I've come to distrust Google entirely with their appetite for data, user fingerprinting and profiling, and willingness to play along with government overreach, and I'd be surprised if they were the ones who made the only truly secure hardware that would undermine those appetites. No backdoors? Nothing? Perhaps I'm paranoid, but I don't like them regardless. It just doesn't line up for me that their hardware is safehaven.

Nice to see you here! 😁

As does collaboration

This. If you make an open protocol that let you find willing drivers in your area, for eg, that are willing to deliver/drive for a certain fee, and pay them directly with lightning, how many companies' primary use cases vanish immediately? Yet that was probably the initial prospect and excitement around the internet, and instead we now have a situation where private companies own the ability to do everyday tasks.

There has to be a better solution. Nostr can't take off with so much data usage. I feel like there's got to be some kind of merkle-tree solution to knowing what your last state was and what needs to be retrieved. Something!

Will Amethyst provide this function in-app eventually?