If someone's bored from all the deadness here...

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Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform

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is an open source MIT project that could easily have Nostr features added. Clone their repo, and see where this first prompt leads you 👇 "Explore how Ghost’s existing social web publishing layer works, especially ActivityPub/Bluesky syndication, and identify the smallest clean path to add Nostr as another publishing target. Start by mapping the relevant codepaths, extension points, data models, and tests, then propose a minimal first implementation for publishing Ghost posts as Nostr events without changing core identity, comments, or payments yet." Who knows, maybe you submit a PR and we all get behind it? Showing them how dead it is here and how they totally shouldn't do it. At a minimum I'm gonna be building a webhook for it that auto publishes Nostr long form events. For our own use.

The fact that people are arguing on the same protocol from different clients means this is all working 💜😉

Fun fact: Nostr apps are disproportionately represented by Canadians 🇨🇦. If you made a list of the top 10 most important Nostr infrastructure projects today, Canada would be represented far beyond what you’d expect statistically. So when you see things getting heated you are really witnessing a rare Canadian battle royale. cc @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 😅

Lol. You can just do things

Still holds

so apparently i missed them open-sourcing the X "for you" algo?

GitHub

GitHub - xai-org/x-algorithm: Algorithm powering the For You feed on X

Algorithm powering the For You feed on X. Contribute to xai-org/x-algorithm development by creating an account on GitHub.

The fact that Nostr is still here may be more important than the fact that it’s still small. Years later, through rough UX, missing features, relay debates, bear markets, and endless skepticism… the ember never went out. That should tell you something. Kevin Kelly’s “1000 True Fans” feels incredibly relevant here. Maybe open protocols don’t begin with mass adoption. Maybe they begin with a small number of people who care enough to endure. People who build because they believe. People who stay before it’s easy. People who see the shape of something before the rest of the world does. Those communities change history more often than people realize.

The Technium

1,000 True Fans

This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey...