For those that are on both Nostr and Twitter, I posted a long-form thread about recent Twitter censorship that mentions Nostr:
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Truth to power.
Would love to read it, any chance you can copypasta it here?
It's *really* long.
It starts out by highlighting times when Substack mentions were censored under Musk's ownership. Even liking certain posts was blocked.
It talks about how censorship was present in the COVID area, and still exists now. It highlights that censorship can come from both the left and right, especially when thinking in a global context.
It points out that Twitter has *increased* compliance with overall government takedown requests under current management. Many of which from Turkey or India. It questions the ethics of this. If your only business, maybe you fight back, as old-Twitter did. But if you primarily sell rockets and cars and your side project is social media, maybe you censor for strongmen to sell them rockets and cars.
It highlights when Musk was ratioed on the H1B debate, and blocked that account and changed the algorithm. It takes no stance on that debate; just highlights the arbitrary centralized censorship.
It then talks about NOSTR's qualities, and admits what while I might not know the best architecture in absolute, NOSTR is the best architecture that I personally know, and that I invite people to participate in open source social media.
There are various screenshots and memes to evidence or highlight the points therein.
Saw that. Great thread plus receipts!
My account was just suspended on X…no idea why other than they disagree with my message. It was flagged and then “confirmed after careful review
by a human”. Completely unreal, and I’m pretty tame on X, mostly pro-Bitcoin stuff. I think I’m done with X, but can’t help but be frustrated.
Join us #nostronly
Great thread Lyn. We live in an imperfect world and always suffer with trade offs. It’s good to have multiple strings on your instrument 🎻 to make the music you want. Even better to have multiple instruments 🎹.
Nostr is making beautiful music that is attracting more and more listeners from X and elsewhere. ✌️
I'd have liked to scan the responses to your thread, but I don't contribute to Grok
Wow
It mentions Nostr, on X
That should help
Just read your great thread. I’m working on my #ExitX mission and hate that it’s more of a struggle than I thought it would be.
All of the social media platforms algorithms are definitely putting radical “right-left” narrative in everyone’s feed, I think to stir up and trigger things. Yet, I want to hear about matters happening in people’s lives from around the world, even if they’re not in agreement with what I believe. It’s just seeming like, more than ever, it’s no longer about communicating and sharing with family, friends and even strangers daily updates or creative work…but it’s there for the political and manipulating purposes. It’s intense and not fun or healthy.
Regardless, we keep learning, growing, creating and building the world we want to see. *an encouragement nostr:nprofile1qqsg86qcm7lve6jkkr64z4mt8lfe57jsu8vpty6r2qpk37sgtnxevjcqz7p82 always reminds us of. ✨
