Oddbean new post about login | logout nostr will have the best tech and the most devs, people won’t be able to ignore that for long. other clients on other protocols will run into heavy handed moderation issues due to centralization of power, government pressure, and lack of user keys. This is the main risk I see for mastodon, bluesky and big tech, regardless of current user numbers. As long as people care about freedom and building a sovereign presence in cyberspace, nostr is inevitable. It’s possible most people don’t actually care about these things, but at least we’ll have the best solution for people who do. Those people are the coolest to hang out with anyways.
Freedom or Nothing!!!!
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the fact that so many people are fine with that is still an open anthropological and psychological question I have yet to understand.
People turn on autopilot for things that don’t immediately affect their livelihood. Easier to follow the herd without thinking. “Oh it’s decentralized? Awesome!”
ah right… I am blessed (cursed?) with the knowledge about how all this works at every layer of the stack, and think deeply about how implementations of these protocols lead to different outcomes. I see nostr as the outcome that leads to the most freedom for individuals, perhaps thats why its clearer to me as to why this is the proper solution. education is the key i guess.
Thing is most people run everything through a subconscious "How does this affect my food supply?" filter. Someone in 1950s America might be mortified if a nude photo of them was passed around the office, whereas someone from some remote tribe somewhere would have no issue with everyone in their world having seen them naked. Why is one mortified and one not? Because to be exposed in the first instance is to be socially looked down upon, and our brands are hard-wired to interpret being socially looked down upon as a risk of diminished food supply (red alert). Other words, all comes down to food.
“As long as people care about freedom and building a sovereign presence in cyberspace…” https://image.nostr.build/a32dccc1327ae5592a3ca5cd2669d8b5d741e23256be0ec00bbeac43dfbaf975.gif
It blows my mind the degree to which people don't care about those things. There's a certain crowd that wants heavy-handed moderation and always will. Fine. There's also a lot of people that claim they want freedom, and then can't even be bothered to crosspost. Liberty twitter sleeping on nostr is insane.
> As long as people care about freedom and building a sovereign presence in cyberspace, nostr is inevitable. nostr:note1fj0fjkg87e3gltzg2qwyt5suxxhuak9ytprc5p8md434vunych5qpk0qe4
I predict most users of NOSTR won’t even know they are using it in the future. It will just be the protocol that underpins their favorite app.
Agreed. Reddit will just adopt Nostr. That would be incredible. :)
💜 true! 💜
Bluesky is gay
Yup, I say it when it comes up, corporate, centralized tools inevitably die, they have quarterly goals and on boarding metrics and all that they have to give to investors. Something like Nostr (or bitcoin or anything open source and decentralized really) can continue on indefinitely with 2 users. They'll stick around as long as someone spmewhere needs them, and if not that many people do, fine, but if the time comes when many do, they're there. They only die when they become useless, success metrics have very little bearing.
Just be ready for the censors to eventually arrive... they will show up and point out all the "hate speech" that needs to be eliminated. Fuck 'em. FREEDOM... OF SPEECH. LFG! https://youtu.be/D0sjCgS7vi8?feature=shared
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Nostr, an eternal joke. Keys with no possibility of rotation in case of compromise. Zero usability. Zero inclusion. Only fascist users, hostile to the LGBTQ+ community and progressives in general. Decentralization is important, but it is not everything. 🤣
nostr’s main strength is simplicity and decentralization, anyone can use it, they just need to choose to. A protocol is not political.
That's not true. I saw your note being hostile towards LGBT people. On Bluesky I feel welcome, not here. Decentralization is not everything! Besides, what's the point of decentralization if there's no usability? To post a simple image, for example, you first need to host it on a server lol Ask a regular user if they really think Nostr is simple? Would your grandparents be able to use Nostr today? Be honest? Because my grandparents just created accounts on Bluesky. ;-) https://image.nostr.build/992193994b3956c1f86a045788ff13aa2e4010e9f68c42831bf33a12c72c06f8.png
As a newbie, I agree that nostr isn't something that is user friendly at this point, but on the other hand, decentralization is giving everyone equal right to use their voice however they want to. If protocol is decentrilized, it doesn't mean that every user will have the same lifestyle, opinion and preferences.
should probably avoid using the English language then too. That protocol has all kinds of racist and +-phobic words in it.
I am not technical enough to comment about key rotation. But only fascist users, hostile to LGBTQ+ and progressives - I am not so sure this is completely true. Like all social media, what you see is influenced by who you follow. But it's an open protocol and you are welcome to be the change you wish to see and bring more of progressive friends if you so wish to. No one can dictate how you do Nostr - do it your way 👍
lol stop being a chicken shit and block / moderate (w/ your own) account (isnt that what yall always do on other protocols) too weak to be hostile back to the haters?. bring your community here and post anything you like, youll never be banned unlike on bsky
i won't get banned, but I get threatened by haters every day here, unlike bluesky.
You're more than welcome on my side and I'm 100% sure by the majority of Nostr users. I think it's fundamental to have a diversity of opinions and I personally don't like to spend time in echo chambers. So yeah, keep posting. You're valuable and listened! Bring your friends too.
You're not going to banned here, so you'll have time to find the middle ground. That's what really really matters. I think that we'll all get that having time and a place to find the middle ground is the most important thing, not having everyone think the same. There's always a middle ground. :)
#Nostr and #Bitcoin are inevitable.. nostr:nevent1qqsye85etyrlvc5043y9q8z96gwrrt7wmzj9s3u2qnak6c6kwfjvt6qpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygpjuxp8vd29p6ancknaztql3eajk52y8xkppfn7au7elkw9c68zg5psgqqqqqqseqfw8z
Exactly. And the thing is, people are looking for echo chambers when what they should be looking for is civil discourse. In other words, learning how to deal with people that have opposing views. Twitter right now is for right wing in general Bluesky becomes left-wing in general (I know these are very hard to define things, I'm just giving a rough perspective) Nostr ideally becomes a mix of everyone. For example myself I'm post left-right, I believe in the Swiss model of referendums, i.e the best tool for the job AND still having principles/morals of course. Nostr will elevate every single individual, instead of dividing them in groups.
Call me weird but I actually like nostr already and I'm not holding my breath for it to change into something else 🤷
“Build it and they will come.” It’s nice to see the demand is there.. https://i.nostr.build/0VJn5PGuJATOztL8.jpg
