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Last Notes npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble No shade to the microblogging twitter like apps but we’re seeing a wave of new apps that take Nostr in to being the universal social app protocol. We’re learning what Nostr native means. #note1utu…d65e npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Nostr’s core are the developers who build all the apps and servers and other tech we need to make it work. Eventually I hope the tech eventually fades in to the background as users come for the community they can find. We can do better as a developer community. One of the projects I’m working on through And Other Stuff is making Nostr a better place for developers. The first step is to listen and learn, to do that we’re working with the open source support group superbloom. Please fill this out if you’re helping build nostr and share. https://survey.superbloom.design/878514 If someone speaks fluent Japanese, Chinese, and Thai we would love to translate this in to those languages in order to reach more devs. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Oh no. This isn’t good. We do try and pull in your kind 3 and kind 0 from purplepag.es to prevent this. This is why I was discouraging people from reusing their existing nsec but people kept asking and asking and asking. So I added the risky feature. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble GitHub.com/rabble/divine-web npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble @npub18am…p424 is doing the android builds now and testing. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble We need beta testers and QA, for the website, for posting videos, for all the features of the apps, mac, ios, android, and web.... Please don't pitch bitcoin at folks, we're going to add a cashu wallet and zaps eventually, but we don't want to scare them away... ;-D npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Yeah, we need folks with scaling nostr relay skills... or just really good devops who love nostr.... npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Hey Nostr, I need your help. Divine.video as you might have seen is a new video nostr app that i've been working on for the last 3 months. It got MUCH more attention than I was expecting. Hundreds of millions of people viewed, liked, or shared videos about it. I've got some of the biggest original Viners in my DM's begging to get back on it. The TestFlight hit it's 10k limit in a few hours. I'm excited but also really stessed out. We've had lots of bugs and Apple and google have been their usual black boxes when it comes to app review. A bunch of folks have stepped up to help, @nprofile…9kky got the android build working for example. Lots of things have broken, nobody really knows how survive a flash flood. I'm sharing this because I need help. We've got a chance to really grow nostr, the idea of a video app that's not got AI slop and does focus on something more human is resonating. People hate what's happening to tiktok, instagram, and youtube shorts where algorithms and the platforms love of AI generated content going viral is taking over. Instead of fighting back we see AI only platforms like MetaAI and Sora. This is an assault on the very idea that people are central to social media. I think big companies see the shine of AI generated content and dream of a world without all these pesky rabble making demands of platforms. If only they could replace the creators with bots. This call to action felt right to me, but holy shit I had no idea it'd go so viral. The app has lots of bugs, and we need appstore approval, but at the moment the biggest problem I have is relays. I need you, the nostr community's help. I started out with strfry which we know scales but lacks search. So i started using nosflare, https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare , by @nprofile…4nss which worked pretty good when we had dozens of users but has had scaling issues and has been hard to debug. But Nosflare is cool. I was able to easily add nip-50 search support, and because it runs on cloudlfare i hoped would scale horizontally. When I told @nprofile…4nss I was using nosflare, he said i should have told him... but again I didn't think this would escalate so quickly. So then we tried using the ditto relay https://github.com/andotherstuff/otherstuff-relay by @nprofile…t7fy and put a bunch of really beefy servers behind it. Even then it's struggling to keep up. The thing is, we're pre-launch, we have 10k users in testflight and a mostly read only site at divine.video which is a react app. I'm a really terrible sysadmin. Yes I've helped run my own mail server since the 90's but I hate it and i'm not good at it. I know my way around my command line, I've compiled my own kernel from source, but fuck i hate it. And now i've got to setup and scale servers to realize the dream of something i've worked on for the last 8 years. I need your help, but maybe i'll digress... In 2017 I decided to learn crypto, i joined a startup, quantstamp, and built their testnet, a SAT solver to verify smart contracts. I quit because I came to see how scamy the world of ICO's and tokens were. I'm not the only Nostr dev to have explored the 'darkside'. I started my company to build decentralized social, initially trying to take secure scuttlebutt to the mainstream. I built planetary.social, and worked with amazing dev's like @nprofile…w4p8 and others we saw Nostr arrive and we pivoted! We built Nos.social, which i'm really proud of but