My final slide from my keynote today on the main stage in Nashville

Onwards! ✌️

Cheers, America.

this is actually the lifetime struggle of a backend engineer. it's easy to just slap on lipstick onto a poorly designed engine, but its not going to make it perform better. maybe new bells and whistles every then keeps users happy, but it's not going to ever change the game unless you throw out your original prototype and build it right.

this is what I've done with nostrdb and notedeck, and I've designed it in a way so that I can backport it into iOS. it just took a year or so to build a database from scratch and prove out the new model/prototype. feels a bit like building a game engine from scratch... lots of upfront work but it will be so worth it.

It will be the foundation for every damus client going into the future. I feel much more confidant building on top of this new tech than the original iOS prototype.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I made Damus. damus is one of the oldest clients in active use, and has accumulated lots of cruft. It doesn't even work in the outbox model. The new local relay model makes the outbox model possible in damus, which has been damus' biggest criticism.

but yeah, sometimes its hard to explain all this, so I'm ok with people saying I suck in the meantime. it's probably too hard to communicate why I'm doing what I'm doing, but I'll keep trying!

Not lying lol

He's right. For starters, most people should at least establish a known Nostr identity as a backup.

nostr:note17luu3jfqyucz2sjggkmdt3vhwxc0ngt0h8pem3tc98xa09jadf4qcjmvsk

By the way, you got 'Labor Elected in Uk' in our 2024 Nostr Bingo. You also have 'American War', so fingers crossed 😂. Joking.

From the Babylon Bee:

Yes

Bystander was hit and sadly passed away but secret service took out the shooter as well. Not sure if this was shooter or bystander.

The idea that only zaps are quality signal is dumb.

This is like ignoring the vast majority of people who don't want money in their social interactions.

Imagine standing in a circle of friends and zapping each other 2 cents every time someone said something you agree with. This is just not how social interactions work. Money was never part of the social agreement.

Proof of work and all / actions speak louder than words / put your money where your mouth is... I get it, that has value and is absolutely true in other context, but not in social. It's a nice bonus, it's great to be valued with a payment for something you put effort into, but it can never replace free expression without the expectation of payment. Believe it or not, some people don't want money involved in their conversations.

That's not to say that you can't have it, but don't insist on only zaps. It's going to turn people away.

Exactly. Get this girl a pony or something for fuck sake. Fucking eleven or so year old talking about central banking. Gtfoh

This compromise doesn't have to be made, P2P networks figured out much of this a decade ago. Look at #I2P, #Freenet #Hyphanet. I wish nostr would integrate some w these platforms, especially for media storage. They are more decentralized and more censorship resistant.

Not really. I’ve just been hit before and it’s only really bad for like an hour or so. My plan would be to pop an oxy an hour beforehand

Keet. At least higher than signal? Still waiting for info on your site about it.