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Good afternoon. I published a new long-form article on Nostr on my homepage, to help inform people about all the cool things people are building here. I'm going to go over it a few more times before I promote it on my other socials and email lists in the coming days (Nostr first!), so if anyone has any feedback, I can still potentially incorporate it. Enjoy.
Lyn Alden
The Power of Nostr: Decentralized Social Media and More
Published: July 2024 It would be powerful if you could bring your digital identity, content, and followers from one social ecosystem, such as Twitt...

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Amazing to consider how immature we are as a species to rely on permissioned third party providers to facilitate the exchange of value. The potential that Bitcoin and nostr unlock within the human race as we realize the ability to create and exchange value between one another is something I hope I am around to see. What a bright orange, and purple, future it is.
Well written, though I think perhaps a little too long as one piece. Also, while I understand how multiple relays might delay the building of a captive market, I wasn't convinced that a captive market is out of the question. IIRC, google chat, once upon a time, incorporated XMPP. They had also developed "a better email" that was an open protocol, though it's name escapes me. Yes, I can run my own SMTP server (snd I do), but it's definitely not for most people. It seems to me, there's a small group of companies hosting most email and that's enough for them. And one more thought I had was, the more relays someone goes through, the more easily location triangulation is. AFAIK nostr does not use Dandelion++.
Great article! A balanced overview and very accessible. One thought that came to mind while reading section two was regarding friction. It might be helpful to include a brief discussion about how reducing friction may in some cases not be desirable. After all, friction, much like a tool is neither good or bad, but does greatly affect the way we interact with the world. For example, are there instances where frictionless payments via social graph might not be desired (e.g. political donations, unwanted influence or conflicts of interest, inability to refuse payment, etc.)? Or are these edge cases outweighed by the broader benefits?
It gets harder and harder to distinguish 'real' data (audio, video, photo) from AI generated one. The signing of this data with a private key and linking to it can help establish the source. Maybe add a few lines on elaborating how this helps establishing actual data from deep fakes?
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I agree, like those on Instagram that steal others content. It's so annoying... Biggest thing I see is making sure you have the real npub for people... I have mine listed on other socials, I need to make a page on my personal domain that someone can verify (not that anyone would actually want to copy me) but we'll known personalities it's good to know they are not fake profiles. Right?
Hi Lyn, great read as usual from your hand! Question: if one switches client does it keep your wallet? Or do you need a fresh wallet for every client? Maybe you can add a little information about that, as it is important to know before you switch client or want to use multiple. Two spelling mistakes I saw: “Second, the the payee has to provide that payment information.” Twice the “And there are other know people following that same Jeff Booth profile”. Known Just trying to help… When you release it on other platforms I am definitely going to share and promote it. Have a great day!
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Your wallet is listed on your profile and is the same regardless of which client you use as long as you are logging in with the same nsec... Also some clients make it easy to have multiple profiles that each can have their own wallet. I have 3 different ones and toggle between them frequently on Amethyst which is my main client. Not sure how to do it on others but it's pretty cool... So I have this profile, @AMSOIL Lube-Direct and @Dynasty Wealth Partners All 3 have a different wallet... When I log onto desktop I use the alby plug-in and mostly use primal. Hope this helps.
Hi Lyn, Not sure what you mean by: "In other words, Nostr separates the client layer from the public domain communication protocol layer for social media, in a similar (and even more thorough) way that webmail clients separate the client layer from the SMTP public domain communication protocol layer for email.” In what sense is it more thorough? It’s a great read, thanks! Moid
He terminado de leerlo y muestra completamente lo que es Nostr. Tal vez haría falta una pequeña sección de tips básicos como usar hashtags para encontrar contenido, o indicar que ya existen comunidades en diferentes idiomas como #hispano u otras, ayudaría a los nuevos a saber dónde buscar ayuda de forma más rápida en su lengua madre cuando se interesen en probar Nostr después de leer tu artículo. Yo mismo recomendaré tu artículo en mi círculo. 🫂🫶🏼
A couple things: - this Nostr layer should eventually take *all* communication, social media, texts, and email, and converge. It should just be that you message someone (there's no distinction between text and email) or you message everyone (social media). - Jack Dorsey's comments about *not* open sourcing the protocol (I think he said something about it being too technical for people to recognize problems) but giving the users choice was the desired outcome. Jack, why not both? The choice thing makes sense, but not the desire to keep the algorithm closed source. That sounds like Jack has something to hide.
Thanks Lyn for another helpful explainer article. I have two comments: a) You seem to like the Primal Nostr client but it appears that in order to connect a wallet you need to supply personal info such as name & email & shoe size etc.? b) The upside of a 'global' payment address/account list is clear from the examples you give, however I do wish there was some way to prevent unwanted funds (& NFTs etc.) being added to your wallet; I hope the ability to do this blocking may come with future smart wallets.
i saw the article thats a cool mention for the platform. i think nostr does more because its its own platform but
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 allows you to create a signed namespace and put all your social media links or payment there. It uses the pulsechain EVM blockchain. Just different ways of similar goals. there are actual apps out on nostr so exicited about that. it seems different crypto and web communities are having similar ideas for decentralization, censorship resistance, and authenticated identity. Way cool Lyn! You get to be our spokeswoman and we have a purple ostrich as our mascott!
If you think about what the digital fabric of information, knowledge, time, and money should look like in an ideal world there's just no way to not see #Nostr and #Bitcoin as far superior approaches to what (most of us) grew up with. Lyn's article is great at explaining this. It takes brain washing - in a good sense - and unlearning what has been indoctrinated to get there, but it's worth it. View quoted note →