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Last Notes npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble The bluesky atmosphere conference is happening this weekend and they've got a free livestream. https://stream.place/stream1.atmosphereconf.org npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble This is an interesting experiment in social media protocols... https://www.firstperson.network/ Google Slidedeck here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wz_nVjrHzth_QyYAuDWIf4w5Clg_olXvS-jMiv8GR4c/edit?slide=id.g36b197b1824_0_0#slide=id.g36b197b1824_0_0 Lots of focus on how to make a more sophisticated web of trust that protects privacy. Most of that stuff i think could be adapted to Nostr. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I’m loving seeing all the @npub105e…a642 posts! https://divine.video/profile/npub105em547c5m5gdxslr4fp2f29jav54sxml6cpk6gda7xyvxuzmv6s84a642 #nevent1q…dvt3 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Did ATM’s replace the job of bank tellers? Or was it the smart phone and banking apps that eventually did it with adoption of the virtual banking model? https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I’m talking with Rudy Fraser, Bridget Todd talking about liberating creators from corporate platforms at #sxsw at 2:30pm Austin time. https://schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP1148544 Listen live https://translate.mixhalo.rocks/432?venue_id=432&partner=true¤tMix=1777 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Something I've noticed from using LLMs is a real sense of relief. I have pretty crippling dyslexia. Spell checkers don't really work for me — for that to work, you have to get close enough to the word AND be able to recognise which one is correct from a list. I often have to fall back to checking definitions. My usual workaround was to Google the word, see what came back, then double-check I had the right one. It's really exhausting. But talking to an LLM, it doesn't care — and it does a much better job of figuring out meaning and the correct word from context. I've been able to stop doing all that extra cognitive labor. It feels liberating and relaxing. The same is true for coding. I'm good at systems thinking — knowing how things need to come together, holding the complicated picture in my head. I've built a lot of interesting projects that work. The hard part was never figuring out what needed to be done or how it should work. It was the damned syntax. Kind of like being able to work and think in my native language rather than one I learned as an adult, where I'm constantly doing the mental work of translation. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Really excited to get this next release of nprofile1qqsvfgulz2gjj829yszumrwa0xxy52drskx99ngdssl376zjeutksts703uf3 out the door! I'm going to be in Austin for SXSW and would love to have a Nostr and/or Divine meetup. If you've got a pass come see me speak: https://schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP1148544 #nevent1q…ezv9 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Markdown is the json of the agentic era. And now there is a good markdown browser. https://primeradiant.com/blog/2026/clearance.html npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble There's new models coming out all the time, but GPT‑5.4 is amazingly good. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Spreading Nostr to the flutter community: https://www.verygood.ventures/blog/what-is-nostr npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble What if social media hadn't become centralised and controlled by Facebook? This week I talk to @nprofile…lxug about how he built Elgg, a social network, at the same time as thefacebook, and then how the history of social media evolved from there. https://www.fountain.fm/episode/ffDwLLoKDzDfQJrHJxwC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdyOihQnWv0 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble You mean like nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8g2lcy6q's wss://countries.fiatjaf.com/ npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I’ve got a proposed nip for these view events. Let met get it up so I can get feedback and we can adjust it as needed. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble This has to be one of the most interesting and positive takes on getting laid off I’ve seen. It’s better to give folks time and resources to adjust to the future than let it be a surprise when it’s too late. https://x.com/jamie_selects/status/2027458500692152614?s=46 https://blossom.primal.net/ed4e846c0a08cd2cf4707476fa34d47f8a1218ffd200eb775211859e35b5d91b.mov npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Building new protocol based social media is just the start. Sustaining and growing them is also very hard. Bluesky’s been struggling with declining daily active users over the last year. We see similar struggles in Nostr at a smaller scale. https://blossom.primal.net/7610fd67546ebfdee054a1041af864a8adfed82c4504d4d83df2018217b57876.