Oddbean new post about login | logout software should serve you not manipulate you
I really hope that the CEO of @daylightco is legit, he seems to have the right mindset. If he pursuits what he is talking about, I'm gonna support them as much as I can.
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software should work and not have to be maintained
That's insane. No developer(s) can find and know and foresee all uses, bugs, etc... That's the beauty of open source.
How do we ensure we don’t lose this platform to the government next?
Its a protocol not a platform. Anyone can fork off and create their own subnetworks. There are no central pressure points to take down the entire thing.
Why isn’t flooded with child porn then?
What's the value to do so? Relays can control what they relay. Someone could easily run a nostr child porn relay however.
Child porn is the canary in the coal mine. The only proof of a lack of censorship is the presence of child porn. No other form of speech is more hated. If you know another form of speech more hated, let me know and I’ll use that as the canary in the coal mine.
Child porn isn't speech though. So I am not sure I follow? Like I said, NOSTR as a protocol and its relay's could 100% send out child porn, you would also need to host it or find a host that doesn't care you host it. The protocol cares not. There is no governing and central force against it in any way. There can't be. I am also not all together sure there isn't child porn on some relays, perhaps paid or private. Who knows?
nostr doesn’t host media, it hosts text
I see plenty of media https://m.primal.net/IMee.jpg
Those are links to other web servers, it has nothing to do with nostr
Interesting, so if NOSTR is censored in the sense that it relays on other services to not censor?
** Interesting, so NOSTR is censored in the sense that it relies on other services who do censor? Aka you can censor NOSTR by censoring these other non-NOSTR servers?
I for example want to keep the footage of beheaded Palestinian children online. Which server can I rely to not censor this video so we can’t pretend these war crimes don’t exist?
You just host it yourself somewhere?
I’m not a techie, I’m only here because everywhere else is censoring so effectively.
Bankrupting them by refusing to give them any money.
manipulation is a governance tactic, Indicating that control is slipping out to unknown entity, slowly and steadily. Time to wake up. nostr:note1qcs4rg7e3x2ts8xfwrhrtktn48st2chcdeuew426suvg0nkfu8eq830lq7
Software is a great servant but a bad master
what about bitcoin?
I think similar concept. If you use it as a tool to better your life it’s great. If you worship it and forget it’s a means to your chosen end, then it can be counter productive.
that may not be possible in any kind of social media. All helps (serves) that come from software changes your environment data collection and it affects the perception of things.
Louder for the "Sent from my iPhone" crowd in the back. nostr:note1qcs4rg7e3x2ts8xfwrhrtktn48st2chcdeuew426suvg0nkfu8eq830lq7
Become a programmer, and you can manipulate it.
Agreed. Software is a technology and like many amazing tools it can support humanity to grow and evolve for the better. It is the people that are the manipulators that abuse this. Let's build technology in such a way that this cannot happen in the future and gives ultimate control to the owners of the actual data that is being transacted when engaging with technolgy.
