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One of the few actors I am optimistic about. I try not to have heroes, but hard not to cheer nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle and nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 team on.

It’s my belief that Strike is going to be one of the biggest players aiding the transition from fiat when we hit the adoption inflection point.

The biggest dips are after the first fed funds rate cuts. With extreme precision.

All of you fellow stackers sitting on that stinky fiat hoard, waiting to buy - the time is near! But it is not yet.

This dip is just the pre-game.

The issue has nothing do with JavaScript and everything to do with the dumbasses building the frameworks.

Just look at OG Java. Same thing. Fuck, they have frameworks to build other frameworks.

But yeah, JavaScript can be pretty stupid, too.

Ah, thanks for this!

Sometimes, when I need to be humbled, I’ll look at the vastness ocean or the starry night.

Other times, I look at the products of human efforts, like this one, and am so deeply embarrassed by our species that I feel small again.

Stay humble, stack sats.

Replying to Avatar rabble

HI've noticed on Threads, Bluesky, and even some apps here on Nostr that I’m shown a lot more content from people I’m not following. This is often due to reposts, quote posts, or just the algorithms at work. While this content can be engaging and spark conversations, it’s often not healthy.

I see people posting obviously or maybe obliviously wrong things, which then get corrected and boosted, creating a vicious cycle. For example, someone mentioned considering a hyphenated name for their kids. I shared how my hyphenated name caused issues with computers, especially with international travel. This led to many calling me a bigot because the original poster was a queer woman. It’s odd because I’m queer myself, but it seems they felt an amab queer shouldn’t share personal experiences directly related to the topic.

I also saw clickbait articles about triathletes vomiting at the end of an Olympic triathlon, blaming it on a polluted river. Yes, the river is polluted, but triathletes often throw up at the end of races, and the swim was two hours before the nausea hit.

These issues occurred on Twitter too, but I didn’t experience it the same way there. I used Twitter daily from the moment Jack invited me and our coworkers onto the service, and for me, the conversations were healthier. I understand that many others had negative experiences, though.

On Nostr, I see zaps often rewarding hot takes and posts that signal membership in one group or another. This seems to exacerbate the issue, as people are incentivized to make posts that cater to specific in-groups rather than fostering genuine dialogue.

My worry is that maybe we’re actually doing worse with the new platforms. Is this something other people are seeing? How do we navigate this and foster healthier online conversations?

As long as people are posting to “audiences” over “peers”, the platform is doomed to become the same toxic echo chamber as everywhere else.

Nostr only guarantees the freedom to speak, to be un-ban-able. That’s all it’s really solving for.

If we want better *communities*, we (the collective) should start optimizing for that with another layer on top of nostr.

Personally, I think this is going to organically occur via apps using nostr as their delivery mechanism, but otherwise a tuned experience. These experiences will be opinionated. They will exclude some and invite others in (not literally, just based on the experience). But, that’s what a community *is*. That’s what a little tight-knit town *is*.

If people are hoping for a place where *everyone* is be well-read, curious, and generally not a dick, it will never happen.

If we aren’t trying to reach everyone on the planet with freedom-enabling tech (wherever they may be), then what the fuck are we even doing?

lol. And people paid money for this! They opted out of stacking sats for THIS!

In the end, we all get the (basis) price we deserve.

Bitcoin conferences are for rent seekers and influencoors. Maybe some narcissists that aren’t already the former.

That’s why attending these conventions, unless you persons is already publicly correlated, is a Bad Idea.

I can’t help but feel all of these conventions should be virtual and protecting the very things they are convening over. But, there’s not really as much money to be made that way, is there?