Revisiting the centralized, decentralized, distributed graph at the Commons Hub Brussels.

Moving from efficiency 📈 to resilience 🔅

From corporations 👔, to startups 👟, to communities 🌻.

From CEOs 👨🏻‍💼, to cofounders 👬 to stewards 👫.

We have become independent from one another, but hyper dependent on millions of strangers thousands of miles away. We are connected to a global network 🌍, but disconnected from our own local network 🌳.

Time to rebuild our social tissue, our resilience. Because community is immunity.

Key insight: to forge more relationships within the network, we need to introduce new currencies to acknowledge & reward other kinds of contributions 💧🔥 ☯️

That’s why we need #web3, the new Internet of currencies.

🇪🇺 Europe wants Kamala to win.

🇷🇺 Russia wants Trump to win.

🇺🇸 America is deciding today 🗳️

Reality check:

Most presidents and governments only represent a minority of citizens.

Gm Belgian countryside (Yvoir)

Excited to bring Open Collective to web3, the OG platform to fund open source communities.

Please give it a warm welcome 🤗

https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/42161/608/116

Next up, Nostr? What is it that you need to organize and fund Nostr communities?

Remember farcaster?

Yet another example that too much money can kill your project.

I remember seeing job posting with crazy salaries. Recipe for attracting the wrong profiles. Movements start with believers, not with employees.

https://x.com/chrisjourdan/status/1848802081983148477?s=46

How can we move up the stack and create open source organizations?

What do you think is preventing people from building more in the open?

Love it. Very solarpunk 😎

I’d love to see the Helium.com of such solar powered devices. A decentralized network where everyone is incentivized to provide solar uptime. Then downtime doesn’t matter as much.

https://xavierdamman.com/blog/2024/opencollective-for-digital-cooperatives

This presentation from the founder of Patreon could inspire many of us in the Nostr community.

A shift is happening. Not only on the Internet but in the world.

It’s time to shift from the outer world to the inner world, from reach to depth of connection, from doing something that matters to others to doing something that matters to you and your local community.

Platforms that displaced others never did it on the same paradigm. Nostr doesn’t need to replace Twitter. It needs to enable something new, something different. Replacing Twitter will be a natural byproduct. Not the product.

How could we use Nostr to enable creators to reach their 1000 true fans?

How could we create a bazar with millions of local shops that care about servicing 1000 people, not one million people?

After discussing with nostr:npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8 the other day, we talked about whether the problem of a global username was still relevant in this new world.

Your last name was invented by the nation state. And your global unique username by this idea that you had to build a global audience. But what if you don’t? Local shops only need a unique name in their locality.

This is a good example of a design decision that sets the tone, that defines who we are, how we are different, how we are not playing the same game.

Anyway, here is an invitation to slow down. Do less tweets, more long posts, take the time to think. Take the time to build stuff that will last 200 years. We need more human beings, less human doing.

https://youtu.be/hwn6-8XpIuE?si=zGUTxBk2cKwIuX8T

Also interested to do the same for my blog. Is it documented somewhere?

Talking of which, how can open collective be of service to the nostr community?

We grew our own pumpkins in Brussels the other year, was a lot of fun!

https://x.com/citizen_garden/status/1305906760566308864

Full story: https://citizenspring.earth/citizengarden

Nostr feels like ethereum in 2016. Just discovering metamask. Before mass adoption we need the concept of a multisig and account abstraction.

👉 Your private key should be linked to your device (and never ever leave it), not to your identity.

Great book 👌

Thanks! I actually joined over a year ago but I haven’t been active. Your talk was as great reminder that I should spend more time here.

Quick overview of my projects: https://citizenspring.earth

Please ping me whenever you (or anyone in this Nostr community) passes by Brussels. You have a coworking space ready to welcome you 😊

nostr:npub1teawtzxh6y02cnp9jphxm2q8u6xxfx85nguwg6ftuksgjctvavvqnsgq5u Verifying My Public Key: "xdamman"

(I know the basics but mostly interested in how this could be used by communities. Is there support for encrypted group messaging? Are there funds to develop open source software for nostr? Would it make sense to bring open collective to it? Etc.)

Great talk nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240!

https://youtu.be/XUsk7cqZyKU?si=9E3Sl6mVnyygRFuR

I have so many questions. Where’s the best place to get started?

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