Why are you still an active #nostr user?
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I like babbling nonsense
The love shared on here is amazing.
I have more fun on Nostr than any social I’ve ever used. Plus, Nostr aligns with my fundamental values. There is no second best.
Freedom.
I’ve taken breaks from nostr, and every time I come back, I’m reminded of how cool it is.
#boobstr and memes
Because is a cult.
This is the last social media account i ever have to build. No more follower here check out stuff over at this walled garden. All my grammer mistakes and growing photos get to be in one spot with my full control
Bc it exists and works (enough) and is better than the alternatives in my view
Come to think of it, that also applies to Bitcoin
Build the future of memes
Deleted everything else.
It’s toxic.
It's the only social media I use (if you exclude YT).
Instagram and Facebook are data harvesting machines that I don't want to feed.
Twitter's algorithms are too addictive. And they are, because they tap into negative emotions. I didn't feel good about using them.
So there is Nostr.
It's interesting and new. I like the idea of decentralised social media and open source stuff. And I really appreciate the lack of horrible algorithms.
I also like to sweat sometimes and appreciate to not get punished for that.
And last but NOT least: we are beaming the hardest asset/money ever known to mankind through space at the touch of a button.
Oh, and Udi Wertheimer isn't here. Thank fuck!
Swear*
oh yeah, that anxiety about getting banhammered or cultshamed... i've said some pretty daring things on numerous occasions on nostr and a few funny reactions but not the kind of cancel gang situation i'm used to from anywhere else... it is like the old days of phpBB and Simple Machines, before the facebook and google machines started up... oh, you could get into a little bit of trouble being controversial but it was not the same cult drone army situation
anyhow, even if mister sunglasses shows up to try and influence his flock of drones here, i doubt that anyone not interested in his nonsense will even hardly hear about it
i think that the cult leaders know that they don't have a big cult leader behind them to back them up here, that's why they are so scared to come here
Because the Nostr paradigm is a future I want. Censorship resistance, provable authorship, no ads, and no gateeeping by the platform owners in particular.
tbh i dont know 😂
Because of your funny memes! I wish there were more funny accounts here. Also, people here are very insightful and positive and constructive.
🤣🔥🫂
Because elsewhere I feel out of place
Because it makes me laugh and I've met some very cool people over the last +1 years. A couple of them IRL. It also often reminds me of the old mIRC days when we were all still friends playing around with this blockchain thing.
because of the great people I follow 💜
Because fits with Bitcoins ethos of self sovereignty, zaps, and being apart of a community blossoming
Because I care about freedom of speech, both for myself and for others. nostr generally also has a lot of signal which usually makes my day better and more interesting. Lastly, this is a place I feel I can contribute to, to make the world a better place.
Girls just wanna have fun.
No rage algo. Lots of great Bitcoiners and freedom loving people here. Gives me a place to archive my life without censorship.
And #zaps of course ⚡️
I wish I was even more active, but can't think of interesting notes to send 🫣
I believe in freedom. there is no CEO, or company with misaligned incentives to get between me and my followers. I create my own algorithm.
nostr is FOSS, nostr is freedom tech 🤙✌️
It's comfy inside my echo chamber
Only social that feels authentic to me
Moro is here til the end 🫡
I wanna follow Bitcoin stuff and other platforms are full of bots and scams and ads… Nostr is not …for now…
Bc the bird app is worse every day. On Nostr I don't get bots, ads, scams, bc we have Zaps, integration with other clients like zap.stream and other cool apps. Bc it's worth investing my time bc the data belongs to my account. Bc i developed and want to develop more apps on nostr and the potential is bigger than ppl realize.
Because everything else is just noise 🫨
because people reply to questions posted here.
it feels like an incredible hive mind that i have access to.
for free
boggles my mind
Because it allows me to avoid 100% of clownery while potential clowns cannot be silenced.
Less centralization than anywhere else.
No algos promoting negativism.
Bitcoin news and chit chat.
It take us to a journey of freedom and sovereignty to bring us to a real understanding of the clown world and embrace a new renaissance. The optimism and hope is what I feel here at Nostr.
Peace, Love & Respect 💜🧡
#nostr
Banned from Twitter, insta is just fake people trying to convince you of their fake life. Facebook is a retirement home. And all are owner by narcissistic sociopaths. Yeah I think I'm good here.
