Niel Liesmons

Designer that codes.
Also #WordStudy #Dadstr #Farmstr

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2026-06-15 08:34:35 UTC

Small-group protocol that just works > Public-square protocol with a chance of working
Bye bye kind 1s.
Find me in group chats and forums instead.

2026-06-10 12:37:42 UTC

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Cold keys is a great start, yes.
Not having to sign every publication too.
Many things that pkarr homeservers get right.

2026-06-10 09:39:42 UTC

Chad mail
https://testrun.org/

2026-06-10 07:33:45 UTC

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Pubky don't have rotation neither

2026-06-08 14:56:20 UTC

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Zapstore would be a ton easier if devs only had to sign their homeserver once and could just have access control from there for the releases, ngl.

2026-06-08 08:22:59 UTC

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Especially now, where it's the agents handling the keys half of the time 🫣

2026-06-08 07:17:59 UTC

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That's delegation (which would be great already), not rotation.

2026-06-07 20:34:52 UTC

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This one was even more useful 👍
https://blog.muni.town/leaf-0-3-the-server-behind-roomy/

2026-06-07 20:24:50 UTC

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Thanks, this was interesting:
https://blog.muni.town/brief-history-of-roomy-architectures/

2026-06-07 20:09:39 UTC

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And in the case of a community forum, what would you do then?
Just have a community indexer or sth? And all the actual posts don't even actually live on the community server?

2026-06-07 15:43:03 UTC

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In the case of users having their own pds:
Where does a user comment on another user's post live exactly?
And how do apps know where to even look for all comments? And how are they moderated?

2026-06-07 15:37:06 UTC

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👀

2026-06-07 15:25:28 UTC

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What's that first claim about?

2026-06-07 13:20:32 UTC

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Ooooh 👀

2026-06-06 16:21:15 UTC

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I like lexicons.

2026-06-06 16:16:59 UTC

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This is awesome so far 👀.

2026-06-06 14:31:19 UTC

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If we both have homeservers, is there any real cost in sending messages to each other? If not, then why/when stamps?

2026-06-06 13:34:44 UTC

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How do you do access control with this? Me not get.
I need Proton drive, on open standard, on sovereign domain. With granular access control (per file/folder) for specific other profiles/domains/...
I don't need hashes and whatnot. If I have the actual domain, why would I make that compromise?

2026-06-06 12:53:54 UTC

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No, I don't think the Nostr premises lead to any good solutions for drives, nor for key rotation.
Sth like Mlkut names + cryptree https://github.com/Peergos/Peergos/blob/master/papers/wuala-cryptree.pdf
= worth considering

2026-06-06 11:18:10 UTC

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Fun fact:
I literally could sign you up and rotate the keys to you after.

2026-06-06 11:12:32 UTC

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:wisp_salute:

2026-06-06 11:11:24 UTC

Family and community homeservers are a pretty straightforward foundation for #homeschooling parents that don't want to bring up their kids full-Amish style neither.

2026-06-06 11:08:15 UTC

• Access control on a file / folder basis
• On your encrypted drive
• Hosted on a sovereign, human-readable domain
What can you not build with that?

2026-06-05 19:46:11 UTC

Cool thing about mulberries is that they just start pumping out berries from a very young age, without it seeming to inhibit their growth much.
Transplanted this one in the #forestgarden just a few months ago:
https://i.nostr.build/IO5kmPsXaRv6Xy3k.jpg

2026-06-04 13:19:06 UTC

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You copied that meme, didn't you? 😉

2026-06-04 13:01:50 UTC

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Agree. And that'll be my family and online frens first. I can get them excited with something like this, no worries.

2026-06-04 12:19:27 UTC

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Ideally you also don't need people to change internally for your app to be useful to you 😉

2026-06-04 12:18:01 UTC

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Yesterday I was thinking: "Nostr isn't the right tech for this app."

2026-06-04 11:03:33 UTC

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My 3D printer (when I was doing physical product design and engineering) was used for:
- custom mold making, to then make XXX time the same component with it
- pieces tailored to very "individual" individuals (children with cerebral palsy)

2026-06-04 10:54:21 UTC

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🎯

2026-06-04 10:43:06 UTC

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Yup.
That and the fact that :90percent: of what I want to read and write has the exact same format, filter, etc.. every day of the week.
I don't want to custom prompt things that aren't custom all the time. Let alone the unhabitual custom uis that come with it.

2026-06-04 09:48:14 UTC

This is still the super-app I need.
https://i.nostr.build/aiCfiyZgGQs0kukv.png

2026-06-03 12:12:28 UTC

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Knowing what you need is the hard part.

