For the pure "social feed" the scope of relay-centrism is small, I think (you can browse notes in niche relays "global" feed, or you can filter replies in threads by relays or groups of relays to gather different views of any given note -- what else?), but when it comes to other Nostr use cases I see relays being necessarily more and more at the center of the experience.

I need to switch to Brave as a browser full time. Wish they’d ditch the BAT junk for Lightning.

I’d love a search engine that wasn’t owned by Big Tech that was as good as one owned by Big Tech.

Hasn't Substack ever banned anyone?

behold the rock hewn churches of Ethiopia, works of enormous devotion. Awesome, truly.

ChatGPT denies VPN connections?

A few of my neighbors think I’m crazy for not wanting my kids to eat McDonald’s / fast food in general.

Is this really that insane?

I’ve been pleasantly surprised thus far by Brave [search] AI “Summarizer” and it’s ability to pool multiple results together into a coherent answer.

First noticed it when I was helping my kid try and find a specific item in a game level that she just could not locate. It was able to tell me exactly where it was. 🤯

If anyone has any insights into how to relatively easily distribute a newsletter via Nostr DMs with a way to add signups to an existing website I would gladly tip some sats for insight!

Would love to not force interested people to use email and instead allow people to use Nostr DMs.

Considering I open Damus and Instagram with similar frequencies, but Instagram feeds have way more images and videos, it would seem that it’s not media that uses up the bulk of bandwidth on nostr.

Rather, this seems to show that downloading tons of redundant data from relays is what causes the bulk of data usage, no?

If so, making clients more intelligent at deduping by using NIP-65/Gossip should be a **big** priority. Casual users aren’t going to be cool with burning through 30 GB of data and their battery life.

Been having trouble squaring this with the Sermon on the Mount.

Matthew 5:38-39: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."

Matthew 5:43-44: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;"

My responsibility to protect my cherished loved ones is paramount. While I strive to emulate Jesus in facing life's greatest challenges, I find myself deviating slightly into minor transgressions when it comes to ensuring my family's well-being. If any misguided individual were to endanger their safety, I would not hesitate to take action. Although I was once uncertain about this, my love for my family has grown stronger, leading me to equip myself more diligently and intelligently. I now view my role as their steadfast guardian and protector.

I don't think so but definitely worth getting it going

I'm thinking about hosting a developers' session one of these days showing how to easily build nostr stuff

with NDK.

any interest?

Is it…. better too? 😆

Pushed a testflight build this morning with a few bug fixes. Working on push notifications and the video player today! Cheers 🥂

### Added

- New settings look (William Casarin)

- Added text truncation settings (William Casarin)

### Changed

- Rename block to mute (William Casarin)

### Fixed

- Reduce chopping of images (mainvolume)

- Fix some notification settings not saving (William Casarin)

- Fix broken camera uploads (again) (Joel Klabo)