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Nuh profile picture
Damn ... Remember you can scale group chats with all yo all encryption key sharing up to many hundreds or a thousand. That is basically fitting Nostr users in a handful of Signal chat groups for analogy!

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Azz · 17h
Nostr would be much stronger with a feature that lets me encrypt notes so only trusted people can decrypt them, with those notes appearing naturally in the feed of approved mutual followers. That feels like the missing piece. I do not want to post photos of my kids or share my location publicly, b...
Nuh profile picture
I don't like moderation by hosting providers and I think Bluesky understood this and did a better job than Mastodon at separation of concerns and allowing people to opt in feeds without a veto from their hosts. But this insane crusade against any kind of moderation and any kind of filtering is childish. You are not entitled to people attention. They have the right to ignore your ass.

weev · 1d
This is a manipulatively framed question. Mastodon, today, claims to be decentralized. It explicitly says “decentralized social media platform.” In actuality, Mastodon is extremely centralized (do...
Nuh profile picture
You are out of your mind man. People are free to do whatever they want including forming trusted private communities that discriminate against others that they don't like to associate with. Is there anything more stupid than talking like a libertarian while bitching about people's freedom of association?
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weev · 1d
Okay. I point out that Mastodon’s active, present-day claim of decentralization is untrue, clearly explain how it is not decentralized at all in a calm and factual manner, and instead of addressing the actual concern of chronic fraud and misrepresentation that plagues Mastodon, you accuse me of be...
jb55 · 1d
i like that the network part is a bit underspecified so people can innovate there. People get really upset that i did a relay pool though 😅 it made sense at the time but definitely won’t scale. Luckily we have lots of outbox implementations now. Also gave me time to harden my local db/relay co...
Niel Liesmons · 16h
What's the case against signed (JSON) events?
jb55 · 1d
running a mastodon node was absolutely retarded. I tried to build my own activitypub node and failed because the protocol was so bad. Then I realized everyone would need to run a node to gain sovereig...
Nuh profile picture
Would you say the same about Email servers if they had sovereign Identity (regardless of how is that identity sovereign)? Would you say the same about Nostr image hosting solutions? I know ActivityPub is not a perfect protocol, but just assume the identity wasn't tied to the server, would that be so bad?
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jb55 · 1d
it would just be nostr with a well defined outbox model, so it wouldn’t be bad
weev · 1d
This is a manipulatively framed question. Mastodon, today, claims to be decentralized. It explicitly says “decentralized social media platform.” In actuality, Mastodon is extremely centralized (domain names are a point of centralization, even if they didn’t intend to censor or manipulative the...
weev · 1d
You don’t have an obligation to look at my speech. You can block me. Blocking is the normal and sane response to someone who is communicating something you do not like. If they do it persistently, w...
Nuh profile picture
No man reach is when your data reaches me in the first place for me to block you. Yes sending me a direct message is fine. But reach means that your data appears in a feed or something. Feeds that have audiences are scarce, and you don't have a god given right to appear in one. It is up to the curator/aggregator/relay/mailing list operator to choose whether or not to include your post. This is a fundamental problem. It can't be solved
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weev · 1d
> you don't have a god given right to appear in one If the feed is common infrastructure and not manually curated, then yes, I do. Everyone does. Everyone should be treated equally by the feed. If you say otherwise, it is in total contrast to historical American jurisprudence and I think you shoul...
Technical Debt · 1d
Public spaces will eventually rot regardless and the real platform is the friends we make along the way? Did I understand correctly? I mean it’s one way of seeing it but I don’t get how it ties ...
Nuh profile picture
I am basically making the point that people don't actually need cold emails at all. You can have a situation where you only get messages from people you shared contacts with.

But I am not too committed to this take, I am perfectly happy with 100000 friend requests that I can check at my leisure or through AI at to filter.
weev · 1d
You don’t have an obligation to look at my speech. You can block me. Blocking is the normal and sane response to someone who is communicating something you do not like. If they do it persistently, we have perfectly sane harassment laws that specifically say that repeated unwanted contact is a crim...
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Nuh profile picture
True, and Nostr didn't do much better than ActivityPub except when it comes to sovereign identity. But evidently not enough people tolerate that UX. I don't blame them.