The question is, can nostr defeat stuff like this in the long run?
The answer is, not at this pace 😢
I decided to make a new Facebook account to try and get in touch with some foreign friends that I really don't want to lose contact with.
This is new.
I'm guessing this is Facebook's way of gearing up for the new Australian social media laws.
The Australian government wants to have facial ID mandated as age verification for all social media.
The laws already passed months ago but they don't go into effect until December.
At which point it becomes illegal for 16 year olds and under to use anything considered social media. Even YouTube.
Whole point is to force people to accept the #digitalid
I'm sure the age restriction for social media will end up getting lifted, months after going into effect, once a large enough number of people get logged out of all their social media and get a pop up telling them to sign up for digital id, and they will because it'll be soooooo convenient.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/0a63a95c1bb155f8d1c74efa83959d486b7c3c2c7fa51fcc578d8a7f8b75da94.webp
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Discussion
They will start jailing relay operators.. 1984.
We need people to learn faster about Tor and "parallel construction" to combat this stuff strategically as individuals
Other than trying to remain in contact with people the real reason I tried to make a new Facebook today was onboarding more people to nostr.
Made a new tiktok and Instagram also just for that reason, new a whole new google account for YouTube so can't be bothered.
But the tiktok and Instagram will only be for posting Nostr related content.
If just one more person joins because of something I posted and they onboard a handful of friends and family my efforts will have paid off.
It's still early days.
I'll be making music for tiktok about nostr.
Ages ago on an old tiktok I had a sound from a song I made go viral. 15 million views on the video and a shitload of people used it as a sound for their own videos.
So the potential is there, if that song was about nostr, it could have on boarded a few hundred people I'm sure, although tiktok will shadowban you if people are opening a different app after watching your videos, so it will only work once at the most with each account.
There are tutorials for helping make a video to viral on each platform, specific words that the algorithms like or don't how to talk to the camera so it shows you to the right audience etc.
Someone who wants to promote nostr and has access to some decent ai to generate some videos could probably train it on those tutorials and just start making shitloads of videos with high potential of going viral.
Like what do people have to lose?
Using what platforms you can to convert people to nostr is the way 💪