Jay: Bluesky is truly decentralized and open! 99% of the replies: thank you Jay for not allowing Nazis on the platform!

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Jay 🦋 (@jay.bsky.team)

With all due respect to Jack for having the vision to invest in decentralized protocols, we’ve carried out the work in a way I don’t think he f...

@hodlbod you should interview Dr Laura Sanger about the federal reserve

I’ve always hated the rudeness and pride the emanated from Nostr, but it’s just par for the course. Bitcoiners have a sort of Nietzschean outlook that I find reprehensible, but they see life as metaphysically “zero sum” and thus think such an attitude is necessary to “win”. It’s whatever. Just mute the uncouth. View quoted note →

Just wait until they experience the beautiful permanence and reliability of Nost— wait… View quoted note →

Notice how he contrasted “could be gone” with “can’t be stopped” lol. Because content absolutely can be gone on Nostr. You don’t own your content here. You give the content to relays with no guarantees of uptime or permanence. View quoted note →

Bluesky custom feeds do this today View quoted note →

Nostur is a really underrated iOS client. It has a ton of features, but they’re all placed in areas where you would expect to find them, so it doesn’t feel burdensome. And because it has so many features, it feels delightfully unopinionated. Another thing Nostur has that surprisingly few clients have in general is a well organized notifications view. See all the reactions, follows, replies, quotes, etc all separated into their own tab. So simple. It was the first app to do multi-account on iOS too. @Fabian is doing great work!

For developers that oppose using Nostr for DMs, you need to at least give people the ability to put more than one link in their bio so they can include a messaging app ID or something. From what I have seen, app developers artificially limit bios to just one link because they don’t want people putting “shitcoin” addresses in their bios and thus “threatening” Bitcoin adoption. But disallowing custom links in bios is a really negative experience for many reasons. Nostr could legitimately compete with Linktree but it’s artificially held back for crybaby reasons. View quoted note →

This is a passion project of mine. Super niche, I know. But check it out! View quoted note →

Manyverse and the new version of SSB is no more. > Building social media or social networks is not interesting to me anymore. These platforms seem like they're mostly strangers talking to strangers, where relationships are dependent on shared interests or shared opinions. That is the crux of it. At some point, we just get tired of talking to strangers. What’s the point? Investing so heavily in something that pays so little. Imagine if we invested that much time into our real life connections. Can Nostr facilitate *that*? I think it can. I would love to see municipalities run nostr relays for their communities. Let tax dollars pay for it the server upkeep.

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A social network off the grid – mobile and available on Android

Including the relay data (like nrelay in NIP-19) in a note is basically like how area codes work in phone numbers. Or a return address on mail. Very cool!