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What are the biggest unsolved challenges nostr will face before it's massively successful and serving billions of people?

Some of these might be unresolved issues and require new takes on the problems since they have not been solved before.

How to measure the true level of decentralisation?

For example, all relays serve less than 1k users

How to ensure that centralisation is avoided by a better design?

I'm asking questions and don't know the answers. But as Bluesky seems to have failed to provide the path forward there aren't too many viable candidates left for a decentralised social and Internet future.

And the recent developments in a note

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My evolving Bluesky thread with some commentary

https://www.getairchat.com/petrikaj/bluesky

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NEW:

HRF gifts 16.5 BTC (~$455,000) via its Bitcoin Development Fund to support 12 projects worldwide

Targeting:

🎁 Scaling and privacy

🎁 Censorship-resistant comms

🎁 Education inside authoritarian regimes

🎁 Core development

🎁 Community building

Grant #1: $100,000 to Calvin Kim for his work on Utreexo, a Bitcoin scaling solution for faster verification and synchronization of Bitcoin full nodes

HRF’s funding allows Kim to prepare Utreexo for a main net launch 🚀

Grant #2: $50,000 to 0xB10C for their work on Bitcoin Core tracepoints, P2P monitoring, fork observer, mining pool observer, and Bitcoin data

Funding supports 0xB10C's efforts to monitor the Bitcoin network for anomalies, improving network security and resiliency 🦾

Grant #3: $50,000 to Calle for Cashu, a free and open source protocol that enables Chaumian ecash on top of Bitcoin

The Cashu protocol conceals user balances and transaction history, offering near-perfect privacy for users of custodial Bitcoin wallets 🥜

Grant #4: $50,000 to Meron Estefanos for the creation of Bitcoin Innovation Hub Uganda

The space will host local meetups and serve as a Bitcoin awareness and learning center, equipping local youth with practical skills to become sovereign individuals 🇺🇬

Grant #5: $50,000 to Kieran for Snort.Social, a web client of Nostr, a decentralized, censorship-resistant, open-source, social networking protocol

Snort allows users to access Nostr on web browsers, reducing reliance on app stores and centralized services 📡

Grant #6: $50,000 to Rootzoll for Raspiblitz, a do-it-yourself lightning node that can be run on a Raspberry Pi

RaspiBlitz is mainly targeted for learning how to run your own node decentralized from home - because: Not your Node, Not your Rules 🗽

Grant #7: $25,000 to BOB Space BKK for their Thailand residency program

BOB Space BKK is a Bitcoin-only hatchery, incubator, and co-working space in Bangkok. Funding will help accelerate promising FOSS projects in Bitcoin, Lightning, and eCash protocols 🇹🇭

Grant #8: $25,000 to World Liberty Congress for the Freedom Academy, a program that equips activists with the tools, resources, and support needed in the struggle against authoritarianism

This grant supported recent financial freedom training in Zambia 🇿🇲

Grant #9: $25,000 to Hampus Sjöberg for Blixt Wallet, a non-custodial open-source Bitcoin and lightning wallet

Funding will support Sjöberg’s efforts to improve the user experience and performance of the Blixt Wallet on iOS and Android⚡

Grant #10: $10,000 to Nourou for Bitcoin Sénégal, a group that hosts meetups, creates educational content, and onboards local merchants to Bitcoin

Working in French and Wolof, Nourou helps people learn resist French monetary colonialism 🇸🇳

Grant #11: $10,000 to Charlene Fadirepo for the Bitcoin in Africa Show, which provides education, insights, and thoughtful conversations to deepen the understanding of Bitcoin across the African continent and beyond

Grant #12: $10,000 to Lorraine Marcel for Bitcoin DADA, a women-centric organization with contributors based in Kenya and beyond that educates African women in the Bitcoin space 🇰🇪

HRF is proud to support a diverse range of projects to help make Bitcoin a better global tool for human rights

Since early 2020 we’ve supported 80+ projects globally with more than $2.7M

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” React hooks for developing Nostr clients. It's simple yet intelligent.

