1. You can browse clients that curate content for you, like:
2. Switch to a set of relays that results in a clean global feed. At the moment I see no spam with these enabled:
⬤ wss://eden.nostr.land
⬤ wss://nostr.fmt.wiz.biz
⬤ wss://relay.damus.io
⬤ wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net
⬤ wss://relay.nostr.info
⬤ wss://offchain.pub
⬤ wss://nos.lol
⬤ wss://brb.io
⬤ wss://relay.snort.social
⬤ wss://relay.current.fyi
⬤ wss://nostr.relayer.se
⬤ wss://nostrafrica.pcdkd.fyi
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We're here for the decentralization and you guys keep shilling your grand unified massively centralized blockchain. It's horrid, every 3rd post is a Bitcoin ad.
Blockchains have a single authoritative version of all-the-data, so are properly described as centralized and distributed -- not decentralized like Nostr.
Nope. I am against all grand unified ledgers (blockchains), since they are all centralized (one authoritative version of all-the-data) and distributed -- not decentralized.
What's the rationale here? You can't think Bitcoin is responsible for Friday, so are you just spazzing out and throwing your god's name in the place of where others say 'God' cuz?
#[57] The closest electronic solution to the merchant-issued decentralized credit notes I've seen is Pear Credit, which is blockchain-free like Nostr and doesn't require maintenance or fees because they're not trying to maintain a single authoritative global state like Bitcoin.
Free audio book "Debt: The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber here. A study of how people akshully traded before centrally issued brand name currencies, like USD or Bitcoin. http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/64160
What a load of bull. Historically, merchant-issued credit was the primary solution. Each merchant generated their own currency and maintained their own ledger. You know, decentralized, not a central issuer with a central ledger like Bitcoin.
Maxipads and blockchain enthusiasts in general really fkin hate decentralization.
They want 1 coin. They only support 1 currency 7project. They only want 1 grand unified ledger. Distributed, not decentralized. They only want Bitcoin to be their monopoly money, their store of value, their means of exchange.
If you want a blockchain enthusiast to shriek, mention availing of Nostr's ability to akshually enjoy a decentralized data layer. Global public firehose with relays all backing each other up would make Nostr centralized and distributed, like Bitcoin, not decentralized like Nostr.
Only the `message` value is encrypted. All metadata is public, and your public IP's are logged at the relays. And the `message` value is decrypted by *any* party to the conversation's nsec, so even that obfuscation (not privacy, just obfuscation of a public record) can be undone without any fault of your own, by some other party leaking their key.
To see just how bad DMs are, login using jb55 or someone else's npub and take a look at the Messages. You can see who, when, how often, who sends more messages, what time of night, etc.
I'm not pushing one solution, there's no other solution I am pushing. Gotcha.
Bitcoin maxipads are monopolists. You want a mono-polar financial instrument. Just one instrument that is also one Store of Value that is also one Medium of Exchange that is also one Fantastic Investment Opportunity. You also want One Grand Unified Ledger, not multiple ledgers.
Blockchains aren't decentralized. The Bitcoin blockchain is a grand unified centralized ledger of every fucking transaction across the entire currency, with 1 authoritative version that is synced up across multiple host nodes. That's distributed, like Facebook; not decentralized, like Nostr.
Nostr is akshully decentralized. No ledger (db) contains all the data. Each node (relay) hosts a different subset of data that doesn't require any other nodes or all the data for the system to work 'properly'.
Blockchain enthusiasts absolutely adore massively centralized, distributed systems.
How do you differentiate between a new user and a new wallet?
You can't.
Maxis really fkin hate decentralization
The price of Bitcoin also grows to whatever a whale decides to sell to himself through the exchanges before a dump.
Consequentialist nocoiners are a different breed to principled nocoiners.
I'm a nocoiner as far as blockchains go because I'm a fan of decentralization (like Nostr) not a single grand unified ledger (blockchain) distributed (not decentralized) over an ad hoc CDN.
The irony of stating others "don't care about decentralization" while pushing just 1 solution will never not be lost on you.
Nostr skeptic? Haha. I point out Nostr notes are public and all metadata is unencrypted and public, which is unsuitable for DM's, and has no delete, and now I'm a skeptic. By that standard, jb55 is also a skeptic.
If not-a-skeptic means you refuse to point out facts of the matter about a thing, I hope I will never *not* be a skeptic.
I'm a blockchain abolitionist because it's a surveillance nightmare that didn't solve the generals problem without centralizing something, it just centralized the ledger. Nostr has decentralized ledgers. A blockchain is a centralized ledger (singular) distributed over a CDN. Distributed != decentralized.
Makes it open to open source surveillance?