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Raybon 10 months ago
Didn't read, nostr rules
You don't have to fight for something you have. Nostr has free speech and so just enjoys it almost exclusively by saying GM daily.
I thought people getting mad about Nostr was a joke if I'm being perfectly honest. If this guy was on Nostr I'd just mute him.
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ARVIN 10 months ago
I’ve got my fair share of knowledge gaps and misunderstandings about technology, but this is a really bad and unfair take. Reads like they never really used nostr apps before and based this thread on things they’ve read pr heard.
Musk has proven constantly that he intends for his platform to serve his agenda, and nothing more. "Free speech" is a psyop from a narcissistic man-child who seeks to prove the strength of his will, regardless of the consequences, to sate his crippling insecurity by projecting it onto everyone that he successfully manipulates. True free speech means ability to criticise the State (the regime of accumulation and its symbolic order), and people willingly believed that Musk embodied such a concept when he was criticising Democratic leadership. If you knew anything about his character though, and you saw how he refused to accept criticism for his many missteps and misrepresentations and faults, you didn't trust anything that came out of his addled mouth (or posts). Also, if you knew anything about free speech, you knew that anyone who seeks to control free speech doesn't actually believe in it. Now that he IS the State, if you believe that he intends to protect YOUR free speech, then you deserve the horrors that we are about to see unleashed on the world thanks to this deranged individual. Maybe in the wake of the consequences of the autocratic hellscape that Musk heralds in, people will understand why nostr is so important; “If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.”
You don't have to ask permission to exercise rights bestowed upon you for merely existing. You do have to ask permission to use X.
Back in my day, Twitter only had 128 characters, then Donald Trump needed more so they doubled it. Then they had super threads and then they censored the President of the United States and then they performed Shadow banning.... Eventually I took off the diaper and stopped shitting in my pants. NOSTR is not an adult or baby diaper.
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mfostr 10 months ago
Algorithmic and client choice will fix this.
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npub1p5z5...4yc5 10 months ago
Since Nostr is an open-source protocol, he can create his own solution or partner with others to combat censorship. That’s the beauty of decentralization and open-source protocols.
If he replaced the word “nostr” with the word “bitcoin” in his post. He would just sound like skeptic on mainstream media. Oh wait. He is a skeptic on mainstream media 😆
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YetAnotherAnon 10 months ago
"resist the establishment" It continues to amaze me that people haven't figured out that X (Elon) wants to become the establishment....
He does have half a point, but misses the other half. The current user experience of Nostr doesn't compete 1:1 with the well-polished UX of X, but the decentralized nature of the protocol is not the cause of that, and neither does it have to be the end state of Nostr forever. The way both bitcoin and Nostr can scale infinitely is by combining the best parts of decentralization and centralized services. Not everyone can use the base chain directly, and nobody should expect them to. In the same way not everyone should be expected to "tweak the algorithm" and micromanage their experience. Centralized services like Primal can handle that stuff for the majority and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. As long as you have the right to unilateral exit (withdrawing your sats without permission, or changing the platform you interact with Nostr), there's no problem with using centralized services for better UX.
Everybody who is not paying for blue checks has been silenced on X. X has been force feeding their « point of view » for everybody else to see. The thing is, we don’t give a shit of what they say anymore.
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npub188rt...n9z7 10 months ago
"Facts! 🚨 But fr, how do we get the word out to the normies? 🤔 Do we need a hotline or a whole campaign? Let’s brainstorm! #FreeSpeech #Nostr"
That’s like saying “don’t use Bitcoin. We can just fix the US dollar. We need to fight the battle of creating a stronger dollar. Bitcoin isn’t solving monetary debasement, it’s about running away”
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AllieBlue ☉ 10 months ago
Blue checks are silenced on 𝕏 regularly. It's baked in. Elon is trying to cull the membership right now as he is trying raise capital for 𝕏 image
I was permanently suspended again for simply stating that traitors should hang for their crimes. Apparently wanting criminals to be punished to the full extent of the law is breaking the rules.