nostr Adding to the relay discussion... One of my favourite books on governance is "Exit, Voice and Loyalty". In a nutshell, if you have "voice" within a social structure, you might accord some "loyalty" to a higher authority; if not, you can simply "exit& Tim Bouma Aug 1, 2024, 2:45 PM
nostr A comparison of McLuhan/Luhmann philosophies generated by ChatGPT. I am exploring Luhmann to see how it applies to #nostr Marshall McLuhan and Niklas Luhmann are both prominent figures in the fields of media theory and social systems theory, respectively. Their work addresses how communication and media influence society, but… Tim Bouma Jul 29, 2024, 4:16 PM
nostr With #nostr, clients and relays are fungible. Your npub is non-fungible.… Tim Bouma Jul 29, 2024, 11:57 AM
nostr Ultimately, social media is a power-medium used to influence the actions of others. The current architectures default to centralization and the power shifts to a single entity. Not so with, #nostr, but we need to be mindful of centralizing forces.… Tim Bouma Jul 28, 2024, 1:43 PM
nostr A Key Requirement for All 'Trusted Ecosystems' The key requirement of any 'trusted ecosystem' is to associated an 'identifier' with a 'managed process'. I use those "quoted" terms very liberally because this pattern can apply across a wide array of Tim Bouma Jul 25, 2024, 1:29 PM
nostr Putting this out there... Back in the early days of the internet, it was the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) that enabled the internet to globally scale. In brief, (show below), a node connects to a network, which connects to a gateway which made everything look like a singular network, namely… Tim Bouma Jul 24, 2024, 4:16 PM
nostr This is little more than an idea - #nostr #safebox . Let's see how this goes.... Nostr SafeBox is like those hotel safeboxes where you put your passport and money in while you are travelling. Digital travelling should be no different. You should be able to access your safebox whenever Tim Bouma Jul 23, 2024, 8:24 PM
nostr #Nostr is open and interoperable by default. We need to make sure it stays that way.… Tim Bouma Jul 22, 2024, 2:34 PM
nostr I can decide what client to use because #nostr is the killer app… Tim Bouma Jul 22, 2024, 1:58 PM
nostr Why are there no cat videos on #nostr? Because there is no cat NIP. #dadjoke @Derek Ross… Tim Bouma Jul 20, 2024, 3:39 PM
rest The key abstraction in #REST is a RESOURCE. Any information that can be named can be a resource: a document or image, a temporal service (e.g. "today's weather in Los Angeles"), a collection of other resources, a non-virtual object (e.g. a person), and Tim Bouma Jul 19, 2024, 3:39 PM
nostr For me, the conceptual advance of #nostr is the signed event relay model. It is more open and powerful than the #rest api model thatwe’ve been building on for over two decades. #Rest api eventually leads to capture by a platform, while the #nostr event model is more resistant. Tim Bouma Jul 19, 2024, 11:42 AM
nostr Has anybody grokked TBD Decentralized Web Nodes? IMHO, this is the closest ‘competitor’ to #nostr… Tim Bouma Jul 18, 2024, 4:07 PM
nostr A lot of people are going out on a personal or professional limb to foster #nostr.… Tim Bouma Jul 17, 2024, 12:01 PM
nostr Remember, you can’t unsay things. #Nostr makes that even harder.… Tim Bouma Jul 16, 2024, 6:03 PM
bitcoin Bitcoin is personal money for anyone. Nostr is personal agency for everyone. #bitcoin #nostr… Tim Bouma Jul 16, 2024, 2:32 PM
