Is it an inferior product? The current social media product deployed by the platforms is best viewed as an addictive drug, rather than tool for building communities. Hate, doom-scroll, and dopamine hits: that's the model.

To the extent that what the user wants is mindless addiction, we are not the right service for them, and good riddance.

But to the extent that people want community, want true connection, want real value; that's what we're building, the tools to make that happen. If we can make it known to those who are looking for it that we have it, they will come.

That close? You can see them naked eye?

Still think there's gotta be a way to advertise Nostr without the confusion of advertising a protocol. People never said to each other "Hey man, you should come over and see what I've got going on, I'm on http but you can find my profile on www.myspace.com"

I talked two separate small businesses owners into researching it. "Instant settlement with no chargeback risk, and a fee average of 0.1% paid by the sender." Had their full attention immediately.

Many rich bitcoin owners use the Buy->Borrow->Die model with their bitcoin, and in that model never selling is the right move. It is also peak fiat, literally impossible without broken money. These people just see dollar signs; Bitcoiners In Name Only. Talking about you nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m

And the capital gains argument is just surrender. At some point we have to refuse to pay at least the unjust taxes, and it's much easier to not pay taxes when part of a large crowd that does as well. Hard to get larger crowds than entire social media networks.

You can bow before the state or die in it's prisons / the street to it's enforcers. If you want otherwise, you must use enough force to prevent it.

The use of force is by it's nature a governmental action, since the only thing governments can actually do is use force. So, small government, big, whatever it is, remaining free demands that you act to control a government. That's not what voting is anymore, but it is what it was intended to be.

Bitcoiners who fail to understand this will either be consumed by the state, or be able to shelter under the protection of bitcoiners who do. Bitcoiners who do not merely pay the miners to use force to secure the network through PoW, but also pay soldiers to use force against any who would violate their freedoms, and vote through their wallet or their ballot over what those freedoms even are.

As for how to sell the garbage to begin with sans kyc, robosats ain't bad, but beyond that someone else is gonna need to answer.

Hope it helps.

I'm a big fan of Aqua right now personally. Mutiny is continuing to be a great choice. And of course if he crosses past 1m sats, start hodling cold.

Set up with Zorin Pro after the Recall news broke. Still figuring it out, got kinks and some tradeoffs, but man I should have done it earlier.

Has anyone else looked into running a web browser on top of Nostr? It should be possible to embed html inside of notes, and to extract and then display the html properly from there. Biggest difficulty I've identified is that it would require forking http, and that may be too much.

I just wish it were easier to track. Life comes along and pulls me away for a few months, and when I come back so much innovation has occurred I'm not sure what the right way to do things is anymore.

Stuff like this leaves me certain that small meteorites have killed people before. It's just so rare there's no record of it. Glad she's not another casualty to space.

If only the people I'm trying to reach on X were actually over here, then I wouldn't have to run headfirst into the damn censorship when I speak out of turn.

Though perhaps I dodged a bullet, so if I did, let's make sure it actually lands by saying it here:

@ATFHQ We the PEOPLE coming for you, ATF. The best case is we fire all of you, and throw some of you in jail following trial. The worst case is we revolt and kill you all in the street like dogs. Let's hope our better nature wins. You are on borrowed time.

Calling it now: Friday-Saturday is going to come with some power outages, communication issues, and potentially some serious hardware issues. It will be in an indiscriminate, uneven fashion similar to the net problems a few months back everyone thought was a major hack.

WARNING: We are now on a time crunch. Swift, the payment network that backbones the banking system will have full CBDC infrastructure active within 12-24 months. This spells the end of the ability to buy bitcoin directly and escape the system. If bitcoin is still only a store of value by then, we will be slaves to the central planners.

We have that long to make mass-scale payment infrastructure work on bitcoin. That long to make bitcoin work for billions of people rather than millions. That long until the currency advantages of lightning are matched by CBDC and are no longer so impressive. It's not long enough, so we have no time to waste.

If some venture can't be made profitable, then people don't want it.

Protocol and research work are best dealt with by patronage. We don't want such things to be proprietary, and that means donating directly or donating to a patronage charity like OpenSats.

Other things are best paid for. Hosting, client hosting, websites, etc. Cost can be worked out, but the right price isn't free.

Having a plug and play setup where when you zap anyone, you also zap those services you care to use as a percentage set by you needs to be universal. An example: I zap 100 sats to nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 for this post, but instead of all 100 sats being sent to NVK, 2 sats are sent to my client, 1 is sent to OpenSats, and 97 are sent to nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 because I have 2% set for client and 1% for funding patrons. Can we figure out a way to make this happen. Even better if the client can be adjusted based on what the client is at the time of usage.

More than a little confused. We're either talking around each other or you're trolling me. I'll give you benefit and assume the first for right now.

It isn't actually a problem that there are a small number of main relays everyone is using. It's a network effect, same as with the other platforms. The huge difference is that if 1 or more of those 5 relays begins to be a bad actor, they can be dropped as a relay and replaced without interfering with the existing social bonds formed here. Only Nostr has that redundancy.

It is trivial to download all of an avatar's events from all of that avatar's relays and post all of those events to a new relay. It's not even necessary to be the owner of that avatar. So as long as at least one of the most used relays remains a good actor while others go bad, a personal relay is not necessary. And if a person is concerned they might be targeted for censorship, a personal relay is a perfectly viable option; it's not even hard to do.

What are you talking about? Those who control your avatar's data outside of Nostr obviously have full control of it, but they can't be fixed. Within Nostr, your avatar's data is within your power to completely control. Have a local machine that runs a Nostr relay and content hosting, and the data you create is completely under your control.

When dealing with cyberspace, there are always 3 elements. First, there is an interface. This is a web browser, app, etc and the hardware it runs on. Then there is the avatar. This is the identity that the user is controlling through the interface. Finally there is the digital space itself. On Amazon, the interface is a browser or app, the avatar is the user account or guest profile, and the digital space is the online store and media gallery. On twitter, the interface is the same, the avatar is the account, and the digital space is the Twitter cesspool.

In nearly all of cyberspace, two or even all of these elements are owned by a single company, usually the space and avatar. The spaces are separate and disconnected, and users have no true control over their avatar except that which is permitted. Except for one. Within the nostr system, the interface is a client, like Primal or Damus, the avatar is wholly owned and controlled, and while the space has private and public "land", it has no owner nor can have one. All other platforms could be adapted to Nostr, and work effectively the same, but the spaces would be truly connected.

Now the question is how to simplify that for the layman.

With all of the work being done by gov to go after "cybersecurity threats" I'm beginning to think we need to show them just how secure we can make our non-bitcoin networks with bitcoin.

A server firewall could be set up to refuse 100% of connections that aren't directly accompanied by a successful lightning payment of some significant value. Then you still need the proper login credentials. If you have the right login, the payment will be refunded, but if not, the server takes the payment as cost for wasting it's time. For ultra secure servers, this could be done via on-chain transaction rather than lightning.

Pretty confident that such a server would easily survive a head2head hackathon with any nation state.