Never even heard about this debate between @Lyn Alden and Alex de Vries from two years ago. Great job.
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Did some digging but couldn’t find anything. Any insights appreciated
What's the latest on email addresses that require a tiny sat payment to receive? e.g. what @strike was doing. Surprised I don't hear more about this considering it's the best idea I can think of to eliminate spam and protect people from scams like this pig butchering thing
#asknostr
The other day I posted a tip about following the people that the people you like follow; today I have a new tip: on @primal browser at least, when you go to a thread, it shows the "People in this thread" on the right side. Follow those people, because they're mostly proven to be active on #nostr.
#introductions
You know, at first I thought posting images from the internet to #Nostr was cumbersome - right click, download the image somewhere, go to Nostr, find it again, upload. Blech.
But now I think it's the easiest of all platforms - right click, copy image address, paste into Nostr, it automatically becomes the image again. Easy-peasy.
Go where you're rare. It'll be uncomfortable but will open a world of opportunity.
I know, it's easy for me to say, but I really feel like people are too tied to where they know (but have no upwards mobility).
Crazy. And way more informative than any coverage I've seen.
Think about it, if MrBeast were on #Nostr, he could drop fortunes on random followers or reward every single follower completely seamlessly whenever he wanted.
So which one of you is going to be the MrBeast of Nostr?!
(I'd do it, but I don't think I'm crazy enough.)
Pretty much sums up finance media
Who else is going to CheatCode?!
(#Nostr is a rushing river so I'll be posting this a lot in the coming days, sorry in advance for the annoyance. Trying to make friends)
What would be cool is an animated lightning border around reposts that you also zapped, so your followers know you really liked it.
From Astral Codex Ten (Slate Star Codex)
People out here saying max pain is #Bitcoin going straight to 1 million; I don’t think you can call something max pain when you’re saying it gleefully.
What are you working on this week? For me it's the next BTP episode
Does #nostr really have zero new user retention in 2024?
Wen lists on Primal @miljan?
Damn, thought the pic would show in the preview. Oh well
Unpopular opinion (?): #Nostr needs a toxically addicting app more than a feel-good community.
An app that sucks you in, keeps you doomscrolling until 5 am, convinces you that the alpha/enlightenment/fulfillment you crave can be found in the very next post, shoves the trash you hate but always click on in your face every time you open it, delivers the dopamine when your spouse/partner/significant other does not, poisons your relationships, self-image, and productivity, messes up an entire generation of teenagers. And onboards half the world.
Then, far healthier alternatives will pop up (/have always existed) and people will flock to them because they don't have to give up their networks.
Right now, it's not that people don't know their habits are unhealthy, it's that the calculus doesn't make it seem worth it to quit. "Go where my friends/entertainers are" vs. "go where is good for me" almost always resolves in one direction. So lure them in with the unhealthy and then present the healthy without the switching cost.
People talk about how calm/happy/refreshing Nostr is, but I suspect we'll need the rage-baiters, the e-thots, the slack-jawed soyboys in order to make a dent in the world.
Problem is who would knowingly build a dopamine casino with no walls?
(I should note that the beauty of Nostr is that none of this means we can't keep the feel-good communities, they'll just have to work a bit harder at filtering when everyone else moves in.)
