hey @Decent Newsroom I don't know if this project is still active, but there are a few bugs I'd like to point out if someone's listening...

#Connections Puzzle # 908 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

#asknostr anyone know what's the proper way to insert Nostr events into #longform  articles? Do I just use `nostr:` and the event name?

Sooo after most of the week puzzling with this, here is the (sorry) state of #mastodon bridges as I see it: @Alex Gleason 's  #mostr works great to surface content from Mastodon. However, actual 2-way communication with people over there seems to be functionally broken. The only people I've been able to successfully communicate with using Mostr are over on retro-gaiden.com (which BTW seems like a pretty cool place). With every other server, even ones that ostensibly Federate with Mostr, notes don't show up on the remote instance and I get zero response. It's basically talking into a void. Conversely, #momostr seems to actually work for 2-way comms. However, user and post discovery sucks. The same users and posts you'll see on Mostr will be almost impossible to find on Momostr by just using the search bar of most Nostr clients... However, I've found a hack: If you use the `.well-known/nostr.json?name=` API endpoint of Momostr, and set the name to the Mastodon user `username_at_server.com` , the API will spit back the pubkey. Past this into your search bar, and poof, the user appears for you to follow.

Latest revolution.social with @rabble is out, great interview with Jillian York from @Electronic Frontier Foundation .... But I've got my standard one-note feedback, and that's "what about Nostr?" Mid-episode, a lot of the discussion around moderation of social media seemed to simply assume that there _would_ be moderation, and that the question was "who gets to make the moderation policy?", i.e. whether that's Stanford grads in Palo Alto or (say) the Burmese government. This discussion was aimed at #bluesky, which obviously is still highly centralized, and thus can be regulated. But the question gets more murky when it comes to the #fediverse, and completely obsolete when it comes to #nostr. If we really believe in a future of decentralized social media, we need to shift the question away from "who's going to moderate and how?" to "how to empower individuals, families and communities to build their own opt-in moderation policies?"

Parking requirements are a great "gateway drug" into #urbanism, particularly from a #libertarian bent. Practically ever American city has minimum parking space requirements for commercial spaces, and these requirements are almost universally dumb & arbitrary. Take bowling alleys: Some cities require 2 spaces per lane, some 4, some 8. A bakery, a restaurant, and a bar all might have completely different requirements, despite serving a similar customer base... Meaning that the commercial landlord can get in a situation where they can't rent to XYZ business, because they don't have enough parking. And should a _bar_ really have a _minimum_ number of parking spaces? A place where people literally get inebriated and unable to operate a motor vehicle? This is the subject of the most recent talking headways podcast by @npub1cq2k...uzdv :

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast: Episode 558: Parking Reform with Tony Jordan

This week we’re joined by Tony Jordan, President of the at the Mpact Transit + mobility conference in Portland. We talk about getting rid of our...

There's a crazy story on 404 media about how a #polymarket bet was apparently manipulated by an independent group that reports on hour-by-hour updates of the #ukraine war. Site is paywalled, but I just listened to the podcast: apparently ISW, one group that maintains up-to-date maps of the conflict, released a "mistaken map" that caused a polymarket bet to resolve a certain way... then the map was quickly changed back. This sort of parallels certain conversations about #weboftrust that we're having on Nostr... Who do you trust to make the assertion that "thing X" actually happened in the real world?

404 Media

'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting

It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.

#sanfrancisco NIMBY's are calling new developments "Weinervilles" 😅 #yimby 

In San Francisco, A Six-Story Moral Panic

One local NIMBY is desperately trying to pull up the ladder behind him. Here’s why it matters.

Yay... #momostr seems to actually work for 2-way communications with the #fediverse, whereas #mostr is spotty at best. Now comes the difficult process of switching all my Mostr follows to Momostr...