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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 50m

Damage control:

Here's a link to the other 2000 words he wrote.

42 sats \ 6 replies \ @SimpleStacker 1h

Digging through the data, I'm a bit surprised at what kinds of posts get downvoted

30 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 52m

That'll be juicy to read about

42 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 48m

Eh, I probably won't write about this in any specific detail. One of my commitments is to not make anything public that wouldn't already be public on the site.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 46m

Good plan. Is it more things getting downzapped or nyms getting downzapped?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 44m

I actually can't see any nyms... just numerical user ids.

I think what was surprising to me is the content of some posts that got downzapped. I wouldn't have thought they would.

After conditioning on multiple users downzapping and downzaps > zaps, I get stuff that makes more sense.

It's still an incredibly small number of posts getting downzapped though

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 16m

It’s all darthcoin downzapping coinsreporters cricket posts. Haha

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 9m

haha you may not be far off the mark

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 1h

saifedean and balaji in the same picture...

source

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 1h

nostr right now...

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @plebpoet 3h

i'm an album repeater #1276050 on loop all day nag champa burning while plebpoet is zining

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 2h

additionally this #1275307 is a post i'd like to print. did yall see it?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Akg10s3 4h

An excellent plan 👌

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4h

Haha keep dreaming

167 sats \ 5 replies \ @Scoresby 4h

source

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 3h

He blocked me on twitter years ago but nice to finally see some alignment

169 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 4h

i was wondering when jb was going to blow.

i've been in a wait-and-see mode with nostr because it got incredibly top heavy once dorsey dragged all the podcaster/influencer/grifters into it.

protocols are fragile things especially when they lack self-structuring incentives. the last thing you want to do is let otherwise talentless people with high political-IQs deploy the incentives.

117 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby 3h

This isn't really a response to your comment, so much as the thoughts it inspired in me.

I wish I had a good framework in my mind for understanding all this. For instance, Shocknet's post (#1275977) makes a good point about Ark that I had not considered before (we talk about Ark - the protocol - like we talk about Lightning - the network - but Ark - the network - is a closed network while LN is open. Maybe even: the equivalent to joining the Lightning Network and opening a channel in Ark is starting your own ASP) and clearly this is an important difference.

Does it mean we shouldn't use Ark? or that we should talk about it differently?

Nostr feels open like LN, but the way primal runs its caching server...doesn't sound as open. Does it mean one should switch to clients that are more "true" to the original nostr idea, or just that we should use different language to talk about what using nostr via primal is?

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 2h

In fairness to Primal they have no real competition, I mostly use Primal because everything else is worse. Amtheyst I use on mobile, but I have to switch between them sometimes because each have separate issues.

Caching/indexing is a necessity, strfry is the only relay that works at any meaningful scale and it can only do that because its a very simple K:V database. The trade-off with that is its impossible to render a modern UI with simple queries, so clients directly connecting to it get bloated and paradoxically DoS it.

I've got my own nostr app (bxrd) in the hopper I tinker with from time to time but its not a priority.

Nostr is still more open than Ark, its literally just json and websockets, any app can exfil data from Primal's relays and you can DM primal users without a trusted swap lol

119 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 2h

i don't have an answer, but there's a critical difference between nostr/primal and ln/ark in that there's direct incentives for lightning even if ark exists. direct protocol incentives are fundamentally new - lightning has them, nostr doesn't.

the history of protocols without direct incentives is that they get coopted and centralized; the coopters extract all the goodwill of the protocol base, fork off and then abandon the protocol, leaving it in shambles.

142 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 5h

Yesterday, I witnessed first hand the university politics of how woke departments gather power on campus. Through bullying and intimidation.

They showed up in force at our committee meeting to take down a curriculum proposal by another department. They had clearly preplanned it before hand. The whole thing was scripted: a coordinated ambush. Their chief objection was that you can't use the word "justice" unless we approve of how you're using it.

Mafia like behavior.

@delete in 24 hours

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 3h

wow

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 5h

I made my first SN-breaking post and the bounty is still alive

#1275358

26 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 49m

Since people are just flailing around desperately at this point, I'll offer a hint:

There has been at least one SN post about the place in question

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 7m

A post does come to mind..

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 38m

That tip is no help at all, for fuck's sake! Hahaha

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 6h

Just got my wife a dagger.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 6h

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 6h

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @rootmachine 6h

are you guys preparing for Black Friday? do you have anything noticeable on the list for buying?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 6h

don't buy all the crap

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rootmachine 6h

true. nothing crappy. I need some sensors as I said here #1271387 and got .... no answers. otherwise I will look at lowering subscriptions for various work utilities

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 7h

Do the yes voters here genuinely believe a fork will happen, or are they enticed by the off-chance of 100x their initial bet, and it's just some degen gambling?

https://beta.predyx.com/market/will-the-reduce-data-temporary-soft-fork-be-consensus-enforced-on-the-most-work-bitcoin-chain-tip-by-march-1st-2026-1762275376

I hope the market creator is enjoying some good fees. This seems like one of the biggest and most active markets I've seen on Predyx.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 6h

npc idiots 1000 %

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 7h

“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.” — Aristotle

A Stoic Resurrection

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 8h

It’d be cool to have a link to see who’s still got Zap Fever (https://stacker.news/stackers/infeted), like the one for checking out the outlaws (https://stacker.news/recent/outlawed)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 8h

Happiness Journal 6/11/25

Ordering aprons for my school’s food waste project helped me come up with an original idea. I took one apron from my sci lab technician and pasted two concept maps drawn by my students earlier this week. In colour, no less.

Just as you might have expected, the students, especially the ones responsible for the concept maps, were tickled pink by my unexpected appearance. Taking them by surprise made it easier for me to recap the main concepts of the water cycle.

A colleague who walked past me later was intrigued enough to take a photo of the apron with the two concept maps, thus proving that I was the most creative teacher alive.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 9h

Day 679 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 424 sats on 5Nov2025! Running total: 436,287 sats!

Yesterday's comment

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 9h

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @AG0RA 9h

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @030e0dca83 8h

The hottest place - is a cold storage, innit?