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 The internet is getting worse by the day. For your safety.

Thankful Nostr exists.

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 It's so fucking insane. Ass-backwards, all of it.  
 infuriating. 
 nothing we can do about, as someone who’s only internet experience (age/generation wise) has been the conglomerate of centralized private companies, it’s very hard to not use them when they seemingly have a monopoly on the decades archive of content stores on youtube. i like my john butler meditation videos on youtube, im unable to use nostr sadly, even though i’d love that. 

we can kick, scream, at reality, but until there’s a definite way to bypass the hell of google, i fear, we are going to (have to) use it anyways 
 oh the absolute typo hell of this note, so sorry. 
 We have to use it? I am not using it. 

Know, that this is your mental cage, your John butler meditation should free you from. 
 did you know not using yotube actually doesn’t make you better than others 🥰 
 I'm glad there are frontends like invidious at least. Can't wait for devs to make a good decentralized alternative 
 Vpn?  
 Decentralize everything. 
 I got the same YT bullshit, I think this also a way of fightning the YT proxies like Piped and Indivious 
 One thing people don't talk about is how a decentralized censorship-resistant video host would naturally copy YouTube's library starting with the videos people are most motivated to back up, since the censorship resistance would mean no authorities being able to prevent so-called "piracy" or whatever 
 sadly, youtube has way too much of an important archive of information for me to not use it. no youtube nostr replacement yet. 
 Sync your YouTube channel to Odysee to save your archive.  
 Gatekeepers Everywhere 
 With proton vpn, stealth protocol, you don´t have this problem 
 Proton VPN doesn't have port forwarding 
 It do port forwarding https://protonvpn.com/support/port-forwarding-manual-setup#:~:text=To%20enable%20port%20forwarding%2C%20open,OpenVPN%20or%20WireGuard%20configuration%20files. 
 Not really, they're just lying

They let you open ports manually every time you connect to the VPN but that's not the same as actual port forwarding support like AirVPN has and others used to have in the past 
 I am not married with a vpn provider, choose the vpn or no vpn you need. Assuming vpn providers are honeypots looks In most cases not far from the truth.  
 I might be wrong on this, idk 
 what is broken on the internet is PAYMENT 
 nostr:nevent1qqs8dtsd3lcuxlyu5kw72ga8wnd9mmchftt5x867dwhwk0hyke92ceqzyqxcc4t0f7zcq5y2q4lwysqq4d36a7y6utp7lhyqrzhy6trnml2dwqcyqqqqqqgf90t46
 
 if we fix block 

#Nostr brings the internet back to its decentralized roots