What I don't like about Nostr is that it's full of bad security patterns or "security simplifications". I mean, sure, Bitcoin didn't have BIP-39/mnemonic at the beginning either, but progress here seems veeery slow.

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@Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast Hi, thank you for what you are doing to connect ecosystems! Do you have any tips for Ethereum-positive people to follow here on Nostr? 🙏

Nostr's success is largely dependent on whether the Bitcoin community can break their approach to diversity. Diversity is the key.

I'd rather spend my time with my honest opponents (Bitcoin maxis) who actually believe in something than surround myself with people who turned "decentralization" into empty branding. I hope you will be nice to me :) View quoted note →

I'm still processing the experience of standing completely alone against hundreds of people calling me racist and white supremacist for raising concerns about AT Protocol's (Bluesky) decentralization. It was watching intelligent, technical people get swept into mob dynamics, unable to think independently. The silence from those who privately agreed but wouldn't speak up was perhaps most disturbing.

Nostr is for everyone, right?

The Clipper chip was an NSA-developed encryption device (1993) designed to secure voice and data communications with a built-in backdoor allowing law enforcement to decode intercepted transmissions. It was defunct by 1996.

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"American exceptionalism means Americans believe their local conflicts are global concerns, their cultural context is universal truth, and their ignorance of other perspectives is everyone else's problem."

I think to fix society we first have to fix our social (networks).

Every technology encodes a theory of who can be trusted. Manipulative tools assume people are dangerous and must be managed; convivial tools assume people are capable and deserve access. The architecture you build reveals which humanity you believe in—and slowly creates the humanity you assumed.

Is Nostr for anarcho-convivialists who support Ethereum?

Sorry for saying that AT Protocol has more potential than Nostr - I guess I had to see that for myself, the hard way. The people at AT Protocol hate the authors of Bluesky and their original goals and everything decentralized and it's impossible to build something censorship-resistant in this environment

"The AT Protocol is doomed because the community that adopted it hates everything it was designed to enable. And no amount of elegant architecture can overcome a culture committed to its own subjugation." My article: "Why I Left AT Protocol"

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I have translated into English the post-mortem Paralelní Polis Prague by one of the co-founders Roman Týc Enjoy Full text:

Paralelní Polis Forum

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Post-mortem of the Paralelní Polis Prague project by Roman Týc, one of the co-founders. The text is translated from Czech language using DeepL wi...

"The Democratic Web" by Neiman #HCPP24 This talk introduces the new internet governance model where users ("Webizens") democratically control the web through updated protocols and blockchain technology, challenging current corporate dominance.

The Democratic Web

If there was any doubt before, the COVID-19 pandemic made it clear: digital life is real life. Our lives exist on the Web no less than they do on t...

@Andrew This notice in Arc Browser is not accurate because it supports standard Chrome Extensions

I've done 4,000 km on an electric unicycle #EUC Over the past 6 years, I used it for short trips in Prague, Kyiv and other cities What's my experience? TL;DR Love it! Great for short distances around city. *Much* safer and comfortable than a e-scooter

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it seems that nostr is heading towards becoming something like a lightning network. And I don't think that LN is a successful project, or that it will ever be