Hey @Sedd what did you guys do? @YakiHonne (Web) seems to be working normally for me again. You might remember, I had that issue where it got super slow with my Wireguard VPN on the router and not all the events were coming through. But now it's back to being quick and complete. 👍 After 9 months or so 😅 But now I can keep working on my Yaki Chest points. Even though @ابو مريم is already so far ahead I can't catch him.

Okay, I'm putting together a curated list of users in #NoorNote whose posts will show up on the timeline for folks who aren't logged in yet. Basically for beginners, you know, newcomers. Which users are cool, not too nerdy, real audience magnets, and offer some variety? Suggestions welcome. #asknostr

Whoa cool, I didn't know you could use Amber to login to 'other stuff' websites while on a mobile browser like Brave. Saw it first time with @zapwork's website.

I’m a @GrapheneOS user now. F*ck Google.

Proud of my ancestors. 💪 May Allah ﷻ reward them. View quoted note →

Here's a bit of web history for you. Over-simplified. It didn't start with social media, it kicked off with weblogs way back. Sometime around 1997, I think, somebody started surfing the web and jotting down their finds from wandering around online on a page. I believe it was the guy who invented RSS. Just simple links, like "check this out" and "look over here." Then others copied the idea, and some even added a little commentary to their links. That's how weblogs were born, pretty much right around the same time as RSS. Nerds built weblog CMS tools, replies got added in, and the whole scene grew. From 2003 to 2007, there was this lively weblog community worldwide. The first real social media. We were weirder than Nostr back then. We already had all the tech you see today, except for zaps. And then commercialization hit. The fiat kind of commercialization. Big companies started paying individual famous bloggers to test drive the latest BMW model and write about it on their blog, for example. The early version of influencers. Then even more people flooded online, and they were lazy and not tech savvy, wanting everything simpler. Easier reposting, easier mentions, easier visibility, that led to classic social media being born. And weblogs died. All out of convenience and incentives. And then Nostr showed up. That's why you see so many of us 40 and 50 year olds here. We remember that culture and mentality from the 2000s. The fiat commercialization screwed us over back then, and we got quieter in the meantime. And then AI came along, with all that AI slop. The fiat commercial side folded it in and now they're churning out crap with it. They can even skip humans altogether, because they never got the internet or the vision from the web's inventor, Sir Tim Berners Lee. They were basically just hangers on and parasites of the web. We use AI to code more and faster, and to make cool music. But we don't like bots. How's the story going to play out? The divide between these two opposing camps is only going to get bigger. That's for sure. But will it lead to some big explosion? Will the sides start fighting each other? We'll see. View quoted note →

That's funny. First off, we had this little wave of folks saying, "You all aren't zapping enough. That's not how it works. Nothing's gonna come of it, you cheapskates." Then two weeks of silence. But it really got under the skin of some people (you know, the cheapskates). But yesterday and the day before, they pulled themselves together after the shock and now they're coming back organized with this "What's this about? 1 Sat is enough. Everyone zaps how they want... whine whine whine" babble. Sure, guys. Everyone does what they want, nobody's forcing you. If you want to sit on the sidelines watching the masters play... that's your call. But freedom doesn't mean freedom from consequences. Just know you're outing yourselves as cheapskates with that. Because we got the freedom to judge too, and think what we think about it. Well, whatever. My brothers are the masters at everything anyway. Charity, zapping... none of you can hold a candle to them. While you guys cling to your money with your materialistic worldview, my bros give like there's no tomorrow. Money shows how your ego is wired.