2026-06-03 12:04:54 UTC

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#shesaid

2026-06-03 09:11:44 UTC

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Yup, it's communities with owners.
Moderation part isn't clear to me.

2026-06-03 08:56:12 UTC

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I checked it out before, yes.
I like:
- the attention to style (must be Dutch folks, am I right?)
- them seeing the limits of Nip-72 and Nip-29 and just doing their own server-side thing.
- where the "repost to communities" thing eventually leads to
I dislike:
- the name
- the confusion regarding the posts not actually been targeted in communities by the authors themselves
- the comment sections not having transparent moderation (and seemingly relying on some form of outbox or hardcoded popular relays?), etc...

2026-06-03 08:51:03 UTC

When I go to a party I don't want to hear different music than everyone else, adapted to my interest and WoT.

2026-06-03 08:48:11 UTC

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Wdym with hashtag moderation?
The hashtag has its own server and access controls? 😉

2026-06-03 08:41:15 UTC

I need communities to be like #tags.
- I can have multiple ones for one publication
- crowds behind each of them come together in the comment section
But unlike #tags, communities come with moderation, hosting, etc... And I as a creator can outsource those things to the communities I select (which can include my own, if wanted).
And it comes with a kind of global state around my publication, without needing a Platform to provide that.

2026-06-02 13:51:18 UTC

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You're not alone 😉.
Nostr has serious limits for this sort of thing though.
https://i.nostr.build/enPHLPHw5k5mJNkE.png
https://i.nostr.build/pHE0K79bclQjTWDh.png

2026-06-02 13:19:48 UTC

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This open-ended set up is why barely anyone gets it at first glance, I think.
Nostr enforces signing JSON and sending/getting from relays. Which is in comparison, obviously, easier to grasp.
But being easy to understand, doesn't mean it auto-magically fits every web use case. The "simple" upfront constraints of websockets, JSON and needing signatures for everything require quite the set of complex of work around for 90% of things here, lol.

2026-06-02 13:00:31 UTC

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I'm not really interested in solving single-person use cases. Also for that reason.

2026-06-02 12:43:06 UTC

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If so, why would that be the case in that market and not in other FOSS markets?
What makes 3D software **that** different?
It's more expensive to build than, say, a note taking app, sure, but still. Curious.
It would explain why it is basically all proprietary software tho. So you might be right, just don't know why.

2026-06-02 12:38:06 UTC

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I'm just saying there's a market for a FOSS 3D modelling product that is at the very least less crappy than FreeCAD and has the UX of SketchUp, while havingt the actual 3D constructs of something like Fusion360 behind it (not just surface modelling).
If it's FOSS, the you're selling hosting and compute 90% of the time, but in this case at least you're in a market where you can have some margin on it and still remain competitive.
I'm not talking about their more high end stuff like Revit and Autodesk etc... where you have tons of norms, regulations and need to 100% guarantee #nobugs, and where the cost of developing the apps is relatively way higher.

2026-06-02 11:54:43 UTC

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1. I need sth open-source for 3d modelling product and architecture that isn't as slow, clumsy and buggy as FreeCAD
2. They charge high pricing for their products, that are in the end 'just' hosting, compute and access control.

2026-06-02 11:17:15 UTC

Linear, Notion, Figma, Autodesk, Proton Drive... are all 10x more worth building alternatives for than any big tech social platform.
They're productivity tools.
You can build transparent, honest, small businesses on things like that.

2026-06-01 20:11:16 UTC

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https://i.delta.chat/#6FE626E39960C7D870329E8D6AD39C89D483BAC2&v=3&i=WCmXfoBqKr0TwgMP5rN_IHaJ&s=hiut2FhqyP3Qof3ae5rDjDKg&a=in9bgyspy%40nine.testrun.org&n=Niel+Liesmons

2026-06-01 20:05:38 UTC

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If you get everyone together in one place anyway, call it a public community and enable ways to to set up and organically discover other ones.
Keep communities intentionally relatively small.
(less drama, more signal and better monetization strategies)
Enable publishing certain content types in multiple communities at once.
(blind-spot opportunity that most builders on open protocols keep missing and keeps them trapped in a false "public-square VS niche without reach" dichotomy)

2026-06-01 19:37:31 UTC

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Hehe, yes, own app 🔜
I'd loved to actually test delta chat with someone tbh 😅

2026-06-01 18:52:56 UTC

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Good ACL.
Good PKI.
Open content types.
Signatures where needed.
Pay with anything.
For individuals and small groups.

2026-06-01 18:48:37 UTC

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Yup, I think initially focusing on private contacts, chat groups and small public communities is the better way to bootstrap in any case.
Why do so many of these projects want to bootstrap a public square?
It's freaking hard and in the case you succeed it'd be only to realize, once again, that every public square ever trends towards corrupt centralization, high school drama and whoredom.

