Really good article on the noun-like characteristics of self-sovereign identity, and how they tend to displace the verb-like attributes of identity, especially in low-friction systems like code (as opposed to law).

Philip Sheldrake

The dystopia of self-sovereign identity (SSI)

SSI has distressing emergent outcomes — the antithesis of the hopes and plans of the SSI community and those attracted to SSI’s real-world ...

"The more I thought about it, the harder it became not to view the so-called creator economy as a blatant pyramid scheme underwritten by some of the worst corporations in the world. The way to succeed is to get in early, then become an aspirational figure to those who come along later."

Caroline Crampton

I'm Done With Social Media

Or: why I have a blog now.

I know I've seen experiments in this area, anyone have an answer to this question? View quoted note →

Pretty good thread on why XMPP failed but SMTP didn't:

Ask HN: Why XMPP failed and SMTP didn't? | Hacker News

I've probably posted this before, but here are some ideas for people who want to build interesting nostr apps that aren't just more microblogging clients: - [ ] Time travel - see events as of a date/time (like FB's x years ago thing) - [ ] Sophisticated telegram/discord-style bots - [ ] Email inbox-like application - [ ] Kickstarter on nostr - [ ] https://letterboxd.com/ on nostr - [ ] e-vite service/interface - [ ] Good nostr music player - [ ] Preference events - I want this, please populate it for me - [ ] Client-side DVMs could be a good way to solve request/response for private information - [ ] CLI for publishing DVM profiles and handlers - [ ] Alternative bootstrapping mechanisms (torrents? dht?) - [ ] Social key rotation protocol - [ ] DVM in the browser that does something goofy like share with other people what you're looking at - [ ] Relay manager

@Kieran I've been getting a ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR whenever I go to zap.stream for the last week or so