There are multiple visions for the future of the Fediverse. And that’s a good thing. https://werd.io/2024/the-two-fediverses
Truly this man has been the weirdest part of this election cycle, and the bar for that has been incredibly high. What a ludicrous guy. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/us/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-bear-central-park.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
A personal post: https://werd.io/2024/rebasing-to-reality
Internationalism > nationalism.
Trump and his movement suck and I’m excited for them to fade into nothing post-November.
That’s all.
So, uh, Bitcoin might have a bit of an image problem. 
On the America I can’t bring myself to love, and the one that I can. https://werd.io/2024/the-america-that-i-love
It took me a long time to get through the first third of this novel. The protagonist is so vapid, her point of view so incurious and at the same time so familiarly American, against a backdrop of obvious imperialism and climate obliviousness, that it was hard to find the motivation to continue.
But I’m glad I did. This is an indictment of one character, but through her, all of America, and every country and every person that touches the interconnected hyperobject of energy, climate, and western prosperity. It’s savage, witty, and remarkably pointed: the kind of book that’s soothing to read in the modern age because no, you’re not alone, someone else is feeling this too, and their rage has manifested into something far better articulated than you could hope to muster.
Is this shared awareness enough to halt the catastrophe that we’re careening towards? Probably not. But holy shit, there’s something here, and if there’s even a chance we can pull off the total culture change that averting this crisis requires, we need to try.
The remaining two thirds sharpen to a point, an ending that will cut you without mercy. And I’m grateful for it.
#amwriting https://werd.io/2024/progress-on-the-book
I don’t have the first clue what happens when i select just one relay instead of “all my relays”. Functionally, sure (which most people won’t). But what’s the human effect? Are these different communities? How do I choose one? 
I have a few thoughts about the upcoming British general election. None of them particularly polite. https://werd.io/2024/a-jab-back-at-brexit-or-a-kick-in-the
Nostr isn’t free for some of us until it’s free for all of us. And to do that we need to build a space where people and communities of users can set and enforce community norms for themselves. If we don’t build these tools then we’ll not be able to make Nostr for everybody. Nobody’s saying you need to use moderation labels or relays that take down reported content. Just that for people who want them, they can use them. We need good tools for self management. Authoritarians take and hold power because they claim that they’re the only one to keep people safe. If we don’t build in tools on Nostr to help us keep ourselves safe, then people will think their only option is to use a system with opaque unaccountable centralized control over the platfrom.
That’s why I do the work on nostr:npub12m2t8433p7kmw22t0uzp426xn30lezv3kxcmxvvcrwt2y3hk4ejsvre68j and other projects to provide tools for trust, safety, and moderation on a permissionless open protocol.
And if you don’t believe harassment happens, please listen to people like nostr:npub19vvkfwy9mcluhvehw7r56p4stsj5lmx4v9g3vgkwsm3arpgef8aqsrt562 who helped organize the first Nostr conference in her experience: nostr:note10c90rf00lttrxdvn2q6creqn0u274r9g2qz967wqgvm2myxlgz6sjmdrsv
Or look at what was said to me today: nostr:note14vmyqnz4mgj06fghjjy0ppv53dfexpzzz37ua4z3mmaf33nnf98q742jd4
Either we figure out a way to goven ourselves without centralized control or we’ll end up with that centralized control we’ve been fighting against.
Nice! This is the work required to make any community space work.
“Human-centered design for engineers”: a book for engineers on small teams who want to be more effective with fewer resources and solve real, unmet problems for the people they’re building for more quickly than they otherwise might.
But there’s a fine line, and if there’s a mechanism to moderate for community health (as there should be), the powerful will also eventually use it to squash speech they simply don’t like.
I see free speech like the free market. Without rules, the powerful will always benefit. Moderation enables new ideas and less powerful communities to truly be heard.
Hm. Not really my scene.
That said, if they wanted to punt me some Bitcoin …
From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs
Politics is not sports. Principles are far more important than allegiance.
I’m glad these stories are being told; I wish they didn’t have to be.
Who is most successfully building a community on Nostr?