Nostr devs I need your input on UpScrolled “UpScrolled is now the most downloaded mobile app in the United States! In the last hour it surpassed ChatGPT, Gemini and Threads”. Specifically not built on a protocol (didn’t mention nostr) for performance reasons. Thoughts?

Why does Vitalik refuse to acknowledge what already exists? I’m here, using it now

X (formerly Twitter)

vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) on X

In 2026, I plan to be fully back to decentralized social. If we want a better society, we need better mass communication tools. We need mass commu...

gemini 3 deep research is ridiculously good

where I'll be placing my bets in 2026 View article →

somebody please present the bull case for openai, I genuinely don't see it

Question for Nostr devs: I’m trying to understand whether a traditional private account model can be built on Nostr using encrypted groups (NIP-EE). I know a lot of people who enjoy using their real name, but not broadcasting everything publicly. Idea: When you “follow” someone, the client is really adding you to one of that user’s encrypted follower-circles. But their posts to that circle appear in your feed; the client just makes the group a feed to mimic the pattern we're used to. Users never see “groups”; they just see a normal follow/feed UI. Is this even possible? Example: A follows B. B follows C & D, but only D follows B back. A should see only what B shares with followers, not everything B sees from C & D. No idea if this could actually be implemented

What is the poverty line? What does it actually mean? And how does the definition distort our view of how bad things truly are for most people? Seems like nobody, other than Mike Green, actually thought to take a look A good read:

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

happening now on X... this is actually a very similar story of how I ended up here on nostr myself "we're the everything app, the digital town square, but you must abide by our rules or you must gtfo"

Is my understanding of the AT protocol correct if my conclusion is that it's not actually decentralized at all and it's more centralized than things such as email and text messaging?

Even Elon doesn’t understand that the everything app won’t be an app

we’re slowly seeing the impact of being the product There’s too much slop and the antidote to slop is money coming out of your pocket Advertisers and social networks are in for a rude awakening