Honestly I think FCMP++ is the most impressive thing any crypto has ever implemented

You can tell Primal is some sort of intelligence operation because you just get people coming out in droves insisting that what they are doing isn’t centralization or censorship. If you liked Primal, why wouldn’t you encourage them to add support for external relays? The app doesn’t have to change much. It can still use their caching server for faster loading, while also simultaneously following relay hints in nevents and subscribing to additional relays like every other Nostr client. If Primal were not trying to undermine and centralize Nostr, why wouldn’t they happily take this feedback and do some refactoring to include normal Nostr protocol relays that are not theirs?

“It is open source and you can run your own” does not make it not censorious — Mastodon is open source and you can run your own, and it is a hotbed of censorship. “Just run your own social media service!” is the exact echo of the most censorious people on earth. Most clients outside Primal have multiple relays by default, most or all of which they do not control. This includes Amethyst, Damus, Wisp, etc. If chooses Damus to block me on their relay, most people are still going to see my content because I am publishing to the other relays. Also most people can, via the relay hints provided by nevents when you quote a post, fetch my content from relays I post to even if you do not directly follow me or subscribe to my relay. If Primus blocks me from their caching server’s algorithmic feed, then I am silently erased and you will never see my content again. The only way this is different from Twitter is because people can take their nsecs elsewhere, but they provide no notice to users or opportunity for transparency as to what content they have removed. It is not just “caching the content from the relay” btw, it is selecting who gets seen at all in an editorialized fashion. And they have been caught not only censoring likes, but censoring entirely the display of basic post content in their algorithmic relay feed. View quoted note →

When I was a kid there was a DRAM price fixing scandal that was finally prosecuted around 2002. Companies were fined hundreds of millions of dollars for the egregious consumer harm of colluding to round up the prices of RAM to the nearest ten. Absolutely, that is bad behavior that deserves to be punished by society. But it in no way compares to Sam Altman buying up 40% of the supply of RAM to make your competitors all simultaneously get fucked on capex. It literally tacked hundreds of fucking dollars onto ram prices and, more importantly, is keeping actual fucking products I planned to buy out of my hands. It is the single most anticompetitive action that has potentially ever been done by any company in history, going so far as to not only harm consumers but gigantic swaths of market activity that simply are not happening because the RAM is too damn high. I know the DOJ and FTC are going to sit around and not do shit about this. Sam Altman, I wonder what his religious background is.

Trump inner circle Mark Levin says it’s time to ban “nazis and jihadhis” from social media, saying the 1st amendment has gone too far and is is making speech “overprotected.” Levin, that name seems familiar, wonder what his ethnic origins are.

Suno is the most incredibly polished AI product out there. You can churn out high quality parody mashups to mock people online that sound like they were churned out of a professional recording studio. It’s psychologically devastating for these people to have catchy songs dismantling them and outlining their romantic failures. This kind of bespoke polemic is timeless because these songs end up in my normal day to day music playlist forever. Sometimes guests inquire about the bands and I get to have a funny story about how it was a song made up to mock somebody online.

Welcome To/Exiled From The Get Along Gang (ytcracker x open mike) [HUGBOX REMIX]

Listen and make your own on Suno.