Nostr notes by laoc42

GM!

2026-10-09T06:25:59Z

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GM!

alles Gute zum (Neu-)Start!

2026-10-08T14:40:20Z

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alles Gute zum (Neu-)Start!

Selling or reordering?

2026-10-06T03:46:27Z

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Selling or reordering?

I'm thinking about something like this too. Currently looking ...

2026-10-04T21:45:09Z

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I'm thinking about something like this too. Currently looking into how buzz does it.

I already see them sitting in the streets coding me the most ...

2026-10-04T17:01:08Z

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I already see them sitting in the streets coding me the most beautiful hello world.

On family vacation. But otherwise 🔫

2026-10-03T18:42:20Z

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On family vacation. But otherwise 🔫

GM

2026-10-03T18:38:14Z

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GM

GM 🌞 My wife is awesome ...

2026-10-03T06:48:44Z

GM 🌞
My wife is awesome

Unless its heavy postprocessing on your vids, you look gorgeous ...

2026-09-29T16:47:59Z

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Unless its heavy postprocessing on your vids, you look gorgeous and I've never seen anybody with cosmetic surgery actually looking good.
But kind of strange how hard it is to let that kind of judgement go, I feel that as well.

Thanks! Happy to participate, can definitley add some ...

2026-09-29T16:36:49Z

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Thanks! Happy to participate, can definitley add some perspectives on Nostr in public education infrastructures

GM Viel Erfolg heute!

2026-09-29T07:47:22Z

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GM
Viel Erfolg heute!

GM!

2026-09-29T07:29:28Z

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GM!

GM!

2026-09-29T07:28:44Z

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GM!

for farts you have to use this one I think: ...

2026-09-22T14:01:38Z

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for farts you have to use this one I think: https://github.com/derekross/yakbak
Derek Ross (npub18am…p424)

yes, same here, i have to read a bit more into it. so much going ...

2026-09-22T11:42:25Z

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yes, same here, i have to read a bit more into it. so much going on, difficult to stay up to date

GM anybody here using Jev already? How did you integrate it into ...

2026-09-22T10:14:28Z

GM
anybody here using Jev already? How did you integrate it into your setup? How are your experiences?
#asknostr

cc verbiricha (npub107j…ncxg) Laeserin (npub1m4n…c2jl)

GM She should definitely go out more often 😁 ...

2026-09-20T07:04:02Z

GM
She should definitely go out more often 😁

quoting
nevent1q…vfqw
My wife is going out for the first time since the birth of our youngest child (10 months old). Our party will surely be just as good, since he only sleeps when I play Black Sabbath loudly and sing along 😁. This time we started by listening to the *Paranoid* album, and he was out by the time "Iron Man" played—no fuss at all 🙌

#dadstr

https://youtu.be/b3-QqGVt-tM

My wife is going out for the first time since the birth of our ...

2026-09-19T19:37:03Z

My wife is going out for the first time since the birth of our youngest child (10 months old). Our party will surely be just as good, since he only sleeps when I play Black Sabbath loudly and sing along 😁. This time we started by listening to the *Paranoid* album, and he was out by the time "Iron Man" played—no fuss at all 🙌

#dadstr

https://youtu.be/b3-QqGVt-tM

do you have a little bit more info on that? 🙏 What, where, ...

2026-09-15T10:02:54Z

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do you have a little bit more info on that? 🙏 What, where, how? 😅

GM ☀

2026-09-15T06:51:48Z

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GM ☀

At least we got us and nostr. Can't imagine to build on ...

2026-09-10T12:15:29Z

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At least we got us and nostr.
Can't imagine to build on something else. They will get it at some point

my proposal in case anyone is interested ...

2026-09-10T10:12:20Z

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my proposal in case anyone is interested
https://pad.edufeed.org/s/EencCts8X3

also a no here. @npub1qe3…zefe you also handed in something? ...

2026-09-10T10:08:28Z

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also a no here.
Sebastix (npub1qe3…zefe) you also handed in something?

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GM Sir
Did you get feedback on luxembourg conference? Got rejected :/

GM Sir Did you get feedback on luxembourg conference? Got ...

2026-09-10T09:16:09Z

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GM Sir
Did you get feedback on luxembourg conference? Got rejected :/

GM!

2026-09-07T09:29:48Z

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GM!

GM There are people picking up there dog's shit in the forest ...

2026-09-06T11:52:29Z

GM
There are people picking up there dog's shit in the forest with a plastic bag. And then they carry it around for half an hour ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyway have a blessed Sunday

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2026-09-05T05:31:13Z

Wtf Can't make this stuff up

2026-09-04T16:53:02Z

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Wtf
Can't make this stuff up

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2026-09-04T05:23:32Z

GM 💜

Thank you for this article on that perspective!

2026-08-31T06:52:20Z

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Thank you for this article on that perspective!

Alright 🫡

2026-08-29T13:32:21Z

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Alright 🫡

Will recommend that 🫡 🤜🤛

2026-08-29T13:26:39Z

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Will recommend that 🫡 🤜🤛

The key based argument is the one I get most confronted with, ...

