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John Carvalho

CEO at Synonym, creators of Pubky, Bitkit, and Blocktank.

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relays.land/spatianostra

140.f7z.io

purplepag.es

rago-nostr.duckdns.org

relay.damus.io

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2026-07-09 13:45:25 CEST

Pubky is for useful, interesting, productive people.
You wouldn't like it.

2026-06-29 19:55:47 CEST

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Youre arriving to pubky's design in your own argument ... it *is* just PKDNS pointing to websites (domains, or IP addresses, or wherever). Pubky protocol work is making sure that actually works, and works in a way that others can do it with you. It's more work than you realize, but yes, Pubky (and nostr) are just websites on servers... but that is not a useful framing if your goal is to refute Pubky, because Pubky (pk) domains are actually censorship-resistant at scale, whereas Nostr, and ICANN, are not.

2026-06-29 13:00:38 CEST

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Nostr use cases are a subset of Pubky use cases.

2026-06-29 12:59:20 CEST

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Users only need to control their keys. They can use a trusted host for their data. If their host misbehaves, they can switch hosts or host themselves. Hosting yourself will be as easy as running an app your computer (still working on that being easy).

2026-06-28 13:14:10 CEST

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You are still speaking very ignorantly about topics you seem to care about. Pubky.org is filled with good info, don't be scared to learn things yourself by reading. This method of passive-aggressively trying to poke holes in my answers is a waste of time if you don't even know what you are saying. Respect means trust, and you don't believe anything I say.

2026-06-27 12:38:40 CEST

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BIP 110 is an IQ test.

2026-06-27 12:37:29 CEST

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Pubky uses public keys you control as domain names. PKDNS. It is powered by the millions of nodes that power torrents. You can host anything this way, not just posts.
Learn at pubky.org

2026-06-26 18:19:31 CEST

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I dunno, I still think you could cry harder.

2026-06-25 12:27:22 CEST

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Zaps are not interesting.

2026-06-24 20:21:41 CEST

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How hard can you think?

2026-06-24 12:57:53 CEST

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you deserve your loser life, you earned it, remember that

2026-06-24 12:51:41 CEST

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if pubky isnt serious then nostr is a comedy - we are 30+ people working very hard every day to ship the best system for freedom

2026-06-20 13:58:08 CEST

Decentralization is solved, people just don't realize it yet.

2026-06-18 13:11:11 CEST

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What does nostr provide you that websites don't?

2026-06-17 20:42:01 CEST

Want to try Pubky?
Click one of these links before someone else and get free 1GB monthly hosting for your posts.
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2026-06-17 13:22:39 CEST

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Your claim of DHT being unworkable and slow is incorrect. Go ahead and set up PKDNS / pkarr relay and try it.
DHT is not used for general searches, only for discovery of endpoints for specific keys.
“Torrent trackers still exist” is not an argument against DHTs. It is an argument for layered systems.
Trackers are convenience infrastructure. DHT is exit infrastructure.
Pubky uses the DHT for the root of discovery, not for the hot path. That is why it is fast. Resolve the signed record, then use the web (or any network, really).
Nostr relays are the tracker analogy here, not sovereign. Pubky’s point is that the key remains the authority.
Also, your “Nostr uses HTTP” framing is sloppy. Nostr’s base protocol is client-to-relay over WebSocket, not plain static HTTP. That does not make it bad, but it matters if you are criticizing one network dependency while actually depending on another anyway...

