Feature Request - Lists
To be able to create lists of people and then see their posts in a View.
Feature Request - Adopt List
Someone who likes your list can import it and then see the view. Adds community.
Feature Request - Multi DM. For a given set of pubkeys/users (maybe extracted from a List), send DM. Newsletter function.
All the above need finess. EG maybe only can add people you follow, or DM people who follow you.
I use the Alby wallet. When i get sats there is a code with it. Is there any way to use that to know who sent them? Seems odd to unable to say thank you.
Part of me is "hmmm", part of me is "well, that's a fine experiment" and part of me is "could be the thing that keeps things civil".
All very interesting :-)
The paid ones, like mine. Because so far, spammers don't pay.
Some of the other free ones are using spam as adverserial training material and may win for a while, so might spammers. This is all very new on both sides, and the spammers are already running bots...
So you can see who has DM'd them and who they DM'd? Just not the content of the DM?
Do you live in Hell?
On public transport, London is amazing compared to where I grew up.
Want to go somewhere? Buses ranged from every half hour to every two weeks (I kid you not).
After 7pm? You're walking home.
Got a GF 14 miles away? You're cycling there and back. (I'd have gotten seriously fit if that one had lasted!)
Moves to London, Edgeware, top of Northern Line. Station is ten mins walk. I had a car, because my weekends were away, but it parked up on the street and didn't move. OK, it did once. I naively figured that the North and South Circulars were some kind of speedy road that would enable a quick trip to South London. Didn't make that mistake twice :-)
Even now, I drive to Hillingdon, park, get the tube. 1-2 changes and maybe a bus, I'm anywhere I need to be.
Spent this morning listening to the world service on Nigeria. They totally fucked up a currency replacement process.
THAT is the sort of thing that will drive LN adoption. Anyone know if it has there?
Asian friends in the UK, when there is a marriage GOLD is given to the wife (not sure who by, certainly some from the grooms side) and that is hers.
Always.
It's her running away money, her money to help raise her kids if the guy turns out to be waster etc.
Because gold has a high value to portability ratio. And doesn't need access to banks.
Even in Europe, today, most people over 50 had grandparents alive in the war, and a load of them had to run for their lives.
Would be fun to see user defined bitcoin seeds*. Gold can be taken off you by bandits and border guards (often the same people)
Y'all gonne tell me they exist already aren't you :-)
Gloucester, Cheltenham, Newcastle, Bristol, and family in Oxford. All are limited by their geography in what they can do to improve, but big cities trying to be more liveable is excellent.
I lived in London for a couple of years before the cleaner rules, and while it had terrible air (still does, not so bad though, emission have clearly reduced), and it will never be a 15 min city, it did have excellent transport. Most Londoners I met don't have a car, don't need one. Many had never even learned to drive (bit of a shocker that one. I learned at 17. Provinces had to, or you were walking the 5 miles back from town after 7pm).
My nephew when a toddler living in Oxford used to line up his toy cars. For a race you say? Nope, his game was "traffic jams and car parks". That was 20 years ago. Oxford hasn't been freely drivable since about 1975.
It might be that you are in the US and haven't lived in fairly compact cities, where, provided that alternatives exist, cars can get optional.
FWIW I lived outside Rochester NY as a kid for 18 months. Loved it, but, we had to drive EVERYWHERE. We even took the bus to school, a distance that in the UK, at 7, I'd have been expected to walk. By myself. (Less than 2 miles. At 11, it goes up to 3 miles).
Drive to the shops, which at home, i walked to. Drive to the library, which, at home, i walked to.
Some constraints exist due to infrastructure, but many are in the mind.
Since when was owning a car a right? In well organised cities many people never even learn to drive. I grew up in the countryside and passed my UK test at 18, but London friends have never bothered. They didn't need to and it's expensive.
Also, assuming that something is a problem because of a resource bottleneck, is usually found to be a flawed assumption.
The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones, and the horse age didn't end because they ran out of horses or feed. (Late Victorian England there was a LOT of worry that we couldn't grow enough feed for the horses AND food for people, the populations of both of which were expanding fast, while land in our island, not so much)
We are not short of Lithium. We have limits re identified economic reserves, but that is a very misleading figure. If price goes up suddenly more becomes viable. And we have hardly even started looking for it. We're not much further on than defining oil reserves by where it actually seeps out of the ground. Not being full of salt deserts, here in the UK we've looked a bit harder and found it where we find most minerals, underground.
Price signals also drive technological solutions. Sodium batteries have already reached "drop in" stage. IIRC they are not quite as energy dense as Li but that's becoming less of an issue as charging stations increase in number and charge speed. We have literal oceans of sodium.
And your suggestion for a better system is?
I'm with Churchill. Democracy is terribly flawed, but better than the alternatives.
It does attract liars, but the real shocker is how many people believe clear liars. How TF did anyone ever vote for Trump. Or a party lead by Boris Johnson.
Nostrgram, actually ALL clients should be inspired by Snort's FOLLOW ALL button.
From a network growth POV without algos, this will aid growth and adoption much faster than adding one by one.
Bulk Add and Prune is more user friendly once people have started on their Nostr journey.
This anti 15 min cities thing is bonkers. I've lived in 15 min cities and London. 15 minute ones are a much more pleasent experience.
As to Oxford, my nephew was a toddler there 20 years ago and one day he was lining up all his toy cars. For a race was my guess. Nope, he was playing "car parks and traffic jams". No one has been able to drive easily in Oxford since about 1975. Because we spent 900 years building a walking city before the car was even invented.
People you follow and the people they follow
Nothing to see here.
Is something I get a lot on Nostrgram. But not always.
My Global is often hours behind.
The core Following seems to be just dandy though.
#[0] generate a logo for a nostr relay called nostr.naut.social a purple ostrich in a space suit
Something completely different, but if you are a native English speaker and really enjoy good conversation (like, all day, every day), check out https://www.puebloingles.com/ I've done it twice. It's intense, but excellent. Might go again next year:-)
Yeah, I get 1-2 joins almost every day too. But I need 3-4 to break even. But, it's fun. I'll always be able to say I had the first Uk Paid Relay, which will be fun until until no one knows what means. I also wrote the first uk.finance but that stopped meaning anything around 1998...:-)
They're growing, not thriving. Right now my revenue covers about half my cloud costs.
Doesn't matter as it's all about the experiment, but paid relays at scale will need to make money. Not a lot - mostly they will be a utility business so the time costs of management can be spread across thousands? tens thousands? users.
My view is that it will shake out to annual costs of between $2-$5 per user per year, maybe less if management time is minimal.
Always remember, it's relay owners who has to deal with DMCA issues. THAT could be the time suck that really pushes costs.