I'll be honest, I don't care.
My LN is just a bit of spending cash. Convenience trumps all, because I have like under 100 bucks at risk.
My main stash, is cold.
I am moored up by a country Church.
3 hours in, bell ringing practice is, well, thank god for our gun laws :-)
Some of the brightest people in the world believe in God.
Even though he doesn't exist. Or might be the God of a different religion.
Seek not to worry about why people believe things. Just accept that they do. Or fight them, if those beliefs involve requiring YOU to live your life they way they want.
Is that still a thing? Seems very January 2023... :-)
Yep, i mute and he pops up again. How do we kill him with fire? Can you mute based on text strings?
Well if that's where you start, EVERYTHING has always been centralised and always will be. Going right back to hunter gatherer
Er, yes, it was.
I was there, building my first site on a tenner a month shared space with Demon having read "Learn HTML in a Week". I started on Gopher and WAIS and even Telnet.
Centralisation happens because people like it. They get big services at low costs because of economies of scale.
The same thing will happen to relays. I run nostr.naut.social. It's 4000sats, on most of the lists of Paid Relays, it's a UK Relay so all UK Nostrians should join for that paid relay speed. It covers about half it's cloud costs and NONE of my time.
This is fine, we're all exploring, but roll on 3 years and most people are going to be on the very reliable high performing FREE Google Relay because it's FREE and IT WORKS.
Nostr, like everything else built by people, will be what it will be, and that is almost certainly not going to be anything remotely like what the idealists dream of WHERE those dreams clash with human nature.
One part of me lives at the cutting edge of technology on Nostr (and in 79, BASIC and in 93, Web), and yet I'm also lugging all my water by hand...
How do we stop the Benitez Chavez Wilson spam? I've muted but they bounce back. New accounts?
I still like my cards :-)
Mind you, I have no banking on my phone. Not even a LN app. And the only banking I even have a password for is a usually overdrawn current account :-)
What's your threat profile? I like cards. Sometimes in binary :-)
Didn't a password manager get hacked recently?
I like lazy gardening. Ponds big enough to look after themselves and fruit bushes/trees ditto :-)
cashu looks quite techie....
BBC Plug : Restart. Gamer radio thriller podcast thing. On the Sounds App
Ah, not an expert but I think to give away sats, (other than zapping), the person you want to give them to has to create the invoice.
Dear Nostrgram Dev : Please can I have just one day to get used to stability?
LN payment failed. Reason Given: Failed to process LNURL pay.
you're not quite zap ready...
First mute today. I will NOT be thanking you later.
Penis Guy
Shower Girl
Hellthread Day
One day you'll proudly tell your kids you were here and a witness.
And they'll say "whatever".
Occaisional Trumpet blowing : You can join my relay. You should if you are UK based, probably also if outside UK but want a relay for reach in the UK/EU area.
Just noticed that different Clients have different zaps. Snort could break me:-)
Anthony Pompalino, mentions Nostr
Religion hijacked holidays, enjoy any and all that you want.
If some people have an issue with it, it's a THEM problem.
Uk Halloween used to be a few ghost and witch stories. Then in 1972 I came back from the USA and introduced Trick or Treat locally, because when you're 8 and there are free sweets involved, who cares if I'm culturally appropriating from the Yanks :-)
I'm sorry to UK parents everywhere for what I unleashed. I was 8.
Esp #9 : Lots of you guys putting a LOT of effort into a doomed attempt to maintain privacy re your BTC.
Have fun, but never think you succeeded well enough to "forget" about any tax due. That way lies a harsh reminder about #9 #[0]
Nope. All the fine tuning is irrelevant to the big picture, and doesn't interest me. Any projects that become actually important, will bubble up.
Nostr I grabbed early because online community has been an interest since my usenet days and i even tried to build my own in 2001 based on my understanding of the interaction between behavioral dynamics and Reeds Law. (That paper got me invited to an international conference, which was fun).