Subnostr

I'm something of a one-social-network kinda guy, and as twitter descended into the realm of the baphomet logo wearing cantillionare buying it for "free speech" I drifted to stacker.news

But as happens to every social network, the communists, trolls and shitcoin shills are now starting to dominate the conversation and I've just got better things to do with my time than try to read retarded textual diarrhea from idiots.

Nostr is a whole different thing. It's not a social group like centralised networks. You can actually find anything you want to look at, within the realms of the bitcoin/freedom tech space.

The apps still have some way to come to provide good filtering and discovery, but I'm now drifting away from stacker.news - sorry koob and all the rest of you, but I guess also there has been a general drift into nostr by bitcoiners because it's just better, and it's barely near a year old and everything is buggy and that is awesome.

I have no more time left in my life for centralised media, of any kind, no matter how well intentioned.

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Catty_McCatface 2y ago

You’re right, the buggy part has the early internet feel to it, which feels (to me at least) like possibility, promise and adventure.

I digress but remember when you used to search for something on a search engine and get thousands of pages of answers and most of them were not main stream media telling you what to think but off beat websites that sometimes had a totally different view?? I miss that…

Loki 2y ago

It's so bad now that I am frequently getting really annoyed by them, and I mainly am searching for technical stuff about Golang.

The number of subjects that are not covered on wikipedia, and the stuff they do have is so fuckin bogus. Wikipedia has just turned into a roadhouse toilet complete with glory hole and complete bullshit scrawled everywhere and the smell of leaking sewer pipes.

Catty_McCatface 2y ago

I’d heard that Wikipedia is compromised, which may account for the junk in there 🙈

Loki 2y ago

Yeah, Wikipedia is practically worthless for information about anything that might contradict the Current Thing. More than several observed cases of edits preceding campaigns of political and propaganda.

Catty_McCatface 2y ago

And to think once upon a time I was naive and donated to them thinking that they were ok.

I remember the sheer wonder of books as a child where anything was possible, filled with all kinds of knowledge. I remember reading as much as I could get my hands on about everything from ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece to Japanese history, science, math etc etc

I thought that Wikipedia would grow to become the chest of wonders that I recalled as a child. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Loki 2y ago

Yeah, it's been a harsh awakening for many of us. The intuition about it is what made this whole cypherpunk game theory thing so fascinating - that if we had the correct protocol we could abolish certain things entirely forever.

It's still true, just that in most cases we don't have the protocol yet.

Catty_McCatface 2y ago

But also … all this Google stuff about making the internet safe and blocking sites because they disagree with MSM or that every single thing is monetised 😔😔

I miss the old internet