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From my upcoming post:
"They may be more open to trying a new approach — publishing in a place that is uncrowded and niche even if it doesn’t provide amazing growth and monetization opportunities yet. It’s an investment in the future. Being early before the masses arrive will prove to be a gift to your future self.”
I’m open to considering any conspiracy theories, but…
the more a theory requires more people, orchestrated in secret, required to pull it off, the more skeptical I become
for example, I did a thought experiment with a friend… “how do you know that computer science actually works as believed?”
Are you thinking about this to improve the video experience on existing clients like Damus or to open up new experiences that can’t be done without it (e.g., something TikTok-like)?
Yup, I’m actually writing something on it right now!
but, it’s still pretty challenging to use. I’m involved enough in nostr that I’m quite patient, but it’s not ready for an average substack writer yet.
I’m rooting for everyone contributing to this
would there be any value from more cross-collab among these projects or do you think they each take a different enough perspective? e.g. are there opportunities for isolated components that could be contributed/improved/reused across projects?
an algorithm is just a process which makes a computer do a bunch of work toward achieving a goal
Just make sure when you use algorithms they are IN SERVICE OF YOUR GOALS AND NOT SOME CORPORATION’S GOALS
"let’s make computers do things for us” should not be a controversial statement
sure, but algos don’t have to be addictive. e.g. i’d like to try an algo that’s like “catch me up on any notes written about topics X, Y, Z that have received at least 1 zap from someone I follow or have zapped in the past”
ah, good point
Just wondering out loud… if something like a verifiable zap could be done, would it be a good idea? I can see pros/cons. But seems like a lot of pros around WoT as you mentioned as well as identity-establishment/information quality.
I understand zaps are private, but just spitballing… seems like if sender/receiver/clients wanted to make it reported/verifiable somehow that might be possible? solutions might touch DLCs, inscriptions or an entirely new technology
Has anyone written an article using the composer from Ghost.org? Is it as good as Substack’s composer?
I want nostr tools to be the best in the world and I’ll give tons of user feedback to people building a great article composer.
If I mute an account does it cause their replies to my note not to show up when people open a thread they discovered based on my note?
seems a little complicated… just curious if anyone has done something like this or if it’s just a thing to placate App Store policy
censorship-resistance doesn’t mean all of your notes should get seen by everyone at all times. you should be able to publish/share whatever you want and it should be visible to anyone who wants to see it (at the time they’d like to see it)
the tough part is clients need to try to infer when someone might want to see it
if someone follows me, presumably they want to see notes from me (they’re opting their attention into that). If I mute someone/something in a reply to my note that a consumer might otherwise see then a client is taking signal from me (via my mute action) that consumers who arrive at that note via my thread likely don’t want to see that note.
you should still be able to navigate to that muted note if you know that replier’s profile and want to browse notes they wrote. that’s how censorship-resistance works
the nice part is you can obviously use whatever client you’d like…
what if someone enters a thread cuz they follow you, but there are 1000 notes of discourse flowing through that thread? should they all be shown in-order? what if I’m following some of the repliers and viewing the discourse… might their replies be prioritized in my view? Should any other signals like zaps be used to prioritize which ones a consumer sees?
I just think our simple answers work well while nostr is subscale. But these questions of structural philosophy become more important over time.
Yeah, I played with the DVMs on Amethyst and I think it’s a nice sneak peek at the future.
I just learned about this website recently which explores the ideas a bit:
https://noogle.lol/discover
I would guess a lot of people would be more comfortable holding what they perceive to be USD instead of BTC (even though over a long enough timeframe that logic is flawed).
depends quite a bit on timeframe, tho
is bitcoin already largely understood by most citizens in Zambia?
Are there ways other bitcoiners could contribute to this kind of education?
I hear a lot of people talk about “global south” use-cases, but I suspect most people who say that phrase have no on-the-ground touchpoints/contacts.
If you’re building a long-form note composer you should obsess about the quality bar that Substack has achieved
You may not love the centralizing forces present in Substack, but you can’t deny the composer is absolutely world class
Who’s going to be first to meet/beat that bar as a Nostr-native tool?
also, I can both appreciate all the work these teams are putting into these tools, but also recognize that “normie-writers” are not going to go nostr-native until the tools reach a minimum bar which I don’t think anyone has achieved yet
oh, hadn’t seen this before, thanks for sharing. Obsidian looks very polished. So this nostr-writer is just nostr-focused adaptation stuff for Obsidian?
How do you think about managing the tradeoffs of posting private messages to relays designed for broadcasting messages. Does the NIP already have a philosophy on this or does your product take a point of view?
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