All the work I've put into promoting nostr has done nothing because nostr sucks so bad. Hundreds of hours spent making videos with free nostr ads in them, but no sign anyone joined nostr as a result. Idk how many hours spent looking for places to tell people about nostr, but no sign anyone joined nostr as a result. After the number of people who have thanked me for telling them about it, you can guarantee some percentage of them actually checked it out. But do I see them here now? No, because they found trash apps that suck and not anything worth their time. I only ever got 1 person to actually sign up for nostr, @npub1q4v3...ges8 but they got pretty much no engagement and then their login started getting blocked by some app they used to try to be able to sign in with email + password. I'm pretty sure they never came back after being blocked from signing in. And I've also spent hundreds of hours thinking and talking about changes needed on nostr, including very simple ones that would make a big difference to this problem, in a fraction of the time devs have spent on irrelevant pointless shit. It feels like there is a solid chance nostr is going to fail because there's so little interest in it and so much interest in stopping it. The pool of anti-nostr people is so much stronger, nostr can't even find enough pro-nostr devs and we mostly only get anti-nostr devs on nostr. That's incredibly fucked. And people still don't really throw their weight behind me. It took over a year to get to where I get reposted pretty often, but I still can't organize or anything. If I make a "if all of us did X the result would be Y" post, I get between 0 and 1 people added to the pool of people doing X. That is not a path to survival. I even had to get back on reddit myself because in all these years, I couldn't find anyone with a reddit account that would post my stuff for me. It's like it's too complicated for you people to understand that if I'm the only one posting my own stuff, I'm 1 ban away from completely disappearing again. But that shouldn't be too complicated to understand. It's just that, same as before I met Digit, I have no actual support - people will go as far as pretending to be my friend, but not as far as putting a few minutes a month of work into doing the most urgent things I spend years begging people to do. The longer this goes on, the more ridiculous it gets and the more obvious it gets that it should be over. At the "several weeks" mark, it feels like the wall should open up soon and things should start to change, because there are several weeks of proof showing what's going on and it can't just go on forever. At the "several months" mark, it feels like the wall should open up soon and things should start to change, because there are several weeks of proof showing what's going on and it can't just go on for a lifetime. At the "1 year" mark, it feels like the wall should open up soon and things should start to change, because there are several weeks of proof showing what's going on and it can't just go on for a lifetime. At the "2 years" mark, it feels like the wall should open up soon and things should start to change, because there are several weeks of proof showing what's going on and it can't just go on for a lifetime. It's been over 2 years, it feels like the wall should open up soon and things should start to change, because there are several weeks of proof showing what's going on and it can't just go on for a lifetime. And of course, there's always the growing terror that maybe nothing is going to work, maybe I'm just going to throw myself at the wall of idiots until I die and everyone else dies too because they're too dumb to avoid extinction. I think Digit doesn't join nostr or try too much to survive because she's already been through her own past versions of this shit and she was offered more comfy options in return for giving up. I don't get anything for giving up, she won't curse me with that same offer of a comfy life, she's locked me in. Maybe I'm like her last attempt. I will keep trying.

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Don't be mad, but I'm actively disinterested in the average Redditor coming here. If someone has cool friends on other platforms, sure, invite them. But only if they'll keep Nostr's signal-to-noise ratio high.
I had an ex who was studying Atmospheric Science. She was hot. She was also lazy and threatened suicide a lot, so I did all her assignments. If you want my considered opinion on anthropogenic effects on climate, get me another girl that hot
Train a polar bear to help me build a solar shield and I'm happy to help wipe out the redditors. But you can't, so forget the polar bears and start building a solar shield with your army of robots. Oh, the armies of robots aren't yours? So I'm working on training the redditors to help build a solar shield and you're not offering a better option for survival.
Lower your expectations. Seriously. I know the whole world says the opposite - well, my specialty is seeing where the world is wrong. You're expecting too much. In fact, it would be better to expect nothing. Why did you let your friend login with an email? That's not how nostr works. Tell us what that service was so we can harass the jackass that made it. Don't give up, but also try less. That's always my advice with people. People aren't boulders. With boulders, you have to push with a force greater than the boulder's own weight times the friction that's keeping it stuck. But people are basically inverse boulders. They won't budge, and they'll get more stuck the harder you try, but they'll respond when you stop pushing. You could say maybe the real antigravity is intelligence.
Can't remember what service it was but it wasn't up to me how this person signed up, they only heard about nostr from me. I do wonder if they would have stayed long enough to get more followers if this didn't happen
Solar shield? Like, with stratospheric sulphate aerosols? Doesn't that run afoul of the "Meatloaf Principle" for the Left, and the "Playing God" approbium on the Right? Reversing anthropogenic forcing at the price of three extra cloudy days a year sounds good to me, though, I must admit. With bonus fuel lubricity from the sulphur leading to longer jet engine life. We'd need to nuke Davos first to avoid needing to beg for permission. Davos, and the screechy BANANA harridans of Reddit.