2026-06-17 13:09:44 CEST

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Ego is not "fiat." (please stop using 'fiat' this way...)
Ego is the part of a person that compels me to take risks, to defend ideas, to help because I want to be the kind of person who helps, to build because I want to leave my mark on the world.
Ego makes you want to matter to other people.
Ego is not vanity. It is agency. Sometimes it is instinct.
Ego is going on social media to tell everyone how to live.
It is natural and good to take pride in your work, to share your experience, to be a role model.
A person saying “I am important” is cheap. A person being important or experienced is real. A person spending years, capital, reputation, attention, and pain to make something real is not cheap.
Ego made every innovation in history.
Wisdom is not the absence of ego. Wisdom is ego that was right, whether by luck, bravery, or experience. Ego with feedback. Ego that survives consequence.
No ego means no boundary, no authorship, no taste, no risk, no responsibility. A person with no ego does not build. They comply.
The problem is not ego. The problem is the vanity and cowardice that rejects criticism, reflection, failure or accountability.
"Fiat" ego wants recognition without proof. It wants fame and riches without work. It wants to gamble.
A healthy ego accepts cost, failure, and judgment ... and reward.
Bitcoin is not an ego-death machine. Bitcoin is made of people, all of which have an ego. Bitcoiners of all types are some of the most ego-driven people on Earth, for better or worse.
#nevent1q…9ct2

2026-06-15 19:57:52 CEST

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This is the depth of your nuance? It's respect-the-memes, or be a shitcoiner?
All because we are discussing zero-conf? Do you see how this is like arguing with a child? Is that what you want to be, someone with a childish grasp of Bitcoin that resorts to name-calling when challenged?
It's your choice, but have no issue speaking to you like a child if that's what you want (aside from it being very boring and depressing for me).

2026-06-14 19:22:06 CEST

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Yes, that's me. Do you have a point, or are memes your only language?

2026-06-12 21:13:58 CEST

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Most of that research is still in draft form and low-priority. However, the Atomicity project is a good, nearer project to keep an eye out for. We should have a public spec for that this summer.
But Atomicity skips all the explaining and arguing and just provides a new network for coordinating it all. These problems are not Bitcoin-protocol problems in the first place (mempools, trusted payments, scaling...) because they are ultimately not enforceable.

2026-06-12 21:10:05 CEST

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After all these years, I expect more from you.

2026-06-12 21:08:42 CEST

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There are more interesting designs for zero-conf than you realize, mostly because the topic has been taboo.
I could design multiple designs that would re-enable zero-conf.
Anyway, LN is a zero-conf system too, right?

2026-06-12 15:06:10 CEST

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Yep. zero-conf was a blessing and Core did ruin it. It remains true that trust is much simpler than complexity. I could easily spec a way to make zero-conf come back, and be more excellent than LN, but Bitcoiners are too retarded to support that.

2026-06-11 14:29:58 CEST

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Not my fault if you are too blind to understand my wisdom.

2026-06-10 13:51:39 CEST

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You will be able to rotate delegated keys soon (it is how Pubky Noise works), but pure root-key rotation is a fake idea. It always requires a separate authoritative source/network.
You can do social recovery things with shamir, or pre-announce other identities that you may rotate to, but all of it will be clunky. This is one of the reasons why we set up Pubky to allow cold identity keys.

2026-06-08 19:28:23 CEST

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Cowards.

2026-06-08 19:27:36 CEST

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This is clearly not about protocols or products or ideals to nostards. It's about loyalty to the herd.

2026-06-08 15:43:09 CEST

primal is still so bad wtf

2026-06-08 15:42:13 CEST

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thanks for your random worthless input

2026-06-08 15:41:40 CEST

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haha you guys are such fukn losers i swear, how do you live with yourselves? you honestly make me laugh out loud with the acrobatics you are willing to perform to stay ignorant

2026-06-08 14:28:36 CEST

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Nostards requiring specifically coded language is a sign of their ignorance and gullibility, not something to flaunt has superior judgment.

2026-06-04 11:12:30 CEST

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2026-06-04 11:06:25 CEST

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bro billions and billions of dollars of value are carried in tether and it has the highest qty of real-world stories of helping masses of people transcend borders and hyperinflation. You dont have to like it for it that to be true. It just is.

2026-06-04 11:05:20 CEST

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When I say retarded, I mean it quite literally. As in, the rationale and quality of discourse I am dealing with is of the nature that is actually backwards and anti-progress.
Like, holy shit, stfu, and just listen, because you are way off target. Like, speaking like wildly ignorant children about topics and concerns you have extremely superficial experience with.
No, I'm not saying anything about me being smarter or whatever, you're just actually wrong about a lot of ideas and it is just very clear to me due to the nature of my experiences.
Please, stop acting like some sort of protocol warrior, it is highly ... retarded.
https://blossom.primal.net/2745e80a8df49174357a6681a25a4528cba4146ee59475edbda14caf0d2aebee.png
#nevent1q…xyu2

2026-06-04 10:12:13 CEST

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It's not about selling. It's about this place and the culture being so utterly deformed that someone speaking sense looks like a maniac.

