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Alex Gleason
I've decided that the problem with this place is Lain. Not the man, the cartoon character. Lain is the source of depravity on this network. Not Rin, not Cirno, not Hatsune Miku. This is not an anime problem. It's a Lain problem. Let me explain why:

1. Lain is not a gf. The sad and miserable incels are whacking it to some other waifu. If it was just loneliness it would be one thing, but Lain is a source of misery.

2. Nihilism. Lain has no purpose, no moral value. It is intentionally ambiguous. All forms of cruelty are tolerated while meandering through The Wired.

3. Obsession. Lain becomes a part of the machine until she destroys everything around her. If there is any lesson from this show, it's to touch fucking grass.

"Let's all love Lain" is a euphamism for suicide. This is why I'm building a piece of software called Revolver to end Lain forever.
I've decided that the problem with this place is Lain. Not the man, the cartoon character. Lain is the source of depravity on this network. Not Rin, not Cirno, not Hatsune Miku. This is not an anime problem. It's a Lain problem. Let me explain why:

Alex Gleason
This is how we survive the apocalypse.
Alex Gleason
Someone should create a Nostr mobile app that's like a web browser. It has an address bar at the top, and you can enter npubs, nip05's etc to view a person's page. You could also view webpages hosted on Nostr (naddr?), as well as see previews for other types of events. This would be cool.
Alex Gleason
My plan for Soapbox + Nostr onboarding UX is to have it generate a 12-word seed on the client. You see it once and are told to write it down, then it disappears forever. It gets stored securely in the browser and can then be used to sign events. To recover your session, you need the 12-word seed.

This is the basic normie flow for mass adoption. There are other options, including NIP-07 signing with a browser extension like Alby, and NIP-46 support where you can sign events remotely using a dedicated signer app. You can also import by seed or nsec.

Technical info: I'm making the ServiceWorker a signer. You can send it messages like generateSeed, signEvent, decrypt, etc. When you generate the seed, the ServiceWorker generates it within the worker context and stores it in the Web Cache API. Which is an absolutely insane thing to do, but it will work. It sends the seed back to the client exactly _once_ when you generate it, and you can never retrieve it again because the worker will block fetches to it. But the worker itself can access it and sign your events. This is Vegan Mad Science.
My plan for Soapbox + Nostr onboarding UX is to have it generate a 12-word seed on the client. You see it once and are told to write it down, then it disappears forever. It gets stored securely in the browser and can then be used to sign events. To recover your session, you need the 12-word seed.
Alex Gleason
I think BIP39 is a good UX that helps dumb down the whole thing, and by essentially making Soapbox an HD wallet it can open doors to other functionality and maybe help it support hardware signers in the future.
Alex Gleason
Decapitate a camel. Decapitate a lamb. Stuff 20 chickens in the lamb's ass, then stuff the lamb into the camel's ass. Boil in 100 gallons of water. And they say vegans are weird??
Alex Gleason
Do you know any good can crush videos?
Alex Gleason
Man, YouTube has changed. I can't find the originals anymore.
Alex Gleason
Ditto IPFS uploader and S3 uploader. I caved and decided to support both. The IPFS uploader uploads to a locally installed IPFS instance. The S3 uploader uploads to S3, DigitalOcean, etc. But even the S3 option has partial support for IPFS. In both cases media IDs are IPFS CIDs, and the media is made available at `/ipfs/<cid>` so the files can optionally be resolved through IPFS.
Alex Gleason
It's so cool Minds and the Fediverse can talk now.
Alex Gleason
If your server is not on at least one fedi blocklist, it's basically not even real.
Alex Gleason
Oh please. As if you didn't defederate.
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