You live in a country where the government has decided that you can only walk backwards.
If you don't walk backwards, you will be sent to prison.
If you complain about walking backwards, you can be sent to prison.
If you share videos of people walking forwards, you will be sent to prison.
If you sing a song or paint something that is suggestive of walking forwards, you will be sent to prison.
How does Nostr help in this situation?
#AskNostr
I guess it's a platform to keep ideas alive, in that regard
Right right, but I suppose the question that I am asking is:
In that environment of fear, how does Nostr give people to tools and the confidence to speak their mind and have their say.
They can be sent to prison, they aren't going to just trust Nostr straight away, you know what I mean?
Yeah, I get your meaning - unsurprisingly I've also given this some thought. My irl ID is already inextricably linked to this npub, so if I wanted to say things which I knew could land me in hot water I'd use a second hand cash brought mobile dongle with an unregistered sim and a phone with one of those open source operating systems, then I'd download Amber, generate a key, download Amethyst, connect and publish, only ever over TOR.
However....expecting a newbie with no knowledge to do all that is a bit extreme. It's hard enough teaching people about Bitcoin sometimes. Helping people get set up to say things they might not be allowed to say could also land you in hot water these days.
That's a pretty good idea.
What is Amber?
Have you ever heard of TailsOS?
As for the steep learning curve, I don't really see it as an insurpassible problem, because I think that when the incentive is there (oppression), what you invariably find across history, is that peope can learn an awful lot in a very short space of time.
Take a look at Myanmar, they are overthrowing the government with 3D printed weapons and homemade drones.
💯 This
The mere fact that helping someone to say something could get you in trouble really fucking drives home the need for these tools.
Suivi depuis ma première immersion aux pays partageant le Triangle d'or du Mekong..c'est comme l'horrible leader du Kazasthan de mémoire lorsqu'il eut une manifestation de ce pays .Tous les leaders du monde entier y compris tout quidam qui suit l'activité ordonner à l'armée de fusiller pour faiseur de troubles..
Par la suite nous avons vécu la pandémie, Poutine qui s'est mis de manière à envahir l'Ukraine comme pour la Crimée prise d'office ni hrf ni ONU ou leader n'avait son mot à dire c'est nougaeff de mémoire...il m'avait glacé le sang
Is there an easier way
I'm trying to learn these things and for the tech adverse it's difficult. There needs to be an easier way for the masses to accomplish this
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I've been on NOSTR for over a year now and in bitcoin for about 4 years. As a non techie I've tried everything that some of the plebs here talk about. The problem is that I don't understand what this stuff does. Im running my own start9 server, with my personal nostr relay but for some reason it doesn't work. I'm running amber on my burner pixel with grapheneos but I don't know what it does. I'm also running a relay on my pixel with citrine. I don't have a clue what any of this stuff does. All I know how to do is buy and hold btc in a block stream jade and ledger wallets. Im trying to learn it but there's so much here that its overwhelming. I'm semi retired and have plenty of time but for most people that are not where I am I can see how all this would be extremely difficult.
It seems like the main ways nostr could help is: 1/ public key crypto is a "first class citizen" (the only citizen, i guess) in its architecture, meaning you only need your private key to identify yourself, ever (not giving ID to a company). This is not unique to nostr; it also has significant practical cons as well as pros, but, it is an answer to your Q. 2/ relays being distributed in theory helps with censorship resistance, but the person under a terror regime doesn't need censorship resistance as much, they mostly need disconnection of nym and IRL.
Of these, 2/ to me is not really very significant, if at all. the fediverse which has existed for years works the same way. as for 1/ , I think the fediverse should be able to do the same just fine, but, it didn't, and it let server owners essentially "own" accounts which was a disastrous error.
Create a nym and post about all the things walking forward. Express yourself, be free.
You don't need an ID to do it, so you don't need to worry about getting identified and being sent to prison.
asking the right questions jameni
