nostr is for people who like freedom.
And holy shit, apparently nobody likes freedom.
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This is the funniest tweet in nostr history 😂
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Freedom’s never been popular. It’s just been right.
😂
If freedom was popular, Ron Paul would have won in 2008.
People want to get on their knees and open their mouth for Central Bank jizz, not freedom.
With freedom comes much personal responsibility...
With freedom comes much personal responsibility...
nostr is for people who like freedom.
And holy shit, apparently nobody likes freedom.
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Yeah, most people want someone else to do the work while they enjoy the fruits of their lab.
It’s kinda pathetic.
Freedom has its drawbacks.
It’s sad. Even some of the people on nostr are statists.
“Screw your freedom!”
There are too many people on nostr now...
🔥
Sadly, it’s the same as BTC.
Banger.
Hey, don't call me a Nobody! I coulda been a contender!
Yes #yestr
Yes, I like freedom very verrrry much 😶🌫️
People hate freedom. They don't want it for themselves and they sure as hell don't want it for others.
A society cucked
This is one of thr most confounding things about nostr to me; the sheer number of boot licking "just one more election and we'll have the right ones in charge" fucking morons.
Free-dumb
Guys, we need to vote harder!
Exactly!
I don’t get it. We’re literally on nostr because boot licking doesn’t protect free speech. Maybe a lot of them are feds.
Get out of here fake rand
Maybe. But you know you've seen it too.
I know*
I like it.
And bro, give me a break. People just want apps that HAVE PEOPLE ON THEM. Stop doomering.
I have and it’s frustrating
Freedom tech is addictive, but lonely out here. Lol
Correction: Most people don't understand the importance of freedom
So many come out sooner or later as closet statists.
Haha 😆 This seems painfully true at the moment. Never underestimate the power of denial and propaganda…
Thy like comfort and the fiat system enables an all inklusive lifestyle without any responsibilities.
If everyone liked freedom tech everyone will be around here and we all know not everyone are on the same page. Just look at twitter what a mess it become.
Sort of, but Nostr can feel half-hearted. What people say here is very much determined by social proof, and there's a lot of conformity and self-imposed limitations, as well as a preference for a sort of randomness and toothlessness over something more impactful. It can feel like a startup funded by a so-so VC that's trying to cater to conventional tastes, and the result is that it operates in a kind of technological and social straitjacket. Adoption may be slow because others may sense that it's too timid and that there isn't necessarily more energy than they can find elsewhere.
We like freedom
We are not nobody, fren. But, yes, it is odd that so many spposedly freedom loving bitcoin maxis dont love themselves enough to spend their valuably scarce time and energy also supporting Nostr. It is sad for them. But I am proud of us, and thag is all that matters.
PV.
Not quite true but well said
People don’t value freedom as much as other things
If everyone else was on Nostr and it had all the conveniences of a FB or tictok I would guess all of your friends would be on Nostr too
Not enough
Nostr provides a kind of freedom, but people define that word differently, and most discover that the freedom nostr provides comes with its own drawbacks.
The network effect is the only thing that matters. The "alternative social media site" thing has been going on for nearly a decade, and that's the lesson. Address the network effect or you've got a dozen hyper-principled guys talking to each other about Bitcoin.
Oh cmon stop doomering
Also, ppl apparently like a lot of fatal accidents, rage-bate posts and racial slurs judging from the average “for you page”/“timeline” on Twitter 😅
you are correct, technically he should have said 'decentralization' but 'freedom' has more brand recognition.
and most people will not look up what they don't know and understand (anything unfamiliar). Instead they will ignore it, and focus on what they do know and understand. this is the importance of marketing.
so unfortunately this post would probably not have gotten much engagement if he was semantically accurate. but because he twisted the truth, its reached further.
so the philisophical question is,
be semantically honest and reach no one?
vs
bend the truth, and reach everyone?
Freedom comes with a price. If you're not new here, you know its super toxic in here
Yesh I noticed you just have to ask about a few politically charged topics, like abortion, and they’ll flip that NPC mode switch on
pointing out that something is scary is not doomering 😆
No, my point is to stop doomering about Nostr. We don't have the killer apps yet, and the network effect is too weak at the moment. It means more time and for the rest of the internet to get worse to push people here.
I want to like Nostr. And from a technical perspective I find it fascinating. Especially how its design makes institutional insertion much more difficult.
From a user perspective, less so. It feels like attending a dinner party where everybody else knows each other, talking about random things, and I’m just observing.
I get the complaint that X generates addictive behaviors. But there’s a middle ground between mostly viral posts and mostly random posts.
I wonder whether “relevant posts” is just something that decentralized platforms have a hard time doing.
The most insufferable are the Trump apologizers and pro-ICE/Palentir police statists. 👅🥾
Agreed. I can’t believe I’m saying this but the libs are much more tolerable. I expected more from the gun owners of this country.
"from a technical perspective I find it fascinating"
I use it only because of its technical properties. In essence, "Nostr" just means to me using public key cryptography to authenticate online, which I think is the correct way to "be" on the internet given the current state of technology.
I had to add some public key infrastructure for replacing lost or stolen keys on top of the base Nostr protocol for it to become genuinely usable. With that in place, I now have a technologically acceptable way of maintaining an online presence. So I'm going to use that.
Oh, that's not what I meant. What's scary is that there are so many people who don't like freedom
Dad joke?
Idk what you're talking about honestly
This protocol is still fringe and doesn’t have near the features most long time social media addicts have grown used to, saying nothing about their followers.
Also, if traditional social media works for people, there is even less incentive to dive into something they have no use for and it’s not our place to say they’re wrong.
If they don’t think social media is that important, it’s not our place to say whether they’re right or wrong. Personally, I feel like social media has caused more problems than it has solved and these restrictions on minors are a day late and a dollar short.
Well, parents SHOULD have been the ones to monitor their kids' usage, but, well, that didn't work. So what else is a society that cares to do? I'm sure they see it as a necessary evil. I don't even know what I'd do instead. The way they're doing it probably won't work, and it's a horrible step to require ID for all that, but I agree we needed something a while ago.
I agree. If parents only treated their mobile devices the way they do with their home computer none of would’ve been necessary. So, now the government is stepping in, I just wish they did this 20 years, then we wouldn’t have a whole generation of people who grew up in an echo chamber.
If only the geezers figured out how dangerous the internet could be for people, especially kids bro cmoooooon. They fumbled society lol.
The internet wasn’t the problem, it had been around for quite some time(AOL ring a bell?)and parents were monitoring their kid’s online activity. The problems started when cell phones had full html capabilities, essentially putting the same internet parents were monitoring, in the palm of their hands and if I remember correctly, there weren’t a lot of ways for parents to restrict what they could do.
You must be special to be a freedom enjoyers 🫡
haha whats up with that ay
We agree. I literally meant "how dangerous the internet could be" as in, how it was basically when smartphones came around lol.
Yeah kids shouldn't get everything-rectangles. Adults need to step away from the everything-rectangle regularly too.
Freedom, what's that?
New to the platform but so far I agree.
We learned this in 2013
so true king
thus is the arc of history
I face the same dilemma running a radically free campground. The large unfree places like concerts and theme parks sell far better
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