For those that are new to Nostr, hello!

What’s cool about it is that Nostr it is an open source protocol. It is not a centralized company, but rather is a protocol that individuals and companies can build upon.

This means that you can use many different applications to access it, or even build your own. And it means that there is no central authority that can take down posts or delete accounts; there are different servers operated by different entities that are storing the data. And there is no central algorithm for determining what posts people see or don’t see.

You can hook up a bitcoin lightning wallet to send and receive tips (“zaps”) on posts. Nostr itself is not a blockchain or crypto and has no token, but the Bitcoin blockchain does complement it well via zaps.

Nostr is still relatively small, and a bit rough around the edges. But the community here is great, and familiarizing yourself with the technology and concept is useful in a world of centralized social media. It is a new method of decentralization that balances various trade-offs in a novel way, and the protocol can be used for a lot more than just social media.

Welcome!

nicotine, it’s got electrolytes

It seems like you just copypastaed a summary of the book on the site.. anyway,

humor? They sure say anything to sell more books.🤣

This isn’t a note to pick a fight with you.

I just dislike this author. Too boring. :)

Are there still places with vibes anymore? Or did the internet kind of kill it?

I feel like digital spaces have vibes. Nostr has a vibe for sure, but everywhere I go (in America at least) feels flat, steril and homogenous now.

People like to pretend otherwise, romanticizing local charm and it’s fun to do so, but in reality there is no meaningful difference between New York, LA, Chicago, Austin, Miami etc…

The differences feel increasingly superficial. Miami with its neon pink and bad Latin art. New York with its identical minimalist cafes selling identical oat lattes. These aren’t cities anymore, they’re brands. “Keep Austin Weird” feels less like the rallying cry of a bohemian collective and more like a safe corporate brand slogan.

It wasn’t always like this. Cities used to incubate true subcultures that couldn’t thrive anywhere else. Seattle once had grunge music emerging organically from local clubs, distinct in sound and attitude. Detroit was a birthplace for techno and industrial grit that couldn’t have been manufactured. New Orleans had jazz clubs and vibrant local traditions that permeated every street corner authentically. Before the internet collapsed distances, you could sense deep authenticity upon arriving somewhere new. The vibe wasn’t something designed by marketing departments; it was organically woven into the streets, the people, the music, and local myths.

Now, vibes feel engineered and commoditized, reduced to Instagrammable moments and easily replicable aesthetics. I once watched from the balcony of my hotel in Nashville as 200 women waited in line to take the same stupid picture with the same stupid set of angel wings.

Digital spaces, ironically, have become refuges of uniqueness, fostering communities unburdened by geographical homogenization. Platforms like nostr host unique niche communities, from hyper-specific gaming bitcoin cultural milieu to obscure philosophical discussions, that retain genuinely distinctive vibes.

Perhaps we’re now entering a strange inversion, where real-world spaces chase digital popularity, adopting blandness to maximize broad appeal.

In this inversion, digital worlds might become the primary spaces where unique vibes survive, thrive, and multiply—leaving our physical world as little more than a flattened reflection of what used to be.

Nostr is where the vibes are at.

To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to limit a person's ability for critical thinking.

Now that we have the Bitcoin protocol and the Nostr protocol are there any other freedom/ decentralized protocols left to discover?

LMAO 🤣

I wonder what his initial thought was when he saw this?

I mean, like the very app you created locks you out 🤣🤣🤣🤣 nostr:note18t2w656rp8lcpmc3kgy33nnt76d9eqf6aec2dxwluafeg4c8rzeq93kj7a

So Trump is getting rid of income taxes on earning of less than $150,000.. Did I hear this right? Trump is getting rid of INTERNAL Revenue, and replacing what's needed with EXTERNAL Revenue..

1 bing (disc), 1 unmarked brick

green (fermented) pu-erh (polei/bolei in Cantonese) tea

{erh is pronounced er as in her, not air as in hair}

green pu-erh is fermented, the cooked kind is a different process and doesn't develop the same over time. neither is 'green tea' like dragon well or sencha, green pu-erh refers to the natural uncooked process of fermentation. cooked pu-erh is heated up to rush it and suffers the same fate as other rushed products, lack of depth.

(both of these are pre 2000, its sadly 99% fakes after that)

the bricks were bought a long time ago by Mm-Tai (Mrs. Ng) from a warehouse in China. she would often mix a chunk of one of the green bricks with some cooked pu-erh. the green bricks are as hard as a brick, and therefore difficult to open (break into chunks)

i have 2 cupboards full of these. they ripen with age. some i don't drink yet because they should be 30-40+ years old first. pu-erh tea improves with age like some wines that can be kept for a long time.

i don't know who gets the collection when i croak 🤣

#tea

#GM