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2026-03-05 06:24:59 CET

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4️⃣

2026-03-01 15:54:28 CET

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It just seems more reflective of real life networking... vs online networking now, where every potential connection must go straight to profile stalking.

2026-03-01 14:58:42 CET

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Interesting. I didn't know that.

2026-03-01 06:19:26 CET

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My reply landed in a weird spot. (Too much testing today.) If I run into anything strange with Prism I'll let you know. So far, so good. 👍🏻 #nevent1q…xreu

2026-03-01 06:06:19 CET

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I cheated and scheduled modernist poetry. I did spend time typing, but I ended up deleting all that. Not for failure of the app, but of mental fortitude. The editor works great as is.
But I peppered the poem with some little markdown things to see how they render in various clients. Whatever it's called that detects a copied url to link, is slick. Zero effort, it kinda tripped me up for a minute because I was expecting to need to paste something.
As long as it publishes as scheduled, it's already as good as (and maybe better than) any other mobile based editor experience.

2026-03-01 01:58:46 CET

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... with my typical typos for good measure 😅

2026-03-01 01:57:26 CET

Spontateous relay discovery on Wisp!
https://npub1cgcwm56v5hyrrzl5ty4vq4kdud63n5u4czgycdl2r3jshzk55ufqe52ndy.blossom.band/27c2c800e422f83b713428ea5480fa5e49be448138c5ee1b936ef7d867700b56.mp4

2026-02-27 23:48:22 CET

I found an owl feather... https://spatia-arcana.com/d63836223ddf24224c9ae59a2cf4fc2f6fb512f8eb98a6d35f5d7e0b213350ce.jpg

2026-02-26 18:20:42 CET

https://npub1cgcwm56v5hyrrzl5ty4vq4kdud63n5u4czgycdl2r3jshzk55ufqe52ndy.blossom.band/efe487e4cd2db123b1902abc5567ee5d4bb411367803598df56958ec8a842742.jpg

2026-02-26 01:24:41 CET

https://cdn.satellite.earth/8f188bff5a2540a493fdc5791e4e7c40b749413da9c57788e55425806642803c.jpg

2026-02-25 15:14:36 CET

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Well... I'll just do what I want then 😅

2026-02-25 06:55:02 CET

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Logically, that makes sense.

2026-02-25 06:47:01 CET

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😂 Ambitious mid-evening me doesn't care

2026-02-25 06:45:29 CET

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I don't like it. It feels wrong.

2026-02-25 06:44:06 CET

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😂 isn't that the whole point of sheets? Some people sweat the equilivant of 50 gallons/year in their sleep, or some crazy disgusting amount like that... I don't think I do, but I think sweaty people are why sheets are even a thing.

2026-02-25 06:38:12 CET

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Yeah 😕😅

2026-02-25 06:37:42 CET

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...which is weird, but why is it weird? Social conditioning? Am I protecting the mattress from myself or myself from the mattress? Consciously, it's the former but laying on it feels like the latter... so the alternative is the couch. 😅

2026-02-25 06:21:11 CET

Far too often, I get the late evening urge to wash my blankets, thinking about how I will sleep so good with warm, fresh sheets and blankets... then I'm stuck waiting for them to dry until I'm dog tired, and I don't want to put them back on the mattress. This always ends one of two ways and never how I imagine. 🫠

2026-02-25 06:04:50 CET

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👀 which client?

2026-02-25 05:31:17 CET

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🧁

2026-02-25 05:17:41 CET

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Hi 😁

2026-02-25 05:17:11 CET

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I'm really glad you are building it that way. Much needed... still.

2026-02-25 05:11:05 CET

It has been about a week, and I have definitely noticed a drop off in activity. I'm not sure if a bunch of people are still stuck only seeing things from big relays, if half the users got chased off by bots, or if I have hit new levels of boring this week 🫠 ...maybe it's all 3.
#nevent1q…lzul

2026-02-25 03:25:53 CET

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I hope that chaotic option never goes away 😅

2026-02-25 03:23:52 CET

I still think it's so funny to click play on a bunch of voice notes at the same time.

