The solution to the knots debate (or whatever it's called) is that the both sides must realize that every Bitcoin transaction is spam.

I just realized that ATProto is not a social network protocol at all, it could never be. It is actually a collection of "tools" for building centralized platforms. View quoted note →

I'm subscribed to over a hundred podcasts and I don't think I found any of those by searching randomly by keywords, it was always a comment I saw or a recommendation from someone else.

Lots of smart people in the world do not use ad blockers. How do you explain this?

I'm seriously considering deleting the NIPs repo. What do you think?

This is a simple idea but I had never thought about it until now, so maybe some people may benefit from it: I always thought NIP-50 (search) was a hackish solution to an insurmountable problem, that of "global search". In order to search for something one must be like Google, one must index the entire network, it's centralizing and so on. And because of that it made little sense for normal relays to implement such a thing. I just now realized, after using @Gigi's

ants

advanced nostr text search

many times, that the majority of searches are scoped by author, therefore it makes total sense for a client to query the author's outbox relays and send search queries to them directly instead of to some nameless global search engine -- which means that it makes total sense for small relays, personal relays, and random outbox relays of any kind to support search REQs.

I really like the Nostr UX: View quoted note → Things can't be too easy.