I’m using damus exclusively, TestFlight, no notifications for me.

Only on some clients, you?

Yep, no notes or replies. An option to mute and have them disappear from the following list would be great!

Anyone else have a slew of npubs with full, real names and no notes start following them?

feels ilke bots

Exceptionally biased, unrealistic opinion:

Anyone on nostr using Gmail, Google (in general), or anything Apple software/systems is a hypocrite and should be looked fun of. Not harshly, only mercilessly.

#badopinions #unpopularopinion #beexcellent #dobetter

Welcome to all my new bot followers 😂

#seedoilfree #healthybots

Many people who became very wealthy and successful on the Fiat Standard will lose their wealth and struggle to find success on the #Bitcoin Standard.

Never had heard of that before, but that I’ve asked, but interesting. And great!

None I can measure

If I have no fear, am I abnormal?

“Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. Usually the strength of a mass movement is proportionate to the vividness and tangibility of its devil.”

- Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", p. 86

#politics #religion #divideandconquer #conflict

i like to calculate upcoming dates in terms of how many “gn’s” away is it

#nostrasia is 2 gn’s away

gn

now it is only one away 💜

Going to bed on a bed with freshly laundered sheets is a nice perk that's almost worth the hell of getting the dang fitted sheet on correctly without proper side access to the mattress.

Goodnight! Take care. Rest well or wake well, whichever comes first!

#goodnight

Good night ✌️🧡

Officially deactivated my Twitter. 30 days to deletion 🔥

#nostr only bitches

#NostrNovember is just two days away. Do you have your social media posts ready? What Other Stuff from "the Nostr" will you talk about?

For example: Stemstr, Wavlake, Zap.stream, nostr.cooking, highlighter.com, ostrich.work, and many other "Other Stuff" use cases of Nostr need to be marketed to the masses.

that pain you're feeling

let it flow

savor it

yet time limit it

for it is not meant to destroy

but wake you up

so you can see

where you are

what you're meant to do

who are the people

that in the dire need

at least listened

empathized and carried part of the pain

and who are those that fed it

with tricks, lies

and selfishness

Gn

#farmupdate

Ah. Thanks for explaining!

I think there’s a lot to unpack here.

Yes, people love a good story. We are wired to act emotionally and irrationally as you point out. This has always been human nature - appeal to emotion not to the rational part of the brain. No surprises there.

Another part of it is the feeing of having contributed to someone’s well being. It makes us feel good thinking we can play a small part in this unfortunate situation. Even if we realize it could be fake. We see this time and again when people try to make a difference when in the zoomed out view you know you’re not really making a dent. It’s the difference to the individual that matters. And a lot of times that requires a leap of faith to do what you think may or may not help, even at the risk of being ripped off. On the upside - you make an impact on someone’s life. On the downside you lose some sats. I really doubt the people who donate don’t understand that it could be a scam - more likely they acknowledge it and look past it anyway. The downside is too small to care about that much. It’s not that people are fools, just choosing to believe they’re told the truth.

I know for me personally I go through that rationale flow. Could this be a scam? No - give. Yes - do I think there’s a chance it’s not? Yes - give, no - move on.

As for developers, many are now being supported by open sats grants so they (and me) are not really working for free. We were just afforded time to work on nostr instead of something else. And yes, many are still doing it on their own dime and should be contributed to a lot more generously - not denying that.

Ultimately, I don’t see any harm in potentially helping someone out at the risk of losing some sats to a scam. In the end it’s up to the individual’s own financial situation, value system and risk analysis to determine what’s right and who am I to fault them for doing something I wouldn’t? We’re all grown ass adults here, let us do as we please.