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Decentralizing the NIPs registry · Issue #162 · nostr-protocol/nips

Would be great if people could agree on NIPs and publish them on Nostr itself, without having to request permission from a cabal of maintainers of ...

The original question is valid but a bit futuristic in this ownership obsessed world: "Can we make the NIPs repo more decentralized?" Short answer: "No - You can not." Given modern tools we're already running at max decency, all future changes will take nostr one step closer to centralization, so just slow down. Anywhoo If you read past the comments where twitter screencaps from matrix elevator guy dials up the heat - And if you for some reason still feel unsettled: Keep Calm And The Nips Git Clone Git, the tool installed on your machine is an oldschool consensus free decentralized Blockchain. It is decentralized because it works offline and does not govern who you may or may not remote with. The pull and push commands however are prepetually stuck in status WIP - why? Cause there's no funding into legitimate research. So by cloning the nips repo, you become a FULL_NODE, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. That's the beauty of it. I have some attempts at running git over DHTs/swarms, it's fun but not as easy as it sounds. For now, just clone and wait for the network plugin that you like to emerge. Everyone archiving the same legacy will merge with you regardless of transport. Wanna study the problem? Start with this page in the manual: ``` man git-remote-helpers ```

I sometimes enjoy preaching to the wrong crowd 🙂

I'm convinced the main reason why nostr fails to grow is the strong association to bitcoin. #nostr is a separate entity, that has nothing to do with monetary transactions. Atleast that's the way i see it. I've been around for about 9 months now. I've talked to normies and their leaders, the demographics seem '90s to '80s. People are generally friendly, but things always get stiff when you don't echo the gospel. I wish for better user awareness between purple and orange, you can't have both censorship resistance and a bitcoin-pop-contest. Truth and capital does not blend well. :'-) I wish developers had the guts to offer zap-free clients focusing on social values like maybe independent journalism. The network smells inbred Help #reboot

Testing out DALL-E, prompt refining is a good step up from midjourney, visual quality not so much. I was having a discussion about how lightning network works and why there's a receive cap/limit. Towards the end I proposed a metaphor where a channel is a table with coins between two pirates pushing the pile back and forth. I claimed that no coin ever leaves the table it was initially placed on, at which point GPT agreed and said that SATs do not travel cross channel rather value travels by cumulative balance shifts, Anywhoo I asked it to summarize the conversation as a picture, enjoy:

I feel so burnt today, I wanted to upgrade 1k-notepad to picofeed-v5 which produces a lot smaller blocks. Usually i'm up in flames over this stuff but now I started looking at backporting recoverable publickeys and optional parent signatures, and I feel nothing. Maybe want to puke a littlebit. Some physical exercise and a good night sleep will fix it, but still.. Anyone feeling like this about their own projects?