Globe99

Scientist | Libertarian | Early millennial | Nerd | Urbanist | "Filthy Casual" Bitcoiner

Projects I like:
catallax.network (npub1qwe…qldl) Nostr-based service and reputation marketplace
Angor (npub1wrz…cm02) Bitcoin-based time-locked crowdfunding
https://blockforgebtc.com/blockforge A fully on-chain voxel world, living on Bitcoin forever.

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2026-05-23 16:38:24 UTC

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I agree in the sense that Nostr is shifting from a UX problem to a marketing problem...

2026-05-22 21:33:23 UTC

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it didn't look THAT real lol

2026-05-22 20:34:42 UTC

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don't forget also "golden handcuffs" -- interest rates haven't been at 2010's levels this entire decade.
And in CA, prop 13 -- Boomers bought their houses in the 70's for 3 Wheaties box-tops, and they're taxed at that level -- the moment they sell their property tax goes back to "today" levels.

2026-05-22 18:10:54 UTC

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There should be a way on Nostr to sort of set up a "shingle" with defined skills and rates... IDK I think there are a few projects that do this?

2026-05-22 16:26:09 UTC

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Yeah I agree with all that. I sort of see freedom-maxing solutions as either a sort of urbanist "jurisdictional arbitrage", or (the millennia-old strategy of) "running for the hills" and isolating oneself in the wilderness.
The problem is, largely due to the boomer generation, America has basically enthroned the Suburbs as "the good life"... and I truly believe so much of our problems as a society have been downstream from this ("housing theory of everything").

2026-05-22 16:16:03 UTC

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Yeah I live in "major American city", and that would never fly. ~10% of cars on the highway don't even have a license plate to begin with. No way they have the enforcement capacity to actually start ticketing bikes lol.
To me this goes back to James C. Scott's "seeing like a State" -- say what you will about suburbia, it's a very "State legible" form of living... Single-family zoning means that if you're geotagged to a particular place every night, that can reasonably be assumed to be your house... But if you live in a high-rise, whoops, that could be 1000 other people. CoinJoin, but for people. 😁
To bring it back to State violence, this is why most #ice raids are now shifting to suburban areas -- much easier to track and grab people than in dense urban cores.

2026-05-22 15:25:50 UTC

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I mean, at the risk of getting tomatoes thrown at me... This actually seems like one of the better applications of Flock cameras because it's being initiated by an actual community.
If an HOA or whatever wants to do this, isn't that their perogative?

2026-05-22 15:23:35 UTC

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Yep. Pick the location right, and you can walk, bike or take transit for most daily activities.
Even cargo e-bikes can be viable car replacements in a lot of more suburban areas.

2026-05-22 15:20:44 UTC

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you could.... ride a bike? 😁

2026-05-22 14:54:56 UTC

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Found the "internet tough guy" .... I mean I genuinely support that, but if the "goal" here is to advance mainstream adoption of crypto payments, that's never going to work.
Until the US is a "failed state" in the sense that it can't credibly enforce tax reporting laws anymore, 99% of people will pay for the cup of coffee with the option that *doesn't* require them to report it to the IRS.

2026-05-22 13:33:20 UTC

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What? Of course they do. It's like question 2 on the 1040. There's no minimum, no exemption. Cup of coffee or buy a house,. doesn't matter.

2026-05-22 05:56:30 UTC

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Alright boys pack it up, we finally made him crack 🫡

2026-05-22 05:45:05 UTC

Check out this rundown of the weird, wild and wooly crop of the lower tier in the 60(!)+ candidates for CA governor https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/the-types-of-candidate-you-find-in

2026-05-22 03:20:02 UTC

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De Minimis or it'll never catch on.

2026-05-22 02:42:56 UTC

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Yeah I actually can see the use for families... sending things directly rather than having to go through the internet, "hey where are you" when in a store, that kind of thing.

2026-05-22 02:36:00 UTC

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so not using the mesh network then?

