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 What’s hilarious is morons called Kamala & others DEI hires but #Trump is putting people in positions based on no merit nor experience and no one bats an eye wtf lol 
 Pretty sure the majority of people moved from X to Bluesky without even knowing the differences b... 
 People ultimately wanted a Twitter before Musk. People also here about Nostr key pairs and all of the Bitcoin crazy and Libertarianism that keeps them far away. 
 Please tell me how #Elon is for free speech? Dude backs a party that wants to control what people do with their bodies, bans books, wants to revoke media licenses for press they don’t agree with, Elon blocks those that criticise him. He’s also spent money to influence the election & capitulates to repressive regimes. How is he somehow better than Dorsey?
#freespeech #AskNostr? 
 Are #hashtags relevant on nostr or are they not needed?  #noob #nostr #help 
 They are relevant 
 Whose version of decentralised are we using? As the goal posts seems to shift depending on the contexts 
 Yet this guy aligns himself with government that tells people what they can’t do with their bodies and what they can’t be and read 
 Does anyone have gig work or looking to hire? I have a friend in serious need and on the verge of homelessness. He knows JS/TS/Python and is very experienced in Android development #AskNostr #nostr #ditto #getNostrhired 
 Nostr transmits notes and other stuff over relays.  This is good.  However developers are using n... 
 What’s incorrect , inflammatory and confusing? This is a weird response  
 A lot of these #freespeech pushers are frauds. They think #Musk is a champion of free speech yet he silences his critics and it’s been proven he bows to requests from governments, mostly repressive ones. Yet, some people on #Nostr #Twitter #X hold Dorsey’s feet to the fire over “censorship” when Dorsey was running a publicly traded company unlike Musk which X is private. Dorsey nor Twitter ever came out and backed a political candidate yet Musk has with #Trump Trump is known for wanting to jail & silence his opponents. Somehow people associate Musk and Trump with free speech wtf 
 Genuine question 

How y'all actually use this stuff? What app you use for Nostr, in general? You... 
 I use Damus, Nostrmo, Primal on iOS
Web I use Ditto 
 for verizon customers…

consider silent.link (alone) or with hushed.com. 
 Glad I could remind you 
 Does Nostrconnect even work? I don’t see where any #Nostr app shows a connection string so that I can connect a client with a bunker app.
#Asknostr 
 Never complain or offer critical feedback about nostr, all you'll get is people telling you you'r... 
 Oh man are you kidding me? That’s the same behaviour that happens on #Mastodon. Groupthink is so trash. Nostr is supposed to be above that 
 Someone please send the replyguys to the shadow realm. Somehow they picked up their activity. I thought they were going 
 This made me so happy to watch 
 Do the reply guys want to have a meet up? I could arrange! Talk about their concerns? #unmarketin... 
 You’d be a hero lol 
 We shouldn’t want nor do we need everyone using #Nostr. Having one platform & protocol as the town square is not a good thing. The new version of the “global town square” should be people using any of the notable social web protocols & having access to other people and important information. If your government is on #Threads you should be able to see the content and interact with it from your Nostr client no problem. 
 If Diddy is found guilty it will serve as another example that those in positions of power can ab... 
 Got damn you’re lazy af. You couldn’t take a few seconds to verify if this is true or not. If you had then you’d know this isn’t true 
 Elon is insanely wealthy and powerful. Even regular folks knew about Diddy since the 90’s people have been saying this stuff about Diddy for a long time. I’ll admit it’s not as egregious as Trump with the Epstein stuff. There’s definitely not that kind of proof Elon was that close with Diddy. 
 They said they care about fairness and honesty, crap is lies. Like Biden, Trump also has significant mental decline. They’re about the same age.
Trump said the crowd went crazy at his debate with Kamala yet if Biden said that the media and a lot of you would be talking about his mental state and he’s seeing/hearing things.
I mean idc if you lot are liars just don’t pretend you care about the truth 
#trump #politics 
 Shady Vance said it’s not his job to fact-check what comes out of his mouth but the media’s. How tf can ya support this guy?
So dude is fine with spewing lies regardless of whom it may hurt and that’s supposed to be okay ?
#uspol #politics #GOP 
 So it matters not the Americans and politicians that committed sex crimes, typical 
 Do you guys believe #Nostr communities are open? Or are they gatekeepers and only want groupthink and those they see things similarly to?
#AskNostr #GrowNostr #OpenSocialWeb 
 frustrated enough with nostr clients that i want to create my own 
 Where can we follow the updates ? 
 Controversial in what ways? Are you building in the open? 
 There's no way anyone believes they actually give a crap about election integrity 
 Thanks 🙏 #Trump for giving me one more reason to hate you. Bastardizing the name of #Liberty y... 
 What blows my mind is anyone that claims they care about freedom and free speech that are fans of this dude. He’s stiffed the “little people” his entire life, yet somehow it’s the poorest amongst us that love the guy. I just have to assume any fan of his is a fraudster and shister 
 I won’t lie first time around I voted for him.  Being from NY I knew he was crap but I wasn’t trying to hold the past over his head & his press secretary said his behaviour was an act that would clean up once he was in the WH. Outside of the heinous crimes what turned me off is he wasn’t a real man. He whined, everything was always someone else’s fault and everyone was corrupt and crooked but him. Even if you are his biggest supporter that is mathematically impossible. I’ve never seen him take accountability nor apologise. Plus the way he talks about women including his own daughter is gross. Christian my ass. Also, they talk about Joe’s mental state when Trump has the vocab of a fourth grader and actual psychologists have written reports about his mental decline and mental state. 
 what's the best LLM to run from your local machine without the need for a heavy GPU? 

