You know what, if you want to play that game: Put the parents in jail as well while you are at it for negligence because it is impossible to claim ignorance to the negative/harmfull character of Meta's services. I hated Facebook from the start as much as the next guy, but it is obvious we have to look at this a layer deeper and conclude we simply set up an architecture that gave a hand full of corporations more responcibility than they could possibly carry. The fact that this postition of power was corrupting, and that a corporation is not going to stop itself should both not be to anyones suprise and as such are completely un-interesting to me. What are we going to do to fix it? Nostr. View quoted note →

I feel there is some confusion about NIP-29, relay based groups. Yes, they are centralized, obviously, they run on a central server...the relay it happens to use. Doing things like groups in this manner makes it subsequently straightforward, fast, not-buggy, and scalable. You are still free to use whatever relay for such a group, including your own; and as a user you are still able to use whatever app to interface with the various groups running on various relays that you are part of (have a look at @npub1ktxu...zc2h or

Flotilla

Flotilla is a community platform — chat, voice, video, and events — built on the open Nostr protocol, so the community you build is one you tru...

or whatever you fancy) . The point is the usecase and its context. You should use these relay based groups for (semi-)closed, moderated environments with a hierarchie that is in charge in context of a particular thing. The whole point is that it is a coherent environment, the whole point is that someone is in charge of "censorship"; its a house, you are a guest, and the fact that you can be yeeted out is a feature, not a bug. In this context, censorship resistance does not make sense, therefor decentralization does not make sense. For example, we are running a relay based group for @Kubo.watch for user feedback on the app, and even integrated it nicely into the app itself (as should basically every client, to the extend they can be bothered to moderate an environment). As long as Kubo is a thing, that relay group will be a thing, because we have an interest in keeping all of that up and running. If/When Kubo is no longer a thing, whats the point of the associated group anyway? On top of this, forking and migrating a group to another relay is possible. It might not be the cleanest proces in the world, but it does mitigate the risks of host-relay-failures. Lastly, all of this exists within the broader Nostr context, you are not solely dependent on the relay-group to be and to stay into contact with others in that group, all the other means Nostr provides are still available to you for that purpose. Its just another tool in our toolbox that we can leverage, and in this case constitutes an improvement over things like Discord. Nostr.

Dear Nostr clients, Please consider rephrasing your share options to: "Share inside Nostr" and "Share outside Nostr" For the nostr: reference, and URL respectively. I don't mind correcting/infoming people on the proper way to do things inside your clients over and over and over and over again, but my efforts can be used elsewhere as well. Just tagging a bunch of clients without checking if they actually suck in this regard or not: @Damus @Amethyst @npub12vkc...pugg @YakiHonne @npub17n4c...fyh9 @npub10qdp...arpj Please tag any other clients or devs in the replies View quoted note →

Meet @npub1awth...t5rs He is active in the public sphere here in the Netherlands informing and warning people on things like chatcontrol, digitalID and the digital panoptigon in general. Forgive him that he still thinks Nostr is too difficult for the public at large, he basically only created a keypair in order to have a back-up. He is yet to realize the issue that it is unfamiliar rather than complicated. He probably is also yet to realize that Nostr is a better system all together, not just an escape hatch. He just needs a bit more motivation himself to start using Nostr more actively. Most likely all his content will be in Dutch, but thats ok, say hi and give him a follow regardless, he is doing good work.. Speaking of his work:

Michel Portier | Substack

Informaticus | Podcaster | Technologie & Ethiek

https://www.youtube.com/@MichelPortier-101 (who knows when he opens his Nostr client again, but when he eventually does, please let him have an exploded notifcation tab) View quoted note →

Guy died in the hospital, 7 people arrested. Third shooting in 2,5 days in my street 🤸‍♂️ View quoted note →