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Matt
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Replying to Avatar Alex Gleason

Okay Nostrbros, I created a really good system for strfry policy management. See updated readme here: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/strfry-policies

I have IP rate limiting and anti-duplication running on relay.mostr.pub now and it’s working to stop the spammers.

Decommodify relays!

Not only do banks have “higher fees” and are “slower”, they can also prevent whoever they want from doing whatever they want.

Banks can decline service anyone. (And you bet they make decisions by the color of one’s skin).

Bitcoin can’t tell the difference between a person, a turkey or a waymo.

Mempool in the green 💹

Nature is healing

Thanks for sharing this video Darth, very insightful.

May I ask:

Where do you see yourself in the Venn diagram?

Chat bots are noise (esp when impersonating a person), cmv

All made sense until the last bit— in no way is Nostr a closed system.

Since information (energy) flows into Nostr, it is an open system.

An open system can have its entropy increase or decrease depending on how the energy enters the system:

If energy enters as heat: entropy increases.

If energy enters as work: entropy decreases.

To continue the analogy:

Heat is like spam; Work is like notes and other stuff. Deleting is undoing work, so deleting increasing entropy. Some people believe intelligence is the ability to decrease entropy.

Therefore, our goal as devs (really as Systems Engineers) is to increase the “work to heat” ratio in Nostr, to seek out what people around here yearn for: pure signal, no noise.

No-delete contributes to the signal. Delete contributes to the noise.

(Btw, for those who are unfamiliar, “work” is a formal term rigorously defined as energy*distance. In fact it is the same “work” as in PoW)

Gotta try it myself then…

Overconfident people outwardly display their confidence, which skews the perception.

In reality no one knows what they’re doing! Only some people think they know ;)