Einstein disproved it in 1942 (after attending a particularly bad concert)


Gm


London cares about the little things. 🍌

https://i.nostr.build/eWNs0FSvsrYZOqZ5.jpg


He’s a witch

Burn him


Why do you keep posting these

Do you just like funny times?


It’s already winter?

How tf do Swiss people live


If we want Nostr to truly protect privacy and resist censorship—like when X faced a government ban—we need to stop relying on relays with known IPs or domain names.

We need encrypted traffic between clients and servers by default. That means Tor (and networks like I2P and Nym) should just work right out of the box, ideally without leaving the mixnet where traffic could be exposed at the exit node.

💡 A lot of relay operators are already running Tor onion services, which is awesome—but we need to make them easier to discover and use. If a public relay becomes unavailable, we should be able to switch to the Onion service version seamlessly.

What do we need to do to make this happen? First, it’s about getting Nostr relay software to publish the Onion address when it’s set up. Then, it’s about getting clients to handle alternative transports like Tor or I2P natively, letting users choose between IP (TCP/IP), Tor, or other options.

We could also explore mapping DNS records to onion addresses or including the info in HTTP headers. But maybe the most straightforward approach is extending NIP-11 to include alternate transport details so that everything's baked into the protocol.

What do you all think? How can we push this forward? Let’s brainstorm and figure out the best way to support these privacy-preserving networks and keep Nostr resilient. I think we need Tor support in native clients where users can turn it on with a single click. Or maybe even have it attempt Tor as a fallback when the normal way of connecting fails.

This isn’t a big change current relay info ospec here: NIP-11 https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/11.md


Est ce que il y a une probleme?


Welcome new Nostriches! Welcome to Nostr! Nostr has a large and passionate community with an equally diverse and thriving ecosystem. Use this note to help navigate this decentralized and censorship resistant communication protocol.
https://i.nostr.build/8w4atcThBIhAkYNS.jpg

Videos:

Watch why social media is broken and how we aim to fix it by nostr:nprofile1qqs0ulmtcmmn8zmkh0uqmdqz4hn9j5lzpvhj8enw3xpqfd3ucsjnngcpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucm9wf3kzarjdamxztndv5qs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq3kamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9h8qmr9vfejuer99jegvc
https://youtu.be/aA-jiiepOrE

Take the Nostr 101 course with nostr:nprofile1qqsqqx9hacelkffcgd3ecchzjtlvwq9xn2fmprhrwnzmm2t3exee2eqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqrswwax
https://youtu.be/_jrkUXDReqI

Learn about Nostr's permissionless nature with nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9uhxtnyd9nkwmm09e3k7mgprpmhxue69uhkvet9v3ehgu3wdehhxarjxyhxxmmdqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytndd9jxgmrfdenjumtev3h8xtn2wqergaw8
https://youtu.be/t-40158eRqo

Tear down your technical and social silos with myself and several Nostr developers https://youtu.be/SSFVR5ZXOuA

Podcasts:

Listen to nostr:nprofile1qqstsw3gkljwt5stm9svt7htvcjlj4ffze4chkcyt4pxxj30xkgeg5qpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdux3wqdz and nostr:nprofile1qqs9kqvr4dkruv3t7n2pc6e6a7v9v2s5fprmwjv4gde8c4fe5y29v0spr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t08zskr9 on Plebchain Radio. Many of their episodes are Nostr focused and very informative.
https://fountain.fm/show/0N6GGdZuYNNG7ysagCg9

Take a more technical approach to Nostr with nostr:nprofile1qqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgspr4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mf0adfqrk on the Thank God for Nostr podcast. https://fountain.fm/show/vnmoRQQ50siLFRE8k061

Articles:

Discover the basics of Nostr from nostr:nprofile1qqsrtv3u6qkj6a09tnhr3l0wy67g9uw3t57ftqyqpvztpk3wmd6306spzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0tsdfc0
https://river.com/learn/what-is-nostr/

Take a thorough deep drive and learn all about Nostr from nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6mpd4czuumfw3jsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvql3tqm
https://www.lynalden.com/the-power-of-nostr/

Guides on Nostr:

Browse the #HOWDONOSTR hashtag on Nostr and follow my notes explaining several Nostr concepts and features.

