convinced that nostr adoption will be led by indians and chinese
top 4 countries by population, look at that drop off:
1. India – 1.464 billion
2. China – 1.416 billion
3. United States – 347 million
4. Indonesia – 286 million
Discussion
When you lay it out that way...
Side note - isn't it strange how little of an idea we have what is on the minds of the average Chinese person, in this super-connected age? Boggles my mind often.
I'm an Indian and Bitcoin, Nostr and freedom tech, Libertarianism and Austrian economics are on my mind 24/7/365
I remember you were studying Austrian Econ catalogue at length!
It's extremely fun
Haha different strokes maybe. I like to dabble now and then. I find it too much of a grind to learn as much of it as I "should." Got other challenging topics I prefer to spend energy on stm anyway.
atm* anyway
If you feel like it's a grind, then you can always shift to Rothbard's lecture recordings in which he examines various retarded economic policies and their consequences. He's pretty funny.
Curious though, what other challenging topics are you exploring?
Cryptography, though a bit on pause for the moment, as I've veered into a foundational mathematics rabbithole lol
Do indians care about freedom of speech?
Most Americans don’t care enough to use NOSTR or Signal.
signal has 70 million active users, which could be better, but is pretty damn strong
making generalizations about 1.5 billion people is almost guaranteed to be wrong
Is that 70 million worldwide?
Exactly my point
No. They *really* don’t
everyone is an individual except when they relinquish their autonomy
I don’t think that logic follows. Babies are individuals.
Signal isn't sneaky
I don’t understand why nobody promote nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828 instead of signal…
nostr:npub14expwcsvnvaqgylaqx0a06vrmfpmyzq7w956hm9hwexrxw5mllcsymcqa0 does
I not only promote I make it the only way to communicate w me
Plato's allegory of the slaves in the cave comes to mind. Just like bitcoin, many people would prefer to hear comforting lies than the harsh truth, even if such knowledge could demonstrably improve their lives.
Doesn't just apply to India of course. We see the exact same thing in the US with politics becoming more and more partisan and subjective, even when we have more access to information than ever!
Instagram is huge in India. Like incredibly huge. Think hundreds of millions of people easily over half a billion. Besides multiple organic ecosystems of businesses, freelancers and artists, there's also a lot of political content over there making fun of, memeing and criticising all sides of the political spectrum.
And people speak multiple languages, lot of them with over tens of millions of native and exclusive speakers, so they likely wouldn't understand things in the first place to be able to know what to censor.
They can't censor all of it simply because of the sheer numbers and diversity 😂
Adoption-wise, the ability to make accounts private is a big deal for people like me who aren't public personalities and just want people in my circles alone to see my posts.