I don’t know what sort of black magic this thing is doing but it’s the solution to all of your Python package issues. https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

App stores are definitely an issue. But in terms of Microsoft, who cares about their size, if you have an alternative then your well being does not require them to be defeated.

But this is where interoperability is the escape hatch. GitHub is not so much a dependency as it is a choice. There are tons of choices. Why are people trying to put *inside* of nostr instead of encouraging self-hosted gitea or the like.

This video connects to the conversation. If everyone is hyperconnected, both from a network theory + math perspective, and we actualize it with a persistent connection in your pocket available 24/7…. Why would people end up more isolated and disagreeable? I think there is something to the idea that technology itself satisfies so many of our idiosyncratic desires that we are increasingly having a harder time communicating. If you have 8 billion unique worldviews, each getting more fragmented… then conflict and the resulting isolation is a natural result.

Yes! People do like to talk about Nostr like we are running a giant LAN party or something. Decentralization is a spectrum, we should be ok with that.

Man, wish I could find the exact reference for you. Swear it was in a Hacker News thread or something… which now that I think about it was more about loneliness, which is ironic right. The common thread here is that the more connected we are in a networked/online society a) the more we fight and b) the more isolated we get. Pretty sure Putnam’s Bowling Alone was referenced, which was originally written in 1995. It talks about declines in civic engagement since the 60s. I find it super interesting to read 30 years later because it looks prescient, similar to something like Amusing Ourselves to Death which was also pre-internet.

Day 6 of #NostrNovember. Just me, my private key, and my own worldview.

Obscurity is at odds with discoverability and reach because obscurity abhors continuity.

Some want a censorship resistant Twitter replacement. Others want a dissident communication network. Censorship resistance requires discoverability and reach. Dissident communication requires obscurity. The protocol design can't fully optimize for both.

Can’t remember where I read this recently but it was the idea that small villages were better for humans because it forced you to learn to live with the multiplicity that is other people. You got better at it because you had no choice. Large cities allowed people to ignore others. It’s likely impossible to return to that, but it stuck with me.

I’m with you on that, as I think many others are. If you walk the “other stuff” path, it’s not censorship resistance or dissident communication, it’s more like self sovereign publishing. A 3rd mode, a blogging renaissance (now with video!), which is also fantastic for a certain type of creative. I have however come to the conclusion that the event schema drives relay design, and it’s a blocker, not enabler. A giant serialized string with an array of undocumented tags is no way to live. It’s worth considering, if you were going to give ground on keys (identity), relays, or schema, which would you be willing to allow for other standards or services?