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Derek Ross
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The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.
Developer Relations at Soapbox.
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Basic functions HAVE to work. They HAVE to. If they do not, it's not an "oh well, we'll get to it after this cool new feature is released". It's a failure.
People won't use your cool new feature that you LOVE if basic functions fail.
New profile pic who dis?
Good morning and pura vida, Nostr. ๐๐ค๐ป๐ค๐ป
Last week I got introduced to a couple dozen people l'd never met as "the Nostr CEO." I laughed. It's a hilarious meme filled with love, support, and inside jokes from this community. I think about this often. I truly love this community. I do love all of you here so very much.
But here's the thing: Nobody owns Nostr. That's the whole point. There's no board or executive team. No algorithm deciding what you see. No trust & safety team deciding what you can say. This is still a powerful selling point for newcomers.
A protocol can't have a CEO. That's why it works! It's why it's cool! We're just humans being humans without software getting in the way. How it should be. Before corporations broke that.
But deep down we know that we can't just be a decentralized alternative that wins people over. The alternatives need to exist in the ecosystem to make the ecosystem whole, however new ideas with unique features is what will bring in the next wave.
Build the weird. Discover the unique. And when it all just works together, that's our superpower that doesn't exist anywhere else.
This is another action right out of the AI 2027 problem playbook. Absolutely wild.

Yahoo News
Anthropic calls for pause of global AI development
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic suggested Thursday a global pause on building the most powerful AI systems as the latest models are begin...
It's been a while since we had a #Zapathon. Perhaps we need to bring them back to exit the Nostr bear market?
They were fun. ๐
They were engaging. ๐ซ
We had people producing content. ๐ฅ
And people that rarely used Nostr showed up to collect free sats. ๐
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