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tengo que aprender a ser mas cabron

that white man has fasho cursed the future generations of his family truly despicable

For real! How the hell did the embassy give a heads up for folks to stay away from crowded areas in the weeks leading up to the shooting?! They think they got us all asleep scrolling through the corporate platforms but they don't! Some of us are wide awake and watching 👀

Maybe if you put a plate of mofongo in front of you it will jump off

Thanks for sticking around and helping me learn how to run a relay effectively!! I'm glad you are enjoying it. This protocol is going to keep evolving into something better and better!!

God bless the babies 🇵🇸🇭🇹🇸🇩🇵🇷🇨🇩🇨🇺

I'm not sure I should write down these thoughts right now while I'm not sure about them, but if you are reading this apparently I did.

I think nostr may already be doomed for two reasons. And as a result of that, if I conclude as such, it would make sense to start working on a successor protocol. I've been taking some notes about what we should change if we started over, but that's the extent of it, I'm not working on a successor protocol. I'm only working on nostr. So don't misinterpret this note, which just represents some thoughts I've been having.

Reason one is the misaligned incentives of note copying. The incentives are to copy your notes to every relay you can, blast them out everywhere, to get more reach. That incentive doesn't go away until and unless all the clients do the outbox model. But they don't have an incentive to change, and there are people who don't give a fuck about fixing this and argue against fixing it and argue for note copying, and there is no way in a free society to make them care. So we can never fix this, and nostr will always be centralized in practice and never what it could have been. That means nostr is doomed and unfixable and we should make sure to start differently next time so this doesn't happen again.

Reason two is that the seed culture of nostr was far too monolithic: bitcoiners. What a culture develops into probably depends on how diverse its seed was. It's quite hard to get people onto nostr unless they are at least very bitcoin tolerant. Most people (yes, I think most) are put off by so much bitcoin promotion and related posts. Certainly people can follow anybody they want, and make their own independent cultures, perhaps even on a disjoint set of relays. But this isn't likely to happen due to the law of large numbers - there are far more ways for them to encounter and interact with the nest of bitcoiners then to not encounter and interact with them.

These are thoughts I'm entirely unsure about. Maybe I'm wrong in both cases. These are my worries.

Thanks for sharing these thoughts!! I'm with you on the bitcoiner piece. I couldn't tell you the exact moment or thing I read that brought me to nostr, but I can say the it wasn't bitcoin but rather my curiosity of alternatives to corporate/government controlled means of communication (Instagram, Twitter, etc). I tried ActivityPub for a while but the server I lived in stopped operating, which pushed me to look for other options.

The magic with something like Nostr is the ability to connect and post to the relays you want as well as the cryptographic identities. As relay software evolves and more community builders run relays on nostr, we'll start to see more hyperlocalized communities coalesce around values.

Am I trippin or does Damus not let you choose what relays you want to post a note to?

Thanks!! I was able to see the transaction I did earlier when I moved my coins off coinbase LOL wild I never knew about this

Movin my coins off the exchange for safe keepin #learningbitcoin

What are we looking at? This is node software? Sorry for the newb question I'm still learning

Just onboarded someone to bitcoin who really needed it