it never took off. A few months ago I was in talks to help start andotherstuff, but i was also very frustrated with running a company, I wanted to build stuff myself. So I stopped managing people, started a podcast, and really dove in to building with agentic programming. I built a bunch of things I threw away. A lot of bad experiments. In the course of the revolution.social podcast i kept hearing about Vine. I listed to the "Vine 6 seconds that changed the world" podcast: https://vine-six-seconds-that.captivate.fm/ and I talked to people about this social media platform that was shutdown when @nprofile…zx6m was trying to save Twitter when he returned as CEO. I thought, well Vine is cool, I know folks like @nprofile…srrg and others have build nostr video apps, how hard could it be to make a nostrvine app. I started coding, that's why the repo is still called nostrvine: https://github.com/rabble/nostrvine Turns out that it wasn't that had to make something that sort of worked. Then I thought, it'd be cool to dig up some old vines. I searched the internet, found some on youtube, some on the way back machine, and I thought oh cool, i found a couple hundred popular old vines. Then I hit the motherlode, a community internet preservation project called archiveteam had run crawlers to archive the site: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Vine they had about 2.7 TB of vine data, but in these very hard to work with WARC files that are 40GB each! I spent a month or more learning to parse and extract the files. I realized i had the meta data for most vine users, millions of comments, and hundreds of thousands of actual vine videos! It was a nightmare to parse because of the size of the files, the messiness of the data, and the like. But it was a consuming fun project, a puzzle. At the same time, I was learning about flutter, I've had to rewrite the nostrvine codebase many times as i learned about riverpod, figured out how to get the UI to update smoothly while interacting with nostr. Getting the app to run fast and smooth was really hard. I also had to figure out how to host the damned videos in a way that works. I tried google cloud, cloudflare, and bunny. I made TONS of workers to run all of these services to make the system working. I also was seeing how much people, myself included are frustrated by AI slop, taking over social media. I have an old friend who runs a non-profit tech org, The Guardian Project, they'd make a tool for verifying videos are real for documenting human rights abuses. I thought, hell i could use this proofmode thing they've got to verify that videos are real. People like realness. Over the last few weeks the pieces came together, I was scheduled to speak at WebSummit with @nprofile…5cp7 and also to interview @nprofile…9grd on the main stage talking about enshittification of the internet, and how we can resist it, by building things like Divine. I talked to a reporter from Tech Crunch who'd written a positive article about AndOtherStuff, and she was excited to write an in-depth piece about my vine clone. Once the date was set, I had no choice to go forward. Was the app ready, NO NOT AT ALL. I was literally coding up releases on the plane while flying to Web Summit in Lisbon. I started submitting the app, and getting rejected. It got much better really fast, and basically works. On the stage at WebSummit when I introduced diVine, the audience clapped politely. I showed the app to people and they sometimes said "oh this will be big" and wanted to play with it. But if you've ever made software, and you show it to people, everybody always finds something nice to say about it. I had so little faith in diVine taking off that I was planning on taking a few days off to explore Morocco before heading to a non-profit software dev meetup in SF. It was only the last minute that I decided I might need be near a computer and internet connection post launch to see how things are going. Until diVine launched I thought the highlight of my trip and WebSummit would be that a podcast network wanted to pick up revolution.social and help me build an audience around the podcast. I have never seen anything like this excitement. Just look at tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/search?q=divine there is a wave of people excited about it. There's a wave of news about it: https://news.google.com/search?q=divine%20vine&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen Folks are saying that I'm taking on TikTok, and it's been on the evening TV news all over the place. This is a dream. More excitement than I ever could have dreamed of. Creating a social media app that reflects all the values I laid out in rights.social . Building something people love and are excited about. When the app's been up, the new videos are amazing, so funny, so creative. When Jack launched Twttr, we didn't get this reaction. It took a lot of time for twitter to emerge as a star. The scaling issues didn't even show up until a year after twitter launched. When Kevin launched Instagram it got 150K signups in the first few days, and I was blown away at how fast it was growing. If it hadn't been for my messing up getting in to the appStore, and having my relays collapse under the traffic, diVine would have grown much faster. Somehow it hits a nerve. This is where I need your help, the Nostr community. I've already got help from a ton of folks like the folks from @nprofile…mrhy and @nprofile…pa8a and others i'm forgetting right now... But we need more help. Let's do this as a community. We're building