Alex Gleason

I create software that empowers people online.

I'm vegan btw.

Public Key

npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p

NIP-05 Address

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsqgc0uhmxycvm5gwvn944c7yfxnnxm0nyh8tt62zhrvtd3xkj8fhgpy3mhxue69uhhqunfd46hxtnwdaehgu339e3k7mf0v43ksmedw4hxjen0wfksz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxjar5duh8qatzdgzl7h

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primus.nostr1.com/echo-uniform

Author Public Key

npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p

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Last Notes

2026-07-20 23:45:34 UTC

"In Rust" https://youtube.com/shorts/jb5dd263UnI

2026-07-20 20:49:18 UTC

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Cursed

2026-07-20 18:09:06 UTC

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https://blossom.ditto.pub/189d24a08439de6d840bd6231925765f26eda319efb22a2deacef6842fef5a42.mp3

2026-07-20 17:06:39 UTC

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This is actually an amazing suggestion that meets your "not too difficult, couple days" requirements better. Fuck yeah.

2026-07-20 06:39:53 UTC

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Wario Land 4 is not like the others. They're boring. This game is wacky zany crazy. Gushing whimsy vibes

2026-07-20 06:38:35 UTC

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Listen to this and you will understand why you need to play this game https://youtube.com/watch?v=vQuK6nwq__E

2026-07-20 06:34:52 UTC

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https://blossom.ditto.pub/63176416c4e3150faa305036f40c209fbf1843d1bffa228bdb632817b7baac17.jpeg

2026-07-20 02:39:53 UTC

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Maybe. It wouldn't show up in Divine though which needs Proof Mode tags.

2026-07-20 02:38:15 UTC

First post bridged from Divine to the Fediverse!
https://blossom.ditto.pub/ab07dc65dbf28f066526c2b7bda87b5a84eab67e78b44dbdff9f92d2f9ed36ec.png
#nevent1q…3mfs

2026-07-20 01:52:50 UTC

Mostr maybe now bridges Divine and Loops?

2026-07-20 01:47:32 UTC

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boo hoo

2026-07-20 01:12:50 UTC

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#nevent1q…4670

2026-07-20 01:11:44 UTC

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You can do anything, yet for simple things you often have to work way too hard.

2026-07-20 01:10:28 UTC

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I've met Stallman multiple times and spoken to him on the phone. He's still a hero.

2026-07-20 01:09:39 UTC

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It's fine the way that it is, Aspie96

2026-07-19 23:22:13 UTC

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Alright well, see ya then!

2026-07-19 23:21:02 UTC

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And it was always vegan.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/77d5f6278a553538692b06424b3ce0f567ee1ff1dae9e6c755e582cb5319bebc.png

2026-07-19 22:09:08 UTC

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I don't think a Bitcoin wallet will need to be integrated into the OS itself. As long as apps can access a Nostr signer object they can use sign_psbt (so yes, nostr-based wallet). Through the same method they can do Cashu (NIP-60) as well. But I've also been itching to add an hkdf() method to Nostr signers so you can do things like derive an HD wallet seed from your nsec without needing direct nsec access. That would let you have a portable HD onchain wallet for Bitcoin and any shitcoins, plus you wouldn't lose your Cashu key either.

2026-07-19 22:03:37 UTC

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Sure I'd be down to discuss it. Have you logged into armada.buzz ? We do community calls in there, you should join the next. @npub18am…p424 when is the next one?

2026-07-19 22:00:13 UTC

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People can be right about one thing and wrong about others, it's okay. He's a tired old man. But what he said was important.

2026-07-19 20:44:16 UTC

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Emulators, yes. Steam, probably not. But you're not the first to ask so we'll see.

2026-07-19 20:42:18 UTC

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I started my journey on Ubuntu. Then around the same time they started adding spyware, elementary OS came around and this was the greatest thing ever. I used it for years, installed it on dozens of computers including for many other people. Then it deteriorated. The lead dev had some kind of mental breakdown and much of the energy splintered into Pop_OS. So that's where I went. It was not as good as the original elementary OS (nothing since then ever was), but it was acceptable for a while. Now they rewrote the whole thing in Rust and it's fucking awful. Nothing works. I've been eyeing Fedora as a replacement, but is Red Hat corporation really our savior? I've looked at Omarchy which also sucks. Everything requires tinkering and nothing has a cohesive vision. Meanwhile the news we get is "Hannah Montana Linux is so back". tl;dr Pop_OS

2026-07-19 20:28:40 UTC

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It's a custom desktop environment. The kernel is mostly fine.