2026-05-22 00:41:01 UTC

Anyone else have that thing where #bitchat will randomly gobble down ~1gb of data and use a bunch of battery? 🤨

2026-05-21 23:43:13 UTC

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Be seeing you...
👌

2026-05-21 18:36:02 UTC

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Yeah IDK, I have bad luck with "database corruption" type things sometimes. Had to completely flush Nostria at one point and restart for that reason....

2026-05-21 18:23:25 UTC

Is Elon Musk sabotaging "humanity's future in space" or whatever to fuel the Goonslop Machine?
#nevent1q…jxys

2026-05-21 17:44:28 UTC

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OK, now I see repost button on posts. But clicking "reposts" or "reactions" in the main feed still hangs.

2026-05-21 17:21:42 UTC

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Also not to turn this into an "issues" page but I guess here we go... I'm not seeing a "repost" button anywhere, can users repost content, or is the update just about seeing reposts?

2026-05-21 16:59:39 UTC

Halfway through the excellent book "Digital Cash" by Finn Brunton, I'm sure I'll have more to say later as a review, but one thing that struck me was just how close the nascent Cyberpunk and crypto community of the 80's -- 90's -- early 00's was with cryonicists, transhumanists, extropians, etc.
In contrast today, with "crypto" being passivated and assimiliated into "normie" finance and AI, and Bitcoin captured by the cultural and political Right, it's easy to forget the truly radical vision for humanity that birthed Bitcoin in the first place.
#bookstr #cryonics #transhumanism #extropy
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179490/digital-cash

2026-05-21 16:56:13 UTC

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The Content Security Policy (CSP) prevents the evaluation of arbitrary strings as JavaScript to make it more difficult for an attacker to inject unathorized code on your site.
To solve this issue, avoid using eval(), new Function(), setTimeout([string], ...) and setInterval([string], ...) for evaluating strings.
If you absolutely must: you can enable string evaluation by adding unsafe-eval as an allowed source in a script-src directive.
⚠️ Allowing string evaluation comes at the risk of inline script injection.

2026-05-21 16:47:08 UTC

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Oh yeah I do get a "page error" something about security policy blocking "eval" in JS

2026-05-21 16:37:25 UTC

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Yeah all I'm seeing in the console log on Chrome dev tools are websocket errors, "red X", and other successful connection notices to relays or nos2x

2026-05-21 16:31:52 UTC

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Oh OK I can add `nostr:` and that should be compatible with everything else too, right?

2026-05-21 16:31:16 UTC

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Ah right OK figured... Yeah it pops up like hundreds of websocket errors, but IDK if that's unusual or not...? I mean I assume the normal operation is a bunch of relays refuse connection

2026-05-21 16:30:03 UTC

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Do you see npub links in my profile? I just see raw npubs...

2026-05-21 16:27:47 UTC

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by console you mean...?

2026-05-21 16:14:10 UTC

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Coin OS is free...?

2026-05-21 04:38:00 UTC

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EN TARO ADUN

2026-05-21 04:37:32 UTC

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EXECUTOR!!

2026-05-21 04:32:44 UTC

Call me a Woke Cuck but I enjoyed both Agatha All Along and the Acolyte (roughly in that order). I thought they were fresh and inventive takes on their respective subjects.
As we get further into the anti-woke cultural backlash of Trump 2.0, I think these series (both 2024) will serve as something of cultural bookends for a particular moment in popular culture..

2026-05-21 03:02:10 UTC

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Amethyst at least will give some error like "user doesn't have DM relays configured"

2026-05-21 02:56:22 UTC

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pretty much works every time for me... I guess it's just a relay issue? I think you have to have DM relays specified...

2026-05-21 02:04:47 UTC

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Venture Bros parody was fun as well 😆

2026-05-21 01:40:26 UTC

Conventional Tech gets worse and worse.
Nostr gets better and better.
F the haterz

2026-05-21 01:31:50 UTC

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My respect for NDT is going up. He's starting to see the writing on the wall, the fire underneath the smoke, whatever metaphor you want to use...

