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Iranians are throwing rockets again, remember; you should support and celebrate killing zionists.
τέχνη · 23h
They recently added stablecoins to cash app that auto-convert to BTC. Get back on X if you want to start interacting with him.
τέχνη · 1d
I think it already is in many ways. It nailed the identity/trust and the commerce/services part. Just needs to add a couple small things to make the social/messaging a bit more robust.
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Maybe it is more productive to convince Jack to make it more open protocols friendly. Would be awesome if he gave all users an MNS names whether they want it or not. I also wish he creates a Bitcoin backed stablecoin that is pegged to a basket of currencies or PoW or the price of Bitcoin in electricity around the world etc... and make that on Rootstock + statechains or other scaling solution.

Open protocols are usually not the hard part, it is the product market fit and user base.
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Nuh · 1d
Actually I don't mind if you onboard users to MNS, I would much rather though if he pull the rug from under USD backed stablecoins and redirect that insane demand to a more geopolitically neutral basket of commodities and make it pay fees to Bitcoin mimers
Andreas · 1w
For the #aosconvergence 2026 hackathon, nostr:nprofile1qqs80yqe4da3g05s2pw7f7qkn2sj7spm6xkr9ry8zauzasgwam5mxlspr9mhxw309ucnjv3wxymrst33xgujuvf5xuargwp58qq3wamn8ghj7wpe9ccnvdewx5ezuv358yarwvpsxqwjrcnq ...
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Very good work. It is a shame that Nostr is culturally hostile to any proper key management, and you will probably discover that you are wasting your time with a niche hostile to your work. That being said there are few of us here who take key management and key rotation and progressive custody very seriously... I am sure we will keep encouraging you and maybe share some of our work with you if you are open to it later.

Keep at it.
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jewish supremacists managed to force a structural entanglement between the USA military and the IDF, something that will make it very difficult for the USA to have independent decisions without suffering from massive inefficiencies possibly in vulnerable moments... American politicians are selling their own country in the same time that many reports that Pentagon is alarmed about the level of spying from Israel.

We will survive zionism, not sure if the USA will though, not looking good for the goyslaves.
τέχνη · 2d
I’ve heard that for access control they’re thinking of doing a namespace system. Which would be effectively like folders. So analogically your atproto repository is a drive. Public and private n...
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Well that was obvious thing to do from the beginning, and if they managed to do such a radical change at this stage, then they can do anything and good for them for having a team that leads and a community that actually open to follow instead of ossification too soon. But politics is inevitable, interop is expensive, and ActivityPub had some of that I imagine
τέχνη · 2d
The blog posts here are fantastic for learning the logic behind AtProto https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/
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Except his definition of filesystem is quite generous. AtProto doesn't have filesystem structure, instead it has collections and these collections are made of items all supposed to follow certain schema which is in the name of the collection. This is app friendly and let servers optionally enforce schemas... But that is not a filesystem at all. Of course it also has no access control over that, so even if it was filesystem it would be missing access control semantics for such filesystem.
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τέχνη · 2d
I’ve heard that for access control they’re thinking of doing a namespace system. Which would be effectively like folders. So analogically your atproto repository is a drive. Public and private namespaces are folders in the drive. Lexicons are file extensions.
τέχνη · 2d
nostr:npub1jvxvaufrwtwj79s90n79fuxmm9pntk94rd8zwderdvqv4dcclnvs9s7yqz any thoughts on that aspect of atproto? I assume that DID and key management is sort of the well known (pun intended) pain point f...
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I always hated on DIDs because they are retarded version of DNS, and hated on PLC directory because it is centralized trash because the Blockchain stigma. But the reason your keys will die if your PDS dies is because you never ask the PDS to help you rotate the keys to help you have self custody.... This is mostly user choice, but also Bluesky doesn't exactly nudge users to download any recovery keys. Farcaster is a bit better because users already have wallets like MetaMask so that is already a great selection for users interested in keys.
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I don't like identity politics, but I do like Blacksky because it is very much bullish decentralisation, it tells us that not only Bluesky failed to gain more than 1M daily users, it doesn't even scale social trust to all these users. So you already see "community" indexers... This is great, this proves Mastodon and ActivityPub architecture optimal, and that architecture is Actually decentralisable.

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τέχνη · 2d
There’s also Eurosky, I think. So there is technically 3 different indexers for atproto. It’s still unclear how well those three actually play together though