A handful of people I’m not connected with or don’t see elsewhere, memes, and zaps. That first one keeps shrinking though, not growing.
Any insight as to why they leave?
I’m sure everyone has their own reasons, but I think some of the top reasons would probably be the echo chamber, the trolling and harassment of varying kinds, the lack of any kind of algorithm to boost visibility and gain followers, and the bugginess of the clients.
It feels good here with all of you 🫂
And I can #zap to fuck the system 🏴
Because I can contribute and build on it instead of being a passive user. I also think I'm helping Bitcoin by creating apps that use Lightning and nostr.
I feel free here, reminds me of my early internet days and gives me hope for a better future. There are huge challenges ahead and I'm not happy with the state of many things but the protocol has insane potential.
Resonate with early internet days vibe.
Do you need any help with Habla product or janitor stuff?
🤝
Sure, could use some help. We used to have community calls but now is pretty anarchic. The issue tracker is at https://github.com/verbiricha/habla.news I suspect there are some that need clarification and others can be closed. If you want to take a look that'd be appreciated!
💯
Potential
Amazing space 🤙🧡
I want to be part of the movement. I think this is the future of social. I believe in the block chain. I am learning as I go. It is refreshing to see the type of content and minds that are here, right now.
it's like the bitcoin of social media. will be a parallel alternative for a while and someday become the standard
Bc people use rooftop Koreans as their profile picture
it's still punk
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Because I don’t have to answer survey questions from Silicon Valley nobs.
What other option is there? Now you're all stuck here with me.
Because no one can stop me!
Only the real kind of degenerates here
Because I have hope
because it isn't trying to manipulate me, or cancel me
and because i think that after decades of covert manipulation, the mother of all social migrations is incoming and this is a gold mine for people with creative business ideas involving communication
Quality of people.
Because fuck algos messing with my brain.
Where else am I supposed to go? Everywhere else I'm weird/stupid and they're ignorant sheep.
Because I've met cool people here and because it's a great place to contribute with my side projects.
Nostr doesn’t have any chance of survival without users, and as of right, nostr is the only hope I have for the internet.
almost everyone i followed on twitter is here active, except for yellow, who doesn't post regularly, but he's busy with dsb spaces, i get all the memes but without stupid ads
I like a forum where people aren’t afraid of the truth, and are in fact actively seeking it out.
It’s also a giant middle finger to legacy rug-pulling central servers based internet, and I’m happy to contribute to an exodus from there in whichever way I can.
BECAUSE PENIS
Everyday I'm learning new stuff ⚡🔥
NO COMPANY OWNS ME
Because Bitcoin + Nostr are the exit from fiat money and fiat internet.
for ideological reasons
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Cause as much as nostriches call themselves tards they are intelligent
I found my people 🤙
Social media is a drug and I'm a damn addict
The energy
The lack of central control
The lack of needing permission
Alternative to a dystopian outcome
The potential
The note is just the beginning
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Meta - deleted ❌
X - deleted ❌
Por que puedo, por qué quiero, por qué me gusta y por qué me da la gana. Por ahora ✌🏼
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I made friends here.
Also the signal on development of technology with the potential to improve our future.
I like the tech talk. I made a lot of friends. Shitposting & memes is fun. #Bitcoin obviously
Addicted to ⚡️
Covid 19 was an awakening for me.
Never in my life was I so aware at the preciousness of being able to exchange information freely with another human being.
If people can be censored and separated from each others thoughts and analysis, whether right or wrong, if we can be cut off from the spontaenous order of unfettered collective thought, then tyranny has a free hand, and that hand invariably wraps itself around your throat.
If Bitcoin is financial self defence, then I at least hope that Nostr is my communicative self defence.
If Nostr is dedicated to the preservation of free speech and censorship resistance, then I will back that horse.
The alternative is old fashioned, cruel and corrupt
It feels good to be free.
Part of an awesome club of cypherpunks and chads and based memers. GFY energy. Really fun to watch it all evolve in real time and read the thoughts of such amazingly bright developers. High conviction bitcoiners helped me survive the bear market with many lols. 😁
This is where the revolution can happen.
One of the many reasons is that you could have a look 3-4 times a day for about 5 minutes and you see every post from the people you follow. And you're done for the day. But if you want to, you could search for tags, trending 24h and so on.
But it's your decision, not the algorithm
Its amazing to see something being developed in real time - I joined about a year back & every month I can see something different popping up😁
Plus,Japanese TL is just silly & random and I found a lot of good friends there.
