this is the real question ^

strike offers a zero monthly payment option… the interest and the principal are paid at the end of the term… so interest is higher but if the bitcoin price goes up in that time… the borrow can roll it over paying the interest and principal of the old loan with the new one… then repeat if they’re lucky or just get rekt and loose their bitcoin if they’re are unlucky.

a significant change in the economy did occur.
- narrator voice

naw not just you the value provided by social media doesn’t seem high enough to justify the inconveniences of decentralization. i can only think of two decentralized tech systems that were actually better for their decentralization… torrents and bitcoin

there was a time when torrents were consistently faster than most centralized download options and still is sometimes (not as much anymore as cloud cdns and edge networks have helped speed up centralized large file sharing to match or exceed the speed that most users have with torrents).

final settlement with bitcoin after say 10 confirmations is still wayyy faster / cheaper than final international settlement of base money. like the time to send USD from your bank in Chicago to your bank in Rome and actually be able to spend that value … it takes a while to line up the relationships and even though the wire domestically can be sent and the swift internationally can be sent at the speed of light it takes 72 hours on a good week for the banks to actually finish processing things and settling the debit / credit actions that allow the bank to make the value available to you.

so there’s still a use case for torrents and bitcoin but i really don’t see if for decentralized social media. 90% of what is shared on social media can be ignored and people are generally better off for it.

is it really an improvement on mailing lists?

idk. people love centralized social media because of the centralization. it feels like the whole world is watching when you post and that you’re connected to the Zeitgeist when you scroll and see that 150k people liked this or 2m people watched that… most people get better impressions at their local pub than on nostr… so it’s not really good for that kind of global hive mind experience… and if it is just for niche communities … those are better served by niche centralized web servers and forums and mailing lists … why the decentralized theatre when social media always trends toward a hub and spoke of creators and followers. fewer creators and more followers … the creators become the point of centralization but those creators if they want more followers and want to be known and discovered would be better served by centralized world aggregation systems where there’s a chance they can blow up to be seen by billions of people.

if they want to remain niche… then why not just run your own centralized site for your community? it’ll be faster and more efficient? more catered to your specific fan base and niche community?

but then the nostr advocates will say… but what if the centralized provider rugs you? wouldn’t it be better to take your content and identity elsewhere where? maybe idk would love to see examples where this use case would actually be useful. i’m speaking as someone who was banned 5 times on twitter for posting npc memes back when jack dorsey was still ceo of twitter. it was trivial to create a new account and immediate find the same network of shitposters. the level of effort matched the level of content quality.

i just don’t think many people think managing a private key and dealing with a kind of clunky and variant fractured set of communities is worth the effort just to see some, albeit funny , shitposts and some decent shares from the few high value contributors (who also mostly post the same content to x too so why bother if you’ve already got x set up) sure x could rug everyone but until that happens … why migrate? when x rugs everyone then migrate with everyone and you keep the community… which is the part you care about.

i like nostr. but at least the social experience nostr provides is not what most people want right now. nostr could be great if someone shipped something genuinely useful … not just another twitter, microblogging app… or another buggy half baked clone of another centralized service that is a million times better.

can the devs do something? where is the not shitty github replacement? even make a not shitty 4chan replacement (really such a low bar), where is the not shitty signal replacement? even on the micro blogging apps… what are people even saying on here that would get them banned on X? nothing of consequence or worth the trouble they’ve taken from what i’ve seen. excellent you’re pepe meme has been signed by your private key and distributed to 50 relays lol cool? you could have just sent it in a group chat to the same five friends who saw your nostr post.


maybe we’re just early and i should check back in a few more years…

nostr right now seems like a circle jerk of people who love the idea of nostr (myself included) and are awkwardly pretending like they actually like it. zaps for example. it’s super cool that i can zap randos slivers of bitcoins for their reposted memes and shitposts. but do i find that it’s worth it to set up another lightning server with a different lightning address for my alts so i don’t have to reuse my main lightning node.. no i don’t. so i don’t as my main lightning address to my alts and i zap from external wallets or even my main nwc wallet if i’m lazy.

yeah it’s super cool but i struggle to convince anyone else why they should do it too if they are just in it for the tech and the idea of it.

maybe nostr was all along just the friends we made along the way

also only two people will see what you have to say… maybe.
-nostr

happy all saints!

developers will be designers and designers developers. this has been a thing with UX developer roles for a while. now those roles will be viben for the most part.

lol 🤣

relatable

let’s see his “in production”

>Thus, **selling a blessed rosary, a crucifix, a holy water font, or any other object that has received a Church blessing is a simoniacal act**.

is this ai generated?


blessed items are sold all the time by churches and churchmen. A blessed item may be sold but only for its intrinsic value, not the value of its blessing. it’s not simony to sell a wooden rosary that happens to be blessed for the cost of the wood and to fund a monastery etc. to sell it at a certain price because it was blessed would be simony.

i think the above takeaway isn’t sufficiently nuanced.

maybe it’s the ‘for profit’ part. you certainly can’t sell it for more because it was blessed specifically… like a blessed category for extra and an unblessed category for cheaper… since that would be monetizing the blessing. i don’t think there is anything wrong with selling blessed items though.