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 Ok here's my briefest possible rundown, I'll try to exclude people you already follow. afaict you haven't been on nostr for a hot minute. I can barely keep up myself. Also, I'm running out the door right now so there's probably a bunch of typos and mistakes, but here you go.

every few days or weeks there's some random wildfire meme event, like one day I logged in and everyone was named Dan

I like the consistent trend of pointing to nostr "problems" are actually features indicating how decentralized it is. like follow like or counts can fluctuate, or you can't gaurantee a post has been deleted. Did you know Mastadon stores like counts in a sql record? anyway, seen a lot of posts like that

Two web-based nostr clients you gotta try if you haven't already are nostrudel (tons of features/customization, I particularly like how it handles relays) and 

@hodlbod is working on coracle which has the best in class WoT functionality in nostr afaik

@NoGood ✌️ is streaming music on zap.stream 24/7

@Super Testnet posts here occasionally. Always a treat to hear from him.

Some of the grapheneOS folks are on here, like @final [GrapheneOS] 📱👁️‍🗨️

@Super Testnet is prolific and working on cool stuff in golang like REPLICATR

@QnA is publishing about privacy and working on freedom.tech

@𝓢𝓮𝓻 𝓢𝓵𝓮𝓮𝓹𝔂 is always keeping the vibe light

You already follow @Karnage but I just wanted to say he's definitely the best cat these days.

@hzrd149 is working on a file sharing protocol called blossom (he was on Citadel Dispatch talking about it recently if you want to catch up on that)

all the usual suspects like odell, the jacks, etc. are all still holding it down influentially. divisive and incisive. all of them have been called out and challenged in one way or another, and they're all still going strong. the stakes are high, so good on'em.

There are some folks on here that have sharp technical views on things, I always love seeing them comment on topics:

@sommerfeld
@w3ird
@greenart7c3

You cannot overestimate the need for good vibes so follow @hopelessromantic

Offset that with the proper antagonism from @Semisol who will probably save us all in the end. 

@awayslice (yes)

oh @brugeman also built nsec.app which is pretty cool too

@bumi is still tearin' it up. he's like the benevolent king that conquered lightning, but he's giving it all back to us in the end with @NWC

NWC will be in everything one day

@Deleted Account is scheming up ways to fix lightning (save the money, save the world)

@Don't ₿elieve the Hype 🦊 also built satdress which I continue to use every day to zap people and continue to aggressively recommend

@calle 👁️⚡👁️ building wild ecash stuff

I think you already follow me, but you should know that if I was a language model they'd probably just delete me for having terrible inference quality

btw I searched for you in Amethyst and couldn't find you even though I follow you. nostr is SO DECENTRALIZED 
 when i appear in a list like this i will know i made it 
 opa

i did get mentioned

just the client mangled your reference, supertestnet is not building #replicatr that's definitely me

i made it

*happy sounds* 
 Well… nostr is decentralized so there’s always that possibility that someone, somewhere, loves you very much and added you to all their lists.

You made it buddy 
 yeah, was a typo with my npub but i was named 🙇‍♂️  i was pleased to make such a list 
 was it from bleetube? i forget 
 > @Super Testnet is prolific and working on cool stuff in golang like REPLICATR

i forgot it was that indirect but still 
 You're right I probably copied the wrong npub. I totally goofed 

I really shouldn't compose my notes in kwrite 😆 
 i'm too proud anyway, don't worry... thanks for the shout out 
 not sure if you were aware but my npub has my username in it, for future reference in case you actually need me to catch the message 
 Great list. Followed and zapped good sir. 🫡  
 hm... I wonder why amethyst isn't working?

I made my nsec using cli way back in the day, then used amethyst for a year or so, just downloaded primal  last week to try it out. Is there a specific relay I should be connected to for my data to propagate over amethyst? 
 Your relay list looks solid. I searched for you in Amethyst and you came right up. Not sure why you wouldn't come up for Blee... early days. 
 A good nostr summery 🫶
#asknostr   nostr:nevent1qqsv9qhewhft95mqh78wq389h5dt2edtekar4eyjtx3zre7gfqscs4szyp56pgy3pdy6rklmcnj0zr0j9dvqdt65qw3zsfnk8rewjzxfdq3g6q4ucj2 
 nostr:nevent1qqsv9qhewhft95mqh78wq389h5dt2edtekar4eyjtx3zre7gfqscs4spr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9upzq6dq5zgskjdpm0aufe83phezkkqx4a2q8g3gyemr3uhfpryksg5dqvzqqqqqqykvhps7