I need to stop responding to people who ignore me. Feels like talking to a wall. They all have me muted. 🙄 View quoted note →

No, people will not run large, public relays for free, forever. These relay are already gigantic and they're quickly growing. They eat up serious resources, and they are only performant if they are tightly managed and cleverly architected. Much (most?) of the traffic they receive is bots, spam, scammers, attackers, and scrapers. Not to mention having to deal with the material people store on the relay and the possible personal or legal consequences of having that on your computer. People don't run Bitcoin nodes for free, either. They run them to manage _their own money_. The way Bitcoin is designed, you automatically help other people manage their money, when you manage your own, as it is all on the same chain. And storing something on Bitcoin costs you Bitcoin. It isn't free storage. Relays are not a chain. Almost everyone can and will only store and manage the notes they are personally interested in, and maybe those of their friends and contacts. That is enough, for basic communication (if your clients have AUTH and outboxes implemented), but larger relays facilitate wider reach. They aren't all going to go away... so long as they bring the person running it higher benefit and reward, than cost and bother.

Software engineering is now a performance art.

Highlights on git patches and PRs.

I've spent most of my "career" struggling to improve data quality, so I think I probably appreciate the simple standard of the event construct, more than most people. Nostr events are really useful for all sorts of data sets in all sorts of environments. They aren't just a relay-thing or a social-thing. They're great for signing documents, parsing data, structuring data archives, machine2machine coms, etc.

Look, Mom, my first npm package! 🤩 https://www.npmjs.com/package/gitrepublic-cli

I haven't been able to get the permissions in the docker container straightened out, yet, so most of the functionality only works if you run it locally, but you can kind of tell where #gitrepublic web it is headed. You can see the full range of functionality on the API docs. Here's #Alexandria, as an example:

Repository - Repository

Repository: Repository

The profile page is a social client. So, that's fun. Don't need to leave, to get your chat on. If you want to be all up in by business, bookmark this page: https://gitrepublic.imwald.eu/users/npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z I 💜 the purple theme, but the black theme is talking to me, ngl.