Replying to Avatar Erik Cason

What excites me the most about Nostr is that we now have a protocol from which we can build literal killer apps.

The internet was suppose to be free, and only over the last 30 years did it become walled off and enslaved to corporate and government interesting alike. I want to see us build each and every FOSS app possible to compete with and destroy the corporate apps, as our data is ours, and it should no longer be free for the raping and pillaging for fiat companies, with fiat interest, and fiat lords who are more than happy to sell you out to whomever they please.

I’m here to watch the old internet die as much as I’m here to watch the new one we are birthing together.
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BitcoinMendocino 1y ago

I remember dialing up in 1994 when the internet enabled any entity - from General Electric and Sears Robuck to the corner store and even individual citizens like me - have a website. The internet was pretty flat and evenly distributed.

Then Google appeared around 1998, Facebook around 2004, YouTube 2005, Twitter 2007…gradually a handful of corporatized destinations became the internet.

The hope and vision now is that protocols like Nostr and sovereign personal servers (that are user-friendly and plug and play) all glued together by the economic stack that is bitcoin, will decentralize the internet again.

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Vires 1y ago

Great post. Gained a follower 👍

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Marc Kat 1y ago

I almost wrote something similar, but this is pretty much how I see it.