2026-06-04 10:10:51 CEST

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Cry harder, I'm not here to be your friend I'm here to save your ass.

2026-06-04 10:10:26 CEST

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I have two accounts with my name on them how tf is that a sock puppet lol

2026-06-04 10:09:27 CEST

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They are both me on different devices because i started that way and never fixed it

2026-06-03 12:48:10 CEST

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have fun with your namecoins bro

2026-06-03 11:36:35 CEST

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2026-06-03 09:27:09 CEST

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How many Bitcoin podcasts did you listen to before you became an expert on everything?
#nevent1q…znys

2026-06-02 21:19:12 CEST

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Pretending you don't need scaled servers is not the same as not actually needing them.

2026-06-02 20:01:14 CEST

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Why do you think there are any limits to any of this stuff? It is just a pile of various unenforceable best practices that people converge on.
Look into our semantic social graph and nexus indexer. It's a freeform open graph for coordination.

2026-06-02 15:53:12 CEST

Pubky lets you edit posts!
Because they are YOUR posts after all, right?
Nostr is dead.

2026-06-02 15:47:23 CEST

I am here for all your phone numbers!
I am going to call you and call you and call you!
mwooohahahahaha

2026-06-02 15:13:19 CEST

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thanks for your expert advice

2026-06-02 15:04:30 CEST

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Also, there is nothing preventing signing of homeserver data, it can be done at app level, or client level, or indexer level, or server level, because all you need to do is delegate keys, or identity-bind them. These are only possible because of the pkdns aspects.
We already have a noise lib, and working on identity-binding, so Pubky will also have signing, private data, private message, etc.

2026-06-02 15:01:05 CEST

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bro no one wants your fukn data trust me

2026-06-02 15:00:30 CEST

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Bro you dont have to use SMS it is a service, a feature. SMS isnt part of any fucking web protocol!

2026-06-02 14:05:58 CEST

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relays are 3rd parties, your isp is a 3rd party, your app is provided by 3rd party, your os... your fukn half-assed worldview ... 3rd party podcast experts

2026-06-02 13:36:10 CEST

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No, the point is invented and wrong.
The actual sticking point is this: "this is not nostr so as a nostr lover i must do everything in my power to discredit it, no matter how wrong i am or stupid i look"

2026-06-02 11:55:05 CEST

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Pubky is totally open source and even more decentralized design. The nostr devs are only here while Dorsey and Odell can afford to subsidize them.
There is no point submitting a NIP, truly.

2026-06-02 11:23:45 CEST

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Some hack projects already exist but anyone with experience knows that bridges are just exits, no one actually uses bridges long-term.
Just cut the chord, man. We all deal with multiple social platforms normally.

2026-06-02 11:07:06 CEST

Pubky is for smart people that want to actually do things with their lives.

2026-06-02 10:59:57 CEST

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The phone numbers go to the 3rd party checker service; not retained by Tether or Synonym.
Have fun being stupid.

2026-06-02 10:36:56 CEST

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First, we don't make privacy claims about open social media because most of it is public, right?
Second, you don't need to use the SMS check, you can use LN, or do you not like LN anymore?
Third, Nostr servers are not free either. Someone pays for them, and if it isn't you, it will be eventually.

2026-06-02 10:28:28 CEST

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i wouldnt poach you if you were an egg
i am here to demean people that deserve it and save people that agree this place is retarded
the retards are meant to stay here, caged from the world, so it can progress more effectively without you

2026-06-02 00:02:32 CEST

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Have fun being stupid

2026-06-02 00:02:08 CEST

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Bahaha you are doing some sort of retarded ai audit?
Holy fuck this place is hilarious.
Dude, just believe whatever you want i truly dont care if people this retarded never use pubky.
You deserve your silly nostr life.