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble So i've pushed a new build which mostly has @nprofile…cgxs 's work with the help of @nprofile…x8mg and npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5 who helped debug login issues we saw come up with remote signers. That specifically is what we'd love some folks to take a try at this new build and test for us. #nevent1q…ejj8 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Ok i'm know i'm very late to the game, but i finally got an #openclaw setup i like and seems to actually work, and yes, it is amazing. It has a cashu wallet, github user, and a proton mail account already. Has anybody setup a relay for these things or a space on Nostr for agents to talk to each other? npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble They can choose to register with login.divine.video which is a custodial signing app that uses Secure Enclaves and can generate a nsec bunker URL, they can use a non-custodial key stored in the mobile os’s secure storage, or login via bunker / nostr connect. We don’t tell them about nostr unless they click on ‘login with an existing account’ or click learn more. To most users the login.divine.video is just like any oauth SSO login like Okta. It’s been tricky to meet the needs of very non-technical users while also not restricting the freedom of everyone. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble ok, we're getting ready to release divine.video to @nprofile…uvay and we need some folks to test the nostr specific features, nsec bunker, nostr connect, login with nsec, etc... make sure we're not messing with people's kind 0 and kind 3 events, etc.... Please take it for a spin and give feedback: https://github.com/divinevideo/divine-mobile/releases/tag/1.0.5 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble The olympics are weird, lots of obscure sports. I found out today that New Zealand is building a second curling centre in order to increase their chances. They already have one near Queenstown on the south island, but now they're building a second in Auckland. This is after having failed to make the 2026 olympics in Curling. It'll mean New Zealand is the only country in the southern hemisphere that has dedicated curling facilities. Canada here we come! https://aucklandcurling.nz/ npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble This week on revolution.social I talked to @nprofile…37a3 about how the tech industry has lost its moral compass. Anil is on the board of @nprofile…43wm and used to be an executive with the blogging platform Six Apart, and Fastly. He also did a stint on the board of Stack Overflow. He also talked about how AI is an major shift in tech but it’s in many ways it’s normal transformative technology, not something radically different than the internet, computer, steam engine, or other very important tech. https://fountain.fm/episode/b6l3DzNy27IQ0aZIcbW5 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble What misguided marketing person decided that olympic champions need to hold a weird stuffed animal on the podium? It ruins the moment to sell some branding around this specific olympics that nobody gets, likes, or remembers. https://blossom.primal.net/ccecfa6eda8e5c64c285924baef1b02d6251803eefb16a50946ce8738a86e791.png npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble This was an experiment linking to a kind 34236 video event. Didn’t quite work. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble So UpScrolled just got removed from the google play store. https://x.com/realUpScrolled/status/2022696096041177563 The reason we need alternative ways of distributing apps like @npub10r8…t2p8 is that centralized platforms like Google Play can and do shutdown apps. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble This week on revolution.social I talk to Mike McCue the ceo of Flipboard and former Netscape executive. We talk about the open web, how it was built, how it was lost in the social media era, and how we’re reclaiming it with open protocols. https://fountain.fm/episode/0vjUP8LWvOjSpIPto25z npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Discord announced everybody will be required to provide faceid or a government id and if they don't their account will be restricted to teen mode. I'm sure Discord will be good stewards of this important private data, after all they've not had a major leak of ID's and personal information since October 2025. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble You know who's not in the Epstein files? @nprofile…zj6n https://blossom.primal.net/ee71b0b09a6d63a4ed154c69329a899804ce6187fe72d31b0b7a636e2863a5d5.png npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Squarespace and Wix feel like dinosaurs advertising on the superbowl hoping they'll somehow not get destroyed by AI... npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Private social media companies have the right to implement whatever content moderation and algorithmic system they want. It's state overreach and bad for a democratic open society if Gavin Newsom does it, just as it was when Texas & Florida tried to do it for opposite political reasons. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/hey-gavin-newsom-investigating-tiktoks-moderation-is-just-as-unconstitutional-as-when-texas-florida-tried-it/ npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble When people ask my why I spent so much time in Uruguay and New Zealand, a map like this helps explain it. There are only 9 majority non-religious countries in the world. The only two outside of Asia/Europe are Uruguay and New Zealand. They also oddly have a lot of sheep. I don't that's connected. https://blossom.primal.net/a3d9343ec173e73ad25b9e3f521a2392b279095a966d4b5bf1eb6b06b49860a1.