This post was taken from nostr:note1sml79x4y6hpuqy8xr2squdztjzxa59lkmv2560vv9aqne6z3hkwq3pn7vl
Explaining nostr to traditional folks:
Nostr has no team, no leadership, no funding, no foundation, no token, no Blockchain, and no one has ever seen the creator of the project.
And yet, it's the fastest growing network of humans the world has ever seen.
It's simply an idea - some very simple words written in a markdown document. It can't be stopped, it can't be controlled, it can't be owned.
There were less than 50 people using it when I first started dabbling about a year ago. I had solid reasons for believing it would work, and that turned out to be right. Today there are around a million people using it.
It's open and permissionless, so don't trust me, go and verify these numbers yourself. Look at everyone's data, and see for yourself they are real living humans interacting with other real living humans. See the economic activity for yourself as you witness money moving though this human network.
There's no indication that this is going to slow down, and every indication that it's already started eating all other forms of social graph.
Traditional social graphs like facebook, twitter, Spotify, Uber, TikTok, Telegram, etc cannot leverage off each other's network effects because their business models prevent them from being able to share data and users. They believe this is a feature that protects their feudal estate from all the other feudal estates.
Nostr is the opposite. When you build something with nostr, the network effects of what you build are *multiplied* by the network effects of what I build - and there are currently about 20,000 developers building all kinds of crazy things. It's like a super app that anyone can build on without asking permission.
If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).
The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr.
At the core of nostr is a very bright and hopeful view of the future. We as a species are approaching a variety of non-trivial challenges. The institutions we used to rely on for sensemaking and problem solving at this scale are in liquidation, there is *no hope* for them, it's *over*, there is *no coming back*.
Nostr is the rallying point for people who are completely unfazed by this. It's for people who believe in the human spirit and understand that we have have all the tools we need to handle whatever challenges come at us, and if we need new tools, we'll figure it out and build them.
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BforVictory
6 hr. ago
beautifully put.
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Newton
8 hr. ago
salimrezanewton@iris.to
I SLIGHTLY BUT CRUCIALLY EDITED THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THIS WONDERFULLY COMPOSED TEXT THAT I SHARE BELOW. 🙏🙏
Explaining nostr to traditional folks:
Nostr has spontaneous, decentralised teams but no formal, bureaucratic leadership, no foundation, no token, no Blockchain, and no one has ever seen the creator of the project.
And yet, it's the fastest growing network of humans the world has ever seen.
It's simply an idea - some very simple words written in a markdown document. It can't be stopped, it can't be controlled, it can't be owned.
There were less than 50 people using it when I first started dabbling about a year ago. I had solid reasons for believing it would work, and that turned out to be right. Today there are around a million people using it.
It's open and permissionless, so don't trust me, go and verify these numbers yourself. Look at everyone's data, and see for yourself they are real living humans interacting with other real living humans. See the economic activity for yourself as you witness money moving though this human network.
There's no indication that this is going to slow down, and every indication that it's already started eating all other forms of social graph.
Traditional social graphs like facebook, twitter, Spotify, Uber, TikTok, Telegram, etc cannot leverage off each other's network effects because their business models prevent them from being able to share data and users. They believe this is a feature that protects their feudal estate from all the other feudal estates.
Nostr is the opposite. When you build something with nostr, the network effects of what you build are *multiplied* by the network effects of what I build - and there are currently about 20,000 developers building all kinds of crazy things. It's like a super app that anyone can build on without asking permission.
If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).
The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr.
At the core of nostr is a very bright and hopeful view of the future. We as a species are approaching a variety of non-trivial challenges. The institutions we used to rely on for sensemaking and problem solving at this scale are in liquidation, there is *no hope* for them, it's *over*, there is *no coming back*.
Nostr is the rallying point for people who are completely unfazed by this. It's for people who believe in the human spirit and understand that we have have all the tools we need to handle whatever challenges come at us, and if we need new tools, we'll figure it out and build them.
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gsovereignty
gsovereignty@nostrovia.org
21 hr. ago
Explaining nostr to traditional folks:
Nostr has no team, no leadership, no funding, no foundation, no token, no Blockchain, and no one has ever seen the creator of the project.
