Radio stations don’t know how many people are listening to them. They’re focused on broadcast and that’s it. So they had to develop Nielsen Ratings to know what their reach is. I see Nostr as very similar. We shouldn’t rely on aggregating follows. Our “Nielsen Ratings” should be data that we gather from relays on actual number of lookups they perform for specific accounts. Maybe you even pay to see what your real reach is. You can use that data to get sponsorships. So it should be an industry standard that is defensible metric.

As I discovered a year ago, there’s already an NIP that should be used for this, but no one will use it. They’ll each make a new custom NIP. NIPs are USELESS View quoted note →

Muting everyone except your follows and your follows’ follows is effectively the exact same as having a BlueSky style beta invite system.

@Cash App truly sucks. They’ll mark your transaction as fraud and auto-cancel it. Then support will say they can’t help you with getting it unflagged. Their fraud detection is just a black box that nobody understands and can’t be overridden. Talked on the phone with a guy that sounded indian. Did we learn nothing from the Coinbase hack? We really think it’s a good idea to outsource access to our PII to India, a country that prides itself on the sophistication of its scams? @jack Cash App really shows the value of saying FU to these companies and just using Bitcoin and dollar bills directly.

Cheesy analogy for Nostr + Pkarr + Iroh: Nostr relay is the bar. Wave to your friend and shout to get their attention. Nostr DMs are like passing notes across the bar (owner and staff can potentially see). Pkarr is when you sit down at a table with them. Iroh is the conversation at the table. Bar owner and staff can’t hear this when you’re being quiet.

Everyone on Nostr is promoting “vibe coded” slop. Yeah, that’s really enticing to an intelligent developer that wants to make high quality software.

Which is worse: Palantir putting you on a blacklist for thought crimes or using a a messenger that sounds like a sexually transmitted disease?

I will not eat the bugs, I will not live in the pod, I will not zap the nutsack

When “zaps” simply become “tips”, that’s when Nostr will make it. We must be willing to remove all idiocy for the sake of the greater good. Cannot be precious about cuteness that isn’t even cute.

I guess key signers are 100% mandatory now in the age of duct-taped AI app slop

“Multiple peers transitioning is key. Having local clusters develop is important” Nostr devs will read this and think the solution is fOlloW pAcKs View quoted note →

Is there any guide like “nostr signers for dummies”? All of these clients just assume that people understand what these signers are and how to use them. Reality: using signers is a nightmare to set up and simply annoying to use. How can the UX be made to feel more intuitive? View quoted note →

Nothing Ever Happens View quoted note →