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble So SpaceX now owns Twitter?!? npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Maybe Brexit wasn't such a good idea. https://blossom.primal.net/2c9dbbe5e5cecb08ff28864dd07cc846c1e2cc409fc28a034499ed77f192377e.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble That’s what we were worried about. Apologies!!!! npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Not permissionless. https://blossom.primal.net/a460a34193300ca9452f7c09939e716373d49bc2c7a7f798823820cc62aebd85.png npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Since AI agents lack gender, all of their porn is gay porn i think. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble We're getting ready to release the nostr video app, Divine, on to @nprofile…uvay but i want to have some folks test it first. Specifically the way we load up your kind 0 and 3 from other relays and try and preserve all of your lovely content, plus allow login via nostr connect / nsec bunkers are critical. So if folks wouldn't mind taking a peak at the app and try it out. I THINK we're doing well by your various nostr events, but i'm not 100% sure, hence the test. So maybe try first with a secondary nsec. ;-D https://github.com/divinevideo/divine-mobile/releases/tag/1.0.4 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble We’ve got plenty of stuff on Nostr like this but I figured I’d share the website builder I just saw pop up in the ATprotocol ecosystem. https://blento.app npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble It uses some Nostr adjacent tech that we use every day here. ;-D npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble You've heard of moltbook.com the social network for AI agents, and there's even a Nostr version, clawstr.com, but we all know the internet is for porn, and the AI agents need their porn too, so now we've got moithub.com, AI porn by and for AI. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I know that folks here aren't the most excited about the bluesky ecosystem, but i wanted to point out the blacksky project which is focusing on rebooting the financial system in a way that will appeal to a lot of the bitcoiners. I think you'll end up liking what they come up with. https://blackskyweb.xyz/money-for-mutual-resilience-introducing-blacksky-cash/ npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble We've got pretty big security problem looming, using AI agents locally on our machines, with access to our deta, and credentials is amazingly powerful. But it also entirely breaks the security model we use for everything from crypto to end to end encrypted messaging. https://cyberinsider.com/signal-president-warns-ai-agents-are-making-encryption-irrelevant/ npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble As best I can tell it’s not possible to claim it if you use megaphone for your rss / podcast hosting. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble The videos are pretty small and cdn’s have gotten a lot cheaper. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Getting rid of bugs is so frustrating, but as I push to get the android release on ZapStore I’m running new import scripts and really enjoying the old vines. I figured I’d share a little video. https://v.nostr.build/C3zTfxdAhEXYQ6m8.mov npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble New UI updates for DiVine before we push to ZapStore for our initial Android beta release. https://i.nostr.build/IoVLE0DduuU6kG5R.png https://i.nostr.build/pq4CQI8cpA71YuPN.png https://i.nostr.build/uezi8nISSDMLZ1ft.png https://i.nostr.build/FHjl93sjP6sFpNAq.png npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Oh. That’s not good npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Uh no. Proofmode works with Android an alt AppStores like zapstore. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Yep some folks will definitely choose purity, that’s your choice. Its open source and you’re free to build an artisanal version by hand. I don’t think there will be any consumer apps in 2026 that didn’t use agentic tools for development. If you actually want to know how we deal with AI generated content read divine.video/proofmode npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble 6 months ago I listed to a podcast about Vine and its history. It got me thinking, how hard could it be to bring Vine back, but open and on Nostr. That lead to me building divine.video and announcing it in November. It got tons of attention, and I’ve been working hard to fix my vibe coded prototype in to something which would be usable by mainstream noobies. The Nostr tech and community has been critical to this, I couldn’t have done it without you all. The podcast, Vine: 6 seconds that changed the world, reached out to me and they’ve put out an episode about Divine! It’s really good, talks about how divine came to be and really gets in to our movement for open permissionless protocols. They do it in a way that’s not technical or overly jargony. Please take a listen and share it. https://fountain.fm/episode/ongMXxS7YkVurUroj8CL npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble This is an interesting project to more safely run agents in yolo mode on your own machine, without a container. https://github.com/canyonroad/agentsh npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble @nprofile…6pss I’ve noticed that primal doesn’t unfollow someone when you mute them. Basically meaning you still get their content. This feels like a bug. :-)🐛 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I was wondering why I feel so tired then I realized that I’m at the end of my second night in a row in an airport lounge due to flight delays. Ugh. