Just getting ready for the evening. 1926.

Who hit who first?

2 dudes working on a science project

Meme template from 1952

Some dudes eating

James Dean 1955

French actress Brigitte Bardot. 1956

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