2026-02-25 02:52:27 CET

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😂😭🫠

2026-02-25 02:24:38 CET

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Thank you for letting me know. I am learning a lot about Nostur from you!
I will also see if we can find a way for reserved yaks to work, even if it is without the mentions.

2026-02-25 01:37:25 CET

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🤣 I cannot confirm nor deny that theory!
You will create a beautiful pyramid, when you are ready. 💜

2026-02-25 01:25:27 CET

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We did talk about mentions for voice notes some time ago, but I think it is of very low importance for now.
I think that the impromptu relay isn't working right now because the server appears to be offline. ( cc @nprofile…xuyp 😅)
wss://spatia-arcana.com will accept yaks, if you want to try sending one of those to a single relay.

2026-02-25 01:09:46 CET

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Does nostur let you tag people with those?

2026-02-25 01:08:14 CET

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I don't know 😅 we can try. I can't tag people with yaks and I'm not sure if the relay accepts them.

2026-02-24 16:04:37 CET

The list of signers I've been maintaining blew up from 12 to 30.
There's no way I'll be able to test all of these and many of them are vibe-coded. (which isn't necessarily a bad thing but it could be horrible)
Should I start labeling them beyond device category and add some other loose qualifiers? I'm thinking something like:
• User-tested
• Writer-tested
• Code-Reviewed
• Audited (and linked if I can find it)
Since I can only test so many things myself & I can barely read code, I have to lean on hearsay & community feedback to do it, which obviously isn't ideal (though it could be with some WoT sprinkled on there). I'm also doing this edu stuff out of sheer love for Nostr, so a "you get what you get" grading system seems _maybe_ okay. 😅
I'm not sure what's better: Leave them with no opinions & let people yolo blind? Or try to provide some level of direction? I lean towards the latter, since if someone is going through the process of finding the list to begin with, they must care a little bit.
Thoughts? Also, if you're using a signer and like it, or have had problems with one, could I ask you to share your thoughts? (If you built it, please don't 😁😅)

2026-02-24 04:28:13 CET

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What can I tell you? You're a smart and ambitious man who cares deeply that his family is well cared for. Men are the risk takers. Ask your wife's thoughts. If she seems even the slightest bit supportive than make the move. There is no right time. There never will be. Your integrity is your safety net. Trust yourself and her. 🫂

2026-02-24 03:06:05 CET

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I hope you're okay, Dan. Or will be... whatever the case may be.

2026-02-24 02:52:25 CET

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That is true, but it doesn't change the fact that humans tend to think we can dictate that timeline despite the many millenias worth of evidence showing otherwise.
(And yes, the will/entropy connection makes sense.)
https://youtu.be/J5yOaTgWu6Y

2026-02-24 02:25:41 CET

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Yes.

2026-02-24 02:18:47 CET

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No volcano diving today? That's good news 😁

2026-02-24 02:18:12 CET

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I ended up in this long conversation yesterday about the constant tug of war between life and entropy; the idea that life strives for efficiency without much foresight into the consequences of said efficiency. Some things are better at it than others. Humans are pretty bad at it, but we manage to make up for it with adaptability.
I left that conversation thinking about how screwed up we are. In a perfect reality, the technofuturists would be leveraging microplastics for longevity. Or maybe they are and I just don't know about it. 😅

2026-02-24 02:03:29 CET

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Not yet. I'll make sure it survives a few weeks first 😅

2026-02-24 02:01:11 CET

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Awesome! The offer stands for whenever you're ready. I'm more than happy to set aside some time in assisting with the basics.

2026-02-24 01:46:42 CET

A tiny blue spruce...
https://i.nostr.build/LlUID3kFHBqHsBgG.jpg

2026-02-24 01:14:37 CET

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Things are at a point now, that if you were willing to sit down with each member & set things up with them, it wouldn't be very hard to do. Just time consuming. Maybe not perfect but what ever is? Hahaha
The hosting part is easy, as long as you don't get too wild with experimental options. If you decide you want to give it a try, I'd be happy to help you get rolling and answer questions to the best of my abilities 😊

2026-02-23 23:12:31 CET

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🫂

2026-02-23 21:00:15 CET

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😂 At one point they were, yes.

