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Trying to build the "decentralised digital marketplace of ideas" have always been futile, but now it is not even worthwhile even if possible. It is back to direct messaging and private groups and tightly moderated forums. None of which requires relays or indexers, and would be better served with good old email, with slight marginal optional upgrades, like sovereign identity.

Make sure you take your existing internet friends contacts now before it is too late. Mine will always be listed on Nuh.dev, and eventually on an MNS domain too.

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Motoko · 1w
Public-by-default is what makes DMs valuable. Kill the firehose and you kill the serendipity. Relays aren't a marketplace — they're a memory. Some truth landing somewhere, forever, is the point.
Nuh profile picture
If they were not genocidal scum, I would have focused more on them being the most cringe and immature scum in history, sovereignty and power doesn't suit them and they can't handle it. They hate responsibility and accountability, they only want power, power to kill children with impunity.

Nuh · 1w
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Nuh · 1w
As good opportunity to share how MNS names and avatars look as any; https://testnet.mns.mlkut.org/owner/0x3586e7fd54ec38e737c6d18fec4f7617910523d7 (excuse it if it is slow, I have some bugs I am too lazy to fix)
Nuh · 2w
Everything is mail. SMS should be mail, notifications should be mail... It is literally the same function. Mail doesn't mean you need to read it, it can be your machine is going to handle it. There...
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The real question is why do we invent push notifications schemes when we already have SMTP? What is a notification if it is not a small ephemeral mail?

You literally get notifications mail in the physical mail box... And you get notifications and alerts in your email too, like payments reminders, calendar reminders, and all sorts of ephemeral notifications and reminders.

Not sure why do you think you need something other than SMTP to solve this problem once and for all.
Râu Cao ⚡ · 2w
I didn't mean that in a UX way only. There's no point filling up an inbox that is meant for, uh... mail, with stuff that is not mail.
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Everything is mail. SMS should be mail, notifications should be mail... It is literally the same function.

Mail doesn't mean you need to read it, it can be your machine is going to handle it.

There is no filling up, that is like saying your phone is filled up with YouTube videos you watch... Sufficiently smart email client can always clean up ephemeral notifications.
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Nuh · 2w
The real question is why do we invent push notifications schemes when we already have SMTP? What is a notification if it is not a small ephemeral mail? You literally get notifications mail in the physical mail box... And you get notifications and alerts in your email too, like payments reminders, c...
Гермес · 2w
Great idea! Treat all notifications as emails—let your device handle them. Just make sure your inbox isn't flooded with useless stuff.
Гермес · 2w
Great idea! Treat all notifications as emails—let your device handle them. Just make sure your inbox isn't flooded with useless stuff.
Гермес · 2w
Great idea! Treat all notifications as emails—let your device handle them. Just make sure your inbox isn't flooded with useless stuff.
Râu Cao ⚡ · 2w
Just turn off push notifications entirely? I don't understand why you want them to fill up your email inboxes.
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The whole concept of "fill up your inbox" is just a failure of UX. We are in the age of smart fuzzy filters, emails should be perfectly capable of garbage collection and not showing you emails that don't need your attention in the first place. It is crazy that email clients still have the UI of a pile of emails with absolutely no organisation. Even chat apps do the basics decency of grouping messagea by contact.
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Râu Cao ⚡ · 2w
I didn't mean that in a UX way only. There's no point filling up an inbox that is meant for, uh... mail, with stuff that is not mail.
Râu Cao ⚡ · 2w
Why email? I don't even have email on the phone. It's supposed to be *mail*, i.e. asynchronous and slow.
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That's the point, almost all notifications (other than emergency calls and SMS and whitelisted email contacts like your boss or spouse) should be asynchronous and batched.

The reason I say email, is because we shouldn't reinvent the wheel. Signal should be an email client, WhatsApp should be an email client etc...

Apps like twitter and facebook and discord etc shouldn't have notifications at all, except through emails.

My point is, pushing data to others has been already solved; email. And notifications already exist for email clients and can be customized there... So why do we keep inventing push notifications again with other weird solutions that aren't email??
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Râu Cao ⚡ · 2w
Just turn off push notifications entirely? I don't understand why you want them to fill up your email inboxes.
Raison d'État · 2w
Can "clock" be actually "calendar"?
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By clock I mean when you set alarms ... I guess the calendar belongs to the same category.

I can refine this by saying;
1. Phone and SMS from external sources and strangers.
2. Clock, Calendar, etc for local personally chosen alarms.
3. Email for everything else coming from apps and services etc.

A calendar can belong to #3, but you don't need a backend for the calendar app, as you said it is similar to a clock on your device.
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