I'm at a point where I almost don't believe anything I see or read on the internet or social media anymore.

- In the 90's I had already stopped believing in legacy media (print, TV etc.)

- In the 2000s I firmly believed in the principle: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

- As soon as Twitter launched in 2007 I also stopped believing in the sincerity of regular, real people online.

- At some point I also lost faith in the credibility and competence of popular Islamic scholars on the internet, with very few exceptions.

- I recently lost trust in the integrity of the Bitcoin Core developers (you know why)

- For the past two years I haven’t believed that there are real people behind any given pubkey, or that you should be doing business with them (sorry, that’s the price of anonymity)

- Somewhere along the way I also stopped believing in citizen journalism.

- No need to tell anyone that photos can't be trusted. Now it’s videos too.

- Even seasoned lawyers are showing up in court with AI-invented precedent cases.

The entire internet, Nostr included, is one giant brainwashing machine. Keep it real. Anyone who stays real is priceless.