Oddbean new post about login | logout I would be pretty sad about the internet if nostr didn’t exist. I grew up on the internet. Nostr gives me hope that we can build better systems to find clarity and truth in our world.
I’m with you. The internet of today is depressing. Completely corporate, weaponized against normal people, all highly fabricated and manipulated. Nostr gives me hope we can do better.
Is nostr like uncensorabe or something ?
censorship resistant may be more accurate relays are “in competition” with each other to serve all the messages users ask so if any given relay wants to censor it only hurts its own reputation but someone else will probably still carry the message so its kind of futile for a relay to attempt to censor
I never even used Twitter after realizing how powerful (and scary) its incentive structures were. … but Nostr gives me great hope with the potential to rewrite the structure and positively align the incentives. A potential win for all!
when you say grew up on the internet, what were the things you enjoyed? i am too young for the early net