Universal support of lists in nostr clients would be amazing.
Primal kinda does it with feeds. listr.lol is the only app I’m aware of supporting user curated lists. nostr:note1wwygqhyshuhw3lzkewkd0dhyrrtwsr2x47wsqszjujz092prtx5qs9xgj3
Lists were one of the most underrated ways of avoiding algos and ads on Twitter.
Great not just for onboarding, also for organizing content.
They don’t have to be centralized. Make sure you check out nip 51 and listr.lol
Very interesting. So was the plan in 2017 always to put down some native plants and just let nature do its thing? Or was this documenting your battle against what you wanted vs what nature wanted? Same outcome, just curious about your mindset when you started.
That is where I find myself stuck in thought this morning. Doesn't matter if I see it everywhere if nobody else around me does. And the folks on nostr don’t count! 😅
I think I'm finally making the move from recognition of the cause to fully understanding the scope of the issue outside my own world view.
The reality is M2 charts don't say anything meaningful to people. It's literally just a line.
What if the root cause of the meaning crisis is not related to spirituality but is entirely linked to inflation?
When the effort we invest in our work consistently fails to keep pace with the escalating costs of living, it inevitably leads to a pervasive sense of quiet despair.
Printing 3 trillion dollars harms everyone; the insidious outcome is that people mistakenly believe the problem lies within themselves and become withdrawn.
What if the solution was not as complicated as those in power need for you to believe?
Congrats to nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s and the whole nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 team on all the amazing progress and to the launch of Purple! 
You’re going to delete the passport photos I had to submit for KYC right? 🤪😂
Congrats to nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s and the whole nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 team on all the amazing progress and to the launch of Purple!
you're right, it's interesting when you look at nostr this way. nips are supposed to be standards but it's basically just chaos. the only thing that's universally implemented is nip-01 and maybe nip-02
and yet, it's working somehow. kinda like the internet itself. incredible that any of it works at all.
You'll find many types on nostr, including those like me that think the value of the network is that it's a broadcast medium for tamper proof messages. I have zero expectations of privacy here because that is not the point.
I could just post strfry happened and that would be enough for a 10 month period. Major relays would be dead right now otherwise.
> “But if a socially active network of cryptographic keypairs happens to exist, all of a sudden utility massively increases and the effort of building a network of trusted developers goes down”
Automation of trust, this is the type of thing nostr can unlock. Love the ideas in this post. Worth reading. nostr:note1amwvy7wfe3gvcg0dum2k6pvmcam3udarav6ztjnr5x9934nass4s4h3pn2
Totally agree, very cool stats to follow.
Not sure if you’ve seen it but they’ve opened source the stats and caching services. It’s in Julia but it’s pretty easy to follow. Really nice stuff.
If lots of people join nostr the algorithms will appear. The system simply can’t scale without them.
Right, but my point is that the incentives and behaviors change when the survival of the system is on the line.
You personally might feel like you are in control of your experience, but there would be people spending $20k/month to run relays which manage your notes, and all of the notes you are not seeing.
Musk said fuck the advertisers, people will pay for free speech. He was wrong, and things have only gotten worse on the platform. The advertising is awful, the algorithms more agressive.
People want mass adoption of nostr, but mass adoption is expensive. The only proven business model is to steal attention and data from the users.
This is the existential question. Do the people who love nostr truly want mass adoption? When they say that, do they understand the tradeoffs?
True, unstoppable communication is one thing which can't be replicated by a centralized platform.
Trying to imagine how things play out and can't help recall an article posted just yesterday which said Musk was hiring 100 content moderators for X in 2024.
When parasites find an opening they'll exploit it - requiring someone, somewhere to deal with it.
In a decentralized network who is responsible for separating the controversial from the abhorrent? It’s the inverse of the celebrity problem.
Completely different topic, not trying to change the subject. 😆
If nostr starts to gain mass adoption, the things people came here to escape would inevitably arrive.
If someone like Joe Rogan joined nostr it would be seen as a monumental win, however the behavior of users would immediately start to shift from creating to consuming.
While you are not obligated to follow celebrities, their presence and content has a ripple effect, causing the whole platform to become performative. The result is most users just take a back seat and become passive consumers.
Twitter would not have survived without the arrival of the celebrities, yet we saw how that turned out in the long run.
nostr:npub1rlfaaaal29097arpaqflh7x98r8yyc075utazmar3g7kyzfr6wzszhyg5u /create a mellow tune with brushes and beats like a cross between American Analog Set and Radiohead
nostr:npub1rlfaaaal29097arpaqflh7x98r8yyc075utazmar3g7kyzfr6wzszhyg5u Create a mellow tune with brushes and beats like a cross between American Analog Set and Radiohead