Tested on a vpn, no idea who this guy is or what’s going on there, but anyway on vpn bsky is blocked and this one isn’t.
As for the BGS, this deer I think can pull directly, but regardless very curious to see what happens with the main BGS, interesting test.
This might make people who have been hitherto quite proud to have certain of their posts moderated by Bluesky start to feel a little confused.
Keychat is really ahead of the game. Impressed.
Yeah I'm open to that argument. Confidence is a lowest common denominator; if you're confident data is being signed but not not confident it's being made locatable and available then stands to reason you're not confident overall and would still need some fallback anyway.
You're saying X doesn't support zaps? Watch.
Someone zapped me 200 sats on X by commenting with a Cashu token locked to my nostr public key (which is my most recognizable cryptographic public identity).
It took me two button presses to receive it instantly. Fucking love Cashu. https://video.nostr.build/701fba59451003996a9a3c850e77f05e332fbb8151954ff81386b43d54cb0f2a.mp4
Likely the only reason X doesn't officially support zaps on posts (or some variation of zaps) is Apple policy.
I’m thinking more on reverse lines. If your home server is your source of truth then you are in control of that truth as it evolves. With nostr you hand over your truth, signed, to live forever outside your control, unchanged from the moment you sent it away. You become a prisoner of time in a way, a prisoner of a moment.
Pubky is only key-based in the sense that they use a DHT to map keys to home servers. But data isn't signed, which means in order to be sovereign you have to run your own home server. Even then, aggregators/proxies become trusted intermediaries. Nostr actually puts keys at the center of the protocol.
See my nostr:nprofile1qqsdluwc0qu62t3el7nxl93387gmppe56jkvm88vcuwh3lpw4fcevwsc4as3x episode with nostr:nprofile1qqsfxrxw7y3h9hf0zczhelz57rdajse4mz63kn38xu3kkqx2kuv0ekgtx70ra for more details:
> in order to be sovereign you have to run your own home server.
How could one be sovereign otherwise? If all one's notes are stored on relays that someone else runs, is one sovereign? if all one's photos and videos are stored in someone else's AWS account, is one sovereign?
I see it the other way around; a global state will always want to emerge from these kinds of networks, and trying to fight the emergence of that global state is like trying to fight nature itself.
Nostr already has a de-facto global state as a result of private parties crawling and indexing the full network. Not a perfect global state of course, but close enough, and one that enables faster loading, advanced search, accurate follower counts, and much more.
I'd estimate that over 80% of Nostr revenue—as in what could be claimed as income on a corporate tax return—is going to parties that are crawling and indexing the whole network. The parties that are not indexing the whole network are fighting for the remaining 20%.
Slowly the fruits of these indexing efforts, being so tasty, will work their way into all clients, and the fruit juice will seep everywhere, and from that point forward calling Nostr a network with "no global state" will be merely lip service to a glorified past.
This always happens. As if nature demands it. Well *human* nature anyway.
its still a bunch of promises, yet
the main idea is to allow a DNS similar indexing capable of indexing every single pukey that will exist which is totally feasible (similar to DNS) these indexes allow users to reach the content of a particular user, although we have this functionality here in a simpler nprofile link that refers to the read/write relays behind the scenes
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/611b6351863e128f470576586f0e2b9a75f19039/19.md
but from my POV what seems as the big promise of Pukey is that through this all of this indexing stuff they might allow for a weighted graph relationships between users, posts and interactions (Semantic Social Graph as - they call it https://docs.pubky.org/Explore/Concepts/Semantic-Social-Graph ) which is cool and considered the best approach to data in social-media due to the dynamically infinite possibilities for curated personalized experience as its used by facebook (all meta apps)
but as i said that's still a promise
This may have failed the golden retriever test.
It's working. I use Amethyst follower counts as the backend for the random number generator that powers my online roulette game.
That blog (just a few posts as of now, 15 min read) explains all this as efficiently as it can be explained. I'm not going to rewrite it here.
I dunno what to tell you, that's just flat-out factually wrong. Read all the articles in this blog, you'll soon figure out why what you said results from a fundamental misunderstanding of how things *actually* work.
I wonder if per-event signing like Nostr might even be a net negative? Homeserver as source of truth sounds balanced for me—events flying around the indexer or however that works I think maybe I'd rather not be signed, that gives plausible deniability when needed and plausible deniability can be very useful. On the flip slide, if someone is suspicious and does want to verify an indexed event of mine then just have a look at my homeserver, not so hard.
Pubky allows you to prove "what's yours" based on the homeserver you control (tied to your ID). This gets around the problem of events forever out there that are signed by you but that didn't in fact come from you, which can happen on nostr if you expose your nsec, leave your laptop around, etc.
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Fingers crossed lah
This is like suggesting a laptop is named wrong because most of the time they're not placed on people's actual laps.