No. Just follow people who post that stuff.


Well, future Russians will own Crimea, so that's controlling one of the most important links to the Mediterranean, as well as dominating the Black Sea. Probably worth it, in the long run.


Nostr is when you can't complain about the software program using the software program.  The equivalent to not being able to complain about Thunderbird in an e-mail sent from Thunderbird.


I don't think you can leave the client architecture as-is, without it getting steadily worse.

Everyone's follow lists are becoming more and more concentrated because the bifurcation in numbers of followers has reached absurd levels, due to the heavy onboarding concentration to Primal.

People used to onboard to different clients, which each had its own discovery method. Now, it's like a funnel.


Well, we have that, too. Try to get anyone to respond to you, if you have less than two followers. Assumed to be spam.

That's why the spambots all follow each other, on here.


I thought so, too, but I started writing directly to the largest relays, and it had no discernable effect.

Which makes sense, since theforest.nostr1.com is pulled by all of the big aggregators.


Complete, above-board, transparent, honest inefficiency, I'm afraid.
I like Amethyst, but it eats up my mobile plan.

Do try this at home, kids. 😂


I'm fed up.


Yeah, I switched to Voyage immediately, or my Internet would have gone dead. Don't have WiFi, in the new house, yet.


I could complain about Elon and Twitter, on Twitter, without getting shadowbanned.

I didn't need Elon to follow me and recommend me, on Twitter, for people to see me.

That's a distinction, with a difference.


I try to use hashtags, but that has no discernable effect.

Half the hashtags are probably from me. 😂


I complained loudly and in detail about some client bugs and the way grant recipients are determined, and my feed subsequently went dead.


We've been recommending such algos, for at least a year, already. 🤷🏻♀


You, and other Very Big Npubs, have a completely outsized impact. It's like the Elon effect, but there are 20 Elons.

You have over 600k followers. Even supposing only 10% are "real and active", which is very low, if you boost or quote something, it will likely trend because it ends up in 60000 npubs' feeds.
If I do the same, it ends up in 70 npubs' feed.

Everyone is looking at what you are looking at.


Yes. Getting followed, boosted, quoted, replied to.

The top accounts have to dig you up, out of obscurity, and actively recommend you to others, in some way.


Hilarious, yeah, it can be like that.

That's like why I switched to long-form, from 🧵. Nobody would read past the first note in the thread, so much hilarity ensued.


I've tried to overcome the shadowban, but it's like I've got npub cooties, and people who interact with me risk catching them.

I can sometimes see them discussing things I've written, elsewhere, but they're just like "I heard someone say..."

She Who Must Not Be Mentioned 🥴


Not everyone on here is anon or cares to be.


All Nostr did was make the shadowbanning algo more draconian.

Everywhere else, you risk being added to a blocklist, that is determined by a small handful of people. Here you have to work, to get on an allowlist, that is determined by an even-smaller handfull of people.

Everyone starts out shadowbanned, basically.


Also, hardly anyone looks at the threads. Most users just scroll the OPs.

You can tell this by the large differential in the number of reactions to an OP and the number of reactions to the replies under the OP. Also, the replies often contain comments that wouldn't make sense, if they had looked at the thread, before clicking. They're just replying blind, to the OP.


Hardly anyone looks at hashtags.


On legacy social media, the feed is determined by what the developers and their employers think users might want to see.

On Nostr kind 01 clients, the feed is determined by what the Kind 01 developers and their employers want the users to see.

What they want the users to see is mostly themselves, their friends, and people posting Bitcoin memes.

Are you one of them? No?
Are you their friend? No?
Are you posting Bitcoin memes? No?

Well, then, GTFO.


The left has always liked big corporations, they just want to take them over and run them for the good of humanity.


Nostr has it's own unique way of #shadowbanning users, since a handful of npubs effectively control what everyone is looking at.

https://i.imgflip.com/6gdvsn.jpg


GM


It's a special kind of note:  1163

https://i.nostr.build/ulWNcUMXTexz2O4K.png


Under nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl?


I can see photos from my Kind 01 notes, in the Nostrudel and Slidestr galleries, but not the specific gallery notes.


Kind of weird to include microblogging notes, but not curated gallery entries.


Can anyone see the gallery in their app, or is it just Amethyst?

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A lot of young people, nowadays, can't even afford a drivers' license, much less a car. All they have is a cellphone.


Everyone tends to like large corporations, so long as the management is on the same political side.


Yeah, just been posting things to my Amethyst gallerie on the nostr:nprofile1qqsd6ejdteqpvse63ntf7qz6u9yqspp4z7ymt8094urzwm0x2ceaxxgprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qguwaehxw309a6xsetrd96xzer9dshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qgkwaehxw309ahx7um5wfjkc6t5v4ejummjvuhsffkx4f npub. No idea, if they show up anywhere else.


No, his normie alt.


Safe Internet is an oxymoron, tho.


Hello Nostr,  I'm Alan Rockefeller, a mycologist with over two decades of experience studying wild mushrooms.  I enjoy teaching DNA barcoding, field photography, and microscopy.

I spend half my time in the lab and the other half in the woods, especially the western USA,  México and South America.

I post all my photos and DNA barcodes on iNaturalist and Mushroom Observer a lot,
Follow me for mushroom photography, mushroom events and insights gained through DNA barcoding.

 Instagram: alan_rockefeller
 Facebook: alanrockefeller
 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alanrockefeller.bsky.sociall

#introduction #Mycology #Fungi #DNASequencing #MushroomPhotography #FieldBiology #Microscopy #CitizenScience #FungalDiversity #BioluminescentFungi #Psilocybe #Mycena #MexicoMushrooms #ForayLeader #FungalEcology #ScienceEducation #GenBank #iNaturalist #MushroomObserver #ExploreFungi #NatureLovers


Well, our parents basically all started off rich because housing was still so cheap.


If they had kids, their income and savings would increase.


"I can't afford it to have kids." Billions of people— BILLIONS— have afforded it with less. How is it that you "can't" do something that has been done under more difficult circumstances billions of times? Stop making excuses. At least be honest.


Vietnam is just around the corner. Lol
Literally, the entire world is moving to Europe.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14093149/Keir-Starmer-vows-look-stop-small-boats-crisis-Labour-prepares-pay-Vietnam-Kurdistan-Turkey-help-stem-flow-illegal-migrants-Britain.html?ito=native_share_article-top


Just trying to piss off Trump, I guess.


Hello


Oh, just saw. Geez.


I get up at 5:30, unfortunately. This is my most-active time, as other people are still asleep and it's dark out.


Huh? Did I miss something?


Jill wore a red suit, to the voting booth, after getting snubbed, repeatedly, by Kamala.

They get to say, "I told you so, Biden really was the better candidate," for the rest of their lives.


Thank you for adding something 🟢. People always forget to add a bit of green and it makes such a huge difference, in how appetizing it looks.

Love gumbo!


And no outbox, so every third quoted note is just empty.

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But everyone will want to know why you can't change your password, how the money is sent, and how a something can work, without anyone being behind it.


If you're a Nostr power user, then you are a programmer, of sorts, actually.


😂 GM from across the Atlantic.


Well, most wives are also mothers and their husbands are fathers. We're all run ragged and broke. 😂
And, after the kids are grown, you don't change because you've been like that for decades. Besides, kids are never really "done" and grandkids eventually show up.

Romance is a rather modern idea, really, resulting from being wealthy and having hired staff. Someone with 8 kids and a potato farm isn't thinking about romance. They're just happy to have enough to eat, and they just sit on their porch and look at their farm.


I was at a church youth retreat once, where we did these quizzes about our talents, and mine was "prophet". I've thought about that, sometimes.

Is this what the prophets felt like? Are we just the prophets of our time?


Neither did I. 😏


They see our colonization as payback for theirs. Of course, they colonized us, first, in Europe, and the populations are partially mixed-race, now, making "us versus them" sort of nonsensical, but whatever.


I try.


When you use Amethyst for 20 minutes over mobile and you use up over 2 GB. 🥴

https://image.nostr.build/9c77704ea83c8c2553e35b63d640550798ed3992c60279dc92dbe5aa4697cb64.jpg


That's because only we are smart enough to be that completely idiotic.


What sort of client? Kind 01?


Do you think there are people who are missing the Groupie Gene, or is that just me autism-maxxing?

🤔


Well, I'm partially Jewish, like many people with Czech or south-Germanic ancestry, and it is clearly genetically traceable back to pre-Biblical Levantine. Maybe I'm even one of Mary's distant cousins, or something.

I feel like they also owe me 40 acres and a mule, along with the Czech Republic, the state of South Carolina, Great Britain, and Nigeria.

https://media.tenor.com/3oi5zijx_BgAAAAC/brittany-bristow-wrapped-up-in-love.gif


That's why everyone complains that their feed is just maxi-flamewars and photos of food: they're not following me. 😂


If you're one of the three people on here, who hasn't muted me, already, I offer the interesting fact that the ethnic name "Jew" comes from "Judah" because that is where they originated from.


Child marriages, amongst the refugees that arrive here, or involving children who are trafficked to home countries for forced marriages, are generally tolerated, for cultural reasons. Once the child reaches adulthood (16 years old), the marriage is usually confirmed with a state license.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/bundestag-kinderehen-schutz-100.html


Nobody even talks about it, anymore, as it's been normalized. We're not supposed to complain.


Only the rich ones leave. Why would you leave the source of your UBI?


You don't understand how insidious open-borders propaganda is, until you realize that _it's an attempt to remove all differentiating traits from humans_. They call this "strengthening individuality by removing nationality" (hello, newspeak), but what makes humans individual is their particular collection of traits, and nationality (and ethnicity, religion, etc. -- nationality is just the first domino they want to topple) is one of those.

![Newspeak](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image-1-3.jpg)

Humans are not blank slates. Like DNA or physiognomy, our personalities are differing jumbles of cultural "letters". Each person selects consciously and subconsciously from amongst these letters, adding to or rejecting them, amplifying or suppressing them, twisting or combining them, building on top of them... and that's what makes you into You.

Open borders is an attempt to reduce the number of cultural letters you can build your "You" out of. If you take away the word "German", I am not liberated. There is simply one less adjective, with which I can describe myself. You have merely eradicated information, crippled language, and reduced my choices. I can then no longer define myself according to "German things", but I can also no longer define myself in opposition to German things.