Ask your questions with the #asknostr hashtag.

***NEW***
These are from my recent presentations at Nostriga and Baltic Honeybadger 2024:
Nostr 101: https://drive.proton.me/urls/JVV955JXRM#auCM2PWcCBuC
Being your own algorithm: https://drive.proton.me/urls/1NQPW740V8#Lqm46NkK3Pzz

Browse the ecosystem:

Visit https://nostr.how and explore all the ins and outs of the protocol yourself.

Nostr has dozens of other applications and use cases beyond Twitter like social clients. Nostr gives us a portable digital social identity that we can take with us and hop from app to app across the ecosystem. Find your next social app here https://nostrapps.com


nostr can’t go down nostr:note1je4k0j9wtduqz675u0pun8pa02h6kken53hcsu4e8ksvheymz7ess58lkc


Don’t be like me and neglect your cache. They will eventually start hoarding little piles of irrelevant data that snowball into a shit show if you don’t keep an eye on them. Caches are the gremlins of the internet. https://i.nostr.build/BCRyL206u1dipupH.jpg


What's happening here?
https://video.nostr.build/70bdd8940cdf7324a7a5a3933c4405bd88ea26cbccaf2261a5e6b8c28d084422.mp4


So cute!


#catstr

https://i.nostr.build/QKikehu0EM1aBvKj.jpg


the algorithms are getting to the point where they are sending the same content to everyone. almost every platform. copy of a copy of a copy only to maximize ad impressions.

straight programming, just like the programming of radio, tv, and cable.

i want to be able to create, choose, and share my own algorithms. only way out of the bubbles being created. 🫧


I’m not very familiar with you so I thought you meant you got a dog haha


I’ve read it. Heartbreaking book


Gm weirdo


Just discovered the tldr program. A concise version of a man page with the most common options.


Damus is pretty cool


Yaaaaas

I love those fireplaces


Just being completely overwhelmed with everything going on in the world

It’s been such a depressing and horrible period


#starfishing


Rumble isn’t really a music site


Thank you for your service


Depressed and hate myself


still amazed how much clients are improving every day, just a year or two ago there were a few barely usable ones. now we have many very good mobile clients with a wide variety of features.

This year damus will add two more to the mix: notedeck and android, and from there: the damus suite. A set of tools for different use cases: social, work, play. All interoperable. The future of nostr is many clients working together reliably for different use cases.

So much more cool stuff to build. We’re just getting started 🏁🏎


Dreams can be thought of as just byproducts of the mind but I’ve always thought they have a real alternate dimension component to them


the core downfall of mastodon is that every instance is an opportunity to censor potentially thousands of individuals on the grounds of vague reasons such as “in appropriate content”

their entire architecture is based around the idea that a single instance admin has the power to decide what its users are allowed to see, and you can’t easily move to another relay without rebuilding your social graph.

why people still use this protocol is mind boggling to me.

let users control their own feed ffs. Individuals and clients should have this power, not relay tinpot dictators. nostr:note16k0nhk0mehf6pwutlr34xlk7cvq08dyvhx7uxrp2crlextlgykaqxwa6v8


You can get post visibility on twitter restricted for saying “hamas must be destroyed”. Sorry, what?


Depressed


Eww

@gray skies. I like the song


Anyone remember shockwave games? Man I kind of miss the old internet


It's not a sign of weakness to admit you were wrong, it's the strongest possible thing anyone can do


FOSTER FAIL


Scientific research now is basically the mainstream media of academia. A bunch of phd’s and students in a pyramid scheme of writing the most trendy tabloid style “research” because that’s what gets grant money (what the gov buys with tax dollars).

This is what they mean by “the science”, which is not anything resembling scientific research. It’s a scam.

https://youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8?si=da5Cb-s1KTL03R7U


There were bots a little while ago. Maybe they fixed some of the relays


My feeling is alcohol is far more destructive than we think it is

I know what day my last/latest drink was and I intend to keep it that way


For all new users, Nostr isn't exactly the most stable platform in the world, so be prepared to back up your profiles every so often, because your followers can be erased out of nowhere. Once a week or after a significant number of people have followed you should be good enough. I recommend backing up on BOTH websites, not just one, as NostrSync has already failed me once in the past. And remember, there are no mods, you are responsible for your keys, for your profiles and for the moderation of your own feed.