And yet, it's the fastest growing network of humans the world has ever seen.
It's simply an idea - some very simple words written in a markdown document. It can't be stopped, it can't be controlled, it can't be owned.
There were less than 50 people using it when I first started dabbling about a year ago. I had solid reasons for believing it would work, and that turned out to be right. Today there are around a million people using it.
It's open and permissionless, so don't trust me, go and verify these numbers yourself. Look at everyone's data, and see for yourself they are real living humans interacting with other real living humans. See the economic activity for yourself as you witness money moving though this human network.
There's no indication that this is going to slow down, and every indication that it's already started eating all other forms of social graph.
Traditional social graphs like facebook, twitter, Spotify, Uber, TikTok, Telegram, etc cannot leverage off each other's network effects because their business models prevent them from being able to share data and users. They believe this is a feature that protects their feudal estate from all the other feudal estates.
Nostr is the opposite. When you build something with nostr, the network effects of what you build are *multiplied* by the network effects of what I build - and there are currently about 20,000 developers building all kinds of crazy things. It's like a super app that anyone can build on without asking permission.
If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).
The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr.
At the core of nostr is a very bright and hopeful view of the future. We as a species are approaching a variety of non-trivial challenges. The institutions we used to rely on for sensemaking and problem solving at this scale are in liquidation, there is *no hope* for them, it's *over*, there is *no coming back*.
Nostr is the rallying point for people who are completely unfazed by this. It's for people who believe in the human spirit and understand that we have have all the tools we need to handle whatever challenges come at us, and if we need new tools, we'll figure it out and build them.
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MW
11 hr. ago
That’s all, folks! 👌🏼
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Travis West
11 hr. ago
travis@west.report
Well said!
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Ava
11 hr. ago
Certes tout ce qui est résumé est réelle, il a fallu d'une question sur Twitter sur mi décembre 22 à laquelle des professionnels ont merveilleusement interagi de manière réactive pour que nostr naisse sans oublier la capacité des donateurs à soutenir une vision qu'ils avaient du WWW après tout ce que l'on a connu avec les plateformes réseautes avec des failles qui ont dû à certaines règles qui in fine nous emprisonnaient ou nous écœuraient et des drames..... Merci je m'arrête au besoin je pourrais développer
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gsovereignty
gsovereignty@nostrovia.org
21 hr. ago
Explaining nostr to traditional folks:
Nostr has no team, no leadership, no funding, no foundation, no token, no Blockchain, and no one has ever seen the creator of the project.
And yet, it's the fastest growing network of humans the world has ever seen.
It's simply an idea - some very simple words written in a markdown document. It can't be stopped, it can't be controlled, it can't be owned.
There were less than 50 people using it when I first started dabbling about a year ago. I had solid reasons for believing it would work, and that turned out to be right. Today there are around a million people using it.
It's open and permissionless, so don't trust me, go and verify these numbers yourself. Look at everyone's data, and see for yourself they are real living humans interacting with other real living humans. See the economic activity for yourself as you witness money moving though this human network.
There's no indication that this is going to slow down, and every indication that it's already started eating all other forms of social graph.
Traditional social graphs like facebook, twitter, Spotify, Uber, TikTok, Telegram, etc cannot leverage off each other's network effects because their business models prevent them from being able to share data and users. They believe this is a feature that protects their feudal estate from all the other feudal estates.
Nostr is the opposite. When you build something with nostr, the network effects of what you build are *multiplied* by the network effects of what I build - and there are currently about 20,000 developers building all kinds of crazy things. It's like a super app that anyone can build on without asking permission.
If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).
The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr.
At the core of nostr is a very bright and hopeful view of the future. We as a species are approaching a variety of non-trivial challenges. The institutions we used to rely on for sensemaking and problem solving at this scale are in liquidation, there is *no hope* for them, it's *over*, there is *no coming back*.
Nostr is the rallying point for people who are completely unfazed by this. It's for people who believe in the human spirit and understand that we have have all the tools we need to handle whatever challenges come at us, and if we need new tools, we'll figure it out and build them.