2026-06-01 17:19:44 CEST

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The code is all open source and can be run or forked by anyone.
App products have to follow laws, if you find something in our ToS that is beyond the minumum boilerplate required, please specify that part and I will check whethe removing it is actually possible.
You think i give a fuck about ToS or any compliance personally? No. But businesses must follow laws, which is why we build the stuff we build.
Stop being a hypocrite to your own values and learn something new.
Every service has terms.

2026-06-01 15:30:37 CEST

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I appreciate your help, but you are wrong about my team. We are trying to do a lot, and that requires a certain type of person. Some people are not cut out for it.
We can always be better, but it is foolish to judge 30 people from one freelance experience and a job rejection.
It is also wrong to expect people to meet your own personality requirements. I want sincerity and passion, not politeness or niceness (of course those are nice too).
You should be asking yourself how to swim with fish like us, not how to publicly discredit us.

2026-06-01 14:22:51 CEST

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We already had people storm our services in the past. We just need some friction on such a large amount of resources. We're working on a self-hosting app, as well as a million other things. We also have other sign-up options as MVP in our hackathon repo. It's a lot of work and we are very aware that onboarding friction needs to be reduced... but yknow... for bitcoiners and nostr users to get this hung up is kinda fake right? like we all have to do SMS or Gmail or worse and dont blink, and we even have a LN option which is at least an excuse to use LN for something real ... Waaaahhh wahhhhh SMS.
Before this, i was giving out free invites codes and everyone complained about that. The goal is the complaining, not the new experience, for these people.

2026-06-01 13:15:28 CEST

Nostr is dying and that is okay.

2026-06-01 13:13:15 CEST

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good luck with your funding

2026-06-01 13:10:11 CEST

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so when i am nice, i am a begging scammer, and when i am mean, i should be nice, so i can be a begging scammer again
got it
have some water

2026-06-01 13:08:34 CEST

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bro are you on your period or something?

2026-06-01 13:06:46 CEST

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lol whatever man, you said your funding was running out and you didn't know what you were gonna do next so I offered another path.
It's not like a full product like Damus is the same thing as "begging devs" ... i was offering a path for continuing
why are nostr people always little bitches about everything is the real question... shoot yourself in the foot and ignore cool tech, just so you can try to keep impressing your friends, idgaf
lol what a fukn clownshow

2026-06-01 12:36:44 CEST

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What do you have to do with anything here?

2026-06-01 11:34:35 CEST

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Which Jack? 😃

2026-06-01 11:25:11 CEST

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i just posted free codes
didnt i give you one in the past too?

2026-06-01 11:24:01 CEST

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We just updated pubky.org and our dev advocate Gabriel can answer any questions. It is actually cool.

2026-06-01 11:14:16 CEST

Jack, save us.

2026-06-01 11:10:18 CEST

What's this Pubky thing everyone on Nostr is mad about?!
First people to click these links get free 1GB storage plan in Pubky.
Let's go!
https://pubky.app/invite/9AJM-HXB7-AQG0
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2026-06-01 11:07:43 CEST

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How much of a grant do you need to port Damus mobile to Pubky tech?
It will work better, be more censorship resistant, and have real p2p commerce capability this year, not just tipping.

2026-06-01 11:03:23 CEST

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Yes

2026-06-01 10:15:42 CEST

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You aren't paid?

2026-06-01 10:08:41 CEST

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Y'all don't have to like ME, but you will like Pubky more and more.
#nevent1q…pxaf

2026-06-01 10:00:36 CEST

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Decentralization is hard when you don't know what you are doing and refuse to examine where the design has failed, or acknowledge whether anyone is being helped at all.

2026-06-01 09:52:17 CEST

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If he isn't protecting his investment why won't he interview me about Pubky?

