Oddbean new post about login | logout Oh I see. So #nostr is kinda like #bluesky. #bitcoin is made different, you can abuse it but there are rules in the game that make you pay fees for your play. Encouraging good behaviors and not trolling behind the lack-of-technology is something that seems to be made from an government agency. Like in 2010 when we can’t have comments sections in website because people will talk what they thought. Like I’ve said before the notes should be stored decentralized and be paid to be stored by TTL. That’s what will avoid abusive behavior. What will make easy to index is making people pay or be paid to be part of the indexes. (Aggregators) But now if the fear is of being emotionally damaged, like #bsky and others maybe is better start delaying deployments and wait the concurrence have the courage for doing it. What’s being done here is a strong connection between profiles and notes that will sure be used by lawyers to sue anybody who want use simple language. All the best. 💯
Check out #pubky. It does decentralized DNS and stroage based on a verifiably censorship-resistant network: https://pubky.tech/ Nostr could gain a great deal by looking at this tech.
This one looks good. But let me point some interesting aspects: 1- being written in rust and implementing and using a DHT relay may add a burden to **not be able to run inside a browser** That’s because browsers today lack UDP raw socket to make the hole-punch necessary for unleashing the NATed users. That’s why I normally think in a solution that use webrtc in replacement for udp. Like webtorrent made to upgrade from torrent inside browser. Well, torrents alike still need the DHT relay and well, it cost money to run and is an element of censoring itself. There’s where nostr joins force. Nostr today is responsible for keeping all the data and hashes and signatures like when the bitcoin blockchain started and before any taproot idea comes to mind. Torrent in the first time only cared about the hashes of the data, like a very simple version of nostr or blockchain. That’s more consistent with the way #bitcoin is going now with taproot, and nostr could learn from it. Why store all the data together with the hashes and all the burden that comes with storing user data like jb55 said it will lead to abuses and trolls. #nostr still need to learn how to game this abuses into costs like for example: charging users to store their notes using sats by TTL. Query the hashes using some paid-like service. Right now all is free but nothing is decentralized. Like all the prior concurrents. All the best,
Better to make a new browser than to make a new standard focused on compatibility with old browsers
Yes, or bring back the original browser, before it got taken over by VCs. Which some of us are still working on. It's a lot of fun, and yesterday we added nostr integration!
But then we’ll still need to raise free relays to regular users watch what’s happening inside “decentraland”. I do agree browser url should include many p2p protocols now by default like torrent etc. http over tcp is still a weak link and easy to target by the fed because it ends always in the same place. Something like webtorrent can disrupt the idea of an endpoint not more to a centralized server but to many seeders. Paid seeders as I hope we could game it and host it ourselves. Earning meritorious hard money for holding strong ideas online.
Great points, except nostr is not free, it's quite heavily subsidized
design is very important, the design of a client can encourage toxic behaviour and ruin the experience for lots of people. Why do you think people say nostr is a pleasant place? if i created a “fuck you” button that sends “fuck you” to people as a reply, this is an example of a design that would make this place less pleasant. I have a lot of power and i’m trying to wield that in a way that makes this a fun place to be. If you disagree with this, you or anyone can make a client that implements these things, noone is stopping you. In fact, i believe amethyst does implement this? Which is why I seem to get cowardly anon replies that attack me all the time.
I’m not encouraging you to lose your momentum in any way. I’m just documenting that are another ways to cyber hornets achieve “decentraland” and game it using many other “views”, like you’re one, and use it to find useful topics in many ways like used to be #freenode, Wikipedia, even Facebook in the early days. Here you have cashu, or lightning to punish the bad behavior or promote the good one using real money. And having a “fuck you” unstoppable button draws a lot of attention of all the old media. The more unstoppable you’re the bigger the news. Good bless Satoshi, and all the others that come to help us live the best of our dreams. 🙏