So, everybody’s talking about Venezuela now? As if they were part of the elites, as if they were part of the club? 😒

Europe and especially Germany are world champions in burning money. You have no idea how rich these people and institutions are around here, and how easily they can afford to just burn millions of Euros. But absolute no barakah in it. View quoted note →

Since everybody's talking about time and dates right now: #NoorNote

It's about time a real commercial market opens up for software that respects the user's privacy and sovereignty. Come on, it can't be that we're building tools that are way better in this regard than their proprietary competitors. But we give them away for free, while those guys with ties are stuffing their pockets with their crap. It needs to be the exact opposite.

The first time I’m seeing this feature in the wild. [By @Vezire ] View quoted note →

Btw, with #NoorNote you can participate in these NIP-88 polls. Jumble also supports them. View quoted note →

I should probably not keep quiet about the fact that this release also includes an experimental feature that's not exactly easy to pull off: Smart Identity Anchoring. Inspired by this post here: nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpraeg5qq8fvehvdnfupl4kumzdlkcrj6s596ypvkf0hywvkvee2fqyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcqypjm5ha6utzccft28ek5ccepymwzwrqn9x0cq56m2km7rywja5d6sxqhwjd According to the feature story, it's supposed to solve this problem: "Help users recognize people they follow even after profile changes (name, picture). When someone you follow changes their profile, the app shows visual cues to help you remember who they are based on how you first met them. On Nostr, pubkey is the only stable identifier, but it's not human recognizable. Users change names and profile pictures frequently, making it hard to recognize people you know. This feature provides visual continuity during profile transitions." So this is how it looks for now. User npub1kppw9a5asyvz4c35d0kh8gzulvlealcyw28u0f2mau8n6auna84sdyf9y3 changes its profil pic (and username), and thinks he can get away with switching his identity, because who remembers npubs anyway? But the profile pic and name from that first encounter got saved, and so it blinks back and forth between the old and new profile pics. Right there in the timeline and on the profile page. I just thought: Show the old profile picture and name blinking for a while too, until the user gets used to the new one (or always). You can set this behavior in the settings. Well, it's not exactly intensively tested, but sometimes I'm just the 'shoot first, test later' type. What do you think? Good or bad feature? Unnecessary? Annoying? View quoted note →

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Man, I did it again, I just took a quick trip into Fiat Land. You know, X, LinkedIn, Facebook, or whatever those little city states are all called. It's awful. Way worse than when I left it back then. Just this impenetrable mess of slop, scams, and pointless trench fights that were doomed to fail from the start. The people - or are they bots, you can't even tell anymore - they're so strange, so weird. Folks, forget that saying about „weird Nostr," the ones over there are totally detached from reality. Like some little acting school full of crappy performers. Everybody's faking something, everybody's trying to play their part, to act like something they're not. The "successful" ones are just the ones who stay in character the longest. Like clowns, like entertainers. F*ck this sh*t, that's not what we built the internet for. We're not immune over here either, I see the first signs of people trying to carry that zombie virus from over there to here. But still, I'd rather keep building here for now. Though from now on, I'll be way more sensitive and call out anybody who tries to drag that crap over.

Spare us your New Year's resolutions. We all know how long those last.

That's some seriously impressive work, respect. But at the same time, it's sad to see that even with the best and most consistent content on Nostr, you still can't make a living off it. At least not in the West. Either we all take way too many things for granted and we're being cheapskates, or there are just way too few of us here. So totally irrelevant. View quoted note →

I know, people here like to celebrate that sparse dozen or so sellers who are offering stuff on Nostr, none of which is on my personal shopping list. But has anyone tracked how many sellers have dropped off from here in the last year or two? I can think of two or three just like that. You can cheer on 'Price Up/Down' all you want, but the fact is, we're failing miserably right now at building a circular economy based on Bitcoin. And that means we're also failing to live up to Bitcoin's promise of freedom. And if we can't make it happen here on Nostr, then nowhere. Not that we look back in 15 years and think, yeah, that was a nice collective dream back then, but it just didn't work out.