This is a really important thing for us to keep in mind when we talk about how to make open protocols and open social media. Digital communities can die in many ways, but one of the most common is one person or a small group behaving in an antisocial way and slowly driving everybody out of the space. Nobody wants to put their foot down and tell them to stop posting off topic, or enforce some moderation rules using the platform. So people leave that space to them and drift away.

Enforcing rules in a specific space is often seen as censorship. This is a mistake. If I invite you to my birthday party and you get drunk and start yelling in some drunken rant at everybody else in the party, it’s not censorship to kick you out of the party. You’re more than welcome to continue your drunken rants elsewhere, but the birthday party is something i convened and should be able to enforce rules and norms over that space.

There’s a time and a place for drunken debauchery but if you do that in the wrong space it’ll ruin the vibe and everybody else will leave. It would be censorship if you were not able to organize your own space on Nostr or elsewhere online, where you couldn’t post and talk to people.

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Hi. I'm a author of "The Girl with Seven Names" and escapee from North Korea. I'm here in Nashville to learn about Bitcoin for the first time in my life♡

Also forger, don’t forget that!

Fu*k Craig !

Now that's a hit!

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I think without wikileaks, Killary would probably have been elected.

Replies are cool too. But re-notes just spam the feed, unless it’s someone new that the community doesn’t already follow.

We really should be adding or evolving data to add value. nostr:note1tsdgck0vhshdv44gg2hwf4q0x2sdpaawuan6fznl5a8jam7tkt5s7ua4jq

Switching to private zaps months ago has given me the benefit of not being able to check my Nostr.band stats to see the damage I've done.

You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

This is the only tangible, actionable reason to vote, imo

We got her a sister. They're slowly starting to get along. They didn't like each other at all when they first met yesterday.

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