Franz

You're right, sometimes it's easier or better to leave.
But what if you mostly like things, and just hope to change a few things?
Wouldn't it be better, to try to make change?
And I apologize; I didn't mean to have anyone by their throat.

2023-10-12 16:18:18 UTC

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If hiking and cooking is Tik-Toky, I don't know anything anymore ;)

2023-10-12 16:16:55 UTC

Today I made my best ribs yet. Basically marinaded them in olive oil with paprica powder for 2 hours, and then popped-them into the oven at 150 degrees, for another 2 1/2 hours without foil or anything.
I never bothered to marinate them for this long, but the meat came out much softer this time. Seems like the olive oil had quite an impact.
I usually enjoy them plain, or with Mustard.
https://image.nostr.build/99549cceca049f233763ae84f16204a64439885930b1f24ab52a07ccd02b9e85.jpg

2023-10-12 16:11:00 UTC

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Yeah, that's super-tricky. I mean, there's plenty of people working on improving feeds. Stuff like https://oddbean.com/.
On one hand, I'm totally against that sort of thing. It's so bubbly; And most people will likely stick to one kind of feed, because that's what they become used to. That's why defaults are so powerful. That's why Twitter feed appears as much more interesting, out of the box - but it's also why I'm not on Twitter.
What to do.

2023-10-12 16:08:11 UTC

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Horrible, but their success speaks for itself (even though I don't agree with their means).

2023-10-12 16:07:31 UTC

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I think nerds just love what they do.
So there's cooking-nerds. Dog-neds. I don't know.
But yeah, I'll definitely post some more stuff too. More variety!

2023-10-12 16:06:05 UTC

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I love those. Feels like a community event ... you know, like they have in online role play games, where people gather in-game. That sort of thing. It's nice in limits ;)
Maybe we could have topic-specific zapathons?
Gardener zapathons
Astro zapathons

2023-10-12 16:03:16 UTC

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Yeah, on-boarding to Mastodon is hardly great.
If you look at it in isolation, Damus has great on-boarding for example; But that's just it. I guess you're already familiar with all this stuff? You hardly seem like the average dude with a phone in his hands.
Most people have trouble understanding where Bitcoin "is".
When I buy a wallet, does it mean, my Bitcoin is on that wallet? That kinda thing.

2023-10-12 15:58:10 UTC

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I've heard this plenty of times, on "popular" podcasts here.
Hence this reaction.

2023-10-12 15:56:14 UTC

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Absolutely, things will look totally different in a year.
Or maybe they won't. Maybe Nostr won't be around any longer, or the community just a few hundreds big. Or maybe, there's a better protocol, to replace Nostr - I don't know - What I know is, I'll keep complaining because usually complains yield good suggestions from people smarter than me.

2023-10-12 15:49:21 UTC

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Why do you keep engaging? ~
Either we have a normal conversation, or we don't.
This is kinda just wasting your time, unless you enjoy engaging me.
In which case, I won't stop you.
I can't. I guess that's the beauty of it all :)

2023-10-12 15:47:51 UTC

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Seen this; Was the first page I've looked at, developing a client :)

2023-10-12 15:45:07 UTC

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Yes, you're right. I usually hang on global though - maybe I don't have the right relays on. I'm sure if I invest more time, I can improve the experience --- but that's kinda it. How can we improve the onboarding experience?
Is there any other way to explore, except for tags?
Maybe some apps I'm missing that make this easier?

2023-10-12 15:39:41 UTC

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Okay? If you don't like me, why do you still engage? :)

2023-10-12 15:38:57 UTC

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Of course! I love Nostr! I develop for Nostr. That's why I care at all!

2023-10-12 15:38:14 UTC

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If you did a little research about me, you'd find out easily.
Not sure how one excludes the other, but okay.

2023-10-12 15:36:33 UTC

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Yeah, you better. Won't want to get your heart-rate up ~

2023-10-12 15:35:05 UTC

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Used to work there, in fact. But okay, if you know better ;)

2023-10-12 15:32:16 UTC

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I'm weird as fuck. Nice to meet you.