2026-06-01 18:22:08 UTC

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If I'm not wrong, that's kinda how pubky does it, right? But in public folders, on the homeservers.
#noob trying to understand it all here.
But I just want a root ID that points to my drive (homeserver), then have data on there, part of that data being profile metadata that I can choose to have discoverable by (some or all) others.

2026-06-01 18:17:47 UTC

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Yup :110percent:

2026-06-01 18:17:25 UTC

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The latter seems realistic and aligns with the number one business model I can see around all this: hosting + convenient security

2026-06-01 18:13:30 UTC

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Ideally you have access control on that stuff.
This what people loved about Facebook (until they messed that all up), the ability to choose woo cash see what.
It'd be a bit like an auto-fill UX, that you confirm our not, when you want to post in some forum or join a chat.

2026-06-01 18:06:06 UTC

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Lol, champagne problem, never heard that one before. Accurate 😅

2026-06-01 17:29:38 UTC

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Many ways out of that, no?
(especially if you sponsor registrations for onboarding users for a big part)

2026-06-01 17:21:43 UTC

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Ton of value in interop profiles tho.

2026-06-01 12:56:48 UTC

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I like homeservers. And there's many use cases where, in that case, signed events aren't really needed.
For us at Zapstore, I think it's valuable to sign releases in any case, even it was built on (or would embrace) a more homeserver-type protocol.
I like that we're building on key-based communities because that at least leaves some doors open to protocol improvements, without losing it all.
(because keys are IDs with agency and they can say stuff about themselves and point to whatever)

2026-05-30 12:18:37 UTC

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Just checked again, and yup names are nice 👍

2026-05-30 11:58:04 UTC

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Gotta make the names (and visuals for them) sexy enough 😜

2026-05-30 11:57:14 UTC

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Mmm, yea. But is RNS sovereign enough over just the usual domain names etc..., to justify any move/adoption from orgs at all?
If the value prop is "sovereign", you go all the way, no?

2026-05-30 11:31:36 UTC

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Yeah. Anything more serious beyond "shit posting", like what we're trying, at the very least leads to good reality checks.
You see pretty fast how much lower the value prop is without bringing in external content.
You see the flaws of nsecs when you have to build customer service for devs signing releases. Like what do we even tell teams that keak their key? "F you, start over, we told you to be careful"
Etc...

2026-05-30 10:09:04 UTC

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Yup. So far Zapstore seems to be the only project that brings in external media like that, with analytics, comments etc... all gathered in one place (for outreach like you say...).
The Mostr bridge in some way too I guess, but no clear picture to send to the external creators.

2026-05-29 12:43:24 UTC

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nielliesmons.16 (signal)
nielliesmons (telegram)
[email protected]

2026-05-29 11:15:33 UTC

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Declarative.
Requires asking apps to ALL play nice.
Extra UI space in several apps for no extra relevant info.
Vague privacy zone for newbies/normies.
....

2026-05-29 09:18:18 UTC

Client tags are noise

2026-05-28 20:10:13 UTC

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I'm getting my most valuable info from:
- forums who's UI lives in the 1990s
- group chats
- nostr critics here 😅

2026-05-28 19:16:35 UTC

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Dead is different then having obvious flaws that are (as observed) not solvable within it's scope.
It means it can be superceded by something that doesn't have those flaws, for those interested. Especially if the alternative starts with a use case that requires zero network effect.
Just talking for me here. I want the best, simplest and most future proof solution fire my needs and wasn't too distance myself more from the Nostr culty vibes then be part of it.
Google drive has many obvious flaws too. It ain't dead. So we'll see in the broader sense of what you mean.

2026-05-28 19:10:58 UTC

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With bare key pairs it's discussions that (clearly) go nowhere, no viable solution.
Might as well get over it, acknowledge just keypairs don't suffice (even if mostly cold imo), look into what is promising instead and build on Nostr in a way that is open-ended enough for it to be morphed into something better.
I'm still wrapping my head around it but I think a combo like this has promise:
- sovereign domain names, à la Mlkut
- honeservers hosted u der those names, for profiles and communities
- different kinds of events, signed or unsigned, encrypted or not, with good ACL, on those servers (next to the use case of just being a badass Google Drive replacement already).

2026-05-28 18:39:21 UTC

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Lol, that typo went total Yoda on you 😅

2026-05-28 18:28:55 UTC

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Until you want to build a business on it.

