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We don't know what "this app" refers to. There are dozens of nostr clients. But if you are saying nostr has improved, then indeed it has, and you should expect a lot more in the next year... a lot of developer funding is happening. I'm glad to see you here again.
En moins de 9 mois je trouve que c'est plus qu'une folie,il y a de quoi se demander si besoin de faire une pause pour soi en déconnexion numérique ....nostr peut rendre dingue sérieux par tout ce qui s'y crée !chapeau bas 🙏🤲♾️🤲
Il est l'un des seuls premiers à expliquer ou définir nostr sur Twitter après l'avoir testé . Merci Edward
Depuis les premiers jours il'avait testé ou exploré nostr . Il serait bien que vous épinglez votre trwet sur nostr
Vrai il mute de jour en jour nostr comme des cellules biologiques en observation
I think they're trying to get it right. Maybe become the internet of social media and free speech. In the early days of the internet you first had the walled gardens. AOL, prodigy etc. Eventually people realized they wanted access to the real internet. Where all the good stuff was. The stuff your overlords didn't want you to see, or know about. But personal freedom, liberty and curiosity is pernicious..😆😂🤣🤭😊
Ayy man it's a protocol! Jajaja but yo Eddy real talk man how's everything with the app made on Android? Remember it like turns your phone into like a security recording device?
A qué si yo público lo mismo no recibo los mismos sats ⚡🤣 "Every time I return to this app, it has improved."
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raven.txt 2 years ago
It feels more secure with no censorship
Extremely bullish on #Nostr. It's just another protocol (like #Bitcoin) that is designed to win.
Open protocols win because they can improve without permission. Closed platforms die because they have to make money to keep themselves alive. Closed platforms have to grow at all costs to capture as many users as possible. If they don't manage they will be eaten up by competition. If they do manage they inevitably crumble under their own weight. The experience has to get worse because they have to squeeze captured users & imprison them so they can't run away. They will also inevitably be captured, be it by political or corporate interests. Open protocols can grow slowly and steadily, or occupy a certain niche until they are perfectly adapted for it. They don't have to grow at all costs, and die only if interest goes to zero. As long as two people use a protocol it is alive. Interoperability allows users to leave at any time with near-zero exit cost, meaning that clients have to compete on merit, not on capture. With closed platforms, "capture everyone" is the name of the game. It's a finite, zero-sum game. With open protocols, symbiosis & cooperation is a better strategy. Positive sum. Everybody wins. View quoted note →
I don’t judge regardless. Haven’t kept up with his preferences even if someone like him would put out what he’s using
Is this overly reductive? My understanding is that ARPAnet started as what most would call a “closed” platform, and it later became the underpinnings of modern internet.
@jb55 merci pour le boost de la note d'Edwqrd il est en moins de 9 mois nostr se développe tellement de jour en jour que en tant que simple nostriche novice du secteur je peine à suivre tout
Seems as though things take off regardless of whether they’re open/closed if there’s good product market fit. Open/Closed seems to matter more in terms of whether platforms can achieve/maintain scale, but even then it seems like it’s a required attribute. See examples of wildly successful closed platforms: Apple, Facebook, Twitter A lot of “open platforms” seem like they’re putting the cart before the horse. Sure if strong PMF sudden appears by chance for an open platform, it will be more likely to catch the wave and be successful. But it’s also in just as likely that the PMF never materializes
Good Q. People can choose to build closed source tools, distribute them organically and incrementally improve. Perhaps a better way to frame it would be to have a word that summarizes the following: fiat VC funded obscure growth demons from hell that scrape everyone's personal data to sell to the highest bidder and create honeypots for hackers and governments while actively trying to lobby said governments to crush their competition and create monopolies for them, which compromises their integrity and ensures they become more powerful, hellish and evil. I guess it's easier to say closed source. Open source helps prevent the evil loop from occuring.
I only saw this post because someone I follow commented. I follow Edward btw. Gotta be on the feed at the time of the post to see it or use a client that offers a trending feature for popular posts (only helps if they get a lot of engagement). I often find older stuff that's good, but I have to poke around in profiles or conversations.
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I have a story about Antarctica you should be aware of. I tried to send it to several people with little response. I’ll just dive in. There’s a hidden alien object, (possibly an Ark filled with an enormous variety of alien creatures from another world) in Antarctica. 1. It’s in east Antarctica near the defunct, Soviet Leningradskaya station 2. It’s enormous. 3. Its geometry is curvilinear. 4. It’s surface appears dimpled with hieroglyphs and it’s substance is opaque, like soapy water, which appears to let in light. 5. The aliens within appear to be regenerating, or growing in some way. 6. The aliens appear to be swimming inside a clear liquid. 7. They can move very fast, much faster than creatures you’d recognize in the waters of Antarctica. 8. Their coloration is pale, maybe white and the one I saw mouthed at the boundary of its lair almost like a fish would a fishbowl, but in this case it had an almost elastic, silly putty-like tube for a mouth, which it contracted and extended rapidly. 9. They appear to be searching for food, but didn’t seem intelligent by any standards we’re familiar with, but I’m uncertain. 10. It is accessible by water. 11. The Russians know of this Ark. 12. Judging only by appearances, this particular Alien doesn’t look like it has bones. 13. Only the exterior shell of the ark is opaque. 14. The Alien is so truly alien in appearance I had to use an AI art generator to design a likeness of it. This particular one makes the face-huggers in the movie Alien look cute. They appear fast-moving, energetic and ravenous. 15. The Alien’s head looks like a Koosh ball, because it appears covered with protruding tendrils, a mass of them, too many to count and the tendrils wave fluidly in the liquid as it darts back and forth. 16. From the center of what I’m calling a Koosh ball (only life-sized), extended what I’m also guessing was that elastic, tube-like mouth. 17. This is an exotic creature that appears to live in the dark, because from what I saw, there was darkness all around it. 18. I can’t tell you yet how I know about this, but I’ve become aware that this object is often included as an item in the PDB (Presidential daily briefing). 19. It appears enclosed and to my knowledge has no outlet for the aliens to leave. 20. It may be generating a mass-warming anomaly. 21. It is being independently monitored by US and Russian submarines. 22. It appears to have no openings. 23. Antarctica is 100% Atlantis.
