You're wrong; people will not flock to nostr because of freedom tech, they will when they find a use case that is miles ahead from the non-nostr internet. I expect for most people that won't be microblogging
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its true. the number of people motivated primarily by moral principle is too small for those who dream of global fame.
Still, its large enough for those who dont.
But if the use cases and interface suck that only goes so far.
if you have been banned as many times as me ( about a dozen times from Twitter, probably about 30 times from various parts of the internet combined ) you don't give a shit how bad the interface is.
the only place i haven't been banned from is GAB and their interface was as bad as this for the first couple years i was on there. freedom is not free. GAB CEO and his wife were both cancelled by credit card companies just for allowing free speech on his site.
my sacrifice of suffering with a shit interface is nothing compared to what others have sacrificed. there are people who have been exiled for speaking the truth. there are people who have been assassinated.
and i am supposed to complain that my interface is slow. NOPE.
you are part of the later group whose life experience has taught them the value of Freedom First.
Not all have learned this yet. But they will.
Still, with some developers there is
Silicon Valley hold over way of thinking where its considered “cool” and “smarter” to disregard simple principles like Freedom First in favor of catch phrase conversations about “incentives” and “mass adoption onboarding” which is really just of form of the pride of immaturity. But with the way things are headed, these people will either realize how serious things are getting, and adjust, or they’ll be naturally washed out. Regardless of talent level. In the end there will be State tech, and freedom tech.
"mass adoption onboarding" is high time preference also. Filtering content towards that end is manipulation. It's a slippery slope that turns asymptotic before you realise it.
It won't just be people wanting freedom tech. It will be people wanting to be free.
People will tend to gravitate to #Nostr for the greater access to free speech.
That's the way #Twitter was in the early days. There were many other social media sites.
But Twitter was the one place you could speak freely. No dancing around trying to be politically correct.
People were mostly polite and friendly. Because everyone could have their say.
And if you didn't like it you could block them or unfollow them.
But as Twitter became popular, in rushed the #bullshitters. Like we're seeing with #Bitcoin today.
They wanted to push their bullshit agenda, and not face any opposition or get called out.
#Nostr's makes the abuses above kind of difficult to pull off. Much like the internet does..👍
isn't being uncancellable a pretty good use case? If someone gets cancelled on big platforms, they will move to nostr and bring (part of) their followers with them, increasingly shifting the center of gravity
Absolutely agree.
Tangible utilities should be the positive virus that brings all the great censorship-resistant and free-speech weapons of Nostr.
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