Maybe food for thought: One thing that Mastodon has going over Nostr, is branding. I mean, unless you want to "dive" into the third party ecosystem, Mastodon looks pretty much the same, wherever you access it - it's always the Mastodon web client - that's how you can recognize it easily. On Nostr, many clients feel like seperate entities. Someone may be on Primal, another Iris, another Damus - Seems like these are seperate entities. When you ask, are you on Mastodon? It's a clear, yes or no. Are you on Damus? What is Damus even? Oh, it's Nostr. Is this, like the internet? I still think there's no good solution here; I wonder what's more mental overhead for users: Mastodon with multiple servers, or Nostr, with keys and relays.

Also interesting, the #Nostr retention rate is actually getting worse. In fact, it's been getting consistently worse, over 6 months. One could say, as client's get more polished, fewer people decide to stay ;) Of course that's probably not the reason.

For every daily active user on #Nostr, there's approx. 0.2 relays.

Wow, #Nostr has grown by 900 daily active users, over 6 months. That's impressive! At this point Nostr feels more like a small community forum, rather than a social network. It's cozy, that's for sure ;) Sort of like a sub-reddit for Nostr / Bitcoin users. A niche, in a niche.

Who are these fu** people that think it's okay to scrape my email from somewhere, to tell me about their new javascript framework.

To all those poor losers stuck on Apple hardware

Jeffrey Paul: Your Computer Isn't Yours

(granted, same applies to Windows, Android and even Linux, if you're not considered)

Why is there an assumption, that we'll be able to keep AI off Nostr, if we so desire? Why do people assume that paid-relays, are immune to bots and spamming? Nostr is tiny. Why wouldn't a spammer pay a couple of cents, to spam on a premium server? Hell, it might be stolen money or coming out of a rug-pull. Why is there an assumption that bad actors wouldn't pay? Hasn't Twitter shown that this is complete nonsense?

@Peter McCormack I just watched your latest episode, and I find it curious, that when you talk about the impact of job losses - all that's being talked about is, what has already been lost - translation, design and so on. Why is the discussion never about, what we're going to lose? Your guest was a developer, who claimed to find much use in AI for debugging and improvement - how difficult is it for you to imagine, that he'd be completely replaced by AI? How difficult is it for you to imagine, that an AI would simply be better at your job? Better at running a foodball club; better at running your podcast; Better at .... well, I mean, if Midjourney is any measure, why is it so hard for people to imagine, that virtually every job is about to become obsolete. And isn't everyone that's putting AI to use now, to replace design / translation / copywriting / developing work, just feeding the devil? I mean sure, everyone's doing, so you've got to, too - but really? The equivalent in the Bitcoin land, would be buying US government bonds. Isn't that supporting a system, that we've found to be destructive?

It seems what people consider "normies" varies significantly. When I'm refering to getting normies on Nostr, I'm refering to more people in the Linux space; People doing research on things that don't involve Bitcoin - basically people that don't already have a deep connection with Bitcoin and Nostr (and use them, for that very reason). I'm here because the protocol is exiting and I enjoy working with it. It's fun developing a client for the sake of it, and being able to join a network and put it to use immideately. I'm also here because I didn't much care about my Mastodon server, and about social media in general - but working on it, is a different thing. But that's exactly it. The people that are here now, are here because of Nostr; Or because nobody else would have them - but I think of Nostr much more like the invisible layer, people don't have to think about - and that means, it really isn't a debate about reaching more normies on TikTok, it's about getting more people on Nostr, so I don't have to worry about where they are - and how to access them there; So that we have other normies, that are geeks in their own things ... gardening? I sure wouldn't mind to read more about gardening, than how Nostr fixes everything.

1050 TH/s for 650W https://asicrun.com/product/ar1-miner/. Is this a joke?

I don't know why people can't think things trough. All this talk about AI, more automation, more integration, ... I don't understand what supposed to be left, at the end of this journey? I mean, once GTP writes all our messages; Does all our work; Prvides us with all the movies, TV shows, music and porn we can ever imagine. What exactly is left? Is it really "progress" to eventually be hooked-up to some smart glasses 24/7? No diseases, longer lives and unlimited entertainment. Already people can fill their days with 5+ hours of mindless social media scrolling, which is not at all compelling. What are they to do, when there's nothing else to do anymore?

I just cannot imagine monetization on Nostr yet. Most people aren't used to pay, to store their data. You can reason as much as you want, they will still prefer the 0-cost alternative. And with the number of "premium" relays growing, many users will find themselves locked-out. Can't we come-up with some sort of network funding? Where ultimately ~5% of the users, pay for 100% of the infastructure? A bucket, that's split among relay / proxy and storage operators, based on the capacity they provide (and process). Sourcehut does something like this.

Looks like someone tried to abuse #NostrOP website proxy. I added a throttle for now; Probably need a more robust solution asap.