this is what happens in the future if the "outbox-is-broken-let's-use-smart-proxy-relays" people win:

- people start relying on "caching services" to fetch their notes. now every client must run their own caching service to remain competitive.

- as the network grows, syncing from all relays becomes more and more prohibitively and databases grow to the infinite.

- less and less caching services exist, but a "local best scenario" would be if we had like 4 different clients/caching-services to read from, but then if one of them banned alex jones that would mean 25% of users lose access to alex jones. there is nothing alex jones can do to change that.

- users could switch from app A to app B that hasn't banned alex jones, but app B had already banned donald trump, so that move is questionable and uncertain. anyway, it's too much friction for a user who doesn't know how to find this caching-service setting buried deep in their settings (because UX specialists said that's the best place to put it).

- eventually it makes no sense to switch anymore and as one of the caching services gains more market share they merge with the others, saving costs and regulatory burden (these caching servers are so big they need to do spam moderation, find and delete pornography and scam bots, comply with government takedowns, defend themselves against lawsuits, it's a huge cost), so it's much better to just have a single caching-service.

- everybody still publishes to their own relay, so nostr becomes exactly like bluesky and the central service can censor anyone. eventually people give up the stupidity of using intermediary relays and just publish directly to that central service.

- that central service now can serve you ads and blue checks, shadowban everybody who doesn't pay, modify your feed with amazing AI techniques to keep you engaged and prevent you from seeing anything they don't want you to see but keep you nourished with memes.

A user muting you or filtering you out isn't censorship. It's them owning their own feed.

Try producing what they want to see.

I don’t know the answer to your issue, but I’ve had a similar problem. I added NIP-44 support to Nostr SDK which required a simple import of a C library function. This broke Swift documentation generation for our public documentation site but there’s absolutely no information or logs about why it failed. So now I’m trying to find an alternative library because I don’t want to revert just because of documentation issues.

Good morning, I bought a lot of 5 windows computers for $500, and now I'm buying games on GOG to play with my kids. Been looking forward to this for a long time.

Hey. I might join the user research thing but I do have just a couple of notes about trying to move to Nos from Nostur and Damus that are still kind of why I haven’t been using it.

- Nos seems hitchy/sluggish in comparison sometimes. Like scrolling goes well then seem to slow when loading in more notes. Is this currently being talked about?

- Is there a plan for wider not viewing that doesn’t leave so much blank space on the left and right margins?

I like the whole cards look or what you may call it but I feel like the cards could sit shift the side of the screen and text could be close to the edge of the card. Maybe a future “settings”screen option?

- Lastly, my wife uses X(twitter) to follow trending topics and pop culture and TV commentary. I tried to explain Nostr to her and to say she thought the way it worked sounded outlandish is an understatement. Specially around illegal activity moderation, account compromises, and children’s use of Nostr. Would you say she would be a good candidate for the user research group?

Dune Part Two at the 70mm IMAX was amazing. Probably the best cinematic experience I’ve ever had (Avenger’s Endgame is probably my second). It’s been so long since I’ve seen such a confident, epic, serious movie that wasn’t trying to use nostalgia, brands, sarcasm, and breaking the fourth wall to get me to like it. I haven’t read the books but it’s clear the Dune world building is on par with LOTR or Harry Potter, and it’s refreshing to see some producers apparently get the keys to do it right.

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There was talk of basil 🌿 and some client updates. You’re all caught up.

Hello, fellow humanity. my #introduction

Who am I? Another human who has every trait others have? No. Humans are varied & individual but we all are part of the oneness that makes up humankind.

My career path could be said but that would only be for others to come to assumptions of what that means. 🙂

Instead I'll share some #stitching created with my hands. Maybe it can attempt to explain *who* I am. My belief is that humans when given equal chance will choose goodness. Simple, but not easy.

How did I get here? Believing in the power of kindness or love is probably the answer. Choosing to go my own path that intersects with others appears to be a good choice.

My name is Whitney. Looking forward to interacting with more of you under my own name. Love will ultimately prove to answer every question. That much I know is true. 💜