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76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa

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Instigator @ nos.social

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76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub avatar

We’re excited to release a new version of @0f22c06eac1002684efcc68f568540@mostr.pub with a bunch of bug fixes and the biggest thing is a reworking of the much maligned @add5190be4673768546c18b565da3a@mostr.pub with a new generation bot we’re calling @56d4b3d6310fadb7294b7f041aab46@mostr.pub.

Users of Nos or anybody can now send an encrypted report to Tagr and it’ll read it, check the content against a moderation AI and also ask the Nos team to take a look as well. If we and our AI agree, we’ll issue a 1984 event report for that content. This solves two problems, one it puts a human in the loop for being able to check / approve / remove reports from Tagr. Secondly it lets Nostr users submit a report to a third party in cases where they don’t want to be associated with the report. Often somebody who’s subject to harassment doesn’t want to label their harasser because it only provokes them. This provides a system of asking Tagr to look at it and make a label if it’s appropriate.

I’m sure there are folks who will hate the existence of content labels and reports. The report part is required by Apple and google. The content labeling using a Web of Trust is how we can make Nostr work as a permissionless decentralized network that’s both free and also safe for many kinds of people and communities. If we don’t figure this out then most people will retreat to centralized platforms. Even 4chan has mods. ;-D

You can read more about Tagr here: https://nos.social/tagr-bot

And the full release announcement is here:

strypey, (edited ) to random
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The NZ Official Information Act needs to be reformed so that it applies to anything that is funded by public money.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa,
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yeah because so much of the services of the state are done by government funded ‘independent’ organizations.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub avatar

p4p Offline First Social Media Protocols gathering.

This Friday in Berlin developers from Cabal, Cable, Earthstar, p2panda, Secure Scuttlebutt, and PPPPP will be gathering to talk local first protocols and celebrate the 10th anniversary of the creation of Secure Scuttlebutt.

Nostr users might remember that Nostr was inspired by Secure Scuttlebutt and a bunch of these other protocols have interesting ideas we could adopt.

If you’re in Berlin, go hangout with them…. they’re all doing cool work.

https://offline.place/events/2024/05/24/p4p-unconference/

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub avatar

Google is changing their search results a lot based on their LLM experiments. This feels like a fundamental shift in how the internet works for people. It’s drastically reducing links to third party websites and focuses on both the AI driven results and then tons of links to video content mostly on youtube.

So we’re seeing both LLM’s summarizing content hiding the original sources and also creating a environment where a huge portion of the content on the web is LLM created.

This is a mess that threatens to break the internet as it currently exists. The shift is going to be massive, disrupting most internet businesses and by extension the broader economy.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub avatar

Anyone used Quiet? It’s a p2p privacy focused messaging app that rubs over tor.

shoq, to random
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I never much cared for the word “creators,” simply because it suggests what they do might be creative. And even when it actually is, a lot of really bad shit can be creatively bad.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa,
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Not all creative or artistic endeavors is particularly good. I also don’t love the term, but do feel it fits.

Some folks who are called creators are actually curators, which should be valued, it used to be, but now feels like a nice way of somebody saying they find and steal others work to republish.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub avatar

This is the best in-depth dive in to how bluesky works from a code / infrastructure perspective that I’ve seen. I think anybody trying to understand and build Nostr should take a look. In a ton of ways atproto and nostr are siblings in how they work. It’s all the same stuff but slightly tweaked and in different proportions.

We have relays, they have relays. Their events are defined by signatures of the event and so our ours. They’ve got some differences, Nostr does casual ordering by timestamp whereas they’ve got a kind of merkel tree as part of the event. Their clients talk to a PDS server which holds keys similar to nsec bunker, but it also acts as a personal relay, which we have but not everybody uses. Our labelers are any nostr user or bot, whereas theirs a specific cloud service middleware. We’ve got DVM’s and other middleware which can generate custom feeds, but it’s not needed, clients can do their own thing or decide sorting. Whereas custom feeds in atproto are more core and extensible.

