I think we have a practical problem. It’s just a gut feeling, so forgive me if I bungle my argument. If anything I write and post on nostr instantly becomes public it no longer matters who published it, because it can be copied endlessly and I can’t stop it. If we don’t care about authorship, then why bother with identity? If identity doesn’t matter, why do we insist on signing everything? I think this issue is important for creators.
I agree. I just wanted the point of giving credit emphasized.
Copying is a poster child for getting something for nothing. Profiteering is not in the sole domain of nameless corporations.
When is it plagiarism?
Is intellectual property not a thing anymore?
To me, being a kid means living day to day with no particular thought to the future, in an innocent and not thoughtless manner.
Well, mine are in their early teens and they don’t seem to be kids anymore. They sure have their moments, but overall? One is asking about when to get married and the other wants business advice. 🤷🏼♀️
What you are looking for is pricing things in time spent to earn the amount of currency required. A salary basically converts time spent at work to currency. It is up to you to judge if paying a years worth of time in earnings is equal to one house or not. Then, it also depends if you are buying a house or an investment in the shape of a house. For another example, is a hundred hours working at what you are good at worth paying for a washer and a dryer, that saves you time spent on chores for the next few years?
In many parts of Europe german was ubiquitous even outside of german-speaking countries for a long time. Thus in schools only grammar was taught to people who mostly knew spoken-word german all their lives. Then all of a sudden a generation of students showed up never having heard a word of it spoken before and it threw the whole system off and a whole generation came out of that basically traumatized by unrealistic expectations of the school programs.
I might be a little naive, thinking that anyone else might use a content search DVM I’m building for my own use, but I find the idea of interchangable microservices and cross-implementations fascinating.
I have this on the back-burner as a way to avoid a centralized resolver: https://github.com/pubkeychain/pkc-protocol But most people don’t seem concerned with this so there is no urgency yet and hence no implementation or even real interest.
The current proposal for DVMs has all the right parts already. Whichever DVMs answer your event, which describes your query, are the ones up and running. If you find any of them suspect, you can filter either on client or user level. We just don’t have enough of them built yet.
If you turn custom APIs into DVMs you can keep the relays as they are and also keep the interoperability while handling complex queries in any backend configuration you find suitable for a given task without prescribing anything.
I’ve noticed in the EU context, a propaganda campaign priming people to believe it is their overconsumption that causes electricity supply and pricing issues and telling them the virtuous way to live is to downscale their energy needs. Energy use is now bad across the board.
We do have a blockchain we can use and a way to do it in a self-sovereign manner.
I think key rotation completes the spectrum from ephemeral to permanent identities. The edges will always have less traffic, but they matter.
I was going to use the above in a very old school web setup to build a business suite for bitcoin based companies, so they would be able to upgrade from email to paswordless, multi-signed, encrypted, versioned, self-sovereign business communication and document sharing with an integarted payment layer. What would you do differently?
Is this in line with what you are saying? I’m really curious, but don’t quite know how to discuss this.
Prices keep falling because producers find ways to produce at lower costs and sell at lower prices. Wheat will always cost something to produce and on top of that is dependent on yearly weather patterns. As long as there is demand for bread, it will be worth it to produce at some volume. The current market signal of wheat is mangled beyond recognition where I’m from in the name of stomping out volatility, which is marketed as the villain. Crops have good and bad years. There should be volatility. But then the factory, built on the fairytale of stable wheat price suddenly can’t survive, because all the slack has been optimized out of its operations. Then the government is ‘just trying to save jobs’. There’s a whole chain of interventions that each tries to fix a side effect of the previous intervention. We are so deep into this, that it colors everything.
Anyway, prices don’t just fall to zero, except for things we no longer want or they fall into a basket of a bigger thing and don’t exist as seperate products anymore. In all other cases, someone is charging you something, even if it’s not money.
An effective search requires an index. In a decentralized system, the index can’t find all the content unless someone tells it where to look. Looking up content, indexing and storage take resources, so it can’t be done well or long term for free. I want to make a DVM that would take a npub and a list of relays and index the events for a fee. The same DMV would then serve the results of a search as a list of nostr events that match the query. Users keep the index alive by adding to it.
I actually want to build a Discovery tool. I have a real open question though. If you could give a few sats to an open source DVM so it would index your content from a relay you supply and make it searchable, would any of you do it?
I like the bootstrap archive notion. We can keep it out of the general relays. I’m mostly interested in content creators who have invested major effort and would be willing to go an extra mile to set this up on a self-hosted or paid relay. I don’t expect it to work with zero input from the user.
For the clients, maybe they can offload the task to a DVM so they don’t independently have to implement the same lookups. The DVM provider can also supply the archive and then use it to inform the clients on demand.