2023-10-12 15:30:12 UTC

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I'm familiar; Lived most of my life in countries with heavy censorship ...
So you're saying, when we don't like something, we should leave? I know plenty of people in Iran, that stay and fight - I hope they don't follow your example then, because the ones that remain, will be worse off.

2023-10-12 15:26:19 UTC

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That's awesome!

2023-10-12 15:23:16 UTC

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Nobody here is "wrong"; Not at all. Everybody can, and should do whatever they please; I'm just pointing out, that the soup's not very attractive right now, and the stats back that up.
And yeah, you're totally right.
I'm not exacty contributing other content either.
I will try to, definitely!

2023-10-12 15:20:25 UTC

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Hashtags are really the best way to break out; You're right

2023-10-12 15:19:04 UTC

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I'm sure less privileged people, couldn't care less about how Bitcoin fixes everything. When you've got a $100 to feed family and pay rent, Nostr is your least worry, and 99% of content here useless.

2023-10-12 15:08:22 UTC

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Sure, when I go to a football club, to watch and play football, that's fun and what I expect; But right now, that's what Nostr is. Just a football club, for football fans.

2023-10-12 15:07:04 UTC

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It's simply the only thing going on here; that's the problem.

2023-10-12 15:05:53 UTC

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Like VPN's for example. Probably X-times more users in Iran, than the average country; Sure part is censorship, but part is that they prefer the US government tracking them, over their own.

2023-10-12 15:04:51 UTC

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I've always had the impression it's easier in Iran versus other countries, because Iranians are much more aware of their situation, than say ... most people from western countries.

2023-10-12 14:54:10 UTC

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Yes, it always makes sense to consolidate.
May I suggest to "consolidate" on Amazon or Google instead?
They offer an even broader set of services, to "consolidate".
:facepalm:

2023-10-12 14:52:01 UTC

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Bitcoin fixes everything.
Nostr fixes this.
Here's a link to a podcast about how Bitcoin fixes everything.
Here's bitcoin news.
Did you know, that Bitcoin fixes everything?
Twitter sucks. Nostr fixes this.
Gm Nostr.
Gn nostr.
Bitcoin, Nostr, Bitcon, Nostr.
Nostr Nostr Nostr Nostr.
Are you still with me?

2023-10-12 14:49:30 UTC

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I think I've been part of enough male-dominated cmmunities in my life to say that they'll do just fine without woman to "keep up a constant chatter". But yea - that's exactly it - I'm on Nostr, to get a slice of the world. Kinda stay on top of what's going on; Get other people's input; Read about what they are up to.
Here it's just Nostr, Nostr, Nostr, Bitcoin, Nostr.
Who cares? I mean really? If that's your life, I'm kinda sorry.
So all of it. We need more woman. More man. More or whatever's in between, above or below. It's just so goddamn boring around here.

2023-10-12 10:50:48 UTC

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One should really keep in mind, how non-techies see the world. I've once seen a statistic that most people wouldn't be able to tell you what they use to access the internet. They just use what's there - the icon that's familiar.
Not sure how this has shifted over the years, but it doesn't mean that these people are stupid; They may have in-depth knowledge in other fields, which they like to share with others.
It's certainly easier to jump on Twitter to share, than to find the right Mastodon server, or figure out which app to use to access Nostr. Twitter is Twitter - on iOS, Android, the Web. Yes, that's a disadvantage, but it's also a tremendous advantage.

2023-10-12 10:45:25 UTC

Maybe food for thought: One thing that Mastodon has going over Nostr, is branding. I mean, unless you want to "dive" into the third party ecosystem, Mastodon looks pretty much the same, wherever you access it - it's always the Mastodon web client - that's how you can recognize it easily.
On Nostr, many clients feel like seperate entities. Someone may be on Primal, another Iris, another Damus - Seems like these are seperate entities.
When you ask, are you on Mastodon?
It's a clear, yes or no.
Are you on Damus?
What is Damus even?
Oh, it's Nostr. Is this, like the internet?
I still think there's no good solution here; I wonder what's more mental overhead for users: Mastodon with multiple servers, or Nostr, with keys and relays.

