Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of 6-second, looping videos.

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[–] -5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

That wasn't a question...

If people are going to make wild assertions, I'm going to question them about them.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    your previous two replies were. and by "just asking questions" about things you obviously know more about, you're not adding to the conversation.

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    So if someone says "the moon is made is of unicorns" and I say "what are you talking about? no it isn't..." is that JAQing off? I'd call it challenging someone making an absurd claim.

    There aren't any concepts or domain expertise I'm hiding here -- I'm merely saying "wtf are you talking about??" to someone spouting off random nonsense.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    false equivalency. they made a plausible claim.

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    the fact that nostr is very tightly integrated with bitcoin, to the point that the lightning network extension basically is part of the standard.

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, re-reading, I guess I should have asked how it's like Twitter. Lightning being duct-taped to the side, while being normatively loaded, is actually accurate since the lightning integration is just that. One protocol interacting with another.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    it is like twitter in that it's designed to be like twitter.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Ah yes, Twitter, the famous protocol for sending signed JSON blobs over a relay network.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    no, as in, the developer built nostr because he wanted a twitter-like microblogging platform he couldn't be banned from.

    really, this is skim-reading territory. you could have saved us both a lot of time by just reading the history of the thing.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    twitter-like microblogging platform he couldn’t be banned from.

    Wow, what a good faith breakdown!

    No, he wanted the ability to build microblogging platforms (among other stuff) on top of a decentralized relay network.

    But of course, you only skim-read, so can't blame you too much.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    That's literally not what he said in the interviews. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/05/30/bitcoin-social-network-nostr-creator-fiatjaf-/

    In his first interview with the press, @Fiatjaf says Twitter’s increasing propensity to ban users had frustrated him. But he was unable to switch to a competitor while retaining his followers. Inspired by Arc's idea for creating marketplaces where shop owners could move from one e-commerce platform to another, he started developing a new protocol to manage identities—at first for social networks, then for anything else.

    Commerce and censorship were the building blocks behind the Nostr from the start.

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