Musk is doing what he can with X. He's fighting government mandated censorship wherever it may be. Unfortunately, it only takes one loss to render the platform compromised.
Given that many of these orders are secret and do not allow Musk to reveal them, it's possible that it's already compromised.
In other words, it's only a matter of time before things get worse there. The future must be decentralized.
He knows as much, so platforms can’t be held liable, but I’m not a developer, is it remotely feasible to have Twitter/X leverage the Nostr protocol?
I’m not either but I’d bet heavily on no because current infrastructure could not handle that volume of traffic
If he puts together robust relays,l and streamlines the process of them coming pre installed on the client, is that the hiccup or are there other things to facilitate the faster flow of information?
The problem is he cannot manage nor provide the relays. Relay operators should probably be voluntary and/or profit seeking individuals or independent entities to maintain the benefits of decentralization.
Maybe he could provide a no-strings-attached bounty for the first few thousand relay operators per country
A sufficiently motivated and resourced company could build the world's greatest decentralized social network.
But the product doesn't make enough money to cover such an enormous firm's costs.
So small groups of principled devs and startups are our only hope.
Musk has good intentions and is obviously unbelievably intelligent but he does not seem to grasp the nature of The United States, an empire and the global hegemon since decades.
And he does hit seem to fully understand Bitcoin either.
Long and non trivial topics.
Musk has good intentions?…for whom
It was compromised before and it’s certainly compromised now too. #deletexitter
I'm 100% sure it is compromised now too, maybe less. There is no much than can be done in a centralized system. Single point of failure!!!
Elon fighting government censorship 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Musk choosing to buy Twitter while Jack Dorsey was already singing the praises of Nostr always seemed a strange move to me.
I've never understood how Twitter / X - being a centralized platform in the govt crosshairs - would survive a co-ordinated takedown.
Especially, say if the Govt leans on the tech giants (Apple, Google, Microsoft) to deny access to it.
Protocols > Platforms
Elon needs to set X up and running on a censorship resistant protocol. Otherwise every government will eventually come knocking.
Besides, Musk is now just playing the opposite political direction to secure a position in a future Trump administration.
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