I'm beginning to suspect that I have a touch of fructose intolerance. The last couple of days when I had a few high fructose fruits with breakfast, I almost immediately started having stomach pain.

For years, I've known that I get sick to my stomach when I drink apple juice. Apples are a high fructose food. I just never seen the correlation with other foods before.

This was a really interesting discussion.

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GM y'all

I'm less concerned about what make something go viral but what behavior going viral rewards. What got me thinking about this was the types of content posted to social media, particularly commentary and political content, and what the inherent rewards of the system encourage from creators.

From what I've seen, more extreme views get more engagement. No one cares about "Thing X is bad" but "Thing X is the worst thing ever and kills babies" tends to drive more clicks, likes, etc. which might push the "algorithm" to boost the post. In the end all the storm and fury surrounding one post that gets a zillion views doesn't mean much other than bragging rights. If, on the other hand, the reward is money there is more incentive to use that extremism to try and hit big, rake in the sats, and to keep going extreme to keep the sats flowing.

Maybe I'm overthinking it. (It's been known to happen.) I'm just wondering if one of the things that makes nostr awesome (the ability to reward value with value by zapping sats) doesn't also encourage the toxic behavior that is so prevalent on X, Facebook, etc.

One of the worst traits of a creator media site is the tendency to reward the hottest, most extreme takes. For many of those, the rewards tend to be algorithmic growth and increased views. For nostr, the rewards are direct and often monetary. Is that "better"? Does zapping encourage or discourage more extreme views or does it make no difference?

#nostr #sats #creatormedia #socialmedia

I like fun, character growth, and a general good triumphs over evil message. Internal consistency is helpful but not necessary. (The magic system in Robert Asprin's Myth series is all over the map but the books are fun.)

I also have to like the characters. If I don't like the characters, it's really hard for me to stick with a story. That doesn't mean the characters have to be "righteous" but I should want to spend time with them. In the series I keep going back to (like LOTR), it's because I like being with the characters.

I really like the Honor Harrington series from David Weber, in part, because the pseudo science of space travel is pretty interesting and I like Honor as a character.

Congrats to everyone frothing at the mouth over the mob vote. The mob vote is now dead.

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/the-future-of-minecrafts-development

#minecraft

I've gotten very used to package managers and docker containers. I don't miss installing software directly from source. If you need me, I'll be compiling...

We must be talking/listening to different libertarians. As a libertarian myself, I agree that free speech includes the freedom to oppose people's behavior.

I really like my Logitech mouse but every so often it just straight up forgets that the buttons are supposed to do things. It's probably related to my KVM but it's annoying.

It's not every day that I see a buck this big in my yard.

Creator media sites (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X) are built on the spam model. A creator puts out some form of "content" and waits for the likes, tips, whatever to come in. It's really a one-way process.

Social media is built on relationships and a good discussion back and forth. Discord, irc, etc. fall into that. Nostr currently falls here because the community is awesome and there's a culture of connection. The fact that it's still a small community probably contributes to that.

I get worried about people joining nostr and treating it like creator media. Either one-way engagement farming ("I will post my hot take and watch the sats roll in.") or just another place to spam out links.

#nostr #creatormedia #socialmedia

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Speaking of #Minecraft... I rambled on about Mojang's Minecraft experiment process in my latest podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSHB4-AcJWw

The first trailer for A Minecraft Movie is out and... I'm not impressed. Jack Black is almost always a negative for me. The style is interesting. It looks to be taking the basic story from Minecraft Legends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE2YZhcC4NY

#minecraft

I saw someone insisting that price controls totally work and shortages are okay. 🤦‍♂️

You're welcome and good luck to your teen.

The grind is real. For YouTube, your teen might be right... for now. However, you can point your teen to what's happening in the streaming space. Sure, viewers use the built-in tools for subscriptions or donations but a lot of viewers use off platform tools like Streamelements, Ko-Fi, or Fourthwall to support creators. In theory, sats can fall into that same category.

On the other hand, it's really hard for regular viewers to buy and zap sats right now. As much as I'd like to agree with you, until it's just as easy for a casual viewer to tip stats as it is to tip dollars, income based on sats will be very limited.

I haven't read the Mistborn books yet. I read the Skyward series a while back. Fun stuff

Agreed. A problem I think nostr shares with other "social" platforms is that you can't follow someone without seeing everything they post. For some people, that's fine and awesome but sometimes I want to follow someone for their posts about certain topics (eg Minecraft, football) and not others (eg Politics, bitcoin).

I think there's room here for some form of client-side filtering rather than something at the relay level. A simple filter could be based on hashtags. Something more advanced might use a LLM to detect the topic which comes closer to solving both the "sender didn't set a topic" and "spam post isn't related to the stated topic" problems.

I just finished reading "Just Stab Me Now" by Jill Bearup. It's a fun little story and a great translation of her Fantasy Heroine series of Shorts. There were a few spots where I actually laughed out loud.

It's not high literature by any means but it's a fun fantasy romance that actively plays with (and subverts) the typical romance tropes.

#books #bookstr