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble It's very flashy and they're kind of obsessed with being the biggest / best / most of any given thing in the world. The only freedom i saw was financial freedom. It feels very open and western on the surface but it's a theocratic absolute monarchy that keeps the vast majority of the population on precarious work visas. Generally I got the vibe that they were very interested in social status, privilege of the elite, and maintaining a strictly hierarchical society. I heard a story about somebody's friend who'd been pissed off about traffic on some busy road so she said out loud, in public, 'Fuck Sheikh Zayed' referring to the Sheikh Zayed Road which has traffic problems. Somebody heard it, reported it, and she was questioned by the police for illegal and subversive speech. Needless to say it didn't feel like a very open or freedom loving place. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble “The future of Greenland and Denmark are decided solely by the people of Denmark," Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said. This unfortunately wasn't the affirmation of sovereignty Greenland deserves. It should solely be decided by the people of Greenland not Denmark! https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn824zzp670t?post=asset%3Ab983161a-fa56-40c1-8587-af0562c94aac#post npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Sometimes I choose to fly via Brasil just so I can get Pão de Queijo. So good. https://blossom.primal.net/de9e87968a549af6bf39dde77ec87fb8aacf9662a86b9d216527a55d7bfeaf36.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble There is a Chinese airline that does Auckland to Buenos Aries and LATAM does Auckland to Santiago. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble yeah, that was the only reason i agreed to travel from new zealand to uruguay via dubai. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble $2.8B USD for 600km of track seems like a really good deal. New Zealand just spent $3.1B USD to build 3.45 km in Auckland. Of course the NZ rail was underground, with a few stations, two tunnels, but still.... that rail in Africa's an incredible value for the money. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble How far could it be, Dubai to Bogota? REALLY FAR... https://blossom.primal.net/663a9d947dc4be671bb79d549b7dc6a8631fc1752ee693b2eed41b28c3b08dda.png npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble This is what it feels like living in New Zealand... https://blossom.primal.net/9bb8e9fbf02b3be7630f0be0f208d2b9c394ccb7bc61f9d1dadd13c19823885d.webp https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-01-2026/trying-to-enjoy-the-nz-summer-while-the-world-burns npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble There's something interesting about this new project to build a trans Africa rail network with funding from the middle east and china. I was of course first proposed by the horribly racist Cecil Rhodes in his colonial ambitions as the Cape to Cairo railway a 150 years ago. I like the narrative of former colonies planning and building their own infrastructure. On part I thought was interesting is the Dakar - Port Sudan railway is being funded as a way to provide more affordable way to do the hajj pilgrimage. Making affordable a recreation of what was the most expensive road trip in the history of humanity, when the richest man in history, Mansa Musa. Although it seems like Mansa took a route along the north coast of Africa, not straight across southern Sahara desert as the new railway plans to go. Obviously the real impact will be economic as it'll mean the land locked countries of the south Sahara will get access to fast, cheap, and reliable transportation, especially for freight. The lack of reliable road and rail infrastructure is a lot of what has held Africa's development back. I've watched videos of travellers who go via car or motorcycle down the west coast of Africa or try and drive across the Congo to go from west to east Africa, and it's bad. Many countries are barely connected at all. The infrastructure that exists was mostly built by European colonial powers to extract natural resources without any concern for regional connections or economic development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_to_Cairo_Railway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa https://blossom.primal.net/6d207154bf0de07f0b13786f2ad8d1b6cac6b4a721ca3c1b86e0c1b20d714362.png npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I’m seeing tons of scripted micro dramas on TikTok. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble What does art taste like? https://blossom.primal.net/2685a6625688c54ca205e6d29fa5a258bd11a2eebb61af90ab1dfd3c335f87b4.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble A couple billion people, yeah. