If anything, one thing I learned in life is that there are no shortcuts for experience or excellence. No matter what you hear from others, if there is no pain, there is no gain.

The Starbucks at this mall has more Customers than nostr has active users 🤣 Jk

If we truly want to grow #Nostr, I think we all need to work at bringing more interesting people onboard. Work on bringing the ~5 people you appreciate most from X or Bsky or other communities, it will widen the appeal of Nostr a lot, especially if they have interests beyond JUST... show more

For those wondering about my thoughts on SimpleX Chat 's latest article about MLS. tl;dr - I think it's pretty balanced and describes something that we (and the MLS folks) have known from the start. If you have a centralized identity/authentication service telling you who is who, you are trusting... show more

“Man maybe nostr is just never gonna take off” governments: “btw you need to scan your face and anus to use the internet” we’re back in play boys

founder of simplex chat on why he is not integrating mls: www.poberezkin.com/posts/2025-08-12-mls-the-nak...

An essay explaining why we don't plan to use MLS: www.poberezkin.com/posts/2025-08-12-mls-the-nak... A sidenote, is that Nostr's Whitenoise avoids its main problem. TL;DR: MLS security model is "Trust me bro".

I feel like 50% of what I tell app devs is “you should rebrand” 🤣