> Free speech platforms can not exist. Only free speech protocols can exist.
> If someone can control what is being said, someone will control what is being said. If you can monitor, filter, and censor content, you will monitor, filter, and censor content.
> All platforms will run into this problem, no matter how pristine their intentions. Even if you position yourself as a free speech platform at first, you will be forced to step in and censor in the long run.
> We move from the analog world of scarcity into the digital world of abundance. Markets don't work in this world. In the words of Jaron Lanier: "Markets become absurd as supply approaches infinity."
> "Trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet," to quote Bruce Schneier.
> When it comes to JPGs, mp3 files, blog posts, or similar digital artifacts, we have to stop pretending that the files themselves are scarce or precious. They aren't. The humans that create them are. Consequently, we have to find new ways of pricing and monetizing things. New ways of making sure that the value that is generated accrues to the humans that are responsible for the added value, without imprisoning information or users—without trying to make water not wet.
> We have to disconnect price from value, and we have to re-think both.
https://dergigi.com/2022/12/18/a-vision-for-a-value-enabled-web/
> "The Ask" is the most important piece of the puzzle. The number one reason people do not give is because they weren’t asked, and the same holds true for the V4V model.
> There is an art in asking your audience to give back, and it will be different depending on medium, demographics, and other factors. But one thing remains: you’ll have to ask.
Well I startet to write up some thoughts but your replies just went right to K.O. with them. Honestly Gigi, I (we?) love it! Thank you so much!
Can Filipinos own Bitcoin as much as the Americans can?When?
Yep, that’s a profound point I’ve been trying to articulate but you’ve found great words for. Independent of #nostr, Sam Harris is incredibly good at what you call “the ask”. He does it in a way where it is clearly authentic, because 1) unlike almost everyone else he’s forgoing advertising revenue and 2) he offers people who can not afford it a free version of his subscriptions.
What’s interesting there is that the default is people pay and he forces people to be ACTIVELY disingenuous if they want to cheat his system.