They plan to add payments and a DVM type service, but haven’t gotten to that yet, where as we have zaps already.

Because of the way bluesky has control over who can connect to their relay and submit data to their servers, users on the main bluesky network have to receive their content with their moderate bot labels via both AI and the Ozone app.

Bluesky supports arbitrary datastructures and lots of kinds of apps beyond the twitter like microblogging, but as far as I know nobody’s built one. Where as Nostr has tons of weird interesting apps.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239.pdf

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub avatar

A close friend of mine is working hard to help their relatives escape the crisis in Gaza. Tragically, they have lost over 200 family members, and the survivors urgently need to relocate to Egypt for safety. However, the cost to leave Gaza is prohibitively high—$5000 USD per person.

These are people caught in a war zone, and their lives hinge on our ability to help. You can support this cause by sending funds directly to me, which I will forward, or by donating through their GoFundMe page. Unfortunately, GoFundMe does not accept crypto for most projects, but any form of contribution is crucial.

Please help if you can: https://gofund.me/b6f15ce0

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub avatar

A deer friend of mine is trying to raise money to get their relatives out of Gaza. They’ve already lost over 200 relatives but in order to get their surviving relatives out to Egypt they need to pay. The Egyptians are charging $5000 USD per person in order to leave Gaza. This is an insane situation, where there’s people trapped in a war zone and the price of their life.

So please help, either by sending me a zap, which i’ll send on to the cause or by donating to gofundme. It’d be great if gofundme accepted crypto donations, but they only do it for a select few projects on the platform.

https://gofund.me/b6f15ce0

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub avatar

Anybody else try airchat? It’s like being a pinball at a cocktail party. Just randomly bouncing in and out of contextless conversations.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub avatar

Look at that. You can now follow Joe Biden on Nostr* npub1wx6m0vmakggyq0v2jyykshe522nssh7zh8x3hz94eesmnkrs22ksd4558r

  • It’s his official account on Threads coming to Nostr via mostr.pub’s two way gateway.
76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa,
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I think the gateway misses things. What do know about this @alex ?

J12t, to random
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About to run a session on identity and the open social web / fediverse at . Lots of unsolved problems.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa,
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Are the IIW sessions only in person, are there videos or notes?

shoq, to random
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Who saw this coming?

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa,
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It didn’t even occur to me to look at twitter to figure our what’s going on with thkse Iran drones.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub avatar

I'm so excited to formally announce a new project to onboard a diverse range of creators and journalists to Nostr. Please join us and help #grownostr

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa,
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub avatar

Nostr is part of the fediverse. I'm posting this right now on Nostr and you're reading in on the attractive.space mastodon server. I'm a big fan of the fediverse and thankful for everything it has done to make an open social media protocol a reality. You'll be able to see some of the posts of creators and journalists on nostr directly in your mastodon instance, but there's a bunch it doesn't and can't support.

There are a lot of things that Mastodon & ActivityPub can’t do.

