Panel asking what nostr doesnt fix? Relay centralisation could enable censorship, and the UI asking users to manage private keys is tricky. Could one app become a centralisation choke point? They say no. Agreed. Nostr has very good migration here, if one app goes bad it's easy to move. Privacy is not solved here, since almost all content is public anyway, by design. But since so users have public keys, it's a step towards enabling privacy. Agreed, and at least clients won't generally spy on every mouse click and scroll pause. No mention of the thing I think most important, that censorship resistance means poor moderation that means bullying, spam, and harassment. That's tricky to solve I think. The fediverse model seems more suitable for good moderation. #nostr #nostrshire

Marti Malmi talks about cloud flare being down but nostr staying up. Decentralised software isn't supposed to have these single points of failure, even though some clients failed due to dependency on it. Media files in particular aren't as decentralised as we might hope. Can we decentralise that better? Content addressed media available from many servers should be better. #nostrshire

Derrick Ross from Shakespeare reckons there open web is in trouble because you got to be a dev to build a website. He seems to think his app Shakespeare can make it easier to make a web app by using ai 😕 "Build me a Twitter like website" is the kind of instruction he thinks it will handle. A local app running on your own machine, though calling the big ai model apis. Including if you have the power at home to run deep seek or open models. I find myself suspecting it'd be hard for vibe coders who aren't devs to tell if they had vibe coded buggy insecure software or not. #vibeCoding #nostershire

Nostrshire panel talking about Adam Curry's podcast2.0 , more tags in your podcast rss for payments, in the hope it can fund producers. Did you know besos takes 75 percent of all Audible money? Actors and writers sharing scraps from Amazon's table. Hot news is that keysend tags are out of fashion and the bolt11 lnurl invoices are taking over. Podcast platforms can be bridged through nostr to enable cross platform comments and discovery but making users create key pairs is to complex the fountainfm guy reckons. Wants to hide and shatter l abstract away that complexity. #nostr #nostrshire #podcasting2.0

AJ at nostrshire ding a good job explaining why security matters and why we have to get off the surveilled and privately owned media #aj #nostr #nostershire

I'm at nostrshire, the first nostr conference in the UK. Ben arc kicks it off talking about the width of the ecosystem. #nostr #nostrshire

Went to see [Rob Manuel](

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) doing his anon_opin show. The very first one. And my opinions are officially so great I won the very first prize. A jar of his queen themed Maam-olade. Mostly for provoking Doctor Who discussions and having head-shaving mistakes evident I suspect. It was a fun night in a tiny pub with mostly old grey gen-Xers agreeing with each other about trivial things and laughing. Excellent stuff. Nice to see you again Rob. Good times were had.

So everyone's wondering if there's a financial crisis coming from the popping of the dotcom bubble. Here's a little chart of those events, projected as though repeated from last week's stock market top. You'd be looking at 25 to 50 percent drop over a year or three, taking S&P index down to four to five thousand or so over 2026, since that's what they were. I think it's at least 30% likely to play out roughly like that, and am positioned such that I'm happy either way.

Facebook turns out to know internally what we all knew from the outside. Like 10% of their money comes from showing your grandma ads for scams. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/