Slop will not be tolerated

A pay per use model would significantly enshittify paid relays, lead to horrible UX and allow tons of spam: 1. It would lead to unpredictable charges for users. A fixed fee per month/year means the relay just works. 2. The cost acts as a bond for spam and abuse, compared to pay-per-note. 3. It is incompatible with services like aggr.nostr.land and NIP-05 where there is no “usage”. 4. It would allow a monetary DoS for services like inbox relays, where someone can spam you with junk giftwraps. 5. Users should not need to worry about constantly having a topped up wallet and using a supported client.

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CLINK or whatever this protocol is, is worse than NWC. What is the point?

Code is a liability, to some extent. Each feature and line incurs a maintenance cost. Less code is better. View quoted note →

Code has always been cheap. You don’t need an LLM to generate slop. For me, nothing has changed

Anthropic has released a new money-incinerator that predicts probabilities better than the previous money-incinerator and also incinerates your money faster

I am considering requiring NIP-42 authentication for a majority of event writes. It would prevent random rebroadcasts where it is not desired and allow for better spam filtering, so why not?

The current grant structure has successfully led to the exit of most competent devs. Now, most “devs” are looking for quick grant money for vaporware, or want to cosplay software development with AI slop tools.

I don’t get why people strongly feel that they should share private communications for any reason. Especially people “exposing” others is really icky. You can do all of that, without sharing every single detail. Redaction and using your own words is not hard.

Data ownership is not something that exists. Privacy should be respected, but a false illusion of fully controlling what you share is as harmful as ignoring requests to delete. “Homeservers” don’t fix this as archive.is, archive.org, Trove and many others will happily keep permanent and trusted records of what you said, some of them even if you ask them to delete it.

Galileo fallacy (noun) A fallacy whereby it is implied that one is correct due to being widely criticized or persecuted.