Yea Hamas cannot be trusted I agree.

Who'd have thought😳😂.

I get way too attached cant shake this monkey off my back

beautiful day outside, im starting to enjoy this lil platform even tho i still don’t quite understand it

I like my social media like I like my churches…

small, decentralized, diverse communities, organized around a single core idea, connected to a larger continually morphing global network…

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.

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

Bitcoin on-chain fees are low. Now is a good time to consolidate any UTXO (unconsolidated transaction output) you have into larger ones. Basically you will have larger "chunks" of Bitcoin, rather than many small ones. This will save you fees later, when they may be much higher.

mempool.space

Consolidation time