2023-10-12 10:37:36 UTC

Also interesting, the #Nostr retention rate is actually getting worse. In fact, it's been getting consistently worse, over 6 months.
One could say, as client's get more polished, fewer people decide to stay ;) Of course that's probably not the reason.

2023-10-12 10:34:31 UTC

For every daily active user on #Nostr, there's approx. 0.2 relays.

2023-10-12 10:32:31 UTC

Wow, #Nostr has grown by 900 daily active users, over 6 months. That's impressive!
At this point Nostr feels more like a small community forum, rather than a social network. It's cozy, that's for sure ;) Sort of like a sub-reddit for Nostr / Bitcoin users. A niche, in a niche.

2023-10-12 10:28:38 UTC

Who are these fu** people that think it's okay to scrape my email from somewhere, to tell me about their new javascript framework.

2023-10-10 18:01:53 UTC

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The Internet?

2023-10-09 11:02:49 UTC

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I'd like to add Elon Musk to this list.

2023-10-09 10:54:43 UTC

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I guess that's what dictatorship get's you.

2023-10-09 10:52:39 UTC

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The fuck :D

2023-10-09 10:51:04 UTC

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Man, they are in your phone and on your computer; They work with your utility providers and ISP. They track every bit that enters and leaves the network; They know better who you are, and what you'll achieve in life, than you; and if they wanted you to dissapear, you will - branded as whatever they want you to be.
Maybe not you specifically, but probably.
They have already won the war, by any measure.
If anything, Bitcoin and Nostr are a seed, to resist ...
A tool that runs on their infrastructure, to destroy them from within?

2023-10-09 10:40:27 UTC

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In many ways, they have already won.
Nostr and Bitcoin run on top of surveillance tech.

2023-10-09 09:25:52 UTC

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Cool, thank you. Will give it a try today.

2023-10-09 09:20:47 UTC

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Awesome! btw, looks like your site is offline? lume.nu

2023-10-09 09:15:28 UTC

To all those poor losers stuck on Apple hardware https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/ (granted, same applies to Windows, Android and even Linux, if you're not considered)

2023-10-09 08:45:39 UTC

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That's an awesome picture btw

2023-10-09 08:40:50 UTC

Why is there an assumption, that we'll be able to keep AI off Nostr, if we so desire? Why do people assume that paid-relays, are immune to bots and spamming? Nostr is tiny. Why wouldn't a spammer pay a couple of cents, to spam on a premium server? Hell, it might be stolen money or coming out of a rug-pull.
Why is there an assumption that bad actors wouldn't pay?
Hasn't Twitter shown that this is complete nonsense?

2023-10-06 18:46:52 UTC

It seems what people consider "normies" varies significantly. When I'm refering to getting normies on Nostr, I'm refering to more people in the Linux space; People doing research on things that don't involve Bitcoin - basically people that don't already have a deep connection with Bitcoin and Nostr (and use them, for that very reason).
I'm here because the protocol is exiting and I enjoy working with it. It's fun developing a client for the sake of it, and being able to join a network and put it to use immideately. I'm also here because I didn't much care about my Mastodon server, and about social media in general - but working on it, is a different thing.
But that's exactly it. The people that are here now, are here because of Nostr; Or because nobody else would have them - but I think of Nostr much more like the invisible layer, people don't have to think about - and that means, it really isn't a debate about reaching more normies on TikTok, it's about getting more people on Nostr, so I don't have to worry about where they are - and how to access them there; So that we have other normies, that are geeks in their own things ... gardening?
I sure wouldn't mind to read more about gardening, than how Nostr fixes everything.

2023-10-03 08:17:22 UTC

1050 TH/s for 650W https://asicrun.com/product/ar1-miner/. Is this a joke?

2023-10-02 18:57:57 UTC

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everything else is a bubble ;)

2023-10-01 15:13:26 UTC

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> We should have lots of topics specific relays in the future.
Sounds like Mastodon.
> As well as large paid relays to meet people.
I'm still not sure about this. People like Twitter exactly because they don't have to think about which Twitter server they are on.