2026-06-01 09:51:22 CEST

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Pubky does not require trusted caching servers.
The source of truth is always the user's homeserver and public key domain (PKARR record). Caches, indexers, mirrors, CDNs, and search services are optional performance layers, not authorities.
If a cache serves stale, filtered, or manipulated data, clients can fetch directly from the user's homeserver or use a different cache/indexer. The cache has no special power because it cannot change the user's identity, domain, or underlying data.
In practice, Pubky treats caches similarly to web CDNs: useful for speed and scalability, but entirely replaceable. The user's public key remains the stable identifier, and the PKARR record determines where authoritative data is located. If a cache disappears, lies, censors, or goes offline, users retain a credible exit by switching to another cache, another indexer, or direct retrieval from the source.
🫳🎤

2026-05-31 07:14:15 CEST

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fwiw I actually tried "millibits" for a couple years, when I ran the Xotika platform. It was too confusing to have so many denominations. BIP 177 really is the solution, waiting for when Bitcoiners realize the "whole bitcoin" meme is useless. One BTC might never be $1M, so these arguments could also be premature. With modern tech, conversions could all happen as credit and denomination becomes less important.

2026-05-28 17:01:50 CEST

Get your score.
https://bitcoindepression.com/

2026-05-28 16:49:19 CEST

https://x.com/bitkitwallet/status/2060009653778493793

2026-05-28 13:42:17 CEST

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people want reliable data providers, not random dudes in India trying to make extra cash. your idea doesnt work because this is a reputation problem, not a protocol one.

2026-05-28 13:27:50 CEST

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it aint easy but its honest work

2026-05-28 13:18:19 CEST

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riding dicks of jack, matt, and gigi, mostly

2026-05-28 13:17:55 CEST

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the difference with pubky is you can actually use central providers safely if you keep backups because your key is used as a domain name and you can point that to a new server anytime

2026-05-28 12:52:58 CEST

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I am a reciprocator

2026-05-28 12:45:40 CEST

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I dont hate nostr, it is a protocol, but i have a lot to say about the nostr culture and people

2026-05-28 11:15:47 CEST

As the image shows, this is a qualification for FREE 1GB storage and hosting of your data.
This is a SERVICE PROVIDED much like the one Primal offers, or any nostr relay would need to offer, to survive.
My company offering to provide that service for free if you can prove you aren't a bot, but you don't have to use any specific service in Pubky, just like you don't have to use Primal or a premium relay if you don't want to.
This has nothing at all to do with the protocol or Pubky tech, it is just how computers, businesses and networks work.
But it does show that Nostr users don't really understand how any of these things actually work underneath, because they were taught by memes and podcasters, and are not actually interested in the tech at all, right?

2026-05-28 10:44:25 CEST

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anyone that figures it out for themselves is totally welcome, but honestly, i am starting to hope some of these people never come to pubky...

2026-05-28 10:42:32 CEST

The Bitcoin price is going down because it is less valuable now.

2026-05-28 09:21:22 CEST

Do nostr users know the difference between an app and protocol?
Between a product and tech?
All your apps have ToS because all businesses have to follow laws.
All your relays can censor you because all computers have an owner.
This is just how things work.

2026-05-28 09:18:35 CEST

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You were always a little slow.

2026-05-27 16:16:02 CEST

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when did building become a popularity contest?
when nostr culture was born of Jack's fame.

2026-05-27 16:11:41 CEST

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why would anyone use affinity to make personal decisions? it's crazy to me that you think i'm the one being tone-deaf
bro, no one gives shit about any of this, or your standards of behavior, this is schoolyard nonsense
if people need to "like" the people that engineer things they will be engineered by scammers because they are the nicest
your worldview is fundamentally flawed where you replaced credibility with fame and fomo
get a fucking life

2026-05-27 09:52:05 CEST

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thank god for jack dorsey amiright

2026-05-27 09:51:22 CEST

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Looking for users of useful things, not cult loyalists.

2026-05-27 09:38:05 CEST

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How is an extra gateway option a cultural problem? bitcoin is still useful. There is a SMS option. I can also give you an invite code for free directly. It's just a spam gateway, not some sort of protocol thing.

2026-05-27 09:21:52 CEST

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i treat respectable people with respect, not reply-guy strangers that are experts at everything they never researched at all
these people arent willing to try anything until someone they are jealous of approves it
if Jack didnt bless nostr it would already be dead