2026-02-23 20:57:57 CET

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I don't know. Anytime there's been some newsworthy thing that happened, like when the telegram guy got arrested or the initial US tiktok ban talk, a lot of those npubs were definitely people. And almost every time, reply spam has chased away more people than what normal churn would account for, eroding nostr's public credibility each time.

2026-02-23 19:33:07 CET

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🫂

2026-02-23 19:24:53 CET

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My paranoid side feels pretty certain it's all been intentional countermeasures. Once is an anomaly, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern. Why do we never get spam attacks when we're bored out of minds, joking about cilantro & pretending to be named dan? Hmmm. 😅 but either way... I see reply spam & single-topic saturated home feeds as the biggest problems to solve, and the answer is right there! It's crazy to me how many people thinks it's somehow mass censorship, and yet others are all but begging for the cleaner experience.

2026-02-23 19:02:33 CET

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But I don't think forever handholding & corporate "community guidelines" are the solution either. Maybe that approach will be successful by some metric, but it will fail miserably by others.

2026-02-23 18:57:20 CET

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Almost every wave of new users has been like this, with some horrible reply spam attack right after the wave arrives. Then we're all here going "oops... there they go ⤵️ Glad we saved 2, let's zap em extra much for being stubborn"

2026-02-23 18:04:08 CET

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😂 exactly! We can't just keep leading people off a cliff like lemmings, and acting surprised when they can't fly.

2026-02-23 17:06:06 CET

A system like this would not replace closed communities or an open ecosystem. It would be more of a middle-ground between the two. It would offer a fix for most of the issues that real users have with other social networks, like getting suspended for stupid stuff and being overwhelmed with content they don't want to see. The latter problem is one Nostr clients in general also struggle with, but worse than closed platforms, because everything is so wide open. A user's ability to manage their experience has to be learned over time.
Retention partially fails because there is no authority to say "this is the UX we want you to have and we will control everything to make sure you have it." The result has been users that want to like using Nostr but end up leaving because the friction of finding their perfect UX is of a defensive nature. The alternative is having clients who dictate the whole UX, silo'ing people not much differently than FB & X, which are easy to use, but hard to change.
Semi-closed, user-lead, environments could provide places to learn, content that matches users' tastes, and real-world utility. Users could be proactive in growing their personal UX rather than being defensive about it, while also not being trapped in any single environment. They could still leave the community completely and use the same client, or they can use different clients to access the community. Conscientious community leaders will know what their users want and need more than any app developer ever could, so if they want their thing to work, they will put in the effort to make sure other clients that cater to specific needs are available or at least known.
Some mirco-networks would be really strict about what they include, sure, but they should be free to create that if they want. Like a church would want to do. Others such as hobby clubs, friend groups, small towns, or whatever could be relatively lax, and all those things can start overlapping at their edges. Nothing would diminish the user's ability to expand and contract their own environment and home feeds.
It decentralizes the burden of onboarding and lands users into places they might actually want to be in, too. Many hands make light work, as the saying goes.
I'm not saying this is the only way forward, but it's almost completely unexplored thus far, and trying the same things over and over with slightly different twists hasn't exactly worked out real well for retention.
#nevent1q…dh0n

2026-02-23 06:41:02 CET

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"The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association reports that Nikolski is thought to be one of the oldest continuously occupied communities in the world. Archaeological evidence from Ananiuliak Island, 5 km offshore in Nikolski Bay, dates human habitation to 8,500 years ago."
Interesting place.

2026-02-23 06:32:34 CET

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"The population was 39 at the 2020 census, up from 18 in 2010."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolski,_Alaska

2026-02-23 05:42:57 CET

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Your hobby projects are mind-blowing 😅

2026-02-23 05:25:47 CET

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I am not suddenly a nihilist, I just took a long walk in the cold after some heavy conversation.

