honest question, I really dont know.

don't yall have amethyst

Using it right now!🤙

Damus with a sweet Material You UI - YES!🔥

I really wish we had Damus.

I haven't tried it in weeks. When it first launched it was a web wrapper. I was grossed out and uninstalled immediately. Android Maxi for life.

Iris is meh since it's just a web wrapper. I much prefer native clients. Iris on desktop is sweet though.

Nostr is not a good user experience on Android yet. So, I still need it.

Regardless of the outcome of the litigation, probably all core devs (at least new ones) need to be pseudonymous from now on.

wladimir seems to have made his github account private due to pressure from faketoshi

bitcoin devs are being pressured and silenced

I believe this is what Iris.to is doing, it works. It's not exactly friends of friends, but it's like... craw your posts, likes, and those real people's likes, posts, etc, for everything.

You can build a graph of the whole network and spammers are an order of magnitude less connected than damn near everyone else.

Building a dam that at some point has to break

Should I make the adjective list friendlier? 😆

Restricting DMs to paying users was the business model of former earn.com (a pivot of the failed 21.co raspberry pi home miner). Today its a feature of nostr. Good progress.

Elon has absolutely made things worse, IMO.

Amethyst user can choose to set e.g. global search only to see content broadcast to paid relays.

Nostr had my curiosity, now it has my attention.

Amethyst just eliminated the spam problem overnight.

Paid relays and selective client side relay filtering (a la the new Amethyst update) truly put the user in the center of their experience.

Feels like in the next few years, an incredibly dynamic market will emerge around paid relays and their ability to price out spam.

Excited where this is going.