2026-05-21 01:21:54 UTC

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Oh yeah -- npub's aren't automatically linked in profiles -- that'd be "nice to have" because I like to link to other npubs for projects, etc...

2026-05-21 01:20:57 UTC

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how's that going? I've recently joined a few Discords for other stuff unrelated to Nostr/Bitcoin, and man, people are REALLY integrated into Discord... all kinds of custom icons, bots, yadda yadda

2026-05-21 01:19:52 UTC

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Love the new interface! few things -- "reactions" and "reposts" seems to just hang when I select it in the sidebar....
also there was something else but I forgot

2026-05-21 00:25:00 UTC

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The thing I love most about these videos is when the shemp has to trundle onstage to drag the malfunctioning robot away... it's always some shlubby engineer 😂

2026-05-20 23:52:21 UTC

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ahh OK got me there... yeah that'd be nice to be able to search by geohash

2026-05-20 23:50:11 UTC

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This is so cool.
I'm envisioning a data dump thing where we just take public events directly from Eventbrite or whatever, geotag and hashtag it, and have some npub spit it out.

2026-05-20 23:48:34 UTC

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You just click the calendar tab, and then the drop-down select "Around me" and it'll filter based on geohash... I think

2026-05-20 23:42:36 UTC

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Awesome, thanks!
I see it's still just +1 to react, which is a design choice that I'm not as opinionated about (but I imagine others are). With reposts this probably wins back "daily driver" from this npub...

2026-05-20 23:36:25 UTC

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"Ben McKenzie and Elizabeth Warren said that's criminal Trump money"

2026-05-20 22:47:24 UTC

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This is what I hoped DAO's would do, instead of being basically just trumped up treasuries / voting systems.
Prediction markets can be used for insurance as well... "I bet I'm going to get insured this month, you all bet that I won't"

2026-05-20 21:16:20 UTC

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I don't think it relies on that assumption... I'm assuming there's a power law, but the total amplitude is arbitrary depending on how popular your interest is.
Sure the level starts higher for "normie" interests -- food, sports, gardening, politics, Jaysus, etc -- i.e. the things people talk about on Nostr other than Bitcoin. It's the reason why when I talk about pinball or urbanism it gets zero engagement because those are relatively tiny communities and there's statistically "0" people here who care.
Having a more or less popular interest just moves the curve up or down, it doesn't change the nature of the argument.

2026-05-20 17:22:19 UTC

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Reposts are IMHO crucial especially for popular npubs to signal "this is good content" from someone less popular. For instance, I notice on Mastodon Cory Doctorow almost exclusively posts reposts.
As opposed to quotes, which creates a new thread disconnected from the original author, reposts drive traffic back to the OP, which is the intention here.

2026-05-20 15:35:13 UTC

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Honestly I'd just forget about this whole thing and move forward.
On-chain zaps is one of those mad scientist "they never asked whether they SHOULD, only whether they COULD" things, like that thing where they grafted a human ear onto a mouse.
It's a stunt, a fad. Lightning was always better for this and always will be.

2026-05-20 15:32:17 UTC

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Coracle is great on everything except that it doesn't allow reposts. Which to me is a "core" microblogging verb, so that led me to Nostria.... Which is OK, but kinda slow

2026-05-20 15:14:33 UTC

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Conventional social media has all kinds of "tip jar" Zap-like functionality, and people don't go crazy 🤯 over it. Look at any Youtube or Twitch stream, users want to be seen sending $1 or whatever to their favorite creator.
We should lean into Zaps, because we're taking this behavior but supercharging it by (a) making it possible to send sub $1 amounts that legacy platforms can't and (b) allowing anyone on planet Earth to participate in a permissionless way. These two factors are HUGE.
there are a MILLION other options if you don't want public zaps. Just put out a lightning address and someone can send it directly. put out your BTC address, plenty of people still do that. Recurring subscription payments via Patreon-like functions, I'm sure somebody is working on that.

