Had a wallet bug I had to get back to desktop to fix. Couldn’t zap for a couple days while I was AFK. Totally changed my Nostr experience. Zapping, for me, is essential.

GM PV good people!! Orange pill the squares ◼️ Purple pill the posers 💜

The open web was built by both non-profits AND for-profit companies. Nostr is no different. People talk like the open web was built only by idealists. Volunteers. Academics. Non-profits… that’s only half the story. The modern internet only exists because for-profit companies open-sourced foundational tools. 🍎 Apple: WebKit — the engine behind Safari and the original base for Chrome Swift — modern safe systems programming mDNS / Bonjour — local networking standards still everywhere Apple showed: open-sourcing core infrastructure expands an ecosystem far beyond one company. ⸻ 🔵 Meta React — the #1 UI architecture on Earth React Native — cross-platform revolution GraphQL — new API mental model Meta proved: open protocols win when the tools become better than the walled gardens they came from. ⸻ 🟢 Google Chromium & V8 — the engine of the modern web and Node.js Kubernetes — the backbone of internet-scale infrastructure Go — DevOps and cloud language standard gRPC, QUIC, HTTP/3 — the pipes the modern web runs on Google demonstrated: openness + corporate incentives can push entire industries forward. ⸻ 🪟 Microsoft TypeScript — the language that saved JavaScript VS Code — the most-used dev environment .NET (open) — enterprise backbone Microsoft taught: the market rewards you for empowering developers, not trapping them. ⸻ 💜 Here’s the Nostr Parallel For-profit companies didn’t fight the open web… they built huge chunks of it. Nostr is the same story, just happening in real time: • independent devs • researchers • open-source maintainers • AND startups building real businesses on an open protocol That mix is the magic. Nostr isn’t “against” capitalism or commerce or profit. It’s against permissioned choke points. Companies built Web1. Companies built Web2. This time, companies are helping build something different: a web where the incentives to build and the incentives to stay open are finally aligned. [transparency note: this post was LLM assisted through several prompts, but the idea and argument are mine]

@primal notifications are toast. Anyone else got the same issue? #asknostr Chilling on @Nostur

New zap setting in my holster: Amount: 67 Message: 🤷🏽‍♂️ You’re welcome Nostr.

Doubling down - let’s purple pill all the spouses!!

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