They're attacking Google from all sides. Search engine, now browser. Reminds me of Google's attacks against Microsoft. Google will survive, but will be smaller and less relevant than today.

Absolutely! It could be that this is just a precursor model to something better.

Interesting critique. And instead of reacting with cult-like, knee-jerk defensive responses like most commentators there, we should actually engage with it. You know, proof of work and all that.

I generally agree with the arguments. However, they're only valid if you compare Nostr to today's professional platforms. That's where I think the reasoning falls short. I don't compare Nostr to Meta, Twitter, or LinkedIn; I compare it to the early weblog scene around the turn of the millennium.

Of course, we don't have the notable talents here yet. Those come with professional venture capital. And VC only arrives after pioneers have laid the groundwork.

What was so great about Twitter and Facebook? Where was their innovation? There wasn't any. They simply simplified and improved what the blogosphere had already created. Comments, sharing, discoverability... all of that existed already. These companies with their venture capital just moved into a ready-made nest and solved or simplified just one problem:

If you were a blogger back then, but you were, well, a bit too ordinary, you really struggled to find your audience. So they centralized everything and put an algorithm behind it. That was it.

You could find other interesting blogs on Technorati, weblogs.com, or similar services and comment on their posts with your weblog's URL. But that was too complicated for normies. You could share across weblogs, but it was called trackback and pingback. And they were just as unreliable and hardly usable as Zaps are today. Too complicated for the average person. There were trends and early influencers, but they were hard to discover in a WWW-distributed weblog system (that was real decentralization back then, by the way).

Commercial platforms took all of that and bundled it under one central interface. Similar to what Primal is trying to do today, actually. When all swimmers splash around in one lake, even the biggest idiot can find their fish.

What is Nostr doing? Nostr is also playing at social media, but trying to give decentralization and sovereignty back to the user. It's social media in the sense that we've silently accepted that without an audience → no motivation → quick abandonment of the medium. When it comes to the other aspects, sovereignty and decentralization, Nostr is back at pioneer level. Like the weblogs back then.

There were only a few scene-internally known stars back then. Movable Type tried, but lost the competition and disappeared. b/2 caffelog was forked and as WordPress now makes up more than 40% of all CMSs on the web. Many others came and went. Only Matt Mullenweg from that time is still known today.

It all took a decade until the VC-backed platforms and with them the talented developers and names arrived. We're not even 3 years old. Being a pioneer doesn't equal talent aknowledged by others. Pioneers do something whose value is only recognized later, and then only those survive who have learned from other pioneers' mistakes. 90% of pioneers sink forgotten into history, but they have also nourished the success of those few known names.

Otherwise, I agree with the other arguments. The development must become more professional if it must scale. "Vibe coding" ... best forget that term. It's only suitable for unscalable proof of concepts at best. Automated tests before deployment must become standard, as well as usability engineers and real designers. It's not acceptable that with every Yakihonne update, something breaks that worked perfectly before. It's not acceptable that we'll still be fiddling around with PubKeys and Nsecs in 10 years. The situation with simple, NWC-capable Lightning wallets is currently catastrophic. And don't get me started with the onboarding process. Professionalization efforts need to be supported just as much as vibe-coded PoCs. With Bitcoin too, if necessary.

We've already gone through a third of the 10 years that such a technology needs to become professional. And the voices demanding more quality are getting louder. It's about time we silence such criticisms.

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These basic CSS problems can sometimes be pretty complicated, especially when they involve cascading and inheritance issues. But it's true, AI still can't understand even the simplest CSS architectures despite them being built on basic principles.

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Thank you!

Thank you!

Time has flown by. If I hadn't marked this historic event in my online calendar, I would have guessed it had been about 10 years already.

Not really. The only thing I miss a little bit is perhaps some drama.

Zapping and congratulating me like crazy ... you're all a bunch of psychos 😂

Thank you bro

Thank you

Thank you, thank you ...

