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Recent Notes

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The reason Nostr growth is stagnant is mostly cultural, not technical, IMO.

Sure there is still some deep weirdness with the UX compared to the centralized services (like being unable to delete or undo posts/likes/reposts, or that the phone clients still have weird little bugs and are still under featured in some basic ways).

Remember, there was a LOT of excitement here not long ago, and many people left after joining despite the fact that it kept getting better. Which should tell us something, no?Why was this? My guess is because there's only like three topics of discussion here:

1. Bitcoiners talking about how great Bitcoin is
2. Bitcoiners talking about how great Nostr is
3. Bitcoiners talking about politics

There's outliers who break the mold for sure (and we need more of them), but even Bitcoiners are interested in other things and going where people outside of Bitcoin are, and so even most Bitcoiners left.

In many ways Nostr is more fully featured compared to Twitter/X, and in other ways it's even less buggy, but despite the bugs people still use it because that's where so many interesting people are and talking about all sorts of things. Most people are fine dealing with the bots and whatnot and for very few is censorship a real selling point (for now).
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Final · 39w
I have done so before, but I would demise them months later. I bought a domain a year ago but didn't go anywhere with it. I am just hosting static articles generated with Hugo / Jekyll. I still have s...
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If you want a flexible template, checkout my site's Github: https://github.com/thebrandonlucas/blu

I've managed to get it to where you can just upload things to the `md` folder as markdown, and it auto-deploys to my site's VPS via a Github action and it just works. But because it's written in svelte, you have full flexibility to code up whatever else you want if needed. I spent a lot of time building it that way so I could have the low barrier to publishing while also having the full power of a webapp if I later wanted it. Sounds at least on track for what you're looking for.
Terry Yiu · 39w
Sometimes easier said than done to take a large existing project and rearchitect it to work under different assumptions. It can be done but it’s hard. Maybe with vibecoding, it’ll be easier. Someone (not me) should try it. :) Besides, it’s fun building things from scratch.
Terry Yiu · 39w
The two most difficult centralized services to divorce from: YouTube and GitHub. Luckily some smart folks are building the latter on Nostr. nostr:note1pfcfa76cc5kczkk5ktmrqmky8e9qletgq9wqeutmprueqelq...
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This is cool but FOSS alternatives already exist for GitHub, such as Gitea. Pretty easy to setup and already mirrors a lot of GitHub functionality and fairly widely used. Why reinvent the wheel just to integrate Nostr? And if we do want to integrate Nostr with a Got service, why not just fork Gitea and add the Nostr stuff to it?
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blu · 39w
There should be a "request edit" NIP, "git" not "got" haha.
Richi · 39w
I think that this would be a great topic for a discussion with nostr:nprofile1qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgswaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5qzplfq3m5v3u5r0q9f255fdeyz8nyac6lagssx8zy4wugxjs8ajf7p0junqg.
frphank · 39w
> all men are created equal "except slaves"
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That phrasing, without doubt, had an immense positive impact on the world's changing views on slavery. Even the fact that you feel the need to call it out as hypocrisy is downstream of the effects of that "all men are created equal" statement. Be careful about ridiculing the foundations of your own belief system just because its creators were not as "evolved" into it as you are.
frphank · 39w
Thanks mate my country never had slavery to begin with.
Final · 39w
I have done so before, but I would demise them months later. I bought a domain a year ago but didn't go anywhere with it. I am just hosting static articles generated with Hugo / Jekyll. I still have some forks of themes I did to be compatible with my server's hardening settings and design choices bu...
Final · 39w
Would need a web site first (looking on that).