I will admit that when I first got on Nostr, it was difficult for me to grasp what it was really about, But eventually I had to step back and ask myself whether recruiting people into @BitcoinMajlis through a telegram chat was actually sufficient for what we're trying to accomplish. It became obvious that something bigger was needed if we're serious about fulfilling our mission. Need to think beyond just building another online community or movement, more than just a subreddit. The scope has to be civilizational. It has to involve creating new ways of coordinating and relating to one another outside the constraints of fiat political + cultural frameworks. I'm afraid that if we continue building on centralized platforms, we're ultimately trapped inside the same cycle that produced the current condition in the first place (deterritorialization + reterritorialization, or endless disruption followed by being absorbed back into dominant system). I don't want all of this work we're doing to ultimately amount to building a fancier cage. We gotta get off telegram, like very soon.
I am telling you that we have to take nostr as seriously as Bitcoin. This should give us the possibility of building parallel social+economic+cultural infrastructure that isn't owned by fiat people. I don't see any other tool that can help us meaningfully break out of that cycle. Need to actually use it and build on it and treat it as more than just another place to post.
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And it's not even about the social media stuff. There might be people who don't like to post notes. It's more about the 'other stuff' that doesn't spy on you or requires permission.
I'm at that stage, I know that Nostr is somehow good, however I don't have a proper grasp around it.
Bitcoin I understand and thus have conviction of
I know parts of Nostr like it being decentralised, not being subject to the algorithm, those are enough to get me but overall I don't understand the foundation yet I believe
I wonder if I could for example sell products on here, I'm not sure what the Nostr community would think about that, generally I think I'm not fully in on it just yet
the other struff is twice as interesting as notrs imo
you can basically do anything on nostr
and we have @npub1mark...p7hd if you have physical products to sell. there's a bunch of people already using it
I remember the first time @makwired told me about Nostr. I looked it up and thought it was a notepad app. I didn't understand at all what it was about. I was relatively new to bitcoin at the time too and didnt fully understand the space. I even lost my first nsec because i didn't know what it meant.
But Alhamdullilah we're here now
"Together, Bitcoin and Nostr form something that the internet originally promised us, a foundation where you show up online on your own terms. Your money is yours. Your voice is yours. Your identity is yours. Not rented, not licensed, not subject to the mood of some platform executive. Actually, genuinely yours."
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That's interesting, JazakAllahu khayran I really appreciate your response
You need to realize that most people don't care about decentralized......anything. Decentrzlied tech is on the quick decline now. Look at Mastodon, Matrix, XMPP, etc
Same. It took me a while, even after using it for like two years, to understand what it's really trying to do. Weird how nostr is more difficult to "get" compared to Bitcoin. Probably because the problem nostr is addressing is a lot harder to conceive of. We need more nostr themed books and podcasts
The Anti-Censorship Internet by Abdullah ibn Oda
Dismantling Online Surveillance through Nostr