The Matrix isn’t a warning from the future, it’s a story told by people who have given up on the present. Fuck that.

Following the Apple App Store ruling, a sincere question for freedom maximalists... do antitrust regulations fit within acceptable forms of state intervention? Separate your feelings about Apple from the decision. Should they be free to operate the platform however they choose?

what frustrates people more... that their message doesn't reach every node? or that they can't read every message from every node?

the moar formulaic and automated we maek writing the more writing without any respekt for convention will exhibets actual proof of work

Those concerned with personal privacy in the AI era will require tools that not only protect their data but also poison data streams.

I’m more concerned about the people in denial of AI than any threat from AI.

TIL @Doug Hoyte is not only the incredible talent behind strfry, he also built Oddbean - a Hacker News clone built on nostr.

homepage | Oddbean

While we're encouraging people to engage in conversations through nostr, conducting any sort of dialog through interfaces which are effectively ephemeral is challenging for users. Oddbean fills a gap in the nostr ecosystem: * Interface encourages continuous discussion over time * Implements clean, consistent threading * Provides transparent way to rank/sort notes and threads * It's not a firehose, notes don't constantly move in a river of posts * You don't have to follow someone to discover the most interesting content. Finally, check this out, his ranking algo is published right at the top of the site. https://oddbean.com/algo He encourages others to build their own. This is the future. #grownostr

Sharing the things you care about will always be something people want to do on the internet. It’s an evergreen use case. It’s the ownership and portability of your data which nostr provides that’s novel and exciting.

If you’re a nostrich and a last.fm user, please join us in building an open music graph on nostr. View quoted note →

Took a couple hours to figure out how to get local uploads working on blossom, but damn if that first 200 doesn’t evoke pure joy. 🌸🎉

Anyone else been thinking about notes being broadcast over a proper message broker like Rabbit?