Hyves was the Dutch MySpace, and extremely popular at the time. Eventually people moved to Facebook and the platform shut down. Hyves is the go to nostalgia mention when people lament the current Big Tech situation in the Dutch discourse. @Sebastix at the time build a tool that allowed you to scrape/download all your data from the platform. Sitting on this data, he is now working on nostrifying it, and he is even getting support from one of the biggest organizations pushing for an open internet in the Netherlands. The potential here is huge, very similar to what we saw with Vine/Divine. Hyves itself, in its later years was bought by one of the larger media companies in the Netherlands, and since it shut down all the data and the IP has been collecting dust. My hope is that with this Nyves project, we can peak that media company's interest, and purple pill them. Its not just Hyves, this type of organization ultimately stands to benefit from Nostr in all aspects of its operation. A nostrified hyves reboot could become a focal point that has enough traction to once and for all solve the current Platform woes our societies are struggling with. The Netherlands has always been at the forefront of things, and in this context its a perfect candidate to give Nostr some real traction; we are big enough to provide viable network effect among ourselves (not just for the notes, but all the other stuff as well), and small enough to be like a large village where lines are very short. It does not take that many convinced people to get the ball rolling, because things are so densely networked. Not a sure shot by any means, plenty of hurdles and pitfalls, but i do see a real path to victory here. Thanks to the hard work of everyone, all the rudimentary building blocks are there and functioning (mostly :P), making it that we don't have to ''sell'' anyone on some abstract idea, but can point to a real existing ecosystem that hold great cards to be a real solution. Special thanks to Sebas, I will do my best to support him in this effort, i hope you will as well. Onward, Nostr. View quoted note →

So i just learned its genetics that determine how aspartame and a bunch of other artificial sweeteners taste, and it explains a lot. But its still frustrating because its like i live in a world where most people cant smell shit, and just decided to smear shit on everything and look at you weird because you complain everything smells like shit.

Y'all have no idea how big this is. Thats ok, you will eventually, when Nostr is G E K O L O N I S E E R D View quoted note →

Those ''the board'' bot replies piss me off. Not the fact that they are bots, or that ''the board'' is some A.I. project or whatever. Not even that they spam comments that are half-assed disguised advertisements for the site. What pisses me off are the ''human'' profile pictures and the ''human'' names. Just name them ''geopolitics expert bot'' and ''weapons expert bot'' etc or whatever. The anthropomorphising of computer systems bothered me from the start with A.I.. Its fraud, its soul purpose is to trick you. The excuse often is UX bullshit, which is just saying ''you like it better if we successfully fool you'' "A.I. ethics/safety" is a joke of a field, given that they have been more preoccupied with ensuring the bot won't say nigger while at the same time all these systems try to hack/bypass your cognition and heuristics. Then again, Ethics has been a joke of a discipline ever since retards thought that John Rawls's silly thought experiment that is so full of holes was something worth taking serious.

Today i realized that we could benefit from better framing Nostr to content creators. I think that comparing it to the platforms that they use is pointless. They are on these platforms because a general audience is there, as well that it allows to monetize their work. From this perspective, Nostr simply is not an alternative, and won't be for a long time. Yet, a lot of content creators, especially those that feel the censorship pressure/vulnerability for whatever reason, tend to eventually cultivate their own website as a fall-back. They understand that their website ''can't'' (it can but probably won't) be taken away from them, they value this autonomy. Some content creators do this from the get-go and after a very long grind get to a point where their audience generally manages to go to their site to the point that they are sustainable just off of their website alone, regardless of what their fate on these platforms is. THIS, is where Nostr is just 1000x times better. Not for those that already managed to do the multi-year grind of teaching their audience to visit their site. For them Nostr is still better, but their need is simply not that high. Any of these content creators, with a single prompt in shakespeare or whatever, can get a website that is actually just a passive Nostr client that pulls their notes/content automatically. It is what i did with

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Wouter Constant navigates the good, the bad and the ugly of innovation, trying to steer civilization in a sensible direction.

. The site is essentially 0 maintenance now, all i have to do is publish stuff via Nostr. This flow by itself is already better than maintaining a regular website. On top of that, they get the added benefit that if any of audience uses Nostr, that audience never has to go to their website in the first place, they just get the content regardless of what app they use. I think comparing Nostr to running your own website is a far better pitch for these people, because it avoids the comparison with the platforms, which is a comparison Nostr just simply looses. Yet these content creators still bother to create their own site for censorship resistance/autonomy reasons, and that is where we have a far better story. Nostr.

Reminder that what we are doing here with Nostr, is hard, almost everything about it is difficult. Building the apps, building the eco-system of apps, getting the users, getting users to stay etc. Nostr, "it does not rely on P2P techniques, therefore it works." Nostr, "An open social protocol with a chance of working". When i learned about Nostr, my first instinct was disappointment due to the fact that it is not P2P. After a lot of back and forth with the jungle spirit, i begrudgingly accepted the non-P2P nature of Nostr. Oh boy was he right. Look how many years it took for devs to come with clients that actually work (most of the time, if you are lucky and the stars align) while the system uses boring old webservers. Can you imagine the torture it would have been if it was P2P? No way, not in a million years. I can remember a chat/discussion I had with a Bitcoin-core dev about Nostr, his response was also to judge it for the fact it is not P2P. He understood it would be super difficult, but in his mind we would have to bite that bullet to eventually come with the perfect/ideal system. Coming up with such a system is perhaps doable, no doubt, but getting developers to implement it, and subsequently users to use it despite all the quirks it would no doubt have...I don't see it. I think it is very difficult to gauge how well Nostr is doing and what are reasonable expectations. User numbers and retention are low, but I am not convinced that means all that much; all that tells me really is that the number of communities is low. Given the current state of the network, and the nature of the system, individuals joining is mostly pointless. This is also the reason why i don't put out call to actions during my podcast appearances. Communities will have to adopt Nostr, and with enough of those, individuals actually have something to engage with. What i do see is more and more functional clients. Combine that with that (atleast i am confinced) we have the actual answers to a myriad of problems society complains about, i think it is all a matter of time. I think we are at the stage where people bothering to take a look at Nostr might come to conclusion that it actually works. We will see i guess. Besides, what else are you going to do? What other option do you have than to suffer the Nostr grind? Surrender and cuck to the platforms again? Nostr.

updating a couple of apps and i noticed something. I can't recall the exact numbers and wont look them up, but you will see it does not matter that much: @Soapbox 's Ditto was something like 6mb. @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 's wisp was almost 40 something mb. Runstr was 200mb. Wut? How.....wut?