Even the most aligned tribes need dissenters within. It’s the recursive problem of nature.

I interpret it as how much grace and forgiveness you provide while they are learning, and they are making mistakes. As a parent you then also learn, we are all fucking up, all the time, forever…. You will always be a child to your parents and a parent to your children. I agree with your statement in principle though.

The relationship between wot and pow is interesting to see unfold.

nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr this HN thread is filled with developers who would have an appreciation for how nostr/blossom could be the index for a distributed internet archive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41860909

These days I’m more drawn to people who are not afraid to say “I don’t know”

Afraid of what we’ll find.

What was the site?

Nostr can’t prevent the next Mullenweg. It can only provide a path forward for users when it inevitably happens again. Portable data is the killer app.

Been thinking about this today as well. To me this highlights an uncomfortable truth. If you build a decentralized repository, at some point it needs to coalesce into a singular interface. Wordpress plugins are open source, the code is decentralized, yet how could have this been avoided?

WordPress.org forcefully took over the directory listing of a plugin published by another company they are fighting with. This plugin has 1,232 reviews and 2mm installs.

Once any sort of app store, review site, or product catalog reaches a point critical mass and becomes the canonical source, you have a new central point of failure.

It's an interesting thought experiment. How does one decentralize something like a directory of plugins, where the value of the directory in question is that it's centralized?

While information wants to be free, humans like when it's all in one place, they don't want 100 different app stores. They want convenience.

Nostr has the primitives to build sites using a model of decentralized trust and reputation, but even then the people who build the most popular aggregators will yield the same power.

Same vibes when people complain about mass adoption and the only thing they are talking about is competing with X.

Imagine someone who is nostr curious showing up and getting nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m or nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx as a buddy. They’re sending a personal GM each day and helping setup their wallets. It would be a wild experiment.

Maybe for #nostrnovember we focus on making things feel smaller around here.

If we want people to commit their time, let’s make it reciprocal. How about if there was a nostr adopt-a-newbie system?

It might be stupid and chaotic, but it could also be fun. Particularly if some of the bigger accounts participate.

Did ReplyGuy get bored and stop or did relay operators land on an effective filter?

Absolutely, systems that thrive are imperfect. Lack of variability reduces adaptability and resilience.

The thing that bums me out about AI image generation is how quickly all the models converged on the same hyper realistic and overly saturated aesthetic. I suspect they’re all using more synthetic training data which lacks the subtle imperfections of reality.

Maybe not official but wouldn’t be surprised if it was a filter implemented by relays as a form of spam protection.

Folksonomies!

Is that a limit which is enforced by relays?

It’s a gd never ending conference call. 👊😅 you ever ask yourself a question and wait for an answer? No…. Me neither.