I'm so excited about this. So much of our user research is showing that people want to the ability to have safer spaces where they decide who's invited. We see this with telegram channels, discord servers, signal groups, whatsapp groups... if we can make nostr work easily this way, we can combine the intimacy of chat groups with the flexible power of social media.  nostr:note1wl89xp7ysxt0qwg8tas5smx8fvuzjm87vy8p0v84uj5fe8p53hls7p9yx7


NIP-65 is basically a DNS resolver for Nostr.

Like DNS, you can move your data from one IP to another and just use NIP-65 to point to the new IP address.

People won't find your posts if you don't set your NIP-65 address correctly.

PS: Not all clients can do this yet. Amethyst can't. But it's the future.


Threads opens up to Europe just as it joins the fediverse.

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Yo, Nostr Connect extension for Firefox is approved, you can install it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nostr-connect

I'm already tested it on Safari and it work really well, I'll spend a bit of time to publish it to App Store too.

cc nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac

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Picked up a book on health choices during my lunch break and ended up reading Hillary's leaked emails. The author Marion Nestle, with over 30 yrs experience in nutrition, a lecturer, speaker, with a Ph.D. in food nutrition, and several honorary doctorates, found herself in a conversation in the leaked emails between Hillary and Coca Cola. Coca Cola sought to monitor her as she preached on the harmful effects of sugar while boosting healthy living - Coca Cola is one of Hillary's donors.

I remember vaguely reading on Hillary's leaked emails when the issue was hot, but reading a bit more now on the content and oh boy - major donors demand on how politics is shaped to favour them, their business and their pockets. Others are foreign donors requiring specific country-based interventions. In one of it, Hillary is seemingly frustrated in the challenges of pursuing covert operations due to high risk of media exposure these days. Ironically, these 20,000 leaked emails were up on Assange’s WikiLeaks. In fact, one of their fav donors is an Israeli donor which made me rethink the entire Camp David initiative. A few years late in reaction but urrgghh…


dreaming of a hyperbitcoinized world

https://image.nostr.build/2dd1eb74ebd10636c1c3793232082f788e15144a483f7a1730f74ad23e5e4821.jpg


I'll add these examples from farcaster, which I think is getting a lot of these things right. Channels and the client list on their website are two huge advantages.
Channels shown here, easy to search and one click join and pin the top and for each post you can specify a channel. It's slick.
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My experience as a decentralizion enthusiast who is fairly tech savvy and was excited about the possibilities of nostr: it has boomer energy, difficult discoverability (of people, topics, and all the awesome "apps"), it puts too much on the user. No ability to protect yourself from bad actors.
Boomer energy: stuck on ideology in a faith without works kind of way. This comes from the Bitcoin mentality ie "this is the future, it's the way and the light" ...but it hasn't solved peer to peer completely after 15 years.
Discover: search and community is lacking, reliant on hashtags you have to stumble on.
User ask: average user is retarded, I'm retarded most days, just let me click around I don't want to write a program myself to do basic tasks.
Good things: vibe is friendly, builders ship a lot and fast, zaps are cool, ui is better than blue sky, minds, mastodon, urbit etc


and I hear the knocks on all the bitcoin content on nostr. every new thing has an initial bubble of a population. twitter had the SF tech bloggers, and because of that, the next bubble was the journalists. it's interesting that it's never really escaped that. it's still predominately focused on news. simply because of that first population and how we built around it.

I'd predict that the nostr bitcoin bubble eventually leads to another population focused on alternative economies and free systems of collaboration. I'd say that's a big win for all.


reading on Aaron Swartz, and it's sad and crazy how he was subjected to federal prison up to 95 years and pressurized by gov't who intended to set some form of "public example of moral compass" on their definition - knowing he was a teen whiz who co founded Reddit, RSS etc - all for the reason of downloading (not distributing) federal funded (aka tax payer funded) research papers. He was pressurized to a point he committed suicide. Aaron would have loved Nostr and the Nostr community here.

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nostr:npub1melv683fw6n2mvhl5h6dhqd8mqfv3wmxnz4qph83ua4dk4006ezsrt5c24 is on it and needs help https://dev.to/melvincarvalho/run-a-nostr-relay-on-your-phone-with-termux-and-fonstr-4cmg


❤

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I’m excited about more nostr apps using calendar events!

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Nosta now renders calendars and events.

https://i.nostr.build/Zvll.jpg

Not many profiles use this feature yet. Here's an example:

https://nosta.me/17717ad4d20e2a425cda0a2195624a0a4a73c4f6975f16b1593fc87fa46f2d58

As with other content, Nosta is just showing the info. Interacting with calendar and events, scheduling your own, etc, is left up to dedicated third-party clients (micro apps). These events link out to Flockstr at the moment, but hopefully there will be more adoption of recommended handlers, and then users are linked out to the service of their choice.


