It's great for pubkeys as identity, that is a win to celebrate. But that's pubkeys as idenity. To say it's part of the nostr universe, you have to have a pretty homeopathic definition of what nostr is.

Which of cousre you can have such a definition, many people do.

But if you're being honest you'll admin that buzz would work more or less the same in terms of functionality and cross-app compatibility if you swap out secp256 for some other scheme. That's the real test.

It's not really a win for Nostr, it's more of a win for secp256k

buzz only does NIP-01 truly, the rest is either decorative to some degree, performative to another, or thta plus custom (most of the kinds are custom 40ks that no other thing will ever use or even contemplate).

NIP29, ok, a tag letter, but membership is a postgres table with all those 5 or 6 or whatever roles and transactional enforcement, so likeACL keyed off h.

Thenkind translation that re-signs events with server-derived shadow keys, it's basically the steve buscemi meme "hello fellow nostr kinds".

Not that NIP-01 isn't a real thing but there's just not a lot that there that's nostr. So I don't know how to argue it's a win for the protocol, unless the protocol is secp256k schnorr

> The claims are not mutually consistent

Calle himself is not super mutually consistent these days. First Cashu, then Bitchat, then this Claw stuff. Half-expecting bluetooth-powered Ugandan cashu mints that can solve for quantum gravity.

I'd advise against it, it's all about latency, discord voice is 90% for gaming, a world where 75ms latency is okay but 150ms is unacceptable. There's non gaming discussions, but a lot of them are just getting ready for a session, or post-session, you still need the session. Unless you put a big disclaimer do not attempt to use this for abcd, in conditions 1234, etc. I'd stay far away. Their voice chats, like those of Kick or Twitch, have over the years become just so insanely complex and latency optimised at every possible point.

Threads is booming though. The masses don't want decentralised social, the masses want to have fun with the limited spare time that they have. I can't blame the masses for that, people are free to arrange their priorities as they like.

He's talking about people you follow, not those who follow you.

I'm guessing nobody rugged anyone here.

99% of times on Nostr when you hear about how so and so rugged me (ICANN, Cloudflare, Namecheap...) what actually happened is just some clerical thing, forgot to renew the domain, credit card expired, didn't get the settings right, etc.

"bend the knee to political whims"
is this what we're calling following the law now?

Since 2009, lol.

I'm up over 180cm since birth! During that time my grandparents didn't grow at all.

The cause *is* communal.

not long from now that'll be fresh water