  • User identities are tied to a server; if the server goes down, you lose your account, as happened when queer.af had their domain name seized.
  • Users can’t migrate between servers. In some servers there’s a system where they can request a migration, where they can stop using one account and point their followers to a new account, but server admins need to allow this, and your followers don’t automatically follow your new identity on a new server.
  • On a single server, it is impossible to change your username!
  • Fediverse servers have total control over your account and data; they can see all of your private messages or write new ones on your behalf.
  • The fediverse is a network of fiefdoms, each server admin having total control over their users. Often they are benevolent and use their power to decide what behavior is acceptable on their server, but it’s opaque. Most fediverse server admins keep their moderation and defederation decisions secret. So, users must choose a trust and safety regime without any understanding of the rules and how they’re enforced. When combined with the very limited ability to migrate between servers, only with server admin's permission, it’s a problem.
  • Each kind of fediverse server is isolated. You can use a Peertube instance to federate with other Peertubes for video, or Mobilizon for meetup-style events, or Pixelfed for Instagram-like photo sharing, or WriteFreely for blogs. But each of these is isolated. I need a new account on an instance of each of these servers. They all run the same protocol, but they aren’t actually interoperable. You can’t use a single fediverse identity with your profile and followers in Peertube, Mobilizon, WriteFreely, and Pixelfed. You need a totally separate account in each one. With Nostr, you can use dozens of apps all with your same identity, content, and followers.
  • The fediverse has no privacy; there is no system of end-to-end encrypted messaging. In Nostr, you can have private direct messages and even private groups that are encrypted. Nostr even supports encrypted private file sharing.
  • The fediverse has no system for micropayments. The zaps on Nostr enable easy ways to fund creators and journalists with either one-off tips or subscriptions to unlock paid content, like paid Substack newsletters or OF accounts.
  • Lastly, and most importantly for me, the culture of fediverse server admins and developers is vindictive. It’s a community that attacks people who make proposals or want to try out new ways of using the network. That is why there is no search, no ability to choose an algorithm, no private groups, no private messages, no system for payments, etc. Those have all been proposed or even built, but the fediverse culture has gone after those people, punishing them for suggesting new ways of doing things.
Jeremiah, to random
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Spotify pays ~70% of its revenue to music rights holders.

If a music artist doesn’t have at least 1,000 plays a month from 713,000,000+ active Spotify users, it’s not Spotify’s fault they are not popular enough to earn a living from their artistry—nor would that artist be able to live off of CDs, merch, and live show performances.

I know capitalism sucks, but people have to actually want someone’s art for it to be a profession. However, the barrier to building a fanbase has never been lower.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa,
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But a big part of the problem is the $ mostly goes to labels. That’s why spotify survived instead of earlier music streaming projects. They shared ownership with the labels making a cartel.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
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Podcasting is the shining example of how social media can be open.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
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I listened to this interview as a podcast, talking to Jay Graber about bluesky. Again, a lot of what’s said about bluesky also applies to nostr when advocating for a protocol.

Notice the difference in focus on censorship and monetization. We can’t just be claiming those are the two things that make nostr important.

https://theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to fediverse
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Last week i gave a quick 6 minute talk about and the at the Fediforum online conference. A recording of the talk is now online. Apologies for any errors or bumbling of the presentation, it was 4am.

In the breakout session later a lot of people were excited about what Nostr can do and they were envious of our apps, interoperability, and ability to monetize. They were held back by the fact that, for them, they've got a way of grouping a community based on a server with a focus on the local timeline, and they felt the instance way of managing behavior worked for them. I, like most folks here, think the coupling of identity, content, with trust and safety in a single instance is fundamentally broken. It's the HOA problem. What stuck out at me was if we could provide an alternative to HOA server admins, that helped bring users together in a community and also let them opt in to a moderation / trust and safety system, they'd be interested in Nostr as an alternative to the ActivityPub based fediverse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il6WPmpygxA

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa,
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Well the main pushback is that the fediverse uses a very server / instance based model for content moderation where as Nostr users a more web of trust / social graph model. So to the other parts of the fediverse, it looks like all of nostr is mostr.pub and it’s got no content moderation at all.

The fundamental problem is a disconnect between paradigms of how the network is governed.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa,
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That’s the idea behind nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6‘s Ditto project: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ditto.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa, to random
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This is the first time I’ve seen in the wild a threads.net post on Nostr! It’s @tantek on Nostr.

https://image.nostr.build/37939ed689b3a961ddb090cbd6ea46fc4dab27b9e86e85d582ee6d4bd83f3b9f.jpg

970996533690dbc419097103de4062594d92bd24d3ea15b3e2d66b4ac39d8672, to random
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Nostr notes are the pinnacle of responsibility as no editing or deleting exists. What you post will probably live on forever.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa,
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Nostr supports both edit and delete. You’re apps that choose to hide that functionality because rhe creators don’t like edit and delete.

76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa,
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https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/09.md

Read the spec. Even relays that choose not to implement Nostr, eventually drop all content.

Delete is a core part of Nostr and it works. Don’t trust trolls who wish Nostr didn’t support delete.

Edit works in some apps:

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