I'll try...

I am feeling it. How does one even get followers here. Lol.

What form of evolution would you prefer...

Option 1: You can breathe underwater, and withstand all the pressures of the deep on earth, but you lose opposable thumbs and are hunted by creatures unknown to us

Option 2: You can live in the vacuum of space, but require regular consumption of heavy metals to live and deflect radioactive gamma rays. These can only be found on certain kinds of comets, which are sought after by others who will defend them with their life

You cannot own #Bitcoin.

What you CAN do is rely on the fact that the risk of someone else knowing the same Private Key as you is so infinitesimally small that it makes sense to use satoshis as a communications tool for expressing value.

Not yet. I'm still recording. When I release the next part, I can add you to the notification list here on nostr if you want.

You're right on "target", so you may never get the pleasure. The stuff that is edgy elsewhere is normie here, and vice-versa.

The social media feed is just an inverse-Twitter.

It's not, tho.

There are a couple of dominant subgroups who make up almost all of the posts and who have trolls who go around yelling at everyone who doesn't conform, without having to deal with the same treatment because there's hardly anyone on the other end of any argument.

They talk a big talk about free speech, but if everything on here was 🌈 and Dogecoin stuff, they would immediately leave and not come back.

Some npubs see the entire Nostr protocol as their territory to defend against Undesirables from other subcultures.

If everyone can control their own experience on Nostr, what would keep queers, Muslims, Instagram queens, warmongers, magic monetary theorists, radfems, communists, etc. from making themselves a comfy corner and hanging out there, in peace?

Nothing.

You cannot "own" #Bitcoin in the traditional sense of owning stuff.

No matter what governments, courts, chain-anal people, or anyone else tells you, there is no way of proving that someone DOESN'T know a string of information such as a private key.

From this perspective, satoshis aren't ever transferred but rather reorganized on the timechain for communication purposes.

The twelve magic words do not belong to anyone. They're just twelve words.

What Bitcoin makes so blatantly obvious is that money was never anything but information.

A ban on "self-hosted wallets" is as absurd as a ban on using your brain.

Such a ban would have severe consequences.

It would deny you the right to keep a secret while granting the government the right to claim that you do, making everyone a criminal.

YOU would have to prove that you DON'T know something, which is impossible.

You would be guilty until proven innocent, which cannot be proven.

Any law trying to stop or restrict Bitcoin usage is nothing less than a crime against humanity.

IMHO, the Bitcoin community should do everything in its power to prevent such laws. Your ability to use a communications network shouldn't depend on where you were born.

Do your part and educate as many people as you can as often as possible.

Speech is never free but always costly. It's high time to separate speech and state!

The whole point of Nostr is that there is no "main feed" to moderate.

Even global is the global of particular relays and looks different for everyone. It is decentralized.

They can all work, as is. It's more of a cultural question.

Like, if you make a database app about bread recipes, with the records being Nostr notes, is it legit to limit who can write to the tables in your database, or do we really need to let every rando post his rant against windmills in your recipe database?

That would make such an app useless.

A recipe database should probably just contain recipes, and the admin should be free to remove you from the contributor list, if you insist on adding windmill stuff.

If you want to have a database about windmills, go make one of your own. This one is about recipes.

But everyone on Nostr is like "BUT THEN THE RECIPE NPUBS ARE CENSORING THE WINDMILL NPUBS".