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 Having computing power is the opposite of being human. 
 Do the math, it doesnt work.  
 Exactly. People are asking for proof of work to see which accounts are humans and not bots. Which doesn't make any sense. 
 You don't want proof of work. You want proof of humanity. Those are very different things.

GM. 
 It doesn't matter how easy it is if it doesn't solve what people want. 
 Bots work much more than humans. Proof of work doesn't work against bots. 
 Proof that we are talking to a human, not a spam bot. 
 Spammers have much more money than the regular user because spamming is profitable. Money doesn't help that much.  
 There are spamming accounts now using AI to reply to posts in ways that look like a human but in a way that fosters their agenda. 

The spam we saw until now it child's play. What's coming is much harder. 
 Spammers love proof of work. They have the money to pay for any work you want. Bots love work. 
 What I hear is that people want to talk to other people, regardless of how much value they bring. 
 It always helps. Your relays can use to tag spammers. 
 No. It might actually help the bots blend in.  
 Spammers have much more computing power than humans in this network. It doesn't work. This is not Bitcoin. There is no scarcity here to make spam get more expensive as we go. Having computing power is the opposite of being human. 
 PoW costs are extremely small. The only way to break their scalability is to turn on large PoW filters, which means every post, zap and like takes 2% of your battery.  
 Choose better relays.  
 You have to hide by words. Just add ReplyGuy to your hidden words in the security filters.  
 Are you paying for those relays? You can't ask much from free ones..  
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 The image trick worked, but not the icons on mobile 🤔 
 Of a random set of recent 750 events I see 26 different kinds being used. No surprise, 189 kind-7... 
 Drafts :) 
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 Does coinos have a Zapper service? It should be going to your public inbox relays. 
 Yeah, I think they are not sending the ZapEvent. Either their service is offline or they just don't have it yet. 
 Yo nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn... 
 Activate the Complete UI mode on the app's settings, look at the posts to see which relays each one is coming from and disable them by pressing the ⬇️ button on the General section of the Relays list.  
 Also, make sure to add ReplyGuy to the hidden words in security filters on the left drawer 
 Just had a really fantastic conversation with nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsj... 
 I think I convinced nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnfdenx7qg6waehxw309aex2mrp0yhx7unpdenk2urfd3kzuer9wcq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7raruhg to do these recordings live on zap.stream 😁

Oh, yeah, and we also talked about what does it take to beat #Amethyst on our own game... so... secret is out. I was nice serving you.
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 drt2y is the geocode for downtown Boston. 

Which start character feels just right?

Let's meet on $drt2y
Let's meet on %drt2y
Let's meet on ^drt2y
Let's meet on !drt2y
Let's meet on &drt2y
Let's meet on *drt2y

The fact that "drt2y" looks like "dirty" and it is the real code for Boston is not my problem. I don't make the rules.  
 If # is the character to start a hashtag, what is the character to start a geohash?

For instance, if we use ∆, then every time somebody writes ∆<code>, it turns into the City name with a link that opens all notes that tagged that city.

Same character can bring up a list of locations just like @ brings up a list of user names.

Ideas? 
 Maybe "!"? It looks like a map pin. 
 That's already been used for hashtags. It wouldn't be able to know if you are looking for a hashtag or a geohash 
 It needs to be easy to type. It must exist on all keyboards. 
 Humm... Stgarting to like ^ 
 Would you like a popup to show up when you type < ? 

It seems too common.  
 Hah. Amethyst formatted this in Markdown because it starts with hash and space "# " 😅 
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 The top-right icon on any video enables the background mode :)  
 Amethyst's supports it. Read and write. 
 Also, It is a good practice for these interoperability tables to separate support for Read / Display and Write / Create the event. 
 Just set up Coinos with NWC.  So i'm sending and receiving with Coinos, with one click on amethys... 
 👀
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 It's 2025 and nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyfehcpn unveils Twitter... again. 
 Where's the bounty to match that angryness? :)  
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 Yeah, but it will block all downloads from that Relay. 

Go to the General Relays section and click in the ⬇️ button 
 Fun fact: The sound ostriches make is called booming. 

We have been booming all along. 
 See nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmnt9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7eyerqr.. being a boomer is a good thing.  
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 Yep, the app doesn't have a local database. It will reload every time you kill it. Don't kill it.

Amethyst doesn't show all notifications. It only shows the notifications you were either directly cited in the text or that you are the author of one of the posts it cites. 

That's because too many people just spam you by adding your key to any event out there.  
 nostr is the only place in the world where you can look at nips and get angry  
 This made my day
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 In my world, Ostriches can tweet

Buy the brand, nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyfehcpn 
 Tips to politicians: We don't want an hour long speech by your staff. We want a simple tweet written by you.

nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyfehcpn I still think we need to buy the Twitter brand out of X.  
 Disabling damus and nostr.mom is the big brain move. 

Also, nostr.wine as Public Inbox is less ideal because it requires payment from the sender to send you a notification, which no one will pay for that. :) 
 Yeah, It has been hard to explain this well in that short text in ways that anyone could understand. 

Outbox does receive your posts. But that's irrelevant. The reason that list exists is to let your followers know where to get it. The app will send to other relays as well, but your followers should use the Outbox list to get your posts. 

And yes, the General relays only exist because of the old model. My current thinking is to add Tor so that the app can connect to random relays out there to download posts via Tor (so they don't track you). Meanwhile, the app uses the General List as the "authorized relays" to connect to and download posts. 

 
 Yeah that would be a good idea.  
 Should we tell him? 😎
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 You can edit on Amethyst. Press the 3-dot options on the post and hit edit :)  
 I still look like a jibbering idiot. 😅 
 Michael Saylor:

 - actively blocks open source devs
 - wants regulatory clarity 
 - gives all hi... 
 He is the next FTX.  
 As much as I love nostr, I’m a huge fan of edit and delete, use it all the time in other apps.. 
 Buy an Android and use Amethyst. Edits are everywhere :)  
 You are still imperfect when you edit. Your past is logged forever.  
 Should we tell him? 😎
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 The toggle between the edited version and the original version shows on the left of the post's time. It will only show if there is an edit. 

Other clients only show the original content. They have to support edits to display the rest. 
 Everybody is right given infinite time. 
 Or maybe they are just plain wrong and didn't understand what is truly needed to replace people. Engineers do that all the time. Solve 20% of the problem thinking that's 100%. 
 Send Walker your questions. 🚀
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 I see users helping each other, I zap. 
 I see Amy but how do I get Amy? 🤔  
 It's a good one 
 Then just add this, click and hold the reaction button and add the emojis to your app list. 

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 My feed is lagging and updating/loading slower than usual on #Amethyst for some time now. Anyone ... 
 That's normal. The feed always starts in the fastest relay.  
Event not found
 Go to the app settings and turn the UI mode to Complete. Relay icons will be below each author picture.