I like the idea of revokable subkeys. You could use a shared cloud custodial login service for the subkey but keep the root offline or backed up. That way you could get easy login without giving up control. Potentially you could inscribe controls over what a subkey could or couldn’t do. Which would be interesting. View quoted note →

And now @bryan newbold (✈️ vacation/travel through mid-Jan) has written a good response to @Christine Lemmer-Webber’s essay. Also worth reading if you’re interested social media protocols and advocating for why Nostr solves some of the problems that have come up with in ActivityPub and ATprotocol.

Reply on Bluesky and Decentralization | bryan newbold

This is a reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber's thoughtful (and widely read) "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" blog post. I am so happy and grat...

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New version of @npub1pu3v...tfch is out. Mostly a bug fix update, but go in to testflight / appstore to update as apple doesn’t push an upgrade automatically all the time. View quoted note →

If Trump really does impose broad and high tariffs then it’ll cause domestic inflation. What will it due the USD visa vi other currencies? Will it cause inflation elsewhere?

Is satlantis open source? I’m curious how they do the username/password to nsec bunker and if it would be possible to adapt to other communities not just bitcoin digital nomads. There’s some Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand who are interested in having something similar but for Maori orgs and places here. Is there a library / server setup fro username / password access to nsecbunkers like the way satlantis does it?

GitHub

Satlantis

Satlantis has 5 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

I gave a talk about Nostr, democracy, and the future of social media. View quoted note →

“Both political parties have worked together to push [social media] platforms to censor political speech. This is why meta now down ranks all posts from journalists and activists. And TikTok is similar where it’s suppressed political content. People in power, whether they’re democrats or republicans seem to be able to agree on is that they want less online activism, and less speech. We’ve seen that throughout the Trump and Biden administrations alike, and I do think it’s concerning. When we look at the social media landscape, these apps that were originally ushered in things like the Arab Spring. People used to talk about their liberatory nature, now you can’t even say the word feminism on threads without getting down ranked. “ @Taylor Lorenz

Could the 4B movement ever happen in America?

Are women abstaining from sex to protest Donald Trump’s re-election? That’s the impression you’d get if you spent time reading the media over...

We’ve got good list tools in Nostr but aren’t making lists accessible and useful as much as they’ve done over in Bluesky land.

The Ultimate Directory of tools and applications for Bluesky

The Ultimate Directory of tools and applications for Bluesky

A curated collection of all things relating to the Bluesky social media platform.

The Willow protocol and now Leaf built on top of it is one the more interesting social protocols I’ve seen. It’s useful for folks building Nostr to look at what they’re doing.

Muni Blog

Leaf, ATProto and ActivityPub

How does Leaf compare to AtProto and ActivityPub?

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And since we’re talking about how Bluesky works, View quoted note → I might as well share this technical deep dive.

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)

Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel des...

The new version of primal.net is hot. the first time a Nostr app is good enough for newbies. Watch Paul outline what they’ve done.

How decentralized is Bluesky really? @Christine Lemmer-Webber has a great essay digging in to it and looking at the design decisions that make Bluesky work but also really hard to decentralize. Nostr is mentioned several times, we take the mantle of an actual decentralized network by making it work really well. Interestingly Primal is the best Nostr client ecosystem and they’ve also had to introduce centralization to make the experience work well. If you care about social media protocols and want to get in to some of the details about how then work, then read this essay. We can’t build Nostr effectively if we don’t understand what others are doing.

How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

Rabble: a large group of butterflies. "we arrived at the grounds after following a rabble of butterflies"

Recurring payments are an important feature in the sustainable business for saas and content creators. We need it to work with crypto or people will just use credit cards because it makes the economics of their business work.

Exciting to see that Foursquare has open sourced their POI database. Imagine a satlantis but with 100 million venues.

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community

I did not expect this! [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ ...

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So is there going to be some kind of zapathon celebration or something else when bitcoin crosses a $100k usd valuation?

Finally some good news out of Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Spinoff

Drugs are getting cheaper and easier to find in Aotearoa

Two new surveys show a dramatic shift in New Zealanders' drug use habits – and there has been a sharp discount in prices.

The government of New Zealand has made these words illegal to display in public starting today. Aotearoa Natives Bandidos MC Barbarian Stormtrooper Black Power Comanchero MC Crips Damned Pirates Devils Henchmen MC Filthy Few MC Fitus Full Blooded Islanders Greazy Dogs MC Head Hunters MC Hells Angels MC Highway 61 MC HTOWN07 Killerbeez King Cobra Kuki Squad Magog MC Mangu Kaha Mongols MC Mongrel Mob New Zealand Nomad Outcasts MC Outlaws MC Rebels MC Road Knights MC Satans Slaves MC Stormtrooper Taupiri MC Tribal Huk Tribesmen MC Uru Taha West Side It took all of 3 minutes from when the law came in to force for the police to stop a motorist and arrest him for having a placard on his car dashboard which said “Mongrel Mob”. I think if gangs are doing things which are crimes which have victims then the people who commit those crimes should be arrested, but this kind thing is a thought crime. https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2024/0036/latest/whole.html#LMS939439

New Zealand has a new law that fundamentally goes against the rights of free expression. They’re banning people wearing patches on their clothing or in some cases even posessing symbols if the goverment designates it as ‘gang related’.

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If gangs are doing things illegal, then arrest them for the illegal things. The new government policy of making speech illegal is pretty messed up, in this case racist too.