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hodlbod
11 hr. ago
hodlbod@coracle.social
20k developers? I was thinking more like 200-400
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Louis
14 hr. ago
louis@vlt.ge
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rusher77
16 hr. ago
rusher77@nostrplebs.com
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gsovereignty
gsovereignty@nostrovia.org
21 hr. ago
Explaining nostr to traditional folks:
Nostr has no team, no leadership, no funding, no foundation, no token, no Blockchain, and no one has ever seen the creator of the project.
And yet, it's the fastest growing network of humans the world has ever seen.
It's simply an idea - some very simple words written in a markdown document. It can't be stopped, it can't be controlled, it can't be owned.
There were less than 50 people using it when I first started dabbling about a year ago. I had solid reasons for believing it would work, and that turned out to be right. Today there are around a million people using it.
It's open and permissionless, so don't trust me, go and verify these numbers yourself. Look at everyone's data, and see for yourself they are real living humans interacting with other real living humans. See the economic activity for yourself as you witness money moving though this human network.
There's no indication that this is going to slow down, and every indication that it's already started eating all other forms of social graph.
Traditional social graphs like facebook, twitter, Spotify, Uber, TikTok, Telegram, etc cannot leverage off each other's network effects because their business models prevent them from being able to share data and users. They believe this is a feature that protects their feudal estate from all the other feudal estates.
Nostr is the opposite. When you build something with nostr, the network effects of what you build are *multiplied* by the network effects of what I build - and there are currently about 20,000 developers building all kinds of crazy things. It's like a super app that anyone can build on without asking permission.
If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).
The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr.
At the core of nostr is a very bright and hopeful view of the future. We as a species are approaching a variety of non-trivial challenges. The institutions we used to rely on for sensemaking and problem solving at this scale are in liquidation, there is *no hope* for them, it's *over*, there is *no coming back*.
Nostr is the rallying point for people who are completely unfazed by this. It's for people who believe in the human spirit and understand that we have have all the tools we need to handle whatever challenges come at us, and if we need new tools, we'll figure it out and build them.
npub1kdjrpwmwuj..pwjsrsp7xq
16 hr. ago
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gsovereignty
gsovereignty@nostrovia.org
21 hr. ago
Explaining nostr to traditional folks:
Nostr has no team, no leadership, no funding, no foundation, no token, no Blockchain, and no one has ever seen the creator of the project.
And yet, it's the fastest growing network of humans the world has ever seen.
It's simply an idea - some very simple words written in a markdown document. It can't be stopped, it can't be controlled, it can't be owned.
There were less than 50 people using it when I first started dabbling about a year ago. I had solid reasons for believing it would work, and that turned out to be right. Today there are around a million people using it.
It's open and permissionless, so don't trust me, go and verify these numbers yourself. Look at everyone's data, and see for yourself they are real living humans interacting with other real living humans. See the economic activity for yourself as you witness money moving though this human network.
There's no indication that this is going to slow down, and every indication that it's already started eating all other forms of social graph.
Traditional social graphs like facebook, twitter, Spotify, Uber, TikTok, Telegram, etc cannot leverage off each other's network effects because their business models prevent them from being able to share data and users. They believe this is a feature that protects their feudal estate from all the other feudal estates.
Nostr is the opposite. When you build something with nostr, the network effects of what you build are *multiplied* by the network effects of what I build - and there are currently about 20,000 developers building all kinds of crazy things. It's like a super app that anyone can build on without asking permission.
If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).
The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr.
At the core of nostr is a very bright and hopeful view of the future. We as a species are approaching a variety of non-trivial challenges. The institutions we used to rely on for sensemaking and problem solving at this scale are in liquidation, there is *no hope* for them, it's *over*, there is *no coming back*.
Nostr is the rallying point for people who are completely unfazed by this. It's for people who believe in the human spirit and understand that we have have all the tools we need to handle whatever challenges come at us, and if we need new tools, we'll figure it out and build them.
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MTC
17 hr. ago
mtc@primal.net
"If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).
The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr."
