I hate it so much. I just wish that gaming on Linux had better support so I could do a permanent switch.

Fair point, I've got a 97 sierra that worked great till the transmission went out over 3rd gear. I'll say its not on the road anymore but its the best tractor I've ever had. Pulls stumps like a champ

Two words: personal servers.

Someone told me that extolling the virtues of nostr sovereignty won't help adoption and the only thing that matters is UX.

I think they're right when it comes to mass adoption. But I believe that in order for mass adoption to happen, we first must build a base of ideologically motivated early adopters who won't mind rough UX.

It's the fringe early adopters who will be willing to put in the work necessary to get us to mass adoption.

Posting random thoughts to the Internet is easier on any social media, rather than Nostr.

Posting thoughts about some object, and keeping track of the disparate convos about those various objects, is easier on Nostr than on any social media, because Nostr doesn't care what the object is.

What if we gave users the ability to indicate which country they are in (optionally) and from that we could fetch their time zone and see if it’s morning, afternoon, evening or night over there. Might make the timeline experience more interesting?

Time to bring back the age old debate:

Cast iron or stainless steel, which is your favorite money transmitter?

I use lightning without an LSP, and it works just fine. People just have to use their brain.

#asknostr is there any dev out there that has built a DMCA take down form? how do they normally work and how do you build them?

I'm thinking about including one in my "blossom-server" implementation so the server admin can do some moderation

Also thinking about using NIP-56 (reporting) events with specific sha256 "x" tags so server admins can see if anything on their server has been reported and delete it

trying to steelman the tiktok ban: if US intelligence could prove it was being used as a propaganda tool and a way to increase mental instability, is it the role of government to protect its people beyond physical borders? seems more of their energy could be put towards the physical health of its citizens if that were the case.

- Internal async; GitHub issues

- External async; email

- Internal sync; signal groups, max 4 ppl

- External sync; signal or telegram groups; max 5ppl

(Not thing else. No zoom, no google, no slack, no Microsoft, no Skype, etc...)

What's your company setup?

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

What's the next big feature you want Amethyst to have?

would be cool if there was a desktop variant of nip07. How would that work? dbus? socket? tcp?