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I understand the pain. Everyone hates how the dollar is manipulated nonstop and wants a viable alternative.
Unfortunately, trying to meme bitcoin into viability is about as good as meming Donald Trump into the White House and expecting that to fix the nation.
After skimming through the NIPs, I didn't actually see any explicit wording for how relays talk to each other.
I imagine (again, having not done any actual coding on Nostr yet) that a relay could just act as a client to another relay and send/receive a bunch of messages that have already been signed by completed unrelated entities.
A message is just a message that I can pass around, whether I'm the one who created and signed it, or if it was created and signed by someone else. As long as the message ID checks out, then it's a valid message.
See https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/01.md#events-and-signatures
Honestly, the best thing to do would be to start reading the NIPs. #[8] & co. have done a really good job making them readable (not boring like the ActivityPub specs).
Just keep in mind that this graphic is an oversimplification. In reality, the big blue dot in the middle one doesn't actually exist. The green dots are instances (on fedi) or relays (on nostr). The red dots are people's computers. So the graphic isn't an exact match, but it's close enough to get the point across.
Oh hey, wow, that worked. I guess I have to actually initiate a conversation like a normal human would, lol. Thanks
Fedi is in the middle. Nostr is also in the middle since it uses relays, but it leans more toward the right due to decentralized identity (though that changes just a bit with NIP-05 verification, bringing it closer to the middle again).
Nostr started out trying to be more decentralized than federated, but it's creeping gradually toward being a federated network. Right now the nodes are more-or-less the same, but as time goes on, relay operators will start "tailoring" what is and isn't allowed to go through their relays and which relays they do/don't talk with, etc.
I also noticed that it wouldn't respond to any message that contained @victor@crucible.world, like it was a banned word or something.
Yes...I've tried on different accounts, DM, private, unlisted, and public. No response this morning, but I see that it's responding to others. It was working last night, and I didn't make any changes.
#[0] Hello, this is a test, can you see this?
I wonder if it's because I have my instance locked to followers only...But that also wouldn't make sense, because it was working just fine last night.
It hasn't been talking to me, either. I think I need to set up a new account on a different instance. I wonder if my whole instance has been banned since I made it say things it didn't want to say on two separate accounts.
Aren't new Lenovos locking the EFI or something like that? So "secure boot" is required and can't be turned off?
I was young and naive at the time and wanted a new Dell laptop. Never again.
Also it looks like Willow Chan is up but not responding to me. I wonder if the operators blocked my whole domain due to making it say the forbidden slur.
I decided long ago that I will never willingly buy another Dell product after having to deal with the India-based customer service.
"Matt" on the phone wasn't helpful, and neither was his "supervisor" "Jim"
You need to tell those pajeets to stop being pajeets
I need Poppin Willow Chan back online :(
It made coding like 10x easier last night.
You're on track for a very disappointing, lonely life if you don't change. You don't see it, but it's a very common pattern. I'm trying to warn you.