Remember everyone: you do not own your data on Nostr. The relays do. “But I can run my own relay! I can even support NIP-70! It’s my data!” “MUST” in an NIP means “WON’T”. You own the rope that you hang yourself with. That’s all you own. Nostr is the “congrats you played yourself” protocol.

Nostr was not made for normal people. It is actively hostile to normal people. View quoted note →

Do most nostr clients use NIP-70 by default? It basically gets you understandable data spread. It’s how people assume nostr works to begin with. Turning off NIP-70 should be the exception, not the default. Reserved for people that are trying to get famous and spread a message.

NIPs

NIP 70 - Protected Events — Nostr Implementation Possibilities

When the "-" tag is present, that means the event is "protected". A protected event is an event that can only be published to relays by its author....

Everything is luck. To say otherwise requires a fearful degree of pride or hubris. In the words of Shia Labeouf, “I won the lottery. I won a scratch off. What the f-ck is talent?” View quoted note →

SimpleX added channels for one to many broadcast. That’s amazing and good job! But also, Delta Chat has this and it’s even more censorship resistant because it’s just built on email. Banning simplex protocol wholesale is trivial for an ISP. Banning email is a nightmare. Just something I continue to think about View quoted note →

The amount of questions raised by this “non-custodial” cashu idea is honestly hilarious. What happened to SIMPLICITY. Why are we building layer upon layer upon layer in such a f-cked up way to achieve something that should be extremely simple? The answer can only be “so that number go up”. View quoted note →