2026-05-20 14:48:52 UTC

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Amethyst is awesome. Only wish there was something nearly as good for a Web client...

2026-05-20 14:34:04 UTC

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Yeah... one thing to quote an ad from the 19th century, quite another to "update it" but keep the "men only" part...

2026-05-20 04:30:25 UTC

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There should be a term for this... "Karma laundering"? 😅

2026-05-20 02:12:15 UTC

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In fairness it cost them *the most expensive House race in history* to do it... probably "somehow also my tax money" at work

2026-05-19 23:49:45 UTC

Nostr isn't a button you push, it's a seed you plant. We have to keep watering it and wait for things to grow... The hardest thing to accept for our "you can just vibe things" hustlebro world, but it's the truth. Keep the 🔥 going and people will show up.

2026-05-19 20:37:05 UTC

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Absolutely, it's non-trivial... Place I used to go to had a brioche bread and quality cheese, and it was made on a griddle or something because the cheese spilled out a bit so when you got it there were "chips" of crusted fried cheese on the sides... Served with some pickles and mustard on the side, *magnifique* 😄

2026-05-19 18:22:49 UTC

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A place (cheese shop) near me used to have an amazing grilled cheese... People are like "hurf durf you can just make that at home".... No, I can't, not how they make it 😤

2026-05-19 03:13:25 UTC

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Been saying this. XMeta exists purely because of network effects. It's late-stage #enshittification over there.

2026-05-18 19:13:27 UTC

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A beautiful sentiment, albeit one that I fear isn't shared by the vast majority of Nostr:
"Because tribalism is how you lose. Every closed platform plays the same game, wall off the users, hold the network hostage, and dare them to leave. The open web only works if we refuse to play that game with each other.
Soapbox has been building bridges since the Mostr Bridge launched back in 2023 connecting Nostr and the Fediverse. Today that bridge has over 56,000 users connected across networks. With Bluesky in the mix through Bridgy Fed, you can follow people no matter which open protocol they’re on. The goal isn’t ‘everybody come to Nostr.’ The goal is the open web wins, the corporate web loses, and you don’t lose your audience because you picked a different app."
Most people here seem to view the bridges with indifference at best, or outright hostility at worst. I'm a huge fan of them for exactly the reasons outlined, however, I've complained about their functionality in the past. This seems to be an underdeveloped area.

2026-05-18 15:14:05 UTC

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Yes... this goes to the heart of how a social network creates economic value.
X knows *exactly* how much money everyone is making. They keep that private, until the inevitable day they get hacked. Creators know how much they're making, but they might or might not say.
There is a value *to Nostr* by having both the total value of Zaps, as well as the zaps going to individual creators, be public knowledge: this is a signal of the entire network's worth in real monetary terms. This, in turn, will attract more users.
Are famously cranky Nostr users willing to sacrifice a bit of privacy for the greater good? 😅

2026-05-18 14:52:30 UTC

The key to zaps is that they are a public signal of value. "People on this network thought this content was worth X."
That is key to growing Nostr. This is the killer app -- the monetization model.

2026-05-18 04:08:29 UTC

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I mean... It kinda does.
Have you actually tried using Instagram recently? Most of the best Nostr apps are much smoother and easier to use.
People aren't on legacy social because they like "the UX". They're there because their friends / favorite content creators are there. It's that simple.

2026-05-18 04:03:26 UTC

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Yeah true. And we're *still* fighting over BIP-110 I guess...

2026-05-18 04:01:13 UTC

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I mean aside from Ross, what solid gains has Bitcoin earned from kissing the Orange Julius?
They're still struggling to pass de minimis, or any other bill that would *actually* help Bitcoin adoption. Trump's Shitcoin corruption knows no bounds. Keone rots in prison.
What did we GAIN from this moral compromise?

