Oddbean

It probably won’t happen, but you have found a safe place to never worry about it in the future. You will find a friendly and warm welcome on #nostr. No algorithm is going to make you mad or cry laughing all the time, but it’s 100% authentic. You can see the difference everyday if you go cold turkey from other social media. It’s actually quite peaceful leaving that all behind.

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This is just the one of many more "bans" by governments. They will happen more and more over the next several years. Nostr is just getting started but will end up growing huge due to it's censorship-resistance tech.

Despite individual users speech (and our rightful concerns on censorship) we also have to reconcile at some higher level a platform is what the platform does. Tiktok (which can’t be separated from its algorithm influence) is feasibly a psychological weapon from china on the west. Facebook, instagram, etc are likely similar, just wielded by different factions. Some are big mad at Musk for disrupting their preferred influence toolkit. Media coverage on X makes this clear. (To be clear, X still probably isn’t healthy for most of our minds/souls either, but now a little harder to control. ) Time on Decentralized platforms helps make this clear….. It’s why nostr will feel different. It might be our first steps to orient ourselves towards a #humanforever world.

An important question that we need to put on the table. If someone posts content that is controversial, banned or illegal, it's a valid question where authorities can and should go to deal with the content. And the correct answer is that the authorities should first identify the profile that made the post. They are the source of the content, so they are responsible. The second place to go is anyone who shared the content, which is visible information on record for everyone to see. The third place to go might be the nodes that host the content, with the proper resolution being that those nodes can mute the profile that made the posts. But the original profile that is the source of the post has full responsibility for their own actions. Going after an entire platform just because you don't like something? That's not desirable, and not possible. That's what a protocol based social media makes possible. Responsibility and accountability. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

The other aspect of the ban is the user data mining. Well, they can try that here, but they're not going to get very far. Everything is on the table. Followers, following, zaps, whatever. Have fun storming the castle.

Welcome to Nostr! Hopefully you/tiktokers find a nostr app that suit your needs What I think about the ban? Complete BS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNNYhLZ0IXU https://rumble.com/v4j9vyc-system-update-show-242.html

Us first Nostr folks tend to be pretty anti TikTok. But I think it’s feels like the patriot act where we will never escape this dangerous massive expansion of arbitrary federal power. Bad precedent that will be used against good people and businesses in the future when the government doesn’t like what they say.

What I think - that it's a desperate power grab by centralized forces - but kind of inevitable at this point. When the narrative starts getting out of control, time to crack down. Very happy to have a protocol like Nostr and decentralized protocols in general.

Not a fan of TikTok, but even less of a fan of any goverments telling you what you can or can't do. It will serve just as a stepping stone for more bans and power grabs for them. The only thing all the parties always universally agree on. Just show them the finger and opt out. They have no rights over your free choices. Their legitimacy ended long time ago, they just didn't catch up yet. Use the tools over which they have no authority or coercive powers. Those tools were designs primarily for this purpose, of protecting your freedoms and rights against any coercion. Nostr is one of them. Nostr also has a very anti-monopolistic design, so that not even the clients have any coercive powers over you (unlike facebooks or twitters of the world). You will always be able to take your login, all your "friends" and content, and move to a more attractive competitor you want to play with. * Supppemental recommended reading - A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by J. P. Barlow https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence#main-content

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