I made the exact same mistake. Bought an S series reconditioned because it was on sale. It's useless except for 1 or 2 games.
It must be so hard for him to stay this quiet.
Wen unified push notifications?
You don't need to constantly spam relays if you keep a good local performant cache index which is what is missing in most clients.
Why can't you do it?
Fdroid is also extremely insecure:
Dumb relays, smart clients. I will die on this hill
Nah, the overwhelming majority still uses WhatsApp exclusively.
I haven't tried it yet but the previous app versions were basically mobile versions of the wensite, which was fine.
All of today's instances are broken, if you know any working one, let me know.
The project was officially discontinued 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382590
Censorship resistance and cryptographic signature verifications are nostr's unique features, as defined in NIP01. Everything else is just fluff.
Is that even mathematically possible?
https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3ks3tbwchv22i
"on nostr and farcaster people are often talking about nostr or farcaster, but on bluesky people are just talking about other things, therefore bluesky is a superior protocol"
If this is the criteria maybe mr protocols-not-platforms will have to admit now that Instagram is the superior protocol because people never talk about Instagram on Instagram? There is so much more people there just enjoying it.
Maybe their point is that when the UX is good enough, everyone focuses on other topics.
The things you mentioned above, are not zaps but ordinary payments to service providers which can in theory be made in any currency.
I understand zap as the social signaling aspect of a micro tip in lieu of a synthetic reaction.
Payments will always be needed for any sustainable ecosystem. Zaps on the other hand...
I really understand where you are going but although a perfectly valid logical stance, you have to admit it's very tinfoil-ly and nihilistic.
I don't know if you believe in "unique truths" or nor, but with that amount of doubt, any truth gets practically impossible to establish.
I said it was "nihilistic" in the sense it is defeatist. If everything is part of a 5D chess plan from a powerful agency, we will always be powerless.
Why? Every new social media platform was practically always a copycat of the last ever since myspace.
Most people move just out of pure novelty, curiosity and to keep it fresh.
The downstream consequence of this is that newcomers are convinced they need to be able to send and receive zaps to "fully experience nostr". This is such a bullshit disingenuous myth
Zaps are a fine optional bitcoiner addon but should not be made the centerpiece of nostr, which it clearly is now...