Uncensorable social media networks like #Nostr in emerging markets such as Africa and the Global South provide a powerful platform for individuals to freely express their ideas, opinions, and experiences, promoting intellectual diversity and the growth of global communications networks and free markets.

I predict #Nostr will become an essential tool for exposing corruption, political oppression, or social injustice, ultimately driving change and prosperity in these regions.

The free market of ideas & #Bitcoin will also stimulate economic growth by facilitating open communication channels and education for entrepreneurs, small businesses, and local communities, enabling them to reach global audiences and capitalize on opportunities for e-commerce and digital innovation worldwide.

We’re so early to the untapped human & economic potential of these free & open source tools.

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Yep 🎯

I πŸ’œπŸ§‘ you.

Zaps are cool but freedom to say what you want without a tyrant ripping you a new one is priceless πŸ‘

last frontier

I think we should look at relays that are discoverable over mesh / zeronet / multi peer / Wi-Fi Direct / wifiaware / second wind.

I’d love if we used some for the nostr grant fund put money in to projects to develop a offline functionality for nostr. Using embedded relays and ones that could go in to lower power devices like raspberry pi for places with limited connectivity.

It would mean that nostr could work in areas without internet or web the internet gets shutdown

would love to see/fund more development in this direction

There is a version of scuttlebutt called tiny ssb which works over LoRa and is able to even do encoded audio in signed events less than 256 bytes.

Very nice! I believe reticulum has a real world lower limit of ~500 bits/s, so they could play nicely. The auto-interface should make it pretty much plug n play? πŸ‘€

That would be neat.

This. We must find more ways to prepare for when Klaus shuts down ze internet

#[1]​ sending out heaaaavy zaps πŸ™

When the note warrants it πŸ˜πŸ’œ