you're the one coping, pretending you’re living well when you will die alone with nobody to care for you. All the parties and the sense of importance about your work will fade. It does for everyone in later years. No kids means nobody to see you, and you will be surrounded by foreigners that hate you because nobody had kids. The window to avoid this fate will close. Your youth will end, and you will regret having thrown away your family’s lineage for dalliances and office politics.

> when you both you and them are aligned on the same mission I don’t think it’s possible to assume good faith at this point. Someone who is trying to get people to move Bitcoin to a project hosted on a machine that has been compromised twice and not rebuilt is not on my team. Think about this. We’re supposed to trust hundreds billions of dollars of value, and for many of us including myself our entire life savings, to development efforts put on a server that has been hacked twice and never replaced or rebuilt? People who advocate for this are not on my team. They are kooks trying to turn Bitcoin into some kind of sick joke. I treat them with the same kind of contempt I have for that nuclear energy official Biden appointed who dressed in the dog fetish outfits and stole women’s clothing. That’s the degree of the mental derangements these people have. I have nothing in common with them. Knots aren’t sending their best. They’re sending morons, they’re sending kooks, they’re sending FBI informants. Some of them, I assume, are good people. But they have to go back.

Your life does not belong to you. You are the latest link in a chain forged over millennia by the suffering of your ancestors. You don’t have the right to be “indifferent” to forging a new link in that chain. You have an obligation to everyone that came before you, who suffered to put you here, to put a new link in that eternal braid leading back to prehistory. Don’t be an idiot, this woman is bringing a final death of total obliteration to your family lineage. She was made fo da streets.

People are missing the context of this — stupid chimpoid Johnny Somali is about to get sentenced and it was heavily covered in media there. I don’t believe he’s talking about punishing people that talk about black crime statistics. I think he is urging the judge to send the black criminal to jail.

Cool. Both of these users were new accounts and following only me. They saw notifications for all the DMs I was replying to them with, but when they checked the DM box it was empty. After a couple hours they turned off Web of Trust and all the messages I sent showed up.

just a quick question, are you actually getting my DMs? If not make sure your client also does not use Web of Trust lol

I am now being filtered by the default “Web of Trust” spam filter that is present in — by far the best client UX, and the one I would prefer to continue onboarding new users with. It’s also in other clients. is the maintainer. I imagine I cannot report this to him because he has the spam filter on, as it is the default behavior in the client he publishes. But users DM me, I accept the DM request and reply — they cannot see my DM replies until they turn Web of Trust off. This behavior has been replicated. I have been falsely marked as a source of spam — I am not. I post very infrequently, and never commercial content. There’s no easy way to verify that someone is being filtered by Web of Trust, and one would think that following someone’s content on Nostr would at least override the default Web of Trust filtering. Can people please reach out to him and ask how I may resolve this? How can Web of Trust reject false reports of spam? And people should at least know that WoT is filtering them without being made to discover via a channel external to Nostr that their DMs are being secretly and silently filtered. There has to be some kind of notification and appeals system. Please help.

I stand with Sydney sweeney’s massive tits

my favorite brown logic of his is that accepting money from the government makes you their slave, not giving money to the government in the form of taxes. He probably just wants to keep the gibs in the pockets of his coethnics.

Expecting a normal user to notice the differential between Primal’s Nostr feed and the one on the network is not realistic. So is expecting a normal person to tinker with settings, know what a caching server is and knowing how to locate and replace it. Whatever the default is, that’s the setting that is staying for virtually all users except a tiny fringe forever. It seems to me that Primal is repeating the essential problem with federation that Nostr was solving in the first place. In a federated system censorship becomes trivial because ever since conversation goes through gmail.com or bsky.app — the concentration of large numbers of people on a single server creates perverse incentives over time. If Nostr ever becomes popular and the most popular client is reliant on a single caching server, the operator will be ordered by courts, domain registrars and registries, CDNs, BGP peers, and app stores to filter it. Or the board will just elect new people who are censorship friendly because it is the only way to be commercially viable and get ads that pay well.

How would it be obvious to a normal person? Twitter censorship is rampant but not obvious to the average Twitter user. By the time that regulators get around to ordering compliance it is too late. You will be forced to censor if you make a censorable system.

It's not comparable at all. Knots is a joke project made by an obviously incompetent loser, clearly meant to be a social attack upon Bitcoin. https://blog.lopp.net/knot-a-serious-project/ Primal is not a joke project, but it is a centralized service. Feeds stopped working in the recent AWS outage. Primal is like if someone was claiming to sell Bitcoin but it was just a ledger held in a MySQL database. It’s more of a deliberate fraud and less of a ridiculous joke.

It is easier to write centralized software than decentralized software. So many services are going to cheat and make a “Nostr” client that is centralized. You say this “usually works better” but it is actually subverting the entire point of Nostr, and delivering it into the hands of the government. Subversive behavior deserves to be treated with contempt. If you aren’t willing to put up with a mild inconvienence for freedom, why not just use Twitter or Facebook at that point? Making a censored and filtered version of “Nostr” is not a tradeoff. At that point, it isn’t Nostr, it is a fraud.

The harm in practice is that they have the ability to censor posts, and eventually they will be forced by EU regulators, among others, to do so, if Nostr ever has significant amount of traction. You are basically saying you want a centralized system. If you like Primal, you should just use X or Bluesky. I agree that Nostr onboarding of new users is atrocious and many of the apps are extremely unappealing to tons of people, but Primal should solve these problems without compromising the integrity of Nostr’s decentralized nature.

I just got two people to install Nostr clients. One is a developer that has submitted large swaths of commits to Tcl. The build and user experience was so frustrating for this person that despite getting them to try 3 clients he gave up. Another is an international media personality. She tried one client and gave up. Honestly, even people who are eager to hear from me and willing to give something a shot that I recommend are turned off by the user experience. Every client seems idiosyncratic or has glaring problems. I myself have settled on Nostur.com — a client whose navigation icons obscure typing in DMs (screenshot attached) because it is the client with the *least frustrating* user experience for me. Point being almost nobody is seriously approaching any Nostr client with a lot of thought and QA. Gossip is listed as a suggested client on every single page when I do a web search for “Nostr client”. On Mac, to get it working, you have to read the documentation and then open up a Terminal and paste a command from the documentation. Virtually zero people are going to do this. The developer is openly hostile to the suggestion that a minor build tweak to make it conform with the install process for other unsigned apps on Mac is prudent. And yet this is, by search, one of the most prominently featured clients to new eyeballs. I do support the idea that this should be like email and there shouldn’t be a singular client. But I also think that there should be a client that does not seek to communicate a personal message form the developers, but that should be committed to 1:1 replicating the UI/UX of the Twitter app circa 2010. And that the community’s efforts and funding should crowd around this app.

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