How much has NOSTR and applications using it improved over the past 12 Months?

230% ?

What is the best metric to track the growth of NOSTR?

Not sure what you mean

Just thinking back over the last 2+ years and how much I’ve enjoyed being here on nostr, how the apps have become so freaking amazing, and realizing that this is ONLY THE BEGINNING, has me feeling so incredibly excited for what’s to come. Let’s onboard the world to freedom. 💜🚀

My dad killed himself in front of me when I was about 3/4 years old. I held on to his leg and asked him not to leave me. I don’t remember what I had for dinner last week, but I’ll never forget this. His fear of living outweighed his fear of death, I suppose. David Foster Wallace said ‘the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames’. My dad loved me, I know that, but he did it anyway. Being a kid was so stressful. I rather like getting older. I didn’t feel the sadness of it until I started dating. I didn’t understand what was happening to me. Love is fucking painful sometimes.

I smile when I think back cos when kids would ask me about my dad in the playground I would just tell them what happened like it was nothing. No sensor. Kids are honest creatures. One time my teacher told me off in front of the whole class cos I was late to school and when she asked me why, I told her the truth. My mum was drunk again. She got all awkward and changed the subject and I remember being so confused why she did that, cos I thought she would laugh. I felt like I did something wrong. ‘Was I meant to lie? But I don’t like to lie’ I’d think. The great thing about a diary is that you never have to lie to them. They are incredibly understanding.

All this to say I think that’s why I’m so drawn to writers like David foster Wallace and Charles Bukowski. I love honesty. I like deep, authentic people. So curious. I want to understand. And I think maybe I do. It’s why I’m so curious about people’s parents, their childhoods and I love people watching. Why I can’t bear to see a child hurt. Why I sometimes can’t stand the sight of alcohol. It’s definitely shaped my views and tastes in art and literature. My moral compass. My dreams. My style of love.

We’ve all got such interesting (sometimes a little dark) unique yet similar stories.

From people watching I learnt that social interaction is the secret ingredient to longevity ❤️‍🔥 love people - not things - even if it hurts to love them.

I know this is going to sound odd but I wouldn’t change anything about my past for many reasons but one is because It made me who I am and I like who I am - not perfect at all but deeply emotional with a need to understand. That’s not too bad, I think. I’m like slightly overcooked pasta. Still edible to someone who doesn’t mind the texture. That’s the secret to making real friends, too. If your friend doesn’t want to bite you, then they probably aren’t right for you.

That’s just my feeling as a completely inexperienced 29 year old who has barely traveled and is still figuring life out.

Just thinking out loud. Again.

Alright, I’m going to get back to reading 🫂

I’m feeling awfully inspired lately ❤️‍🔥

Sorry for starting the note off so direct. I just find it so ridiculous that people use the word ‘unalive’ on YouTube. We created words to express ourselves and communicate. We should have power over the words we want to use, words shouldn’t have power over us - if that makes sense.

BURN THE SHIPS.

NUKE YOUR CENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT.

#NOSTRONLY

So we really don’t have a plan to capture any TikTok refuges?

Can’t Pablo whip something up in a few hours? 🤣

so a naturally happy Indian programming prodigy blows the whistle on OpenAI, the NYT states on Nov 18th that he has documents proving OpenAI has been scraping and stealing data, he goes to Catalina Island for vacation with friends from Nov 18-22, he has an interview with the AP on December 2nd, and on the night of Nov22 after returning from vacation he becomes so depressed he commits suicide?

ya dont say.

browse global from time to time. shows you that nostr is bigger than whatever echo chamber you're in

Bitcoin frees your wallet

NOSTR frees your mind

GM NOSTR, God bless the real ones.

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Go as a pilgrim and seek out danger

far from the comfort and the well lit avenues of life.

Pit your every soul against the unknown

and seek stimulation in the comfort of the brave.

Experience cold, hunger, heat and thirst

and survive to see another challenge

and another dawn.

Only then will you be at peace with yourself

and be able to know and to say;

“I look down the farthest side of the mountain,

fulfilled and understanding all,

and truly content that

I LIVED A FULL LIFE AND ONE OF MY OWN CHOICE

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“We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go

Always a little further; it may be

Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow

Across that angry or that glimmering sea,

White on a throne or guarded in a cave

There lies a prophet who can understand

Why men were born: but surely we are brave,

Who take the Golden Road to Samarkand.”

Did a presentation yesterday with ego death team to over 80 funds, family offices, and high net worth individuals. All smart and curious. Just caught in the wrong frame of reference - like we all were at one point.

…And….Every time I do a presentation, talk or meeting (outside of #nostr ) it reinforces how unbelievably early we are on this journey.

One of the reasons, I was early and so intrigued with the internet, is that the smartest people I knew were moving their time to it. (Before it was captured by broken money)

The same thing playing out on the #bitcoin protocol with a massive added plus…..Not only the smartest/most curious people, but generally those with a high level of integrity and aligned values.

Feel so much gratitude to you all!

And good morning.

I digress. I can see having a different npub for things that I want private. But this is still a wonky UX and managing nsec/nsubs/npubs is going to need a well designed, secure tool set.

Isn’t everything I do on Nostr public and revealing about me if I am my actual self on Nostr? So I may own my data and choose my client, but my social graph is public, my notes are public, and that info can be gathered. Or are you meaning that I can anonymize my account and stay private? This is something I’ve struggled with about the protocol and its clients and how my data works in conjunction with freedom and privacy on a transparent protocol.

Are there any models that have worked other than advertising? Or subscriptions?

I'm not quite sure how Craigslist supports itself despite being among the top 10 web pages.

Wikipedia asks for money.

What if we looked at the market for social media and then proportion it out according to the type of user and number.

So maybe there will be a Facebook-type clien, Google type, Craigslist type, and new ones like Tik tok that pop up for kids.

For me I use Facebook as a repository of contacts from college plus access to family pictures. I would have deleted FB if it wasnt for browsing Marketplace.

I use LinkedIn as little as possible and mainly just as a professional version of Facebook.

Twitter is my news app.

And Nostr is my vision board space.

So maybe Primal can capture Facebook/Insta/ Twitter all in one.

If Nostr is a protocol like the Internet, maybe it turns into web browsing difference.

Firefox, Chrome,Safari, Microsoft Edge.

However I think there may be more differentiation for Nostr since it's a social layer..it will probably mimic the amount of social apps. News, dating, professional, family, friends, banking.

I don't know if I like the idea of my banking app knowing what Im doing in dating world... So maybe there will be certain profiles that are just for certain clients. 🤔

I'm more confused about how it might look now than when I started writing this.

Good try, Jake, I'll stick to Coracle/Amethyst.

Just joshing around

If you onboard a newbie to nostr, make sure to help them get the nsec into a password manager or similar.

Phones will be lost. Apps deleted. They don't know what they do, and with this (imperfect) backup in place they won't have to start from scratch.