I nearly missed my flight to SF because I was trying to get one more bug fixed and the android build of divine working. There’s a build sitting on my Mac mini which might work. Anyone want to take bets on TAP’s inflight wifi being good enough to upload a 300mb APK file?

These shitcoiners made a scam coin around diVine and then threatened me when I posted that I had nothing to do with their scam!

Can an android user please take a look at https://divine.b-cdn.net/app-release.apk and see if it works?

Well that was fast, we had 10k people join the divine.video testflight in 4 hours.

Apple is being typically frustrating and clueless with its AppStore reviews. Just got rejected again and these are their questions. By this logic Apple wouldn’t allow Nostr apps no? I mean Divine doesn’t have a wallet yet, we’re planning on cashu in the future, but not yet. And we’re actually more aggressive about mutes than most Nostr apps, we check to see if someone has muted you and don’t show you their content if they have. But it’s Nostr and open source, the point is you don’t have to follow my rules, it’s your keys and your software.

Thanks to everybody who helped beta test divine.video, a nostr based vine like app.

TechCrunch

Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive | TechCrunch

Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of six-second, looping videos. A new app called diVine will give ac...

This is kind of dystopian. https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hostile-office/the-digital-hostile-environment/ai-borders-anduril-autonomous-surveillance-towers/

This story about the pirate sports streaming site streameast is fascinating. What surprises me is how little money there is in pirate streaming. They shut down a service used by millions of people and recovered a few hundred thousand dollars. Such razor thin margins for the pirates but people keep doing it. It’s hardly a business but it’s got unkillable demand. https://archive.is/NoHmL

The US state of Mississippi has an age verification law that requires social media platforms to identify the age of all users. Bluesky has refused and blocks users from connecting from Mississippi. Here’s the Bluesky story

My Privacy Blog

Mississippi's Age Verification Law and the Bluesky Standoff: A Critical Analysis

Executive Summary In an unprecedented move, social media platform Bluesky has completely blocked access to users in Mississippi rather than comply...

And how Mastodon instances are responding

Compliance Hub Wiki

The Decentralized Resistance: How Mississippi's Digital ID Law Met Its Match with Mastodon

When Mississippi's sweeping age verification law went into effect in August 2025, it exposed a fundamental tension between government surveillance ...

Have anybody in the Nostr ecosystem considered this? Are clients doing KYC on users? Anyone blocking Mississippi?

This guide and research on how to create an online local community is relevant to folks wanting to build community on Nostr too.

newpublic on Notion

Creating a Flourishing Digital Public Space for Your Local Area | Notion

A how-to guide for admins and moderators of inclusive, uplifting, and public-spirited local Facebook groups, Discord servers, subreddits, and more...

At the global bitcoin summit I sat down with political activist Srđa Popović led the movement that overthrew Serbian dictator Slobodan Milošević in 2000. Since then, his organization, Canvas, has trained activists in over 50 countries how to build successful nonviolent movements—and he says most people misunderstand how change actually happens. “When we start working with them, they often say, ‘Oh, I'm too busy doing things, I don't have time for planning,’” Srđa says. “If I was given a dime every time I've heard that, I would probably have a private plane. Unfortunately I wasn't, so I drive a 2012 old Buick.” This week on Revolution.Social, we talk about why viral videos and protests aren't enough without strategy; why the Montgomery bus boycott succeeded; and how humor can be more effective than anger at undermining autocrats. They also discuss how modern authoritarians use apathy and conspiracy theories instead of fear, why all political movements need leaders, and what happened when activists in Russia set up hundreds of small plastic toys to protest corruption and electoral malpractice.

Beautiful airport. I’m off on a round the world trip for conferences in Barcelona, Lisbon, San Francisco, and Costa Rica. Travel is fun and important for work but I’d rather just be at home enjoying the spring weather.

I'm getting ready to launch a new short form video nostr app. I'm quite excited about it but am not ready to announce it to the world. The plan is to do it when I'm on stage at WebSummit in Lisbon in just over a week with @Will where we're going to be talking to the editor of Fast Company about Nostr. I'm super excited about this new app. It's been my primary project for the last couple of months. Can you please help me beta test it, quietly, without posting publicly about it anywhere. DM me and i'll send you the links for testflight / google play open testing. In order to make this new app work i've made two proposed changes to the spec, one updating NIP-71 to formalize support for editing video meta data, as already supported in Amethyst:

GitHub

NIP-71: Add addressable video events (kinds 34235, 34236) by rabble · Pull Request #2072 · nostr-protocol/nips

Summary Extends NIP-71 to support addressable video events for content that may need updates after publication Adds kinds 34235 (normal videos) an...

And for a new way to sign video content to verify authenticity called ProofMode -

GitHub

Add NIP-XX: ProofMode - Cryptographic Video Verification by rabble · Pull Request #2109 · nostr-protocol/nips

Background This NIP brings ProofMode verification to Nostr video events. ProofMode is an open-source project originally developed by the Guardian P...

I’m a big advocate for free speech and as part of that I’m running a campaign to stop banning minors from social media in New Zealand, stop.b416.nz, because forcing KYC on everyone and blocking minors doesn’t protect anyone. But to win this fight we need to present an alternative for how we can make social media healthier. I found the answer in the world of Dr Pamela Wisniewski who’s the leading researcher in the harms of social media to adolescents. What her research shows is the best way to address this is through empowering people to control their own social media experience and not to block, ban, or monitor people. Everybody building or advocating for Nostr should listen to this because she gives us the research and arguments for an open social media ecosystem based on freedom and empowering users.

Fountain

Revolution.Social • Banning Kids From Social Media Isn’t the Answer (with Pamela Wisniewski) • Listen on Fountain

Pamela Wisniewski is one of the leading researchers on how social media affects teens, working at the UC Berkeley-affiliated International Computer...