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The Web is taken. They control your data: Servers can change anything you send at any time: E-mails, medical records, private family pictures, social media posts, orders etc. You won't even notice it. Not only they can change, but you can also create new content as if they were made by you. Your history is written by them. Servers do too much: They convinced us we don't have enough processing power and moved all the logic from our applications into servers. Even though a phone has an equivalent processing power than a single server today, we believe we must use complicated server architectures to achieve anything in the web. Phones are the cloud. Everything is a rental: You don't own your domain name. It's a rental. Your server is a rental. Your digital certificate is a rental. You don't own anything. Your digital identity is a rental. Data Silos force you to stay: Moving is too hard. They profit on making things just difficult enough to keep your around. After all, it's just 9.99 a month. Enter the Verifiable Web Own your keys, own your content. No one can write for you. No one can change what you write. Sign everything you send. Every little like, every little key press. If it wasn't signed, it didn't happen. Verify everything you receive. Trust the signer, not the servers in between. You decide how data gets to you and where it stays. Your digital history is assembled by you. Welcome to Nostr

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Vitor Pamplona's avatar Vitor Pamplona
The Web is taken. They control your data: Servers can change anything you send at any time: E-mails, medical records, private family pictures, social media posts, orders etc. You won't even notice it. Not only they can change, but you can also create new content as if they were made by you. Your history is written by them. Servers do too much: They convinced us we don't have enough processing power and moved all the logic from our applications into servers. Even though a phone has an equivalent processing power than a single server today, we believe we must use complicated server architectures to achieve anything in the web. Phones are the cloud. Everything is a rental: You don't own your domain name. It's a rental. Your server is a rental. Your digital certificate is a rental. You don't own anything. Your digital identity is a rental. Data Silos force you to stay: Moving is too hard. They profit on making things just difficult enough to keep your around. After all, it's just 9.99 a month. Enter the Verifiable Web Own your keys, own your content. No one can write for you. No one can change what you write. Sign everything you send. Every little like, every little key press. If it wasn't signed, it didn't happen. Verify everything you receive. Trust the signer, not the servers in between. You decide how data gets to you and where it stays. Your digital history is assembled by you. Welcome to Nostr
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Your history is written by them.
Vitor Pamplona's avatar Vitor Pamplona
The Web is taken. They control your data: Servers can change anything you send at any time: E-mails, medical records, private family pictures, social media posts, orders etc. You won't even notice it. Not only they can change, but you can also create new content as if they were made by you. Your history is written by them. Servers do too much: They convinced us we don't have enough processing power and moved all the logic from our applications into servers. Even though a phone has an equivalent processing power than a single server today, we believe we must use complicated server architectures to achieve anything in the web. Phones are the cloud. Everything is a rental: You don't own your domain name. It's a rental. Your server is a rental. Your digital certificate is a rental. You don't own anything. Your digital identity is a rental. Data Silos force you to stay: Moving is too hard. They profit on making things just difficult enough to keep your around. After all, it's just 9.99 a month. Enter the Verifiable Web Own your keys, own your content. No one can write for you. No one can change what you write. Sign everything you send. Every little like, every little key press. If it wasn't signed, it didn't happen. Verify everything you receive. Trust the signer, not the servers in between. You decide how data gets to you and where it stays. Your digital history is assembled by you. Welcome to Nostr
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Vitor Pamplona's avatar Vitor Pamplona
The Web is taken. They control your data: Servers can change anything you send at any time: E-mails, medical records, private family pictures, social media posts, orders etc. You won't even notice it. Not only they can change, but you can also create new content as if they were made by you. Your history is written by them. Servers do too much: They convinced us we don't have enough processing power and moved all the logic from our applications into servers. Even though a phone has an equivalent processing power than a single server today, we believe we must use complicated server architectures to achieve anything in the web. Phones are the cloud. Everything is a rental: You don't own your domain name. It's a rental. Your server is a rental. Your digital certificate is a rental. You don't own anything. Your digital identity is a rental. Data Silos force you to stay: Moving is too hard. They profit on making things just difficult enough to keep your around. After all, it's just 9.99 a month. Enter the Verifiable Web Own your keys, own your content. No one can write for you. No one can change what you write. Sign everything you send. Every little like, every little key press. If it wasn't signed, it didn't happen. Verify everything you receive. Trust the signer, not the servers in between. You decide how data gets to you and where it stays. Your digital history is assembled by you. Welcome to Nostr
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Not only that, they can access your keys and data on your device, the only way to be a little bit safer is keeping your keys and important data on a air gaped system, sign air gaped and broadcast it. Your CPU has backdoor and can communicate with the internet without you notice, i think this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Vitor Pamplona's avatar Vitor Pamplona
The Web is taken. They control your data: Servers can change anything you send at any time: E-mails, medical records, private family pictures, social media posts, orders etc. You won't even notice it. Not only they can change, but you can also create new content as if they were made by you. Your history is written by them. Servers do too much: They convinced us we don't have enough processing power and moved all the logic from our applications into servers. Even though a phone has an equivalent processing power than a single server today, we believe we must use complicated server architectures to achieve anything in the web. Phones are the cloud. Everything is a rental: You don't own your domain name. It's a rental. Your server is a rental. Your digital certificate is a rental. You don't own anything. Your digital identity is a rental. Data Silos force you to stay: Moving is too hard. They profit on making things just difficult enough to keep your around. After all, it's just 9.99 a month. Enter the Verifiable Web Own your keys, own your content. No one can write for you. No one can change what you write. Sign everything you send. Every little like, every little key press. If it wasn't signed, it didn't happen. Verify everything you receive. Trust the signer, not the servers in between. You decide how data gets to you and where it stays. Your digital history is assembled by you. Welcome to Nostr
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↩ replying to graffiti
If you are using someone else's servers, encryption is a very vague term on its own. Does the encryption happen on the client end? Is there encryption at rest? Does it stay encrypted as it travels from client to server and server to client? Is there monitoring software on the third party's servers? What happens when there is a court order for the data? Do you know the people who have access to the data center? How secure is there data center? What type of encryption do they use? Is it open source? So, there is a lo of trust you have to have in another when the store "your" data.