SBF is front page news, even on Wikipedia. Fun fact: I uploaded that photo!

#SBF #FTX #cryptocurrency #crypto #Wikipedia

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What we can do to make nostr more friendly to all:

1. Better onboarding: follow lists of hashtags

2. Other login methods: keys over email. Don’t shoot the messenger!

3. Hardware key management

4. Abstracting away technical info and using progressive discovery to learn over time

5. Better accounts to follow recommendations (news feeds, clone feeds, non-bitcoiner recommendations)

6. Mute lists - option to edit

7. Personalized algos (optional)

8. More content

9. Regular user testing implementing the feedback

10. Micro targeted communities - identify which communities are good candidates and go after them.  (Streaming, music, as examples)

11. Traditional marketing. Every client worries about their own marketing.

12. SEO

13. Community incentives - incentivize “leaders” to onboard their circles

14. Normie clients with bitcoin stuff disabled by default optional in settings

Probably 100 other things

#nostrdesign #nostrasia


Open source projects: if you need design assistance, it’s here, free of charge!

Reply or dm for any of the following:

1. Feedback on your app - UI / UX and or features if you want.
2. Designing parts of or entire app.
3. Question / answers

Tag #nostrdesign any time for design stuff. First come first serve.

Also, good morning! ☀ ☕ 🍳 🧇 🥓 🥑


"Follow The Money #4 - Argentina's Inflation Crisis" by nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx is out now. Just watched the video and I think it's the best of the series yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_rVJ5QDOdQ
#argentina #inflation #money #bitcoin #plebchain


I van relate.  It happens to me with many English friendly names that are difficult to pronounce in Spanish, despite of the way the langua have spread in the Global South or maybe in resistance against such expansion.


Who did the Nostr Design site? It’s great. We should make sure more people see it.

https://nostrdesign.org


Interesting take on autonomy.  But, I think that the like for Nostr and Bitcoin can be orthogonal, liking one but not the other, both or none. It happens with me for sure and while I like decentralized communication protocols with eventually convergent blockchains (like Nostr or Scuttlebutt), but find most of the Bitcoin talk "tech broty" and ecologically unaware/unconscious.


More Supreme Court corruption: "John Roberts and Samuel Alito own shares of companies that could score billions in tax relief from the outcome of Moore v. United States."

From The Lever (which, sigh, doesn't have a Mastodon presence): https://www.levernews.com/justices-have-financial-interest-in-major-tax-case/


As someone who strongly supported Elizabeth Warren's run for president, I'm utterly devastated that she's signed on to co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act.

I cannot believe that she would throw LGBTQIA+ people under the bus like this. If this bill passes, we'll be cleansed from the internet entirely, at a time when our voices and our communities are more important than ever.

They're claiming KOSA has been fixed — it hasn't been.


The data itself has no value because it's all public/free anyway. But those who can best collect, organize and process it can sell the results of that processing for a very profitable amount. For instance, a relay can label npubs by marketing interest and sell access, not to the data, but to the labels themselves. Same for content classification for kids (pay to keep your kids safe), health metrics for insurances, etc. Super standard data pitch for VCs.

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To share with friends who moved from #Twitter to #Threads:

"#Meta acknowledged…to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms ["covid" and "long covid"] and said that other terms are being blocked, but the company declined to provide a list of them. A search by The Post discovered that the words…“coronavirus,” “vaccines” and “vaccination” are also among blocked words."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/11/threads-covid-coronavirus-searches-blocked/
(#paywalled)

#Covid #Pandemic #Vaccines


This really is the worst. Instagram started the trend with their hideous "log in or else" flow. Then Twitter and reddit went to insanely privacy-hostile API changes instead of simply requiring a proof of work or anon payment. Even some major nostr relays seem to be doing Tor blocking now (damus? Not sure, but I get a ton of errors connecting to certain relays via Tor.)

Platforms have become so fearful of bots/spam/scraping (or rather pretend to be fearful, so as to justify blatantly commercial and anti-social decision-making) that they've totally destroyed the open access model that a functioning freenet depends on.

This is the main reason I want to see "unowned" protocols succeed. Jack has it right: we're at a turning point.

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I know everybody is dunking on the random governor who decided that she could just wave her hand and unilaterally suspend any right she dislikes simply by hissing the word "emergency," but the problem is that she's only wrong if another political force — the courts, politics, disobedience, or Locke's old Appeal to Heaven — proves her wrong. Enforcing the limits of official power isn't some American $currentYear problem, it's a recurring issue throughout history.

The question is why we're suddenly seeing the authoritarian instinct activating so much more openly — and frequently. In prior decades, they had to be cute in how they went about it, often requiring laws and lies. Now they're remarkably comfortable simply stating "because of the 'emergency,' you can no longer {travel | donate | engage in commerce | read | communicate | carry}," and that's the whole of it.

The next question is what you're going to do about it.