nostr is a true decentralised, autonomous organisation #DAO

nobody is in charge, we have many leaders whose position is always under threat and largely meritocratic, we have many developers building projects, which are not always efficiently using resources but are almost all self-funded or funded by donations, and a growing userbase that keeps on growing the more time passes

by the time we pop up on the radar of the propagandists who want to control speech there is gonna be more nostr activists than there is on any other platform, and the reason is that #nostr 's time has come

now more than ever people are realising that everything they are being told is to sell them on someone's agenda, and more and more people are learning just how much the centralized social media are not only a form of constant census and opinion poll but also a way to reach back into people's lives and alter the way they think, a mechanism of covert mind control

i became alert to this some years back when i read a study from people researching how facebook's algorithm was filtering people's feeds, and it turned out if they had cast you as a "right winger" - ie, anything right of the Democrat platform, and was increasingly including thinking moderates and centrists, they would deliberately make your feed boring and repetitive

this is why as soon as i heard of this thing i had to try it

been involved with steemit in the past, which showed a lot of promise at first, and watched on while discord, matrix, mastodon and other federated social systems clearly showed that you were only going to at best change a big hitler for a little hitler, and this place is a swarm, and its early adopters are cyberhornets and are delighted to have a place where the only thing that controls your visiblity is mostly other people finding you, and nothing else

i'm not the only one with similar background here... 20 years ago my political position was called "centre-left" and now it's "far right" or "alt right", and i've not changed my position at all, the measuring stick has been changed

a great majority of all of us with more than 30 years incarnated who are here also can say the same thing, and probably recognise names like Jello Biafra, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, and all the old alt celebs like Janes Addiction, RHCP, maybe some of you also knew Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) and Robert Anton Wilson and Terence Mckenna and Osho and so many others i know of who all represented centre-left philosophies and now are all increasingly either coopted (eg boingboing.net and the extropians) or cancelled, or the heros turned into shills for nonsense, like Torvalds, Stallman, Schneier, and others

just naming the stars of the past who i know many here will recognise and have at least previously admired, to show the point that we are actually a very very large, very pissed off group of people and we are without any central organisation creating a media system that will obsolete the entire edifice of the intels-funded facebook, google and others, built to spy and manipulate people