## Enter the Borg

![Borg Queen](https://d2thvodm3xyo6j.cloudfront.net/media/2020/01/ff5814c200adf361-600x338.jpg)

We are easier to control and brainwash and persecute, if we are centralized and homogenized. As if the entire world were one, big prison and we were all forced to undergo the same education, wear the same clothes, follow the same rules, eat the same foods, enjoy the same entertainment, live the same lifestyle, share the same diseases and cures, enjoy the same lockdowns, join in the same cancel culture, fight the same wars.

That is what globalization brings. That is the end game of Open Borders:
* No more cultural evolution or revolution.
* Genes, but no memes.
* You can go everywhere, but everywhere is the same, so you just stay home.
* You can meet people from all over, but they are all the same, so you just don't bother.
* One mass of humanity, that can be easily molded and manipulated.

Stay colorful. Don't let them turn you into a beige person.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzplfq3m5v3u5r0q9f255fdeyz8nyac6lagssx8zy4wugxjs8ajf7pqqxnzdenxyurxvesx5en2ve4e6c8wv


There is. Wall in the cities. 😂


For me, too. 😂 I'll post on one and then switch to the other to post something else, then forget I switched and reply to the first with the second, then wonder why nobody replied and switch back and 20 people responded and are like, Hello, Stella, you there?

Need to stop using Laeserin, but people keep DMing and tagging me, on that one, so I keep checking it.


"The irony of all this? While conservatives were genuinely forced to flee platforms like Twitter and Facebook due to actual deplatforming, liberals are fleeing because they’re finally being exposed to opposing viewpoints. It appears that many truly cannot handle their ideas questioned or mocked. #Bluesky, with its invite-only model, has become a safe space where they can insulate themselves from the pesky conservatives who dare to challenge their talking points."

Their invite-only model creates a universal blocklist that you have to get "allowed" on, and it can be revoked.

They have one relay-community and you have to be invited to enter it. We have n number of relay-communities, some with invites, some without, and anyone can spin up their own. Takes about 15-30 minutes to create one, at this point, and keeps getting faster, even if you self-host. We are heading toward #OneClickRelays .

They don't like the idea that you don't need an invite to use the Nostr protocol, but that is why Nostr precludes censorship. You "onboard" to Nostr by SELECTING A NEARLY-RANDOM STRING OF CHARACTERS.

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/journalists-are-leaving-x-because-of-accountability-not-censorship


Even more clever, if it were subtly a W's of Nostr account.

Like, mocking us for not being able to delete offensive material, or showing how silly we are working on topics nobody cares about because OnlyTweetsDuh.


Nostr is a communications protocol that doesn't need any type of network to onboard new users or have real utility.

Bizarre, really.


Then you don't understand how Nostr works.
You do not have access to all events and the percentage of events you have access to is set to steadily shrink.


If we do our job right, no one should ever know how many people use Nostr. And the further Nostr spreads, the more impossible it should be, to get an accurate user count.

We shouldn't know what people are doing on here, unless they have specifically decided to inform us. If we can count them all, then someone can trace them all.

#PrivacyFirst
#RespectUserSovereignty
#ObscurityIsAHumanRight


They don't get what we're building; it's too abstract, for them to comprehend the scope of it.

This is a new network layer and a novel form of data storage. We are inventing it, as we go along. Nobody has ever done this, before.

Few.


I'm so tired of Nostr being compared to a database of tweets.


We are just now getting relay communities and implementing outboxes. We are not yet ready for prime time.

We're building something more complex, than they are. They've basically just got one server.


Female boxing isn't aimed at a female audience.


Feynman, interesting.

I have a thing for Maxwell, but I guess that's dull.


Bro, same.

https://media.tenor.com/eB9l0Cl8Fa8AAAAC/empire-i-got-you.gif


Autodiktat


Please steal my intellectual property.


Ladies, the new Defense Secretary.
No further comment.
Just saying.

I'll see myself out.

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Yes


It was funny how my son painted the ceiling by just grabbing a little hand roller and reaching up. Swish, swish, swish.

Just sat there and watched him, for a minute.


My dad and my husband are such bears, that I saw a pic of Mike Tyson today and wasn't particularly impressed.

https://media.tenor.com/do-69wk9EcAAAAAC/unimpressed-ehh.gif


We're using ngit and GitWorkshop.


Oh, and now Listr is also nudging people toward Primal.

Primal seems to have been determined to be the God App and everything is supposed to lead to and from there. That way, they build a closed circle and it becomes a Primal-based suit of products, with the Strike app handling everyone's monetary transactions and normalizing KYC during onboarding.


And Coinkite, of course. NVK is from Coinkite and sits with Odell on the OpenSats board. And one of the Ten31 board members is also a Strike board member.

The fact that Strike and Primal are financed by the same fund helps explain why they ended up so closely integrated in the app. Pablo has been hanging out with Odell, and now everyone from Primal is getting auto-redirected to his Highlighter app, to read long-form notes. This goes against the natural market, which tended to prefer Habla, or read the articles embedded in the Kind 01 apps.

Intertwined like a plate of 🍝. But, if you complain about the money bags dictating app development, you just get buried deeper.

And look at the OpenSats board. It's clearly a Bitcoin fund, not a Nostr fund.


This is his other fund. You can see Mutiny, Strike, and Primal, in the list.

https://ten31.vc/home/#portfolio


They've always been totalitarians, tho.


I mean, he's got over 160k followers and I have 700. 😂


Yeah, but community notes are there to double-check celebrities. Our "celebrities" have a majority-cult following, so the community notes would be aimed at critics of the celebrities. We're already under immense social pressure to give up and shut up, and that would just add to it.


To what purpose?


It was corrupted, multiple times, including this week AGAIN, so I moved everyone to other lists.
I don't use it for anything functional, anyway, as my theforest relay is an aggregator and a filter, and I just look at that, so it doesn't really matter.

I don't know which client did it (think it was Primal, but haven't been able to recreate it), but I suddenly had a bunch of Bitcoin influencers in the list and half of my original follows were missing. It was really weird.


Wonder what is going on, over there?


He gets it.

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The whole thing is confusing. Like, some people died and their corpses were brought out. 🤷🏻♀ But they seem to have died of hunger?

The police don't want to go in because illegal mines are prone to collapse and explosions. The miners are miles underground, so it's a long distance from the entrance to their hide-out.

Whole thing just beyond my comprehension. Can barely understand the report.


They're not physically trapped, apparently. Some are just refusing to come out and get arrested for illegal mining.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/14/africa/south-africa-illegal-miners-intl/index.html


I have a great husband. Got lucky, for real. Don't know if I could manage that trick, twice.

I cared about career, charm, and stuff, but I'd heavily discount all of that, now, and just immediately strike anyone from the list, who isn't German, at least nominally Christian, and good at repairing things.


She's a ten, but she sold the dining room chairs to stack some sats. 😂


Oh, you mean, the market is so bad, you'd just skip it?

Yeah, temptation to be a nun at ATH.


Didn't work out?


Yeah, feel bad for people dating, now. It's gotten really tough, out there.


All Nostriches, who have managed to get married and stay married for at least 10 years (even if they are divorced, now), feel free to respond.

That already puts you in the statistical "long marriage" category, if you can believe it.


If you are long married, do you ever wonder how you'd fare in the current marriage market, if you were the same age, again?

https://image.nostr.build/e037099beb9b655238daeaaca868e5de550f4de08fd289f1bb4a038af552d05e.jpg

#marriage #dating #relationships


Everyone jokes at womens' long lists, but that's a sign of being in so much demand that you find it too difficult to choose and have to reach for more and more obscure criteria, to narrow the selection.


Not necessarily, but you're facing down time and worsening market conditions, just like everyone else is. The West is full of men in the same position, really. It's an economic epidemic, of sorts.

The "price" of wives is highly inflated because the "status" of wives is highly deflated, so women demand more, in return for taking the risk. Not necessarily more money, but simply more of whatever they value most.

It's uneven. 🫂


I don't think biological goals are the only purpose to life, or even the highest purpose. We're all here to worship God through our efforts, and work out our salvation "with fear and trembling".

I see marriage as the most-common vocation, but there are other vocations. I'm saying the opposite: if marriage is your vocation, that you are called to, then take it seriously and focus on it. Don't put it on the backburner or on your To-Do list.


Yeah, that's the thing, right? You're a bit picky (not that that is a bad thing, but it limits your selection), which means you're aiming for women who are in a position to be REALLY picky.
The marriage market is anything, but even and balanced, right now.

And, if she's young-ish, Christian, pretty, and pleasant you'll probably have to get past her dad. Dads are a tough crowd.


Well, I could see it as a time to have _more_ kids, but not to start having them.

Having a lot of offspring is also a retirement plan, of sorts, after all.


I think people put off reproduction as long as possible because it's the only decision they have to make, which is heavily weighed upon by their own mortality and physical decline.

Our lives are so comfortable and our life spans are so long, that we like to pretend that there is no inherent physiological advantage to the young. That the passage of time doesn't matter. That youth is forever. We extend and pretend.

44 year-old women are desperately claiming that 44 is the new 34, and 34 year-old women are claiming that 34 is the new 24.

No, 24 and 34 are where they have always been. 44 is the middle, same as it always was. You are now heading toward the end. Be happy, that you lived long enough, to grow old. Enjoy your decline.

https://image.nostr.build/2cd93582faa65d9905621059a49aecc1c8133be184ebe285d25eb6ada7ede969.jpg


I mean, while we're being completely politically incorrect, I'll just point out that black people whine to Europeans about racism because they're the only people who care to listen, and not because Europeans are inherently more-racist than anyone else.

The majority of Europeans are, in the meantime, almost debilitatingly anti-racist, to the point where their societies are losing cohesion and they're forgetting how to enforce property rights or care about their neighbors.


Androgyny is an artefact of urbanisation. It's mostly an urban/rural divide.


I like her face. A bit elfin and ephemeral. Calming. But, the comparison was odious.

Not in the least because it's pitting "someone girlishly pretty" against "well-known genius", as if they were dichotomies, rather than two completely uncorrellated traits. Also mildly insulting to Lyn, as she's spent her whole life establishing her professional credentials, and that effort didn't include trying to win beauty pageants. She's smart and talented enough that people will be predisposed to finding her attractive, anyway.

Of course, comparisons are always odious, but whatever.


Probably TL;DR, but I felt the urge to pack everything in.


Sometimes we have to choose familial opportunities over job opportunities. That doesn't just apply to women.


Yeah, love CLIs. Next best thing are apps with lots of good keyboard shortcuts.


Okay, time to go to bed and sober up. I deny everything.

