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Derek Ross derekross@nostr4.social 3 years ago
Charging $1 a year to Tweet and Retweet may not seem like a lot, however optics matter. It sets the stage to charge more in the future, it makes the service no longer free, and most importantly, it makes Twitter no longer the public square where anyone is able to freely talk - a point in which Elon likes to state, but continues to erode. While on the NOSTR we happily Zap developers more than $1 worth of sats quite often and some could agree that it's a similar task to paying a measily 4000 sats, it's not. It's not a requirement. It's not forced. The NOSTR is completely free and open. The openness is the difference. The NOSTR is the public square.
Fortune
X will begin charging new users $1 a year | Fortune
X owner Elon Musk has long floated the idea of charging users $1 for the platform. Now the team is moving the idea into production.

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Autumn Sun ☀️🌘 as@primal.net 3 years ago
Twitter has been broken for years, but in various ways pre- and post-Melon. The irony of the whole debacle is while actual product development and innovation on Twitter / "X" is at an all time high, it's Melon's repeated, unilateral and impulsive meddling that's creating a lot of uncertainty around the future of the platform.
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Autumn Sun ☀️🌘 as@primal.net 3 years ago
That, amplified by the fact that one of the major current backers of "X" is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is in lukewarm water for having assassinated a US jounalist two years ago. Does anyone here have any illusions of whether the KSA co-owners (and other shady individuals?) have privileged access to the userbase info (email addy, phone no, device fingerprints, IPs etc)?
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splinter splinter@ok0.org 3 years ago
And yet:
The Bitcoin Manual
What Is A Paid Nostr Relay? - The Bitcoin Manual
An introduction to how paid relays work on the nostr network, why you would spin up a paid relay and why you would want to use a paid relay instead
The Rise of Paid Nostr Relays
Adding Bitcoin monetization capabilities to Nostream relay through the ZBD API
 https://voltage.cloud/blog/nostr/the-essential-guide-to-nostr-relays/ This is not just about zapping developers, many share the view that paid relays are where Nostr is going, supposedly because that fixes spam. Now where have I heard this before?
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Derek Ross derekross@nostr4.social 3 years ago
You do not have to use a paid relay. But let's say for some reason all relays become paid to combat bots like you mentioned. If that happens, at least it won't be an attempt to KYC all users. Nostr allows you to be anonymous. X on the other hand very well may make it impossible to be anonymous. I just don't see this happening though. We will always have a value for value model.
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TheGrinder thegrinder@nostrplebs.com 3 years ago
My data (in particular my personal information) is worth a lot more than $1. Imo this has zero to do with ridding X of bots. A bot network operator will happily pay $1 to continue with their spam or scam. This is about collecting personal information and tying a users RL information to their content ultimately resulting in easy localisation when the nospeech gestapo comes looking for you.
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splinter splinter@ok0.org 3 years ago
I agree with you on being able to remain anonymous on Nostr, which is a huge advantage. I strongly disagree with the paid relay idea. By all means, tip your favorite relay if you want to, but I don't see how paid relays are much better than what X is trying to do, KYC to the side.
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npub1a0vs...cl72 3 years ago
They're already an opt-in feature. They don't work until you opt-in by connecting your lightning wallet
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It hasn't been a public square since all the censorship during covid
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TheGrinder thegrinder@nostrplebs.com 3 years ago
precisely and with the way governments are extending their reach to control the information on social media it's just an excuse to get your information for the nospeech police.
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