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I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. My public bookmarks are like a pseudo blog, check them out to see what I have to say. I don't post every day, think of me as a high SNR oracle, when I show up in your feed it's probably going to be interesting. I do private contracting for personal server setups and automation scripts. Feel free to contact and inquire about that if you need something put together. xmpp, deltachat and email: mister_monster@disroot.org pgp fingerprint: 16b1f268d3a01afdf4194b87868bc00fa8740dac 8C2H9HbnwamDs2EkZroPNbdrUJB8hguQsjSNUKgg1fNvB7tAsETHMWhdWYG9aKAZzMRJMb3pw6J46T4wnSNyfZR863nYyEd White noise npub1ga5usrfkrue6qeekzhrcylserwx5cuw903vhrn4ftrdj549vscesdr2kds (until white noise supports amber, for security purposes) 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0

There's a monero miner in the rust compiler???

Yep, you've got the added problem that XMPP had: too many "MAY" pieces to the protocol and you wind up with a fragmented mess.

I don't think that's that big of a deal with nostr, but it is still a concern. The core parts of the protocol are standard, but if it isn't chess on nostr or some specific use case, you'll have different people using different clients that support subsets of the supported features and it ends in frustration.

I expect that if there isn't, one will be made eventually. The use cases for such a thing would be cool, not widely used but for example if someone wants to paywall their content, a relay that requires payment to fetch that pays some percentage of the payment back to the creator would be worthwhile to create.

According to nip18, a repost is kind 6 and has an e tag, ID for the reposted post. And includes a relay URL. So it should be easy to distinguish between normal posts and reposts. Do any clients implement this type of functionality?

Is there a nostr relay that requires payment to fetch posts?

Is it possible to block boosts per user and still see their messages?

So they're pretty clear on how they feel about Monero then?

In mind? Usually I just decide I want to see something exist and then build it. Iake 2 kinds of projects: things I want to exist so I can use, and then I offer it to the world, and things that could have an outsized impact on what I want for the effort put into them.

Anything you publish in writing is forever, especially with the internet since book burning is now. The only way to say something without anyone ever being able to hold it to you for eternity is to only say things verbally and be sure you're not on security camera or other listening device.

If you're creating an account to be an online spokesperson for your real self, you should absolutely watch what you say, the protocol you use has no bearing on this. Even saying things publicly has the same effect.

If you don't want to have to watch what you say, use pseudonyms. This has never been easier than it is now with the internet, and protocols like nostr actually make this much easier. Sure, every time you speak you create another data point that can help someone figure out who you are. If this isn't an option for you, again, if you're chasing clout you have to be deliberate about wyat you say, period, via any medium you choose.

https://codeberg.org/mister_monster/lemmy_feedposter

An easy to configure bot to post RSS/Atom feeds to Lemmy communities.

I just got done building this, published, Lemmy users out there feel free to use. It works well, but I'm sure I will need to fix things and put some finishing touches on it. I would like to add functionality to post feeds to a list of community IDs rather than just one, but that requires reworking some stuff and I don't have time to do it now, if someone beats me to it and puts in a (tested, documented) PR I would appreciate it.

Try it out and let me know what you think!

It's alright. It's a link aggregator and threaded discussion server like reddit, but federates overActivityPub. It works fine, it's a good way to move community hosting back to the people that use the web. It isn't perfect but it will do.

I personally prefer Brutalinks https://git.sr.ht/~mariusor/brutalinks because it's single community oriented, but development just didn't happen fast enough compared to lemmy to be ready when reddit put the lid on their coffin. I happen to be partly responsible for this, I was the main promoter Lemmy when development started, and while I'm glad to see it finally having it's day, I think some of the early design decisions were bad and I'm sad that to have this explosion of independent communities happen such that we are stuck with them.

Yes but user goals are different in a link aggregator paradigm built around threaded comments vs microblogging. With microblogging, you care about your pseudonym, your reputation, and you're at the mercy of an admin. If you say something you don't like, good luck moving if they don't want you to, if your server even supports it.

Contrast that with threaded discussions, where most people don't even pay attention to the username of the person they're responding to and people aren't after a reputation. It's nothing to create a new account and jump right back in.

My gripe with Lemmy is not that, or that it's based on AP (which I don't really like, but it serves it's purpose), my gripe is that Lemmy is designed to be an entire Reddit replacement, for each and every server. With a federated architecture this just isn't necessary. Each community can host their own server, every server doesn't need an endless supply of communities, Reddit does because it is one site. What you wind up with is a low signal to noise ratio, a bunch of dead communities, duplicate communities, it just wasn't a well thought out design decision. It was ambitious before thought was put into it.