Whenever I encounter something I don’t know, whether big or small, I look it up. It’s simple, but a lot of people don’t do it.

After years, this compounds more then it seems.

Normalizing the hard stuff has it’s issues.

You could totally do it but then you have to accept staying niche and declining into extinction.

Unlike bitcoin, nostr infrastructure has cost. People are not going to maintain anything long term without at least covering their expenses. The best way to cover these expenses is to scale to a point where economies of scale are in your favor.

Without being self-sufficient and maybe profitable, you risk low morale from developers which I’m sure everyone understands is not good.

As a niche thing you’d also be limited in the types of conversations happening in the space. You’d have a perpetual echo chamber that people would tire of eventually.

People also get bored and Leave. Growth is required to replenish conversation, without which you go into a death spiral.

Luckily, nostr doesn’t have to be done in any one way. You can have clients that normalize the hard stuff and others that are newcomer-friendly. In fact, you can’t stop it from happening - the beauty of this protocol. nostr:note1tf49aft9da80dyxms6ltdmtsex6m65ggc6n2s6mknk90aaevkgtqy7quyp

Nostr check-in thread! Reply with your favorite emoji if you are human and see this thread. Let’s see how many people are actually online. One must satisfy his curiosity 🐶🐾🤣🫂🫡

Wen pics of shirt?

Nostr calendar is looking better now, it has all the basic functionalities but I must say we are just getting started. I have some plans for this. nostr:note1yupq6ssenew8ey66qfm4xgcrhpmhuduf59tk5hzwt89a4hgek2zqgq4tde

🚨 Fun Idea 🚨

Strikes me that TCP/IP is a compromised system in plain sight because IP addresses are all pre-known and centrally allocated by IANA, RIR’s and ISP’s. Everything is premapped and crystallised thereafter, thus traceable and identifiable.

Would it not be much more robust if addresses were generated as keypairs by network nodes and submitted by the nodes to public listing servers?

Bottom up addresses allocation, rather than top down.

1). Every device would generate a public-private keypair when joining the network.

2). Public address listings (relays), each devices public key becomes its address and consolidated lists of addresses are stored and accessed from simple relays, anyone can create an address relay (public or private) and there would likely be some big ones.

3). When A send to B it always encrypts with B’s key and sends to B’s address. No man-in-the-middle attacks.

4). All of IP/TCP remains unchanged except for the IPv4 and IPv6 origin/destination addresses which are simply replaced with locally generated pubkeys (long enough to avoid collisions), rather than centrally allocated IP addresses.

Seems like this would result in an entirely secure and decentralised internet?

Thoughts?

As a heads up, I’ve got some impersonators on Nostr now.

I will not message you to ask how your trades are going, lol.

I totally love the pyramids 🤍🕊️

Short Microsoft. nostr:note186wuesufwtgulluvj0hqdq9vw6rjwkg0f7rzwhj2q0ven26m29gq3y2x2y

What in your opinion are nostr’s strengths?