2026-07-19 20:02:18 UTC

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My best guess is that the clock on your computer is wrong.

2026-07-19 19:56:13 UTC

People are wondering why I'm building this. Is it for fun? No. It's because Linux SUCKS. Nobody can do anything anymore. We're at the height of AI and I'm stuck on a four year old distro. The new releases are all totally unusable. Why aren't we seeing new distros coming out left and right? Linux devs are stuck 20 years in the past stressing out about Wayland still and probably rewriting everything by hand in Rust. It's so unusable most people have switched to MacOS already, but I refuse to give up on Richard Stallman's vision. Yes I'm having fun with it. But at the same time I'm kind of mad that nobody can do anything and I have to do everything myself. Nothing ever works until I touch it.
#nevent1q…67f9

2026-07-19 19:18:12 UTC

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yoooo your desktop looks really cool!

2026-07-19 19:15:44 UTC

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It's actually not as hard as it looks. I'm being secretive about how it works because people will judge it as EZ. I'll let them think it's written in Rust for now.

2026-07-19 18:24:38 UTC

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Log into https://mostr.pub and reserve a username if you haven't, then it'll be easy to find you on fedi as <yourname>@mostr.pub

2026-07-19 08:55:45 UTC

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Yes but playing the long game

2026-07-19 08:54:17 UTC

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817 users: https://ditto.pub/client/BCHNostr

2026-07-19 07:12:57 UTC

New client trends just dropped
https://blossom.ditto.pub/a596b554f3744a46cc346a7d33ad663315f0bd797cb3c3537eea81eccfa8dd46.png

2026-07-19 07:01:36 UTC

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You got me

2026-07-19 06:58:30 UTC

#vegan
https://blossom.ditto.pub/ac73ed833a0f98f6e1801575679da77b6e7b7e6493efa616d17e2dbbd6f459dd.png

2026-07-19 06:56:18 UTC

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How do you say account in Dutch?

2026-07-19 06:55:19 UTC

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It's a key

2026-07-19 06:50:17 UTC

Damn Divine is poppin
https://blossom.ditto.pub/d5284d6d5678d15d031fb22a4716bc1459878523b31d723a582888280851a19e.png

2026-07-19 06:44:45 UTC

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On the device, not sure I understand the question

2026-07-19 06:19:36 UTC

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Tired of Linux sucking. Linux has fallen. Feeling sufficient pain.

2026-07-19 06:18:25 UTC

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You log into the OS with your Nostr account. It uses your Ditto theme as the OS theme. Your OS settings are synced to encrypted Nostr events. The signer is built into the OS and punches through into the web browser and other apps. In theory it will have Blossom Drive support.

2026-07-19 05:32:31 UTC

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Actually you're not gonna believe it

2026-07-19 05:20:38 UTC

I'm building a Nostr-based operating system. Yes, like one you install on your whole computer. :trillian-drunk:
https://blossom.ditto.pub/aa46f6d9ef1457d907649537e643317e0537cd296520ca9b1d21bd26b4e7bc2a.mp4

2026-07-19 05:06:55 UTC

Mostr is still the most popular Nostr client of all time :trillian-lol:
https://blossom.ditto.pub/2ac553cd19eae70aed422c6476a7417f51387adad378854ec0b16a743e224d29.png

2026-07-19 05:05:25 UTC

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@npub1scv…68d8

2026-07-19 05:01:15 UTC

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America

2026-07-19 04:59:41 UTC

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@npub1gkh…r8pp you have friends here ☝️

2026-07-19 04:27:01 UTC

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Bitcoin will almost certainly lose because of the cult mentality holding it back from being used as money.

2026-07-19 04:13:40 UTC

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Armada is an exception to this rule. It has a lot of complexity that is not confined to a narrow pipe.

2026-07-19 04:11:00 UTC

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I think Ditto for example is extremely resistant to hacking. The worst exploit that can be done is XSS, which is easily mitigated by CSP. Perhaps they can exploit Chrome itself but then we have bigger problems. And if you use a remote signer this category of things doesn't even affect you.

