A couple billion people, yeah.

It’s interesting, my video feeds on TikTok, instagram, and YouTube shorts have so little resemblance of each other. Totally different kinds of videos, not just topics or creators, but totally different genres. Nothing alike. It’s weird because I know all the videos I see on one are uploaded to the other two.

I am not trying to get the algorithms to diverge. I interact in mostly the same way to the same videos on all three but get a really different experience. Given that they are mostly clones of each other this is surprising. Is that the case for anyone else?

When I open divine.video I mostly get testing and debug videos. So no comparison yet.

I’m in Dubai for this creators summit and they brought us out in to the desert for an evening activity, which turns out included a neon horse.

Happy New Year

It is indeed true.

Doesn’t work. Can’t see the Big Dipper either. I tried to find them. Maybe it only works in your part of the world.

Quotes about the internet from the Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the internet book by Geert Lovink https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/stuck-on-the-platform/

That’s a stupidly simplistic take.

There’s a debate raging over in the Bluesky world about whether or not infrastructure providers on ATprotocol should be neutral carriers or if people running things like PDS servers should be able to choose who they host.

It’s an interesting read and worth thinking about. From a Nostr perspective it’s like arguing for a custodial system then being upset at the power dynamics that exist because of that.

I’m curious what folks think. I think the poster kicked a hornets nest, not understanding how communities of users react to being told what they should or shouldn’t do with their own servers.

Thoughts?

https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4

This is a really interesting solution to the Nostr login system from @npub1k7cns...
@naddr1qqsx...

My own solution to growing nostr was to build divine.video which has generated a lot of excitement by people who want to use it and don’t even know to care that it’s nostr. Do something you can’t do in other social media ecosystems. Divine works because we have nostr libraries and blossom and relays and a ton of other things. It was much easier to build on Nostr than building the entire protocol from scratch. But it would have been easier to build centralized than on Nostr, if we didn’t care about freedom and a permissionless future.

We are running a version of keycast at login.divine.video. I don’t think custodial keys are something most nostr users would like to use. And I think it’s vital that any nostr app works with non-custodial keys. The goal is to make it easier to onboard users. Think of it as the bitcoin exchange that bridges to tradfi.

We generate a bunker url so you should be able to use the custodial key to access most nostr apps. And you can take your key and ask the service to delete it. Yeah you’d need to trust the keycast server operator to actually delete it and not use it. But this is the same thing users face in any service that uses traditional non-key based accounts.