Nostr is a great technology but when people post stuff that isn’t related to bitcoin or nostr itself they struggle to get traction and build an audience. Other platforms have algorithms or tools to cultivate multiple communities of users and interest. We’re a bit stuck with just one at the moment. Solving this is essential for Nostr’s future. View quoted note →

Doesn’t matter if he didn’t intend it to be a Roman salute (fascist salute) because that’s how it understood. And if he didn’t mean it then he’d be rushing to explain the mistake. He’s perfectly happy to have people think he’s Nazi. That’s enough in my book. View quoted note →

I know folks here are excited about legal support for bitcoin and the general pro-crypto regulatory environment under Trump, but I feel like he’s a shitcoin. Look at this $TRUMP meme coin he launched:

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Join the Trump Community. Own a Piece of Trump. This is History in the Making!

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This is grift and fraud. The only people who should be happy about it are either folks who are getting in on the ponzi scheme and hoping they’ll get out before it collapses or people who are accelerationists who want to bring about the collapse of the current system as fast as possible. Who cares about the people hurt in the process.

Of all people I thought i’d be able to try out WhiteNoise with @JeffG I can’t wait for this shit to be released in production! Let’s change the world.

I’ll be damned. Ross is free. He’s been issued a full pardon.

the Guardian

Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace

Ulbricht, sentenced to life in prison in 2015, given ‘full and unconditional’ pardon by president

People are looking to move their groups and communities off of Meta. They know about bluesky, so they think it might be a solution, but that’s not what bluesky’s trying to do. This is a group, Americans in NZ, which probably isn’t ever going to have a deplatforming issue, but they want their own space. We could be building that with Nostr.

Did you know that in Ghana you can have a very creative fantasy coffin for your eternal rest? This is kind of awesome and I hope the tradition spreads.

The World from PRX

Ghana’s fantasy coffins: Fulfilling burial dreams one coffin at a time  - The World from PRX

In Ghana, coffin makers have elevated death into an art form, building fantasy coffins despite some raised eyebrows at this uncommon profession.

A LIFE WELL LIVED: FANTASY COFFINS FROM GHANA

Marvel at the largest collection of elaborate Ghana coffin creations outside of West Africa.

Fantasy coffin - Wikipedia

Decentralized Social Media is the only response to Tech Oligarchy. https://archive.is/ztU6A

What I don’t get is TikTok is showing Americans content to the rest of the world but now don’t have to pay the American creators. View quoted note →

Apparently TikTok decided to disable all accounts associated with Americans, not just use in the US. I had to delete the app and reinstall it creating a new user in order to get back in from NZ. It’s weird because I’m pretty sure the account I was using was created in after I moved to NZ three years ago. Anyway. I’m back in and TikTok is now free from the influence of Americans.

Also what happens when people discover Chinese is so woke they’ve got no gendered pronouns in their language?

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So weird. A bunch of American TikTokers are fleeing the site ahead of its potential ban to an app called, Xiaohongshu or Little Red Book from China created by a guy named Charlwin Mao. Its terms of service state users must uphold socialist and Chinese values. But also Mao is a Stanford business and Bain Capital alum. So clearly as silicon valley as it gets in addition to being very Chinese too. Just goes to show that social dynamics are as important to how these apps grow as the tech itself.

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Help us find and promote news on Nostr. View quoted note →

I guess this boat is all about science.

@Cory Doctorow has a good take on the problems with Bluesky and why they’re supporting the FreeOurFeeds.com project. I mean if you take Nostr plus the Bluesky bridge eclipse.pub. We should be putting a louder voice out there that Nostr is the open free alternative to Bluesky.

Pluralistic: Billionaire-proofing the internet; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 5) (14 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

What would it mean if apps stop being a major source of work and instead we just have a world of libraries which easy user combines together using AI in to an app for themselves? “Today's software ecosystem evolved around a central assumption that code is expensive, so it makes sense to centrally develop and then distribute at low marginal cost. If code becomes 100x cheaper, the choices no longer make sense! Build-buy tradeoffs often flip. The idea of an "app"—a hermetically sealed bundle of functionality built by a team trying to anticipate your needs—will no longer be as relevant. We'll want looser clusters, amenable to change at the edges. Everyone owns their tools, rather than all of us renting cloned ones.” -

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How did Spotify beat Apple in its fight over Apple’s AppStore restrictions? View quoted note →

Interesting a bunch of activists and tech folks are creating an independent foundation to try and wrest control of bluesky’s ATProtocol away from the VC backed bluesky company.

Free Our Feeds

Free Our Feeds

I originally proposed that bluesky’s intellectual property would be placed in an independent foundation from the start. Will it be too late now that Bluesky’s raising a massive round of VC / Private Equity funding from Bain Capital? It would have been a lot easier to make this system open if it had started out that way.

I went with @npub16zsl...92l7 to visit Rabble Coffee!