shark_laser

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by shark_laser 7mo ago
> I've sometimes dreamed of a web where every resource is tied to a hash, which can be rehosted by third parties, making archival transparent. This would also make it trivial to stand up a small website without worrying about it get
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by shark_laser 8mo ago
What did you think was going to happen when you've got guaranteed payments and a growing customer base as people celebrate their "neurodiversity" whilst at the same time demanding subsidies and yelling "ableist" at
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by shark_laser 9mo ago
Yep. And you still de-anonymise yourself with Mastodon when you buy hosting and a domain. If you use an existing provider, then you're back at square one and living in hope that the provider doesn't keep logs etc, or just decide t
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by shark_laser 9mo ago
It's why I'm so excited about Nostr, and apps built on top of it, like 0xchat: https://www.0xchat.com/
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by shark_laser 9mo ago
I'm still confused about why multiple clients would be pushing the same message, especially given that Nostr events are signed, but that's by the by. I think "without further implementation details" is the key point here
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by shark_laser 9mo ago
Please take a look at my other replies to other posts. Read about the outbox model, or Bitchat. The large relays are not required. They are a public service but not essential. There are plenty of community relays charging for access too, an
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by shark_laser 9mo ago
Proof of Work secures Bitcoin, and people definitely care about that.
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by shark_laser 9mo ago
I have posted very similar replies to other messages in this thread and don't want to repeat myself too much at the risk of being considered spam. But... Outbox model prevents censorship because you push your (cryptographically signed
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by shark_laser 9mo ago
"Boom. Same as Nostr, but with existing platforms" - Except without the ability to give and receive real value via zaps, and at the risk of being censored, and losing your entire audience at the whim of the network operators. Spam
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by shark_laser 9mo ago
This is not true. Read up on the outbox model. I have linked it elsewhere in replies in this thread. You post to your own preferred relays, as well as to the preferred relays of others who are involved in the conversation, as well as to a c
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by shark_laser 9mo ago
Read up on the outbox model and zaps. Also check out Bitchat for a real world example of Nostr being effectively used without even requiring Internet connectivity. You cannot censor Nostr. Also, check out how zaps work, and relay authentica
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by shark_laser 9mo ago
Nostr has the benefits of centralised networks for discoverability, federated networks for communities, and private individual web site for p2p and archival purposes. As I have said in other replies to this post, read up on the outbox model
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by shark_laser 9mo ago
Check the outbox model: https://nostrify.dev/relay/outbox Why would "every relay getting pummeled by a load of clients simultaneously, all trying to push the same message"? Relays get one client pushing one m
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by shark_laser 1y ago
Every time I see an article like this that doesn't mention Nostr I just shake my head...
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by shark_laser 1y ago
White Noise is open source, and built on Nostr, a decentralised and open protocol. Run your own fork if you don't trust this one.
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by shark_laser 1y ago
This is decentralised as it runs on Nostr. Nostr can run over TOR.
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by shark_laser 1y ago
This criticism of Nostr is quite outdated. I haven't looked into the White Noise code, but Gift Wrapping is just one way this issue was solved a long time ago: https://nips.nostr.com/59
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by shark_laser 1y ago
Why not 0xchat? Private key login, encrypted private chats and contacts, encrypted group chats, and lightning payments. Decentralised, built on Nostr. Available on all platforms. https://www.0xchat.com/
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by shark_laser 1y ago
I cannot speak for Africa, but this is not true of South East Asia. Whilst cheap 'dumb' phones do still exist and are used, even low income earners in South East Asia tend to have a smart phone, and most of the business done as la
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by shark_laser 1y ago
His takeaways are that "to resist misguided censorship" we need: - A service with no central choke-points, but rather a large number of independent co-operating nodes. - Accounts, and the follower relationships between them, are n
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by shark_laser 1y ago
I love Robin Sloan, but why not just build this on Nostr? It can do everything required here and more, and you get immediate community support, and therefore increased adoption, a broad existing list of compatible clients (depending on even
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by shark_laser 2y ago
Came here to say this. Nostr is so far ahead it's not funny, in part because of this, in part because it's actually decentralised, in part because of already existing features built in to almost every client, like zaps. I don&#x27
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by shark_laser 2y ago
Nostr Login using NIP07 is amazing. There's even cooler ways that are already working including nsec bunkers. This is the way of the future IMHO, most people just don't know it yet.
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by shark_laser 2y ago
Yep. Same for most of Asia too. Cloudflare's filters are basically straight up racist. I have stopped using so many sites due to their use of Cloudflare.
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by shark_laser 2y ago
"I have a dream of giving people power over their own digital selfs and digital memories, I imagine a world where the transmiter is a third party that cant influence the messege. Comunication is the base for everything, and people shou
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by shark_laser 2y ago
I was using it for years before moving to Mastodon, then Nostr. It did work rather well, is easy to code for, and I still have people pulling from my twtxt file, but it does get a bit tiresome managing follows etc with the clumsy apps. And
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by shark_laser 2y ago
Check out Lightning Network, Nostr, and Zaps.
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by shark_laser 2y ago
Sounds like Mastodon and other ActivityPub enabled services are about to be flooded with Floridian teenagers?
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by shark_laser 3y ago
This might seem daft, but try drinking a large glass of water before laying down. The call of nature is one that cannot easily be ignored.
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by shark_laser 3y ago
lol, gotcha. It's an ugly look for me to suggest that someone has strange priorities if they're defending Disney for paying money to an antisemetic company that distributes child abuse material? I guess we're only allowed to

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