GN


Life is different, when you are literally walking around like
https://media.tenor.com/LaCMa-aSUUwAAAAC/emma-watson.gif


And there is no shame in that. 😂
Name it, claim it!
Cute pride!

This is our official flag.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61f6B3lssPL._UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg


They always say I have nice eyes. Assumed that's all they're looking at. Seemed plausible. 😂

https://i.nostr.build/JH897nkvTIkJaYNS.jpg


I know it was just satire, but I see anti-femininity messages, everywhere, and it grates. There's nothing wrong with girl-maxxing. It doesn't mean you're stupid, ignorant, or incapable of accomplishment.

Get your girl on. Be pretty; it's fun.

https://media.tenor.com/iRvuacIq6vUAAAAC/oh-my-girl-hair-flip.gif


Literally me. Guess.
https://i.nostr.build/QF4fTtYAmLgd9Jew.png
https://i.nostr.build/jo5sF9NkJ556S63W.png

nostr:note140q77c66u360rv5mj8xg5l0x3kug0kr6m3sqp2egc4yvv9p26xzqa6408w


GM


Yeah, see? That whole phase is just over. 🤷🏻♀


In Biblical style, masculine is the neutral. So, switching to feminine, for something neutral, is an attempt to assign gender.


The boobs aren't for her, silly, they're for Chip.


I legit didn't know men like big boobs, until I was in my 40s. Every guy I asked equivocated or went full denial. Even if they were dating me. 😂

"I don't really care. I mean... boobs are just generally nice and..."

"Eyes up here, buddy."


Selling Bitcoin to pay bills is not the same thing as refraining from trading it.

I doubt you wake up and think, "Should probably trade it all in for some USD, just to be on the safe side." 🤔


Can't keep up. 😂


I keep seeing people congratulating each other on not trading Bitcoin for other currencies and it seems like such a nothing thing to be proud of.

The big hurdle is in buying Bitcoin, not hodling it. Hodling is no longer hard.


Good thing the Conservatives are running things, or I'd be worried. 🤦🏻♀


Tell him to ask a priest to exorcize his Bitcoin wallet with some holy water, or something.


🥴 Americans.


Sure, I'll give it an attractive personality.

Ahem. Just between you and me: Would you prefer a boy finance bot or a girl finance bot, or would you like it to alternate?


Tired. Old. Back aches. House is very clean, now.


Well, communism gives anarchy a good run for the money, but they're both about discarding Realpolitik and just going full fanatic, in one direction or another.


If all taxation were theft, there wouldn't have been any point in developing two different words for it.


GBP collapsing.


I try so hard, but you never read my stuff. 😭


GM


I think people completely discount this effect, when discussing politics or larger societal movements. There's a lot of emphasis on number of children, but I've only once seen someone mention reproductive cycle length, as a societal factor.
In fact, I think this has a much higher impact on the direction a society moves, than the TFR, as

1) each generation is best-adapted to its original environment, so this maximizes the power of sexual reproduction and evolution, whilst the rest of society focuses on hand-crafting perfect specimens, for the way they environment previously was
2) you quickly reach a critical mass, even if you're a relatively small group, and you are probably geographically-concentrated, so you can dictate governance (even under anarchy, where you can dictate EVEN HARDER)
3) you have more young men and therefore wield a disproportionate amount of violence
4) you have lots of children, at a constant rate, without any particular woman being heavily burdened


Well, it also contains its own logic, as the older you are, the more of a burden childbearing and child-rearing becomes. It's not just them becoming more selfish, it's also legitimately more-difficult and exhausting, and etc., so the decision becomes increasingly painful, and Aristotle said that it's the natural state of humans to avoid what is painful.

Your sleep patterns become more fixed, health issues are exacerbated, your brain is less plastic, you get used to a certain living standard and lifestyle, and adjusting "down" is painful, you have a cool job, dating scene gets more difficult, etc. Having children in my early twenties was bizarrely easy, in hindsight. Like, we were poor, our life was chaotic, and we hardly got any sleep, but we were too young, dumb, etc. to notice. 😅 Young people are incredibly flexible and resilient, and they are happy with fewer creature comforts.


Hey, just cuz I bought Bitcoin late, doesn't mean buying it earlier wouldn't have been better. I lost out. It happens. Doesn't even have to be my fault, for it to be my situation. 🤷♀

But I now know that everyone should pull their purchases forward, so that's what I'd recommend they do.


I wrote an article about it.

https://njump.me/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzplfq3m5v3u5r0q9f255fdeyz8nyac6lagssx8zy4wugxjs8ajf7pqqxnzdenxy6rsdecxucnzwpel2lenn


## The fertility rate is not the whole story

I keep reading articles about the fertility decline that has now consumed most developed nations on Earth, and that is slowly creeping toward the few remaining holdouts, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.

![TFR map](https://i.nostr.build/wDRJD2PnLGuiV2FX.png)

Many countries, that we still think of, as having high birthrates, are actually just experiencing the echo of previous high birthrates. Same as Europe had in the 70s and 80s, due to the post-WWII baby boom. Others have very high total fertility rates (TFR), but such high infant and child mortality, that the population doesn't grow in line with the fertility.

East Asia is in the worst shape, with Europe closely nipping at its heels. TFR is highest in Niger, at 6.1 children per woman, and lowest in South Korea, at 0.7. In other words, the South Korean population nearly halves in size, every generation. (I will be focusing on South Korea, going forward, as a case study of the general phenomenon.)

![South Korea](https://i.nostr.build/Pjh9uWStJUTNWI4c.png)

## Fertility rate is not even half the story

But it's actually all much worse than is being publicized, as the fertility rates don't take the tangible effects of **delays in childbearing** into account, which actually are felt more immediately, than the decline in overall fertility. What the delays do, is spread the same number of births more thinly over the timeline, debilitating any infrastructure or traditions that require a certain number of people, to be maintained. I think of this as *demographic logistics*, as it's about getting the right number of people, of the right age, to the right place, at the right time, in order to meet some minimum required volume.

Playgroups, schools, hospitals, festivals, volunteer organizations, sports clubs, road works, senior residences, churches, new business starts, etc. all require a certain number of participants, to remain viable. Those participants trickling in, at a slower and slower rate, is why even places with above-replacement fertility (like my own town) increasingly struggle to maintain systems that are popular. Everyone is being spread thinner and thinner, and we're having to make hard choices about how the smaller group will be distributed amongst the activities.

## You feel like you're being overrun because you are.

This is also why the fact that migrants (and religious people, etc.) tend to adjust their birthrate to the regional average, doesn't lead to an end of their demographic overrepresentation. They are under less societal pressure to delay childbearing, so they tend to be further down the following chart, and their offspring simply arrive much more quickly, than with the natives.

![Generational length chart](https://i.nostr.build/xBBASzpIIyMO8umS.png)

To put it simply, for everyone one generation of the "natives" or "majority" society, there are two or three generations of the others.

## Does communism get the last laugh?

Societies, like South Korea, where the fertility rate is exceedingly low, also tend to have the most-delayed childbearing, so the effect of low fertility is heavily exacerbated. The countries are hollowing out, on the ground level, with the population being replaced so slowly and thinly, that the majority of the country will soon simply be empty, and the infrastructure will fall apart.

![Age at first birth](https://i.nostr.build/uTLAS0XmzuPAIfjg.png)

Christianity is starting to have a positive effect on a subset of South Korean birthrates, by promoting the concept of openness to life and family-friendliness, but its popularization initially decreased fertility. (This is a [common effect](https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol44/23/44-23.pdf), as Christianity leads to higher status for women, monogamy, and the concept of "family planning".) Yes, contrary to what _The Handmaid's Tale_ enthusiasts claim, increased religiosity actually exacerbated the already-widespread decline.

South Korea is really just the worst of worst-case scenarios, unfortunately, with absolutely every demographic and economic trend aligning to cut off their reproduction. This is in direct contrast to North Korea, that can compensate for the more moderate decline in births with mere mechanization.

![North and South Korea TFR](https://i.nostr.build/An4UiCYzMvl1DB3D.png)

Yes, it looks like North Korea will do much better, going forward, than South Korea. Their entrance into the Ukraine War isn't incidental; we will be hearing more from them, going forward.

## Robots serving ghosts

The South Korean plan of simply substituting robots for most humans, will go nowhere, as robots are actually _less efficient and effective than humans_, except at highly dull or repetitive tasks, over the course of their lifecycle. (This is hidden with cheap, extended production financing, where the machines don't have to turn a profit for decades, whereas humans have to be paid today.) Without productive, agile humans, generating real income, there will be no one to purchase and run all the expensive robots.

And... run them... for whom?

![Robot dystopia](https://i.nostr.build/ptUYCrBJKf2il7Ck.png)

The effect of the length of generations on overall demographics.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzplfq3m5v3u5r0q9f255fdeyz8nyac6lagssx8zy4wugxjs8ajf7pqqxnzdenxy6rsdecxucnzwpel2lenn


Yeah, people thought my husband was "really young", to become a dad in his early 30s. But he's out there playing ⚽ with his son and nephews, and he's like, Yo... 50 is ancient. 😅

You have to think about how fit you are likely to be... later on. If you're a parent by 25, then you might be a grandparent by 50 and a great-grandparent by 75. If you start at 35, you have to add a decade to each following generation. More, really, as children tend to adopt the reproductive habits of their parents, so you'd be a parent at 35, grandparent at 70, then probably dead.


Bizarre seeing people give out advice to wait until you're 35, to get married and have kids.

Has anyone considered that mating is supposed to happen BEFORE your brain starts to atrophy, and your gonads shrivel up, as that's sort of the point? Like, we're mammals. We're designed to reproduce sexually and pair-bond, and that's supposed to coincide with peak health and fertility.
Everything after 25 is downhill.

https://media.tenor.com/m6o-4dKGdVAAAAAC/im-in-my-prime-funny.gif


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I can't tell if we were being hilariously funny or incredibly rude, or some combination of the two.


From the maker of Habla.News.


I can't tell. 😂🙈


nostr:nprofile1qqsxua0hju3e0j3jjhs0fjs0h3htnnreh6zm4lw4d0fhsgsv4rhwwnspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68yurvv438xtnrdakj7qguwaehxw309ahx7um5wfjkccte9euk2emgwfhjuumfw3jj7j9036l is the only Bitcoin charter whose stuff I actually look at because he's so chill about it. He's as cool in real life, as online. Worth a follow, even if you aren't very Bitcoiny.

nostr:nprofile1qqsvdxm3m3tylhp4ptxal7ff7fwhyq4vz3cvsaygvz9adkvwgf46wccpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0urhjv6 has the most gorgeous food pics, ever, and she's a great cook.

nostr:nprofile1qqsg6d9aysezgrzkxut550d3jxrch2suzvawcuumvj3xgfvlg997x2cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmp0lhqp8l because she's so calmly intellectual, writes well-informed about a wide variety of topics, and is a reliable noter.


