The categories are up to the editor or publisher. Completely customizable. The current magazine is a showcase and the catagories are my own choice. It’s possible they only make any sense to me. The plan is to make it possible for anyone to create their own, on the scale of a specialized blog or a full blown newspaper with world news coverage.
It’s modular by design. It doesn’t require multiple devs, although any volunteers would be welcome. This is what I do and I know how to put it all together. But it won’t be in a week. I’m ok with that. This is important to me.
Variants with shapes are used in kids logic/maths competitions.
True, has its own agenda.
It’s like coming to the theater and sitting in the first row facing the back. Everyone will notice and many will gossip about it trying to figure out what you know that they don’t while trying desperately to appear as if they know what they are doing and agreeing that conventions need to be followed or we all devolve into wildlings.
I’d also like a WoT-lookalike that uses content instead of follows to map users by topic proximity if anyone volunteers to make it happen. Then you can feed it a topic and it gives you sources and sources lead to content even if it’s not in the same place.
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Another thing you could do is pay-to-play.
Our https://theforest.nostr1.com relay accepts all zap events, as those can be spammy, but so what. We can just let anyone zap and limit display of the zaps to a minimum sat amount _or_ write-access to the relay. You have to be whitelisted or pay at least 100 sats, for instance.
But, we can then allow them to include a message in the zap event (like Nostrudel does), and display that message in the feed, as a reply with a ⚡ icon or something (nostr:npub1636uujeewag8zv8593lcvdrwlymgqre6uax4anuq3y5qehqey05sl8qpl4 ?)
So, you can pay 100 sats to the pubkey, to have your comments show up, in our app.
And you can use anon zaps instead of private ones. Get away from encryption.
I don’t know if it’s possible to thread comments that are all zaps and wallets have their own rules about content length and such.
But design wise, it’s possible to go multiple ways with this. Even so far as to allow a publisher to include a min amount in the index tags and have it honored by the client.
We arrive in the same place. All deletions need to be honored by someone. The assurance of trust can be provided by a relay or a relay and client combo on nostr in a very similar manner than in other places in exchange for some decentralization (and you keep quite a lot of the decentralization on nostr compared to elsewhere). Someone who considers deletion essential to peace of mind would consider this a service. Hence, a business model.
But a business should be taken seriously and lots of things built on nostr are more showcases than services and barely any terms of service exist. The trust is low because we seem to be in a sandbox. The fact that the sandbox sits in an open square is indeed a dichotomy.
All of those are business opportunities.
Deletion is likely a false aim. Almost nothing gets permanently deleted on the internet if someone decides to keep it, except in a datacenter fire or a similar backup loss situation. Self-hosting your content on your own auth-protected relay and not broadcasting widely gives you deletion in the same scope as running your own website. Then you have a sliding dial of trusting some third party where you weigh the service pricing against your requirements in exchange for less expertise required of you.
DMs are solvable by a network of DM-specialized relays that maintain awareness of their peers and a client that knows how to talk to them.
Username/pass logins are not constrained by technical requirements but liability. The user base needs to be big enough to pay for the legal protection of such a service provider, who is in essence a password manager. The current attitude of ‘here you go, but we’re not reliable’ is especially cringe for such a service. In a business setting, this can be done by a central authority per business entity.
As for follower counts. I know they matter, but they don’t have to be global or for everyone. Need an accurate number? Get it from a DVM or a service that will count it for a fee, because it requires a targeted crawl.
I somehow expect people to know about this, but then it’s never mentioned, so I guess not 🙈
For a classification system, schema.org is used and maintained, so maybe a flat representation of that gives you a starting point.
The ‘o’ could start at the Thing level.
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What does ‘back to the drawing board’ mean?
On a personal level, my kids are definitely the coolest.
Beyond that, I still can’t quite believe I was in Argentina in 2011 when the volcano erupted in Chile and Bariloche was covered in volcano dust. The aftermath was what you’d expect from a natural disaster, but that first day was mind bending.
Yes. But I see centralization as a first step only and not the endgame. Aggregation is relatively simple to implement, as you said, especially of structured data. And it’s monetizable as is. I’m looking forward to the next part, the tailoring, which could swing a lot into decentralization. Going back to the start of this thread, global might not be as desirable down the line.
Sure. I’m thinking of monetizing the effort. I think there’s more value in curation, filtering, and selective processing that there is in raw data storage. The ‘global’ might become unwieldy and providers will drift into creating services tailored to a segment of users, countering the centralization. Smaller players can be competitive here if they have a creative way to surface a coherent subset of content.
It’s tempting to scrape and crawl everywhere because it is open and accessible. But sheer volume will surface as a problem. The whole point is that you don’t need to hold all the content yourself. Smart scrapers will only retain pointers to where the content was seen and not the complete compendium, and sort and process as they go. Keep this, dump that, convert to vector, save a summary, guess topics, feed to an agent,… then forget.
Key rotation doesn’t automatically include subkeys. The above proposal only solves for key rotation and it solves it with a soft solution that doesn’t require widespread adoption either from users or clients and is backward compatible. It defaults to separate identites for each npub, as they are now. A DVM could serve all the required data checks to clients and relays, so they are not required to run extra services or complete implementations for themselves.
I don’t have an equal solution for subkeys.