Freedom of speech is quite literally freedom of reach While individuals should have the freedom to mute/block, algorithmic suppression is the cause of most social ills seen in the corporate centralized model

A news/opinion/outrage feed is not a network is not a community is not really social media It's a stream Not nodes on a graph A stream from producers > consumers Insofar as consumers have a voice it's to upvote or downvote the product That's the corporate model And why I'm not bothered about the lack of 'big names' on #nostr Nostr has conversations That's more important

I'm seeing a lot of smart ppl building a lot of things on #nostr for free 20% of those things I don't even understand what they do That's my layman heuristic for having confidence in nostr among competing messaging protocols

Centralized corporate social media has an asymptotic limit of 'meh' Elon is building the absolute best social media within that limit Open protocol driven social media has no such limit and can truly suck or be truly awesome

What do you use to convert fiat to crypto? As someone new to this *Buying sats* with fiat was a huge pain in the ass mainly because of the horribly buggy broken verification systems of most crypto exchanges The irony is that lightning network is the most beautifully painless payment system I've ever used Next time I need to fiat > crypto thinking will try a P2P exchange 🤔

One of the nicest things about #nostr is the community around the technology and the enthusiasm for building on it

#nostr first impressions The protocol is exciting It's a revolutionary change Which unlocks potential for innovation that was stymied by centralization Technologically a protocol - perhaps nostr - feels like the right approach Being able to access your account by pasting a key into any client is really cool Being able to post from the command line (!) is really cool People will have more control over their social experience The relay thing isn't really working The client-side burden of synchronizing data is too heavy and clients are struggling with performance, completeness and consistency Look at a comment thread to the same post in two different clients connected to an identical set of relays and they'll be a very different sets of comments It's not clear that relays will be any more resistant to government censorship than centralized social media There are very few usable clients None in the browser None on desktop plebstr on Android is usable Apparently Damus on iOS is ok But it's early days We have the outline of something that is potentially really great

hello #nostr