It’s refreshing that nobody on #nostr really talks about (or really cares about) #AI. For sure, it’s a great tool, but on those other platforms hardly a swipe goes by without seeing a post on the existential threats, etc. of #AI. My take is that here on #nostr we have a predominance of builders and creators that take the new tech in stride, seeing new opportunities. In contrast, on the other platforms, it’s all about fear and how to slow down, regulate or outright stop the innovation, until we figure out ‘what’s best for society’. It’s the shift in power structures that is the underlying fear. If you are a builder or creator that’s the last thing you need to worry about - because it’s you who is shifting the power structures.

Signed Events Relayed (SRE) is as big of a deal as Proof of Work (POW). #nostr

My spider-sense is that this is a symptom of a more fundamental problem: an institution that believes it is always right and the wisest despite indications to the contrary. When you’re forced to do things you no longer believe in, it leads to #burnout.

You know an architecture is right when it begins to use higher order components of itself. Case in point: my website in my profile is now:

Tim Bouma

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Tim Bouma @trbouma on Twitter. Let's see how this goes!

which is composed of my #nostr events.

Depend on the internet for availability. Don’t depend on the internet for confidentiality or integrity. Use #nostr

Blast Radius protocol attack - affecting pretty much every network router and switch

BLAST RADIUS

Most applications and platforms try to do too much, most of which is done badly. Then they try to lock you in with the badly done stuff.

Another great example of a good faith effort at solving a problem that the existing web architecture has made intractable. Today, every app is its own walled garden for identity so you have go prove yourself from scratch every time. Identity verification is a great business to be in because you get to solve the same problem over and over again without actually addressing the root problem. What is the root problem? Identity is not a native part of the network. It's a bespoke add-on to every application. #nostr solves this with the #npub because it externalizes identity into the network. Proven once that it's your #npub, you can use with all of the apps that are part of the #nostr network.

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Why ID providers fail to reuse data across clients | Nick Lambert posted on the topic | LinkedIn

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The road back into the city.

Ironically, the best way to solve the problem of massive data breaches is to have the data out in the open to begin with. Relays can do this job. How you protect the data is to not view the data as being in a single container protected by a single key, but as millions and millions of little containers (events) signed and encrypted by keys that you don’t actually hold. If there is a breach, it’s an issue contained to an individual holder, not and issue for the entire dataset, or for the broader society as a whole, who now has to deal with massive breaches on a daily basis. In keeping with my earlier theme, #nostr turns the whole architecture and approach inside out. It will take some time for this to catch on (too much money to be made fighting the traditional cybersecurity fires), but we’ll get there. #nostr #cybersecurity

I am still coming to term with #nostr having a radically different architecture that requires a radically different thinking mode on how you build apps. The latest radical insight is that the network becomes the database. Any database record you generate can be a #nostr event that is signed, relayed, but most importantly encrypted by you (NIP44). This approach breaks the back on commercial platform capture and lock-in. To date, commercial platforms have always had the play of providing free services to get you into their closed databases with database records about you. Then over time, those records (not controlled by you) lead to, in the words of Cory Doctorow, “enshittification” of everything about the service and the relationship with you. Also, massive breaches are just an event waiting to happen. With #nostr, the traditional model is flipped on its head. Instead of feeding a commercial service to generate database records about you, you can generate and sign events that can be stored on any relay, or in the network as a whole. So just like your nostr npub is no longer beholden to a commercial provider, your nostr events (database records) need no longer to be beholden as well. I am not discounting the existing commercial platforms. I’m just saying there is now a whole other approach. New commercial models will be discovered eventually, but right now the imperative is to experiment with this radically new approach. Special thanks to @PABLOF7z who got me thinking this way.

With #nostr, the network is the app.

You know how a flat-earther feels when they finally realize the world is round? That’s how I felt when I realized with #nostr that data can be stored everywhere.

Drucker: Culture eats strategy Nostr: Architecture eats government.

Idea for #nostr collectibles: npuppies

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Carl Jung has shared endless powerful lessons. But I collected 12 spooky ones that every time I remember them, I get goosebumps. Read carefully ⍒

With apologies to those who think #nip04 should be unrecommended.

The #nostr core requirement for 1:♾️ capability is sovereignty. For existing capabilities, the sovereignty requirement was never really understood or swept under the rug for more immediate opportunities. My belief is that the sovereignty requirement is equally crucial for an individual as it is for a nation state or any organization for that matter. With #nostr, I believe we’ve landed on an architecture that scales to infinite degree for anyone/anything that wishes to be sovereign.

#nostr is digital by other means.