2023-10-01 15:10:24 UTC

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Not being on global is a shitcoin ;)

2023-09-30 18:02:54 UTC

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That's awesome. I honestly think this is where it should go to ... either relays that fit on a Raspberry (so there's literally millions in the future), or no relays at all.
I wonder how we could handle having 1000 relays, where relays only track a fraction of the content

2023-09-30 17:59:44 UTC

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I think it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem, which centralized social media solves with advertising.
Msybe I'm asking the wrong questions.
What incentive is there, to run a premium relay, among free relays? Would someone pay for the identical Facebook experience, when someone else is getting it for free? Premium might imply "faster" or "more available" but Clients by design connect to 10 or 20 or more relays, so it shouldn't even matter if half of them are "faster".
And you're right, "locked-out" is meaningless, unless the premium relay has content, which cannot be shared to another relay (not sure how that would work, unless the majority agrees not to re-post premium content).

2023-09-30 16:14:46 UTC

I don't know why people can't think things trough. All this talk about AI, more automation, more integration, ... I don't understand what supposed to be left, at the end of this journey?
I mean, once GTP writes all our messages; Does all our work; Prvides us with all the movies, TV shows, music and porn we can ever imagine. What exactly is left?
Is it really "progress" to eventually be hooked-up to some smart glasses 24/7? No diseases, longer lives and unlimited entertainment.
Already people can fill their days with 5+ hours of mindless social media scrolling, which is not at all compelling. What are they to do, when there's nothing else to do anymore?

2023-09-30 16:03:45 UTC

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Mooooaaarrrr Moooooonaaaaayyyy

2023-09-30 15:37:18 UTC

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Fair enough

2023-09-30 15:34:15 UTC

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Care to share what your operations cost looks like? I'm considering running a relay myself. Aside from hardware, how much times goes into maintenance? I'd be worried about spam / clean-up after spam.
You only host events, right?

2023-09-30 15:30:56 UTC

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Wow; I'm hungry now.

2023-09-30 15:29:32 UTC

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Free is certainly easiest for on-boarding.
Imagine you had to pay, to get a Bitcoin wallet. Doesn't really make sense technically, but the idea is the same. Of course Bitcoin has it's own incentives, for both user and operator (miner, nodes).

2023-09-30 15:24:49 UTC

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As I've pointed out, there are examples of services that make payment optional, or offer some sort of premium features (more space and so on) to justify the payment. The above example has grown from 0, to 5%, to now closing in on 10% paying users. You can still use it completely free.

2023-09-30 15:23:02 UTC

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Well, if Twitter charges $10 for access, not paying $10 means no access. Same applies to relays - not sure what's not clear about this?
What's the justification of a premium relay, if there's 1000 other "free" relays that behave the same, and don't require payment?

2023-09-30 15:19:20 UTC

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I don't really think this is applicable here
1. The basic idea is, that the user shouldn't have to think about Relays. There may (and frankly should) be thousands of relays, all of which distribute a portion of content. Having premium / non-premium relays, just means complexity for users, and lower reach for .. users.
2. There's no way to ensure that a relay doesn't track you. In fact, given that all of your data is public, most of the tracking can be done by anyone, so there's no real incentive not to get tracked.

2023-09-30 11:42:24 UTC

I just cannot imagine monetization on Nostr yet. Most people aren't used to pay, to store their data. You can reason as much as you want, they will still prefer the 0-cost alternative.
And with the number of "premium" relays growing, many users will find themselves locked-out.
Can't we come-up with some sort of network funding? Where ultimately ~5% of the users, pay for 100% of the infastructure? A bucket, that's split among relay / proxy and storage operators, based on the capacity they provide (and process).
Sourcehut does something like this.
https://void.cat/d/85xNGYpnkg45FzKpasvFLa.webp

2023-09-30 11:36:53 UTC

Looks like someone tried to abuse #NostrOP website proxy. I added a throttle for now; Probably need a more robust solution asap.

2023-09-30 11:34:54 UTC

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Are there any public stats on relay capacity? I mean, could Nostr even handle traffic spikes? I mean, real traffic spikes?
Or would this end up in a mad scramble?

2023-09-30 11:33:14 UTC

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You can explain this to a dev; What about normies?

