Great challenge ❤️

## Here's my ~5 lines:

On Twitter, Facebook/Insta, Tiktok, etc. you're uploading your content to that company's servers. They control and censor the content you see to sell ads. You're their product.

Nostr isn't a company. It's an open protocol like HTTP or email, but for social media. Instead of one company, your profile and content lives on hundreds of independent servers around the globe. No central authority can manipulate your feed & there's free bitcoin lightning transactions.

## Here's my whole draft sorted by priority, so cut off when you want:

On Twitter, Facebook/Insta, Tiktok, etc. you're uploading your content to that company's servers. They act as the central authority that can direct, control, and censor the content you publish and see in your feed. They use this power to make money by selling your attention to advertisers.

Nostr puts an end to this. It's an open protocol for social media that works without any central authority. Your profile and your content live de-centralized on hundreds of independent servers we call "relays" around the globe. That means:

- No central authority manipulates your feed.

- It's integrated with bitcoin lightning, so you can freely send and receive money without intermediaries.

- You can freely change what shows up in your feed.

- You can build anything like Twitter, Reddit, Medium, Twitch and many more things on top of Nostr. So it's definitely an interest place to join now.

Well, I agree that if you have a corrupted state, private health care is obviously the thing people have to turn to. E.g. I did some reporting about Venezuela's healthcare system, where the rich turn to the private sector for healthcare. But that's a stopgap and shouldn't be considered a reasonable healthcare policy.

I'm curious: Which country do you have in mind where free market and voluntary charity provide better healthcare than the state?

I was wondering... 😅

https://primal.net/thread/note1t7vday5jefxwdal35r7uunvgtzsg0k4elf5dp7sn7rgc97qngecqrlrns3

You too! Have a lovely day.

Carlson & Tate accusing others of "lying" - pretty rich 😅

For society as a whole, that's a disastrous policy. Compare ANY country with a health care system run on that principle, and you'll find people struggling and in debt, big pharma making big profits, and health outcomes significantly below par.

The reason the market doesn't work well in health care is that demand is inelastic. If you have a serious illness, you have no choice but to consult a doctor. That's the reason you'll find countries where states regulate / provide health care outperform market-systems in cost and outcomes.

E.g. here's health outcome measured as life expectancy (y) vs expenditure per person (x)

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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure-per-capita?country=USA~GBR~FRA~ESP~DEU~SWE~CHE

That is an amazing idea! 😎

The percentages you provided don't say what you probably think... But ok. Judged by the speed with which you shout "Nazi", I think seeing that a small percentage in a population of millions equals a lot of dead people & overrun hospitals is probably too much to ask for. (A point also made in the very study you cite, btw)

Ah, answering kindergarten-style, I see... the mark of a true genius 😅

No idea which state you live in, but for most Western countries this is utter BS. Governments had to balance liberty & public health, and especially in Europe, tried their damn best with limited info and little to no malicious intent. I must say, I very much resent such naïve, unjustified vitriol towards public servants that worked ridiculously long hours for our public health.

Nice! We got house rules with soldiers from Risk so you can destroy villages again 😎 I don't know what it'd do to the family peace 😅

Here, love me some Settlers :)

Nice, installed and running smoothly so far

I was thinking about a similar problem today and my possible answer might overlap:

It'd be great if users could "subscribe" to relay lists someone else provides without having to actively maintain their own relay list. Those lists could probably be made qualitatively much better / updated than each user themselves, including read / write asymmetry you talk about.

I thought about this in the context of authoritarian regimes: Opposition figures could maintain and constantly update a list of their relays. This could even be automated. The list would be distributed and the adversarial government would essentially have to simultaneously shutdown all relays at once. The client would just need to find one copy of the list to then (very probably) find more relays / more recent versions of the list.

Technically afaik it'd be very akin to NIP-65 relay lists in that only a certain user or users could maintain the list. It'd be different in that they would prefereably not have to be the creator, but could be added / removed as maintainers.

Just initial thoughts.

nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg i get mentions by "undefined", is there a way of knowing which relays I miss (assuming that's the issue)?

Oh and nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s's delivery of the email analogy is epic, too! "Imagine there was just one email company..." That single sentence immediately transmits the idea of why we need Nostr and I'll definitely steal it 😁

Watching nostr:npub1lelkh3hhxw9hdwlcpk6q9t0xt9f7yze0y0nxazvzqjmre3p98x3sthkvyz's Nostr documentary reminded me of those wonderful times at the beginning of the internet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-jiiepOrE

When at 12:16 nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m talks uses this beautiful phrasing of how monopolies go against "what the internet wants to be... which is that there are no single deciders, there's no one person for all these decisions...", it triggered a memory of Christopher Hitchen's last speech (afaik), and I couldn't help but go watch it again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7MtjJFelAE

Oh god that's embarrassing 😳 hehe... It switched me to "Follows" feed and I don't follow anybody. That's it.

But yeah, maybe something that shouldn't switch without notice. (I didn't switch it.)

Hi there. I have the following issue on habla.

After I post something, all feed content disappears... It's the weirdest thing. Noticed an error in the javascript console.

Am I doing something wrong?