Gm nostr. Enjoy economic nirvana today.

https://nypost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/nypost.com/2023/11/19/metro/ny-ranked-least-free-state-with-high-taxes-debt-regulation-study/amp/?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17004742159247&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2023%2F11%2F19%2Fmetro%2Fny-ranked-least-free-state-with-high-taxes-debt-regulation-study%2F I think the most interesting thing I this article is that they effectively use the tax rates to calculate the percentage of freedom each state affords is citizens.

How on earth are these definitions of the same word?

Can you name something in your life that cannot be taken away from you? ❌ Money in the bank ⯍ Not only is the money an IOU but if its in the bank you don't even actually own the IOU ❌ Gold ⯍ Can be forcefully taken or stolen ❌ Cash ⯍ Can be forcefully taken or stolen ❌ Any physical object ⯍ Can be forcefully taken or stolen ❌ Ethereum ⯍ LOL ✅ Your thoughts, feelings, and emotions ⯍ While these are malleable and subject to attack, they belong to you. ✅ Your Bitcoin ⯍ Not your keys...

Early Christmas gift 😁😁🎁🎁 Thank you @Nataliya

Does Nostr have a content problem? There is a lot of talk about Nostr being an echo chamber which leads to poor user retention. While it is true that the platform is currently full of BTC maxis and ‘normies” may not find much of the content to be to interesting or engaging I think there is an important distinction that we need to make. As most nostr users are aware, the dollar is broken. Fiat is morally erosive and malice compounding. It is a broken and distorted incentive. Content creators should strive to create value. What does the content on our current social platforms look like? Is it actually valuable? Brett Cooper pulls in millions of views by watching other videos and then reading the comments. We are literally watching someone watch a video and then read a publicly viewable comment. Now, admittedly these and similar videos are... Im not sure entertaining is the correct word but they are 1. Attention grabbing – They often have click baity titles that echo topics of social polarization that make them very enticing to click on. 2. Once you start watching them I think we are all familiar with loosing large amounts of time stuck in a scroll loop. So, my question is. Is this type of content VALUABLE? I don’t think it is. I think most of the content is quite literally engineered to manipulate human psychology and steal our attention. Content creators create their content and specifically design it with the algorithm of the platform of choice in mind. An algorithm born from a distorted fiat model, designed to capture and retain human attention, then monetize it. How is this ok? When attempting to describe our current content creation model would it be inaccurate to say... Content creators are incentivized and rewarded to create addictive content which is then intentionally fed to an audience. The platforms that deploy these algothrims then distribute the content with the intention of addicting their audience. The nature of this content and its delivery then makes it possible to steal, manipulate, and package human attention which is then sold for profit. So, does Nostr have a content problem? Does Nostr, does our culture, do we, do I, want this type of content to migrate, breed, and reproduce on this platform? Nostr was created with freedom in mind. Build upon hard money, not fiat. Built by people with a different set of values. I don’t think I or we or anyone knows what type of content will be created when driven by hard money, driven from a truthful incentive. What kind of value content creators will provide. What we have is an identity problem. This community is very young and the ideas, values and principles that brought us together are unfamiliar to the vast majority of people around us. Instead of trying to lure content creators, who have mastered the fiat game, with large audiences over to Nostr we should be focused ourselves. On finding our identity.

Water on a flat surface flows chaotically in all directions. Water in a river is defined by its banks and moves powerfully in a single coherent and controlled direction. My thoughts and actions are like water on a flat surface. This is good because it will help me decide where to cut into that flat surface and where to form my river banks. This is frustrating because it is hard to make up my mind. It is energetically taxing to spread my attention into so many different areas. I feel like I am spinning my wheels with no traction. In the same senese I know that this is how the process must unfold. I know that this is my journey. I am tired.

The act of asking for my trust when there are "trustless" options available makes me not want to trust you.

Testing Shipyard.pub

Dangerous to climb trees🙄🙄🙄

Anyone have information on the relationship and interaction between long form content (NIP-23) and SEO? If someone wanted to start a blog and build on Nostr vs a WordPress or Wix how would the content reach the broader internet? @fiatjaf, @YakiHonne, @Habla News???