That’s my understanding of unconference as well. I still find value in having some stage presentations. It would be cool to try 50/50 as it would make for a more engaging event where more people can participate and discuss things that are interesting to them. When you proposed it this time at Nostriga, I had some hesitancy to fork off due to FOMO of the majority scheduled talks.
Awesome. Looking forward to delivering something to elevate the next Nostr conference experience.
As a side note, I’m sad that I didn’t get to meet you in person. But next time!
I’ve personally struggled and have seen people struggle with language all my life. I was born in Hong Kong but grew up in Canada, so that meant being fluent in English and not so fluent in my first language of Cantonese / Chinese. I struggle to communicate properly with my parents in their native language and they sometimes have difficulty communicating in English. I travel a lot to non-English speaking countries and the number of times I’ve had to pull out Google Translate to get through basic tasks like ordering food from a menu and using a washing machine (as recent as yesterday) is uncountable. Similarly, I’ve been learning the Russian language for the past several years, and have had struggles with communicating with people who don’t speak English in that community.
My wife and mother-in-law are Ukrainian, and despite them being fluent in English and their native language, they have their own personal language struggles. With the war in Ukraine, their first language of Russian is being cancelled due to social and geopolitical pressure, and all the Russian language that I’ve learned is quickly becoming irrelevant.
I believe that non-English speakers should learn at least a bit of English as it’s a generally accepted international language and it’ll help them navigate through life, but it’s also unreasonable to expect people to not be able to use basic tools or be shunned from the greater society just because of this language barrier.
Encountering these situations in life myself just reaffirms that we need to build apps in a more accessible, thoughtful way, for the good of humanity.
Nothing beats having translations available, but it doesn’t hurt to use symbols. Like you said, symbols are culturally nuanced, so some may not be universally understood.
Managed to write some code for Comingle on the flight over to Europe. I will be pushing out an update tonight to Apple TestFlight to support search by event, npub, or calendar. Just in time for Nostriga. Stay tuned. @Comingle@thenostrworld
Yes! The best part is finding out who’s attending which talks and making new friends IRL. Then if we can make events and profiles zappable, that would be the icing on the cake, but Apple might give us a hard time.
Does anyone have demographic data of countries that Nostr users are from? I don’t see it on nostr.band and I’m not sure where else to look. This is for my Nostriga talk in a few days. #asknostr
I have no opinions about Monero but this feels like a form of passive opinionated censorship from the client and doesn’t take into account user choice. Is this necessary, @Fabian ? I’m fine with augmenting Bitcoin and Nostr related hashtags with images because it helps highlight what they are, whereas shitcoin images on hashtags by default seem a step too far. It alters the meaning and interpretation of people’s posts.
I don’t agree with some points of this take. Censorship resistance is a strong property of Nostr but it’s not the main point for majority of folks. It’s your portable identity, portable data, and free network effects, combined with use cases beyond just social media — which seems like a core focus of your note. There’s nothing wrong with having overlap with X — the point is Nostr is already almost a superset of what X provides but with even more.
I got into Nostr before I got into Bitcoin. Just because there’s a concentration of a certain demographic, doesn’t mean the protocol is necessarily catering to only that demographic. Where I do agree with you is that Nostr needs the other stuff with thoughtfully designed experiences to succeed to have folks want to use it. @Comingle intends to be one, and sounds like Satlantis is, too.
I found a vanity npub with an 8-character prefix within 15 hours last night on two Apple silicon laptops. Just throw more machines at the problem and cross your fingers. 😅
Looking for feedback on this PR to update the terminology on NIP-09 - “Event Deletions”. I’m proposing we call it “Event Retractions” instead when we actually mean “request for deletion”. Let’s reserve “delete” for when we actually mean physically deleting an event from a specific client or relay. There’s too much confusion stemming from overloading the term. Not all clients or relays need to support retractions, but the protocol describes how one could support it, so let’s use the correct words that explain it properly.
cc @rabble@Ava who have been vocal privacy advocates.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1425
I freaking love the Builder software design pattern. When paired with protocols and inheritance, it’s the perfect combo to provide a flexible, easy-to-use framework for building Nostr events, especially when it’s an event kind that shares common tags with other event kinds. Custom emoji tags is a good example that is used across at least three event kinds. This approach has solved a long-standing gripe I’ve had with how rigidly Nostr SDK for Apple Platforms handled event creation.
https://github.com/nostr-sdk/nostr-sdk-ios/pull/175
@GrapheneOS I haven’t been able to connect to my home WiFi for a while now on my Pixel 6a, even after forgetting the network and re-adding it. Is there some OS / device-level issue and fix for it?
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