Yes, but you can't make it easy. There are no servers that don't need maintenance, at least for electricity and connectivity issues. But also bugs, security issues, etc. The closest we came to this is VPSs on the cloud, and I support that a lot, but still, these friends need to know how to deal with emergencies.. just ask anyone who is running a mastodon instance.

If people keep pretending the mempool is a gatekeeper, people will start submitting transactions to mining pools directly like popular Nostr relays... is that how you keep bitcoin mining permissionless and decentralised?

Bluesky metrics are steadily declining, and that is the network that has the best chance of going mainstream. It is time to stop caring about global feeds and just make our small-worlds web better and more sovereign and be happy with that.

I have to admit, every time I see a screenshot or link from Mastodon I get envious of the quality of people and conversations there. This can very well be a selection bias, but I might cave in and create a Mastodon account. I just wish Mastodon was using Pkarr, so I neither have to setup a server nor worry about who is the first server I sign up to.

By the end of this month I should have the first usuable implementation of Cryptree in Rust, as a crate abstract enough to be used by anyone ... then I will go hard on the opinionated layer; identity, key management, host api etc. #Mlkut

You can always open

Pkarr Relay

to check on Mainline DHT and see an estimate of the current nodes count, it makes me smile usually.

If you were using Github as an alternative to Google Drive or Proton Drive, would you miss being able to grant access to subfolders and files? Or is the coarse access control by Repository enough for your needs? What if Github can let you share single files in private Repositories? Would you still wish for sharing subfolders too?