⚡️Ich bin neu! Und interessiert an Freiheit. Es fühlt sich besser an. 🇩🇪
Because I meet more ideologically minded people here easily
Ich glaube, ideologisch zu denke ist nicht positiv. Aber jeder sollte frei sein so zu denken wie er möchte.
Same
It’s where the bitcoiners are at.
Finding new & interesting accounts everyday. For me, it means Nostr is growing!
For the free speech, liberty and lack of censorship. In reality cuzz we are saving the 🌎
😂 #zaps of course 🤣 the only true innovation around here, right nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m?
💜🫂
I like the vibe.
Feels live & raw.
This is definitely how you raw dog the social media game
In no particular order:
1. V4V
2. Decentralized and censorship resistant
3. An ecosystem of apps, not just social
4. I am my own algorithm
5. Networking
6. Good source of info on topics like:
#privacy tech and software
#bitcoin
#homesteading
-Because freedom is free on Nostr!
- it’s uncensored
- it’s fun and I can say whatever I want and no one takes me seriously
- nobody really listens to me which is perfectly fine
- there’s fun people here
And more importantly….you’re here 😉🫡💜
No censorship, frens, high signal/noise ratio, innovation, bitcoin plebs, influencors shitting the bed, art, MEMES, fun women, zaps, cunts being cunts, hugs, control over my feed, no ads, this feels like home, cypherpunk vibes, yo mama.
Because I've always enjoyed quirky internet communities going back to the phpbb days.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Rules, not rulers.
Curating your own life 🤙🏼
Hope
Because of the fresh authenticity that nostr fosters. Lots of interesting people.
How can people be here and then just go back to these dumpster fire social media platforms.
Because they're addicted. By design.
Life is meme
Meme is life
Climate scammers cant hide from truth here
Waiting on nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk gets back 👀
Yeah nostr:npub1lrnvvs6z78s9yjqxxr38uyqkmn34lsaxznnqgd877j4z2qej3j5s09qnw5 do you need help to restart?
zaps ⚡& signal 📻
For freeeeeeeeeereedom!
Where else can I get paid to shitpost?
Because one genuine interaction is better than a thousand fiat interactions.
Because there is not an algorithm trying to manipulate me.
Because Nostr is the future and I want to spend more time in the new system and less in the old.
It does not suck and it feels different.
Other socials started with people you knew directly.
Nostr started for me by reading Jack and Derek’s tweets about it. I know neither of them personally.
Everyone on here is technically a stranger, yet I vibe with most of what I read and see. Can’t really think of another online experience like that.
simple, it has a large concentration on bitcoiners and i make content for bitcoiners.
Because it's super easy to zap people for putting Bitcoin stickers in public! 10X easier than it was on the bird app dealing with expired invoices.
What'd I miss 😭
because of love
I feel protected / safe
and I feel listened
even if I didn’t get the most important response (yet)
turned into one HELL of a THREAD. brilliant comments. bookmarked!
I deleted or was banned from everything else. No point build rep and curating content on a platform that can just rig everything youve done on it because you said something they don't like.
Damn I know everyone in this thread now. You guys (and gals) are the fuckin bees knees. We are still early.
- Because I believe it’s the future for creatives to directly reach their audience and get paid for their work. 🎨📚🎤🎸🎭
- I like the people
- I sometimes get a zap
- I enjoy zapping content I value
- I’ve never been an Innovator or Early Adopter of anything, so this is an interesting experience
Ironically I just came back.
there is no second best
Because... 
#nostr empowers the user, the creator and the community.
Nowhere else does all simultaneously
Because of the friends I made along the way, forged in the depths of a bear market which I barely noticed.
Because it’s uncensorable
because I have freedom of speech here
The freedom Tech, The people, The vibes, memes, The Future 🔮⚡️
Because nostr is still evolving, and everything else is either a dumpster fire of doom or full of pretentious posers.
The signal.
The positivity. No algo. I can see the notes of every fren.
Decentralized social media and no algorithm that feeds me what a company thinks I should see.
Contrarianism made me
Hope
V4V
Latinas
I found my tribe and I like the vibe #ASSHOLES 🫂
Never really enjoyed social media stuff, avoided it mostly, and reducing Nostr to juat that isn't my intention, it's more than just that. Constantly evolving, with so many features not even targeted for me, but fun to watch get built real time. The interoperability, with both various clients and lightning. Proving to me there is a group, however small that use sats as a standard and see the potential and actual use to all that.
