Aptoide might be closer to an app market than F-Droid is.

> people keep bringing these points as if they posed some fatal blow to our supposedly naïve ideals or something like that

Not at all. I think people neglect to mention it. I sometimes see people saying they won't try Nostr because they believe it is full of illegal stuff. So I try to make sure that people know that relay server operators have to be responsible about such things just like any website would.

Oh, I didn't mean that as any sort of personal thing.

> the duty of curation rests upon the individual account-holder

But from a numbers growth perspective, we're going to need options in clients to automatically screen and block posts. On by default, but easily turned off.

When Joe Normie comes to Nostr, he doesn't want to see gore or porn or illegal activities on the timeline ... not even once.

Or that "free speech" implies that there's generally no regulator who will step in and prevent you from encountering the ugliness that others choose to spew. Instead the duty of curation rests upon the individual account-holder.

Even so, in most countries there are some legal requirements that relay operators are going to have to live by. We're not going to live in libertarian fantasy world.

Yeah, we're not all here at the same time, and it only takes a couple of visits where no one you know is around to think it is empty.

Addendum:

The way it hurts banks is that as interest rates in general rise, their depositors start moving their money to places that pay better interest rates. As with Silicon Valley Bank, this results in the bank having to sell assets for less than book value (such that the purchaser can obtain current market interest from them) and accept a loss on their accounting books. Once this happens a couple of times, banking regulators notice that the bank's capital position is starting to weaken.

Essentially, the losses start eating into the shareholders' equity and the bank's operating funds. Investors start selling the stock and depositors who may have more than the FDIC protected amount in that bank start trying to move their excess funds. This in turn requires more asset sales.

Banks could push Certificates of Deposit with tough lockup clauses, but no one is going to do that for 1-2% APR.

Bankers begging for TARP 2.0 ... trillions of dollars of aid from taxpayers, the same people they've been cheating and screwing ever since the last bailout. https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/u-s-banks-need-tarp-2-0-a-trapped-asset-relief-program [www americanbanker com]

Their assets aren't really "troubled", the bankers are just getting lower interest rates on them than they could if they could reissue those loans. If they can just hold them until maturity, they'll be fine.

The real issue is that the FED is trying to punish you and me with the interest rate increases (FED chair Jerome Powell said this repeatedly, so it is without question), but banks borrow short-term and often lend long-term. Rapid interest rate increases will hurt them because of that business model.

Instead of begging for taxpayer money to line the pockets of banking execs, call out the FED's Open Market Committee for being out of touch and for intentionally harming the people they're meant to protect.

*hugs*

Not a heathen, but I do prefer "visible mode" to "invisible (dark) mode".

I took three nephews and a son to the Pokemon movie. I fell asleep. As a measure of how long ago that was, all but one of them are in their thirties now.

I saw a few minutes of the movie and a few minutes of the show ... enough to recognize some names: Ash, Pikachu, Charazard, Squirtle ... and enough to know the phrase " I choose you!" and that's about it.

https://www.insider.com/texas-couple-dies-in-their-home-after-air-conditioning-breaks-2023-8

This sort of thing bothers me, because it did not have to happen.

Maybe they could have stayed with relatives. Maybe their town has a cooling center that they could have gone to during daytime hours. Maybe they could have gotten a smaller window unit to help tide them over until their main air condtioner was repaired.

Lots of maybes, but I feel like _something_ could have been done differently.

I just searched through Amethyst on Android and did not see a way to add a NIP--05. I don't have one to begin with, so it doesn't affect me.

Mitch, this is Mrs Thompson, your 5th grade teacher. You just failed that test, so we're revoking all of your diplomas and degrees and making you repeat 5th grade. Classes start August 10th. See you there!

(Joking, of course.)

https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/governance

They have some lofty goals there, but that's a long way off. There are lots of other reasons to avoid #Worldcoin and this isn't yet at a state where it could count as the lone positive aspect.

> the iris code needs to be compared against all other iris codes of humans who have verified before

https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/technical-implementation

There are many valid objections to #Worldcoin, but this one is foundational. They have to store the data of _everyone_ who ever does an iris scan forever.

This, then is where many other objectionable things come from:

* storing that much SPII data makes them an attractive target

* "all information that you collect, you will eventually store; all data that you store will eventually be misused" -- my old information systems instructor

* "Hi, I'm $EMPLOYEE from $SECRET_GOVT_AGENCY. We're issuing a secret order to turn over iris scan and other data about $PERSON by tomorrow at 8AM."

* did I mention "trust us, we will only use this for good"?

Yeah. No matter what, don't fall for #Worldcoin. Avoid it forever.

"Use another relay" confers *a little* censorship resistance until you face a coordinated campaign. "Make your own relay" then becomes the final option, but one must do so *before* the campaign cuts them off from other relays and ensure that their contacts know about it, or they still lose connection with their contacts.

And depending on where the censorship is coming from (some sort of #nostrblock campaign versus a national government), hosting one's own relay may provide the censors ability to silence someone for a longer time.

Which is why I say that Nostr's censorship resistance is way overhyped. It is not subject to centralized admins' censorship (like Twitter or MetaFaceBook) or to instance admins' censorship (like the Fediverse with its #fediblock and other #blockwars campaigns), but depending on outrunning censors' pressure against relay operators is not something people should depend upon.

> Voice lends itself to "many to many" (not broadcast like video), yet solves the toxicity / flame war issue found in text only.

Not so. Voice conferences are sometimes just as toxic. You may not notice, because some people wait for others to finish before they speak. But if you talk to the participants afterward, it was there.

> The main idea behind #fediverse is identity politics cast in software.

Well, it isn't the software that has the IDPol, but many instances (the servers that people use) do. It's been a while since I read the NIPs, so maybe there are some newer ones that address this, but last I looked, #Nostr did not really have an answer to something like #fediblock coming here.

"Just create a new relay after you get dumped from all others due to #nostrblock" still leaves you disconnected from all your contacts unless you have an out-of-band way to notify them.

Yes, that's #Fediblock. So far, there's not a #Nostrblock that I know of. Hopefully, the censorship resistance story has evolved beyond "just use another relay" by the time such a thing arrives.