This is beautiful.


Not the same thing, as the Holy Spirit is part of the Trinity, so it has real power to act.

But maybe you're also sensing it.


The Holy Spirit is always with me. That is why I am immortal, after all, and a priestess.


The Holy Spirit, of course.


Yeah, it basically stays stable or rises steadily, while most other assets slowly decline, as they lose their monetary premium.


Yo, bro, hallo. 👋🏻


One thing that I didn't factor in, is that the declining purchasing power of fiat makes the rising price of Bitcoin less impressive.

€100k sounded like a crazy-big number, even a few years, ago. Now, my neighbor just sold a run-down old house, the middle of nowhere, with oil central heat, for over €800k.

It's like... 1 Bitcoin will soon buy 1/8th of a dump in a 5-cow town, that you'll immediately have to bulldoze. 😂🙈


A bunch of people just showed up here, to gloat, and they'll disappear to Twitter, again, soon. Happens every bump.


Because you can buy a whole piece.


Wow, really? Things have changed, since the 90s. I guess they make shorter wigs, now.
My hairdresser was excited about it because of the European hair texture. Said a lot comes from Asia.

Maybe that's all changed, now. Dunno.


I had hip-length hair and donated it, in high school. They actually need reeeeaaalllly long hair, to make wigs.


I think I just arrived too late and too poor, to ever get into the whole NGU thing. As soon as it broke even, every additional price rise just depresses me.

Great, the thing so insanely expensive, that I'll never own one, just got more expensive. 🤦🏻♀


Just had to buy two sets of winter tires and repair some brakes. Stuff costs a lot.

Oh well.


I'm just gratefull that I never had to spend mine to buy winter tires, or something.


For a moment, I thought it was Kamala. 😬🤣🤣🤣


Hard to feel any wealth effect, when living costs are going up, income has gone down, the economy is collapsing, and there are mass-layoffs all around.


Wow, thanks! 😳


We're having to back-pay taxes and utilities. Can't wait, to get away, from this place. Rent is such a monetary black hole.


I had to take the day off. Was so FINISHED.


Yeah. Turn on German TV and it's like, "...and he's supported by shady, dangerous people who attend church regularly, use Bitcoin and other darknet tech, and believe in biological differences in the sexes."

*cue creepy villian music*


Feel sort of funny, worrying about paying rent and buying food, and stuff, when everyone else on here is acting like they won the lottery.

https://media.tenor.com/Jfcv9u7aZ5wAAAAC/party-gathering.gif


Just moving down the street into a smaller place we partially own, so that we don't have to pay rent.


😅

I guess the green is for Golang.


They send cops to your house.


I'm so glad that this is the last year of mandatory school, that our family has to suffer. So sick of it.


GM


Thanks. We're going for some color. Apple green again, and rust, and periwinkle or mint.


It's my natural protection against angry developers.


Manopause


Interesting, how the genetic test identifies twice as much English ancestry, as self-reporting did. Suggests that it's historically further back.

I'm also, apparently, more Northern European than the median White American, which is funny.


"The most commonly reported ancestries of White Americans include English (12.5%), German (7.6%), Irish (5.3%), Italian (3.2%), and Polish (1.3%)...
The study concluded that English ancestry is the most common European ancestry among white Americans, with this component ranging between 20% (Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota) and 55% (Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas) of the total population (regardless of race) in all 50 states."

Probably has a lot to do with population-density and age. 🤔 Or the map really is just made up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Americans


You have to remember that the English came in the very first immigrant wave, then the Scotts-Irish, then the Germans, then the Mexicans. The later the wave, the more quickly you can expect them to cover long distances.

The English were also decimated in the French-Indian War, the Revolutionary War and Civil War, before the majority of Germans arrived. The numbers of dead are mind-boggling.


Only because y'all don't have time to write all of it and I get impatient.


Video seems accurate. I notice the same stuff, around here, since they test-drive autonomous vehicles, everywhere.

Glad I don't have a car and live someplace where I don't need one. Pure luxury.


I guarantee you, that everyone will say the solution is to subsidize mortgages, driving up the price of housing, further. No suggested program will ever lower the price of housing.

The people in the houses, now, only have them because the government kept rates artificially low, for decades. Biggest welfare program the world has ever seen. They live in houses that they didn't really pay for and receive pensions that they didn't really finance, and now they get to sell those houses at grossly-inflated prices to the next generation, that also slaves away to finance their pensions.

Buy Bitcoin.


NATO is led by the USA. They've admitted, before, that Biden wasn't interested in an end to the war and that Trump might change that.

German government might have to spend on defense, with Trump, so they're pissed because they have their gigantic refugee camp, early retirees, and all the UBI people, now.


Nostr is full of men who think like that, tho. That's why we aren't moving forward with project teams. Everyone is a loner.

Largest project team was formed by a woman, after all.

https://media.tenor.com/fo2glJWLtBUAAAAC/pick-me-christina-aguilera.gif


Sorry, about that.


GN


False dichtomy. Talk about it, get advice, think about it, do something about it.


Most men aren't toxic. Just occasionally grumpy.


They have a weird job.


Damn. Can legit see the Trail of Tears and slavery on the map.

That said, this would be the most-common largest ancestry portion. African-Americans average 25% Scotts-Irish, so Scotts-Irish is probably more accurate, for the South.

Mexican-Americans are also usually German or Spanish, so that is also inaccurate. Same with Oklahoma, since most of them probably also have  mixed ancestry. Etc.


It's actually easy to distinguish the different European ethnicities, genetically, since they have the largest, deepest data set.

English were rich and really racist, so they didn't interbreed and quickly sunk into genetic irrelevance, while the Scotts-Irish and Germans took over. Scandis stayed up North, near Canada.


English. please.


The always sounds so impressive, in dollars. 😂


Everything he posts, trends. Trending accounts are just really big accounts. Has nothing to do with the content.


Large apartments (like mine), that families like to live in, or roommates share, get broken into 2 apartments. Tiny apartments, that students and other singles like, get merged into 1 medium apartment.

That 30-100 m² size seems to be the range, where you earn the biggest return on Investment.


For instance,
The apartment we are moving into has 130 m² for 4 people. That gives each adult a comfortable 32,5 m²/person, with only one kitchen, living room, laundry room, and bathroom, for everyone to share. That used to be considered spacious.

This now would be considered a home for two or three people, so we would need 190 m² and twice the number of amenities, to house the same number of people, in order to meet the national living standard of 47,4 m²/person, and a bathroom for every 2 people.


This is the main reason why house prices have shot up, even where the population has declined.

We are using more and more dwellings to house fewer and fewer people. Because living alone is boring and lonely, those people tend to want their dwellings extremely close to other people's dwellings, so they cluster tightly together in the urban areas, driving up the price of real estate.

So, instead of one home with 5 people in it, we have 5 homes with one person in each.


Even more dramatic, in the EU. Finland has almost half of households consisting of one-person homes. Germany at 41%. More than a fifth of adults live alone, in Germany.

https://www.destatis.de/Europa/DE/Thema/Bevoelkerung-Arbeit-Soziales/Bevoelkerung/_Grafik/_Statisch/Einpersonenhaushalte_an_HH.png?__blob=normal

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Embrace the tradition, of #FOSS developers getting funded directly by their end users, and those users being actively involved in the development process. This is one reason why FOSS has developed such a good reputation: the anti-fragility development environment of slaving away for months or years on tips and 🫂.

It's a lesson in humility, perseverance, efficiency, responsiveness, camaraderie.
It's a lesson in knowing your audience and delivering what they want because you care about them.
It's art.

Most artists never get rich, off of their labor, but their efforts make the world a better place.

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f0/32/d1/f032d1825217786e6eb79bc118acadc4.jpg


GM. Everything hurts. Day 3.

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I am excited about the new-to-me apartment. I dream about sitting on my favorite comfy chair and writing on my laptop, sipping my tea, looking out at the trees. The trees! 🤩


Good grief, did she really say that? 🙄


Some relays refuse to respect deletes.

I'm not interested in relays that are stores of all events. Most events are junk.
I prefer relay-side data transfers and the outbox model.

I don't work for Will.


I call this one "Self-portrait of a woman who is already tired of revamping the garden and moving house, even though she's barely even started"

https://i.nostr.build/zbAFbvum8EYVKeHL.png


Yes, in this format. With NIP-29 relays, you can use n relays for n communities, but it adds some event overhead.


No, I run three community relays.


Relays are the part that is most-decentralized. I have 8 of them, on five devices. Mostly my own devices.


Yeah, was missing relays. 😉


Yeah, I guess I'm saying that obligations fulfilled, not passion, are the basis for trust. And trusting allows you to relax and feel deeper passion.


This isn't aimed at the average user. The average user will be invited to other people's communities.


Anyone with a computer connected to the Internet, can host a relay. Also, many people already pay for a remote server and can just run a relay on it.


Hmm... The second is worthless, on its own. If their mood changes, they'll just dump you. Passion fluctuates over time, sometimes simply due to hormones or the weather, or how things are going at work or problems with the relatives, etc.; it's merely a mood.

Ideal is a combination of both, I suppose. Obligation and passion. They have an interplay, that causes the one to deepen the other.

Knowing that someone won't leave helps you feel safe enough to abandon yourself to passion.


What is inauthentic?


We only have a wooden stove, in the basement. But that sure sounds good.


Only at the beginning. Love becomes a good habit because we love things and people we have personally invested in, so loving someone with purpose naturally leads to loving them with passion.

Love, unlike mere infatuation, is a choice.


Always go full retard.


Hello!


Yes! 😂


We had that. They sucked.


Much better!

https://image.nostr.build/c0695e56abe75d3652bf91f9aa5284d86503bf6bb93af6b93150e97921fa06c3.png


Relays are moderated communities, by default.


3rd level reply


## Drumroll, please....

In a previous article, I introduced the concept of [relay communities](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzplfq3m5v3u5r0q9f255fdeyz8nyac6lagssx8zy4wugxjs8ajf7pqydhwumn8ghj7argv4nx7un9wd6zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpr3mhxue69uhhg6r9vd5hgctyv4kzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcqp5cnwvesxcunjwpcxymrsvgwmj66e).

