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ETL to QE, Update 77, My Nostr Relay

Date: 2025-05-28

Goals for my Nostr Relay From Scratch

The core goals of my Nostr Relay were as follows,

  • Load Nostr events from ndjson files
  • Track the provenance of where the nostr event was downloaded from
  • Manage scraping of other Nostr Relays
  • Store tags in separate table for analytics purposes
  • Support NIP-51 Text Search

Features I want to Add Soon

Nostr Relay Extensibility

Why am I doing this?

I am interested in scraping social media because under the pretense of using it as a tool to help me find friends on the internet.

Even though I need to be engaging with other people online to live a more meaningful life I get too overwhelmed. This leads to me secluding myself away, engaging as a lurker.

The goal is to build am ETL AI Enhanced Data Pipeline that will find me people I will get along with on the internet.

I have now build three social media indexers, * Keybase Binding * Discord Binding * Nostr Relay From Scratch and none of them have helped me make new friends, gain sales leads, or even manage a community online.

In fact building these tools has only made me more lost.

Perspective Change

I am attacking this problem from the wrong perspective. I need to understand what I am interested in then use these tools I built to create Meme Map's. Then I can exert my influence based on a meme within the Meme Map.

Then we arrive at the problem that this site does not have a single Meme Map on it, or even a series of dank memes for the people that just want to vibe on mememaps.net rather than read my scattered thoughts.

Given the current definition on here of Meme Map, and lack of a seductive one on this site, nobody is going to repeat the meme of Meme Map. In its current state Meme Map is just an idea and not a cognitive tool that people can actually use.

My Meme Map

So mememaps.net is supposed to be my Meme Map but nobody really extracts any value from all the stuff I have posted here. Nobody reads these blogs, and to be honest I don't even expect them to.

The purpose of a Meme Map is to get the models from inside their heads into a Graph Schema so that they can better understand themselves.

Well I have this epic Obsidian vault but it doesn't really help me understand myself. There seems to be an Aesthetic feature to this Meme Map thing.

Well there is a reason we moved away from the Dentropy Daemon project to the Question Engine project. Dentropy Daemon is just a file system, Question Engine is a User Experience. BTW the word Question has "Quest" inside of it.

The idea was that is I had Quest(ion) Engine up and running it would help me sort out my life so I am not so lost all the time. But how is someone who is ridiculously scatter brained going to develop a entire software product to stop being ridiculously scatter brained while they are ridiculously scatter brained.

The structure of my life, the Heuristics I use to make decisions, my Locus of control should not be dependent on some Computer Software it should come from within and be enhanced by the Software.

Cogitative Tools over Software Tools

I have consumed vast amount of self help content from different Types of Therapy, read books like The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, How To Be A Stoic, and The Willpower Instinct listened to the likes of David Goggins and Chris Williamson seen Fight Club. Yet I am stuck in this stupid rut.

Yes Paul, but have you actually integrated the information you consumed and distilled it to wisdom.

Let's take The Self Awareness Onion for example. Did you actually get to the point of asking Why we feel certain emotions? let alone identify and integrate My Values into my every day decision process? Or what about a set of expectations, some can even be measurable, you can have for yourself that don't require God Tier will power.

Oh are we going down the "We Will Build A Routine Building, Gym, Calendar, TODO App" that everyone who wants to develop software goes down.

Well there are infinite Routine, Gym Calendar, TODO apps our there but none that really integrate into my life. For fuck sake I can't use Google Calendar on a regular basis.

I did just discover nostr_todo a TODO app for Nostr, it's sorta weird how it uses kind 48636.