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All in already unfortunately/fortunately

Replying to Avatar jb55

Donald gets it.

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

This a really good post from Jack.

Part of the answer might just be time. The tech is real, people are building on it, and it takes time for people to be burned by permissioned systems to discover permissionless ones now that they exist.

I do think that bitcoin wallet + social graph is a big combo in the long run. The fact that you can just look up and pay anyone you know without that person taking action to tell you their payment details, especially in an open source and international environment, is a pretty big deal. Not just zaps as tips on posts, but zaps for Nostr marketplaces or for saying “pay me on Nostr” for products/services unrelated to Nostr per se.

And for the social network part, I just like the fact that Nostr is permissionless and open. Twitter has a huge network effect and I have plenty of friends/connections there, so I still post there a lot and use it for research as well. That is irreplaceable until it is not. But Nostr feels different. The tech feels right, the group that adopts that tech early feels right, and so to me it feels right to post things here that I would not otherwise post to 675k Twitter followers. Less filtered, for better or worse.

I used to be involved with individual small forums back before widespread social media was a thing, and was an administrator for one to help run it, and that type of smaller community was valuable. In fact, I inadvertently met my now-husband there 13 years ago, who was also an administrator. The forum had fewer than 50,000 people, with only a few thousand active at any time, but in context that is the size of a significant town.

But while Nostr still has the “feel” of a smaller forum now, its open source and permissionless nature gives it enormous expansion opportunity. While programmers do their best to build new features and capabilities, I try to seed this current smaller version of Nostr with unique content that doesn’t feel right to post in a larger centralized setting but feels more right for a smaller decentralized community of adventurers.

Because I want permissionless and open source tech to win. nostr:note19aldr26lyw2lqatcgqscyt3kpq76hcpwtwmglypvqqgx3m27fsaswa8rr6

Your point about Nostr facilitating payments in general I really feel too. It seems to be under appreciated at the moment but is stupidly bullish.

Don’t let garbage fool you, they want you to eat shit now and suffer later.

Evening Freaks.

Replying to Avatar miljan

Primal optimizes for smoothest onboarding of new users. nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg optimizes for maximum freedom.

We still respect each other and are good friends. Working on the same mission from two different angles.

There’s a lesson in there. ✌️💜☀️

LFG.

Replying to Avatar Derek Ross

Twenty years ago, nostr:npub1jrcfyw8n298jf83txvlxzx0w7jtfwqs0j4ha0dnn9ns33hgm209sqejdcc and I started dating. Twenty years. I just cannot believe it's been that long. We've built an incredible life and family together and I couldn't begin to imagine my life without her in it.

Today, I gifted Katie this beautiful painting created by nostr:npub17nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgqf6950x. I took this photo when we were on a family vacation in Uvita, Costa Rica in January. Katie's been wanting a painting for our living room. Isolabell brought it to life for us and I was able to purchase it thanks to Bitcoin and Nostr. 😍 Thank you.

Love eh, not a bad thing at all.