Nostr-Hooks is a library of React hooks designed to simplify the process of interacting with the Nostr protocol in real-time web applications. It provides an easy-to-use interface with low bandwidth consumption and high performance, allowing developers to quickly integrate Nostr into their projects and build responsive, real-time applications.”

https://github.com/sepehr-safari/nostr-hooks

"Meta says that its model, ImageBind, is the first to combine six types of data into a single embedding space. The six types of data included in the model are: visual (in the form of both image and video); thermal (infrared images); text; audio; depth information; and — most intriguing of all — movement readings generated by an inertial measuring unit, or IMU. (IMUs are found in phones and smartwatches, where they’re used for a range of tasks, from switching a phone from landscape to portrait to distinguishing between different types of physical activity.)"

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/9/23716558/meta-imagebind-open-source-multisensory-modal-ai-model-research

Here’s another id to the same note

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(copy-paste either to the search box and it should find it if the client does not show it automatically)

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nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 dropped a new article about Bluesky

"Turns out their decentralization plan is to just allow you, as a writer, to host your own posts on “personal data stores”, but not really have any control over the distribution of the posts. All posts go through the Bluesky central server, called BGS, and they decide what to do with it. And you, as a reader, doesn’t have any control of what you’re reading from either, all you can do is connect to the BGS and ask for posts. If the BGS decides to ban, shadow ban, reorder, miscount, hide, deprioritize, trick or maybe even to serve ads, then you are out of luck."

There are many more points 👇

https://fiatjaf.com/ab1127fb.html

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And a response by a Bluesky dev:

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nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 dropped a new article about Bluesky

"Turns out their decentralization plan is to just allow you, as a writer, to host your own posts on “personal data stores”, but not really have any control over the distribution of the posts. All posts go through the Bluesky central server, called BGS, and they decide what to do with it. And you, as a reader, doesn’t have any control of what you’re reading from either, all you can do is connect to the BGS and ask for posts. If the BGS decides to ban, shadow ban, reorder, miscount, hide, deprioritize, trick or maybe even to serve ads, then you are out of luck."

There are many more points 👇

https://fiatjaf.com/ab1127fb.html

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The link disappeared for some reason below the finger (on Iris - visible on Damus)

fiatjaf.com/ab1127fb.html

nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 dropped a new article about Bluesky

"Turns out their decentralization plan is to just allow you, as a writer, to host your own posts on “personal data stores”, but not really have any control over the distribution of the posts. All posts go through the Bluesky central server, called BGS, and they decide what to do with it. And you, as a reader, doesn’t have any control of what you’re reading from either, all you can do is connect to the BGS and ask for posts. If the BGS decides to ban, shadow ban, reorder, miscount, hide, deprioritize, trick or maybe even to serve ads, then you are out of luck."

There are many more points 👇

https://fiatjaf.com/ab1127fb.html

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Was just today thinking that if you're not interested in nostr development but want to follow content creators it's really hard to find and follow them. All the recommendations and 24h trending etc. are boosting the few early devs and influencers on nostr.

Exactly. And, it cannot indicate the intent because there’s none available from the text version.

Do we need this if you have the option to read the transcript / write only as a text (and AI customised voice reads it back to you)?

I do like the natural feel of human voice. Even though you don’t use the video mode you get so much more cue of the intent, context and personality of the message as you said.

Might be harder to spam and shout when you do it with your voice. Though I might be dearly mistaken here 😁

Composability of ideas and discussions is a powerful concept that has not been utilised much yet.

Made a good old fashioned blog post. The previous one was about nostr 😁

IRL meetings (even online): it's expensive to gather everyone together and make them pause everything else when only one person speaks at a time. You cannot speed up or speed-read the conversation to get to the point and save time.

https://www.petrikajander.com/airchat/

#airchat #asynchronous