2026-08-28T21:09:17Z

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The key based argument is the one I get most confronted with, especially talking with devs of running services in that area. I guess we can mitigate this using trusted third party services as they already do. They continue using their identity providers, but its like using pomegenerate. But it will become much easier for people to communicate across services, move and reduce vendor lock in options.

What arguments do you disagree on?

2026-08-28T18:43:55Z

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What arguments do you disagree on?

My priority is this: if we start now developing public infra on ...

2026-08-28T18:42:13Z

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My priority is this: if we start now developing public infra on ActivityPub in a federal system like Germany we end up like, ok every state runs its own activitypub instance. Then one state will drop out in the future, because they get a government that says I don't like whatever the previous government has done and will end this service and stop it.
The users will end up lost. Because they loose their public identity because it is domain based. All the references to content they produced might get lost.

That's why I think *any* domain based system is not suited for public infrastructure

Plesse Start and solve it 😁

2026-08-28T18:36:15Z

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Plesse Start and solve it 😁

isnt the whole project based on one guy scribbling and pushing ...

2026-08-28T14:32:09Z

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isnt the whole project based on one guy scribbling and pushing his os config?

looking forward for your experiences. looked interesting though

see e.g. ...

2026-08-28T13:04:00Z

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see e.g. https://www.bpb.de/lernen/digitale-bildung/werkstatt/576352/das-fediverse-als-raum-politischer-bildung/#node-content-title-4

Because they want to provide services where e.g. teachers can ...

2026-08-28T13:02:17Z

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Because they want to provide services where e.g. teachers can exchange ideas and learning content they develop, but where should they do it?
They can't say use WhatsApp or Insta, if they want to facilitate that as a general policy or want to support them, they need a service to do so.
And the only proocol coming to their mind that is already quite tested is activityPub to build upon. But I think it would be a huge mistake to do so, because of all the flaws, especially regarding identity that activityPub carries.

I think the shit that was going on here with capgemini and ...

2026-08-28T12:54:20Z

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I think the shit that was going on here with capgemini and billions lost in trying to build that monolith actually made *some* people loose trust in that consulting moneygrabbers.

But things just work in that way that they will have to fund activitypub / atproto stuff, if they find no arguments for nostr somewhere else. that's why we went to fosdem and hand in proposals at that luxembourg thing or not?

"show and tell": I attended every possible conference I could and dropped the word. I built for showing them that the solutions they are looking for are already there. A friend of mine is a prof for special education and is going right now from state to state to convince people of actually your example, because he got that nostr will actually enable this.

And some listened, but without lobbies like ones that https://eurosky.tech/ can run, it's hard for them to argue funding and exploring nostr based solutions further, because they will get asked why the fund stuff that's not recommended by that expert comissions. It's damn stupid, but that's how that shit works. I just want to make sure the money gets spent on something sensible. I already paid the last big failure they tried.

Whats your take on napps vs webxdc stuff that ditto pushes? ...

2026-08-28T09:50:11Z

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Whats your take on napps vs webxdc stuff that ditto pushes? Isn't it a similar use case?

GM! Glad to see you back! 🫂

2026-08-28T09:31:32Z

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GM!
Glad to see you back! 🫂

## Signatures Nostr events are atomic and self-verifiable: ...

2026-08-28T09:25:59Z

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## Signatures

Nostr events are atomic and self-verifiable: generate a hash, verify the Schnorr signature against the public key—offline, without network access, and without additional context. The key *is* the identity.

In atproto, the signature is attached to the repository commit rather than the individual record. While individual verification is possible, it requires an inclusion proof via the PLC directory. Consequently, verification is no longer self-contained; it has a runtime dependency on a central entity.

In standard operation, ActivityPub signs the delivery process using the server key, not the object itself. Once forwarded, the content cannot be independently verified; object-bound signatures exist only as an optional extension (FEP-8b32) with no widespread implementation.

For a distributed public infrastructure involving many small, heterogeneous consumers, the Nostr approach therefore offers a significantly lower barrier to entry: the artifact and the proof travel together, and any participant can verify the authenticity of a data record with just a few lines of code without needing to trust a relay, server, or directory.

## Identity ActivityPub identities are constitutively bound to a ...

2026-08-28T09:22:24Z

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## Identity

ActivityPub identities are constitutively bound to a domain: @user@instance.state.de. The domain is not an address but part of the identity itself. In a federal system where each state runs its own instance, identity is therefore state-bound — and it ends when the state stops operating. Mastodon's Move migrates followers but not content, and requires the origin instance to still be running and cooperating.

The more serious issue is reference integrity. If state A cites resources from state B in collections, curriculum mappings or learning paths, and B shuts down its instance, it is not only accounts that break but every reference to them. In an infrastructure built for cross-state reuse, that is a structural defect rather than an operational risk.

In Nostr the key is the identity. Domains still appear via NIP-05, but as a revocable, replaceable attribute rather than a foundation. A state can shut down its relay without breaking a single identity or reference; the events remain verifiable on any other relay. Responsibility for operations is thus decoupled from responsibility for identity — a far better fit for federal reality than a model in which one state's exit devalues everyone else's data.

