Substack’s getting more traction and moving beyond text and newsletters.
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/06/2024/substack-wants-to-do-more-than-just-newsletters
What’s most interesting is why people are moving to or sticking with substack. It’s traffic generation. They’re taking a 10% cut of revenue but they are able to use the platform and network to drive 50% of new subscribers and 30% of new paid subscribers to each substack creator. Sure, creators also need to build traffic, but the power is in the network which grows an audience.
If we are going to see Nostr as a protocol for creators who run a business, we need to make it easier for them to build an audience. That can be algorithims, but it could also be making it easier to recommend good content, share lists, etc…
The other issue we face with creators is that subscriptions are much more valuable to a creator than one off payments. With NWC and wallets we CAN do subscriptions, but we haven’t made it easy and nostr connected the way zaps are.
Dude. Don’t use my software or relays. Or modify them to work how you want. I’m not telling you how to use Nostr.
And lightning? I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Somebody’s going to write a bot using AI that actually makes all the hallucinated software libraries that AI chat bots and other tools are trying to use. Then they’ll be able to put backdoors in them and we’ll have a security nightmare where there’s nobody ever to check the code that is being generated and used all through the new large language models.
This map of military sites in Syria by country makes me realize that the Middle East wars are a lot more complicated than the media portrays.
https://i.nostr.build/o5NCno9oNLadopRJ.jpg
Do you use and pay for buffer and also like Nostr? Why not encourage them to support Nostr.
This will mean something to them if you ARE a paying customer most, and secondarily if you would become one. If you’re not likely to use Buffer and pay them, then don’t post because that’s distraction for them instead of helping them know they’ve got paying current or future customers who want Nostr support.
https://suggestions.buffer.com/p/publish-to-nostr
I’m hacking on a personalized newletter prototype and using openai to generate a summary of the various conversations i’m following so i can keep up. I just noticed the latest version started generating urls like this: https://satshoot.com/npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s
I honestly was TRYING to get it to to just do @jb55 but it was making it in to a url… turns out satshoot.com IS a real thing, i’d never seen it… and the links openai was generating worked. Does the AI know more about Nostr than I do?
After disasters I’m always amazed at how people come together and see the humanity in each other. The mutual aid we see is a powerful counter to dystopian myths that say we’ll attack each other if we don’t have government keeping order. While sometimes government aid helps it often makes things worse after a disaster. The real recovery is organized by the people for the people.
I want to see them tonight but the sky here in Wellington, New Zealand is mostly cloudy and it’s supposed to rain later… One of these days it’ll clear on an Auora night.
24 hours of music from around the world. My friend is a musican and music teacher and he’s organizing a marthon of global music with guests every hour from a different part of the world. It’s free to watch, but they’re asking for donations as a fundraiser for the Global Orchestra project.
https://www.exploreeverywhere.com/marathon2024
I’m excited to be going to labitconf.com in Buenos Aires to talk about Nostr and the importance of social media being build on a permissionless open protocol. There’s going to be a Nostr day after as a side event to help people exposed to Nostr to dive deeper.
This is connected to bringing the NostrBooth to three November conferences in Latin America. The project, organized by @Tanja, is being crowdfunded by the community and we need your help to make it happen.
https://geyser.fund/project/thenostrboothinitiative
We’ve got multiple independent teams of people doing booths at nostr conferences in different parts of the world. The @YakiHonne also do conferences and events mostly in Asia.
After a couple horrible disappointing years we barely make it back to the playoffs. We hosted the MLS cup final and lost in penalties in 2022 and then fell apart. Nice to see the Timbers at least make it to the playoffs. The team is really different we went from a very conservative counter attacking side and solid defense to one with explosive shooting and almost no defense.