Came from my deep dive and interest Bitcoin, stuck around to read interesting takes, tech stuff way over my head, and memes.
The general chaotic nature of it all and emergent topics of the day I miss half of. There's more interesing stuff being said here to me than what most other Internet pursuits have degraded into.
I may not be as fully active in conversation as some here. Long winded way of saying
Tired of fucking a(i)ds on X
The fact that can upload just about anything I want to any relay that choose from, no matter what client or app that I’m on, all my info and follows migrate with me.
Also Nostr is probably the only place online I feel that I can post without worry, and at the same time feel like myself.
Zaps>likes
I just got this app. I got no friends tho so might just delete it
Followed 🤙
One more friend here 🤙🏾
Welcome! Followed. #plebchain
followed 🫂
Welcome
Followed 💜
Might help if you made a note.
Yo! Followed and welcome to Nostr
so how do you figure bitcoin=usury? I'm always down to hear a fresh #opinion #bitcoin
That is a very complex question but I think I have a note saved when I asked myself the same thing, let me edit and paste it below:
If we consider the modern definition, usury refers to the charging of interest rates that are deemed either illegal (as determined by governments influenced by monetary interests) or immoral (as defined by academia and legal frameworks also underpinned by those same financial interests) — [the double irony being that these definitions are set by entities funded by usury itself].
Aristotle's ancient definition, which I find more apt, describes usury as wealth which begets wealth. In my view, this is essentially wealth multiplication through time manipulation- once an agreement is initiated, it guarantees either payment or failure. 3000+ years of this surely has made hegemonic centralized empires.
Now, addressing your question on how Bitcoin equates to usury: Bitcoin can be seen as dynamically deflationary, countering a century of inflation. Similarly, as it evolves today onwards, Bitcoin is transitioning from a non-usurious instrument into a tool of usury, influenced by the descendants of those who controlled the 1919 gold fix. These forces now manifest in the strongest and most expansive non-violent, indestructible entity—the 2020 Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism. This group aims to impose a form of control akin to an IMF Structural Adjustment Program (look up what these SAPs did to Nigeria) but applied to every transaction, interaction, and even minute daily activities by the year 2121, envisioning a comprehensive and pervasive economic regulation.
Of course the last part is bullshit and extremely speculative but I hope the other stuff makes sense. Bitcoin is wealth, but it is also an idea of code at the end of the day. Even if it doesn’t change, if all else change in accordance to it, it can be said to have forced into change. Right now the 2020 CIC only has $30 trillion, once countries gradually join it, an evolved and name-changed 2121 Global Inclusive Finance Initiative is just a fancy way of saying 2121 Bitcoin Fix.
All I know is,100 years from now, there won’t be a shadow of a doubt that Bitcoin is usury the way things are presently playing out. Hope this jargon helps clarify stuff, feel free to ask questions
Don’t feel bad. I just got the protocol too. It’s different and new. Watched a YouTube video on how to set it up. Interested to see what becomes of this. On X I’m shaking up the world #villainmode 😂😈
Welcome to Nostr
Comrad
Protocols > platforms
cause I don't like to be told I can't do something
Signal, no ads, my content.
NUNYA DAMN BEESWAX!!!!
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Im here for the early internet vibes. The people are real. Decentralized human communication.
And hope.
Of all the answers, I think this one wins for me. ⚡️ 4u
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At this moment u are free to do anything on nostr, but thing will change as time pass.
Hope thing move on the good path. Money graber are coming.
New here. NOSTR has lowered by blood pressure level.
why wouldn't I Be 🤔😂 #BeOG #Grownostr
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Because you have to be the change you want to see...
As far as the social media aspect… I like the culture and atmosphere better than the legacy social media, as for the protocol as a whole, I’m just excited for the possibilities
I feel like it's the bleeding edge of something I want to be around for.
idk. For occasional zaps :-)
I like choice more than group think
Cuz nostr is the bitcoin of social media, and bitcoin ppl are the smartest on the planet
cuz I deleted my twitter
No sé decimelo
#amethyst
I think this is the future of SM.
And I like the privacy and openness of this technology
The more people learn about this, the more they will leave FB, Twitter, etc
The future is nowstr
Based memes.
