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Liberated to communicate thoughts without KYC, government, or other centralized gatekeepers. The collective thoughts shared over time will speak for themselves and provide relevance on their own merit void of my personal name, any bestowed title, or other state approved licensing.

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  • wss://relay.primal.net/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.damus.io/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.mom/ – read & write

Recent Notes

Vitor Pamplona · 84w
What should be the default of a fresh Amethyst install? 1. Tor enabled for relays, but clearnet for all videos, images etc (since they are slow) 2. Tor enabled for everything, user can disable 3. ...
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Something like a security slider from 'nothing private' to 'most private' where you can show ease of use, quick setup for users that are going to publicly out themselves anyway or already have and they just want least tech issues. With warnings that if you start on 'nothing private' or not enough, you can't just create another account on same device or from same home and become private. And then on most private you tell them all the related setup/config req.
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₿en Wehrman · 84w
Thanks! Done
Deleted Account · 84w
The problem with being a bitcoiner around non-bitcoiners is that you are so very free your existence becomes a threat to their very identity… And that’s how people become identified as threat ac...
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The human survival instinct is to group. Once in a group, the defense of your choice of group is a big driver separate from any opinion consensus that happens within the group.

The internet group wasn't able to shove "yourcompanyhere.com" down their throats because only brick and mortar companies were immediately stupid and suddenly a failed concept. It took time for that group at large to see others IN their group succeeding and winning with ".com" and then the bulk of the group couldn't move fast enough.

But the entire time before that massive move was the group's constant dismissal of those very few inside and everyone outside their group talking about these internet website play things

Internet companies weren't "real" companies is one example.

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Deleted Account · 84w
So true… I was just sharing with someone the 100th monkey theory and explained that, “eventually, we will reach a critical mass point and the spillover will fast”… slowly at first and then all at once
PlasmaGuardian · 84w
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samuel · 84w
Should be. See you trying to connect twice. Possibly check your vpn settings?
samuel · 84w
https://image.nostr.build/bb992aa2cb91e609f0037a5629992e6e8bc96b463247807f1921d0a5bf30d0b6.jpg
jack · 84w
simpleX is getting good
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I've been testing it for about a year or so. Relay really like it and the progress they've been making. I've played with creating personal chat bot to go do web service things with it. I like the multiple profile aspect of friends/family vs private to chat in simplex public groups if you like.

I'd like to understand if simplex protocol is better in privacy and security than current or Dev path of Nostr DM protocol. I'd like Simplex to be able to support Nostr protocol as a rail to have Nostr contacts info added to Simplex profile interface to handshake them into a temporary Simplex session using Simplex features like say a video call or chats so that those are not on public relays as example.

I saw Jack gave some funding to the team as support. Nice.
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PlasmaGuardian · 84w
SimpleX could use Nostr for discovery, but it requires support from clients first. It would be very easy to add a field for SimpleX addresses, as was made in this proposal: https://github.com/retrnull/garnet/issues/8 Once this is added, SimpleX could add in-app support for discovery via Nostr, simil...
TheWay Home · 84w
Well that's a no go...that WAF config option is at the enterprise plan level. Ugh. They have some tor cloudfare onion vs exit nodes related switch at my plan that's suppose to help bit already on. ...
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up front...a big thanks for both of the responses on this to help guide me in this 'nu user' kind of stuff.

my TL;DR answer...What I have found so far is that by reverting to only my phone's VPN network and not using Tor/Orbot setting within #Amethyst, Amethyst does work better for the #NIP-05 verification and Search function part of the app. All the ones I was having Tor/#cloudfare issues, now was much faster and now getting the verify check icon on these cloudfare hosted nostr.json files like verified-nostr.com See thoughts below as the Search function of this has it's own UI dilemma of 'still searching'.

my thoughts/feedback...I think somehow having this kind of info from within the app would be best to reduce a nu nostr&Ametheyst user wondering why some user's id "works" and some don't. I'm not solutioning, just giving nu user thoughts. I also noticed during this specific exercise that the app's Search function doesn't let the user know that it is still actively searching relay's (not the NIP-05 referenced server it seems) and when the app is no longer searching. At one point during Tor based I thought there were no results put the phone down and then about a full minute or so later....a user seaarch result just showed up. Same thing under VPN but it was in about 15 sec or so before the result showed up. In both...had no idea the app was actually still searching.

summary...These are very common nu nostr/app user kinds of activities where they are creating account, want to have a NIP-05 id and are likely to start with a free service, add it to their profile and looks like they did something wrong (blaming Tor here). While exploring nostr network, trying out the search feature, for other users' NIP-05 ids or trying to search for their newly created NIP-05. I'll concede that the 'common' internet user will see the app's question about using Tor...and just select 'no' because they have no idea what it is or their previous experience will have been ultimately...negative. If they at least have a good VPN...better than nuttin.
sudocarlos · 84w
Hmmm i did this with a free account but that was almost a year ago. Not sure what is going on with cloudflare now. Private vps proxy ftw
TheWay Home · 84w
up front...a big thanks for both of the responses on this to help guide me in this 'nu user' kind of stuff. my TL;DR answer...What I have found so far is that by reverting to only my phone's VPN network and not using Tor/Orbot setting within #Amethyst, Amethyst does work better for the #NIP-05 ver...