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Yes absolutely. That's how it is today and how it will remain forever. We are cypherpunks to the root. Our OS is open source and freely extendible by anyone. If someone _else_ builds some walled garden shitcoin hell on our tech, I wish them well and anyone interested can jump it. For the darknet pirate anon-maxi, they'll be able to do whatever they want without their hands tied or their identity exposed or KYC'd. Let a thousand patchwork networks bloom
Nice sentiment but relays are servers too. Except they have no guarantee to store your data, just relay data from one user to another. Most likely on a relay your data will get nuked. Servers allow signing, and verification, it's just not all that common. It would be nice if the phone was the cloud, but generally you want a cloud to be always-on, so phones are not the cloud, at least not today. I would like the phone to be the cloud, but nobody has said how that can happen, in practice.
↩ replying to atyh
Yea Urbit had a lot of problems. Most of the major ones were technical but it also had some.. I'll say "alignment/impetus" issues and leave it at that. We built on Urbit for a while and pivoted to a new stack that we are more involved with core development on. We plan to fix many of the things urbit got wrong (and keep the good stuff!) I didn't know you were on Urbit. Did we already talk about this? What was your @p? I'm ~sogrum-savluc, I worked at Quartus. You might have used Gora or another of our apps :)
Own you keys, own your content, own your compute, own your purely functional Solid State Interpreter operating system, own your server. Don't just stop at the keys.
Vitor Pamplona's avatar Vitor Pamplona
The Web is taken. They control your data: Servers can change anything you send at any time: E-mails, medical records, private family pictures, social media posts, orders etc. You won't even notice it. Not only they can change, but you can also create new content as if they were made by you. Your history is written by them. Servers do too much: They convinced us we don't have enough processing power and moved all the logic from our applications into servers. Even though a phone has an equivalent processing power than a single server today, we believe we must use complicated server architectures to achieve anything in the web. Phones are the cloud. Everything is a rental: You don't own your domain name. It's a rental. Your server is a rental. Your digital certificate is a rental. You don't own anything. Your digital identity is a rental. Data Silos force you to stay: Moving is too hard. They profit on making things just difficult enough to keep your around. After all, it's just 9.99 a month. Enter the Verifiable Web Own your keys, own your content. No one can write for you. No one can change what you write. Sign everything you send. Every little like, every little key press. If it wasn't signed, it didn't happen. Verify everything you receive. Trust the signer, not the servers in between. You decide how data gets to you and where it stays. Your digital history is assembled by you. Welcome to Nostr
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After migrating web applications to SPA, with the modern javascript web frameworks, they managed to sell the idea that processing needed to go back to servers somehow. It happens that they wanted to sell serverless servers, and for them it was convenient to move all back into servers so they would earn much more. Somehow, devs and managers bought this terrible idea. Unfortunately.
Things are changing finally. You can now have your own server, your very own private cloud hosting almost all of your digital life, controlled, accessed, modified only by you. This is possible thanks to the amazing effort being done by the team at @Start9
There is a reason client-server architecture exists and I think it's still a very good reason. The architecture isn't to blame for market capitalization. Some of us over here invest in hardware. The real cost of operating server hardware is the man hours. That's where they win. I pay so much less and have so much extra capacity on my own hardware that I hustled for, than any cloud can offer. It just takes my some of my Sunday and the occasional evening to maintain. If anyone needs help finding hardware and building home-datacenters hit me up, we can do the math if you really want to make a difference. Also some of us make server based applications built for self hosting ;)
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Vitor Pamplona's avatar Vitor Pamplona
The Web is taken. They control your data: Servers can change anything you send at any time: E-mails, medical records, private family pictures, social media posts, orders etc. You won't even notice it. Not only they can change, but you can also create new content as if they were made by you. Your history is written by them. Servers do too much: They convinced us we don't have enough processing power and moved all the logic from our applications into servers. Even though a phone has an equivalent processing power than a single server today, we believe we must use complicated server architectures to achieve anything in the web. Phones are the cloud. Everything is a rental: You don't own your domain name. It's a rental. Your server is a rental. Your digital certificate is a rental. You don't own anything. Your digital identity is a rental. Data Silos force you to stay: Moving is too hard. They profit on making things just difficult enough to keep your around. After all, it's just 9.99 a month. Enter the Verifiable Web Own your keys, own your content. No one can write for you. No one can change what you write. Sign everything you send. Every little like, every little key press. If it wasn't signed, it didn't happen. Verify everything you receive. Trust the signer, not the servers in between. You decide how data gets to you and where it stays. Your digital history is assembled by you. Welcome to Nostr
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