Hi floppy disk guy, thanks for prompting me to look closer at Nostr, it's very interesting.
I hope that whatever solution is chosen doesn't involve handing power over to a centralized entity that wants collect as much information on every living person as possible, and lock everyone and everything into using it's services forever. On Mon, 2023-11-13 at 18:51 +0000, alicexbt wrote: > Hi Overthefalls, > > > +1 > > > Using google for bitcoin mailing list is not good. It feels > embarrassing that some developers that built and maintained the only > decentralized network used to settle uncensored payments and some of > them even working on nostr, can't build their own mailing list which > is better than present mailing list. I have some ideas but it seems > the influential developers have already decided and wont accept > anything. > > Nostr can be used to build a mailing list which also allows anyone to > send emails apart from publishing events from different clients. We > just need a new NIP so that nostr relays understand its a different > event. There can be multiple front end with different levels of > moderation to hide some emails and ultimately one will be used the > most. It can use multiple relays and relays share some information in > NIP 11 which can include an email address. > > > /dev/fd0 > floppy disk guy > > > > > > > > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > > > > > > On Monday, November 13th, 2023 at 8:35 PM, Overthefalls via > bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 09:37 -0600, Bryan Bishop via > > bitcoin-dev wrote: > > > Google Groups is another interesting option, > > > > I don't think I'm the only person on this list that is strongly > > opposed to using google for anything. They are too big and they > > have their hand in everything, and their eyes (and analytics) on > > everything. > > I remember when there were virtually no gmail email addresses that > > posted to this list. Suddenly in 2020 or 2021, we had an influx of > > gmail subscribers and posters. That didn't escape me then and it is > > not lost on me now. > > Email is great for public discussion for many reasons. The fact > > that everyone gets a copy of the data, there is no single central > > authority that can edit emails once they have been sent out. Anyone > > can archive email messages, they can generally store or publish the > > data anywhere they like. That is not the case with web forum > > content. > > I like the lightning anti-spam fee idea. That would encourage me to > > finally adopt lightning, and it would, I'm sure, produce some > > interesting results for the list. > > I don't think email should be out of the question. Does anyone > > besides kanz...@gmail.com think that sticking with email is out of > > the question? > > Let's do what's necessary to stick with email. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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