I got lost, never found my way out
Because I like it.
is better than twitter, instagram, facebook and others.
I just don't like the feeling of being the product these companies sell.
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So I can stay up late
Public key cryptography
Because I am Nostrich.
Freedom 🫂
Here for the Bitcoin revolution, which gives the small guy the ability to build capital on an equal footing. Trying to stand on the bridge and point out community to the hope of a better future.
Harmonious and self-regulating system like nature
I like watching the future being built around me. Reminds me of when I tried the Cello browser as a kid (yeah, I'm pretty old). There was no TCP/IP through Prodigy, so I requested html files via Prodigy mail. Then I had to assemble the data block by block to view the HTML files in Cello. The internet happened anyway despite how slowly it came together. And so it will be with Nostr, the first protocol built by based people on the principles of open discussion and based money exchange.
I think I‘m following the white rabbit.
🐇
To zap and laugh
Because I deleted X
Pure disgust with other platforms handling of data and privacy.
No algo bullshit news and no adds
Sense of community
Trying to surround myself with users that aren't completely fiat driven
X is literally toxic. Like piping shite directly into your living room while you sit on the couch
With X I think the end was when I set out to try and remove some obnoxious accounts being 'suggested' to me (only horrible big media accounts). I set on a mission in my head to remove them from my feed and after blocking even reporting found it to be impossible like whack-a-mole. Kind of felt like I wasn't in control anymore rather than a place I went to to do what I wanted.
Frens and obligations to maintain the service 🐶🐾🫡
Feels like home!
High meme-to-noise ratio 🤙
I feel #PuraVida in my veins ✨✨
Trying out value 4 value innit
Yes
I love the vibes here. And the weirdness, especially the weirdness
I prefer it to X 🚽
I like bitcoin 🔸
I like zappin ⚡️
I don’t love the idea of big companies making money off my time & attention.
How about direct, unadulterated, unfiltered access to thoughts of people that I most care about?
100% Signal, 0 Noise.
No ads, no algorithms. No shady business.
Makes sense to post a few notes and other stuff every now and then, just in case it catches on
I am pro free speech and I can tolerate inconvenience.
The signal is cozier yet less forgiving.
my frens here 🫂💜
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Glad you're here!
It's the future. Early days of the Internet there were millions of websites with a simple "Under Construction" message as people were developing like crazy. No different but everyone gets to still interact as the awesome developers build. I was a young developer...once. I am too old school to keep up now.
It just feels good man.
freedom baby 🦅🇺🇸
nostr = freedom 💪
Feels like the only social media with a high signal to noise ratio.
decentralized communication is necessary! Zaps are also nice!
Autistics Anonymous
I'm here to build a better world and internet culture for my children. The nostr protocol is one of the pillars that will allow us to rebuild a better internet.
1. To zap
2. To meet bitcoiners and tell them about our hashrate marketplace
3. To get zapped
I show my art here 🤙
bluecheckistan incentives ruin mission driven community
It does not show ads. And the feed is showing me a timeline, that changes almost everytime i look at it. Thus it is social. And it doesnt show what does it think it should show me. At least amethyst and some other clients i use do not do that.
No algorithms, No ads. Shut up and take my zaps.
Experimented with it in the past before, but more permanently stuck around about five months ago. I like the protocol, the people seem nice, and it's pretty interoperable with the Fediverse.
#nostr lets me do me 🤙💜
I like being around people with passion to make something new work. It inspires me.
came for the memes, stayed for the zaps
Because it's there
It’s important. Not sure where we’re heading with it but it’s an important tool to spread freedom.
I’m on Nostr because we must be the change we want to see in the world.
Nostr is the future of the internet
Love the vibe and the lack of algorithm💜
Son tierras nuevas aun queda mucho por construir
Because I live a "nostr life" offline. That's what I'm.
I use #Nostr because I see here what humans will do after I die. I LIVE freedom. Freedom past, freedom present, freedom future.
I am here because my loved one invited me here. Actually he brought me here. I feel his smell throughout the #nostr. Its a heavenly feeling! ☺️💛💜
Awareness and education.
I still have things to say.
I believe Nostr is the answer to permanent, public documentation in the same way Bitcoin is, but complimentary. We should use Nostr to do what Bitcoin can’t and use Bitcoin to do what Nostr can’t. This way, everything is permanent and verifiable by anyone anywhere at any time. It forces the accountability we need to heal humanity.