Well there's a circular bootstrapping problem there. Every social network has always done this in the past with following the creators and early popular accounts, which obviously results in them having comparatively huge reach after the network is established.

So the trade off is; are we going to be annoyed with amplifying early accounts, or are we going to let people join and not recommend the active accounts with lots of engagement, and instead leave them to find active users by scrolling through global? I think the latter ends up with a lot more confused/frustrated users 😆

The best option would obviously be to recommend people for a particular topic or community the user is interested in, but that won't really be a meaningful option until the network grows enough for it to have numerous, separate active communities. Which means were stuck where we are until then... It's just not an easy problem.

"there are no solutions, only trade offs" – Thomas Sowell 🫡

Negative, it’s Phoenix

I have it in a multisig with a Tapsigner I keep at home and a backup of the wallet in my encrypted email, and a written down backup of my mobile seed stored away as well.

So even if I lose my phone and my Tapsigner while traveling, I can just get a new phone and boot it all back up with the other Tapsigner and my mobile key seed words.

It’s how I send zaps, I receive via alby

New version? It’s always been great for me. Been using it for a long time and haven’t noticed any changes. Just works. I’m waiting for Breez new version with Greenlight, but Breez and Phoenix have by far been my 2 favorite LN wallets.

Ha! I receive via Alby, I send from Phoenix. No one can ruin my special numbers and I will enjoy them 😆

I’m not gonna zap anybody for at least a few days so I can enjoy this.

Paul Itoi has a saying “the infinity of Ai is meeting the absolute scarcity of #Bitcoin”

This just makes me sad. I hope they find their family.

The Swann’s won at least 33% of all raffles 🤣🤣

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I used to change email addresses about as often as I changed the oil in my car.

Now I’ve done a slightly better job at managing it by using catch-all addresses. You can setup a custom domain, and then when you sign up for any random service you type in whatever you want ahead of your domain and it goes to your inbox still.

Example:

• Say I buy the domain guy.com and setup my email with it.

• My main email is guy@guy.com

• When I sign up with WSJ to read one of their stupid article for free, I give them the email WSJ@guy.com

• Their email still goes to my inbox, but I set it so that everything NOT going to guy@guy.com is treated as spam.

• If I ever want to block WSJ crap, I just block WSJ@guy.com

• If I ever have a flood of emails from tons of services I never signed up for, I know where there leak is from, because they all came in on WSJ@guy.com

It’s a useful strategy. It’s still a mess after like 5 years. Email just has that quality. But it’s much better to manage this way.

Small network, there just aren't enough accounts with the network effect necessary to counter the trend of those who have a large following here.

I think it's purely a product of size. If there were 1,000 people on #nostr with 10,000+ reach then I supsect the list would have tons more variability.

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Lol no idea it was a joke. It’s just a massive block of text, I never bothered counting.

🤣🤣🫡😘

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Omg… link?

Absolutely. If Cashu ever catches on, regardless of what other features or tools it’ll have, it must without question have a means of displaying or implementing the 928 character wall of a token exchange in a visibly pleasing and useful way.

As much as I love the idea of these ecash models, having to use that giant block of nonsense text is just crap UX 😂

Lol, how did you manage to trap yourself into that? 😂

GPT4All is a great one, and also despite a bunch of models requiring like an A100 or V100 card to run, there are a number of decent models available with Prem ai too, plus a variety of non-LLM stuff.

For image generation, my favorites have been Automatic1111, and ComfyUI both using stable diffusion. Great places to find models, LoRAs, embedding, etc are civitai and huggingface.co. I know there is another aggregator I used while I was focused on stable diffusion but I can’t remember right now.

Unfortunately LLMs locally run are not the best, the GPU power needed is still just outside of the “prosumer” capacity so you might need a hosted option (Google collab or something) and/or leaning on some of the bigger tools like ChatGPT before the wave of GPU sharing networks finally lands.

Still looking for the best local run LLM stuff and I’ll be sure to discuss it if I find some secret sauce.

All of them.

It can definitely work, I just can’t troubleshoot the steps without a VM.

I could try to throw something together this afternoon though and we can see what we come up with. It would only take a simple installation of FFMPEG and maybe a traditional bash script.

I’ll look into it and get back to you. Could be a fun, 30 minute project or so.

