Yea! I have been awarded, and accepted, a Badge. Relay Operator. Which I am. Thank you JohnOnChain.
Now what happens?
OK. I want to determine what ranks in my feed. I don't want it gamed by someone deciding to POW.
If you want a POW, make the USER do the work, not the phone. "Tap this, the longer you tap, the higher your POW". Logic. Power is cheap. Cycles are cheap. TIME is expensive :-)
For what purpose? If rate limiting, who not simply enforce time delays that escalate with volume. 1s,2s,3s,5s,7s,10s and resets after 1min of no posts
Books for Boys (aged 7-10). The Adventure Series by Willard Price.
Got to respect books by someone who actually pretended to be a birdwatcher in order to travel through the Japanese Pacific just before WW2....
Mate, RUSSIA invaded Ukraine.
Which part of your nation (where your family live) are you willing to hand over to whichever tyrant wants it?
My ex stood in front of the Red Army the day after they had shot and killed a bunch of civilian protestors. A business guy I knew was killed by Lukashenko simply for being in a car with a journalist they didn't like.
These are not nice people. It will take force to get them to back off.
Then by your definition, you are doomed to enslavement.
If only because your definition of freedom implies freedom to rape, murder and pillage.
The real world has nuance, and since you are in a society, your best bet is to make it the best one possible.
Muting hard today.
LN is like cash. Someone could steal your wallet. You could leave it on a train. Simply accept a financial risk and control accordingly. My LN has low tens pounds on it, like my wallet.
Exactly. Morality isn't absolute but a matter of community concensus.
And given that Sunni and Shia have a long history of fighting over what they think Allah wants, that doesn't impress me much, as it implies most Muslims are wrong. Which takes you down the "proper Muslim" rabbit hole and that doesn't end anywhere nice.
Which God? Which book?
Even those who claim to be co-religionists can't agree on vast areas of morality.
For simplicity, let's take four people who all believe in the same God, and look at Abortion, and keep to a yes/no. Nuance is there in reality, but we are going for clarity.
The Jew. Abortion is allowed by God.
Christian A. It's murder.
Christian B. It's allowed.
Muslim. It's fine up to, roughly speaking 4 months.
Now, which of those positions, ALL of which are based on their understanding of what God wants, is correct? And what makes you the one to judge? Check your Matthew 7:1 and also, how are doing re Matthew 19:21 et al?
Set up a relay, write in the rules that it's Family Friendly, blacklist any npubs that break the rules, hey presto, your space that meets your rules.
I run nostr.naut.social as an "unmoderated" relay, but if people wanted to pay a buck a month for a team of moderators monitoring Global (that relay only) 24 hours a day in real time, and nuking bad notes/npubs back of the envelope....
7 times 24 is 168 hours at say 50 bucks an hour (for all in costs), call it 200 hours at 50 an hour, assume most people obey the rules, 10,000 people at a buck a month is breakeven.
If you are tapped into such a group (churches?) you have your own safe space. Meanwhile over on the other relay, the MAGA, an in that other corner, Drag Queens.
Images need a Client that taps into an image server. Most of the Clients do now, but Snort.social and Nostrgram certainly do. You may need to allow time for the image to process and get a url before you post (case with snort)
Which bits, and why?
Watching https://youtu.be/-iCIZQX9i1A and so want to zap him :-)
Actually, morality is absolutely subjective. Hence the vast range of moral codes that various peoples and cultures have used past and present. IMO the morality that most Christians exhibit is awful, and mainly shows that they don't seem to have even read their own book.
Censorship - you can have the right to speak. You have never had the right to force people to listen to you. People muting you is not censorship. Relays blocking you is not censorship. Set up your own relay, anyone who wants to can read your posts.
Nostr, by design, means you can't even have a concensus.
People who piss people off, get muted. People who piss relay operators off, get barred from that relay.
THIS is why most relays will have house rules, and "communities" will grow up using the relays whose house rules they like.
Nostr is global already. Is anyone in this conversation planning to pay any attention to what China or Iran or Russia think is, or is not, accapetable?
Regulators are people who don't trust people who want to hold other people's money.
They are very much "not your keys, not your coins" types. They tend to be currency agnostic. They are not the enemy.
Politicians are.
Every time BTC goes sideways people start writing that "THEY" are out to get it. Mate, there is no great conspiracy. There ARE people doing their job as they see it, and they really, really, really don't like seeing people they don't trust having power over billions of other peoples money. They think those people should get out of town.
And you know what. That translates to "not your keys, not your coins". And who here would argue with that?
I used to be in finance. The business models that are based on "holding other people's money" have long attracted EXACTLY the people who can't be trusted with other people's money and will, whether by design or carelessness, lose it, UNLESS hemmed in by tight regulations.
Not really, it's a $100bucks a month hobby. Fees cover 40-50% of costs. I suspect that, in spite of everyone saying they want decentralisation, 3-5 paid relays have EVERYONE on them. Mine is a top 30 relay in the lists and a middle rank one for fees. I have 40ish users.
How to make a small fortune, 2023 style.
Start with a large one, and open a Paid Relay :-)
Nostrgram : Failed to validate Nip05 address.
I see this quite often, e.g. when trying to edit profile. I've had one through snort since day 2 of or so of their existance.
I'm a Brit. Polite but with spikes is just how we roll :-)
A non answer. Also, I didn't ask to be convinced, I asked what they were and for. IIRC Satoshi wrote an entire paper for people with those questions :-)
But what are they for? Im seeing talk of badges, but, for what?
Badges. I stopped caring about them when I was 11. Why is now any reason to change?
To an extent. Which society you get born into has an awful lot to do with it, as does the social strata you are born into. And your genetic inheritance re smarts and looks. But, within parameters, yes :-)
Possibly silly question, but can a Muted still read your Notes? I assume yes, but am i right?
Todays Self promo Post : I run paid relay https://nostr.naut.social
UK based so suits UK and EU, and english speakers elsewhere wanting geographic reach.
About 40 users so far, (for those who think paid relays are gold mines!).
Anyway, if you want a decentralised Nostr, support some paid relays. Or Google Relay will be your future ......
Well put sir, Insta followid.
Can you pls drop me your Twitter? I’d like to follow you there as well.
On Twitter I merely have a vent account @Pope_Urbane
Not sure if Nostrgram is very picky about connectivity, but out here in the mobile sticks, it is forever deciding to do "connecting" and usually logs me out and then lets me know about the lastest update, again. And again, and again...