I’m a composer, photographer and fractal artist from Sweden and I am currently checking nostr out because I’m fed up with facebook.

#introductions

The best part of the character of Gandalf is that he is just as lost as the rest of us.

What differentiates him is that he is more willing to ride the energy of goodness to its absolute end…..even if it means his end.

I want to be a healthy happy disrespecting fed baby mama.

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Nostr-based events, Bitcoin ticketing, and a streamlined attendance system. What else do you need to create your event today?

If you want to imagine a small number, consider how few people on the planet give a fuck what's happening on Bitcoin X.

Imagine an even smaller number by considering how few people on Bitcoin X are original thinkers who aren't just parroting someone else or mindlessly trolling.

There's a lot of boring circle jerking in this space, and I've definitely participated in it. Guilty.

Honestly, I can see why most people aren't interested.

Money shouldn't be a religion. It's a tool. Fucking use it and live life. Bitcoin X isn't real.

In the absence of the truly malignant systems that modern-day content algorithms [are forced by businesses’ incentive structure to] become, we have a found a new sort of freedom, to rediscover cooperation and voluntary association in the digital age.

Genuinely *social* media.

It repeatedly blows my mind, just how fundamentally decent the majority of people here are.

My hope/theory is that it’s not actually “just like this on Nostr”. While it’s true that a number of us have overlapping interests or worldviews, there is also a natural diversity: people from all around the world, with different cultures, languages, philosophies, and experiences, all show up here to say GM.

It’s more of a cultural bell curve, where the majority of people are pretty chill, decent human beings, who generally like each other and respect one another’s differences.

My radical proposition is that this actually reflects the real world, and that the current cultural narrative of unrelenting division - while it has some truth to it, for sure — is drastically overblown, both on a personal level and by the media. On the edges of the bell curve are the very niche, very loud, and very “divided” subcultures. These groups have been given the loudest microphones.

Individually, if we only interact with the toxic, rage-bait algorithms that have come to define modern social/media (because it’s in journalism too), we experience the world through this clouded lens. We’re fed a continuous diet of disagreement, outrage, war, etc., because we click on it and thus the people making the content decisions get paid.

Remove the algorithms, and you remove the illusion of irreconcilable division. Nostr is a perfect case study of this, and so far it’s going beautifully.

I’m cautiously optimistic that this trend will continue when the user base grows 10x, 100x, because my view is that humanity is primarily good. Time will tell, and incentives will matter. But I’m hopeful that on a value-for-value, proof-of-work standard, our better instincts will prevail.

I had to read it to believe it. The absolute balls on them to spout this when their money printing has led to the finalisation of every commodity and asset at the detriment of the working and middle classes. Fuck the ECB and keep building the new system!

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There's no fear any more - nothing will happen, the police won't do anything, neither will the criminal justice system

These little bricks were rolling around the streets where I grew up, just last night, carrying machetes, openly.

#Portsmouth is being dragged down, fast.

It's a tolerant city but that tolerance only lasts so long.

Who uses tallow, lard, or olive oil for skincare?