Someone could make an open source tinder clone using the same principle. You date and see who is nearby, except they are actually nearby and theres no mega corp behind it.

Its an android thing. Android takes location VERY seriously. If your location is turned off its not just GPS. Its any identifiable thing near you which includes bluetooth and wifi data.

Thats going to make it significantly more useful already. But what is missing at least from 0.8 is a way for me to actually use it. Nobody near me is going to have that so it would be nice to have a notification if it manages to connect. Because theres no way this will be a use to me at home outside of emergencies. But it would be fun during travel to more dense areas as there it may pop up. But it I actively need the app open I wont nptice.

PWA's are awesome in general. If I do use big tech social media its trough a PWA because that brings 2 things.

1. They don't have access to my phone.

2. My adblock injects in the page and cuts the ads out which can be hard to do with official appw.

Yup, we don't even bother making a formal app for our AI UI. If we did we'd somehow have to ensure that the UI and all the AI's accessible to it are completely sanetized. Because those verificators are assholes that will deliberately try to prompt the AI to do forbidden stuff which is an unreasonable standard. Its like banning a browser app for adult content after typing in a porn site yourself.

But instead mobile users wanting to use the online APi version can just go to https://koboldai.net and add to homescreen and it will work great. Despite it being a web app its super snappy once loaded.

I don't think I explained my point well.

Australia has no authority to make demands over the relays hosted in the rest of the world. If they try to ban them people can help by putting proxy relays that connect you to then again. They can go after platforms that have official presence in australia but i'd assume going after anonymous relay operators would be very difficult.

Hardware doesn't, software does. And internet service providers can't block it all.

The way to counter it is look into things like FreeSocks, Amnezia VPN, etc. Make sure that if things go dark you have the clients and knowledge where to fjnd this stuff.

I am multiple steps ahead of a simple VPN ban. But I wont share all of them otherwise I cant stay ahead of the curve.

Bitcoin doesnt make sense since its also trackable. Would have to be a privacy coin, the very kind of cojn they are pushing the exchanges to ban.

Nostr is a big asset yes, i'd also recommend matrix as long as its not matrix.org's homeserver which is UK based and now subject to the AI safety act.

Decentralization isn't fully immune to any of this, but it vastly reduces the impact. Because yes my matrix homeserver got hit so I am hit despite not being british. But I moved to a US based homeserver (https://matrix.unredacted.org) whivh has an anticensorship stance. So now the UK safety act can't touch me again.

Same thing here. One of the media hosts here is going to comply. But most of the blossum instances aren't. So do your fellow nostriches a favor and switch to a blossum instance for media.

Because they have weaponized it. They probably figured out that the masses don't use all the tech stuff and that they can funnel most of it to themselves with just regular trade thats just numbers just like they do with gold and anything else. And of course most crypto coins don't care about privacy making it useful as a control grid. At that pojnt they have little reason to object.

Your far from the busiest account in my feed haha.

First they thought it was all fine, until 2016 when they lost the election. Then they knew something needed to drastically change to make sure that they remain in control of the narrative.

Then they tried to impose all this stuff with the corona measures expecting people to go along with it. But a substantial amount of people was able to significantly undermine their measures.

I think in general it was meant to have an all incompassing china style ID to ensure full control over the people. Now they are trying the inverse by attacking the internet first hoping that the masses aren't gonna care and that we will then be to isolated from them to be effective. Or that they can actually monitor us all for critique.

But we do have decentralization on our side. And I think that will be the only means of free communication. Anything to centralized is an easy target.

Not that country so probably ordinary copyright.

Was to lazy to switch VPN locations but https://inv.nadeko.net/ is very useful.

"This video is not available in your country"

I totally get it, its choose your battles with this stuff.

I can do something though which is encourage people to use the Tor media option in Amethyst as well as using other means of upload that they can see instead of hoping the AI filter gets it right.

I don't blame you for having to do that, but i'm not gonna put up with it either.

And how do they plan to enforce that? We're not in australia.

My adblock isn't broken.

I don't really get the use case.