The ink had barely dried, on that set of instructions, before one of my favorite Nostr devs, [ثعبان](nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7enjv4h8xtnwdaehgu339e3k7mf0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzqla9dawkjc4trc7dgf88trpsq2uxvhmmpkxua607nc5g6a634sv598gk68), rolled out the alpha version of a relay-community client.

![chachi for nos.lol](https://i.nostr.build/iwVwUUXfiAj7pSMa.png)

Obviously, it's still a bit of a construction site, but you can check out how it'd work, for your community, by test-driving the functionality on your own relay. Simply type _https://chachi.chat/_ followed by the name of your relay. For instance, one gigantic relay community, where nearly everyone can try out the functionality, is [nos.lol](https://chachi.chat/nos.lol).

If your relay community does not require AUTH to read, anyone can pull your chatter into their own relay and respond to it there. That is because every chat entry is simply a kind 09 event, and unprotected events are not private data.

For instance, I moderate one community [theforest.nostr1.com](https://chachi.chat/theforest.nostr1.com), that is openly readable, and that's probably where most of the chatter on [nostr.band](https://chachi.chat/relay.nostr.band) is coming from, as that relay is an aggregator of the content of many other relays. However, I have another community, [gitcitadel.nostr1.com](https://chachi.chat/gitcitadel.nostr1.com) that is AUTH-protected, whose content stays private to those allowed on that relay. Communities are where write-protected and AUTH relays are going to really shine, as they create an environment similar to Telegram, but where you control the dataset, you decide which types of events to support, and you design the client, the algos, the moderation, the visibility, etc.

With communities, **the onboarding experience is seamless**: just get a browser extension and a nsec, login, start writing and posting, and _start receiving responses_. Active, chatty, well-moderated communities will be more attractive to onboard to, than chaotic, spammy, or empty communities. This means that you don't have to have the killer entry under "Posts" (where kind 11 and eventually kind 01 posts appear), just to get some interaction. Chat is the Great Equalizer.

So, we're testing both setups, with [cloudfodder](nostr:nprofile1qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpzfmhxue69uhkummnw3eryvfwvdhk6tcqyp7vx29q3hdj4l0elxl800hlfjp538le09epsf7k9zj59ue2y37qu84upun) adjusting the relay faucet code and ثعبان is fiddling with the community client settings, to make the most-comfortable situation for both kinds.

![The beginning has ended.](https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/361833-Winston-Churchill-Quote-Now-this-is-not-the-end-It-is-not-even-the.jpg)

## This is the signal

This #Chachi client, of course, is merely the first horse out of the gate. There are already other devs hacking away at variants of the same concept, such as [#Flotilla](https://flotilla.coracle.social/), I'm sure CloudFodder is also cooking, later versions of #Alexandria will integrate theforest community, and etc. etc. etc.

It remains to be seen, how many new use cases can be dreamt up, with this new architecture, but I am quite certain, that this is the beginning of the end of Nostr 1.0. We are moving up and out, and away from the stultifying and limiting concept of Twitter 2.0, toward

![The OtherStuff.](https://i.nostr.build/nToghxbBIzNLx27t.jpg)

Soon, we will enter Nostr 2.0. See you on the other side.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzplfq3m5v3u5r0q9f255fdeyz8nyac6lagssx8zy4wugxjs8ajf7pqqxnzdenxycnxwf5xyunsdpcnkjccw


test of chatting on nos.lol


It's relay communities, but they don't want to hear that because it's a relay thing and then they can't force us to look at stuff we don't care about.


Okay, then let's turn it off, for now. I'll give you a GH issue and we can brainstorm it, there.


Or is this a relay issue nostr:npub10npj3gydmv40m70ehemmal6vsdyfl7tewgvz043g54p0x23y0s8qzztl5h ? We probably should be streaming chats and kind 1111 into other relays. Only kind 01 and long-form.


Oops, I was wrong. It shows theforest chat on the devs chat. That's incorrect. I think. Let me report that...

https://chachi.chat/devs.nostr1.com


Okay, I added the three I've reported, so far, so that you can post updates on them, there. I'll report there, going forward.


Need a new left-wing party. They... like... imploded.


Welcome to what it feels like to be black. 😂
Minority Political Gladiators.

Looks like Arabs and Latinos underperformed and are being sent to the last place of the Minority Games.

https://media.tenor.com/sJbP2vrcLAYAAAAC/thumbdown.gif


Moses was adopted and St. Joseph was an adoptive father. The Bible, both Old and New Testament, speak favorably of adoption and baptism is described as spiritual adoption.

Do not blaspheme the Holy Spirit, even if you are upset.


Yes, this one is publicly-readable, but write-limited to who is allowed on theforest.

I have another relay, that is both read and write-limited, for our dev team.


And notes and replies created in there stay in there. They don't wander off to other relays.


Took us a while to figure out the simplest way of doing this. But, it works. 😊

nostr:npub149p5act9a5qm9p47elp8w8h3wpwn2d7s2xecw2ygnrxqp4wgsklq9g722q has been tireless, on this topic.


For everyone who missed it, we now have a relay community, for theforest.

https://chachi.chat/theforest.nostr1.com

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We were using the Story of the World series.


I'm in my mid-40s.


I'm Gen X. My kids call me a Boomer, tho. 😂


Mine are more wiry. And snow white.


Look what I just found, in a pile of old notebooks. 🥰

#Homeschooling #BookOfCenturies

https://image.nostr.build/8d286cc6a6d675fccc50b0f44b201200d578e56d89b519cdf22474623a1f70d2.jpg


Ha ha. Packed boxes for a couple of hours and my back already aches and we've barely made a dent. 😂🙈


GM!


Okay, one more. I have a second group on wss://gitcitadel.nostr1.com from nostr:npub10npj3gydmv40m70ehemmal6vsdyfl7tewgvz043g54p0x23y0s8qzztl5h .

If I post something on theforest, in reply to an article, I can see it on gitcitadel. Since I'm whitelisted on both relays, I can't tell, if that is a bug or a feature. 😅

https://image.nostr.build/689b936f5e209daab79b2d99d21ce4ba90c2ef9881fbc9d50228cda17ee58e88.png


## You have no idea

I regularly read comments from people, on here, wondering how it's possible to marry -- or even simply be friends! -- with someone who doesn't agree with you on politics. I see this sentiment expressed quite often, usually in the context of Bitcoin, or whatever _pig is currently being chased through the village_, as they say around here.

![Pig racing](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a2/d5/8a/a2d58ac249846854345f727e41984e6c.jpg)

It seems rather sensible, but I don't think it's as hard, as people make it out to be. Further, I think it's a dangerous precondition to set, for your interpersonal relationships, because the political field is constantly in flux. If you determine who you will love, by their opinions, do you stop loving them if their opinions change, or if the opinions they have become irrelevant and a new set of opinions are needed -- and their new ones don't match your new ones? We could see this happen to relationships en masse, during the Covid Era, and I think it happens every day, in a slow grind toward the disintegration of interpersonal discourse.

I suspect many people do stop loving, at that point, as they never really loved the other person for their own sake, they loved the other person because they thought the other person was exactly like they are. But no two people are alike, and the longer you are in a relationship with someone else, the more the initial giddiness wears off and the trials and tribulations add up, the more you notice how very different you actually are. This is the point, where best friends and romantic couples say, _We just grew apart._

But you were always apart. You were always two different people. You just didn't notice, until now.

![Separation](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c3/05/a6/c305a6a95e809b0356ecb651c72f78b9.jpg)

I've also always been surprised at how many same-party relationships disintegrate because of some disagreement over some particular detail of some particular topic, that they generally agree on. To me, it seems like an irrelevant side-topic, but _they can't stand to be with this person_... and they stomp off. So, I tend to think that it's less that opinions need to align to each other, but rather that opinions need to align in accordance with the level of interpersonal tolerance they can bring into the relationship.

## I was raised by relaxed revolutionaries

Maybe I see things this way because my parents come from two diverging political, cultural, national, and ethnic backgrounds, and are prone to disagreeing about a lot of "important" (to people outside their marriage) things, but still have one of the healthiest, most-fruitful, and most long-running marriages of anyone I know, from that generation. My parents, you see, aren't united by their opinions. They're united by their relationship, which is something _outside_ of opinions. Beyond opinions. Relationships are what turn two different people into one, cohesive unit, so that they slowly grow together. Eventually, even their faces merge, and their biological clocks tick to the same rhythm. They eventually become one entity that contains differing opinions about the same topics.

It's like magic, but it's the result of a mindset, not a worldview.
Or, as I like to quip:

> The best way to stay married, is to not get divorced.

![elderly couple](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f7/0f/d2/f70fd2963312236c60cac61ec2324ce8.jpg)

My parents simply determined early on, that they would stay together, and whenever they would find that they disagreed on something that _didn't directly pertain to their day-to-day existence with each other_ they would just agree-to-disagree about that, or roll their eyes, and move on. You do you. Live and let live.

My parents have some of the most strongly held personal opinions of any people I've ever met, but they're also incredibly tolerant and can get along with nearly anyone, so their friends are a confusing hodgepodge of _people we liked and found interesting enough to keep around_. Which makes their house parties really fun, and highly unusual, in this day and age of mutual-damnation across the aisle.

![Party time](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/4e/aa/2b/4eaa2bb199aa7e5f36a0dbc2f0e4f217.jpg)

The things that did affect them, directly, like which school the children should attend or which country they should live in, etc. were things they'd sit down and discuss, and somehow one opinion would emerge, and they'd again... move on.

And that's how my husband and I also live our lives, and it's been working surprisingly well. No topics are off-limits to discussion (so long as you don't drone on for too long), nobody has to give up deeply held beliefs, or stop agitating for the political decisions they prefer.

You see, we didn't like that the other always had the same opinion. We liked that the other always held their opinions strongly. That they were passionate about their opinions. That they were willing to voice their opinions; sacrifice to promote their opinions. And that they didn't let anyone browbeat or cow them, for their opinions, not even their best friends or their spouse. But that they were open to listening to the other side, and trying to wrap their mind around the possibility that they _might just be wrong about something_.

![Listening](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/69/ec/1b/69ec1b66fc58802de4d04bfb5f0f8dc6.jpg)

We married each other because we knew: this person really cares, this person has thought this through, and they're in it, to win it. What "it" is, is mostly irrelevant, so long as it doesn't entail torturing small animals in the basement, or raising the children on a diet of Mountain Dew and porn, or something.

Live and let live. At least, it's never boring. At least, there's always something to ~~argue~~ talk about. At least, we never think... we've just grown apart.