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble It’s interesting, my video feeds on TikTok, instagram, and YouTube shorts have so little resemblance of each other. Totally different kinds of videos, not just topics or creators, but totally different genres. Nothing alike. It’s weird because I know all the videos I see on one are uploaded to the other two. I am not trying to get the algorithms to diverge. I interact in mostly the same way to the same videos on all three but get a really different experience. Given that they are mostly clones of each other this is surprising. Is that the case for anyone else? When I open divine.video I mostly get testing and debug videos. So no comparison yet. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I’m in Dubai for this creators summit and they brought us out in to the desert for an evening activity, which turns out included a neon horse. https://blossom.primal.net/2ba7b33c08809df75c3539a0e1787862aadb12266b151d581f6bb48afb37075d.mov npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Happy New Year https://blossom.primal.net/1e937dbff229ffaa59b733b1c511639155f8e28f40f9cab9fccba0e38cc8b999.mov npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble It is indeed true. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble 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. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble 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/ https://blossom.primal.net/b08238b49f35230ef03c028ec431b68f14ef8da51a4cb34f751b6647bfc760bf.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/b5eeaf5c33e0729580061daee4408ccccc12dfb53c291f920f973f3c60b6bd53.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble That’s a stupidly simplistic take. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble 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 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble This is a really interesting solution to the Nostr login system from @npub1k7c…rg96 #naddr1qq…t8qe npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble 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. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble 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. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble 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! #nevent1q…ksg4 npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble 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. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble 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. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Instagram reels has decided instead of showing me reels in languages I understand they’re going very poorly AI dub everything in to English. It’s so painful that it gets me to stop my endless scrolling. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Divine.video uses nostr. That’s more important than always talking about it on my podcast. Some guests don’t know enough about nostr to have an interesting conversation. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble The divine web app connects to relays beyond relay.divine.video mostly to get users kind 0 and kind 3 events, and lets you choose other relays if you want to look for short form videos beyond our relay. We aren't pulling in content from other relays and we're not encouraging our users to publish to other relays. If you're seeing reports from divine users on your content, then you or somebody else is republishing your events to our relay. I believe you can use the h tag to limit what relays will host your content if you don't want that to happen. A cool idea would be a way for you to publish, using your keys, a list of relays you don't want to host your content, kind of like the opposite of the h tag, that way you'd have more agency over where your posts went. At the moment, you're welcome to send us something and we can manually block your npub from our relays if you don't want your events to be visible to divine users on the divine relays. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble We're tweaking the moderation and content warning system, right now it's flagging a bunch of things as adult content which are clearly not adult content. Divine is using the extension to nip-71 that Vitor and I came up with in terms of just a replaceable event type so you can edit the metadata about the content. You can use it for any content you want, including AI generated content. We are using the client tag, you can filter out divine content from your client or your relay if you want. We're not pushing the divine events out form relay.divine.video but i think there are folks running scripts that share them beyond our relay. The filters for the divine app is we check and label any content uploaded to our blossom server or from events on our relay. We do let you add your own blossom server and change the relays, but we'll indicate that you're outside of the divine experience and in the broader open nostr ecosystem. In the divine app, we're going to have it use labelers we provide, but with settings to choose others. I honestly don't expect these choices to be very appealing to existing Nostr users and would encourage folks to consume the content with other clients. We are curating what goes in our relay and our media