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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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Toxic Bitcoiner 1y ago 💬 1

Were the cypherpunks too optimistic about the protocol stack at the time, specifically because they didn’t have a Bitcoin and a Nostr? They thought the Internet would be FOSS and private, but instead they got Google and Facebook. Do we need even more protocols than we think we do for the dream, just like they did, or is this about it?

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Erik Cason 1y ago

They were naive, but also we needed to go through the cycle of its commercialization to see how awful and abusive it was to create a generation of people who are cynical enough about it to see it for the reality it is. We needed something like bitcoin to allow for market exchange outside of the state to create development without state identity imho.