There does not seem to be an LNAdress in your profile?

Tell me what to verify, I got some time :)

if we are talking a decade, i suspect a nostr fork will replace nostr.

and the peoples internet will be very different from the corporate internet. mesh networks, LoRa, packet radio, and “store and forward” sneaker nets will all be in play. samizdat as a concept will be wide spread.

IRC is such a dinosaur and yet the most solid, reliable and working IM platform since literally decades. I doubt it will ever die at this point. xD

Could be wrong though.

That said, I think Nostr could overrun Matrix. I am looking into building a PoC of a better chat client and simultaneously introducing new NIPs that I drafted to "fix" chatting on Nostr. It does work, but it is hella clunky. x)

It would be naive to think that Nostr is for everyone. It is even more naive to think that people understand or even know what freedom means until they lose it.

Ok, NOW it works again =) I can be zapped again, yay~

But now I am off to find something to eat. I am hungry and I have to vacuum my flat...badly. -.- Dust eeeeeeeeeverywhere...

Things #nostr eliminates in 5-15 years:

Twitter

Facebook

Instagram

SnapChat

YouTube

Twitch

Amazon

Google

News media

Am I missing anything?

Can anybody explain zap ?

Have you checked out Ark? The L2 for Bitcoin? I think it’s guna take the cake for what Bitcoin needs to scale.

As far as our disagreement goes it’s one of the few things we can agree to disagree upon and actually, objectively, both be right about.

Until there is global adoption of a Bitcoin standard (and maybe not even then) Bitcoin is narrative-less and anything, positive or negative, we associate with it is a flaw (or feature) of our own systems paradigm.

It is safe though; that corruption occurs in the current paradigm and spheres of influence that central authorities create. Bitcoin however is a separate closed system, like a different planet with its own unique atmosphere.

Catch is as a people we have to mentally inhabit that other planet. While living in the central authority’s world, thinking the way we’re told, there is no escape.

But to live and truly accept Bitcoin brings liberation from all that; powers that be can dictate and mandate anything they want but on planet Bitcoin their words carry no weight.

Feels good to have my face (God, please don’t forsake me or this comment) returning to normal.

Dentist said the biggest one he’s pulled out was about a quarter this size…The red circle is highlighting a tiny brighter part of the bone spur….that’s the portion that was sticking out in my mouth…That’s about the size of the hole it was TRYING to push out through… No fuggin wonder I was in constant pain.

Kinda proud fr

GN

The conventional belief of a personified Christian (or any denomination) God is the ultimate ego trip.

Someone on an ego trip is easier to predict and manipulate. (As they are distracted to put it simply)

It is centralized authority that specializes and deals in power by proxy (arguably a phrase under the idea of manipulation).

If you’re still not following me…

Institutions both physical and conceptual are the controls of society; that is not conjecture. That’s fact.

And for some reason people, who aren’t fans of hashing this stuff out, 9/10 get fixated and loop on the “absurdity” that politicians could possibly even conceive to abuse a position of power and authority.

T here: first, the nocoiner NPC glosses over the fact that congealing masses of politicians have managed to erect, over decades and a pair of centuries, arguably tangible levers (institutions) that they can now generationally staff with people of their choosing...

They gloss over that fact for the apparently “safer” opinion that these rich white multigenerational families wouldn’t mishandle these unneeded concentrations of influence authority and power. ..

It not like history’s just a literal play by play of our existence as humans ever driven by those calling the shots down to those bellow.

#plebchain

Alright, I read the whole thing. That was a lot o.o

First, I can tell that you are extremely emotional about this, and I can totally emphasize with that. The previous few weeks, whilst whitnessing the full all-out "crapification of the internet", I had a bit of a depression actually.

Where did all the things I enjoyed go? TweetDeck, that I used to enjoy wrestling pay-per-views with likeminded people? Gone. Reddit, where I found the very first community that accomodated my exact interests? Gone. And, whilst not in this very space, I used to enjoy Facebook because my school mates were there too. It's not gone, but... it is a far, far, far cry from what it was. And the seasoning ontop of this is the recession itself - the price hikes and all the other raising inconveniences that pertrude my everyday life. I used to order a cheeseburger menu once every while. But now, the cheeseburger alone has surpassed the price of the menu back then. Three words: What the fuck?

Fantasy novels, thin or small, have the tendency to pull you into a different world, or mindset, and allow you to escape from reality for a little while. But at some point, you ease yourself back over the threshold - but now with the experience of one or many characters and their respective relationships and emotions. You start to reflect, albeit a little differently than usual. And this often results in some of the most interesting and intriguing thoughts out there.

I get how you feel about bitcoin; heck, when I realized that Nostr was basically Bitcoin maxis with a few "non-coiners" inbetween, I was quite surprised. And yet, I feel like watching those coiners go about their discussions - good or bad; informative or utterly pointless - has helped me see things a little differently. Whilst I don't plan to become a "Bitcoin Maxi", I do intend to understand the reason and it's place in the world far more. People wouldn't have made Bitcoin, if it had no reason, or place in this world - right...? I mean, it could also just have been someone being incredibly drunk and writing some of the most advanced code out there like they've skipped the "10x Developer" class alltogether and went to 100x instead. xD

Money is something I have always kept an eye on; making sure my budget was in check, that my bills were paid, that I could still afford my occasional burger and other commodities. But, I had never thought about money in terms of the entire system. We exchange paper bills and metal coins for food, only for said coins and bills to be exchanged at a bank for credit on an account, which can then be used to pay for other bills and the likes. Its actually kinda wild o.o

Watching the crapification of the internet, playing together with the recession and realizing that both of them rely on the systems that are built upon money (capitalism, for instance and specifically where I live - Germany), I do have to wonder if the path most of humanity has chosen is actually a good one.

You mentioned the internet in the nineties; well I only experienced it in the early 20s; specifically starting at 2002. I saw Myspace rise and fall, Limewire come, impact and go as well as other things. Most of the IT experience I built was actually due to needing it to complete the instructions given in some of the downloads! Odd way to do things, but that seems to be one of my special traits, even today (i.e.: I wanted to learn about Lightning, and ended up first at BTCPayServer docs... whoops.)

Is Euro, Dollar or Bitcoin the answer? Iunno, I am not that visionary or capable of this far foresight myself. But I do know one thing: History has a tendency of repeating itself. And who knows, maybe this won't just repeat the bad parts but also the good parts? I mean the .com-bubble bursting was quite bad, but what came after was pretty okay. Maybe we're seing something similiar? No idea...

I decided, for myself, that I will stay at #Nostr. One of my personal dystopian fears is that I will need i2p or Tor to even access the internet, because the rest of it has become completely full of tracking and surveiliance - and stacking an adblocker ontop, just for good meassure - albeit its almost a requirement at this point...

So to answer your final question: Yes, and no. Approach it with caution, don't ever forget that every coin has two sides - even Bitcoin, albeit being a mere hash on a linked, distributed list. I am too; but in my honest opinion, it might become the lesser of two evils in the long run... And I am _not_ looking forward to that. :/

Some of the sounds people produce with #LSDJ - a synthesizer software for #GameBoy - is outright amazing <3