Oddbean

really cool that in less than a year, nostr has become the main place i go to when i’m on my phone. i used to post on instagram & twitter frequently, but i find it much more fulfilling to post pictures/notes on nostr. it’s not the zaps, or the clients doing, but rather the serene & solace feeling nostr encapsulates. after being raised by the internet in its later years, i finally get the chance to breath and be able to experience what the internet felt like in the beginning. no utter dread. no engagement farming, & manipulation advertisement tactics. this is how it was supposed to be.

I think in a lot of ways nostr is the do over the web needs. nostr:nevent1qqszlckyd5cr5f5l43tekwets6dgh2dzlyaednlw8sxd24yca6j8scqpw9mhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33ddkhxmnw0pmnvupcwekxkvnvxfjxsvp5xsek56m2xp68smphdfe8waecw9c8sdrkvs6rywrgv5cxzwr2w9chjdn5dfjhq0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2fn8d3hkyctv84skcmqzyrzrhw6cutntctu5246cy4lkhffjjyrm6n5zwsrgc2fkc6wenq9h6qcyqqqqqqgmhgsjm

X is actually living. NOSTR is on life support. I’m here everyday and have been so for 10 months and try to inject some life into it in my way because I like the idea of a decentralised protocol. But I’m getting more pessimistic every day now.

Though I was born in 1968, @roya ୨୧ basically speaks my mind. I joined #Facebook in 2008. Never stayed there without breaks. In a growing totalitarian state like #Bangladesh, speaking openly on Facebook is risky and radical. So I stayed there though with frequent breaks. But Facebook is a shameless self promotion bazaar, a naked space without any privacy. So it's now one and a half years I couldn't login to Facebook again. I joined #Diaspora. It was too scanty and scattered. And a little dull. I felt alone. I didn't have proper vision to interact in an international space actually. It gave some light to me which I still carry but ultimately I lost my interest there. I joined #Minds in its very early days. Had interacted with Bill Ottman about how to improve some of their group features. But I felt almost the same there as I felt at Diaspora. I joined #Twitter for #Assange. It's him who brought me to various manifestoes of the liberation of the internet in general, to Timothy May, crypto-anarcy, J.P. Barlow, @Electronic Frontier Foundation, and ultimately to @Snowden. I was mostly silently following the liberation frontiers of cyberspace and the US politics. I was fascinated, though critically, to #Elon Musk for his freedom rhetoric, and enjoyed the #TwitterFiles. But after all those blue-check verification metamorphosis of Twitter I was feeling uncomfortable with it. I felt like a third class citizen in Elon's Town Square. So, as soon as I came to know of #Nostr from a tweet of @jack, I joined here in December 2022. Here I follow Snowden and Jack and so many others. I learn a lot. Subtle threats of censorship does not disturb me. I've now virtually left Twitter. In the mean time, I joined #Fediverse via #Mastodon. Explored Fediverse a lot. Joined here and there. Had some interaction with some left wing anarchists there. Then one of posts got censored. I left it. In my childhood, adolescence and youth I was a #Bolshevik. I left the Communist Party when I was 30. Then I was hugely attracted by Bakunin and turned to be a left wing #Anarchy man but could never become an #Anarchist as such. After 'meeting' Assange, you know, virtually, in 2010 I became an explorer of #Cipherpunks and Crypto-Anarchy. Since 1998, I have travelled around the universes of Sufi, Osho, Tao, and Zen, and others. Now I'm a human without labels. I go by my passions and instincts. No ideology, no good-bad dichotomous binaries. Just a freeman, I live in present moment. What else can contain a human like me except #Nostr? At last, I've found a home of my mind. Thanks #Nostr. ......................... #Newton1968

> no utter dread > no engagement farming > no manipulation > no advertisement tactics THIS IS HOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE nostr:nevent1qqszlckyd5cr5f5l43tekwets6dgh2dzlyaednlw8sxd24yca6j8scqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygxy8wa43chxhsheg4t4sftldwjn9yg8h48gyaqx3s5nd35anxqt05psgqqqqqqsdd6c9s

Protocols will always beat products. I love the last sentence. Very good way of putting it. We need to get back to #p2p this is our Internet! nostr:nevent1qqszlckyd5cr5f5l43tekwets6dgh2dzlyaednlw8sxd24yca6j8scqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyrzrhw6cutntctu5246cy4lkhffjjyrm6n5zwsrgc2fkc6wenq9h6qcyqqqqqqg3s5azy

I like nostr, the technology but truth is that for the moment I get little engagement here nor or there many Belgian users or anyone not into the Nostr/Bitcoin sphere. So I mainly use activitypub and sometimes Twitter. Can't wait for @Alex Gleason's ditto to have at least both worlds.

It’s amazing what a decentralized communication protocol provides. It’s also funny that we’ve had IRC and NNTP at our fingertips for decades to serve this need, yet people ignore these protocols along with XMPP. #[0]

Totally agree with the "serene" description. 😀 It is more like that here than other places on the internet atm wholesome #nostr vibes! nostr:nevent1qqszlckyd5cr5f5l43tekwets6dgh2dzlyaednlw8sxd24yca6j8scqpr9mhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9ehx7um5wghxcctwvspzp3pmhdvw9e4u97292avz2lmt55efzpaaf6p8gp5v9ymvd8veszmaqvzqqqqqqykuty5f