If I reply like I do to you now, its very much meant to be a public discussion so I want people to see that so they can partake to.

There is no implication of it being private or hidden at all.

If I DM you in Amethyst I want that to be fully encrypted and metadata safe to where others can't even see we are talking, if someone can't see that they need to adopt a better client, or alternatively i'd need to explicitly full screen warning agree that I am about to leak data.

Unencrypted DM's would just be a full on no-go in that, I don't want to have to guess if my data is metadata safe, metadata unsafe or completely unsafe.

Right now Amethyst is the only Nostr app I have on Android and I like it a lot, but if I can't trust it to send DM's in a metadata safe way it means i'd instantly stop using DM's on it and i'd use a secure messenger instead.

Because to me the concept of a hidden but unencrypted message fails on a platform that lets me read them by using a pubkey.

I like that though, as long as relays can't replace my messages or post as me.

If a relay censors me the other relays I am on will let it trough, so the solution is being on multiple at once in apps which filtering you agree with or which don't filter at all.

If every relay I am on censors a message that's usually for good reason with it being spam for example.

What stuff does you adding that impact?

Wonder what nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7erfw36x7tnsw43z7un9d3shjqpqq3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnwswgs456 thinks on this subject.

Ah, when I read my relays I took that as you owning a relay. You mean us being on the same one.

No, for multiple reasons. First of all each android device has fully custom firmware specific to that model. Second of all modern phones encrypt and use a TPM like chip. If you were to DD not only do you have an incompatible OS you'd end up with broken apps. Even specialized android backup software with root that ports your apps including their data can have corrupt profiles as a result and then you need to reset those apps and start fresh anyway.

Doesn't that transfer the crypto to the hands of the current financial system and away from the people?

I use mega although not for my privacy sensitive files (the few that are there have their own encryption). But in theory the anonimity of the file hoster doesnt matter as much as long as people use apps like cryptomator to shield their files off.

I literally had my own medical specialist advice me to eat at minimum one per day and saying it was fine if I ate multiole because I had a protein deficit. 5 a week max definatelt won't apply to everyone and I am in europe so its not american doctors. Neither was it a public health doctor, it was a specialist.

As a newer user I only partially agree. The community isn't why I came here. I know nobody on here so it wasnt a "I really want to follow X but they only post on Nostr". Its the idea of a platform immune to all the censorship and digital ID stuff that makes me want to use it. But at the same time it had nobody on it there would be no point in using it.

What does help bigtime is that this community while quite one sided in their interests with the majority being bitcoiners are friendly and seem tollerant people. While Mastodon was the most toxic place I have ever been to. I got slandered as a nazi and banned for suggesting I should be able to follow a content creator on an instance that the creators of Mastodon didn't like. Not only did I get defamed by the tusky developer who crippled the app not to work with that instance I got banned within 5 minutes for merely suggesting it on a very large mastodon instance.

Here its not like that. They can't dog pile me to get rid of me because there is no admin that can boot me off. As a result those power tripping psycho's don't come here as they have no power here. And what you then see is that the people who do come here are the ones who value civil discussion even if they don't agree. The whole zap thing encourages people to be civil, so does the anti censorship.

Personally I havent seen spam. At least not worse than Mastodon used to be. I just know that on any platform chronological global timelines are a bad idea. So I don't take the posts that are there to be an issue with the platform. Instead I follow people I come across in the comments or look at who the people I follow are following.

The biggest issues like the errors on starting a cpnversiation and the jnability to delete them still exist.

Can you explain? What kind of oopies do you expect?

Multiple projects have proven that can be done, anyone who can connect outbound and use open peers to relay their stuff for them. Look at Gnutella for example that used to power Limewire, that could do it. But so can Tox, and Session uses a different mechanism with servers that communicate P2P with each other rather than everything being P2P.

First thoughts on Nostr, very interesting but curious how resistant the multiple relays turn out to be since you apparently need to be on the same ones to see messages making it less federated than i'd like. But at the same time your on many at once, so this time toxic mastodon devs can't boot me off and slander me for merely wishing to follow a normal guy on another instance they don't like.