it might as well be - my sense of humour can be Pythonesque at times
i've basically been complaining for years about how ActivityPub chose to solve the identity problem. i've been on Mastodon since 2017 - a year after it was released - and the lack of nomadic identities was always a pet peeve of mine
the basic architecture of Nostr is basically what i've been saying that ActivityPub should have been - but ActivityPub was designed by a W3C workgroup, so of course it had to centre around existing web standards to even get accepted
ahh, yes, the ancient Greek philosopher Testicles [testy-klees] and his parable about the Athenian hero Pubes [pew-bees]
"Camera" but pronounced as a Spanish surname
Miguel Camera
in my Nostr indexer, i generally just store events verbatim, but i make an exception for the "content" field. my code always attempts to parse it as JSON and if it succeeds, it stores it as an object in MongoDB. this is because the "content" field sometimes contains JSON even though it's not officially supposed to. the NIPs don't mention where relay lists are usually stored, but it's in the NIP-02 contact list events, in the content field, encoded as JSON. in case anything else is also stored as JSON in that field, i just try to decode JSON for it no matter what kind of message it is.
output from my indexer. the pubkey number is the number of unique accounts. the rest is just how much information my indexer has been able to gather about them.
i'm gonna say we're about 22k active humans on here.
i'm not tracking the most spammy relays and the stats there seem to suggest about 12k active users per day. i'm not keeping stats per day. this has been running for a few days. their stats say about 20k weekly active "high quality" users - i.e. not spam bots, so that matches up fairly well with what i'm seeing.
i think my Nostr indexer knows most of the active users on Nostr now and it looks to be about 22-23k accounts. it's watching the global timeline on some of the most active relays on the network and is listening to all events from them to collect account information, and it isn't updating its account database very often anymore.
a Snufkin i drew for Inktober 2016
sensing that my patience is running out, so if you don't immediately get me now, you're per definition an annoyance.
snort.social has problems. so does iris.to. so do most Nostr clients.
least buggy client seems to be Damus on iOS. i often have to go check stuff on my phone because all the other clients spazz on me.
i'll go to my notifications on snort.social and much of the time, it'll show me the thread for a fraction of a second, only to disappear and be replaced by a blank screen.
Damus never does that. it's not a fancy client but it does the job and doesn't seem to spazz at all.
ironically, it had a lot in common with Swedish, yet your average person considers Swedish pretty smooth while Nynorsk is cringe. 🤷♂️
i remember one of the sysadmins at a company i used to work at
he said he hated the name Svelte because it's the unsexy Norwegian Nynorsk word for "starve"
snort.social has problems with some threads, it seems like
all in all, ducks are a bunch of quacks
i'm borderline mad at ducks, because they can walk, swim AND fly, like wtf, you're not supposed to have your cake and eat it too...
and you're flying there together with your mates in the squadron and are going there in formation. i gotta admit i'm somewhat jealous of birds.
imagine being a migratory bird and just flapping your wings and stopping by for snacks and then you're in a different country, and you've got the perfect climate all year round.