2026-05-18 03:59:07 UTC

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The ONE thing that was potentially advantageous about it was that we have gotten something of a reprieve from the regulatory regime.
But all the fascist bullshit Trump has done is going to push the country back into 8+ years of ElizabethWarrenocracy, which will be horrible for Bitcoin. AND now 1/2 the country thinks Bitcoin is even more of a scam to boot because Trump endorsed it.
We should do the same thing we've always been doing: Nonpartisan advocacy in DC, and continuing to build the freedom tech tools.
16 Bitcoiners homesteading? That's Nostr, but Bitcoin is a global asset now.
The makers of the printing press didn't "negotiate" with the Church. They just did it.

2026-05-18 03:35:57 UTC

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Same thing in early days of Bitcoin.
I remember when people were like "guys this is NEVER going to take off unless people can send Bitcoin to an email", etc, that kind of thing.
Super-angry fights about minutae, "this ONE technical thing is what's going to save us all," "NOOO you're going to kill the protocol," etc.
These are all healthy fights to have, and appropriately low-stakes. Nothing matters until we get to 100K DAU's. Then the real decisions get made.

2026-05-17 23:27:16 UTC

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He's a fascinating character. Built Truth Social, but he's vegan... Secret MAGA? Or was it just a job?
(maybe muted me? IDK he hasn't responded to anything I've written since he cussed me out over complaining about the Mostr bridge issues last fall.)

2026-05-17 23:18:48 UTC

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https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2962f46561af563c713b11a2f3c65aeb5276bec32810d0e50bfe62492ea3a818.gif

2026-05-17 19:37:02 UTC

Hormuz Jeff will get your shipment through the blockade.... But you GOTTA contact him with Text-O, which you can ONLY download through Peelr #zapstore https://youtube.com/watch?v=nS97AzfKp3U

2026-05-17 17:14:05 UTC

Nostr's problem remains its small size, not that the Devs haven't built the right feature set yet. It's a numbers game, get the eyeballs here, get to 100K DAU's, and all problems start solving themselves.
#nevent1q…307n

2026-05-17 17:12:10 UTC

Oooh boy Dev fight!!
Personally I think that while on-chain zaps are yet another "neat trick", that's not what's going to make this protocol take off. In fact, as I've written, it's precisely the fact that Zaps get past the $1 floor on conventional social media that will allow for creator revenue streams unlike anything that's existed previously.
On-chain locks out right about $1 in fees. So you might as well just be on X with their $1 tip jar.
It's all here:
#naddr1qv…9nc0

2026-05-17 16:51:52 UTC

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Yeah I respect the "look what I can do!" Aspect of it, but Zaps are the innovation here.
People who spend too much time on Nostr, like any other disruptive tech, start thinking of it as "broken" because the masses haven't broken down their door yet. Then they break it themselves.

2026-05-17 06:35:56 UTC

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"Generic MAGA Fucktard" 😆
They've gone from insurgent to establishment at this point

2026-05-16 18:41:26 UTC

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Hey Elon will do that for free!

2026-05-16 18:35:46 UTC

Alright since we're talking #grownostr you're gonna get my brainfarts -- while UX can always be improved, and major kudos to the people doing that -- I really think Nostr's success now is strictly a "numbers game" of DAUs. And the reason is Zaps.
Here's the math.
Online content creators know that only a small number of people who read/listen/watch their content actually provide monetary support. This number is maybe ~0.1%, let's say.
So at ~5000 DAU's (liberally) today, let's just say ~1000 people actually see your content, if lucky... and now that's maybe 1 person inclined to support. Bad times. 😭 Back to X.
At 50,000 DAU's that's now 10. OK, 10 people chipping in a few sats, big deal.
By the time you get to 500k (Mastodon size) or even 1 million, now you're talking about perhaps 1000's of people who might be supporting.
And it gets even more interesting when you think about the long-tail of what Lightning micropayments support. Nobody, on Youtube, Substack, Spotify, or whatever can accept a 21 Satoshi (~1 cent) donation. We can. So the fraction of people who are donating *that* amount might explode even faster with DAU's.
The *only* serious threat to this model would be if X, Bluesky or anyone else were to actually adopt crypto micropayments. But I'm not betting on it.

