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governments, the mafia, gangs, cartels, non profit organizations, churches, temples, startups, discord servers, github organizations, protocol specifications, nostrocket projects, are all different ways for people to come together and do something that they wouldn't have otherwise be able to do with their individual efforts is there any book on understanding how people from groups? what other ways can people form these "organizations", ie, groups with responsibilities, accountability and hierarchy of authority now that we have bitcoin and nostr, which wouldn't have been possible before? where is the beginning of THAT rabbit hole?

I miss the night. Growing up, our village used to get just a few hours of electricity in the day, and mostly not after it gets dark. Electricity is still not reliable there but most people got inverters and recharge lamps etc. When it got dark, you'd light the kerosene lamps and talk. Sometimes an uncle would come to give us company. I used to sit somewhere and do nothing mostly. Now, a couple decades later, I get extremely restless and anxious when left alone with my thoughts without my phone. When people couldn't sleep at night because it was too hot inside, the entire village would just come outside with handheld fans and walk on the streets for an hour or two in the moonlight. I can't even see any stars today because I live in a city now. One day I told one of my cousins that once I woke up at 8 am. He said he'd woken up at 9 before. I remember thinking that was insane. Nowadays I go to sleep at 9 am sometimes, after pulling an all nighter. I am technically Gen Z. But I have spent a longer time without the internet and electricity at night, then with them. Every time there is a power outage at night, it makes me feel warm and giggly inside, and I go outside to look at the sky.

What is the best protocol for private communications? The most helpful answer gets 1k sats. What I am trying to solve: - Use nostr to signal that you are using some app for private communications so that you can communicate using the secure alternative with other nostr users (instead of hacky nostr DMs) - Communicate with non-nostr users who are already using the other protocol/service Options I have thought about: - We have @SimpleX Chat with SMP and XFTP - We have Signal (and WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger) with the Signal Protocol but it's non federated - We have Session with it's own protocol, derived from the Signal protocol My requirements: - Encrypted one on one chat and group chat with a 100+ people - Encrypted file sharing - Phone and video calls (group calls included) - Ephemeral identities and onion routed message delivery to preserve as much privacy as possible - Or, use a single server along with Google's notification services etc for a balance of convenience and privacy

I'm addicted to the feeling of control I get when individually authorizing each event signing via Alby

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! - me, after fixing a typo in the NIPs repo

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nostr relays can be censored if govs start banning the relays' url and ip addresses. we can solve that by connecting to the relays using nostr itself