Nostr is not an 'escape', not a 'refuge', and going to Nostr is not 'fleeing'. This mindset/frame is not just unhelpfull, it is incorrect. Shelter is always shitty, and hopefully temporary. Nostr is the next thing, it is better, it is moving forward. People did not 'flee' television to seek refuge on the internet, they dude not 'escape' letters for e-mail. yeah yeah, i get there is a lot of development work still to be done, lots of areas completely unexplored and underdeveloped, and rough edges remaining in those areas that are better established. But we have to understand the fundamental enterprice here. Yes you give up existing established network effects, but you move towards a domain where the network effect potential is far greater. Yes you will probably struggle a bit feeling comfortable dealing with keys, but the flexibility you get among an application eco-system is liberating. Yes you will have to wrap your head around relays and event-kinds but the experience of freedom of association and unsilo'd data is far smoother. If you understand what is going on, you would not even want to stay in the legacy system, because you see if for the dead-end it is; those draconian governement laws are just nails in the coffin, the corpse itself already rotting. If you understand where Nostr is heading, you'd want to move over; not out of panic being stuck inside the decomposing body, but because you see the new horizon. Fortuna Nostr

Howdy Nostr, TL:DR: Link to tool to port your facebook (JSON-)export to Nostr below. As the Web of Trust Foundation, we are in talks with an organization called SETUP, that are currently running a "Facebook Museum" (

Facebook Museum

We openen het allereerste Facebook Museum ter wereld om dit platform te herdenken en waardig afscheid te nemen.

). The notion of a facebook museum is tongue and cheek on the one hand declaring facebook to be 'history', but also open up a dialogue on the question what we are going to do with all that data that is inside facebook currently; all those documented personal lives, communities etc. Their intent with the museum is to focus on the emotional side of things, and the process of mourning that comes along with saying goodbye to such a platform. A while back, @Sebastix and I went to the opening of the museum, and we introduced them to the idea of being able to continue your digital life outside of facebook. Recently we had a talk with them, and introduced them to Nostr. They never heard of it before, and it was somewhat of a curve ball for them. Whether or not the idea of porting over a facebook account to Nostr, similar to what Sebas is doing with the Nyves project (

Welkom bij Nyves - breng jouw Hyves profiel terug tot leven

Nyves heeft als doel om oude Hyves-profielen opnieuw tot leven te brengen met een moderne, open webapplicatie gebaseerd op het Nostr-protocol.

, Hyves was a very popular Dutch social media platform that eventually lost to facebook and went away) is a fit for what they are going for in the context of their museum remains to be seen. It summer, so that conversation will continue after the vacation period. In the meantime, i went ahead and build a demo for them to illustrate what is possible. And since it it works (atleast, i think it does), might as well throw it out there for those interested. It is purposely....how would you call it...poetic. Its all set within the context of a vigil. The export is the diseased; the stuff you archive are the heirlooms; you can donate content to the museum; you can leave your condolences; and you can continue in the afterlife! If you are going to try it, i would advice to make a JSON-export inside facebook, instead of the HTML one. At the end of the process you can log-in with your existing Nostr profile and transfer your selection of facebook data towards Nostr. try it here: https://npub1rlx0fx3yfp6nk9lejl6m2zdg33388hxssd90dw535wx8kpxj5knq5lp6ua.nsite.lol/ PS: as far as i can tell everything works fine, but it was build as a demo for illustration purposes I would suggest using the default random generated keypair first, see if everything is ok, before using it on your own keypair.

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You know what, if you want to play that game: Put the parents in jail as well while you are at it for negligence because it is impossible to claim ignorance to the negative/harmfull character of Meta's services. I hated Facebook from the start as much as the next guy, but it is obvious we have to look at this a layer deeper and conclude we simply set up an architecture that gave a hand full of corporations more responcibility than they could possibly carry. The fact that this postition of power was corrupting, and that a corporation is not going to stop itself should both not be to anyones suprise and as such are completely un-interesting to me. What are we going to do to fix it? Nostr. View quoted note →