I hear there’s a podcast that fixes this 🤣 nostr:note1z6vfp7undvt9c2kn3sgqk6tc0aykr7q2p33a2q07xg84fnhxhpms9evnl9

Needs a PIN so you can’t sign with a flipper. But I keep min in an NFC protected wallet anyway.

But it literally does 🤣

Good thinking.🫡😆

I was a bit intimidated myself and sat on my miners for like 2 months without doing anything. It was not at all as complicated as I imagined. The machine is dumb, give it the internet and some pool login credentials and it just starts hashing. It wants to hash really bad 😆

S9 is not even that hard. Plugs into a regular outlet. Get a more quiet fam and use that crypto cloaks case (or make your own if you’ve got the tools and a fun idea) and then just plug the guy in and you’re basically good.

Definitely change the fans though. 😆

ok this might be closer to what I'm looking for. I'm investigating thank you

One Nation Under Blackmail Vol 1-2

This might be my best strategy actually, lol. I just try to be very deliberate about my follow list, but maybe I need to let that go.

Shit, I’m gonna have to update Damus I think. The text box moves on me when I do a long post and it literally stuck a section into a completely different paragraph from where I was typing it. It’s frustrating as hell. And then scrolling doesn’t work so I can’t even find it.

I’m gonna lost my Damus zaps 😢

Anyone ever just stop and think for a bit, about the fact that #Bitcoin fucking works?

Seriously appreciate it for a second from the view of those trying to think it up when this was literal science fiction. What an absolutely insane long shot. The very notion that practically a handful of nerdy anarchists & dissidents on the internet could create a global monetary network who’s rules would supersede governments across the planet… it’s almost idiotic it sounds so improbable.

And for everyone squealing about what the price did last week or how in 10 years we will have X problem or whatever… it’s easy to forget that it’s just there. That it’s working. That it’s half a trillion dollars worth. That it’s monetary policy hasn’t changed since block 0. And despite the ire of countless authoritarians… it persists.

What a wild fucking timeline.

The consumer debt for those sorts of expenses only got normalized in the 70s, it wasn’t nearly as common then as it is today. Debt is the norm because both the debt itself is being incentivized (price controls) and those things are more expensive than they would be on a sound money standard. Which is obvious because the high prices are a result of the former, debt is literally newly created money, so it has massive upward pressure on prices.

In other words, the reason everyone needs debt to pay for everyday things, is because debt drives up the prices of everyday things.

Doesn’t at all mean it all goes away, credit is a fundamental part of economic activity. But it won’t be anywhere near the prevalence that it has today. Don’t even need to go very far back in history to see examples of a far less debt ridden society and how people pay for things.

The classy-ness cannot be matched 🤣

I at least think stablecoins are a useful bridge for a lot of people and specifically in certain areas in the world. CrYpTO on the other hand…

Lol, all things aside, wireless charging has been a thing for a long time, it’s just super lossy and inefficient, or at least always has been. Even now you have to be super specific of where/how you place the device. But wirelessly powered devices have been a thing for almost a century if I’m not mistaken. Just with insanely low power loads. There was soy devices at least in the 50s & 60s era that were totally passive until you shot focused radio waves at it, it would have enough power to run through a prebuilt circuit and could be used to broadcast audio from the room. In a way this is what NFC is, it takes just enough energy from the radio waves to run a tiny circuit and produce a computation.

The simplest explanation is that electromagnetic waves are just a form of energy.

We are like 5 episodes deep on this topic right now on @bitcoinaudible 😆

It’s not necessarily about growing an audience, simply that the point of social networks is to be social. But this is a solid frame that I wish more people had.

Whitney is a Chad.

Damn, nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 beat me to it 🤣

#3 by a good margin, imo

Next one is a banger

I *very* rarely endings in any joy when I see someone else hurt, even people I don’t like for various reasons. But unapologetic thieves and tyrants have a special place where sympathy is really hard to come by.

Richard Heart is a genuine piece of trash. I won’t lose any sleep over this.

Not yet. Gonna work to actually get Obsidian connected more easily to Nostr is what I’m hoping now.

Just had an awesome long conversation with #[2]​ and we specifically discuss that a few times throughout. Hoping it’s published maybe tomorrow. 🤞🏻

This next cycle is going to get nuts

This one was just super fun to make. 100% I took on way more project than I was ready for with Davinci. But it was worth it 🤣

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