Oddbean

Nation-states and the media will never stop attacking Twitter. Today, it's been made clear that Nostr is the only long-term viable free speech platform. Everything centralized will become the mainstream media. https://m.primal.net/JrXT.png And the press' incentive is obvious: take these centralized competitor platforms down to their level: https://www.techmeme.com/240807/p7#a240807p7 Twitter will always have a direct attack vector, whoever is in charge. Right now, that's Elon: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/07/uk-riots-elon-musk-accountable-to-no-one-uk-tech-minister-says.html You see, the riots in the UK are all Elon's fault. Not the last 40 years of shit policy, not the last couple of years of astronomical inflation, and certainly not because people are at a breaking point. Through their mouthpieces of correct information, they'll tell us that if it wasn't for that evil Elon and his radicalization platform, spreading disinformation, things would be fine. We should let them solve the problem. You're too stupid to sort out reality from cheap fakes. They'll imply that they are the experts and that average folk can't sort out truth from misinformation without their help. And right now, they are helping us, by attacking Elon and Twitter. But it's not really about Elon or Twitter. That's just today's problem. It's about controlling the narrative in an age that is getting increasingly difficult. Whoever or whatever gets in the way of that will constantly be attacked. Through the complicit media, they will find a soft target and relentlessly attack, even if it takes years. Mastodon is even worse and more straightforward to attack. It just needs to be more relevant to the matter, but once it does, it will be under attack, too. Compared to someone like Elon, who has a massive reach and resources, it will be relatively effortless for the state(s) to go after these Masto instance operators. Nostr is the only thing built to solve this at the protocol layer. You probably have figured this out already, but it crystallized for me this morning.

I need me some Unfiltered nostr:nprofile1qqsr35lfugsvstua2smmf9wt4q730dchuyyyutktn263gqyy67du7hqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qzxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eeks6t5vehhycm99ehkuegpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6atn9e3k76twve6kuerfwshxxmmdscc85w Just sayin'

Sadly many countries are following China and slowly walling up their networks so they can have greater surveillance, influence, and control. Soon I'll be resorting to messengers on foot a la Mirrors Edge.