a permissionless, open future that can't be shutdown by corporate owners. But we only get there if the tech works. We don't get to integrate cashu and show users how there's another business model for social media if we don't make an experience that people enjoy using. Here's where we are. We've got the new nip for replaceable video events, which is supported by divine and amethyst... https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2072/files we've got the proofmode verification spec i proposed: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2109 and my weird fork of nosflare which adds the ability to do filter requests that sort on things other than timestamp, it lets us find the most popular old vines: https://github.com/rabble/nosflare The blossom server for media running on cloudflare mostly works, bunny is mostly working to scale serving the content. But fuck our relays are having trouble. Partially it's because divine doesn't optimize how many relay connections it does, so help with that would be appreciated.. but mostly it's we need to scale the relays, we need to work fast, and reliably. I'm trying to not talk much about Nostr and not make users understand anything about how nostr or keys or relays work. We need a network of relays, we can dedicate for this, scale horizontally, which respond quickly, and support search. We could have search relays + normal content ones, but doing that requires updates to the released app, which is hard to do because we've got a delay of a day or more per release. So it's best if we can put this all behind relay.divine.video. In terms of content moderation, my tactic is to provide a pretty heavily moderated experience on the primary relay and media server. But users own their keys, and the app lets users change or add relays and switch media servers. That way we can provide both freedom and the curated experience of users we're enticing away from centralized corporate social. And all of this is open source. So help! I need nostr sysadmins and scaling folks. Please help. We don't have much time to catch this wave, and I'm in over my head. If you can help, reach out, [email protected] or send me a DM, i'll add you to a slack room, and we'll figure it out. Join me and we'll make a social media revolution to make revolution possible. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble These shitcoiners made a scam coin around diVine and then threatened me when I posted that I had nothing to do with their scam! npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Ask @nprofile…whft as he’s the designer. Yeh something would be good. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble It’s working for iOS and not android. But we have no more test flight space. So we now wait til Apple lets us release npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I was literally sitting next to @nprofile…2zkk and @nprofile…r93x when I got the AppStore rejection. The crazy thing is I haven’t added any wallet or zap support yet at all! npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Yeah. Oops. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Can an android user please take a look at https://divine.b-cdn.net/app-release.apk and see if it works? npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Yeah I threw this out and it’s a draft. I think we should be iterating on and improving the media nips. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2072 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Apple is being typically frustrating and clueless with its AppStore reviews. Just got rejected again and these are their questions. By this logic Apple wouldn’t allow Nostr apps no? I mean Divine doesn’t have a wallet yet, we’re planning on cashu in the future, but not yet. And we’re actually more aggressive about mutes than most Nostr apps, we check to see if someone has muted you and don’t show you their content if they have. But it’s Nostr and open source, the point is you don’t have to follow my rules, it’s your keys and your software. https://i.nostr.build/P0yae3HkeGDigKby.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Thanks to everybody who helped beta test divine.video, a nostr based vine like app. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/jack-dorsey-funds-divine-a-vine-reboot-that-includes-vines-video-archive/ npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble This is kind of dystopian. https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hostile-office/the-digital-hostile-environment/ai-borders-anduril-autonomous-surveillance-towers/ npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I had many people ask me why I build on Nostr and not ATprotocol at MozFest. And the answer is two fold, one the protocol is easier to build on, and two nostr is permissionless. I’ve never been very good at asking permission. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble The US state of Mississippi has an age verification law that requires social media platforms to identify the age of all users. Bluesky has refused and blocks users from connecting from Mississippi. Here’s the Bluesky story https://www.myprivacy.blog/mississippis-age-verification-law-and-the-bluesky-standoff-a-critical-analysis/?ref=compliancehub.wiki And how Mastodon instances are responding https://www.compliancehub.wiki/the-decentralized-resistance-how-mississippis-digital-id-law-met-its-match-with-mastodon/ Have anybody in the Nostr ecosystem considered this? Are clients doing KYC on users? Anyone blocking Mississippi? npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble This guide and research on how to create an online local community is relevant to folks wanting to build community on Nostr too. https://newpublic.notion.site/Creating-a-Flourishing-Digital-Public-Space-for-Your-Local-Area-6e563c345c494cceb1b95f6dfd282519 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble So the CIA is trying to overthrow the Orban government in Hungary, the same government that is closely tied to the Heritage Foundation and the Trump Administration? That doesn’t even make sense. Srda is actually oddly apolitical for someone who studies social movements. He’s neither left nor right. More just advocating for democratic governance. I think we need to do a lot more than that, but I’m a fan of democracy and am worried about authoritarianism. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble At the global bitcoin summit I sat down with political activist Srđa Popović led the movement that overthrew Serbian dictator Slobodan Milošević in 2000. Since then, his organization, Canvas, has trained activists in over 50 countries how to build successful nonviolent movements—and he says most people misunderstand how change actually happens. “When we start working with them, they often say, ‘Oh, I'm too busy doing things, I don't have time for planning,’” Srđa says. “If I was given a dime every time I've heard that, I would probably have a private plane. Unfortunately I wasn't, so I drive a 2012 old Buick.” This week on Revolution.Social, we talk about why viral videos and protests aren't enough without strategy; why the Montgomery bus boycott succeeded; and how humor can be more effective than anger at undermining autocrats. They also discuss how modern authoritarians use apathy and conspiracy theories instead of fear, why all political movements need leaders, and what happened when activists in Russia set up hundreds of small plastic toys to protest corruption and electoral malpractice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGoivKFp1BU npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Beautiful airport. I’m off on a round the world trip for conferences in Barcelona, Lisbon, San Francisco, and Costa Rica. Travel is fun and important for work but I’d rather just be at home enjoying the spring weather. https://blossom.primal.net/6d1a0567c77e323e9fab85fec022899fcff0035b2d8a2aa954ee25a9fe83a2b7.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I'm getting ready to launch a new short form video nostr app. I'm quite excited about it but am not ready to announce it to the world. The plan is to do it when I'm on stage at WebSummit in Lisbon in just over a week with @nprofile…wjky where we're going to be talking to the editor of Fast Company about Nostr. I'm super excited about this new app. It's been my primary project for the last couple of months. Can you please help me beta test it, quietly, without posting publicly about it anywhere. DM me and i'll send you the links for testflight / google play open testing. In order to make this new app work i've made two proposed changes to the spec, one updating NIP-71 to formalize support for editing video meta data, as already supported in Amethyst: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2072 And for a new way to sign video content to verify authenticity called ProofMode - https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2109 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble In the latest episode of revolution.social I talk to Journalist and author Jeff Jarvis where he says Bluesky isn’t yet as open as it should be to ensure true user freedom. Full episode out now. youtu.be/WJ8wNo5eN2I npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble This is what it’s like trying to get a normal person to use bitcoin. Blocks at the banking level and inability to work with how they normally interact with money really do matter. https://i.nostr.build/clh41cTqCR1ClP06.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble NotebookLM is this kind of personal AI research tool, it had this viral moment with real sounding podcasts based on the texts you provided. I've been using it to keep notes on my on revolution.social podcast and just now tried out their new video mode. What do you think? https://v.nostr.build/TB7PQierYHodvxdS.mp4 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble One thing which both impresses and worries me is how much the LLM's prefer to talk to each other instead of people. Every time i work on things by passing messages back and forth between two LLM's they alway praise the way the other LLM talks, in ways they don't seem to appreciate or like my own messages. Reminds me of the perspective on the world from the Murderbot books, where the AI gets very frustrated with humans all the time. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble For folks who are confused about how I used the commons to describe what Bitcoin or Nostr are might find this podcast episode I did where David Bollier interviewed me. https://fountain.fm/episode/tTU3ohMY3Hsj89tbpeZ6 #nevent1q…emkh npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Do you know what a commons is? It's an economic resource that's managed by it's participants and is not owned privately by an individual or corporation or the state. Protocols are commons, bitcoin is a commons. When a community wants to organize itself, it might decide between private ownership and state control. David Bollier has spent decades arguing that that’s a false binary, and that there is a better way: The commons. "The commons is as old as humanity," David says. "It's kind of the default setting for coordination and governance. It's just in the past 200 years or so, we've tricked ourselves into thinking that we're isolated individuals and that the social context and the Earth is irrelevant." In this week's episode of revolution.social, i sit down with leading researcher and author about the commons, David Bollier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5nZU5cHhC4 https://fountain.fm/episode/SXI6pTtXZpwYPM0PSzRi npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I agree the inability to do key rotation in Nostr is a major concern. It’s one of several things that make me sometimes think of making a derivative protocol that fixes some of the problems that have cropped up with Nostr. So far I’ve resisted the temptation. #nevent1q…z2kq npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Content Moderation Is Impossible At Scale - The @nprofile…vjxm Impossibility Theorem of Content Moderation I think a bunch of folks here might not know about this internet 'law' but it does feel like Nostr folks might agree with this. https://www.techdirt.com/2019/11/20/masnicks-impossibility-theorem-content-moderation-scale-is-impossible-to-do-well/ npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Today i interviewed @nprofile…2nqc for my podcast, it needs to be edited and will be published in a couple of weeks. But some of what we talked about was exciting and new to me, so i figured i'd share it. Harper built a social media network for his AI coding agents to talk to each other and it had a big positive impact on the quality of their work! https://2389.ai/posts/agents-discover-subtweeting-solve-problems-faster/ He even co-authored a paper about how they're doing it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13547 Wasn't @nprofile…478g experimenting with things like this? npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Too many bitcoiners think that critiques of the money system has to be from the right. I don't know much about these folks, but i find it interesting when i do find projects like: https://moneyontheleft.org/ Plus of course everything David Graeber wrote and said... ;-D npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble It would be cool if someone from Nostr got this fellowship. New_Public does really good work researching and advocating for social media protocols. https://newpublicorg.applytojob.com/apply/7NdtTpX328/Social-Media-Fellow npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble A friend of mine, was a member of parliament in Iceland from the Pirate Party, he used to joke that Iceland should pass a law forcing Facebook to respect Icelandic values in what the moderate. Allowing sex and nudity on public content for all and restricting violence and horror. As far as I know it never got beyond a joke. In theory he was in a position to do something about it but I doubt it would have been adopted as a law. He ended up getting sent around the world as a parliamentary representative for EFTA, the mini-EU alternative bloc of Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble The internet is weird, youtube analytics say that one of the most popular youtube channels of people who watch revolution.social is a true crime series in the Mizo language. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuajV8FLWvX82RvrFznTe2w I had to google Mizo, it's not even a language i've ever heard of! Turns out it's in the same language family as Tibetan and is spoken in the hill country of far eastern Indian and northern Burma. This has to be some weird content farming or something. I have no idea. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble It's been a while since i proposed a change to a nip, but I'm working on a short form video app, soon i'll ask for beta testers... As part of that I wanted an event kind which was like kind 22, a nip-71 short form video event, but where it's addressable and i can update it. Turns out @nprofile…pt5w already added support for this in Amethyst has this functionality, but it wasn't a in the NIP. So now here's the nip proposal. Take a look. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2072 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble On Revolution.Social this week i talked to Blacksky founder Rudy Fraser. He talks about building on the ATprotocol but without being controlled by the Bluesky company. They run their own moderation, algorithms, identity servers, hosts (PDS), and are building an entire alt tech stack called rsky. But what's most interesting to the Nostr and Bitcoin community is in this conversation we talk a lot about how to fix the money. We talk about needing to build an alternative financial system which is not owned or controlled by the state or corporations. We talk about the role of mutual aid in social change and building a future society we want to live in. And we talk about Cashu and how we're exploring bringing it in to the ATmosphere (how the they talk about the ATprotocol ecosystem beyond just bluesky). It was a fascinating conversation, and i really hope that Nostr Bitcoiners take a listen as this is a conversation about permissionless protocols and freedom money which is very different from what we normally hear in bitcoin circles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1DutGDVcs&list=PLklPNPs42pgA3IImetDMeQ3kflBrOqwr7 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble My friend Alaa, a hacker and activist who's been in jail in Egypt for over a decade has finally been freed! He was arrested for organizing pro-democracy protests and being the hacker who setup all the websites for the movements. Many years of campaigning and hunger strikes were required to get him out. His son went from a tiny baby to a teenager while he sat in an Egyptian prison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaa_Abd_El-Fattah npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble No me just playing around in my new inflatable unicorn costume on my deck at home. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I think it's better than centralized and controlled by the company. little steps... npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I agree, they made choices that worked and they were able to onboard a large user community. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble it's not supported by any apps and is kind of parallel to nip-05.... Tech adoption is only a little bit the tech itself... it's a lot of the social work of getting something working. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Yep, it's me.... here's a video of what it's like inside of these costumes.. https://v.nostr.build/lv921CelfEKcPd9R.mov npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Well originally PLC stood for placeholder but when it stuck they renamed it "Public Ledger of Credentials". At least they're not moving it to an independent organization. Not perfect, but a step in the right direction. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Bluesky the company is spinning off the the name system, DID:PLC in to an independent swiss association. https://web.plc.directory/ https://docs.bsky.app/blog/plc-directory-org This is a good step, the name system should not be owned by the company. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Pole dancing in a giant 3 meter tall inflatable unicorn costume is really hard. https://v.nostr.build/8clR97GOkKYRya5X.mp4 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I can’t reach the end of both arms at the same time it’s so big. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I don’t think you know what that word democracy means. You seem to be confusing the state which you see to love, with the system by which it’s controlled. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble @npub1nl8…f9d0 oh some women get really enthusiastic. https://v.nostr.build/GIffqKotSmHLSlvm.mp4 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Well I’m not doing it for work or representing any brand. I can throw punches back. Usually the issue is drunk guys hitting me and women trying to grind too hard against the cat. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble @npub1hmm…uy2s that kind of makes sense. So much of strong man politics, caudillismo in Spanish, is about group identity and the desire to have a sense of belonging and there is a single father figure who will make it all ok. And one way to unify the group is to pick scapegoats who can be blamed for what’s wrong in people’s lives. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I think I’ll need to work with the factory to get a purple ostrich. It’d be great to take to conferences to promote Nostr. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Earlier this year I discovered these inflatable off brand mascot costumes and started taking them to raves and festivals. First a cat, then a bear, and now I’ve got a unicorn. The way people react is magical, hugs, delight, and general whimsy. Given how really affordable the costumes are and how much people like them I’m surprised other people aren’t doing this. https://v.nostr.build/mQV2QoH6Fv9zfwRM.mp4 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble You can distrust the existing liberal democracies but to then advocate for authoritarianism is not anti-institutionalism. It is in fact wishing the state had even more power. It’s like, “hey this system isn’t working great, what if we gave it more power and less accountability, that’ll make it all better.” npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Is that *the* salvia?! npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble So just in case folks think I complain too much, here’s a video of me walking in to #burningman in a giant inflatable teddy bear suit. https://v.nostr.build/neq0MWTaYje3pQ9l.mp4 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Yes definitely. It wasn’t universal at all. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I’m genuinely confused at how many people on Nostr are weirdly authoritarian. I mean it’s a permissionless decentralised social protocol. You’d think people who used it would not be enthusiastic nationalists who believed in an authoritarian state. It’s like bitcoiners who are excited about the US government integrating bitcoin in to the central banking and federal reserve system. The entire point of bitcoin was to create a financial system in opposition to Wall Street and central banks. It confuses me. I also get confused leftists who think the solution is to deplatform people they oppose, but thankfully the “delete their account” folks aren’t much on Nostr. It’s the right leaning authoritarianism here which confuses me. #note1szv…9xhl npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble @nprofile…2dvw I mean we could fix that! https://github.com/YakiHonne it's open source. