Using markdown is a disease.

Deleted WhatsApp. The reactions from friends and family are fascinating. They treat it like I've moved to a remote island without a post office. Am I the weird one?

This experience feels strangely familiar. It’s the same look you get when you tell someone you don't trust the banking system. People aren't defending WhatsApp because it's a superior technology for communication, they're defending it because it's the comfortable, centralized default.

It’s a perfect parallel to the Fiat vs. Bitcoin debate:

Fiat / WhatsApp: A centralized system run by a powerful few for their own benefit. Your access can be revoked at any time. You're given convenience in exchange for control.

Bitcoin / Nostr: An open, decentralized protocol that no one owns. You own your keys, your identity, and your assets. It demands personal responsibility but gives you true sovereignty in return.

Leaving the walled garden for the open plains of freedom will always seem strange to those who have never known anything else.

What was your first "weird" step towards sovereignty that got you strange looks? ⚡️🧡

#bitcoin #nostr #sovereignty #plebchain #digitalsovereignty #privacy

we created ai and now ai is creating for us. soon ai will create its own ai, which will create ai to create more ai. maybe this is how god created the universe in the first place. if that’s true, then the current god was created by another god, and that god by another, and so on. and maybe, just maybe, we are about to become the next god in line.

#nostr #grownostr #amethyst if anyone needs help getting rid of the bot accounts message me because I can help you get rid of the bot accounts

How many cubes are on the trailer?

#gm

#strike gave me my money,

"buy bitcoin you can send it anywhere, instantly"

is a lie.

once again folks, we're told lies to get us to buy something. things haven't changed, they're just painted orange, and white-washed in purple.

add #strike to your #shitapps today.

#smij #zapd #freedom #decentralized #unity #rossisfree #grownostr #strike is a #shitapp #strikesux

How do you go about getting new followers on #nostr?

Is it just relentless posting?

Talked to an old colleague today. We both been in "the industry" since 1999.

Said he tried reaching me through Facebook. I deleted my account in 2014. Said he tried to reach me via LinkedIn. I deleted that account in 2021.

We chatted for a bit. Catching up. Felt disconnected.

Reminded me of that one quote from The Sovereign Individual:

"The vag sits on the edge of the highway, broken, hungry. Overhead, flies a transcontinental plane filled with highly paid executives. The upper class has taken to the air, the lower class to the road, there is no longer any bond between them; they are two nations."

Not that I live an extravagant life... but the bonds that held us together are gone.

Conversation ended.

Nothing bad.

Just died.

I have nothing in common with my old friends anymore.

#RealRareTalk

Who are the #linux maxis on nostr?

Creating a Linux following.space follow pack

#asknostr

No, I mean I literally can’t get primal to set up. It won’t send a code to my email to start it.🤷🏻

I might die before I figure out this goddamn lightning wallet!🥲

Memes