## atproto: portability (but with a directory caveat)

The AT Protocol addresses this. Identity there is a DID, not a domain; the handle is merely an alias proven via DNS or HTTP and can be changed without breaking the identity. Migrating between Personal Data Servers is supported, and repositories can be exported and re-imported elsewhere. Rotation keys even let an identity survive loss of the signing key — but only because in normal operation the PDS operator holds such a key in trust. Recoverability is solved organisationally, not cryptographically: whoever can rescue the identity can also alter it. The tie to an operator is loosened, not removed.

The second caveat concerns resolution itself. `did:plc`, the method used almost exclusively in practice, is not a self-certifying identifier but points to a central directory, so far operated by Bluesky PBC. It is auditable, but its failure interrupts identity resolution network-wide, and its operator can change without the federation having any say. For public education infrastructure planned in decades, this merely relocates the dependency: from a state domain to a commercially operated registry in another jurisdiction. The alternative, `did:web`, avoids that but reintroduces exactly the domain binding we set out to escape.

## The Eurosky case

The obvious rejoinder is that sovereign European atproto infrastructure already exists. Eurosky (https://eurosky.tech/), a project of the Dutch Stichting Modal, runs its own Personal Data Server: data sits in Hetzner facilities in Falkenstein, Eurosky operates the service itself, the contract is held by the foundation, and the service falls under European law including GDPR and DSA. That is substantial and relevant for public bodies.

But it concerns the hosting layer, which was never the problem: that anyone may run a PDS is an explicit design feature and permissionless by intent. **The identity layer is untouched: a Eurosky account still carries a did:plc identity resolved against the same central directory**. Data held in Germany, identity resolved through a registry in foreign hands — for an argument resting on digital sovereignty, that is a solution at one layer, not throughout. The rotation-key trust relationship likewise only shifts, from Bluesky PBC to a Dutch foundation: still operator-mediated.

There is also the protocol's practical shape. atproto is built around a few large aggregators processing the whole network's traffic; as of early 2026, Bluesky PBC still ran the only full-network AppView. That suits a platform, less so a landscape of sixteen states, media centres and other bodies each running small nodes and exchanging selectively.

## Key loss

The obvious objection to key-based identity: what happens when a key is lost, and who is responsible in an administrative context? It must be addressed, but it is solvable.

For individual users, FROSTR and pomegranate offer approaches based on FROST signatures, standardised as RFC 9591: the key is split into shares, and signing requires k of n.

The contrast with the atproto model is therefore precise: there, one party must be able to act alone for recovery to work at all. Here, participation is possible without sole authority.

wow what an argument. I'm paying taxes if I like it or not. I ...

2026-08-28T09:13:32Z

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wow what an argument.
I'm paying taxes if I like it or not. I would like to see them spent on sensible stuff and not going to waste

GM Dear Nostr, I need your help. I need all the arguments you can ...

2026-08-28T09:09:20Z

GM Dear Nostr,
I need your help. I need all the arguments you can think of, why it would be a terrible idea to build public infrastructure based on ActvityPub and/or atproto instead of Nostr.
There is a public recommendation for action for german education infrastructure that says that open protocol based initiatives should be used in near future to get rid of big tech companies in public education infrastructures. But they name EuroSky and Fediverse as examples.
I need to get Nostr in there for reasons. So I would like to collect the biggest list of counter arguments. Technical, sustainability, societal perspectives, whatever comes to your mind.
cc Constant (npub1t6j…ksrw) Sebastix (npub1qe3…zefe) Jurjen de Vries (npub1l77…swft) sync (npub1equ…hkj6) verbiricha (npub107j…ncxg) nono2357 (npub1ren…aw97) you got much bigger reach, please share 🫂
#asknostr

GM 🌞

2026-08-28T07:40:51Z

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GM 🌞

GM!

2026-08-28T07:39:22Z

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GM!

GM @npub1ye5…knpr https://www.nostrapps.com/ is not working. I ...

2026-08-25T06:40:34Z

GM
hzrd149 (npub1ye5…knpr) https://www.nostrapps.com/ is not working. I get ssl errors. Wanted to try out the napps you posted earlier about
Have a great day!

Or stash... ...

2026-08-21T08:42:46Z

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Or stash...
https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qq88s7t69ekxzmmr9eehgctndqq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fw0fshqum5daex2tnyv4mqygqutleu4txcgtqpmj50x7prrvtxzagk6g2d5aw8464ma8s7l6wq7cpsgqqq0c9s9lfdd3

😅

GM

2026-08-15T11:26:08Z

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GM

GM!

2026-08-08T08:38:03Z

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GM!

I use some "studio speakers" like these ones with an ...

2026-08-06T09:13:59Z

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I use some "studio speakers" like these ones with an extra soundcard.
e.g. https://www.thomann.de/intl/active_nearfield_monitors.html?oa=pra&gk=STMOAN&sp=solr_10&cme=true&filter=true

I am super happy with it