London. 1940/2017

Albert and Elsa Einstein. 1935.

Hendrix

Free speech without visual restrictions

The studio where they faked the moon landing

Nostr is not censorship-free. In fact, it is a mass enabler of self-censorship. Having your entire history tied to a verifiable identity is going to make anyone think twice about what they say. The only way to fix this is to have child identities that speak to the same audience as a parent identity but bear no traceable connection to a parent identity. You want to decouple identity and speech.

Getting rid of follower metrics fixes this. Because then you have no idea how many people you are speaking to. Maybe just a rough idea. This is surprisingly an easy way to get rid of most of self-censorship. You’ll still have it unless you’re anon View quoted note →

After a hard day.

As nice as this sounds, most people are self-censoring. Once the following grows, you have to unless you’re 100% anonymous. But even then, you self-censor to persona. View quoted note →

World Trade Center under construction. October, 1970.

TV time

USS Arkansas 1944

I murdered my ego and it feels great.

Family gathering.

In life, a person can join a circle of friends in a conversation without explicit approval of the circle or any one individual. And if those people like what is added to conversation, they’ll be inclined to hear more. There are no follower counts or even any indicator of reach of any given person. This could be replicated online without the need to follow anyone. Show notes from people you’ve interacted with and add the ability to show fewer notes if desired. Extend conversations to x degree of connection (other people the person you’re interacting with has interacted). No explicit relationships or status - just people talking to people.

Stop subsidizing poisonous food. Let the people poison themselves cheaply.

Tell me you’re a control freak without telling me you’re a control freak. View quoted note →

The concept of “following” is retarded and outdated. It speaks to ego more than anything else.

CCTV is the dumbest oppressive regime shit. Glad JD called it out. Fucking Brits need to rip that shit out.

J D Vance is inspiring. Never thought I’d say that. Or his speech writer … one of them knows wtf is up.