A friend of mine asked a question that I wasn't expecting: "Is it possible to make a post with zaps turned off for just that post?" The only thing that I could thing of would be to remove his lightning address from his profile, but that would remove the ability to zap ANY of his posts, not just that individual post, and there isn't any guarantee that all copies of his profile on all relays would be updated to no longer show his lightning address, so some folks might still be able to zap him. I also wondered why anyone would ever want to turn zaps off for a single post. Turns out, he'd like to post drone footage, but there is a hefty fine if you monetize it without a commercial license. Now, something tells me, this is probably talking about charging customers to create drone footage for them rather than getting tipped 21 sats for a cool video posted to Nostr, but I can see other instances where folks might not want to accept zaps for something they are posting. For instance, if they are sharing something that someone else created, so they don't feel like they should be able to collect value from others for value they didn't personally put in the proof of work to provide. Is this something we could add? Some kind of tag that would indicate to clients that a post should not be zappable? #asknostr #nostrdevs

Jumble.social puts relays front and center, rather than tucking them away in the app settings. That's actually really refreshing.

Had an interesting discussion with a good friend of mine last night. He was opining on how terrible it is that culture has moved away from physical media, such as printed books, newspapers, comic books, etc. To some extent I agree with him. I very much enjoy sitting down with a physical book more than an ebook. However, as I mentioned to another nostrich earlier today, there are distinct advantages to digital literature, especially for reference materials. For instance, I have a full set of hard-cover Calvin Commentaries that was gifted to me early on as I pursued ministry. I have no room for them in my current rental. They are sitting in a box in my storage unit. However, I am constantly referencing the digital versions of this commentary series and many others that I would NEVER be able to justify buying to put on a bookshelf in my home. That said, one criticism of digital literature struck home for me. He mentioned that the digital versions of many books appear to be redacted or altered. Digital media, especially when housed by centralized services such as Amazon, is not trustworthy, as it is trivial to modify in ways the author did not intend. Then I blew his mind. Project #Alexandria changes all this. When authors can cryptographically sign their publications, digital literature suddenly becomes MORE trustworthy than printed literature. You know that absolutely nothing about the publication has been altered since the author signed it. Not a single punctuation mark. #Nostr changes everything.

Favorite nostr app on #Android? Well now... that depends. On my phone? #Amethyst, hands down. On my tablet? #Coracle. Amethyst is not pleasant in landscape mode.