2026-05-28 18:27:32 UTC

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Yeah, so just noting the logic here for myself:
1. You need key rotation if you're serious about sovereign web solutions
2. Ideally with a readable and capped set of names that is still huge enough
3. For that you only have two options: central registry VS blockchain
4. If you go with a blockchain, you go for the most reliable and assumed to be longest lasting one (Bitcoin)
5. If you want scalability and cheapness, you go with the most efficient and trustworthy chain tied to Bitcoin, not Bitcoin itself

2026-05-28 18:20:24 UTC

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Thanks 🙏
Gonna check FIDs, but I think I agree with your conclusion.

2026-05-28 18:12:06 UTC

Lol, #noob me realized this 2 years ago.
Only to then underappreciate its relevance for 20+ months after.
I should read my own notes more. #nevent1q…59u7

2026-05-28 18:05:15 UTC

1. Don't have key rotation
2. Attract only the reckless early adopter crowd
3. Be unattractive to the rest of the crowd

2026-05-28 17:55:46 UTC

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What's the alternatives of mlkut?
There must be other "crypto" projects attempting sovereign (readable) domain names with key rotation, no?
Is your main value prop that mlkut is tied to the most reliable, biggest blockchain, but in a cheap and efficient way?

2026-05-28 17:49:52 UTC

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Lol, yes.
Year after, sovereign domains.

2026-05-28 17:17:31 UTC

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Yup, on web.
zapstore.dev/studio (logged in)

2026-05-28 14:29:32 UTC

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❌ Relays
❌ Feeds
✅ Interop Communities

2026-05-28 07:51:39 UTC

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Wait, do you mean this is a problem or good thing? Confused 😉

2026-05-27 18:58:46 UTC

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Yeah :zapstore:

2026-05-27 18:57:02 UTC

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What version of Zapstore?

2026-05-27 18:03:53 UTC

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If you have sovereign domain names, than why even have the hash? It's a valid question, no?
Noob here.

2026-05-27 13:32:21 UTC

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We're building on different types of white-listing in Zapstore, yup.
But I don't care what other apps/communities do with their methods of white-listing. Only ting that'd be nice is some kind of general flow or tag/reference to the "place" to get whitelisted across interop apps, in the case of communities.

2026-05-27 13:29:23 UTC

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I did that route, tested the app and can't find people. Had to do an interenet search to find verbiricha hehe.

2026-05-27 13:21:46 UTC

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I can't find you there tho. How do I search profiles?
Many many weird UX/UI choices for me in that app (and the ring app).

2026-05-27 12:04:59 UTC

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Don't forget the designers pretending to be junior devs 🫣
Never heard of that theorem, thanks.

2026-05-27 11:58:06 UTC

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freaking useful take, thanks!

2026-05-27 11:56:39 UTC

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Slightly related noob-question:
In what you imagine, file urls don't break because they use the mlkut name, right?
So in that way it kinda beats Blossom in easiness to reliably move hosting-provider, I guess.
Would you still do hashes in the urls?

2026-05-27 11:41:50 UTC

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Are there any other protocols doing it the merkle tree way?
Bluesky, pubky, matrix, ...? Or what do they do all they do?

2026-05-27 11:40:24 UTC

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How is this not interesting for nearly all use cases?
When would you not want consistency?

2026-05-27 11:39:05 UTC

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Sad kind of funny.
Good kind of trend.

2026-05-27 11:13:46 UTC

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Puts pkarr homeservers in a different light, doesn't it?

2026-05-27 09:43:05 UTC

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See it as one community/app on that protocol. And it's fine.
Nostr apps/communities should be able to also pick this (and even fiat paymeents, email, Google, etc...) as whitelist options.
This is not at the protocol level. And I like many things about the protocol tbh.
I dislike many things about this app tho. The white-listing isn't even in my top-three.

2026-05-27 09:35:41 UTC

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Hehe ok man, I don't think you're gonna make me start kiiling. Neither will I make you stop. Is fine. You can even judge me for it if you want.

2026-05-27 09:30:13 UTC

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I know things like that happen. Probably 100X more then people think. Hence the example.
I just honestly can't say that I would (want to) hate and kill the abusers of my own children. For me, that's not the path I'd aspire to take. Not really judging anyone that does tho.

2026-05-27 09:19:14 UTC

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Haha, wut?

2026-05-27 09:17:55 UTC

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Example crime:
Feasting on blood of freshly killed babies
Initial reaction:
Furious hate
More courageous move:
Don't become a beast myself, keep calm and figure out what I'm even supposed to do with information like that. So far nothing is pointing towards killing others. Maybe it will someday, who knows.

2026-05-27 09:13:28 UTC

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I don't have a nation, nor religion. And probably don't really have money neither lol 😅.
I just have my perception of movement and time from a body I inhabit, and that alone almost drives me crazy every single day.
Consuming what happens on the world stage theater doesn't have a good track record of helping me get to a place where I can carry burdens.