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When I follow a modern artist and admire their paintings up close, only to realise they were created using AI and therefore exist only digitally – without paint or brushes on canvas – I feel cheated. Of course, I appreciate the idea, but not the execution. Art, like nature, needs time to develop; if you rush it, the result isn’t always the best.

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Today I took a break from my meat-only diet. I hope you’ll forgive me, but I’m Italian: pasta with tomato sauce is in my blood. 🍝

Seeing the most die-hard Primal users drooling over Wisp is priceless. "Wisp... Just works."

Picasso was an old fox, or a 'paraculo', as we say in Italy.

Van Gogh's evolution • The Netherlands 1884 • Provence 1890 _____________________________ Isolabellart's evolution • LIGHTHOUSE ON WHITE CLIFF 2022 • CLIFF REMAINS 2025

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I’m glad I haven’t seen the Cash App Wand here on Nostr yet.

Many artists came to Nostr and left. I'm still here. Not because I'm stronger or more consistent. It's something simpler and more human: I found my own way of moving with the current. Freedom without structure, without immediate returns, without clear feedback for many, it becomes silence. And silence, if you mistake it for emptiness, pushes you away. I know that silence. It's the same one I find in front of a canvas when the mark won't come, when the painting gives nothing back. I don't read it as failure. I read it as space. Nostr doesn't reward speed. It doesn't reward vanity, except in brief flashes. It rewards a quiet, almost agricultural resistance: sowing without knowing if it will rain. Many come looking for a mirror. I've instead accepted that, in here, the mirror is sometimes absent but this doesn't make what I do any less real. https://isolabellart.it.com

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Nostr doesn't have a protocol problem. It has a people problem. We've built clients, chats, communities, marketplaces, and streaming apps that often don't talk to each other. The result? 1,000 users spread across 100 different places experience a network that feels empty. New users don't want to learn about relays, NIPs, and client differences. They want to join, find people, and start interacting. Instead of building more islands, let's build a shared "Nostr Core Experience": • A minimum interoperability standard for clients, communities, chats, marketplaces, and streaming apps • Identity, profiles, contacts, notifications, and messages available everywhere • Shared discovery of people, content, and communities • A unified onboarding experience • Public certification for projects that follow these standards The next breakthrough for Nostr isn't a new protocol. It's making one network feel like one network. Otherwise, we risk building the freest network in the world... while making it harder and harder for people to find each other. Thank you so much for reading this far. 🙏🫂🎨

What is essential is invisible to the eye.

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Hey Nostr, every now and then it's worth introducing yourself to those who don't know you yet. My name is Carlo Isolabella, known as isolabellart. I'm an oil painter. I've shared my work on various platforms over the years. But only here on Nostr have I found real connections — dozens of paintings sold to nostriches, shipped around the world with complete trust and no friction. My paintings draw inspiration from the visible beauty of the world and from everything that exists just beneath its surface. If you're curious, visit my site to explore my work and buy original paintings in Bitcoin: https://isolabellart.it.com/ #introductions

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