My interest in Nostr has lost its spark. I think I’m done being curious about it.

I don’t know if it’s because I have a growing family I want to dedicate 100% of all that I have on them or Nostr and the internet in general have never really added any lasting value to my life… unless of course if it’s necessary for work.

This is my personal call to retreat from the digital life and live fully offline in the real. I’ve always known this time was coming and I believe that time has come.

I’ll drop by once in a while to see how some of you are doing. I’ll leave my Signal down people if you want to say hi. The people do make the place and there are people here I do cherish. You know who you are. ♥️

Be well and Godspeed!

nyc is cooked

the writing has been on the wall for a bit now

will probably turn around in a few decades

but if you can afford to move, you should

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Digital IDs

Privacy / encryption

Immigration

What is NPM?

FYI there is a massive cyberattack on NPM right now, package developers being attacked, nasty commits being added and published, tokens being stolen and used to corrupt more packages. The ecosystem is currently widely corrupted. We just got an advisory from the NZ government about it.

Well explained, I hadn't really thought about filters as a vector of trust before.

It's interesting that you didn't call out web of trust as a spam prevention strategy, because that is implicitly the subject of the post.

Web of trust seems to work pretty well on nostr for reducing spam, but ironically destroys something like bitcoin which requires global (objective rather than subjective) consensus.

I happened to be reading about XRP this week (don't ask), and discovered that in lieu of proof of work, or even stake, their sequencers are validated by being included on other nodes' "UNL" s, or "Unique Node Lists", and don't receive fees for mining blocks.

These lists have to be meticulously curated, because any significant deviation between node policies will delay or even stop the network. At best, this curation happens on the social layer, and is in no way adversarial. If you break social consensus, you get kicked off the island and lose the ability to sequence transactions. XRP has 190 nodes, but only 35 are generally trusted to validate the network. To make matters worse, XRP curates a UNL which they encourage the network to use, and "carefully vet" node runners before including them. XRP is completely permissioned; it is no more decentralized than the Fed's board of directors.

I write all this because XRP demonstrates that web of trust is inherently exclusionary, and can only work to the extent that that is desirable (as in a "compliant" digital currency). It may have a minor role to play in decentralized systems, but only to the extent that those systems need not be considered "open", i.e., permissionless.

Again, this is ok for curating feeds on nostr, because I do not want access to my attention to be "open". Network partitioning is part of nostr - there is no "global". There is only my subjective, incomplete view of the network. Strategies other than web of trust are important for bootstrapping new users' reputation. But money has to work for everyone, at all times, and requiring reputation to transact essentially creates a social credit based permissioned monetary system.

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Nobody is actually against Bitcoin having spam filters. Fees are just another filter, not fundamentally any different from any other filter. Even Core is adding _new_ filters: TRUC and ephemeral dust are two recent examples (mandatory in Core, and optional in Knots).

They're just against _you_ having a say in what filters you get to use. They want to dictate that you use the filters _they_ choose.

Instead of decentralized policy, they want a centralized policy.

(And they're not even choosing sane ones! Who in their right mind wants to relay CSAM???)

Ԍood morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 🫂🤙🏻💜

Building your own apps and watching your ideas come to life thanks to open software and open protocols is incredibly satisfying.

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