there's a lot of chatter about how to think about follows. I don't have a strong opinion about that aside from seeing as a form of gardening my feed. I tend to it and try to get more of what is productive and good, and less negativity and nonsense. but the most important aspect I keep coming back to is separating the concept of "follow" from "trust". this conversation has died off:

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Add NIP-77 for expressing trust by lez · Pull Request #1208 · nostr-protocol/nips

This seems to be the smallest common denominator of what people think about web-of-trust or trusting people. From here, we can branch out, use this...

has this thread picked up somewhere else?

"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges

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The Library of Babel (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899â1986), conc...

is the the story that got me into Borges' work. it's an incredible work of fantasy that illuminates much about humanity by casting us into a strangely different universe, that of the infinite library of hexagonal rooms, each filled with books that contain seemingly random and non-repeating strings. the people aluded to in the story have different and illustrative takes on the situation. I will not be the first person to compare the library to the world hashes. the world's bitcoin private keys are all printed in this library, the true identity of Satoshi is there, along with proof of the falsity of his true identity. it is an even easier leap to apply the library to nostr. the whirl of hashes all mapping to meaningful information, it's the great book that explains the meaning of the library that some where searching for. there actually is meaning in there. and like all bitcoin private keys, every note that can ever be composed is listed in the library. a project that visualizes the library exists and is brilliant:

tig .xsw 1

Page 1 of a book entitled tig .xsw from volume 0-w1-s1-v01 of the Library of Babel.

playing ticket to ride with the family, good times

In trying to reason about the #nostr protocol, I used

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to concatenate the contents of both

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repos into a single file and pushed it into a claude project. now I can ask it questions like: which Kind is appropriate for storing lists of lists? It said curation lists, `30004` would be best. I then asked what if I want to have a mixed list of npubs and other lists? it answered that `30000` follow lists were more flexible than curation lists. do those answers seem reasonable? in any case, it's a nice tool for thinking about the protocol.

I've really been enjoying these long-form posts from @ODELL View article →

is anyone working on an MCP server that connects to relays?

"This is my npub. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My npub is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my npub is useless. Without my npub, I am useless. I must use my npub to establish true identity. I must sign more securely than my enemy who is trying to disrupt me. I must shitpost him before he shitposts me. I will ... My npub and I know that what counts in war is not the events we sign, the relays we submit to, nor the tags we use. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit ... My npub is human, even as I [am human], because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its hex encoding, its subkeys, its profile event and its relay list metadata event. I will keep my npub clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will ... Before God, I swear this creed. My npub and I are the defenders of my property. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory for the sovereign individuals of the world and there is no enemy, but peace!"