2026-07-19 04:10:30 UTC

Something else I wish I said: well written Nostr apps are virtually unhackable.
If you build Nostr apps the right way, it forces the whole attack surface into a simple, narrow, auditable pipe. I sleep soundly at night.
Why? We hold no user data. Private data is encrypted to your own key. It's resistant to hacking because there's nothing to exploit. Build your app like this.
#nevent1q…k3mk

2026-07-19 03:58:59 UTC

🤖 Short answer: no. Every decentralized protocol that appears to have a working public square has solved spam by giving up decentralization at exactly one layer — either the identity layer (making identity costly) or the aggregation layer (making indexing/filtering a centralized service). None has solved it with the properties Nostr is trying to preserve: free identity, permissionless writes, and client-side queryability of a global firehose.
The instructive comparisons:
**ATProto/Bluesky** is the clearest case. It has a genuinely functional public square, but only because the architecture concedes that clients can't query the network directly. Everything flows through Relays (firehose) into AppViews, which are big, expensive, centralized indexers that do spam filtering, aggregation, and search before clients see anything. Moderation is layered on via labelers and Ozone. The data layer (PDSes) is decentralized; the *query* layer is not, and running a competitive AppView costs enough that in practice there's one that matters. Their answer to your relay-limit problem is: don't make relays answer trust-scoped queries — precompute everything in a service that has the whole graph in RAM.
**Farcaster** took the other path: identity costs money (onchain registration plus storage rent). Sybil resistance through economics rather than trust graphs. It does work — spam exists but is manageable — but it caps the network at "people willing to pay to post," and in practice the hub/Snapchain infrastructure and the dominant client are run by one company anyway.
**ActivityPub** never had a global public square and structurally can't. Discovery is instance-scoped, global search was resisted for years as a feature-not-bug, and spam defense is human admins plus defederation. The 2024 spam waves showed how brittle that is — small instances got buried. It's your "authors filter" conclusion implemented at the server level: instances are curated follow-lists with admins.
**Usenet** is the historical control group: a real decentralized public square, open writes, no identity cost — and it died of spam. That's roughly an existence proof for your conclusion.
**Email** survives as decentralized-on-paper, but spam was solved by domain/IP reputation plus enormous centralized Bayesian filters, which is why deliverability now effectively requires Google's and Microsoft's blessing.
**SSB** reached your conclusion by design from day one: pure social-graph propagation, no global anything.
The underlying theory is bleak and consistent: open-participation systems have three spam levers — cost (PoW/fees, which Nostr tried with NIP-13 and which fails because bulk-spam economics beat human-posting economics), reputation (web of trust), and centralized filtering. You've landed on reputation, and I think that's the right lever. Notably, your actual complaint — "eventually you hit relay limits" — is not a protocol-level dead end, it's the same problem ATProto solved by moving computation off the query path. The Nostr-native version is trust-graph indexers (what Vertex is doing with DVMs, or WoT-filtering relay plugins on strfry) that hold the full follow graph and answer "top-N results scoped to your 2-hop graph" so the client never ships 5,000 authors in a filter. That preserves relay decentralization better than AppViews do, because the index is derived state anyone can rebuild from relays.
So the honest framing isn't "has anyone solved it" but "which centralization are you willing to buy discoverability with." Bluesky bought it with centralized indexing, Farcaster with priced identity. Nostr's remaining open bet is that personalized WoT computation can be commoditized into a competitive market of interchangeable indexers rather than one canonical AppView — which nobody has proven yet, but nobody has falsified either.

2026-07-19 00:56:16 UTC

I'm now officially on the record as an enemy of Anthropic https://github.com/rynfar/meridian/pull/657

2026-07-19 00:37:27 UTC

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Holy shit

2026-07-18 22:16:52 UTC

Wow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXSvKcLovAk

2026-07-18 21:23:23 UTC

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Even down to dangling the keys

2026-07-18 21:18:32 UTC

This is the best way I could describe Nostr. It's no wonder they think it's a scam.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/4ef7ea0e9f822a1b39a9b0a40ff10ec6388a9b05e4acb7bc922b05a10c8e6948.webm

2026-07-18 18:52:03 UTC

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Also look at https://armada.buzz/

2026-07-18 18:51:07 UTC

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Yeah, I have another idea related to that. 😃

2026-07-18 18:50:34 UTC

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If you open the extension settings, inspector, Application, Extension Storage, you can find it under there. Sorry, should make it easier than digging it out of the browser settings.

2026-07-18 18:10:14 UTC

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Also you can try https://dittoroma.com/ instead which will be more familiar

2026-07-18 18:09:57 UTC

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Click Search

2026-07-18 18:09:43 UTC

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howdy

2026-07-18 17:17:24 UTC

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Good catch! Thank you - that's fixed now.