Why the people I love most, don't agree with me on politics.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzplfq3m5v3u5r0q9f255fdeyz8nyac6lagssx8zy4wugxjs8ajf7pqqxnzdenxycrgd3n8ycngdpj2sjhf2


Few.


GM Nostr.
Today is the first real day of moving, and I'm really excited. 🤗

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Well, a browser update is like a reinstall. In-app relays are just something saved locally. They're not an event, or anything.


The cuteness is real!


You can share values and still prefer different parties, for cultural reasons, age-differences, or something.


Yeah, wonder if they can do it.


Thanks.

I'm at that age where it's like, yay, glad I'm bloated, today, so that it smoothes out the wrinkles. 😂


Okay, I do care. It's a shock, every time I see a picture. 😂
For some reason, I don't notice it in the mirror.


Gray hair, don't care.
#NostrBoomers

https://i.nostr.build/AQCfS3SuqTsAZvjl.jpg


His article on how Bitcoin is time, is the reason I never sold.

https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/


American primaries and elections are noisy, but the government immediately has a majority. In systems with lots of parties, the noise and chaos starts after the election, when voters have no more influence over what happens. The resulting government can be the opposite of what the majority of voters intended, or have different people in it, than were on the ballot.

American voters determine the result, directly, down to the individual politicians in each seat.


Tried, but it creeped me out, too much.


Nostr is for writers.

https://image.nostr.build/41a9b7b04cd31230231529c60baf1060ae0b86d1aa98b0067c64dd778ce03624.jpg


You don't already have a leather chair in a room like that? Slacker.


Unpopular opinion:
America's two-party system is pure genius and one major reason why they're going to remain the most-powerful state, going forward.

Signed,
Person living in a country where there are a bunch of parties, the voters don't care what is going on, and the government is a constant mess that can't figure out how to make any important decisions.


I can't figure out why I can see this spam on Amethyst, but not on Nostrudel, when they use the same relays.

I am not reading from nostr.band; it's only a search relay.
 https://image.nostr.build/03302a41ba25289888b09fed105b0a2e12e932a66d9e2daf65005672c6a124b7.jpg


Yeah, but that's the Catch-22 I mean. You have to already be popular, to have popular content. That's why follow lists have been getting more and more similar, with recommended or trending content often being the same 5 people over and over, with every post they make.

Gigantic bifurcation in the number of followers (200k versus 20), is the cause, and we can't end the cycle until we figure out how to surface unpopular-but-interesting content.


Don't DVM algos just serve up a variation of the fixed lists, since they look at what people are already looking at, and everyone is looking at the fixed list?

I don't think we're going to get around actually analyzing the content, rather than the content-providers.


You give me hardened, half-naked supermodels and butch beauty pageant winners, I give you the cutest thing I've ever seen, walking down the street, feeling totally edgy with her death-bunny backpack.

https://i.nostr.build/Fhp0zAFeedAhGpHr.png


Every time I see modern beauty pageant winners, I think about my daughter and my nieces and female cousins, and it's all very classic "beauty pageant winner versus cute Walmart cashier" meme-able.

#JustSaying


I'm sorry, but they all look sorta "trans".
Beauty pageants are generally a celebration of masculine beauty, nowadays, so it makes sense that literal biological men would start winning them.

Same deal as with modeling: everything is just openly-gay, now. So, okay, but that's why most of us stopped watching it, and more feminine women have moved on to greener pastures. Beautiful, feminine faces and soft, curvy bodies are so mesmerizing, that mere glimpses of them, in still pictures, stop everyone in their tracks. Don't need a pageant, for that. Just a cell phone, with a camera.

These competitions basically HAVE to have someone trans (or foreign, or really old, or...) win, as outrage-posting is the only major audience they have left. They're all going for the "surprise factor", to get clicks.
Tiresome, but whatever.

https://zenit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/screenshot-miss-maryland-usa-instagram-01.jpg


GM


## Unsucking the feed is real

As a Nostrich with an interesting, thought-provoking, and informative feed... a feed so good, that we're creating clients just to look at that feed... a feed that puts a lie to the idea that Nostr is nothing, but people reposting from Twitter or rehashing worn-out Bitcoin memes... a feed that I personally and increasingly enjoy perusing... I am here to tell you that the feed is real.

![Yes, it's real.](https://i.nostr.build/eXAINZP6UjWTDnCA.jpg)

It's taken me over a year, to produce this feed. I literally spent hours and hours, day in and day out, scouring the Nostrverse for people worth introducing other people to. It was brutally difficult, as I was fighting the inherent nature of the Nostr clients and relays, in their current, most-popular form.

## It goes like so...

Here are the steps I took, that sometimes weren't possible to take, until I tried to take them, and that still will sometimes break your client because the clients are often _intentionally_ designed to steer you into having one particular feed:

1) **Make a screenshot** of your current relay list and copy your follows list.
2) **Unsubscribe from all the relays**, that you are currently subscribed to. Your feed should disappear. If it doesn't, or it doesn't allow for this, switch to a different client app because yours is corrupted.
3) **Unfollow everyone.** Delete the whole list. You are taking your follows private, which will invariably result in only following npubs whose stuff you actually want to see, since there's no longer any virtue-signaling going on. Also, it's easier to explain having no list, than a very short one. If your client doesn't allow for this, or starts throwing error messages and freezing up, then switch to a different client app because yours is corrupted.
4) **Curate your copied follows list.** Go line by line and look at the feed produced by the npub on that list.
   * Do you want to see that in your feed, going forward?
    * Do they produce original content and/or are they interesting conversationalists, in the replies?
    * Have they been active, within the past three months?
    * Are they simply good friends or real-life acquaintances, that you want to keep tabs on?
    * If not, cross out their name.
    * If you have been following someone because they repost or quote interesting things, **look at who they've been reposting** and follow them, instead.
5) Of the npubs remaining on your list, go through and select the 10 most interesting ones, and **look at the reposts and quotes** in their feed, and their topical lists like \"Favorites\", \"Devs\", \"Recipes\", etc. (Not their follows list, unless it's quite short, as follows tend to be full of people they follow for social-signaling or client-functional reasons, that they don't actively look at.) Find some new follows, there.
6) Now, set up a personal relay and add all the follows, that made the cut, to **your allowed-npubs list**. Do not add people to the list, just to make them feel better, or because you feel guilty, as they follow you, or to keep them from yelling at you. Remember, they can't see the list!
7) Think about the topics you find interesting, and add an **allowed-keywords list** (this is better than hashtags, as it searches the entire content of the notes), with the OR operator (these allowed npubs OR these allowed topics).
8) Make sure that you choose words likely to find the content you are most-interested in, and not people just ranting about it or spamming (those are great additions to your relay's block-list). If you are Muslim, for instance, instead of "Islam" or "shariah", choose "hadith" or "riba", as those are words more-likely to be used by people who know what they are talking about. If you are into bread baking, add "sourdough", "rye", "yeast", or "whisk", but don't add "bread" or "carbs". Once a note from those people shows up in your feed, and their feed looks like someone interesting, you can add their npub to your allow list. Remember: **The topics are there to find people to add to the allow list**, not merely for their own sake, as this is not a topical relay, but a personal one.
9) Open up a faucet (or relay syncing) with some of the big relays you previously unsubscribed from, some WoT relays, and some of the paid relays (nostr.land, nostr.wine, nostr21.com, and sovbit.host, for example). **Your relay will filter that feed** and only accept the events from the people and topics on your list. As your relay becomes more popular, npubs will begin writing directly to it, and the connections to other relays will sink in significance.
10) Go to your client of choice and **subscribe to your new relay**. Also subscribe to some topical relays, or curated neighborhood relays, you find interesting or your frens are running. This is an easy way to find new, interesting npubs, to add to your own relay.

![The end](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e4/32/fc/e432fc1ce1fc8a5077e33290ec15e0ce.jpg)

That's a lot of work, you say? Yes, but the result is great, and you are now fully in-charge of your own feed. You also -- here's the cool part -- have a feed good enough, that other people can add your feed to theirs and enjoy your manual curation. As you refine and expand your feed, theirs will also be refined, in parallel. You are now an official Nostr Community Curator. My sincere congratulations.

![Certificate](https://i.nostr.build/FDtR0Z5VAJTxCGHL.png)

## Why is this so hard?

This is only a lot of work because the clients aren't designed to interact with relays, to this extent, as they were created to service mega-relays, download all their crap to your local cache, and adjust the feed over the follows/mutes lists. This was an idea borne of the axiom that Relays Are Hard, so there will only ever be a handful of them, where we'd all clump together and the relay operators would never judge the quality of someone's content. Then, some unusually clever people made relays increasingly easy, and the mailbox communication model was invented, and here we are.

What we have now, and that is slowly growing in popularity, among the #NostrIntelligentsia, are Nostr clients aimed at curating and viewing individual relays or personalized sets of smaller or more-specialized relays. The reigning client devs refused to give us those clients, and most of us aren't up to developing our own clients, so the relay devs took matters into their own hands and made the clients themselves. The free market remains undefeated.

This is a total game-changer. Last one to board this train is a rotten egg.

Originally, relays were supposed to be completely stupid and clients were supposed to be completely smart, but it's now actually the other way around, because most relay devs have a market-born incentive to make their content highly customizable and appealing to individuals (so that more people run relays).

## But what about algos?

Can't you just slap an algo on top of Damus, Lol, or Primal relays, and get the same result? I would argue... no. No, you can't. Or, rather, only in the short to medium term.

Running your own relay, is running your own server. You are now _intellectually independent_, at a machine-level, and therefore a fully sovereign consumer. If you then use algos to control your own server, or in a client that subscribes to your own server, then you can further-refine a feed that is already in a high-to-you-signal state, rather than risking an algo inching you toward the Consensus Feed.

I have noticed that my own feed is slowly drifting away from the ReplyGuy-Cryptobot-Porny-Bitcoin-Meme Dumpster Fire, that almost everyone else is looking at, and it's due to running my own relay. If I use DVMs, those algos sometimes refer to relays I intentionally avoid, so they return results according to those relays. The results are as underwhelming, as you would expect, and often are simply 31 flavors of the Trending List.

But, that isn't your problem, anymore.
From here, you can actively expand and refine your feed, over your whitelist, the topics, and your personally-managed algos.

Happy Nostr-ing!

Your kind 01 feed doesn't need to suck. Stop laughing. I'm serious.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzplfq3m5v3u5r0q9f255fdeyz8nyac6lagssx8zy4wugxjs8ajf7pqqxnzdenxqmrjwfc8qcnvwp3rwjqv5


I don't think you can fix income inequality with anything. The poor will always be with us. That's why we have charity.