There's the Meatloaf principle in action. We could fix the problem now, with a technology that works and that comes with five decades of data on its downstream effects. But instead, lets do nothing but share pie-in-the-sky dreams of technologies that don't exist (and likely can't without "new physics"). Humanity hasn't suffered enough yet. We'll know when they have
The song that inspired the Left's climate change policy: SongMeanings Login Home Messages Artists Add Lyrics Recent Activity Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) Following Cover art for I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) lyrics by Meat Loaf Meat Loaf I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) 107 Meanings Add Yours Follow Share Q&A Video I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) Lyrics Edit Lyrics Ascolta "I'd Do Anything fโ€ฆ" su Amazon Music Unlimited (ad) And I would do anything for love I'd run right into hell and back I would do anything for love I'll never lie to you and that's a fact But I'll never forget the way you feel right now Oh no, no way And I would do anything for love But I won't do that I won't do that Anything for love I would do anything for love I would do anything for love But I won't do that I won't do that Some days it don't come easy Some days it don't come hard Some days it don't come at all And these are the days that never end Some nights you're breathing fire Some nights you're carved in ice Some nights you're like nothing I've ever seen before Or will again Maybe I'm crazy Oh, it's crazy and it's true I know you can save me No one else can save me now but you As long as the planets are turning As long as the stars are burning As long as your dreams are coming true You better believe it! That I would do anything for love And I'll be there till the final act I would do anything for love And I'll take a vow and seal a pact But I'll never forgive myself If we don't go all the way tonight! I would do anything for love Oh, I would do anything for love I would do anything for love But I won't do that No, I won't do that I would do anything for love Anything you've been dreaming of But I just won't do that Somedays I pray for silence Somedays I pray for soul Somedays I just pray to the God Of Sex and Drums and Rock 'N' Roll Some nights I lose the feeling Some nights I lose control Some nights I just lose it all When I watch you dance and the thunder rolls Maybe I'm lonely And that's all I'm qualified to be There's just one and only The one and only promise I can keep As long as the wheels are turning As long as the fires are burning As long as your prayers are coming true You better believe it That I would do anything for love And you know it's true and that's a fact I would do anything for love And there'll never be no turning back But I'll never do it better than I do it with you So long, so long And I would do anything for love Oh, I would do anything for love I would do anything for love But I won't do that No, no, no, I won't do that I would do anything for love Anything you've been dreaming of But I just won't do that But I'll never stop dreaming of you Every night of my life, no way And I would do anything for love Oh, I would do anything for love I would do anything for love But I won't do that No, I won't do that [Girl:] Will you raise me up? Will you help me down? Will you get me right out of this God-forsaken town? Will you make it all a little less cold? [Boy:] I can do that! I can do that! [Girl:] Will you hold me sacred? Will you hold me tight? Can you colorize my life? I'm so sick of black and white... Can you make it all a little less old? [Boy:] I can do that! Oh, oh, now I can do that! [Girl:] Will you make me some magic With your own two hands? Can you build an emerald city With these grains of sand? Can you give me something I can take home? [Boy:] I can do that! Oh, oh now, I can do that! [Girl:] Will you cater to every fantasy I got? Will you hose me down with holy water If I get too hot? Will you take me places I've never known? [Boy:] I can do that! Oh, oh now, I can do that! [Girl:] After a while you'll forget everything It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling And you'll see that it's time to move on [Boy:] I won't do that! No, I won't do that! [Girl:] I know the territory, I've been around It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down And sooner or later, you'll be screwing around... [Boy:] I won't do that! No, I won't do that! Anything for love Oh, I would do anything for love I would do anything for love But I won't do that No, I won't do that
That might be your priority, and mine, but it sure isn't the priority of Left-Statist elites, or even normie middleclass Party members like those I used to go to branch meetings with. Climate Change, like war, Islamic terrorism, housing crises and microplastics, is a problem overwhelmingly created by current government programs, that we could largely solve by withdrawing related funding and regulations. We can dim the energy reaching the biosphere any time we like, reversibly and at negative economic cost. Airlines would happily do the work for free. The science is, whilst never settled, then at least backed by decades of measurements. The papers are on SciHub. "Climate Emergency! Wait... I will do anything for love - but I won't do that. No I won't do that". We can sequester carbon in the deep ocean sediments. Cheaply and in megatonne quantities, and without harming fisheries if we target HNLC waters. The experiments were done in the summer of 2004, peer reviewed, and published. On SciHub too. "You're solving the problem wrong!!!111!!!"
It's not logical to want anyone to stay on worse technology than reddit My underlying point stands, do you want them to kill you and themselves, or do you want to reverse the degrading mental health of the population for some chance someone actually survives?
Reverse the degrading mental health of Redditors? Muh brother-in-nostr, that'd require a Messiah! And if I have to deal with their mental health issues on here, I expect an hourly wage :p
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