2026-02-23 05:10:59 CET

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You don't need a volcano to achieve self-actualization 😉

2026-02-23 05:08:33 CET

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👀 that was almost 2 years ago!?

2026-02-23 04:57:16 CET

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Constantly striving for efficiency, yet we mourn over a life cut short. Why do we live in juxtaposition of ourselves?

2026-02-23 04:49:56 CET

Layers and layers of complexity in an effort to simulate a natural state. It's all very ironic to me.

2026-02-23 02:29:44 CET

https://spatia-arcana.com/a0ab10c475c61d798f9792a0b025ca3d5427ce997d949b3223d9804a902695bc.jpg

2026-02-22 21:15:27 CET

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😂💜🫂 no problem.

2026-02-22 21:09:16 CET

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Also.. lockbox will only show your notes to people that you follow. Those notes will show up in home feeds of people you follow who also follow you. (so long as those people are using outbox client)

2026-02-22 20:58:56 CET

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It is because you have impromptu set as a write relay.
Your notes are being served in the home feeds of your followers who are using outbox-capable clients, like Amethyst. Those clients send replies & likes to your read relays and all the read & write relays of the people who interact with you. They don't create protected replies and the original notes are being duplicated on any of those relays that ignores the "protected" tag.
Impromptu will only work as intended if you go directly to it to post.
wss://lockbox.relays.land will work as I described above, too, but on purpose. That might be a better one to try. It doesn't accept any replies, so you don't need to add it as a "read".

2026-02-22 18:51:08 CET

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So it's a watch?

2026-02-22 15:26:37 CET

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Wholesome flex. Congratulations 😂

2026-02-22 15:02:04 CET

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Nice ring

2026-02-22 03:17:01 CET

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Wait... Nostr's equivalent to the 2nd amendment is your read relays. Poor wording the first time. 😅

2026-02-22 03:15:31 CET

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The equivulant of Nostr's 2nd amendment is your read relays.

2026-02-22 03:10:53 CET

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I enjoyed my test drive. It already feels like amethyst lite + relays & I love the name.

2026-02-22 03:01:44 CET

No one should have to be trapped in a spammy environment by poor design. Let them wander relays freely.
FREE THE NPUBS! ✊🏻
😅🫠

2026-02-22 02:48:13 CET

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*disclaimer*
It appears that iOS people would need to be willing to use Yakihonne for this to really work for you. ~sigh~

2026-02-22 02:38:04 CET

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Looks like you already got it handled. Sorry this didn't work :( this is good knowledge for me, though. Thank you for struggling through this with me today.

2026-02-22 02:36:05 CET

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Grr.... I'm sorry. Maybe this won't work as well as I had thought. iOS limitations are frustrating.
We could try setting up a signer to use web clients your browser?
Or we can add the other relays back into your list?

2026-02-22 00:23:47 CET

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I hope not! Maybe I am misunderstanding something about Nostur.
Have you tried yakihonne?

2026-02-21 21:59:43 CET

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💜 If you should decide to explore further, you can click on the link in my original note. Tag me if you have any questions.

2026-02-21 21:57:39 CET

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...there is luck involved 😅

2026-02-21 21:41:08 CET

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Perfect! Plenty of people will see your notes and your notifications will be a little less bot-iful. If you're lucky, DMs might even work 😅

2026-02-21 21:29:51 CET

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🤣😂 thanks for being patient with me, as well. This will be worth the effort.

2026-02-21 21:26:18 CET

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Close...
Read & DM only:
wss://spatia-arcana.com/inbox
wss://relay.spacetomatoes.net/inbox
Write only:
wss://spatia-arcana.com
wss://relay.damus.io

2026-02-21 21:22:19 CET

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For write/read:
W = wss://spatia-arcana.com
R = wss://spatia-arcana.com/inbox
As far as the favorites tab, if you want to easily browse these or any of the subrelays you can save those there. Other endpoints for spatia-arcana.com are
/lux (popular notes)
/nox (most liked notes)
/favorites (which you can republish notes to, to help curate if you want)
/personal (personal note taking, visible only to you)
/internal (only members can post, read, and reply. I have it loaded up with member info)

2026-02-21 21:09:40 CET

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Ah, dammit 🤣 I broadcasted it. How about now?

