Just booked my flights to #DWeb camp for next month! This will be my second time attending. I’m really looking forward to recharging in the redwoods and learning about all awesome projects going on outside the Nostr ecosystem.

The next Decent Nostr meeting starts in 40 minutes. This week we’re talking about decentralized moderation which is a pretty controversial topic and something we’ve been hashing out on the Nos team this week. I’m eager to listen to new ideas from the community and get some feedback on what we are planning. The nest will be at

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I heard that it doesn’t show up in the active nest list for some people, not sure why, so use this link to join!

Trying to follow long NIP discussions in GitHub’s linear threaded conversations is like scraping my eyeballs over a floor covered in glass. I really wish we were using a tool like

Zulip

Zulip — organized team chat

Zulip is an organized team chat app for distributed teams of all sizes.

that allowed discussions to branch off in multiple directions simultaneously. In reality when a NIP is going through a community review there are many people expressing many different concerns, and it’s so hard for the original author to discuss a given issue to completion without it getting muddied by a bunch of unrelated (but valid) comments from other people. It’s then even harder for people who didn’t author the NIP to follow the discussion and weigh in. Telegram has the same problem.

Alright, hit me up with your baby camping tips. My wife and I are taking our 7 month old to #dweb camp and we’ll be doing a one night trip before then to get a feel for it. It’s scary but we’ve had friends say you should start them young so we’re doing it.

Whoa gossip got a makeover. Looks nice!

What other clients support long-form posts besides habla.news (and Nos)?

Just pushed out build 41 of Nos! We threw in a couple experimental features on this one: expiring messages and display of long-form notes. They are rough around the edges but let us know what you think! The priority for next week is adding support for mentions. The full list: - Add support for setting a NIP-40 expiration date when composing a note. - Nos now displays long-form blog posts (kind 30023) in the home and profile feeds. - Added Spanish translations (thanks Martin!) - Updated app icon - Open links in an in-app web browser instead of Safari - Fixed link detection in notes for URLs without a scheme (i.e. "https://") - Made the reply button on notes easier to tap, and it now presents the keyboard when tapped. - Increased the tap size of the ellipsis button on note cards. - Increased the contrast of text in light mode - Fix link color on macOS

New Nos icon brewing… it’s actually just the “s” from our logo, but it also looks like a bird, which feels kind of poetic. The bird was actually first associated with Twitter by a third-party app, Twitteriffic. In a way I think of Nostr as third-party apps making a comeback. It probably won’t be our logo forever as I think #[0]​ threw it together quickly. But for my part I love it.

Is anyone else following the final CS:GO major that starts today?

I finished watching "The AI Dilemma" presentation from the Center for Humane Technology. It. is. so. good. It's an hour long but if you only watch one 1 hour YouTube video this year you should make it this one. I especially liked their framing of algorithmic timelines in social media as humanity's "first contact" moment with AI. ChatGPT and other large language transformers are the "second contact". It occurs to me that a big reason Nostr, Scuttlebutt, Mastodon, and other decentralized social media networks are attractive is because they are largely AI-free. I imagine this will quickly become a selling point for certain apps and relays as AI takes over mainstream tech throughout the next year.