LMAO 🐦🪹

Just imagine what happens when a OnlyFans replacement using Nostr + Bitcoin with AI produced content comes out...

It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context.  WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.

The more you know…

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Don't worry, chem trails aren't real... the clouds just form in long thin lines...

#grownostr #chemtrails

As Steve Balmer used to say:

"Content, content, content!"

What’s the number one reason people who tried nostr are not on nostr in your opinion?

End of an empire

They still don't get that nostr is a protocol, not a platform/app/product...

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There is no nostr business model.

That's the point.

You’re right, nothing to do with guns.

It’s about decentralizing power and control.

Decentralized military power (guns happen to be highest tech weapon) protects us from tyranny by force.

Decentralized monetary system protects us from centralized control of monetary system.

Both bring balance of power into the hands of the many.

We don’t build the product for anonymity (although it can provide it), we build it for privacy of ordinary users from the operator and any observers.

Privacy means not just secrecy of my messages, by definition in includes the privacy of my associations.

I don’t need to hide my identity from people I talk to (=anonymity). But I absolutely don’t want my communication service provider observing my connections. Why is it so? Because apparently as this information is not private, and shared publicly, it can be further shared with the third parties - especially in the US.

And a lot of third parties having visibility of this connection graph doesn’t just create risks for freedom in oppressive regimes. It has a direct impact on the prices we pay online - targeted prices, aka price discrimination, becomes the norm for a growing number of online retailers. And if you think that it results in wealthier people paying more you are wrong - usually it works in the opposite direction, known as “poverty premium”.

So privacy doesn’t seem something only a niche market needs - it seems like something absolutely everybody needs, and that Signal, WhatsApp, Session etc. simply cannot provide whether they use phone numbers or not - any form of identification is good enough to reconstruct connection graph via correlation of communication patters with the existing public networks - it won’t be flawless but it will be precise enough for targeted pricing. So it’s just have to stop, and privacy of our associations from communication providers should become a norm, not an exception.