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There is both a fan created Cascadia Cup which while not endorsed by the league is a real thing. The teams and fans care about it.
https://cascadiacup.soccer
And yes there is a regionalist movement which some people advocate for independence from Canada and the US. It’s got a flag and adherents. The polling for it is surprisingly strong, between 30% and 50% as a theoretical question, but there is no actual real proposal. If it came down to it who knows what the vote would be. That said nobody thought brexit would pass. I don’t think Cascadian independence is likely or a serious movement the way Scottish or Catalan independence movements are. Plus the region would have a lot of the same political polarization that exists in the US, except the power would be more strongly held in the cities which would cause resentment and opposition from rural conservatives. So meh. It’s exceedingly unlikely anything would happen.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_movement
Oh come on. You’re intentionally trolling the fediverse folks. It’s not a one time thing, you do it a bunch and every time you throw out the bait there are people who bite.
You’re playing the role of the visible anti-hero in the fediverse and I think you enjoy it.
I think it’s kind of silly all the way around, but it’s more than one anti-trans / gender critical statement years ago. 🤡
We got a wave of Brazilians trying nostr and they didn’t stick around. Maybe because it was hard to find Portuguese content or people to follow or a critical mass moved elsewhere. It’s worth investing.
Any nostr user, regardless of what apps you use, can setup automatic cross posting to Twitter / X for free using connect.nos.social and use that to draw your twitter audience to Nostr. It posts using njump.me links which neutrally provides links to open the content in many different nostr apps.
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We’re currently pushing to get Nos in the AppStore but if someone wants to add support for reposts and ideally nip07 login that’d be awesome. Right now it’s just a Twitter login plus pasting in any npub.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service
Don’t abandon and delete your social media accounts elsewhere. Use those accounts to bring your audience to Nostr. That’s the way we grow, by bringing people over. If you delete your account and never post elsewhere it’s like you’ve gone dark to most people and that doesn’t help.
And so what if they bussed people in. It’s a national election so citizens should all get the same vote and influence regardless of where they live. This out of towners don’t count thing is a trap.
Google’s released a standalone tool that we saw in NotebookLM… it’s called Illuminate and it’s pretty nifty. We’re about to see ten million customized personalized podcasts… Some of it can be great, but it’s also going to be a big problem. Podcasts are hard to produce, so creating spam of podcasts wasn’t easy before, now it is.
Anyway, check it out, mind blowing how good it is. Other than recognizing some of the cadence and voices, it would never know it’s an entirely AI generated podcast.
https://illuminate.google.com/
We need easy scalable hosted bunkers similar to what fountain.fm provides. I know you don’t want to take on that responsibility but I think it’s what is holding ditto back.
There are times and places where i’m all in on the anarchist debauchery. And I want that to be able to happen on Nostr. But i think our social lives are so much broader and more complicated than that.
Take 4chan for example, the only channel i know of on there that’s unmoderated is https://boards.4chan.org/b/
The rest of the boards have norms and rules and moderation. They’ve got different ways of acting and rules for interaction.
Nostr has a web of trust model, you can choose who’s in your network, who you trust, and then who you don’t want to hear from.
This is a really important thing for us to keep in mind when we talk about how to make open protocols and open social media. Digital communities can die in many ways, but one of the most common is one person or a small group behaving in an antisocial way and slowly driving everybody out of the space. Nobody wants to put their foot down and tell them to stop posting off topic, or enforce some moderation rules using the platform. So people leave that space to them and drift away.
Enforcing rules in a specific space is often seen as censorship. This is a mistake. If I invite you to my birthday party and you get drunk and start yelling in some drunken rant at everybody else in the party, it’s not censorship to kick you out of the party. You’re more than welcome to continue your drunken rants elsewhere, but the birthday party is something i convened and should be able to enforce rules and norms over that space.
There’s a time and a place for drunken debauchery but if you do that in the wrong space it’ll ruin the vibe and everybody else will leave. It would be censorship if you were not able to organize your own space on Nostr or elsewhere online, where you couldn’t post and talk to people.