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Vendo
17 hr. ago
vendoquesos@nostrplebs.com
That's why we nostr
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gsovereignty
gsovereignty@nostrovia.org
21 hr. ago
Explaining nostr to traditional folks:
Nostr has no team, no leadership, no funding, no foundation, no token, no Blockchain, and no one has ever seen the creator of the project.
And yet, it's the fastest growing network of humans the world has ever seen.
It's simply an idea - some very simple words written in a markdown document. It can't be stopped, it can't be controlled, it can't be owned.
There were less than 50 people using it when I first started dabbling about a year ago. I had solid reasons for believing it would work, and that turned out to be right. Today there are around a million people using it.
It's open and permissionless, so don't trust me, go and verify these numbers yourself. Look at everyone's data, and see for yourself they are real living humans interacting with other real living humans. See the economic activity for yourself as you witness money moving though this human network.
There's no indication that this is going to slow down, and every indication that it's already started eating all other forms of social graph.
Traditional social graphs like facebook, twitter, Spotify, Uber, TikTok, Telegram, etc cannot leverage off each other's network effects because their business models prevent them from being able to share data and users. They believe this is a feature that protects their feudal estate from all the other feudal estates.
Nostr is the opposite. When you build something with nostr, the network effects of what you build are *multiplied* by the network effects of what I build - and there are currently about 20,000 developers building all kinds of crazy things. It's like a super app that anyone can build on without asking permission.
If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).
The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr.
At the core of nostr is a very bright and hopeful view of the future. We as a species are approaching a variety of non-trivial challenges. The institutions we used to rely on for sensemaking and problem solving at this scale are in liquidation, there is *no hope* for them, it's *over*, there is *no coming back*.
Nostr is the rallying point for people who are completely unfazed by this. It's for people who believe in the human spirit and understand that we have have all the tools we need to handle whatever challenges come at us, and if we need new tools, we'll figure it out and build them.
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dbcooper
19 hr. ago
dbcooper@nostrplebs.com
#zerotoone
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il_lost_
19 hr. ago
il_lost_@getalby.com
Nostrovia trailer 💜
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gsovereignty
gsovereignty@nostrovia.org
21 hr. ago
Explaining nostr to traditional folks:
Nostr has no team, no leadership, no funding, no foundation, no token, no Blockchain, and no one has ever seen the creator of the project.
And yet, it's the fastest growing network of humans the world has ever seen.
It's simply an idea - some very simple words written in a markdown document. It can't be stopped, it can't be controlled, it can't be owned.
There were less than 50 people using it when I first started dabbling about a year ago. I had solid reasons for believing it would work, and that turned out to be right. Today there are around a million people using it.
It's open and permissionless, so don't trust me, go and verify these numbers yourself. Look at everyone's data, and see for yourself they are real living humans interacting with other real living humans. See the economic activity for yourself as you witness money moving though this human network.
There's no indication that this is going to slow down, and every indication that it's already started eating all other forms of social graph.
Traditional social graphs like facebook, twitter, Spotify, Uber, TikTok, Telegram, etc cannot leverage off each other's network effects because their business models prevent them from being able to share data and users. They believe this is a feature that protects their feudal estate from all the other feudal estates.
Nostr is the opposite. When you build something with nostr, the network effects of what you build are *multiplied* by the network effects of what I build - and there are currently about 20,000 developers building all kinds of crazy things. It's like a super app that anyone can build on without asking permission.
If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).
The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr.
At the core of nostr is a very bright and hopeful view of the future. We as a species are approaching a variety of non-trivial challenges. The institutions we used to rely on for sensemaking and problem solving at this scale are in liquidation, there is *no hope* for them, it's *over*, there is *no coming back*.
Nostr is the rallying point for people who are completely unfazed by this. It's for people who believe in the human spirit and understand that we have have all the tools we need to handle whatever challenges come at us, and if we need new tools, we'll figure it out and build them.
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Gigi ⚡🧡
19 hr. ago
dergigi.com
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Gigi ⚡🧡
20 hr. ago
dergigi.com
Amen.
