Nostr Web Client

Most other people don't seem to be able to get friend groups to shift, if the original venue is still functioning. Cue "I don't like it but I guess things happen that way."

I haven't tried to bring anybody. Long time ago I developed the defensive habit of altogether abandoning my old handle when I sought out a new activity. This is because I first got online in the Wild West Internet days, and it didn't take me long to realize that a) good people I never would have met, and bad people who never could have noticed me, were now both in range, and b) there was no practical defense against an obsessive evilminded lunatic from out-of-district; pre-Internet law enforcement wasn't set up to cope. Pseudonyms that only last for a time could make me hard to follow around. Just in case.

(Now we have got an establishment that has decided that what's important is not protecting the serfs but suppressing them. Worst of both worlds, in certain ways.)

Maybe nostr'll serve. I've considered dropping offline altogether except for practical stuff, too. That seems a little drastic. But it's now on the table.

Vincent Vasco 4mo ago

I'd never seen it like that, but it makes sense.

It's true that I don't feel personally threatened, either online or in my everyday life, so I'd never thought about this security aspect.

It would be a shame to end up having to disconnect completely, but if it's necessary to live in peace...

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Peril of Spinel 4mo ago

It's not necessary for me to disconnect. It's just that I'm doing a very long, slow wrap-up on my most recent online project and presence. Maybe there'll be another. I'm poking around to see, because this isn't the justly lamented '90s Internet anymore and it's now hard to locate online places to settle that aren't hostage to a corrupted oligarchic establishment.

Not a Bitcoiner. I will never be a Bitcoiner, or at least I will never admit to it, because, with my philosophy, naturally I will never willingly write anything that must ultimately attach my mundane name to an uneditable public ledger. This makes nostr an awkward fit in some ways. But it's not obviously unworkable.

What I most regret, over the decades, is some of the unintended disconnections from people I liked. When the common activity ended, we exchanged contact info and went our separate ways for a while ... and, eventually, even with people who don't intentionally fade from public view as I do, the contact info no longer works. I should have acted more quickly to keep those contacts live. But I didn't foresee the ephemerality of life online, back then.