nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 do you host https://nips.be? It’s been down for a few days.

Wow, is it near a river? Why would they need to take down a tree that large?

I’ve got versions of most of these running on my home server. I’m interested to know which apps you choose for each! Also don’t forget backups!

I was assuming they will just bundle a decent small LLM with iOS 18. But on second thought they will probably chicken out, because if it’s on device how do you update it every week to patch the “exploits” of people making it say racist things or describing how to make a bomb.

Ah thats a bummer to learn. I thought Apple would have exposed the API they use in their Translate app but I’d never looked into it. Maybe when they put LLMs on device later this year we can use those?

🤔 I haven’t heard of this being an issue for anyone else. How many relays do you use? Nos doesn’t support relay auth so if you are mostly using paid relays it probably won’t be a good time.

I feel like a lot of the problems with social media today have to do with people participating in groups of humans that are too large. If a tribe/community is like <100 people you can probably have relationships with a lot of them and appreciate the diversity within the group. If your tribe/community is like 10 million people then views and identity seem to homogenize and breed problems: us vs them mentality, large volumes of feedback, echo chambers, etc. The human brain doesn’t work very well at that scale.

(side bar: I have pet theory that a lot of the celebrities we see slowly losing their minds in public on social media is caused by their social media addiction. Looking at you, Elon)

Part of the reason we ended up with a bunch of “large group” social media apps is because they mirror Web 2.0 technology architecture. All the data goes on one server and is owned by one company. Web 3 tech like Nostr actually has the opposite architecture, and imo we should be leaning into the scale that humans are optimized for: friends, families, and third space communities like clubs, churches, local activist groups, etc.

I’m so excited for private groups! I somehow managed to create one without myself as a member. Please fix UI for idiots.

holy line breaks batman

Today is my one year anniversary on Nostr 🎂. I’ve been thinking a lot

about my own social media and Nostr usage lately, in large part because nostr:nprofile1qqsvjgj5zd630ssugxqwqtk8uwffcfaw8wwz3z56crtpq6xfzr5y7jcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm4wfex2mn59en8j6f0qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjctzd3jjummjvuhszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcptf5m3 has been leading us through product workshops at nostr:nprofile1qqsq7gkqd6kpqqngfm7vdr6ks4qwsdpdzcya2z9u6scjcquwvx203dspr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vp39eukz6mfdphkumn99e3k7mf0qy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxghxgmmjv9nxzcm5dae8jtn0wfnj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09u9qle85 .

In

the past year I think we've found solutions to most of the technical

problems I was most concerned about when we pivoted our company from

Secure Scuttlebutt to Nostr. These problems being spam, abuse, and

scaling. I think relays are doing a good job mitigating spam, the

decentralized moderation system we've built at Nos seems very promising

for dealing with abuse, and some innovation has been done to support

scaling (like the outbox/gossip replication model, and various set

replication schemes).

On the culture side, I'm just going to say

it - I don't like Nostr's culture. There are loads of lovely people on

here, that's not the problem. I think there are two factors going on for

me:

- Nos and much of Nostr is designed to work like Twitter. I personally don't like Twitter or the global-town-square feeling.

- I feel like no matter who I follow my feed is full of Bitcoin content. Bitcoin is cool, but I'm tired of hearing about it.

I'm

going to take another shot at finding folks on Nostr who don't talk

about Bitcoin. So far I have settled for people who talk about things

I'm interested in *and* Bitcoin but that's not working. This means today

I'm unfollowing a lot of people I really like. If you are one of them,

don't take it personally. I'm looking forward to 2024 being the year I

find "my people" on Nostr.

And you know what, if this resonates

with you maybe we can make it easier to find one another. I added

#nocoin to my Nostr bio, if you want to do the same I will be searching

for other profiles that use this hashtag and give them a follow. They

are easy to see using the Nostr.band search engine:

https://nostr.band/?q=nocoin+++kind%3A0

The biggest problem with our rsslay fork imo is that we are trying to convert html to markdown. That will never work seemlessly and results in a reading experience that is worse than the original website or an RSS reader. Maybe we need a Nostr kind for html content, or maybe we need better tools for authoring and cross posting long form content.

Wow, that’s an impressive amount of contributions! And none of that is your Block work right?

A Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys. My first solarpunk fiction book and the first fiction I’ve read in a few years.

Plant inventory. Most of these are in desparate need of repotting which is why they are all line up. I’m trying to make up for a year of neglect this week 😅

I’m curious what you are using it for and how well it works?

Cool. I wasnt sure if there was another trick besides OpenGraph. Thats what we use in Nos, but it’s slow and causes the cells to change size which makes scrolling less comfortable.

How are you checking the MIME type by pinging the server?

Yep!

Finally applied my Nostrasia sticker to my Nalgene. It fits nicely next to Hermies the Secure Scuttlebutt mascot.

I self host some double-rachet nail clippers for maximum privacy and autonomy. #freedomtech