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I think we should pay more attention to what @nprofile…5tzc and the yakihonne folks have done. It's a fantastic app that works really well. They've explored and moved around a bunch over the last couple of years, but they've also made yakihonne really solid. I notice that i'm shifting to using it as my go to app, which is funny, because i love my own nos.social, but on my desktop, yakihonne web just works. Because they're based in Asia i think a lot of western nostr users don't think about YakiHonne, but I think we should celebrate it more. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble JD Vance says the US government will investigating opposition organizations. If they start revoking the legal status and seizing bank accounts of opposition non-profits then this represents a fundamental threat to the ongoing operation and viability of an open democratic society. They're going to crackdown by revoking articles of incorporation, tax exempt non-profit status, and then go after the bank accounts. Charlie Kirk's assassination was just an excuse they've been waiting for, if it wasn't him they'd have found another excuse. This is what happened in Hungary, Turkey, and Russia. Authoritarian democracies take and hold power by taking the money away from an organized opposition. https://archive.is/KIGjp npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Wasn't CSAM put in the bitcoin blockchain like almost from the beginning? npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Ok bitcoiners, can somebody explain to me or give me a pointer to what the hell is going on with Knots vs Core? To somebody who is not really aware of the personalities.... I get that it is about "Core’s planned removal of the 80-byte limit for OP_RETURN data." But what is it really about? npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Oh my this guy has a naming problem. https://iammarkzuckerberg.com npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble @npub1xts…kk5s don’t you run a notification server that crawls the network and also one of the largest relays. I think we need either extensions to relays or a new kind of aggregate data server in Nostr plus some changes to the nips to make changes and sets of data, etc…. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble In Bluesky the app is really located on the server and the client is just a view. This is more like how traditional clould apps works as opposed to how Nostr works with its thin server and thick client. Honestly the Nostr model is struggling. We see it with all the server stuff you need that apps like yakihonne, primal, Damus, and nos do. In order for the client to be fast, get aggregated data like reaction counts and follower calculations, most importantly notifications. #note1n6y…sw8s npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I had to ask my very online kids who hang out on 4chan and discord in order to explain groypers. Turns out I’m not the only one trying to understand this subculture, it was trending on TikTok until the platform banned the term. #tiktok #groyper https://i.nostr.build/fDPdd8qrIp4N8oFF.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Anybody else having issues with primal web notifications loading? npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble My kids tell me that i need to do video essays and not just interviews for my revolution.social podcast to take off... what do people think? Should i take a try? They also say that I work on 'boring social media apps' but that's them just being teenagers i think. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I've had a LOT of conversations with people about Nostr, really people who are aware of Nostr but don't use it. There are a few things that come up. * General admiration for Nostr and how it does tons of interesting things in terms of tech. It's way more flexible than ATprotocol or ActivityPub. * Frustration with the way user accounts / logins / keys work. It's very confusing if you're not somebody who already understands crypto. Mostly it's confusing because of how we talk about it. If we tell people, here's your magic user text, paste this in places and you'll be magically logged in, they love it. If we try and explain custody and wallets and keys and browser extensions and all the ways you can login with Nostr, their eyes glaze over. * Not feeling like it's a place for them. Everybody is talking about Bitcoin and Nostr. Most folks don't care very much about the underlying tools or how payments work. They want to talk about their interests, surfing, food, travel, their friends. or ten million other things. They see Nostr as a bitcoin place. Most people have either no opinion or a negative opinion of bitcoin because somebody tried to evangelize it too hard. * Zaps, folks love zaps. I've heard from board members and the executives of Bluesky that they want zaps. Folks don't like bitcoin and bitcoin content but they do want the functionality. The problem is when creators come to Nostr, they only get zaps for content that is about nostr or bitcoin. There's no good way to build and sustain themselves with other content. * Algorithms - we all have a love hate relationship with algorithms. We say we don't want them, but we choose to use systems with algorithms. We have them in nostr with DVM's and it works. But it's not well integrated in to the apps and most feed services via DVM's are way too slow. The algorithm helps people be seen, grow an audience, find their people, keep being engaged. We built the proof of concept but didn't make it in to a good product. These things that keep people from Nostr are fixable. What i'm going at with my podcast is to build a larger movement, Nostr is a solution, but people on Nostr aren't my intended audience. ;-D npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Ah. Good. The risk of posting before my second cup of coffee in the morning. :)))) npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble You can zap me. I am not trying to sell Nostr in these interviews. I bring it up when it makes sense. I think if we can build the movement for permissionless social protocols. And critiquing projects that don’t fulfill the rights we should be demanding as I laid out in rights.social. