I’m not saying don’t talk about bitcoin, but what I’m saying is there needs to be space for lots of communities who never want to near about bitcoin or encryption or monetary policy, etc… If you’re person who’s really in to knitting, you want to talk about knitting.

When Occupy Wallstreet started and as occupy grew, the core organizing and form of organizing was explicitly anarchist. Ideologically, an attempt to take the politics of the anti-globalization movement and make it relevant to local concerns as it were. The way of organizing was anarchist, the understanding of the problem and solutions were anarchist. Yet there was an intentional effort to NOT talk about anarchism. It was about the practice, the issues at hand, the people. Sure if you asked, people wouldn’t deny their ideology, but you didn’t join occupy because you had read political theory and decided that you were an anti-authoritarian leftist. You joined because the idea that 1% of the population shouldn’t control the economic and political system. Then in practice, you saw the politics play out and you could decide if you liked it.

If on the other hand Occupy had said, “we want to black pill you to become a true believer in the anarchist revolution and direct action.” Then a lot of people who might like the ideas and find value in participating in the movement would be turned off.

People should join and use nostr because it meets their needs, they can connect and create social space for themselves. Not because how the social software handles payments.