You could make the reverse argument: suppose I exert a certain amount of labor (work a job, perform a service, sell a product, whatever). If I do it today, I get paid 100 sats. If I do the same work at some point in the future, and if we assume deflation is a fact of life, I get paid only 90 sats for the same labor. Conclusion: better to work hard today than wait until tomorrow.

A personal relay whose sole purpose is to backup every note that you care about seems like an awesome idea. Anyone building this?

I finally got reactions and reposts (NIPs 25 and 18) implemented in the Pretty Good Apps desktop client.

Next up: zaps. Probably create another release at that point.

Then back to work on a basic lists (NIP-51) implementation, which is partially working. (Took a break from that this weekend to work on reactions and reposts).

Roadmap after that, in broad brushstrokes: try to expand the use-cases for NIP-51 lists, probably ones that involve "composite" lists via importation of one list into another. (Composite mute lists? composite people lists, for use in nostr feeds? composite bookmarks lists?)

Then add more list management features (beyond NIP-51; maybe mix in some NIP-32, maybe add some nonstandard protocols if I have to) until we arrive at DCoSL: decentralized curation of simple lists. Then build on list curation to achieve DCoG: decentralized curation of graphs, which we can do bc a graph is made of two lists: one list for nodes and one list for edges. Then build on that to achieve DCoS: decentralized curation of standards, which we'll be able to do because things like schemas, verified credentials, etc can be represented as graphs. Then pick one or a handful of w3c standards and see if it is possible manage them using these tools rather than the committees that are today's standard.

That still won't get us all the way to the self-sustaining, atomic chain reaction of the decentralized web that I mentioned in a note yesterday. But it will get us a good bit of the way there. DCoP and/or DCoR: decentralized curation of protocols and/or of repositories will have to be conceptualized and achieved at the same time or maybe after DCoS. Then DCoS, DCoP, and/or DCoR can be used to manage the NIPs and other protocols that got us to this point in the first place. At that point, we can start to think about feedback loops: self-sustaining chain reactions of decentralized curation of data in all its forms.

NIP-51 allows users to create a list which effectively imports items from one or more other lists using their naddr identifiers as pointers. Cool feature, I think!

I wonder: Are any clients or apps actually utilizing this feature yet? I know listr.lol allows me to add pointers to a list, but I can’t get it to do the actual import, i.e. import the actual items and show me the final composite list. Unless I’m just missing it.

If not, anyone planning or thinking about utilizing / building on this feature?

I use alby to log into listr for desktop and phone - took me a while but eventually I got it to work

#Coracle allows custom bookmarks although I think the items can only be people or hashtags if I am not mistaken

Copy the note id in damus and paste that into listr

You gonna tell them that the wars to come will be green vs orange?

The decentralized web is (will be) like an atomic reaction. And the nostr note is the neutron.

We have not yet reached critical mass. But we will.

very nice! ⚡️👏🏻

You know those pics of rubbery-looking blood clots that pathologists have been supposedly pulling out of blood vessels ever since the vaccine?

One day my decentralized web of trust will help me zero in on multiple trustworthy sources — pathologists from a variety of settings, ideally — to share their assessment of those photos. How many are seeing the same thing? Have they ever seen something like it before? I’d be willing to tip a few sats for their input.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have sourced info on any and every random topic at our fingertips?

I got that many views once on Twitter.

Good times. 😅

Turns out the whiz kid just ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Here’s something you’re going to have to chew on.

One of the goals of decentralized protocols like nostr is to prevent any entity from gaining too much power over the flow of information. That includes all the big tech companies. Like Twitter, Google, and yes, Amazon. Deep down, many nostriches see themselves as the enemy of Big Tech!

You’re going to have to decide what to do with that. One suggestion: follow Jack’s example. Step down from Amazon. Sell however much you can reasonably sell. These things will make it easier to think deeply about what needs to come next.

Why do this? Bc the world needs it. And by building Amazon, you’ve already helped usher in one revolution that needed to happen. Mission accomplished. What could be more fun than to help usher in the next? 😃

Or if Jack were to follow you here, that would be powerful social proof.

We don’t yet have a working implementation of decentralized reputation and web of trust.

If you want some information on some topic 10 years from now, instead of googling it you’re going to ask: what can my grapevine tell me about that?

centralized => decentralized data curation

I’m happy with my roadmap. Except that it needs to be finished yesterday.

Pretty soon we’re going to start tapping into our webs of trust to curate all sorts of information. That’s going to knock your socks off.

I envision that one day, content curation via web of trust will be relatively immune to influencer status. Finding that hidden needle in a haystack will be the WoT superpower.