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 Nostr isn't a success until we have journalists breaking news here that wouldn't be allowed anywhere else 
 You can be a journalist. 
 Thanks man I believe in you too 
 And whistleblowers from within governments. 

Blowing the whistle anonymously but also having cryptographic proof it was you could be very helpful in keeping you out of jail (or saving you from being hung from a lamp post).  
 YES 
 Whos to say it hasnt already happened? Friendly reminder to update your relay list to find new frens 🫂

#NOSTR WINS 🔥🔥🔥 
 Good idea! 
 #YESTR 🍀 
 Um no, success can't be gauged by a single purity test.   
 Ah shit. Hi Jack. Let me fix it:

*IN MY HUMBLE OPINION 
 But when? 
 We have time :) let’s keep building 
 There aren’t any yet? Does anyone know? 
 What a fucking stupid take. 
 🫂 
 IT'S A SUCCESS BY YOUR OWN STANDARDS, SWEET! https://primal.net/e/note14qremgdht7kpvymmaezhds2wmw42l89z0hcspjg2n4cn6ljcu5vsn0nush 
 (THIS IS THE JUNSETH POST) 
 Woo! 
 First, start with journalists here, at all ☺️  
 We already have Brazilian journalists doing this.  including some with political asylum in Brazil. 
 @allandossantos is a good example 
 This is great! 
 That's just the view of nostr that is a competitor to BigTech social media. 

There can be many different benchmarks of success. I'm not a fan of this "journalists breaking news" benchmark. 

There's a lot more potential with nostr than the social media features.  
 opposition movements in autocratic countries like Russia should be all over nostr. but the awareness just isn't there at the moment  
 https://m.primal.net/IGjH.png  
 Patient is key….
https://m.primal.net/IGkd.jpg 
 Oh yeah. I have patience in spades 
 Right but more than 50% of journalists are propagandists now, they can stay on X 😅 
 To make it happen, privacy on nostr should be improved.  
 Still early but Nostr is far more than news. I agree though, that would be a success.  
 And censored videos on X by Supreme Court orders ( Brazilian court) and E Safety board in Australia appear only on Nostr. This is a very high bar for Nostr to pass 
 Remember when Matt Taibbi showed up for a minute and everyone got real excited. I guess he was a little too early and didn't get enough of a following. 
 Nothing changed since he left lol 
 Unfortunately, accurate. But it's not too bad. It's a nice little bubble we got here. We don't need dirty politics mucking it all up. 
 I want to name the jew though  
 What? 
 I call out jewish supremacists and power  
 No. Journalists are scum 
 Weren't the 3-letter agencies enough? 🤣  
 ...and content creators creating nostr first content... like wavlake! 🔥 
 And users with this level of enthusiasm:

“If you ban TikTok, you ban my way of life,” Firebaugh is quoted as saying in the suit.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/14/tiktok-creators-sue-us-government-first-amendment-block-law-that-could-ban-app.html 
 well. we'll never know as the government can't ban us! 
 nostr on minecraft?

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 @Linda @vrod 
 We’re working on it! Stay tuned later today!  
 Guess we need to onboard Tucker. 
 Nostr is a success

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 No, the server hosts the video can be taken down by court orders. Nostr must have decentralized videos like jb55 mentioned by using bitterent 2 
 Ok you are right about that, the only reason it has not been ordered for takedown is because nostr is too small for them to care about. In other words, nostr is not battle-tested yet.