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I'm here from Reddit. It'd a whole new world but I'll stick around for a bit and try to figure this thing out. Seems like a nice environment so far so thanks for having me 👊. #greetings

It seems fake when you're used to fighting all of the time. They'll see once they experience it.

I’ve just come over from Reddit where a sub I used to frequent had a pretty bad day yesterday. The community points that Reddit had rolled out and with which many users were earning money as well as investing money into was abruptly cancelled. A huge sell off resulted and someone posted nostr as a possible alternative to those people affected. Interesting concept - thanks user rayfin on Reddit for introducing it to me

Such a good movie 😂

We are despicable 🥹

Right, my point is if you take the risk of doing so online, it’s a personal one. If you avoid the risk, it’s a societal one.

In the unlikely event the state wants to get you, it will. But if no one speaks out under their name, we will have a state so empowered, it will usher in a dystopia for everyone.

That’s why one *should* take the risk now while it’s still relatively small in many places. That’s the gist of the post.

At the individual level that’s true, but hiding behind anon handles puts the power in their hands at scale. It means we’ve agreed we can’t speak our minds openly.

It feels a bit weird, but that’s not my main complaint (though IMO NOSTR would grow a lot faster were there more real names attached.)

My main complaint is that while private communications and life details should remain private, public square posts should be with names attached to the extent we want a robust public square and to beat back censorship.

And yes, it’s true anyone can pose as a real-life person while faking it, but I’m more talking about nyms who are obviously real people and encouraging them to post under their real names. The issue of verifying that is separate, though obviously important in that case.

I love the platform, BTW — just think now that we have this freedom tech, it’s the time to stand up for the courage of our convictions in the open.

“Hey, here’s a GPT4 summarization of this article about the dangers of OpenAI, probably also written by OpenAI.”

We had a good run while it lasted, right?

Real life watercolor of fall foliage.

Feeling compelled to steal this one 👀