Llama et a... 
 Ollama offers plenty of options and you just use Terminal 
 Wait, so Musk let the dudes account get taken down? 
 For sure Nostr wouldn’t. They know Musk really isn’t a champion of free speech, he’s just champion of the speech they agree with. I bet there’s plenty of excuses they’re making for Elon 😂 
 I think that’s comparing Apples to oranges. Jack had a publicly traded company whereas Elon took X private, Elon has bent to some governments already. Oh, he for sure picks and chooses I just wish his fans were honest about that. I doubt they deleted it they just made excuses or doubled down lol or will point to when there were other owners of Twitter 
 Lots of frauds on #Nostr pushing freedom yet clearly are just #maga who want to live under an authoritarian dictator since he hates the same people they do. Dude never struggled a day in his life and has an extensive track record of pissing on those that aren't rich but sure support him. Just spare us all the BS 
 Kamala doesn't have an authentic bone in her body 

She is so fucking cringe 

I don't think she ... 
 You're a moron and a liar. Not anyone that should be associated with Nostr in any way, call her a liar when most things out of his mouth were lies.
Dude has not a humble nor honest bone in his body yet you only go after Harris, fucking pathetic 
 The #PS5Pro was what I expected but the presentation was mid at best #gaming #gamestr 
 But dude was a crybaby over being a couch fucker. Goes to show you these mfers don’t care about free speech they want to say what they want without negative consequences while being able to silence their critics nostr:note1akjyqnuqr94tf7wvte8hhwflrsy43xl72kcfsa7ass3qvp8qe2hqhucqf6 
 What should be the default of a fresh Amethyst install? 

1. Tor enabled for relays, but clearnet... 
 1 or 3, then after the update when user opens the app provide a simple walkthrough tutorial 
 Cryptpad is ugly and not super performant. Better off recommending NextCloud or Anytype 
 I like everyone have plenty of opinions and thoughts on various matters but I also typically refrain from putting them out there without doing research and no I don’t mean only YouTube videos and only sources that confirm my biases 
 Am I the only person not getting reply guy spam? 
 I need to get like you. I’m about to cut mine down significantly. Early on subscribed to a lot to see as many posts as possible 
 I did it and it’s for sure worth it 
 If you are seeing lots of replyguy spam make sure you aren’t casting a massive net and adding a... 
 I think the issue is people believe they will get to see the most content and their content will be pushed out farther so joining multiple relays seemed like a good idea. 
 Agreed, just stating why I believe people made that decision. Which I don’t fault as I believe it could potentially incentive people to primarily use 3-5 main relays which long-term is problematic 
 This is a dream come true, this weekend I was looking for a Nostr Discourse alternative 
 Are there Nostr relays that have comprehensive user-friendly admin dashboards ? #asknostr #nostr #relayadmin #devops 
 Bruh I'm so tired 
 do you believe your passions in life should directly support the work you do, 
or 
should your wo... 
 A little bit of both but mostly work should support passions. There should be some passions that aren’t associated with profit 
 Does anyone know if reply guy is single? 
 I guess so since he’s speed dating all of us 
 We don’t necessarily have to agree on everything in order to support one another 
 This is big alpha energy, love to see it 
 This https://skybridge.fly.dev/  allows using #Mastodon clients for Bluesky. I wish there was something like this so I could use #Damus for Bluesky & Mastodon 
 Having keyword filters has for sure helped with these damn replyguy bots.
Disappointed that not every #nostr app offers this ability 
 #Goodmorning Nostr fam 
 #nostr have a good night guys  
 Good night 
 Looks like Bluesky is getting a huge surge from  Brazil blocking Twitter. Reports are 50% of thei... 
 They actively picked but the President also had put up a list of socials. But when Bluesky was still in public beta it did have a huge Brazilian audience for a while. So it’s also many people returning back to their accounts 
 THIS NOTE IS ONLY INITIALLY BEING PUBLISHED TO MY PERSONAL RELAY. NOSTRICHES WILL FIND IT AND SPR... 
 That’s correct 
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 oh I 100% agree with the phone call part