Good day mf'ers

Grass jelly, fragrant like bales of hay. Sprinkle with brown sugar. Very nice! "Chao kuai (Thai: เฉาก๊วย, grass cake) is a jelly which is made by boiling the aged and slightly oxidized stalks and leaves of Mesona chinensis, a type of mint, with potassium carbonate for several hours with a little starch and then cooling the liquid to a jelly-like consistency. Originally a Chinese dish, in Thailand it is normally eaten with ice and natural brown sugar. This photo was made at the Sunday Evening Walking Street market of Chiang Mai, Thailand."

Bluesky has a bot problem

The best search service on the planet is now @Kagi Not Google Not Bingbong

Opened noStrudel, ran a DVM to get the most popular posts from Olas, reposted one and it appeared in Amethyst Nostr interop still gives goosebumps

I always found the noStrudel timeline hard to read so I got off my backside and made some UI changes Before: After: Before: After: Feel free to use it at nostrudel.tealeaf.dev The code is at

GitHub

GitHub - tealeaf-dot-dev/nostrudel: A sandbox for exploring nostr

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Just another Wednesday in the Caves of Qud

Measuring decentralization of Bluesky @fiatjaf

ATP/bsky Dominance Index

In a lift, somewhere in China

Protocol complexity is, everything else being equal, bad for decentralization Fewer independent developers and infrastructure providers = less decentralization

#nostr is the EASIEST to use social network If you want an account that can't be rugged and dm's that can't be decrypted by a third party On Mastodon you need to - install and run your own server [*] On Bluesky you need to - install and run your own server [**] - create a did:web identity document and host it on a domain you control and use network commands to create and configure a Bluesky account to use it [***] On Nostr you need to - store your nsec like any other password and maybe install a browser extension [*] and if you want to use other ActivityPub apps you may need to run more (different) servers [**] and even then your server can be blocked from the network [***] and your identity can still be rugged by whichever entity controls the TLD, although that's a small risk

I don't think it's appreciated enuf how much of a stunning 🎯 Nostr is in the set of tradeoffs that form protocol design Benefits * the identity sovereignty of P2P but without the performance and discoverability downsides * the performance and discoverability of ATProto and ActivityPub but without the centralization of the former, the account portability issues of the latter, and the ruggability of both * the accessibility of ActivityPub and the flexibility of ATProto Costs * users need to store their nsec securely, like a password 🙃