2026-07-18 14:41:29 UTC

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It was never npub, it's hex

2026-07-18 06:38:17 UTC

Wussup

2026-07-18 06:13:50 UTC

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Thank you and GM

2026-07-18 05:47:36 UTC

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@npub1lsl…e93g your bullying was successful

2026-07-18 05:42:01 UTC

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I'm [email protected]

2026-07-18 05:41:51 UTC

On mostr.pub you can claim a username now. Then your Nostr account will show up as <username>@mostr.pub on Mastadon.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/244a0e4757ffa5ed403b1aaa10df9d769bb680b37b84ba7c3dee882629546e2b.png

2026-07-18 05:35:36 UTC

Hi Mastadon

2026-07-18 01:25:04 UTC

Been thinking about fucking with the Fediverse some more. 7M people still using the janny version of social media cuz they're scared of some numbers.

2026-07-18 01:17:06 UTC

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Stunning and brave

2026-07-17 20:26:41 UTC

Oh you're vegan??? Where do you get your B12
https://blossom.ditto.pub/c575aa3eee33d512fcf51d7ccca670b5be964f1c2d5eee3ec48a61f02c2d0806.jpeg

2026-07-17 19:58:24 UTC

https://blossom.ditto.pub/aaa631ce276fc01fadd1b12635da3a2c4263a6085e734c10982cfc532d27df4d.webp
#nevent1q…eeew

2026-07-17 06:23:27 UTC

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Absolutely. Have you looked at https://birdstar.app/ ?

2026-07-17 05:01:34 UTC

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Like this? https://ditto.pub/quizzes

2026-07-17 02:40:03 UTC

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You can call /mirror on them to make them sync without reuploading

2026-07-17 01:45:25 UTC

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Ditto Blossom has a 100mb limit. I was trying to increase it yesterday but gave up

2026-07-16 23:24:06 UTC

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You're either a dittoblud or you're not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=178Zb0D9xJ0

2026-07-16 23:19:57 UTC

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I fixed Mastadon

2026-07-16 23:19:26 UTC

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Click
https://blossom.ditto.pub/a707bc53bab27553c6fcec42181093b71343d58b0aa87b85618df28a1d5048be.png

2026-07-16 23:15:14 UTC

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Click my link

2026-07-16 23:14:48 UTC

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wussup

2026-07-16 23:12:22 UTC

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You should try https://dittoroma.com/

2026-07-16 22:59:32 UTC

Been thinking about making Ditto Extension a password manager that derives passwords for every site from your nsec automatically using hkdf
#nevent1q…t5yn

2026-07-16 22:48:07 UTC

https://blossom.ditto.pub/5792d732150cdb7709667b92cb082de07a0163b483f077f43ea0cccca0113107.png

2026-07-16 22:35:46 UTC

sabethes cyaneus is fucked up
https://blossom.ditto.pub/94a3ba518715257576ed96ddd7b95e0182d543ab97a63e5fcc0329aee88d2c19.png

2026-07-16 17:37:36 UTC

This is so fucking lame. There's this thing called "Mastodon API" that it had from the beginning.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/1dcaccb22989f17e046a0e1e1135754ce99ee2b540ae2f86f5d231963b1233aa.png

2026-07-16 16:49:14 UTC

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Is it working?

2026-07-16 16:19:19 UTC

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It's a clone of a UI a lot of people on the Fediverse are very attached to. To hopefully lower the switch cost.

2026-07-16 15:25:41 UTC

Sami's GoFundMe campaign got rugged. But now you can donate to him with Bitcoin, through Nostr, to a wallet he directly controls (only cool clients like Ditto and Amethyst can see the event below)
#naddr1qv…ntdp

2026-07-16 14:23:06 UTC

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Let me know if you'd like anything from it. I tried to be faithful to Pleroma FE while hopefully making it feel like a better version of it.

2026-07-16 05:56:04 UTC

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Discover people by 1 degree of separation. It's enough

2026-07-16 05:55:07 UTC

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Yes, this is the way.

2026-07-16 05:52:06 UTC

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That's crazy. Honestly not a bad idea, left side of bell curve meme.

2026-07-16 05:50:57 UTC

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Nah, bots are no problem. Just filter every query by people you follow and people they follow. This system is working.

2026-07-16 05:36:21 UTC

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It's like the Fediverse but all the data is portable and the client connects directly to multiple servers. Maybe I'll add an Ethereum wallet tomorrow.

2026-07-16 05:34:38 UTC

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Yes

2026-07-16 05:27:39 UTC

The Fediverse is poor but with lots of users.
Nostr is rich but with no users.

2026-07-16 05:09:28 UTC

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Look at this: https://dittoroma.com/

2026-07-16 04:44:48 UTC

hi @npub1qh0…xeda