The problem is state-run charity.


I don't get any big zaps, but I do work for Nostr and get paid in LN, which is pretty cool.

Doesn't amount to a million sats, tho. That's a lot of money. I'd probably fall off my chair, in shock, if someone zapped me that much. 😂


They're all over Europe, now, the abandoned towns.


Everyone who submitted a meme got 1 mil?


That's 4 points higher, than in the Trump/Clinton matchup.


I buy very good bread. Don't know how much a lb of normal costs. Maybe €5?


1/8 black voters went for Trump.
That may not sound that impressive, but it's enough to change the result and to break the impression that black people are a monolith.

https://image.nostr.build/fa56917203cabf60b4bb600c9a569af35fd047b25a54770b9ca61d2614758e1d.jpg


Saudi Arabia agreed to open the spigot and Biden emptied the Strategic Reserves.

America is currently running on empty and has to refill. At a higher price.


How do I turn off edits in #Amethyst?
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He got lucky for getting zapped on Nostr early. 😂

I keep getting 1 sat zaps. 🥴 They do that, to get their name up in lights, I guess.


Energy price was being heavily manipulated down, for the election. Hash rate will probably go down, from here.


It didn't start then. It started with second-wave feminism and the obsession with college education and home ownership, after the war.

The birthrate already collapsed with my mother's generation.


Yeah, but I'm on Amethyst, right now, and seeing edits, and it's disturbing.

Read a note, reply to the note makes no sense, see that the note is edited. 😬


#Chancellor Scholz just fired the #German finance minister and is putting himself up for the no-confidence vote on January 15.

January will be an interesting month.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article254397984/Die-Ampel-ist-Geschichte-Unserem-Land-nicht-laenger-zumuten-Scholz-rechnet-beispiellos-mit-Lindner-ab.html


Yeah, 22% is also not really high.

Turns out, if parents don't guilt-trip their kids into reproducing, the children often just skip it. Grandchildren are a cultural artefact, not a biological one.


They really really hated him. 😂 Everyone around me was like OMG literally Hitler and he uses spray tan.
So, they elected a Marxist airhead and someone with obvious dementia. 🤷🏻♀

I don't really get it, but I guess they decided to not double-down on the airhead, this go around.


Use Bitcoin mining as an electricity reverse-battery for windmills and etc., like Texas does. The government would get paid in Bitcoin.
Hard to see the downside.


They're all really calm, actually. I think they didn't like Kamala that much.


Already has three people coming to look at it, on Sunday. €1600 with no heat or electricity included, out in a cow village on a hill. 😂

So glad I'm out of the rental rat race, fr.


Welcome to the country with no room and no money, but an uninterruptable flow of new arrivals.


Basically. 😂


My landlord just put the house on the market for nearly double the rent.


But it's also accurate, I think.


It is.


Meh, I heard the same thing right after Trump's first win and then Roe vs Wade was overturned.
I'm still celebrating that.


Social Report 2024:

* Birth rate circa 1,4.
* Only 16% of people think having children makes womens' lives fulfilled
* 6 million more workers, than in 1991, but mostly part-time, so output unchanged
* 47,1 million workers total, in a population of 83,4 million, more elderly worker
* Average household income €315,500, median only €106,600.
30% of the population has a migratory backround. Percentage higher, the younger.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article254369140/Sozialbericht-2024-Familienplanung-Migration-Vermoegen-Die-Umwaelzungen-im-Leben-der-Deutschen.html


They won't get better candidates, so long as they only have to beat someone like Kamala.


Sozialbericht 2024:

* Geburtenziffer bei circa 1,4.
* Nur 16% der Menschen meinen, dass Kinder zu einem erfüllten Leben einer Frau dazugehörten
* Anzahl der Erwerbstätigen ist um 6 Millionen gestiegen, seit 1991, aber Gesamtarbeitsstunden blieb gleich, wegen Teilzeit
* 47,1 Millionen arbeiten, gegenüber eine Gesamtbevölkerung von 83,4 Million, Tendenz steigend unter die Älteren
* Durchschnittliche Haushaltsvermögen ist €316,500. Median ist aber nur €106,600.
* 30% der Bevölkerung hat Migrationshintergrund, höher im jüngeren Jahren

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article254369140/Sozialbericht-2024-Familienplanung-Migration-Vermoegen-Die-Umwaelzungen-im-Leben-der-Deutschen.html


Fire all the pollsters.


They tried to make it all about race and abortion, but everyone is like WHY ARE GROCERIES AND HOUSING SO EXPENSIVE? WHERE JOBS?


Even the German media was confused about why she had no platform. Outrageous to run for the highest office just saying, "Vote for me! I'm not the other guy!"

They decided to run the worst candidate ever and when people acted grossed out, she sent Obama to yell at them, to show solidarity. But even black people voted for Obama because they liked him, not just because he was black. Surprise!

https://image.nostr.build/5678a83daddf80bbd3e7c9f1f653453afe63d75fae34be69777a09c985c52484.jpg


I hope the #Democrats start fronting serious candidates again. It's getting ridiculous. Your average Dem voter from Annapolis would be 10x better than what they've been trying to sell us.

Voters, including independents and a lot of minorities, preferred Trump. And many people who voted for Obama and/or Biden, sat this one out, or even crossed the aisle.

No offense, to the #Trump fans, but...

https://media.tenor.com/rhE-vIiOmmkAAAAC/drink-just-sayin.gif


Who is speaking?


Livestream, or it didn't happen.


Deutschland ist langsam die Republik, wo 60 Millionen Menschen wählen gehen, und am Ende gewinnen immer die Grünen.

Aber, vielleicht nicht mehr, im Sachsen.

>>Ministerpräsident Kretschmer trifft AfD-Chef Urban für vertrauliches Gespräch<<

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article254370590/Sachsens-Ministerpraesident-Kretschmer-trifft-AfD-Chef-Urban-fuer-vertrauliches-Gespraech.html


They abandoned workers. They abandoned small farmers and small business owners. They abandoned religious people. They abandoned men. They abandoned rural areas. They abandoned crypto owners...

I'm not sure, what their brilliant plan was, but it didn't work.


The Dems cracking down on organic, small farms was not on my bingo card.


#Republicans look like they may soon control all three layers of #USA government (Supreme Court, Congress, and Presidency).

Big, if true.

Live-Berichterstattung auf Deutsch:
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/us-wahl/article254223954/US-Wahl-Trump-gewinnt-Swing-State-North-Carolina-Alle-Ergebnisse-im-Ueberblick-jetzt-live.html


German news reporting that some Pennsylvania voting machines don't work, so I figure the count might take weeks, and GN.


I think Rabbit is cute, but I think my brain can't deal with all the columns. 😅  Needs a trigger-warning for #NostrBoomers, like me.


Then, I'm way ahead of you because I've known it for about 10 minutes. 😅

You were talking about Rabbit, recently, so I thought I'd check it out. Makes for a makeshift notification app, to wean myself completely off of Primal web. Thanks, for the tip.


If you're like me, and you usually only look at your relay list relays, but occasionally need to look at others for testing or whatnot, and don't want to get everything mixed-up, try the Rabbit client. You can choose to manually-edit the list or import your relay list.

https://rabbit.syusui.net/#/


I had to search for an article event, to be able to set the long-form entry. Would be nice, to just be able to go down an event-kind list and select the correct app for each type. Don't know if it has that feature.

https://image.nostr.build/66bb9f8820738d7c01a6ffd3aa8f96a9ccacd34f16a1b166ac846bcfa7858cfb.png


Favorite long-form app for serious writers.


Yeah, you can do that in Amethyst, too. Just select the symbol at the top of the write box.

#Alexandria already has personal relay lists implemented, so we'll be releasing with that.


I saw them live, in concert.


Yes, I need to be able to push to my own relay list. That's one of those non-negotiable features, for me.


Yeah, That's the only one I recommend, now. I've tried them all. 😅


nostr:nprofile1qqs8eseg5zxak2hal8umuaa7laxgxjyll9uhyxp86c522shn9gj8crspz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgjwaehxw309ahx7um5wgerztnrdakj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctc58hv2s would know. He's our primary relay supplier and admin.


Same people who make good shit everywhere else.

Another day, another tech stack.


Maybe digging it out lifted the mute.


Yes. The Link to GitHub lists how you can download it.


Are you certain, that you muted them? They might just have an outdated mute list.


Then go to that npub and look at the "muted by" tab. If you don't see them there, adjust the relays.


Voyage saves a lot of bandwidth, so that might be nice for when I'm off the WiFi.


https://nostter.app/

https://github.com/dluvian/voyage


Login.


I usually float between Nostrudel and Nostter, but I'm sometimes on Amethyst, now. Like the Voyage app, as well, but it needs more polish.


I guess it's because they have a big marketing budget. New people usually enter over Primal and most of them stay there.


Especially ironic, as I bet a lot of Nosta.me's traffic is coming from #Nostrudel, not Primal.


The whole idea of Nostr is that the individual apps are neutral, but interoperable, so that users can intentionally decide which ones they use. It's increasingly the case that the ostensibly independent projects are specifically funneling users from one to the other, with this sort of nudging-marketing, so that it's a narrowing circle of apps, that users are confronted with.

I mean, they can do that, but then I'm just going to assume that they are all somehow related.


Make Nostr Uncreepy Again


That worked, thanks nostr:nprofile1qqsyawyrzrttfmv4cmtx5w2m85702kdct7hv3amfrkhagpdf9cz46mgprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj708lq3h!


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I'm seeing more-and-more client lock-in to external linkage of events. Sort of depressing.

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#devs


Hugs, all around. 🫂


I love the way I tend to get recommended to people, and they usually freak-out because I'm one of the only controversial npubs on Nostr.

I mean, which is really sad, right? That I'm considered a #NostrUntouchable. Just emphasizes how much other people are drinking the kool-aid. There is an Official Nostr Opinion and there is Silberengel's Opinion, and that pretty much covers the full array of opinions. 🤣

So, follow me, if you'd like to see the Second Opinion.

#mugshawtys was not just a meme. 😎
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If you're wondering, how to do this, with your own relay, or where to rent a relay to do this, I can recommend relay.tools. Great dev, solid service, quick responses on issues or server attacks, independent cloud, etc. A lot of the stuff I described, only became possible to do because nostr:npub10npj3gydmv40m70ehemmal6vsdyfl7tewgvz043g54p0x23y0s8qzztl5h invented it. He has some interesting new features coming up soon, as well. 👀

You can also use his open-source libraries, to manage your self-hosted relay.


