Oddbean new post about login | logout @Plebchain Radio Episode 82 began with a profound Twitter history lesson. It shined light on the past, present and future of Nostr. We discussed @nos.social, the creator community, the creator fund, our mission to cultivate culture and much more. @AviBurra and I could not be more appreciative of @rabble's time and wisdom. This episode is one for the history books and we highly encourage you to give it a listen. Thank you to those who listened and interacted live on Nostr Nest. Thank you to those who continue to support our cultural movement and keep fighting the good fight of freedom tech. For those who listen to the recorded version. Please support Value 4 Value and listen, boost, share, follow on @fountain_app Building the future we want for the next generation takes everyone of us. 🫂 https://fountain.fm/episode/xlDntsKe4UBBi5hit3jm
Effusive thanks to @rabble @QW @AviBurra for this fascinating discussion! Coming from the SF Indymedia millieu, I really value the historical and philosophical coverage behind the technology. McCluhan said, "The medium is the message." The philosophy behind the tech inevitably manifests itself in the social relations possible via that tech. Indymedia (which itself grew out of the organizing around the Seattle 1999 WTO protests) in my analysis stumbled when it came to outreach/community building, centralization, burnout, funding, factionalism (ha, welcome to the Left). Nostr excels in addressing all of these in some way or another.
Correction: The Carnival Against Capital/J18 took place 6 months before the Seattle WTO Ministerial in Nov. 1999. Indymedia began there, as far as I know. But Seattle was a giant catalyst and inspiration. I remember the flyers (remember flyers?), "Anarchists invite you to Seattle!" in Fall 1999.
And there were Indymedia like projects in the 90’s like the CounterMedia center at the DNC protests in Chicago in 96. http://www.cpsr.cs.uchicago.edu/countermedia/ Nothing new and important appears out of nowhere.