The devs of the various clients seem to have strong personal views on how Nostr should be. Which is good, I mean they wouldn't do this for free if they didn't care about building something, but I feel like all of em need to remember what brought us here in the first place was freedom from being dictated to and the freedom to choose how we communicate.

Basically, make all the features you want, but make them optional, and disable them by default if they harm the Nostr experience for users of other clients.

Damus tbf has done that, so while I personally don't like the feature, at least it's opt in and the dev listened to feedback eventually in terms of implementation.

I agree with you wrt Amethyst, because I didn't even know other clients couldn't see my pictures until yesterday. I thought it was just Plebstr but it seems like it's actually just anything that isn't Amethyst so I'm having to use external media hosts and manually paste links because Amethyst provides no settings to disable it.


That and the Damus feature that shall not be named 😅


Life is a neverending void, an abyss that consumes us all.

(But srsly I think the pictures might only show in Amethyst cuz of the new verified picture feature, it creates a new note type I don't think other clients have implemented yet.)


A picture says a thousand words


Threema has a lot of vulnerabilities in the implementation of the NaCl cryptography library last I heard - basically the cryptographic algorithms it uses are good but they've been implemented in a sloppy way, leaving it open to side channel attacks (exploits to bypass the encryption without needing to break the encryption itself).

I have been meaning to look into SimpleX, seen it mentioned on Nostr a fair bit, I'll try getting around to looking into the details and testing it this weekend because I've been curious. But as of right now, can't give an opinion on something I haven't tried.


That's a good one too. And decentralised if you setup your own XMPP server. OMEMO is based on the Signal Protocol too. Very good.


PGP = Pretty Good Parody 😅


It's something they've been talking about for a while. Hopefully it'll hit public beta soon.


Only thing I don't like about Signal is you must use your phone number. No username option.

That's why I mentioned Session as an alternative, it generates a public key instead.


It's cool. Easy mistake. WhatsApp implemented the Signal Protocol in their app but as you said it's closed source. Their particular implementation also leaves metadata unencrypted. Signal itself is the most secure E2EE messenger around.


Signal is 100% open source man, you're thinking of WhatsApp.


It's made complicated by centralised exchanges and KYC.

This is why I love things like Robosats. A newcomer can get their corn with an app and a browser.


Followed 👌


Yeah there is, I just mean it works well in Safari on the iPad.


Perfectly useable on the iPad too 👌


Use Primal on the desktop, it's very very good.


Zapping allows us to differentiate our likes


Like and zap are friends not enemies

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I feel a zap storm on the horizon.
🌩🌩🌩

#zapathon #plebchain

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Darknet markets


. #[0]

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So much potential in all these new NIPs!

For storage, we really need to build a decentralised solution there too. Perhaps some type of encrypted database sharding where you get paid in sats relative to how much disk space you can offer, how fast your connection is, and how reliable you are.

This would incentivise people to take part and the data sharding approach means no single node can see the contents of files (they'd be spread across multiple nodes).


Once people know what #[0] wants to be

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That's a fucking genius idea! One stop shop to music production by connecting creatives with different skills on top of a decentralised publishing platform!

This would deal a huge blow to labels if it catches on. The only other piece is promotion, but if the listener platforms catch on one can simply pay for that with sats.

Combined that would literally make labels 100% obsolete. It's about time!


“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
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What every government believes everyone does first thing after being born https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_912f06f2f774a2218b57d5c7ef7c8daf156e9020124eaef6d52404ece78723e4.gif


I really hope this drives more independent musicians able to make an income off their work free of the parasite record companies.

Honestly the reason I don't feel bad pirating music released by a label is because I know 1% is going to the artist if they're lucky.

When it's independent musicians on Bandcamp and indeed new zap platforms like #[6] I'm happy to pay directly to the artist.


Torrenting? Priceless.


Well we have a network where you can post content, have people pay you via LN, paid relays, media embedding... the ingredients are all there.


Congrats Nostriches! We have surpassed half a million Zaps. Here's to the next half a million! ⚡

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Zapping your wife 69 sats? Nice.

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Hey yeah I'll check my DMs now


https://btc.us it's on Stacks so you'll need to convert a small amount of BTC to STX but once you've done that it works smooth as butter. I used the Xverse app on Android.


I think the concept behind Nostr is easy to explain especially to TBL. He can check the code of course. I think the real battle is explaining why Nostr is worth paying attention to above any other "Twitter competitor" so you just have to explain it right. That it's not just a social media platform. It's a decentralised network built on top of TCP/IP that can be used for anything like the internet itself, but the inherent design is fully decentralised with relays sort of like Tor but it runs through the regular web, everything is open source, there's huge development around it, and the very protocol itself is decentralised from the ground up.

Add to that the fact there's no accounts, no emails and passwords, it's all based on public keys and designed to be private and impossible to profile and data mine personal info.

Given his recent statements on crypto I'd leave the lightning stuff out and let him see it for himself and how welcoming and generous the community is. I'd def zap him if he signed up.


Of course, will write up a Nostr blog post assuming the offer is taken. I did add a 5% premium above market price to entice sellers!


Agreed. If you have personal contact with him you should reach out about Nostr.


Gn 😴


Yes plz!


“[Bitcoin] will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust. World governments will have to readjust.” - John McAfee


“We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.” - Cypherpunk Manifesto


“The Media is an intermediary between you and reality - the happenings in the world you  cannot see with your own eyes. You have little other access to "Truth". If the Media is corrupt, then your knowledge of the world is corrupted - making you a tool of someone else's purpose.” - John McAfee


“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.” - Hunter S Thompson


LOL … 😅
#Nostr is freedom of speech + #Bitcoin 🧡🖖🏻 https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_5c33aa77fa25cea299f80cc3e0cba605eb71561d79dcf801de23d8a92d3603e5.jpg


“Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.” - Hunter S Thompson


“If we have a Bitcoin economy what on earth are you going to be depositing and withdrawing from? There will be no Fiat, no banks. Your wallet is your bank. Step on board here my friend.” - John McAfee


For those who are paying attention, CBDCs highlight the importance of adopting Bitcoin more than any other goverment behavior.

They justify all the autistic libertarian screeching I have engaged in up to this point and ensure that it will continue.

REEEEEEEEEEE 💪


Thank you man! Will add you to the whitelist now!


Followed!


wss://relay.nostrgraph.net

This is another good one that broadcasts to many relays and backs up your data too.

wss://relay.2nodez.com

New one I just started today. Unlike my other relays it's open for all to use but rate limited to minimize spam.


Mask off 😎


Offer the kids sats 😂


Same this is why I’m insomniac lol


Whitelisted! You want NIP-05 too?


Only one way to find out!


Starting a procrastination club.

We meet every weekend.

No, every other weekend.

Every month.

Ah fuck it we’ll see how we feel.


Of course, cardio is important. Just don’t let it escape!


Woah that's cool. Thanks for the link. Using proof of work for spam prevention was one of Satoshi's first proposed use cases for Bitcoin too.


Source article is paywalled


Gotta zap for a Milton Friedman quote! ⚡


#Zapathon

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You can’t make this up —

Silicon Valley Bank $SIVB Chief Administrative Officer served as Lehman Brother’s CFO prior to joining the bank.


It’s #FreeRossFriday on #MarchoffTwitter so I hope all you #Nostrichs are supporting Ross over here 💪🏴☠⚡
#FreeRoss

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https://www.change.org/p/clemency-for-ross-ulbricht-condemned-to-die-in-prison-for-an-e-commerce-website


No paywall version: https://archive.ph/Cdx5c