One of my instructors used to tell us: Data that you collect will eventually be stored. Data that you store will eventually be misused. View quoted note →

It’s been a while since I opened Damus. Immediately found an irritant: conversations are now split (so neither threaded nor time-ordered) by known contacts and unknown. It would be much better to attach an icon that says “unknown/untrusted” than to make the conversation unreadable like this. Otherwise, Damus is still great, as always.

That person seems to be obsessed with someone who they communicated with in a Reddit subforum. Someone who apparently may have committed s**c*de. They’re probably going to come off as unnecessarily harsh.

NBC News

Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet

Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, i...

I’ve never done that, so I guess I’m relatively well off.

@Tristan Brice Velloza Kildaire Hey, if you want your pjuu.com data, you need to download it quickly. Site closes in under 30 days.

Bitcoin (BTC) Purchases Won't Stop in El Salvador: President Nayib Bukele

A clause in the country's recently-completed IMF financing deal suggested a prohibition against El Salvador accumulating any additional bitcoin.

Good. F the IMF bankster scumbags.

> The old Nostr “Telegram” client … I don’t remember that one. But I never used the real Telegram anyway, so I don’t know what it would be like. I did use web-based Nostrgram a couple of times with a temporary key. I also have never set up zaps, so I would have missed that issue anyway.

Does anyone have a ten second explanation of what olas is?

I saw something that claimed Farcaster had around 45,000 daily active users as of 3 months ago. Having also seen a bunch of whining about the FC’s growth rate versus Nostr’s growth rate, I wonder what Nostr’s estimated active daily user count is. Recognizing that there shouldn’t be any accurate way to measure that, and thus growth rate estimates will always be inaccurate. I have not tried FC, but my impression is that they are pretty centralized in some ways. (And likewise for BlueSky; current design is intentionally centralized)

Nostr has 35K weekly active users? How does one measure this?

I am not against pineapple on pizza, but I would not eat it myself. I don’t even like pineapple on pineapple.