It depends?
Are you 75 and retired? Buy some in hopes of handing it down to your kids. How much depends on what you've got. But it's unlikely to make a major difference in the way you live your life.
Are you 20 and just starting to work/make real money? Save up enough fiat to live 1 month if you lose your job, then start hodling, but if it's me, I'm probably building up to 6 mo. fiat emergency fund while I DCA into BTC. Oh, and if you're in the US and your employer is matching money you put in a 401k, you're stupid not to take it. Free money is free money, even if it is fiat. And investments aren't going to go to 0, even if the fiat does.
In between, it depends where you are, what your work and living circumstances are like. I'm closer to the former than the latter, have kids I need to take care of, a mortgage to pay, and could seriously think about retiring from the fiat mines in 5-10 years. So I'm still putting a ton of my investing in fiat-based investments, but I'm putting a little bit every day (thanks Swan Bitcoin!) into BTC. For me, hyperbitcoinization is a "maybe" in my lifetime, but if I can hand a bitcoin or two to each of my kids, they're going to be way better off than if I handed them the fiat equivalent.
On the commute, trying out the location feature of Amethyst.
nostr:npub16cyt2ykk2um3amexrgjldfn2p6ls2euc4jyqc4vpft4vvlaupjqqllu878 and nostr:npub1zywedmndxjrcm9d0hljsk8uqaqf9d4mxya4c5gzdudrps5jkyshqe2s58k of Reason magazine did a pretty good longish one. https://www.youtube.com/live/lqtONE93APQ?feature=share but also available via The Reason Interview podcast.
Too bad you can't use it in DMs, I tried in a note to self, but no joy. I see what it shows when sending, but I'd like to see what one looks like from the other side.
Maybe I'll send a public note tomorrow at the office, where 20,000 people are within 5km.
I guess simps are just a form of what I'm describing.
I don't disagree, but if it was pure supply and demand, how is anyone making money on OF and similar? Especially anyone doing fairly vanilla stuff? I think parasocial relationships are at least one part of the answer.
I'm saying people might be willing/want to pay for nudes if they feel like they have a relationship with the model.
Parasocial relationships are the one-sided sorts of relationships where people get emotionally connected to celebrities, athletes, characters in books and on TV, etc. I can detect it in myself with podcasters, especially. Once I listened to all 200 hours of Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast, I felt like I "knew" him, even though I only started listening after it was all done, so not only was I just a blip on the download chart, but even then, the personal stuff he shared was years out of date.
So I could see how someone might justify to themselves that they're "helping out a friend" by paying for nudes, even if they could just as easily go find others for free.
something something parasocial relationship something something.
I'm actually saying the Iris view is perhaps cluttered, but better than the Primal one, especially when the message is short/context-free.
Or maybe the right answer is a "Posts" and "Posts and Replies" switch somewhere, similar to what Iris has. I don't know.
And the actor just died.
You may want to reword this a little, or be prepared for what you see...
No, I get that. What I mean is, because it's got no context it's a whole lot less useful than it could be. Here's what this message looks like on Iris:
vs. Primal:
In this case, the context isn't so dependent, but when all the messages are "GM", I don't know if it's one of the people I follow posting "GM" and I might want to respond, or if it's people I follow responding to other people's GM posts who I don't follow, and I can/will ignore it. And maybe I look at 5 of them and they're one way, but there's one in the middle that's different.
I actually think the Iris version is too verbose/takes up too much real estate most of the time. But a simple "Replying to PeterK" in there somewhere would give me context I need to know if I want to investigate further.
That's the one, cool, thanks. Freaks, Addicts, easy mistake to make.
Actually, I think this isn't the one he was talking about, he described it as showing multiple apps on the screen at once. But this is worth having, too.
So what's the difference between an influencer and a pleb? I mean, I know the difference as a gut feeling, but how do you define it?
nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg Also, apparently, handle @tags even if the dropdown wasn't used? I copy/pasted the above, and didn't catch that it didn't actually tag you.
@primal I'm really enjoying using the "Latest, my tribe" view, but this AM, my whole screen was a pile of "GM" messages. Maybe some sort of context when a message is a reply? There was no way to tell if those were all a response to the same message, or several.
First thought, "is goat yoga a thing now?"
Second though, "wait, she's way overdressed for that."
nostr:npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd mentioned a website for consolidating Nostr webapps on his podcast a few days ago, I thought it was nostraddict, or similar, but I can't find it. Anyone have a link?