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#nostr 🪵 68:

3/29.

The date I generated my nsec.

Alone lost. A blank page with with a robot avatar on a purple ostriches backdrop.

I sent myself a DM. Thinking it was a note.

I called to a void. Several hours of confusion passed as I added a wallet. Bitcoin having been the reason I came here to check it out. Several of you here boosted my note. I had a feed.

I began following my followers followers. Growing thus feed. I fiddled with an avatar image on a poor photo app on my phone and my meme template site.

I made a psuedonomys persona.

I threw out random thoughts and began making memes for the first time in my life.

The days changed quickly here. I never really knew what was going on. Always felt I was swaying in a breeze.

I kept following people. My feed now lively, varied and interesting. Hysterical and contemplative. While we continued zapping each others content signaling support, value, and input to the user their content was actually worth a denomination, not just a simple click of a screen interface.

I had ups and downs, stagnating in moments, running out of ideas or interesting things to say. I slowed down. But something kept me coming back. Not so much the zaps. But the people and content I began relying on as my daily entertainment. While a podcast played in the back.

Rather than read poorly written articles about some horrors of the world out of my capabilities to fix alone. But knowing that with incentives like this scarce, open rules based monetary system I had been pursuing could fix. I only could conceptualize it.

Cut to the Damus situation. The response here has been nothing short of defiant. A systemic response to those who have seen what is happening here. And who finally have a testing ground to see this thing many of us believe to be true actually blossom.

This whole week I've felt different.

I'm with friends I've never met. Who know nearly nothing about each other. But we believe this is worth fighting for and pursuing.

And today we passed the first 1 million zaps. I hadn't out much thought into this until it was upon us. But this will be significant, you know. If this thing catches on.

I feel embraced and seen in ways I never thought I would or even that I wanted to be. I still don't really. I was using this as an idea dump. I still am. I like to read others thoughts to clash them with mine as I think through this.

I'm honored to converse and zap with you all. We are winning.