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gsovereignty
gsovereignty@nostrovia.org
21 hr. ago
Explaining nostr to traditional folks:
Nostr has no team, no leadership, no funding, no foundation, no token, no Blockchain, and no one has ever seen the creator of the project.
And yet, it's the fastest growing network of humans the world has ever seen.
It's simply an idea - some very simple words written in a markdown document. It can't be stopped, it can't be controlled, it can't be owned.
There were less than 50 people using it when I first started dabbling about a year ago. I had solid reasons for believing it would work, and that turned out to be right. Today there are around a million people using it.
It's open and permissionless, so don't trust me, go and verify these numbers yourself. Look at everyone's data, and see for yourself they are real living humans interacting with other real living humans. See the economic activity for yourself as you witness money moving though this human network.
There's no indication that this is going to slow down, and every indication that it's already started eating all other forms of social graph.
Traditional social graphs like facebook, twitter, Spotify, Uber, TikTok, Telegram, etc cannot leverage off each other's network effects because their business models prevent them from being able to share data and users. They believe this is a feature that protects their feudal estate from all the other feudal estates.
Nostr is the opposite. When you build something with nostr, the network effects of what you build are *multiplied* by the network effects of what I build - and there are currently about 20,000 developers building all kinds of crazy things. It's like a super app that anyone can build on without asking permission.
If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).
The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr.
At the core of nostr is a very bright and hopeful view of the future. We as a species are approaching a variety of non-trivial challenges. The institutions we used to rely on for sensemaking and problem solving at this scale are in liquidation, there is *no hope* for them, it's *over*, there is *no coming back*.
Nostr is the rallying point for people who are completely unfazed by this. It's for people who believe in the human spirit and understand that we have have all the tools we need to handle whatever challenges come at us, and if we need new tools, we'll figure it out and build them.
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L
20 hr. ago
lifeloveliberty@iris.to
My explaination: Nostr is fun and different, come join via this app, put your nsec somewhere safe, enter you wallet address there, start posting and reading notes.
You'll get the rest later.
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Gerry
20 hr. ago
Source: nostr.band
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FarCue
21 hr. ago
farcue@nostrplebs.com
Great explanation
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gsovereignty
gsovereignty@nostrovia.org
21 hr. ago
Explaining nostr to traditional folks:
Nostr has no team, no leadership, no funding, no foundation, no token, no Blockchain, and no one has ever seen the creator of the project.
And yet, it's the fastest growing network of humans the world has ever seen.
It's simply an idea - some very simple words written in a markdown document. It can't be stopped, it can't be controlled, it can't be owned.
There were less than 50 people using it when I first started dabbling about a year ago. I had solid reasons for believing it would work, and that turned out to be right. Today there are around a million people using it.
It's open and permissionless, so don't trust me, go and verify these numbers yourself. Look at everyone's data, and see for yourself they are real living humans interacting with other real living humans. See the economic activity for yourself as you witness money moving though this human network.
There's no indication that this is going to slow down, and every indication that it's already started eating all other forms of social graph.
Traditional social graphs like facebook, twitter, Spotify, Uber, TikTok, Telegram, etc cannot leverage off each other's network effects because their business models prevent them from being able to share data and users. They believe this is a feature that protects their feudal estate from all the other feudal estates.
Nostr is the opposite. When you build something with nostr, the network effects of what you build are *multiplied* by the network effects of what I build - and there are currently about 20,000 developers building all kinds of crazy things. It's like a super app that anyone can build on without asking permission.
If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).
The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr.
At the core of nostr is a very bright and hopeful view of the future. We as a species are approaching a variety of non-trivial challenges. The institutions we used to rely on for sensemaking and problem solving at this scale are in liquidation, there is *no hope* for them, it's *over*, there is *no coming back*.
Nostr is the rallying point for people who are completely unfazed by this. It's for people who believe in the human spirit and understand that we have have all the tools we need to handle whatever challenges come at us, and if we need new tools, we'll figure it out and build them.
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play@devsou.com
21 hr. ago
play@devsou.com
Well done!
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southside
21 hr. ago
southside@nostr.nz
trad folk: ‘cool, add me on Threads.’
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