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i’m going to create a fund to grant a collection of nostr clients and adjacent technologies to work together on a comprehensive vision to focus on public/private communities, commerce, and ai. much better than creating my own client. more soon.

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The current funding is structured in a way that punishes building teams. Teams gather their own momentum, animate others, and are resilient. @GitCitadel has been feeling beleagured and unwanted, from the beginning, because we're more engineers and scientists, than hackers. We're now one of the biggest, longest-running and most-productive and innovative projects, and we're unusually efficient with costs, and still get no good press or grant funding. Most people have never even heard of the #Alexandria project. I keep seeing people mention integrating AI and nobody ever brings us up, even though that's a major focus of our project and we actually have the expertise and personnel to implement it, and have already begun doing so. I don't know if a new fund will change that, tho.
Would love to connect! @ UNITE we're building a personalized wellness agent and social marketplace powered by blockchain and AI. We're exploring decentralized interoperability using protocols like Bluesky to enable portable affiliate connections, identity, and community growth. Let’s chat!
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Sounds great!! I’m building Nostrcheck Server, a full-stack solution for Nostr communities: relay, nostraddress, media hosting (blossom), NWC, AI moderation, and more. Would love to see how it fits into this vision 🥳🤓 How will the application process work?
Le billionaire philanthropist has arrived... Will Dorsey's scraping of all of your nostr content and metadata to train AI be safe & effective? Cui bono? #asknostr
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i’m going to create a fund to grant a collection of nostr clients and adjacent technologies to work together on a comprehensive vision to focus on public/private communities, commerce, and ai. much better than creating my own client. more soon.
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Jack I'd love to give you a tour round the Plebeian app... and tell you about the full vision.
Plebeian Market
Plebeian Market
Plebeian Market is a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling goods and services.
 is just one installation and demonstration of the first app. It's a content management system and focusses on both communities and commerce. 100% nostr/bitcoin native. Below you can see the Circular Economic Community Builder in action (terrible name I know) Sellers can donate a % of their sales to the communities they chose, when the buyers pay the money gets split.
That's so cool and generous! Can't wait to see the progress that will come out of this...
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i’m going to create a fund to grant a collection of nostr clients and adjacent technologies to work together on a comprehensive vision to focus on public/private communities, commerce, and ai. much better than creating my own client. more soon.
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I suggest creating a nostr infrastructure fund. Offering micro grants for the relay network, funding for storage providers, funding for bandwidth. This could be as simple as setting up an open collective. The people that run the nostr relay network work hard, get no support, and no thanks for it. And sometimes even abuse. So most have left. But it's never too late. It's always good to help the relay network. Because without the relay network, there would be no nostr.
Devs on my team having been working for free for too long. I feel bad. It just isn’t right. They’re getting their bounty cuts but man, after Latvia things were supposed to change. I’d love to hire one or two more UI devs. Help us, jack. Help us finish this git sanctuary. note1fxq6xm0magrrct0y4c3j32jh49cxmyaged3kh76l43tpg2pnc5aqgex2gr
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That is like saying that canned tuna isn't the same as canned cod fish. You are technically right and yet you are still missing the point. It is just like telegram 10 years ago: - Open-source - Russian-owned and developed - VC funded - Staggering privacy promises - realistically only 1 client implemented - free servers from VC funding That isn't private. There is zero reliable guarantee that their app won't be sending clear texts messages to some gov when your IP is deemed as "interesting". Contrast that to PGP-alike NOSTR with hundreds of volunteer servers and dozens of client implementations where you can even send messages by paper if needed. By all means, please do convince anyone here to place hopes on that telegram 2.0
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ok so, you cant host your own telegram servers. and you dont have any privacy guarantees from them if you use theirs. SimpleX cant read your messages, by design. even if you're using their infrastructure. telegram can. and you can always run your own Simplex relays. SimpleX messages are always encrypted. Telegram has option encryption in a closed source context. these are big differences. but sure i guess, don't use it because Russian people.
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Oh dear god. Still missing the point. You are not compiling yourself the client and just blindly install binaries onto your personal phone You *can* host a server but realistically you don't, nor do 99.99% of the users. Yes, it is an improved mouse trap despite the very obvious red flags everywhere. Congratulations, and enjoy the cheese!
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no dude your "point" is Russian dev bad and muh VC monies. nobody compiles the app themselves, that threat isn't different on nostr either. the security models of SimpleX and telegram (if telegram could be said to have a security model) are completely different. so what, you're worried they're going to distribute a malicious build. why is Simplex a bigger risk for that than anything else?
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Please stop. You don't know what you're talking about. nostr private messages are not synced by any central server. The protocol doesn't lend itself to having very reliable Private messages. For privacy, on nostr, there are a few ways to DM and not all clients use the private way. If they don't, it's terrible for privacy. If they do, well you better hope it's battle tested and that your recipient is using a client that supports it, and if it does you better hope it's programmed well enough to reply in kind instead of insecurely.
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↩ replying to SuiGenerisJohn
And that defines the gift wrapping scheme for nip44 which is used for NIP17 DMs and you better hope any other client involved doesn't switch to nip4 because it doesn't do NIP17. And you have to make sure you're signing the right thing. Oh and let's hope the two people talking are using clients that support outbox too otherwise they'll never see each other's messages unless they happen to be on the same relay. And unless it's a big public relay you have a very small anon set. Finding whose messaging on a private relay is easy (no you can't see what or who is messaging but you know the user base of your relay by their kind0s) Do you see my point? I know the protocol pretty well. I'm not expert but there are better solutions to private messaging right now.