Aviso aos novos usuário que o Nostr não é exatamente a plataforma mais estável do mundo, então esteja preparado para fazer backup de seus perfis de vez em quando, pois os seus seguidores podem sumir. Uma vez por semana ou após um número significativo de pessoas terem te seguido deve ser o suficiente. Eu recomendo fazer backup em AMBOS os sites, não apenas em um, pois o NostrSync já falhou comigo uma vez no passado. E lembre-se, não há moderadores, você é responsável por suas chaves, por seus perfil e pela moderação de sua própria feed. #Nostr

https://nostrsync.live/index.html
https://metadata.nostr.com/


Universal languages that I know of:

love

music


you wouldn’t rebroadcast a note


Share


I don’t know if I’ll see the end of this year


There was a time recently I thought I lost my nostr account because everything seemed to be wiped, it’s back now, can that temporarily happen if your phone battery dies?


She’s so cute


I’m so depressed and I’ve just screwed up my life so much and I don’t see a future so here I am bitching about it to the internet


It’s funny because it was supposed to be better in the 80s


Testing


#happiness https://video.nostr.build/6e33e4a498d80bfdba15a76d3a7a61d59838589a86734ae8a4837d65ad929ddb.mp4


Why do I follow you


I feel like the general problem with Facebook isn’t so much how social media is bad for you blah blah but because it was literally stolen by Zuckerberg and now you can’t see anyone’s posts or send them messages without them only discovering them 5 years later


Bitcoin noob, how do I pick a wallet


lol


I have an unusual past and have lived a peculiar life. Society  would dictate that I am atypical and an outcast.  But when I learned to step away from the bullshit noise, I’ve realised  that most everyone has had a boring life living by everyone else’s set of rules.

Most of you don’t realise you’ve become a willing participant in the creation of those rules others may believe are the only ones to live by.


Coo coo cachoo


But man I have no idea how he does some of what he does, he’s so busy yet replies to everyone on twitter


OMG LOL NO


Ghost in the wires is an interesting book


Saturday


When life pushes you a few steps backwards, just remember that the possibilities of your next steps forward.. is infinite.


There are dozens of us!


The best relationship is with your best friend


Feel sorry for yourself for a day. Have a good cry.

When  the next day comes, if you don’t flip the switch to get past the rut, you’re wasting time. Time you may not have the luxury to spend tomorrow.


I am bored


On top* thanks text predict


Yes but not with weird things on top of


Omfg


What even is that?


This man is persecuted in the most dangerous attack against free speech in history.

All while media organizations like New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Guardian who profited immensely from his work are simply standing by watching him and journalism as whole be destroyed.

#FreeAssangeNOW
https://void.cat/d/KmeXEiQ5jExaoMGidErPmL.webp


Free Julian Assange.


And not even then

Seriously who wants to own a cactus for any reason


NO


How can you win a bet without knowing you placed one?


When I grow up I want to be David Goggins. Wait, shit


Gray and depressing


What is this, Miami Beach?


No. Go back to sleep


For it to be Saturday again


JESUS GOD.


Hey it’s me your cousin


Same


Anyone tried Tim Berners Lee’s Solid?


I am thrilled to share my new essay

"Stranded: How Bitcoin is Saving Wasted Energy and Expanding Financial Freedom in Africa"

I was profoundly moved by what I saw on a recent trip to Kenya and Malawi.

If this essay can show you even 1% of what inspired me, that's a win… here’s an overview:

We begin in Bondo, a small town in Malawi, a country where only 11% of the population has access to electricity.

The nation suffers 6-8 hours of blackouts a day, but the power in Bondo is consistent because of Bitcoin mining.

The town got its first electricity in 2016, and now is expanding its grid, thanks to Bitcoin, which is buying 100% of the electricity that the micro-hydro stations cannot sell, and giving precious capital to the power company so it can expand operations.