2023-09-30 11:32:16 UTC

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You do realize, when there's more money to go around, and constant or higher demand for resources, the price of the resources increases.

2023-09-30 11:30:38 UTC

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For how long?
Like if we suddenly get 10x the users on Nostr, and 100x the events going around, would is still be "no cost"?

2023-09-30 10:31:44 UTC

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That's just pure stupidity / ignorance / entitlement.
1. Not every Russian supports this war; Punishing them for actions of the dictatorship they live in (which thev have 0 say in), grows resentment.
2. By this logic, nobody should trade or even communicate with any US citizen, as their dictatorship is responsible for virtually every revolution and war in the past 100 years.
So kindly go fu** yourself Team UI8.

2023-09-30 09:21:26 UTC

hmm, I'm definitely going to try this next week: https://nostr.cooking/recipe/naddr1qq9xxatjwfuj6atydahqygzymswzmwwrl0tma6f90m8t22lre7xypwhhkcl5detttzsnr360pvpsgqqqw4rsfx3gj4

2023-09-30 09:17:56 UTC

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More like the "western" community though I'm sure someone in Japan will hate me for this.

2023-09-30 09:15:20 UTC

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It's real cool - don't get me wrong. I just wonder what compells someone to use this, aside from the fact it's on Nostr?
I mean, there's 1,000,000,000 recipe websites out there, all of which arguable provide the same, and are much easier to find (because they are indexed).
I like to cook myself, and I've always thought about sharing some recipe some time, but I wonder if I'd end up putting it on nostr.cooking, or any other site? What speaks for nostr.cooking is the novelty, maybe the ease of access (because I'm already on Nostr), but I'd have to worry about persistance (relay deletes old notes?) and visibility (not indexed; mostly for Nostr users). Of course I don't really care if anyone sees it, but I'm also not trying to get anything out of it, but the pleasure of sharing.
Maybe something like lightning splits could be used to generate bulk-purchases with vendors, to obtain cheaper / more high quality ingredients? Like where 100 people on Nostr split a cow - that when flly grown, will be distributed among these 100 backers.
I mean, there's got to be some value here beyond ... here's another recipe website - and you cannot get blocked, in case someone finds it offensive ;)

2023-09-29 22:27:02 UTC

I guess I'll implement Satellite CDN for image uploads tomorrow. It's the most viable solution involving LN payments right now.

2023-09-29 22:23:22 UTC

Some new stuff is coming to NostrOP
- Link previews
- Improved account menu with QR login option
https://image.nostr.build/c6114959b078139ef70e0ea785bedf17d550a6b47582fad702fba991d50e12c8.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/5f17476d4e21d27bdad14671708b570112554563de8833e9cae21b27da25c370.jpg

2023-09-29 22:16:49 UTC

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I do something similar on NostrOP
https://image.nostr.build/aea50e50401e8157702eca3eefb82b3018674c78ce00142415a033c3c42ac304.jpg

2023-09-29 14:56:49 UTC

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I hope the Raspberry Pi 5 is less of a fuck** than the Pi 4.
Oh; no it isn't. It's still using Broadcom and lotsa binary blobs.
Too bad.

2023-09-29 14:54:23 UTC

The fu** happened with Twitter? Posts from 4 years ago on top? I thought not having order, was a Nostr problem.
https://image.nostr.build/3bfdcc1566c4cb38cadf2cfde49413c684f644507c471b5ac1cf44ffb61a1ef8.jpg

2023-09-29 10:09:33 UTC

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Addiction that feels "nice"? 😉

2023-09-29 09:50:50 UTC

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Cool. I didn't know about Satellite CDN.

2023-09-29 09:46:59 UTC

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He basically risked dropping his kid, to catch the ball. Great dad.
This could have easily ended with a split skull.

2023-09-29 09:20:51 UTC

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and who's paying them? Wouldn't be the first time that what's on paper, doesn't match reality. Not to mention that these reviews are worthless, if you get a fradulent binary - which is real easy, if it's a state actor.

2023-09-28 21:45:22 UTC

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Looks like an early days Blackberry