We need value backed reputations on NOSTR. Yesterday.

You will know them by their fruits, and there is no objective scoreboard to record value (outside of Mainnet).

Can't wait but I'm too regarded to do it. GPT 6 will prbably sweep it up in one prompt.

Someone will though, and then we'll know who Anon is by how they share value.

A full half of the privacy movement are monkeys who enjoy the lack of accountability that anonymity provides - and this is a huge cost to the rest.

Privacy is not secrecy. It is the right to selectively reveal oneself to others.

We need to work on the "showing things selectively" side.

NOT hiding things indiscriminately.

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Got Seth from Cake Wallet on the pod next week

“Privacy is not secrecy. It is the right to selectively reveal oneself to others.”

Is exactly what I want to ask him about

Saying that, surely proof/of-work is the key. Ie an account is clearly real due to the volume, value, and traction of notes

What am i missing?

Anything deeply true, when expressed in vernacular, presents as irony/paradox.

Secrecy, and privacy are such 2 extremes that start in the same place, and horseshoe into extremes in our language.

The issue of visibility, is then, like a coin, with total anonymity on one side, and a centralised panopticon of audit on the other.

The human action that balances that coin on its thin edge, is the right path. And is just as hard to walk, as to land a coin on its side.

We need to focus on the control of the topic. We are not in control if we lurch to one side or the other, of a deep truth.

The resolution here is. How can we demonstrate our virtues to others more formally, without revealing so much, that we are not free., and can be attacked.

We need peer to peer reputation scores on the NOSTR layer, but broad. We have them on exchanges, Uber, Google.

But as a movement - we pay a tax to the psychos who can move through high signal people, and deniably take advantage of anything they can, without consequence, and in a way they are able to repeat.

No oracles or moderators. Just give me the audit history of an Anon, and the other parties side of the story, and the patterns will emerge.

In Bitcoin, some have lived their entire working lives without ever having a job, or building anything. And they wear the same hats. Make the same noises.

Root them out - they are more expensive than Governments. This is not social credit scoring, because there would be no hub.

This is self organisation, in response to the costs of dealing with shadows who speak as friends.

nostr:nprofile1qy28wue69uhnzv3h9cczuvpwxyargwpk8yhsz3rhwvaz7tmed3c8qarfxaj8s6mrw96kvef5dve8wdrsvve8vvehwamxx7rnwejnw6n0d3axu6t3w93kg7tfwechqutvv5ekc6ty9ehku6t0dchsqgrwg6zz9hahfftnsup23q3mnv5pdz46hpj4l2ktdpfu6rhpthhwjv0us2s2 taught me about paradox, and the world doesnt look the same since. Just so I'm sure i'm not plagiarizing work of his - credit to that bugger - he's a good 'un. .

Paradoxes reveal deep truth. And when the truth is close by, it is so exact and profound - it divides all affairs into extremes, and things are at their most extremely contradictory, often sad and amazing at the same time, when you are closer and closer to the truth.

I find it easier to attribute it to a failure of language. Where our ink scratchings and honks and hisses are too low fidelity to capture what we see and feel.

A fool will dismiss a paradox as proof of a failure of reality. But language is subordinate to natural law and universal truth. We do not judge the superior with the means of the subordinate.

A real paradox, when found, is simply a gate to pass through.

And herein lies the beauty of making friends online

Lessons everywhere