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🚨 Fellowship Opportunity at Harvard for Reinventing Social Media! 🚨
The Applied Social Media Lab (ASML) at the Berkman Klein Center is offering a fellowship that could be a great fit for folks in the Nostr community. This is an amazing opportunity for anyone looking to reinvent social media with public interest projects and gain support to make real change. Whether you're deep into Nostr or working on other decentralized social platforms, this fellowship offers a space to advance projects on civil discourse, platform transparency, online safety, and interoperability.
With flexible timelines (6 weeks or 4 months) and stipends, this could give you the structure, connections, and backing to really push forward innovative ideas. Imagine what it could mean to have someone from Nostr shaping the future of social media with Harvard's support!
If you're interested in rethinking social platforms with a focus on the public good, check it out! Let's get some Nostr energy into this and show what decentralized tech can do!
https://asml.cyber.harvard.edu/asml-fellowship-program/
I don’t know about all of Harvard or other Ivy’s. They’re pretty snooty. The Berkman center is really fantastic. They do great work and it’s an amazing network of scholars, builders, and lawyers.
I’m not sure where you got the idea Nostr doesn’t support delete. Some apps don’t expose it but Nostr definitely does support delete.
https://delete.nostr.com
There’s tons of drama going on over in WordPress land. Private equity Silverlake has bought up and is running WP Engine. They’re apparently not contributing back to the WordPress Foundation as much as the foundation people think is fair. That much seems fine, but Mullenweg also seems to be wanting to completely destroy WP Engine to the point where his company Automatic can buy them up for pennies on the dollar. Getting companies to contribute to the open source the use seems good, but weaponizing trademark to try and destroy another company in the ecosystem seems really questionable.
It’s interesting to think about because we don’t have a Nostr foundation or trademark. How would we handle if private equity came in to the Nostr ecosystem and didn’t contribute? We don’t have clear expectations of the role of companies in the Nostr space, nor do we have a central company or foundation the way Word Press does.
I think it’s worth thinking about the best way to set up Nostr to handle this going forward. Many people here know the saga around Craig Wright and the struggle to define who and what bitcoin is… That feels somewhat similar as well.
What do people think is the best way to handle this?
https://www.therepository.email/mullenweg-threatens-corporate-takeover-of-wp-engine
The healthiest social media ecosystem is one you’ve probably never heard of. Front Porch Forum is a local social media platform focused on Vermont.
It’s hugely important to that community and has tremendous engagement. I think we could build something like it that ran on top of Nostr. Not all of Nostr of course, just the ability to make your own front porch fourm within the nostrverse. What do you think?
https://newpublic.org/study/3635/front-porch-forum
Know someone who speaks Korean? We’re looking for help localizing the app in to Korean. South Korea has the most users of any non-English speaking country and we’ve not done any localization for Korean at all. nostr:note1vannkylur4qxprnhx74fpam2aexxc6frv4ncf79nmkglsx8f040qzyz87l
We could do automatic translation but for software interfaces the automated stuff isn’t great. And as an open source project we welcome contributions from the community and for many people localization is a great easy way to contribute.
Meta has decided that users have been posting too much AI generated slop content and their solution is pretty unique. Not something I thought they’d do. They’re going to start posting their own AI generated content in your feed remixing everything they’ve seen you post.
How about pictures and videos of fishing trips with your friends that you never took? Who cares if you actually got tickets to the NBA final because Meta will generate content showing you court side!
This is worse than them spending billions on a leg less VR world.
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/27/meta-ai-posts-facebook-instagram
It looks like the blastr at wss://nostr.mutinywallet.com is offline.
Anybody know if that’s a temporary thing or a decision to take it offline?
https://github.com/MutinyWallet/blastr
This is somewhat similar to the experiments I’ve been doing with protest.net on nostr. So far I have ditto and flockstr but it’s not got the inward community focus figured out.
You said nip-07 but what I think you meant was nip46 hosted nsec bunker like how fountain works. Users can have their nsec but day to day it works like logging in to a normal service on the web. Think Coinbase service for nostr.
I’m seeing it on the nostr side.
On nos.social your nostr use name is a valid fediverse name and you can lookup any username from the fediverse and follow them.
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