It should be much, much harder to post to relays. Increase the barrier to entry. Show the relay proudly in the apps.

Pretty cool to see a network of user run hotspots actually working. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250424407728/en/Helium-Network-Brings-Wi-Fi-Connectivity-to-ATT-at-Thousands-of-Locations-Across-America

If @Keychat has the mail metaphor, regular Nostr posting should embrace the telephone pole metaphor. You’re just putting up your flyer in various places. - telephone pole (public) - storefront window (private) - church billboard (non profit) It accurately captures the reality of what is happening to your data. Each location can take down your flyer whenever it wants. Or it could keep it up well after you need them to.

Need to convert

itter.sh

itter.sh - Social Media via SSH

itter.sh: Ironic, text-only, SSH-based social networking for terminal lovers. No browser, no js, just eets.

to run on Nostr. Let people add a flag for which relay to post to

Nostr users finally getting an overdue wake up call. In a couple months they’ll realize that they do not own their data in any way. View quoted note →

Does everyone know that Trump is in favor of outsourcing and increasing work visas? And he’s barely even deporting illegals to add insult to injury lol. The dude just loves fucking us over every single way he can.

Anyone want to test @0xchat with me? Not sure who else is using messaging that works with the new NIP-104 MLS

Granted, I am all for the movement to get rid of smartphones. Maybe that will pick up traction and web apps will become popular again. Sounds like a miracle, but we can pray. View quoted note →

The elephant in the room with decentralized social / messaging is that nobody will ever use a web app. A web app will *never* gain significant adoption. Better to have a severely limited and ugly native mobile app than to have an incredibly polished and robust web app.

The lack of user-owned compute will forever be the problem with Nostr. I’m bullish on Urbit again… can’t believe I’m saying it View quoted note →

I do love Rostra (and other P2P social things), but you will always run into this issue of compute. People want a feeling of security and safety. They want Access Control Lists, friend requests, permissions. You need compute for that. It’s why I still believe in Urbit. It’s the closest thing to a digital home we have. P2P social + safety and security. Users actually have their own compute. And it’s understandable where data lives (at my house, at your house, etc)

Extrapolating this out, why aren’t the biggest free relays showing us ads in our notifications? It’s simple. When a user queries for notes, every so often, present notes that they didn’t ask for. Maybe even base the ads you show them on their existing activity. You now have a rival to Google/Meta ads. View quoted note →

If the relay isn’t paid, it should be run by an existing business. It should be like a Pizza Planet relay that advertises pizza to you every so often in your notifications. That would be an honest and sustainable business model.