At night, demand dwindles, and in remote places like Bondo, there’s no one else to buy the consistent hydro power.

Enter Bitcoin, powered by internet services like Starlink. A datacenter from Gridless now saves the wasted energy and is powering the community forward.

The big realization: virtually all power generation, especially in rural places, wastes energy.

Bitcoin fixes this.

We are told Bitcoin is a waste of energy but the truth is the opposite.

NOT Bitcoin mining is a waste of energy.

And the kicker: Bitcoin miners create heat.

This heat will be used for productive uses.

General heating in cold climates, and in a place like Bondo? Drying tea, fruit, or cocoa.

Profit from mining won’t just be profit - cost, it will be (profit + profit from externality) - cost.

For context: Malawi is a country that just suffered an IMF-led 44% currency devaluation.

Already one of the poorest nations in the world, where most people save in cash, now citizens can only afford 56% of what they could a few months ago. Per the IMF, more devaluation is on the way.

The kwacha is a disastrous wage technology. Once again, enter Bitcoin, a vastly superior savings mechanism.

The first Bitcoin meetup is happening in the Malawi’s capital this month. We are very early with adoption in this region—2020 in El Salvador terms—but this adoption will turn from a trickle into a torrent.

Up north in Kenya, Gridless has geothermal mines, too. I visited one.

It’s a remarkable site: a humming hut on the site of a lake with a Starlink on top, eating all of the electricity that a water pump does not use: perfectly solarpunk.

Kenya is the world’s largest exporter of cut flowers. There are tons of sites like this, generating power for irrigation, all over the country. All of them waste energy.

Geothermal is beautifully consistent, but the demand is not. Bitcoin fixes this.

Gridless operations like these are generally profitable within the first two years. Now there's biomass, where the company has just launched data centers at sugar and sisal processing factories which before couldn't find buyers for excess electricity.

But now Bitcoin is buying.

This sounds great so far…

But for the hundreds of millions of Africans who don’t have internet access, how are they supposed to benefit?

Enter KG, whose company Machankura provides Bitcoin access to people with no internet.

This is done through USSD — a SMS-type protocol.

The user texts a number, then gets a decision tree, and can send, receive, barter, and purchase a variety of things, all without data.

This is a custodial service for now — but KG and team have plan to make SIM cards signing devices and even Lightning touch points so that people can self-custody and be their own bank without the internet.

A true civilizational leap forward.

Critical: there are 700 million women in Africa, but very very few use Bitcoin.

Marcel Lorraine aims to change that.

A Kenyan entrepreneur who has fearlessly helping schools in Kibera, two years ago she launched Bitcoin Dada, a program to educate women and girls about Bitcoin.

Marcel runs classes every week, with several cohorts per year.

The task is huge but she insists on pushing forward.

She argues Bitcoin can give macro freedom for communities and countries, yes, but also micro freedom at home for women who traditionally take a back seat in finance.

Finally: independence from dependence is a key concept

Femi Longe, director of BTrust Builders, is trying to make that happen.

He’s running a program to train African developers and help them contribute to Bitcoin, to take careers in the industry or become contributors to core.

As Jack Dorsey says, if Bitcoin is going to be used around the world, it has to be made around the world.

Femi refuses to accept a future like today, where cars are made in the West and bought by Africans.

The Bitcoin infrastructure needs to be made in Africa.

The way these pieces could fit together is astonishing.

Unlike in the West, where adoption might mean centralized pools and ETFs, in Africa adoption will mean off-grid mining and potentially millions of self-custodying users, powered by SIM cards.

Africans need Bitcoin, yes.

But Bitcoin needs Africa.

That was blazing clear from my visit last month.

At the end of the day, who is going to help bring electricity and high-quality currency — the building blocks of progress — to hundreds of millions of Africans?

Bill Gates? The UN? The World Bank?

No, they won’t.

But Bitcoin might.

