Nostriches! That was amazing! It took us less than 12 hours to complete fundraiser for @sirius ! #Nostrica will now be even more fun with iris.to represented! Thanks to everyone that suppoted on backend: Bas, @Long Hippopotamus , @Plastic Goat , @yegorpetrov , whole Chicago BitDev...

Being on Nostr today is like being a bitcoiner in 2012, living in New Hampshire as part of the Free State Project. Very similar vibes. Don't be surprised when your enemies start using it!

vpn is super important on nostr if you care about ip privacy

I think Damus was mentioned as one of the social networking sites in Japan because a few days ago a large number of people were frozen by Twitter. The freeze itself has been restored, but I think it has raised the profile of decentralized social networking sites.

TwitterとMastodonでフォローしている人の投稿からです。 日本人はマイクロブログが好きな人が多いです。ボットの取り締まり強化が誤爆して、日本の著名なアカウントが多く凍結されたため、日本でもTwitterから脱出する動きが、まだ小さいとはいえだんだん大きくなってきてます。

I've found one on my Twitter timeline - Twitter has banned numerous of (almost random) account a few days ago, and not so fewer numbers of people started to considering quit Twitter and move onto newer alternative then. Although Mastodon is being the most popular one to my eyes, some of them were interested in Nostr and made it here.

If you’re new and wondering why some of your favorite social networking features might be missing from nostr clients- keep in mind nostr is mostly volunteer-powered by developers who contribute their own time and money. We did have some generous funding from Jack 🙏 which helped create some bounties for various things. Coinkite is also pitching in. But, we are talking a tiny fraction of what a regular startup might raise for just one app. For the most part, devs are donating their own time and ...