Happy New Year

It is indeed true.

Doesn’t work. Can’t see the Big Dipper either. I tried to find them. Maybe it only works in your part of the world.

Quotes about the internet from the Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the internet book by Geert Lovink https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/stuck-on-the-platform/

That’s a stupidly simplistic take.

There’s a debate raging over in the Bluesky world about whether or not infrastructure providers on ATprotocol should be neutral carriers or if people running things like PDS servers should be able to choose who they host.

It’s an interesting read and worth thinking about. From a Nostr perspective it’s like arguing for a custodial system then being upset at the power dynamics that exist because of that.

I’m curious what folks think. I think the poster kicked a hornets nest, not understanding how communities of users react to being told what they should or shouldn’t do with their own servers.

Thoughts?

https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4

This is a really interesting solution to the Nostr login system from @npub1k7cns...
@naddr1qqsx...

My own solution to growing nostr was to build divine.video which has generated a lot of excitement by people who want to use it and don’t even know to care that it’s nostr. Do something you can’t do in other social media ecosystems. Divine works because we have nostr libraries and blossom and relays and a ton of other things. It was much easier to build on Nostr than building the entire protocol from scratch. But it would have been easier to build centralized than on Nostr, if we didn’t care about freedom and a permissionless future.

We are running a version of keycast at login.divine.video. I don’t think custodial keys are something most nostr users would like to use. And I think it’s vital that any nostr app works with non-custodial keys. The goal is to make it easier to onboard users. Think of it as the bitcoin exchange that bridges to tradfi.

We generate a bunker url so you should be able to use the custodial key to access most nostr apps. And you can take your key and ask the service to delete it. Yeah you’d need to trust the keycast server operator to actually delete it and not use it. But this is the same thing users face in any service that uses traditional non-key based accounts.

Do you contribute to building Nostr? We’re trying to make Nostr better for everybody, and one step towards doing that is a survey, listening to developers and contributors. Please fill it out, and share it on!
@nevent1qqs...

Yep, I worked on Yahoo Pipes as the project I did right after leaving Odeo(ne twitter)... Mostly my work was on unit and integration tests in prep for launch as I joined it late. It was cool, yahoo killed it... we could totally bring it back and make something amazing that was pipes meets nostr.

I use tons of social apps and in particular recently the video apps because I need to understand how they work for divine.video. Can’t make a good Nostr video app without understanding what works for people on other apps.