People keep telling me to call my Nostr posts "notes". Yes, it is "notes and other stuff transmitted by relay". But my note is a post. I posted it. I have used the term "post" for two decades. I posted it. This is Nostr. We don't have rules. I'll call them what I want. I called it a post. Fight me. I continue to call posts on "X" tweets as well. I tweet them. My father called tissues "Kleenex" down to his end days and I plan to do the same for this unless or until it just naturally feels right to do otherwise. Every time someone tells me to change my terminology, I just channel my late father and say, "no". I called it what I called it. I tweet on X and I post on Nostr. image

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. 2 years ago
⛰️🪦
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Hoshi 2 years ago
It‘s „the N.O.S.T.R“ 🤪
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rfkill 2 years ago
I'm happy with people calling it anything other than 'toots'.
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Hoshi 2 years ago
would have been a great name!
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n0>1 2 years ago
People telling other people what terminology to use. Where have I heard that before?
Reminds me of some great advice from my Dad: Trust your gut and don’t care what anyone else thinks about you.
Hey, You are a strong and independent woman. You can do whatever you want, And think of things in your mind however you want. It is spelled F-R-E-E-D-O-M. You can think for yourself and question authority.
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Gary Green 2 years ago
What a rabble rouser. I'm with you I post on NOSTR (emphasis CAPs). Free speech zone.
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Phil 2 years ago
Lyn “Postr on Nostr” Alden
A post definitely falls under the umbrella of “other stuff”. Posting something to Nostr is a completely acceptable use case for leveraging the notes *mechanism*. To wit, the Damus client shows a “Post” button when creating a new note as evidenced by the attached screenshot… #nostr #damus image
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Joshua 2 years ago
Take notes guys, he’s the poster child we need for Nostr…
Bravo! 👏 You can can call them what you want (as not as they are not lies; which -of course- are not). I also tweet on X and post on Nostr! Likewise your father, I drink "Coca Cola" even if it's not Coke 😊
Agree. I see nostr as a protocol not the use case.... You build a social media app on top then it's a post, you build a messaging app on top then it's a message etc...
technically, we don't "post" notes here! we "publish" them! so you should call your notes "Publish" I guess 😂
stubbornness is a virtue. it is those who make compromises who enable evil. i'm gonna call posts on a forum posts also until the day i die as well because that's the name and is always going to be the name. just as it's nostr, not The NOSTR, because @fiatjaf is a retard and nothing he invented was notable just that he got picked by some people with money to start up a hype train. as a programmer, the whole architecture design is so elementary and rudimentary it's amazing it even works. but as it was, i was done with having my media stream tailored to manipulate me. nostr gives me control. nostr is not controlled by some savyet fediverse mussolini style fascist council junta. i am loyal to @General Ned Ludd because he makes a decent app that does all the things i need it to do, and i respect his attitude towards things. the moment that any of these things stop being true i search for alternatives. and what makes me do that, is my stubbornness. never let anyone tell you how to think. View quoted note →
You can “post a note” but not really “note a note”. Post is the verb, note is the subject in this case. The verb form of “note” represents a much more brief, to jot something down in order to recall, or as to remember. The term “post” is literally used when you publish a message or picture. Makes much more sense over “note” tbh🤷 Also, in tech speak, POST is used to send data on the wire to create/update a resource. A “note” is usually a secondary datapoint that would be sent alongside the *post* action.
Problem is if you say nostring it sounds like no string or nose ring, and then notes are noted not posted, .. you could ring nostr
I compormise using post as the verb and note as the noun. As in I justed posted this note". And thus the universe remains in balance.
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Chan510 2 years ago
If I was on Threads I would call it taking a shit…just shitted on Threads…just took a shit on Threads 💩
I don’t know what to make of this post hahaha…ppl have way too much free time to care about what someone names what they do in a platform lol jfc
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Dan Veltri 2 years ago
Why don’t you continue to call “X” Twitter? Come on, you know you want to :)