I'm proud to announce that I'm celebrating my one-year anniversary today. Exactly one year ago, I deleted my quite active Twitter account, and since then I've been using Nostr exclusively. 🎉

The Nostr industry here seems to be missing several things on their radar, like this topic. Overall, many Nostr entrepreneurs are behaving as if they're in the Wild West and laws don't apply to them. It's like they're going through that teenage "I'll do whatever I want" phase. They're far from professional maturity and definitely not grown up yet. Many of them are going to have a rude awakening soon. nostr:nevent1qqs9f9yv2n8ekkpln4zg8h83kmpa0x7hxg4fuv835h4z8f3dugdacrcphkkg0

No. Only hosters you can pay with Bitcoin.

Why is it more important than ever?

You don't know what AI is for?

Then install OpenWeb UI with some AI models. 😉

Hardware is bit weak though.

Here for example

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Amethyst?

Very good reflection! (Retweeted by nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak on X)

I had similar thoughts and therefore asked if there has ever been a society in history that transitioned from a fiat standard to a sound money standard. Preferably without a complete collapse of the economic system first.

Looking at historical monetary transitions, there have been some cases where societies moved from fiat currencies toward more "sound money" systems, although complete transitions without economic disruption are relatively rare. However, I can't verify it myself due to my limited historical knowledge. I therefore tend toward a negative answer. No, without collapse and subsequent intellectual and spiritual reform, we will not transition to a sound money standard at the societal level.

I did similar experiments before those two, but prepared the results less thoroughly. 2 in total with one year in between.

The short version of the result was: 0 conversions, but 40-50 more followers with 1000 ad zaps at 21 and 50 Sats each. You'd need to invest more zaps to get a somehow more representative result.

But that's just another form of cheap marketing, incentivized and morally legitimized through zaps. Meaning, people only accept it and don't classify it as spam because they get a few Sats for it.

The marketing approach that really works here is authenticity, I would guess. Spit out notes about your expertise for 3 years straight and eventually enough people will know that you're the XYZ guy. And for an extra boost, get some testimonials on Nostr (signed and authentic). And remind people by reposting them regularly. Though that would become borderline again; I would quickly unfollow such annoying people. 🤷

This world is so full of bullshit these days, not even 1% of all discussions make any sense anymore.

For the remaining 99% of the time, we should all be busy learning and training our minds scientifically. And the more we did that, the lower the discussion portion would become.

Social media incentivizes exactly the opposite: More discussing and therefore less time for learning. Hence, less actual knowledge. Hence less substance in discussions.

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Give it up. The less hodlers the better the price for the rest of us.

We need a client. And some more relays.

"Muslim Excellence Panel" 🙂

The biggest challenge in creating a "SAIFnostr" is reconciling two opposing poles:

On one hand, we need to preserve the freedom and uncensorability that comes with such a decentralized protocol. On the other hand, we need to exercise a certain degree of control because we do have certain "harams".

The first aspect requires complete release and surrender of control, while the other aspect, if we abandon all control, opens the door to everything we don't want.

How do you find this balance on a technical level? That's precisely the core problem in creating a SAIFnostr.

If any theoretical preliminary discussions are necessary at all, they need to revolve around this core question. Everything else is secondary for now. Have the SAIF chief theorists already addressed this problem?

$300,000-$500,000 and 1 year. 5 devs, no holidays = running, working MVP.

Who is Eco?

I'm a simple man. I see this notation, I close the tab.

So that the cantillionaires can keep printing money with impunity and never have to face the consequences of their actions during their lifetime. Meanwhile, the plebs can keep beating each other up over pre-fed nationalism, racism, and conspiracy theories.

A shitcoiner has just become X's 'Head of Product'.

Telling, isn't it?

Any LN setup where you can't link private data to an LN address. Doesn't matter how it's hosted.

So military-level privacy. I'd say, Lightning is private enough for me (= normie not buying anything illegal).

More private than KYC-less Lightning?

Explain that again, like I'm 10 years old please.

Funny that you both say that. I come from a time when the Internet was not yet commercial. And then businesses came and messed everything up. Do you say, you want to go back? #justasking

What do I need Cashu for? Why do I need it?

So just marked

To become compatible with the (fiat) financial markets, a lot of people are willing to give up backward compatibility with existing books, online articles, courses, and written software.