- Bitwarden: took a couple of “lost my password” to convince everyone to use it - Bring: we collaborate on shopping list with this - ChatGPT Plus: we use it for work and even to organize our meals for camping - Home Assistant: useful automations around the home - Splitwise: great way to split bills back when I lived with a roommate… Now mostly use it for trips with friends & family

Get rid of cover letters.

Google has a history of killing its own products and services. It is not wise to build on top of depending on their tools. It's likely that you'll get rugged next quarter.

If you took 10 seconds to read, it's not at all C-18 related. It's entirely related to India being able to strong-arm Facebook to comply.

You only get the content you subscribe to in Nostr.

There's no algorithm that will curate your feed for you, it's up to you to choose who you follow.

Don't like what someone is posting? Unsubscribe.

Mastodon does not solve the problem stated above. In Nostr you don't have to be jumping from instance to instance and losing all your stuff every time in the process.

Mastodon is clearly inferior to Nostr when it comes to having a decentralized identity.

Nostr isn't aimed at content blocked or censored.

Relays also don't host media, it's meant for text-based comms.

Well HN is text-based as well yet...

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"That doesn't look like anything to me"

You can build software on protocols like this.

Your analogy fails at the mere fact that no physical harm can result from Nostr not solving this one thing you think is 100% necessary.

The fact that Nostr is up and running and working is the undeniable fact that you don't NEED to solve every single problem known to humankind before you write some lines of code.

> You can build software on protocols like this.

I've never denied this. You can also DIY a go-kart and drive it on an open road.

> Your analogy fails at the mere fact that no physical harm can result from Nostr not solving this one thing you think is 100% necessary.

Notice how you've specifically used the term "physical harm" to differentiate from other forms of harm. Harm is harm.

> The fact that Nostr is up and running and working is the undeniable fact that you don't NEED to solve every single problem known to humankind before you write some lines of code.

...Where did I try to deny this? My analogy is very specific in that you can do all of these things, and with enough luck, nothing bad will happen.

The problem with luck is that it doesn't scale well, especially on the open road. I mean, Internet.

Software protocols aren't going to prevent the government from using physical force to will you into obedience.

Not sure what you expect?

The AUTH Nostr Implementation Possibility is not mandatory. You can choose to use it or not, it's not all or nothing. Every single NIP except for NIP-01 is optional.

I wonder what the XMPP camp is up to these days

I sense there was probably some irony in your post. Nevertheless, I'll bite :)

The "XMPP camp" is doing well and very busy: https://xmpp.org/newsletter/

We're lacking a nostr bridge if anyone wants to work on that...