Oddbean new post about login | logout The arrest of Telegram founder, presumably for refusing to censor content, is the biggest signal that what we're doing here on #Nostr is so important to the future of humanity it's almost immeasurable. Let's keep up the good fight #Nostriches and not worry too much about MAUs, because where we're going, it's a fight for our freedom.
“To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.” - Twitter (et.al.) Influencers nostr:note10mvaymfw0ceyn4099etvq2gx2xe4kuygcp4e6wqndlv3z6ycjdaq8fxdqh
These are the hills I choose to die upon: Bitcoin and nostr.
Good hills 🤙
What’s MAU?
The content in question is supposedly CSAM.
Isn't it always?
It's true that it's one of the Four Bogeymen, but otoh there is a very unpleasant fact that there *is* a lot if covert trade of that particular filth on all open platforms. We'll have to see exactly what charges and evidence are brought up. Pavel is after all a dual Russian-French citizen.
What alternatives are there? Matrix? Simplex? Keet? Signal?
Any of those, self-hosted. Even regular old self-hosted email, but pin your certificate if you're worried about a Western govt doing a MitM. They have their own root certs trusted by default
Carrier Pigeons. 😁🐓💨
"Durov, 39, was wanted under a French arrest warrant due to the lack of moderation on Telegram which led to it being used for money laundering, drug trafficking and sharing pedophilic content, according to BFMTV"
Arrested for non-fake and differently-fake news out of global troublespots, of course. Telegram must be less cooperative than I thought
They got banned from Brazil too last year.
Everything is good for Bitcoin. https://m.primal.net/KLQN.jpg
Imagine this: They come and arrest the creator of #nostr , and all the founders of clients on top of it like Snort, Damus, Primal, etc, and they take all of their possessions and prevent their team from working on these projects, and also threaten them as they order them to stop nostr and these clients. Guess what'll happen? Nothing. Nostr and the clients built on top of it still work, can't be stopped, and other people around the world continue its development. Devs are laughing, users are laughing, and everyone is laughing at those who try to stop nostr. nostr:note10mvaymfw0ceyn4099etvq2gx2xe4kuygcp4e6wqndlv3z6ycjdaq8fxdqh
It says a lot that Nostr and Bitcoin don’t have CEOs who can be imprisoned.
