You probably need a udev rule for the coldcard to give your user access. Looks like they've got a stock rule: https://github.com/Coldcard/ckcc-protocol/blob/master/51-coinkite.rules

I'm somewhat surprised there's only one rule, since they've now released 4 versions of the coldcard, I would have expected them all to have different USB IDs 🤷🏻‍♂️

Note also that your ubuntu user will need to belong to the `plugdev` group, linux group membership changes require a full log out and log in, and reloading udev rules live is kind of annoying, so I recommend just rebooting 😉

> I love the way you can use various Nostr apps without having to sign up for each one.

That is definitely another major weakness of the fediverse, even though the ActivityPub protocol is capable of doing arbitrary things, it needs to be supported by the server you sign up with, and the most popular servers (mastodon, pleroma, and misskey) all only support social media type protocols.

Technically pleroma is flexible enough for arbitrary other use cases but no clients have been written to take advantage of it, to my knowledge.

UX is vastly superior, media handling isn't an afterthought, pubkeys are annoying as user handles (Even now I get two results for @ nvk when I'm typing a message, and I just hope it's the one with more followers, iris doesn't even indicate which one I'm already following)

There's definitely a much wider diversity of topics, like you mentioned, the blue tribe has a big presence on the fediverse too, there's also commies and honest to goodness nazis (whatever you feel about that, I think it makes a good case for the fediverse's anti-censorship properties). There's a *lot* of non-bitcoin technical discussions, retro technology, anime, general nerd culture.

I haven't put much thought into that landing page, here's a way to see a feed of (almost) all of the traffic thebag.social is aware of on the fediverse though: https://thebag.social/timeline/fediverse Note that the way the fediverse propagates messages, thebag.social has a pretty limited view into the fediverse as a whole. Discovering and following people on other servers automatically widens that view, though.

As for the email requirement, I actually never set up email so you can enter any bogus email if that's putting you off ;-) I probably should figure out a way to remove that from the signup form.

if email is censorship resistant, so is ActivityPub

He did, to my knowledge, the first bitcoin "transaction" over HAM radio using JS8, and probably is responsible for orange pilling adam curry in the process.

If unique, decentralized, human meaningful names are impossible to provide otherwise (to our knowledge), and such a thing is desirable (I hold that to be self evident) then "why not?" indeed.

If you're afraid of being called a shitcoiner, Namecoin was the first alt, came out of a satoshi-endorsed proposal, and never positioned itself as an investment, although I don't know if the project is dead or not, it's been on life support for a while.

Mastodon is part of the decentralized fediverse, there's a lot more than just mastodon.online there's mastodon.social, and ~10k other servers. I run thebag.social for libertarian/voluntaryist types. Users on thebag.social can (but almost never do) interact with users on mastodon.social but we interact a fair bit with the rest of the network.

nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 used to run bitcoinhackers.org too nostr:npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd used to live over there.

fiatjaf compared the fediverse unfavorably to nostr when he created nostr. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#the-problem-with-mastodon-and-similar-programs

nostr certainly has advantages over the fediverse (you own your keys and therefore your identity on nostr, on the fediverse you have a user handle that is tied to a particular server, and essentially owned by the server operator, like email) but I still prefer the fediverse so far (it probably doesn't hurt that I own my server and therefore concerns about identity ownership are pretty much moot).

Oh good! Thanks!

Glad somebody can! haha, thanks!

I don't like watching bitcoiners cheer for regulation, even if it smashes shitcoins. The slope is far too slippery for anybody who understands government to cheer for this.

I'm assuming that the friend-of-a-friend spam mitigation technique makes me effectively shadow banned on here.

Genuinely curious if anybody can see this.

I don't post often, and what I do post isn't always interesting, but nostr feels like I'm screaming into the void, even when replying to existing threads.

Yeah it looks like iris.to attachments get hosted on nostr.build. Current might have their own service with its own content policies.

I'm not clear how media is meant to be handled on nostr, but I believe attachments are not hosted by relays. Presumably the app provider might handle it, and so they'd have a say over moderation and content.

who are you following? my feed is 99.9% noise

Do you have any reason to believe this is really RFK? Best I have is nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 saying someone else confirmed it on twitter... https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1656368362610389011

Has there been any thought given to subordinate keys? A subordinate key could provide a signed proof that it can post a particular set of event kinds, and clients should consider it as originating from a different key. This way applications could be granted "permissions" without giving them your private key.

It probably doesn't even matter in most cases, and the subordinate key unaware client would just see an independent identity.

This also opens the possibility to have an offline master key.

I personally don't see a problem with supporting deletes, it just comes with very confusing yet important to understand caveats for users.

The real problem is user expectations. A copy of your note has been distributed to thousands of different servers, desktops, and phones, complete with a signature proving its authenticity. The only thing you can do is politely ask those other parties to please delete their copies.

On the fediverse there is a Delete activity, and 99% of servers respect it, but several do not. You can never know for sure if a server retained a copy, and unlike a fediverse post, or a twitter screenshot, a nostr note contains a signature proving its authenticity.

I'm surprised nobody (that I've seen) has discussed timelocked coins for identity establishment. It's cheap for honest actors and expensive for spammers (since as soon as their identity is identified as spam it's toast and they'd need to lock up more coins to create a new one)