I have no confidence in automated systems, especially ones promoted by the state, oligarchs, technocrats, whatever, considering how utterly fucking shit auto'correct' is.
My wife is a DOA for an older gebtleman, and during our last conversation mentioned how at one of his doctor specialist, 15 minute allocated/out in 12min appointments resulter in her asking google AI what coukd he the causes of double vision. In front of him, at least hage the dignitity to pretend to be edjucated. And I'm supposed to expect AI Automation to usher in some new age utopic bullshit?
Hide it behind a facade of "streamlining" the experience. Yeah, Nah.
I'd have better luck resorting to prayer. And don't worry about who's going to build the roads. They're in constant need of a new bandaid from the last banger job.
Anyway. Its Tuesday.
@utxo the webmaster ๐งโ๐ป , recently installed Wisp on a second device, logging in, went to click "extended" feed, it tells me I need to redo my social graph. When I click compute, it shows a bar for about five seconds, suddenly says complete, I hit done but it basically just tells me to restart the process in a loop.
Nothing too important, but seems to be a bug.
Over a week on Wisp, basically haven't touched Amethyst. I don't know what happened. I was so loyal.
... I do know what happened. @utxo the webmaster ๐งโ๐ป is building the client he wants, and it turns out I also wanted it.
Now there's this Ditto which seems equally as snappy on first glance.
Oh my wandering digitized eyes.
I'm so happy anytime I try to click on a link to X just to get context for someone's note, the platform blocks my VPN from acessing even a view only window.
Saved me the troubles.
Praise be KYC walled gardens protecting me from their shit.
I was never looking to replace anything with Nostr. Nor did I have expectations that it would. I don't need my client to mimic something else or provide the same experience all in one.
I was always tepid at best or just socially inclined to join some other controlled and monitored walled garden because the people I know are there. I barely used any of them. Having to sign up for a new social media just for content displayed differently, algorithmically curated feeds, email sign ups, verifications, spam emails from all that shit.
Maybe that's why I almost immediately felt more excitement from the interoperability, varied takes on clients and experiments from this protocol more enjoyable. Even sometimes BECAUSE OF the clunk. The killer app is user empowerment.
At least I can tell a lot of the devs here are actually excited about what they're working on. Even if it wasn't built specifically for a use case I have. Plus, I don't need much to write a shitpost. Like much of nostr, I just need a private key.
I wish I could easily demonstrate how powerful holding a private key is to my family members or friends who think a username and password, phone number, or four digit pin is a comparable security model.
The ones that sort of get it or even agree, don't seem to care enough to consider it worth investigating further.