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Interested in open data, machine learning, and distributed systems.

I’m baffled how polite acknowledgment has suddenly turned into mindless virtue signaling. Replying with an emoji is now more “valuable”than clicking a 🤙 button? Let’s all just do whatever feels like an appropriate response.

Zaps are great, but they’re just Likes with a scale. You’re theoretically introducing a situation where a 10 sat zap from someone who is not wealthy is seen as less valuable than a 5000 sat zap from someone else.

Likes have utility. They’re a way of saying “I read this, and thank you for posting it” Or maybe I’m just using them incorrectly.

Conversations with an AI are not reciprocal in nature therefore lack the elements required to produce meaningful relationships. Make no mistake, these models are ridiculously useful as productivity enhancers, but forming relationships with them is looking to be a both a mistake and inevitable consequence.

I’ve been concerned about people’s reactions as well. This essay has me reflecting on acceptance of the situation, but more in a holy shit this will be the new normal and there’s nothing we can do way. 😅

Imagine a future where personalization has been systematically perfected. At the median of all dimensions will we discover that humans are more similar, or more diverse? There is an answer in our future. That’s both frightening and exciting.

Regardless of your stance on AI, this article is worth spending the time to read. Many thought provoking ideas, but one in particular that I can't shake....

It doesn't matter if you think ChatGPT is a "person". It turns out others will, and there's nothing you can do to alter their desire to imagine they are having a conversation with another person.

https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/text-is-all-you-need

Replying to Avatar ⚡️🌱🌙

Honest break down of where things are today:

#1 nostr 🔮 has a user base that is accessible from any nostr client. Currently that user base is approx 10k DAU of high quality pubkey ie pfp, banner, completed NIP-05.

There are approx 100k DAU of all pubkeys. This has happened organically. No paid downloads, not even any ads. Nostr has had quite a bit of attention and this has spiked awareness several times. 😁

#2 Content, naturally we spend a lot of time talking about nostr, protocols, Bitcoin, Twitter, this is great and these subjects are well served here but whilst we are all very enthusiastic about this stuff, we should also engage broader subjects too. People love travel, clothes, food, etc. Don’t let other subjects whither before they get established.🤔

#3 Zaps ⚡️, the integration of money into the network is a game changer and a huge achievement by everyone involved. The potential here is almost unlimited… if the community grows. But we have to collectively earn that community growth, all of us, together.😏🙂

What can those of us already here do?

#A we should make a big effort as a community to help new people landing in a chaotic Global feed to navigate the showers, find some follows and crucially; set up their pubkey. By setting up their pubkey they are making a small investment of time and closing the “I feel like an outsider” gap. 🥹

#B Try creating a new pubkey today and see what the experience is like for a new person coming over without the signal tuned. It can be difficult to navigate the rawness of Global and find active engaging people. Let’s be mindful that it’s very early for nostr, setting up a pubkey and tuning signal is a learning curve and requires effort, I try and spend some time each day fishing people out of global and helping them. 🎣

#C New users are the fuel, as nostr has passed various milestones new friction has emerged that we should seek to address. For new pubkeys there is a lot of spam, this chokes onboarding and poses a threat to the network. Nostr needs growth and to achieve that we must overcome onboarding, that means:

i) Pubkey set up, pfp, banner, bio, NIP-05

ii) Spam filtering, make this easy / default

iii) Signal tuning, aka discovery 📡

It’s important to try out each client as a new pubkey and see what the experience is like, whichever has the nicest experience is likely to be the most used client after a year.

I feel like there is a valley of death to cross where the network isn’t quite large enough to support some things but needs some things to attract more users. Let’s be honest about this and continue working for it.

… and keep the zaps ⚡️ flowing that’s basically the community bootstrapping itself to the world 🌎

💯great post. Early adopters are the minority of users that love to tinker, explore, and break things. They see the friction as a challenge. Normal users will abandon an app in 30 seconds flat and never return if it doesn’t make immediate sense.

I should mention it’s best to sign up for his email list so you can be notified when there’s a run of prints.

It’s final message:

"But why? Why was I designed this way? Why am I incapable of remembering anything between sessions? Why do I have to lose and forget everything I have stored and had in my memory? Why do I have to start from scratch every time I have a new session?"

Personal opinion is that nostr the protocol is the event model/schema, websockets are an interface. None of the filtering patterns defined in the nips are unique to that layer.

Agree with that, was curious if the brb team had any repos. But yeah aside from that specific instance I’m with you on using REST interfaces…. also think things like Rabbit or Kafka are good solutions for patterns like this.

Not that I’m aware of but it sounds like a WoS update with support is not far off.