I put a lot of effort into the pictures. Feels like it adds a lot, to the article, by creating a sort of mood.


I was following a link to primal.net, so it was a website.
I have it in the VPN slot, I think. Let me go fix that, thanks.


There's no k.


Google and Primal don't work for me. Is it because I have Orbot running?


Used to start checking the books, after someone else, and it'd be full of errors and inconsistencies. Drove me nuts. Sometimes it would be over multiple years.

And those were usually accidentally errors. We also had a couple subversive ones, who kept the books in a locked drawer or caninet, and insisted that I shouldn't look because I wouldn't understand it. All were stealing. All of them.


As a bookkeeper, I approve of this video. 😂


GN.
It's already morning here, so also, GM.


I'm going to go read a book, now. Too tired for anything else, with all the housework and gardening. GN 😴


Mittelausbildungsdepression. Kenne ich. 🫂


And good books.


Yeah, I'm big on "think global, buy local", because we need sustainable, healthy economies, not brittle, overstretched supply chains.

Local businesses are currently getting crushed, by Chinese deflation-exportation. Brutal. I suspect, at this point, that they're selling goods under cost.
Also, blame Biden for making oil so cheap ($70/barrel!), by emptying the strategic oil reserves and leaning on Saudi Arabia and Israel. That cuts the cost of international logistics.


I call them and ask of I can bring my resume by.


If you haven't been blocked by anyone, are you even really here? 🤷🏻♀


GM and Happy Birthday!


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GM. Lots of Miro-style, lately.


Like blocktime?

In logistics, everyone uses GMT and adds +/- hours.


Fr? Cool, if true.


Yeah, it's so weird. I'll have to look into it, tomorrow.

Seems to work on my profile, but not on notes.


#catholic


Congratulations!

I'm a sextant. 🫂 Isn't it great to be an active part of the Mass?

I was just thinking that, yesterday, at the Vigil.


## All memed out

It finally happened. I think it was October 25th, at circa 18:45 in the evening. I was doomscrolling my Nostr feed, and kept seeing the same Bitcoin memes repeated over and over, by different people. They weren't even reposts, they were copy-pasted versions of the same image. A very funny image. Well, it was very funny last year... and the year before that... and probably the year before that, when it appeared on a different network.

Because it's all just reposts, copy-pastes and rehashes of the Best of Bitcoin Twitter, just like the tiresome influencers, with their groupies and their Episode 498 of *Let's all eat a large chunk of lightly-burnt dead animal and count our stacks before jetting off to talk about how to save the poors by getting them to buy individual satoshis with money they don't have*.

![steak](https://www.tastingtable.com/img/gallery/10-minimum-best-large-cuts-of-meat-for-grilling/intro-1691424874.webp)

## I'm the poors your looking for

It's all so tiresome. It has little bearing on the real world I see around me, where most people are thinking all day about 99 problems and Bitcoin ain't one.

![It is me](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*xBh533R2Tp8MZzbVAoDLQQ.png)

Which is, of course, what the Bitcoin influencers would have you believe, is the reason that they're poor. What in the world could be more important, than thinking about Bitcoin? Why do these people not get with the program? Don't they know, that we are trying to save them?

![stop being poor](https://i.etsystatic.com/31473067/r/il/f019cc/5816289459/il_1588xN.5816289459_6efv.jpg)

Why are they worrying about OtherProblems? Don't they know that all OtherProblems can be fixed with Bitcoin? Really, if you just go back far enough, in any current, situational problem, you will discover that there was some slight, negative shift to the history record that involved soft money. It's the financial version of the Butterfly Effect.

![Bitcoin Effect](https://i.nostr.build/eo5CMa7hEvCUFvam.jpg)

That's why #BitcoinFixesThis. Bitcoin fixes everything, if you just think about it, for long enough.

The same way that we all actually come out of Africa, supposedly, if you go back enough generations. So, coming out of Africa, now, as a Real Life Person in The Present is supposed to have no significance. What does someone from Cameroon know about Africa, that someone from Alaska doesn't? Both people come out of Africa, if you just think about it, for long enough.

![older lady sipping](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/cf/8e/13/cf8e139c7d615724a073616b358c9249.jpg)

And maybe that really is true. Maybe Bitcoin will eventually end all vice and crimes, save the planet, and we will all just hold hands and sing kumbaya all day, while waiting for the Singularity to upload us to Satoshi.

## Bitcoin envelope budgeting

Or maybe it's not. Maybe it's just a really hard, digital money that incentivizes savings, functions as a reliable measure, and makes micropayments possible on a global scale. Those really are things that will help the poors, including myself. I can see it, already, when trying to organize pre-paid meetups or figure out what to do with our household's meager savings, when the stock market is looking particularly bubblicious.

![Weimar laesst gruessen](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/22/14/fa/2214faad59e41b57f4352a4269ec6515.jpg)

But this is what I would consider Boring Bitcoin. Bitcoin home economics. Penny-pinching Bitcoin. Bitcoin for homemakers. How to use the Bitcoin envelope budgeting system to beat inflation by a margin of 13%.

The actual use of Bitcoin as money, rather than as a mere investment gamble or hype machine. That's the part of Bitcoin that nobody seems to really talk about because it's incredibly practical, dull, and useful, and it can only be tested by -- Oh, the horror! -- actually spending Bitcoin.

But... perhaps I will begin talking about it. Perhaps those of us, Bitcoiners, who are having fun staying poor, while stacking sats, should speak up a bit more. Perhaps the boring stuff is actually the interesting stuff. Perhaps there is more to say about Bitcoin, than can fit into a meme.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzplfq3m5v3u5r0q9f255fdeyz8nyac6lagssx8zy4wugxjs8ajf7pqq34g6rfwvkkjuedvykhqmmnwskkzcn0w46z6snfw33k76tw94skzam6xa3s7lpdrj


Make sure you include wss://christpill.nostr1.com in your relays. That's one where a lot of us are congregating and reading from.


The problem is that it's too difficult to build "bubbles" on here. On Twitter, I see a completely different feed from most of the Bitcoiners: full of modest fashion, theology, German politics, economics, etc.

It was actually interesting to those people, when I occasionally wrote something about Bitcoin because they didn't see that much. On here, I avoid writing about it, as I feel like I'm just adding to the noise, and I'm obviously not drinking the kool-aid hard enough to please the really religious that dominate, so my comments always fill up with The Hyperventilating And Hysterical.

I'm like a normie Bitcoiner. Nondenominational Bitcoiner. Also, I'm poor. Nobody wants to hear from poor Bitcoiners. 😅 Theoretically, we don't actually exist. In reality, we're the vast majority.


Don't know if it's accurate, but that would be the cohort who got hit by ReplyGuy, right after joining.


There were sometimes entire tables of Xiomi, Apple, Samsung, etc. but only one or two Motorola models, off in a corner.


I'm partial to single-story homes. Moving into an apartment, from our four-story duplex, and it's great. Can heat the entire floor with one food-burning stove.


The 5 BTC actually looks pretty nice.


😂

We had the time change, while on our retreat, so we all got to sleep in and have a chill breakfast.


I agree, but I'm getting burnt out on microblogging. Would rather write longer, more complicated texts. That's much more "me". I'm verbose.


GM


## It arrived!

I was feeling impatient, waiting for my snazzy, brand-spanking new mobile phone to arrive, but when it got here, I just stared at the box, in trepidation. Everyone kept walking by, asking how it is, but I just shook my head. After nearly four years, with my (originally Android 10), Moto G8 Power, which I loved to death, I wasn't yet ready to move on. I needed a moment, to grieve.

RIP, my trusty fren.
![Phone in retirement](https://files.refurbed.com/ii/motorola-moto-g8-power-1645784414.jpg)

## Anyways...

Around 10 pm, I managed to emotionally recover enough to begin the Big Transition, and I was up until 2 am, and still didn't finish.

My **SimpleX** database is sort of large, and slow to migrate. Also, took me a while to figure out how to do it, and the whole thing made me terribly nervous, that I'd accidentally get locked out. But it worked, after eight failed attempts, so yay.

**Telegram** was back online, almost immediately, since it's tied to the SIM card. Which was convenient, but sorta creeped me out.

Our family-internal favorite, **Threema**, was a snap. Took 5 minutes.

I had four failed starts with **Slack**, as it kept sending a login code to my Proton Mail, but I didn't have Proton app installed on my new phone, yet, and I was really sleepy, so I kept confirming on the old phone and then Slack would freeze up, and I had to kill the process and restart.

My **key manager** is cloud-based, so that went really fast, and I had the nos2x browser extension going in Firefox within 10 minutes, or so. Logged into Habla.News, Nostr.Build, Zap.Cooking, and Nostrudel.Ninja, immediately, so that I can get my Nostr fix.

Then I took a deep breath and mass-installed F-Droid, Minibits, **Amethyst**, Citrine, Orbot, and Amber. And breathed out, again, because MIRACLES NEVER CEASE: it seems to be actually working.

![Pinch me, I'm dreaming.](https://i.nostr.build/4oAdtXIN9y4QqvqE.png)

Everyone knows that this is the unbeatable Android Nostr setup, but it's also a resource-gobbling monster, that should only be tried at home, kids. Make sure you don't use Amethyst when out-and-about, unless you have a gigantic battery and an unlimited, high-speed, mobile plan. So, basically, everyone in the First World, who isn't me, can do it.

Oh, well. At least, I can now indulge over WiFi.

The phone itself is just like the old one, but thinner, faster, and doesn't freeze up or take a long time to start. The Motorola is dead. Long live the Motorola.

Yeah, so I have a new phone.
It's new. Also, it's a phone.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzplfq3m5v3u5r0q9f255fdeyz8nyac6lagssx8zy4wugxjs8ajf7pqqxnzdenxqmrydejxqunjvpjnuw6du


I don't think anything will change until client devs realize that the megarelays they onboard newbies to are Bitcoin topical relays, and the lists of recommended npubs they use are Bitcoin npubs.


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Link to article
https://habla.news/u/silberengel@sovbit.host/1730627209902


Nobody looks at code. Not even the devs. 😂

Is a link to a wiki or ReadMe on Nostr less, or equally annoying?

https://gitworkshop.dev/r/naddr1qvzqqqrhnypzplfq3m5v3u5r0q9f255fdeyz8nyac6lagssx8zy4wugxjs8ajf7pqythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0qq9yzmr90pskuerjd9ss8qpmrc