The Politics of a Protocol
Nostr is a commons. Don't let it become a tragedy.
vor 4 Mon.4 mo ago15 Min.15 min
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Christian Bitcoiner and developer of Coracle and Flotilla. Learn more at flotilla.social.
VeröffentlichungenPublications
Slopcraft and the LLM Society
Meditations on slop, why I'm not convinced, and what to do about it.
vor 9 Mon.9 mo ago16 Min.16 min
Digital Tools for Conviviality
Digital communication technology has exceeded its optimal scale, establishing a radical monopoly over human interaction. Internet platforms intermediate private relationships, extract value through surveillance capitalism, and reduce people to quantifiable metrics. However, certain digital tools can subvert the architecture of the corporate internet to safeguard individual freedom and human flourishing within digital environments. Two digital tools embody this conviviality in particular: open source software and asymmetric cryptography. Open source software empowers users to understand, modify, and control their tools rather than being controlled by them, while asymmetric cryptography enables private communication over untrusted networks, as well as credible exit through digital signatures. Together, these tools offer a bottom-up approach to incrementally reclaiming control over our digital lives, making small-scale resistance against intermediation and surveillance more feasible within the hostile environment of the modern internet
vor 9 Mon.9 mo ago24 Min.24 min
Nostr as Game
All systems can be approached like a game by "probing" for affordances. This can be a lot of fun, and works well in an adversarial environment.
vor 11 Mon.11 mo ago6 Min.6 min
Modernity, Marxism, and Meaning
A meditation on some things I've been reading recently. The dilemma of our place in history can feel hopeless, with no where to turn. But when every means has been exhausted, there is one thing which remains.
vor 12 Mon.12 mo ago4 Min.4 min
Information Wants to Be Free
On digital signatures, and how they free our data from the custodians who store it.
vor 13 Mon.13 mo ago7 Min.7 min
Building Nostr: A Light Touch
A short guide on how to handle malformed events, how to avoid publishing them, and when to break compatibility.
vor 14 Mon.14 mo ago6 Min.6 min
Building Nostr: Complex Problems, Simple Solutions
A summary of how the profit motive of internet businesses creates a system of incentives which drives censorship and surveillance capitalism, hurting users and undermining corporations' own value propositions — and how Nostr helps us fight back.
vor 14 Mon.14 mo ago7 Min.7 min
A Guide for Relay-Based Group Implementations
A guide for people who want to build clients for "relays-as-groups" that are compatible with Flotilla and Chachi.
vor 20 Mon.20 mo ago11 Min.11 min
AI is Anti-Human (and assorted qualifications)
AI is like any other tool. It's our responsibility to make sure it stays convivial.
vor 17 Mon.17 mo ago8 Min.8 min
Why Keys Matter
An introduction to cryptographic identity for the non-technical (but patient) reader.
vor 20 Mon.20 mo ago26 Min.26 min
Svelte 5 is not Javascript
Svelte 5 as a case study in how abstractions aimed at simplifying concepts can actually make software development more complex.
vor 20 Mon.20 mo ago10 Min.10 min
Doing DVMs
A brief walkthrough of what DVMs are, and how to build them
vor 21 Mon.21 mo ago10 Min.10 min
Simpler Attestations
On trusted timestamp attestations and converting a NINO into a nostr standard.
vor 21 Mon.21 mo ago2 Min.2 min
What *is* a nostr app anyway?
How to make the best, most impactful nostr apps by leveraging both the nostr network and the nostr protocol.
vor 21 Mon.21 mo ago13 Min.13 min
Why not NIP 29?
Why I didn't use NIP 29 to build Flotilla... and why I still might.
vor 23 Mon.23 mo ago12 Min.12 min
Key Management is a Blocker
A rough and ready survey of the nostr signer space, with a special focus on NIP 46, what's great about it, and how far we have to go.
vor 23 Mon.23 mo ago18 Min.18 min
What is the Outbox Model?
An explainer on the Outbox Model, including what it is, where it came from, and why it's integral to making nostr work.
vor 26 Mon.26 mo ago16 Min.16 min
Making Outbox Work
Disambiguating the Gossip Model. Advocating for relay proxies. Separating the Truth from the Jokes. Ban Jack! Down with Blastr!
vor 31 Mon.31 mo ago10 Min.10 min
The ethics of nostr
On why ethics is an essential component of software development.
vor 30 Mon.30 mo ago9 Min.9 min
Square peg, round hole
A brief ramble on where the protocol is going, and how we might use it more effectively.
vor 30 Mon.30 mo ago5 Min.5 min
Groups on Coracle — finally!
Coracle now has closed groups! Read about why I built them the way I did, what's possible, and what's coming.
vor 34 Mon.34 mo ago8 Min.8 min
NIP 44 Update
A summary of Cure53's audit of the NIP 44 encryption standard. A report on a report, if you will.
vor 35 Mon.35 mo ago6 Min.6 min
Relays, Encryption, and Groups
On relays, encryption, and how they work together to create a "good enough" private group solution.
vor 36 Mon.36 mo ago19 Min.19 min