and pineapple is your kryptonite

☝🏻 origin story for the next MCU superhero 😂

Imagine a list of Nostr Apps curated by one’s web of trust! And imagine if your WoT could also curate a list of *categories* of nostr apps. One day a new category called “nostr apps that you can use to book AirBnB” could pop up that didn’t even exist before! Categories + items in each category, all updated in real time.

Or maybe your WoT comes up with categories called: safe to use, malware, and abandonware.

A simple list augmented by list categories is a “complex list” and is one step in the journey to convert a “list” into a “concept.” In addition to categories, a complex list can have other augmentations, like properties. (A list of Nostr Apps will need list-specific properties like: repo url, author, latest version, etc).

Pretty Good Apps currently implements simple lists. (Still some bugs and UX needs work, but basic functionality is there.) Complex lists are forthcoming.

Applying this reasoning to Pretty Good, it builds a strong argument for rebuilding the desktop as a webapp. No need for a new user to install anything. Just go to the site, navigate around and observe different lists that have already been curated. Then play with seed users and maybe other variables to see how the curation changes.

Question is whether that’s enough of an “aha!” or whether a service that makes use of some specific list (like relays?) is needed to achieve aha. 😅

I suppose something more is needed. Bc even if the idea of list curation seems cool in the abstract, what next? What do we do with the curated lists?

You probably also lost your relays list. It’s possible that one of your old relays may still have your old following list (a kind:3 event that hasn’t been updated).

This is a very good article by nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac on the topic of getting your service’s users as quickly and easily as possible to their first “aha!” moment.

cc: nostr:npub1clk6vc9xhjp8q5cws262wuf2eh4zuvwupft03hy4ttqqnm7e0jrq3upup9

https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqv8x6r0wf6x2um594cxzarg946x7ttpwajhxmmdv5q3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq3uamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwfjkccte9ehx76m0w3shymewvdhk6qgjwaehxw309ahkvenrdpskjm3wwp6kyqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2q3qr0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgsxpqqqp65w5whd5x

Pretty Good Apps is now listed on Nostr App Manager 🕺🏻

nostr:npub1ya43wd06ugax6vjgnguqgeah0xtkg5mpwr5jg5gznhk3cz53jzzqfftu4x

https://nostrapp.link

Imagine a list of Verified Accounts, curated by your web of trust

dcosl: decentralized curation of simple lists

http://github.com/wds4/DCoSL

Pretty Good Apps v0.1.2-alpha has been released with packaged apps for mac, linux and windows. I welcome any comments!

https://github.com/wds4/pretty-good/releases/tag/v0.1.2-alpha

Yup. We all have tribal needs and instincts. Bitcoin doesn’t fix this, lol. (Although in theory, it might decrease the need for tribalism slightly by making self-sovereignty more feasible. But we’re still light years away from that!)

Tribal mentality: judge a message by the messenger. If the messenger is / is not one of you’re tribe, or if you like / don’t like the messenger’s behavior, then you’re more / less likely to agree with the message. ____ Derangement Syndrome basically refers to this mentality. Toxic Bitcoiners Derangement Syndrome: “I rage quit and sold all my bitcoin because they’re all so toxic.”

Reality-based mentality: judge a message on its own merits, not by the messenger.

People need tribes because the alternative is to be completely on your own, which generally means death bc there’s no one to protect you from marauding thugs.

Tribes typically (always?) require you to bend the knee to the tribal narrative as proof of your loyalty to the tribe. And bending the knee wouldn’t count for much if the narrative didn’t weave in a few toxic threads in the form of nonfalsifiable beliefs +/- logical contradictions +/- hypocrisy. So we’ve become adept at embracing toxicity when the tribe demands it.

That’s a bad thing of course, and yet the motive is understandable: the need to belong. We need to appreciate the purpose of tribal toxicity before we jump too quickly to call each other out on it.

Getting my vitamin D fix for today

You can go blind doing that 😂

3 days, that’s awesome 👏🏻 I think 48 hours is the most I’ve ever done so far. I do 36 hours every so often and trying to increase the frequency of that gradually.

console.log(“world”)

Coming up with names for these concepts is challenging but important. Been working on this for years and only came up with DCoSL some time last month as I was musing how to describe it to nostr:npub1clk6vc9xhjp8q5cws262wuf2eh4zuvwupft03hy4ttqqnm7e0jrq3upup9 in bitcoin park

perhaps

maybe:

auto-protocol

recursive protocol

self-describing, self-defining, self-referential, floating, evolving, unanchored protocol

curated by your web of trust, of course!

https://github.com/wds4/DCoSL

We need a curated list for that!

“dcosl infinity” or “circular dcosl”: a state in which the details of implementation of the dcosl protocol have themselves been crowdsourced in full to the user’s web of trust. You’re using the protocol to tell you how the protocol works.

dcosl: decentralized curation of simple lists

https://github.com/wds4/dcosl