I have a story about Antarctica you should be aware of. I tried to send it to several people with little response. I’ll just dive in. There’s a hidden alien object, (possibly an Ark filled with an enormous variety of alien creatures from another world) in Antarctica. 1. It’s in east Antarctica near the defunct, Soviet Leningradskaya station 2. It’s enormous. 3. Its geometry is curvilinear. 4. It’s surface appears dimpled with hieroglyphs and it’s substance is opaque, like soapy water, which appears to let in light. 5. The aliens within appear to be regenerating, or growing in some way. 6. The aliens appear to be swimming inside a clear liquid. 7. They can move very fast, much faster than creatures you’d recognize in the waters of Antarctica. 8. Their coloration is pale, maybe white and the one I saw mouthed at the boundary of its lair almost like a fish would a fishbowl, but in this case it had an almost elastic, silly putty-like tube for a mouth, which it contracted and extended rapidly. 9. They appear to be searching for food, but didn’t seem intelligent by any standards we’re familiar with, but I’m uncertain. 10. It is accessible by water. 11. The Russians know of this Ark. 12. Judging only by appearances, this particular Alien doesn’t look like it has bones. 13. Only the exterior shell of the ark is opaque. 14. The Alien is so truly alien in appearance I had to use an AI art generator to design a likeness of it. This particular one makes the face-huggers in the movie Alien look cute. They appear fast-moving, energetic and ravenous. 15. The Alien’s head looks like a Koosh ball, because it appears covered with protruding tendrils, a mass of them, too many to count and the tendrils wave fluidly in the liquid as it darts back and forth. 16. From the center of what I’m calling a Koosh ball (only life-sized), extended what I’m also guessing was that elastic, tube-like mouth. 17. This is an exotic creature that appears to live in the dark, because from what I saw, there was darkness all around it. 18. I can’t tell you yet how I know about this, but I’ve become aware that this object is often included as an item in the PDB (Presidential daily briefing). 19. It appears enclosed and to my knowledge has no outlet for the aliens to leave. 20. It may be generating a mass-warming anomaly. 21. It is being independently monitored by US and Russian submarines. 22. It appears to have no openings. 23. Antarctica is 100% Atlantis.
I have a story about Antarctica you should be aware of. I tried to send it to several people with little response. I’ll just dive in. There’s a hidden alien object, (possibly an Ark filled with an enormous variety of alien creatures from another world) in Antarctica. 1. It’s in east Antarctica near the defunct, Soviet Leningradskaya station 2. It’s enormous. 3. Its geometry is curvilinear. 4. It’s surface appears dimpled with hieroglyphs and it’s substance is opaque, like soapy water, which appears to let in light. 5. The aliens within appear to be regenerating, or growing in some way. 6. The aliens appear to be swimming inside a clear liquid. 7. They can move very fast, much faster than creatures you’d recognize in the waters of Antarctica. 8. Their coloration is pale, maybe white and the one I saw mouthed at the boundary of its lair almost like a fish would a fishbowl, but in this case it had an almost elastic, silly putty-like tube for a mouth, which it contracted and extended rapidly. 9. They appear to be searching for food, but didn’t seem intelligent by any standards we’re familiar with, but I’m uncertain. 10. It is accessible by water. 11. The Russians know of this Ark. 12. Judging only by appearances, this particular Alien doesn’t look like it has bones. 13. Only the exterior shell of the ark is opaque. 14. The Alien is so truly alien in appearance I had to use an AI art generator to design a likeness of it. This particular one makes the face-huggers in the movie Alien look cute. They appear fast-moving, energetic and ravenous. 15. The Alien’s head looks like a Koosh ball, because it appears covered with protruding tendrils, a mass of them, too many to count and the tendrils wave fluidly in the liquid as it darts back and forth. 16. From the center of what I’m calling a Koosh ball (only life-sized), extended what I’m also guessing was that elastic, tube-like mouth. 17. This is an exotic creature that appears to live in the dark, because from what I saw, there was darkness all around it. 18. I can’t tell you yet how I know about this, but I’ve become aware that this object is often included as an item in the PDB (Presidential daily briefing). 19. It appears enclosed and to my knowledge has no outlet for the aliens to leave. 20. It may be generating a mass-warming anomaly. 21. It is being independently monitored by US and Russian submarines. 22. It appears to have no openings. 23. Antarctica is 100% Atlantis.
And it's maybe the simplest way to reach you on the internet. Nice !
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tforbanan 2 years ago
Then how would we learn without the guidance of silence?
Of course it's overly reductive. This is a short note, not a book. The point is that closed for-profit entities eventually die. Open protocols have the chance of immortality.
not so difficult when showing up twice a year ... but anyway, i love your book, i was sceptic, but you had me at choplifter ... what a beautiful father-son-story ... your talent as a writer is really impressive
I returned to Nostr after a while away after reading excerpts from your recent BTC speech advocating decentralized tools like this. Cheers, and highest respect for you!