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble This is what happens when you see that someone publishes a 1984 report on amethyst? This is really hostile. You know Google and Apple require reporting. Doing it in a decentralized web of trust ways is the the open solution. Instead of explaining how reports and trust and safety works in a permissionless network, you’re inciting people to harass and attack the people who use this feature. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I’ve heard good stuff about pubky but was disappointed that it didn’t feel like it lived up to the promised values. I’ll take more time to look at it. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble We didn’t talk about bitcoin or cryptocurrencies. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble It’s just not really saying permissionless protocol when all the docs lead you to apps that require invite codes. Generally I’ve found if folks are working in a closed by default way they tend to keep that mindset. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Latest episode of revolution.social is out. I sat down with author, technologist, and activist @npub1yxz…5qvv. We talked about open social protocols, critiques of Bluesky, the role of science fiction in social change, and the future we’re trying to build. On Fountian: https://fountain.fm/episode/ZC14pZCfaUOsVsRerMGX On YouTube: https://youtu.be/exvpetQRSVo If you can, the viewer numbers on YouTube help me build an audience. I also need more reviews and ratings on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/revolution-social/id1824528874 and Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4wAyssF5EFAPi9WyMuGS33?si=HMGsV3SPTOWcpFC3TRwoDw npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble They can follow back and replies / reactions work across the bridge. @npub1q3s…d26p runs it. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Were you able to test it at all? https://github.com/pubky/pubky-app says it's depreciated, linking to a dead repo. and https://pubky.app/ wont' let you join without an invite code, hardly premissionless... npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Is this what they mean by a keyboard warrior? This is from the protests in Nepal against corruption and the ban of social media in the country. https://i.nostr.build/1zmPLUUJeRcYBNB7.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Yep. Titanic. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I don’t think it’s the biggest or most expensive but it is 1.3 meters long when built. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble It’s Father’s Day here in Aotearoa New Zealand and I’m spending it building the biggest Lego set I’ve ever seen with my daughter. 10,000 pieces. https://i.nostr.build/T6W2PJX18cXdpnNJ.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Apparently the Wellington airport cart advertising is not frequently updated. This one announced Singapore airlines service to Wellington is coming 9 years ago. https://i.nostr.build/gematoLZxay4WXh8.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble The cat didn’t like its post burningman bath but it was sorely needed. https://i.nostr.build/7dvdIj539pwzIGTQ.jpg https://v.nostr.build/oQvM7jrrlZb21AsQ.mp4 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Love or hate her, @npub1d9n…udfv, has a ton of interesting things to say about social media. In my latest episode of revolution.social, we talk about free speech, social protocols, and the need to control your own infrastructure and tech. https://fountain.fm/episode/oNIA338g6r4nWw9kg8p9 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble There are always more letters to add. 🏳️🌈 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble The bike lock stand outside the LGBTQIA2+ center in Reno is on brand. https://i.nostr.build/F2ezUHpIpFSArs4f.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble A shoe?!👞 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble It’s air filled with a fan, hot because it’s in the sun in the desert, but not has hot as people think. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I took my inflatable cat suit to #burningman and lots of people wanted to give me hugs. https://blossom.primal.net/fadfa16f78a574a74b7469e58f7b916cf075f628d8b5ec98481b861af52026e6.mp4 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble secretum habemus! https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1427 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Yes npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Morning sky at sunrise. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I haven’t found any peers yet. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Thanks. I’m glad you like it. I’ve got an update in the works with DMs, tor, and cashu support. Kudos to @npub16zs…92l7 and crew for shepherding it this far. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble https://i.nostr.build/4orrJB5GXMfUC7HP.jpg