money printing is a weapon of mass destruction.

GM

BE THE REBELLION, NOSTR

I can't stress enough how many people tell me that no social media app does what they want to do.

X only works for famous people. Instagram only works for picture-perfect people. Linked-in is a giant circle jerk. Slack is not productive. Discord is a dumpsterfire. NextDoor is barely a glorified classified. Finding good communities on Reddit is harder than finding a good show on Netflix. Facebook only appeals to nostalgia. TikTok is a mindless stream of the same stuff over and over again. WhatsApp groups annoy users more than help. Etc.

Which is really interesting after the billions of dollars these companies have put into developing them. It's almost as if their poorly designed incentive structure led these teams to fully ignore the user.

I'm not sure I should write down these thoughts right now while I'm not sure about them, but if you are reading this apparently I did.

I think nostr may already be doomed for two reasons. And as a result of that, if I conclude as such, it would make sense to start working on a successor protocol. I've been taking some notes about what we should change if we started over, but that's the extent of it, I'm not working on a successor protocol. I'm only working on nostr. So don't misinterpret this note, which just represents some thoughts I've been having.

Reason one is the misaligned incentives of note copying. The incentives are to copy your notes to every relay you can, blast them out everywhere, to get more reach. That incentive doesn't go away until and unless all the clients do the outbox model. But they don't have an incentive to change, and there are people who don't give a fuck about fixing this and argue against fixing it and argue for note copying, and there is no way in a free society to make them care. So we can never fix this, and nostr will always be centralized in practice and never what it could have been. That means nostr is doomed and unfixable and we should make sure to start differently next time so this doesn't happen again.

Reason two is that the seed culture of nostr was far too monolithic: bitcoiners. What a culture develops into probably depends on how diverse its seed was. It's quite hard to get people onto nostr unless they are at least very bitcoin tolerant. Most people (yes, I think most) are put off by so much bitcoin promotion and related posts. Certainly people can follow anybody they want, and make their own independent cultures, perhaps even on a disjoint set of relays. But this isn't likely to happen due to the law of large numbers - there are far more ways for them to encounter and interact with the nest of bitcoiners then to not encounter and interact with them.

These are thoughts I'm entirely unsure about. Maybe I'm wrong in both cases. These are my worries.

I'll offer an optimistic take on both of your concerns:

1. I believe that most nostr clients will implement some form of outbox support. All Primal clients certainly will. We are literally a few days from releasing a major update. Once users’ notes are spread out over hundreds (eventually thousands) of relays, client devs will be incentivized to upgrade their clients accordingly. It will take a bit of time, but that’s okay.

2. Nostr being seeded with bitcoiners is a feature, not a bug. To bootstrap a truly decentralized network, we need the initial group of users who understand decentralization and are willing to fight for it. There is no other way imho. The short term price we are paying is that the content is bitcoin-centric, but that’s fine. That will get sorted out over time as the network grows.

IMO, we need to lower our time preference and be more patient. Everything is moving in the right direction.

We don’t need a successor protocol. Nostr is the one we’ve been looking for.

I WILL NEVER TURN MY BACK ON BITCOIN. I HAVE DEDICATED MY LIFE TO THE MOVEMENT.

- TWITTER IS NOT BITCOIN.

- I DOUBT SATOSHI WOULD SUPPORT WE CHAT OF THE WEST LMFAO.

We like the golf.

Hell yeah! I suck, but I golf!

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Any golfers out there? #golf

There I go again, annoying him 🤣

GM warriors

What if… 💡

We redefined nationhood in the digital era, drawing inspiration from Bitcoin's decentralization. We’re already connected here, beyond boarders.. what if we take it a step further 👇🏼

My thought basis gears towards creating Decentralized Digital Nations, starting not with land, but with the collective spirit in the digital ether. This “new realm” transcends physical boundaries, embodying principles of freedom, privacy, and open-source collaboration.

Our journey can begin by uniting individuals online, forging a community that prioritizes digital interaction and shared values.

This community serves as the foundation for our ethereal nation, emphasizing remote work, cultural cohesion, and digital civility.

Gradually, we extend into the physical realm, not through contiguous lands, but by crowdfunding distributed enclaves, united by our common ethos.

The approach mirrors the decentralized nature of #Bitcoin —valuing network strength and ideological unity over geographical proximity. This concept of a reverse diaspora would begin online, with each physical presence acting as a node of our digital ethos.

I assume skeptics may view this as mere fantasy, yet Bitcoin’s ascent from obscurity to global recognition showcases the power of collective vision.

A Decentralized Digital Nation, The Citizens of Satoshi, is more than an idea; it’s a reflection of the evolving concept of nationhood, defined by community and shared principles, not borders.

In this new era, a nation's legitimacy stems from its community, transparency, and societal contributions, much like Bitcoin's rise to prominence.

As our digital nation grows, we seek not only numerical strength but also societal acknowledgment.

Here’s the vision: In the spirit of #innovation and #freedom that #Bitcoin  embodies, we create a world where Decentralized Digital Nations, guided by the principles of decentralization and self-sovereignty, pave a new path in human civilization.

Now, this could be just a crazy idea, but it also could be the start of a whole new decentralized world.

Let’s do this! To gauge interest, do you want to remain a citizen of your country? Or are you ready to pioneer a revolution? 👇🏼

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The nostr:npub1sur5gd3mrfvcd4nh8dtsdh0ztrqrnaknff0lcfcfz5pn56n8eqkqv9sm0l feed is pretty neat, I love that #grownostr is actually working and it's not exclusively insane people anymore.

What are some of your favorite feeds?