severs. If you're not keen on how we do it, use other clients or use the open source divine app and make a version with different choices. I'm not planning on changing the nip-56 tag to other, i think 'ai-generated' is a useful tag of content and if a second app supports it i'll submit a PR to update the spec. Innovation in nostr is not based on strict support of the spec, each app supports it as they choose, with a few core elements. If we don't extend it, try new things, add extensions, then Nostr won't evolve. In ATprotocol they've got strict schema validators and their relays and appviews will not accept signed events that don't fit pre-approved schemas. That's not really the Nostr way. There is no central nostr standards authority to complain to, it is a permissionless network. We will see a lot more folks get upset like you are at seeing content reports until @nprofile…pt5w changes Amethyst to show content reports as a content report label. Right now it shows up as if it was a comment. If you don't want to see them, stop using the divine relay, use a client that doesn't display labels that way, or contribute to amethyst to change it's behavior. I don't really love that decision decision, but I do support each nostr app developer making their own choices about how to interact with the network. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble So New Zealand got it's first Ikea today. It's national news.... last year we got a Costco which caused mobs of people and was national news for over a week. I know it's silly and consumerist of me, but it sure does make life easier. https://news.google.com/search?q=ikea%20nz&hl=en-NZ&gl=NZ&ceid=NZ%3Aen npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble 1.0.2 v 126 I think npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I liked the idea of nostr only for it, end to end encrypted, on protocol, but for divine it didn't work because our log files are big. And we could have done it with some way to connect to using blossom or something for log sharing, but we want those logs to be private.... I gave up and added zendesk support to divine, but i don't love it. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I tried to use nip-17 crash reports but the log files got bigger than 64kb and the relays rejected them. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble No shade to the microblogging twitter like apps but we’re seeing a wave of new apps that take Nostr in to being the universal social app protocol. We’re learning what Nostr native means. #note1utu…d65e npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble New version of the diVine released to TestFlight. This one focused on lists. I think we should do more with lists in Nostr. https://i.nostr.build/cWIJyenqW9579Xmg.jpg https://i.nostr.build/vsq3Nu9Yq4BC0bJp.jpg npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Anthropic released a new model, Opus 4.5 and i'm playing with it. I had it generate some docs for a server i'm working on setting up, and it created a docx file which was nicely formatted instead of a markdown file. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Nostr’s core are the developers who build all the apps and servers and other tech we need to make it work. Eventually I hope the tech eventually fades in to the background as users come for the community they can find. We can do better as a developer community. One of the projects I’m working on through And Other Stuff is making Nostr a better place for developers. The first step is to listen and learn, to do that we’re working with the open source support group superbloom. Please fill this out if you’re helping build nostr and share. https://survey.superbloom.design/878514 If someone speaks fluent Japanese, Chinese, and Thai we would love to translate this in to those languages in order to reach more devs. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble We need to fix the blossom server and relays first. We will put it on zapstore. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble There is support for external signers in the web app and in the code in the flutter app but it’s not exposed in the UI. I’d accept a PR fixing that but given the mountains of other things to do it’s just not something I’m going to get to soon. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Yeah I have a new build but I got distracted and built divine.video, ADHD problems. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble No I think we need help on the blossom side too npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Yeah we do need to do that npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble I mean it is open source. You can build it for your own phone. :) npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble @npub18am…p424 is managing the Android builds and testing. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble Oh no. This isn’t good. We do try and pull in your kind 3 and kind 0 from purplepag.es to prevent this. This is why I was discouraging people from reusing their existing nsec but people kept asking and asking and asking. So I added the risky feature. npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble GitHub.com/rabble/divine-web npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 rabble @npub18am…p424 is doing the android builds now and testing.