2026-05-16 17:50:14 UTC

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What's the difference between "amethyst-desktop" and "Amy" in the releases?

2026-05-16 14:49:56 UTC

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OK fair enough... Snarky response aside, I think the thing that I'm personally reacting to is the idea that the solution is ... "QUICK! To the SlopMobile!" I.e. let's just build another app / let's just ask AI what the problem is.
Personally what I think, like Bitcoin was once you get to about ~2014-15, we have apps that are "good enough."
You want "normie Nostr"? Look at what Ditto is doing. Look at DiVine.
If we want Nostr to grow, this isn't a "coding" problem, it's a social problem. Why are people comfortable on X / Facebook? Is it that they're *uncomfortable* on Nostr, or they're *too comfortable* on X?

2026-05-16 14:43:40 UTC

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oh wonderful, another vibe-coded slop app that won't be maintained 🙄

2026-05-16 04:06:15 UTC

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Yeah not going to happen
VCs fund Bits not Atoms. TSMC is the product of decades of consistency in public-private investment strategy.
Can't "vibe code" a clean room.

2026-05-16 00:38:31 UTC

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I always assumed that just recreates the post as your own?

2026-05-16 00:24:56 UTC

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Where is the "appimage"? Am I missing something here? The .tar.gz doesn't have an actual ".appimage" file in it...
Sorry trying to install this on Chrome OS linux, 🤪 .Deb doesn't work because of a bunch of failed dependencies so AppImage is my only hope

2026-05-15 22:19:37 UTC

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Seems to work just fine!
Honestly, I'll probably wind down the kind 10015 and just use this instead

2026-05-15 22:13:28 UTC

With Kind 30015 "interest sets", Amethyst is now "feature complete" as far as I'm concerned... Great work folks 👏
#nevent1q…xy0q

2026-05-15 22:10:51 UTC

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One suggestion, perhaps put links to your projects in your profile? I know you're working on a lot of stuff, but sometimes it's hard to tell exactly what...

2026-05-15 22:08:07 UTC

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The high/high quadrant is where you get into very business restrictive environments, like certain EU Nations, or even further into totalitarianism like North Korea.
All is restricted, and you WILL be shut down for Non-Compliance.

2026-05-15 20:05:29 UTC

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yo dawg #nevent1q…v4mr

2026-05-15 20:03:47 UTC

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Not seeing it on Zapstore... Also looks like you have some "Build failures" on Github?

2026-05-15 19:51:05 UTC

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how to get Amethyst desktop?

2026-05-15 19:09:36 UTC

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dang I must be doing something wrong nothing nearly that cool happens in the game

2026-05-15 19:02:47 UTC

Hear me out: Turn-based #ttrpg games like #dnd, but they're on Nostr
Each turn is an event... your PC is your npub. Assets like maps, monster pictures, etc all stored on Blossom. DM's are secret NIP-17 messages with... the DM
@nprofile…t7fy inspired with https://nostr64.com/

2026-05-15 00:42:00 UTC

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what sorcery is this??

2026-05-14 16:49:56 UTC

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this one got de minimis?? 🤨

2026-05-13 22:06:37 UTC

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Oh thanks I thought it was some kind of weird airbrushing or AI glitch... 😃 interesting

2026-05-13 20:28:50 UTC

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What's up with her cheeks?

2026-05-13 19:07:53 UTC

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That's really impactful, thanks... As a physical scientist who never made it into academia (nor really wanted to TBH), but still loves doing impactful science, I've had an unclear path to walk.
It's taken me into a lot of nondescript industrial garages doing stuff that would blow the mind of former colleagues who stuck around the Halls of Academe.... "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe", etc.
But it's always been uncertain, "here today gone tomorrow" work. It's made me think a lot about how we fund science at a societal level, and how that does or doesn't work.

2026-05-13 16:50:58 UTC

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It's satire but I can imagine (with a shudder) the kinds of toxic company cultures that are described here...