2026-02-21 20:47:01 CET

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I believe that was a malfunction on my part. Sorry for the delay.
#nevent1q…arz7

2026-02-21 20:45:33 CET

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That was fun and completely new to me. He had a great, gravely voice. The wikipedia page about him reads as though he had a short but intensely full life. This might be a good weekend rabbit hole for me. Thank you for sharing.

2026-02-21 20:18:57 CET

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Did you see my other suggestions?

2026-02-21 20:01:22 CET

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🤣 I don't know. I'm sure one would be a hit if there were.

2026-02-21 19:51:26 CET

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Okay @nprofile…fgj4
For a read:
wss://relay.spacetomatoes.net/inbox
For a write you might want to put back:
wss://relay.damus.io
so that your fellow apple people will see your notes.
...in addition to the spatia-arcanas.
Nostr.land is a very good paid service. If you should choose to subscribe, you can use that along with the selection I have suggested.

2026-02-21 19:40:11 CET

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Haha, yes. Nostr.land is a paid service. I thought you were a customer of theirs, since you had it listed. Let me come up with another suggestion for you. Hang tight.

2026-02-21 19:34:46 CET

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I'm seeing you here.
Are you a paid subscriber to nostr.land?

2026-02-21 17:45:22 CET

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Ok, you are all set on my side.
You will want to adjust your read/inbox relays to:
wss://spatia-arcana.com/inbox
wss://nostr.land
Get rid of all the others listed there.
You can also add to your write/outbox relays:
wss://spatia-arcana.com
You don't need to change anything else there. (Though, you probably only need 2-3)
Welcome to Spatia-Arcana! Please let me know how it goes or if you have any questions. There are a lot of other things you can do, too, but we'll start with some bot relief and go from there. 😊

2026-02-21 17:03:33 CET

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😂 makes complete sense. Cars are easily replaceable, dignity... ehhh... that takes a while to recover.

2026-02-21 16:58:46 CET

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The relay will only work with Nostur, as far as iOS apps go. If you want to take it for a spin, I can add you. You'll need to change some other relay settings too. Are you up for that?

2026-02-21 16:56:23 CET

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Ah fun! I know you're clever enough to figure this out but if you find questions, feel free to pester me 😊

2026-02-21 16:51:13 CET

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Is that like points against your man card, getting your car stuck in front of some random dudes?
I once drove up on a couple guys trying to change a flat tire on a trailer that was still hooked to the truck. They appeared to be struggling. To preserve their dignity, I continued driving and left them to struggle. I like to think I was doing God's work that day.😅

2026-02-21 16:45:00 CET

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Which app do you use?

2026-02-21 16:42:27 CET

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Ah, that is what I suspected might happen! Thank you for confirming 🫂

2026-02-21 16:37:04 CET

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Yay! I'm glad to read that! You can invite people, too, by signing in to the homepage and adding their npub to the tree. Feel free to use that, if you wish.

2026-02-21 16:09:43 CET

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That is a good plan. I would order a book or a few.

2026-02-21 16:00:18 CET

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I see S-A! 💜😁
You'll want to change the public inbox to wss://spatia-arcana.com/inbox and drop damus and nos from there, if you're wanting to shake off some bots. Amethyst still pulls in some of them. I think it depends on how the replies are being published, but it's still a major upgrade. You can use that one as a DM relay, too, by the way, if you choose.

2026-02-21 15:48:07 CET

I am going to again offer invites to https://spatia-arcana.com . If bots are driving you nuts, its inbox helps. (Pyramid is incredible💜) Depending on what you use, it might require that you shift to using a compatible client. It's -10°F, so I have a little time to help sort out details, if you need.
We also have a nice little subdivision developing. No HOAs, just basic neighborly courtesy 😊

2026-02-21 15:20:11 CET

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It did drop bot replies but with a huge tradeoff