Read the full story at Bitcoin Magazine:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/check-your-financial-privilege/stranded-bitcoin-saving-wasted-energy-in-africa?new https://image.nostr.build/c5da77c09bea43b86a45ce22880dac783a055274b045e5be3b6aa29c41383762.jpg


Can someone give me the tldr of simplex?


What even is that?


Honestly one of their worst songs (though the music video is funny)


Me every year after December 21


There’ll be people on it soon

Stay tuned for Artemis


I’ve tried getting into it but not past the acquired taste part yet


I seriously want to get into drawing/painting and the supplies are some of the best parts


It should have NEVER of been that way. https://image.nostr.build/af83132f8f1248c1c3ee1b5c494cc1485e00414f6a6d12ee1bc62395ff1ae749.jpg


I don’t know that nostr is “better” but there’s a cool community vibe (and for censorship it’s nice to have a key based system)


#endlightpollution


Every single time you post something like this I get so confused


Anti competitive* business practices; autocorrect


So there’s a few concerns I have, one is the algorithmic feeds - people miss posts - one is them taking over email (people had their email addresses on their profile replaced with a fb.com email), and then another one is the censorship (though apparently zuck is pretty anti censorship but it’s hard to tell, his product doesn’t act like it) and also their anti companies business practices

With all that being said it apparently turns out that they actually weren’t responsible for the 2016 election/russia story


I love this photo


Windows 3.1 old


Doggo


BOOOOO


How do you find safe enough ice? I’d be terrified of just falling off when it breaks


How does nostr deal with spam? Since the relay update I don’t see any


Does Switzerland ever just not get snow sometimes in winter months?


K, as soon as I’m done stuffing my face with RuneScape lobsters


Moby called, he wants a new volunteer for his next video


The feed still confuses me, I didn’t edit relays but I know the UI changed, I don’t really know what subset of posts I belong to, either posting or reading


Goats on skis new broadway production


Happy birthday


Ok so, I’m a lot less climate alarmist than I used to be, my only question is about how much oil/fuel we have left


Oh cool I didn’t even reply to the right post lol


This post was SO confusing to my feed


Am I allowed to use nostr without actually knowing much about bitcoin


Disturbing lack of pillows


I sometimes feel the same but I’ve been told it exists in order to basically stop world wars


The freedom of something that’s key based yet also faced with the terrifying reality of not being able to delete posts


It depends on the part of the cycle you’re on, you want to catch the self loathing at an early point and rationally consider why you’re upset


Haha, still better than a lot of mine, I take so many pictures of the moon and invariably it’s just a white blob


Technologically, not the human factors


I still feel so lost with nostr lol


I hope to god that nostr isn’t a horcrux


Some of them say “paid” but I’m still connected?


Gotta ask - apple?


They changed the relay system, correct? Before you could be connected to them but not subscribed, now you have to fully unsubscribe


Romantic breakdancing should be a thing


Time to get grandma involved in bitcoin…


Apparently it’s not playing, butterflies drink tears


Nostr seems to have a very strong bitcoin presence, I’m just here for the cool people outside of that


Give me cool people to follow


…when you checkmark relays to see a different feed and then can’t remember which ones you did


(This is a not subtle invitation for someone to help; help)


I’ll really like this once I figure out why some videos are blurred, I’ve searched online and can’t find a solution


J’accuse


The real satoshi nakamoto could reveal themselves tomorrow and no one would believe them


Pretty, what are the 4 lights?


I assume it’s fine to stick with the 4 built in relays


“Universe” (I don’t know if I’m actually posting to it now or not) feels like when I first joined mastodon, except there you got the torrential waterfall of every instance post


Images load fine, just not some videos


I assume most all of you know this already but for the noobs like me nostr-resources.com


…blood?


How do I get videos not to blur? (Damus)


Preemptive apology to peeps while I figure out how to use this (I think I’m doing ok)


Please don’t eliminate the tea some of us enjoy it


I actually kind of said that without knowing if it mentions it there, I know it was on the precursor site


It’s pretty bad for the adblocking world that people are going to tend to not find ublock origin

We need to be promoting privacyguides.org etc


I have no idea which relays to use but will figure it out


Good nightclub design is vital


What are your favorite clients (also looking for a Linux desktop one)


Hello world