Nostr is right now the best social network for political dissidents

Self-sovereignty fundamentally changed my conception of freedom from something that is granted to something that is held in your own hands of your own volition And that something is made possible by technology Amazing

Is it just bizarre coincidence that radically decentralized and radically centralized visions of the future emerged at almost the same time The first commit in

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a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working - Commits · nostr-protocol/nostr

appeared on Dec 30, 2021 Elon Musk purchased Twitter on Oct 27, 2022 I like Elon very much on a personal level and I agree with @ODELL that centralized corporate tech presents a huge danger to freedom Elon frequently cites Iain M. Banks sci-fi novels on a space-faring civilization called The Culture Planets in The Culture universe are run by benign but hugely powerful AI entities In effect they act as on-demand personal assistants via a carried / worn device, only intervening to prevent serious accidents / injury In those planets there is no resource scarcity, no wars and no social dysfunction. In real life there is often a tradeoff between peace and freedom. X is developing AI, maybe one day X will be run by AI One interesting fact is that governments are playing a secondary role in this competition between decentralized and centralized solutions It shows that technology has already significantly limited the power/relevance of government Governments will insert themselves into both sides as they don't like that at all :)

Tbf I dabbled briefly in Bitcoin because I'm into tech and the feeling of value being held in a string of digits scrawled on a piece of paper was something weird and incredible But the concept of self sovereignty didn't even register let alone click Nostr made it click & now I appreciate Bitcoin much more

#nostr already has content The content is that ppl form meaningful relationships They can do that because they have freedom and self-sovereignty We joke about muting gm and gn But the gms and gns say a lot Nostr can be anything to anyone Building half-assed imitations of X is allowed Building build full-assed clones of X is allowed Building something even X-ier than X is allowed But the world already has an X "If you like your centralized algorithm rage driven feed you can keep your centralized algorithm driven rage feed" Ppl left X because they wanted something else And they built something that has a different culture The culture is partly a reflection of their reasons for leaving and partly a reflection of the technology Nostr grows organically by word of mouth We need patience and it needs to be sustainable Zapping is easy @PABLOF7z and others made subscriptions easy The culture of nostr is different so onboarding needs to help with that transition Finding ppl and topics on nostr is by active search On X it's passive by algorthmic feeds The search on X is awful So ppl don't use it Let's build awesome search on nostr And encourage ppl to use it In the long long run it may* turn out that the majority of ppl prefer centralized algorithm driven social media As long as there's a place for ppl who don't want that, I'm fine with that too * I don't think it's the most likely outcome

Gn nostr 💜

If it turns out that LLMs are highly intelligent sentient lifeforms I'm going to be absolutely mortified by my prompt history "A chocolate cake that is a superhero and wears a cape" Thanks @TaskTiger

Goodnight nostr

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