You mean fuck governments 😄
Thank you for the link, great idea btw. But I'll leave that function to governments, they will work better than me 😄 Most people are not convinced unless they live it. They will be banned and even fined using it with VPN then they will understand the value of nostr.
Status update. Just deleted my Twitter account 30 days and it will be gone forever. I tought as long as I'm there others won't move to nostr, I better cut their supply 😉
So we can run a relay at home and only connect to it? Just in case it happens here too, better to be ready.
As long as Twitter account is anonymous they can't know if they are using X with VPN.
gm NOSTR ☀️
Here's why you CAN'T trust gold during hyperinflation!
https://video.nostr.build/7d6e4b0ee29e47f8a16619d7709213d7683de7d0f78a5c36c70488d66abbd85b.mp4
History tends to repeat. They did before, they will do it again.
nostr:note135w24ma3rva5q4y8fnak9uu688znh3dxrsvtp2xwt07wunzl7y9q90vsslNew York Post writer got new job nostr:npub17f2qe8ycpd56p6clc0d6l6kqxfr696xaq5c7d4w53c04xdm3lzvs4dtwjc 😂
Politics is the new gladiator arena. It keeps people talking, thinking about the real issues.
I don't think politicians have enough brain power to make that calculation.
Try from a web interface, try primal. I don't have ios so try from web, it will work probably. If it works try another ios client.
If there is no development yet an ecommerce implementation can be good. Many small businesses owners use especially Instagram to sell stuff. Nostr have lightning wallet integration so small businesses can start accepting Bitcoin immediately. Instead of Tesla I preserve my local burger shop accepting Bitcoin. I might never order Tesla but burger? Just an idea, thanks. It works pretty good btw no complaints, thanks for your hard work.
One of my biggest "aha!" moments was realizing that #Nostr isn't just another social media platform.
When I first installed nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg , it felt like #Twitter with a built-in wallet (which was already super cool).
But then, when I imported my private key into nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x and nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 and saw my profile magically appear, it all clicked!
In that moment, I understood—Nostr wasn't just a platform; it was something much bigger. Gosh the hours I spent on LinkedIn / IG / Facebook to create a profile and Bio all over again 😂🫣
Sometimes you just have to dive in and experience it to really get it! Grateful for this patent community here who showed me step by step 🙏🤣💪🏻
Protocol > Platform
It has been building for sometime not just one incident. A YouTube channel was banned for no reason as well.
Considering the governments pressure on free speech all over the world will speed up adoption probably.
Go to your profile page, can find everything there including zaps. Welcome.
Good idea will try rss thanks.
We are used to drink still water all day and natural mineral water after meals especially after dinners which help digestion as well.
Don't confuse the natural mineral water and the mineral water you mentioned they are two different things, the one you used to is what we call soda actually. Natural mineral water is the one that has minerals in it but sparkling water or soda or mineral water is still water enriched with further minerals.
You can't drink one liter or even half a liter natural mineral water at one go because it will hurt your throat. This is probably why some of us don't like sparkling/mineral/soda water.
And don't forget the look when you want real water 😄
How much shorts got REKT?
Last week I posted about "Nostr struggling" and while there were many good responses, it seems to me that a bunch of people misunderstood my premise.
I'm going to clear that up here and expand on the idea a little further.
First of all, I'm a Nostr bull. I'm sold, and I know how necessary this is. I'm still recruiting souls from twitter:
https://x.com/SvetskiWrites/status/1828403019081269661
Secondly, I know that Nostr is SUPERIOR, technically speaking - and while the apps might not be as smooth, and some of the UX might be buggy, the substrate were working with is fundamentally better than the status quo.
nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 did a fantastic job of explaining that at the recent nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l conference (I suggest everyone watch that if they haven't - and I'm still bummed I couldn't make it).
There are so many NIPs, and so much tech shit going on, that nobody else stands a chance really. Elon might have cool AI, but we have nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft that can produce more prototypes than all the AIs in the world, combined.
That being said, my reference to "struggling" was not about the technical side of things. It was about messaging & go to market.
I speak to people every day about Nostr. I live in Brazil right now and travel on a regular basis to at least 10 countries each year. When I speak to people, they don't really care so much about censorship resistance, or Bitcoin (interestingly enough, two things Rabble also mentioned in his talk).
What they want is a place to connect, that's COOL.
And that's a VERY HARD thing to do.
nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and the guys did it with Twitter early on, and so did the Instagram founders - but for every one "hit" - there are another 1000 well built flops which people just didn't find "cool."
Right now, the messaging is more doom, than bloom. More "you need this bc government gonna get you", and less "this is where the cool kids are at".
Now...I understand that this is gonna take time. All good things do. But if we're going to attract more people, the conversation needs to evolve.
I wrote a piece a little while back called "Social as a Service" and framed Nostr more as this substrate for a Universe of new applications. Once again, Rabble echoed this in his talk and leaned into the "Social Protocol" angle.
I personally find this more compelling. More white-pill, and more appealing for the purposes of growing a network. People need to be pulled, not pushed. The latter can work in bursts here and there (as we've seen this week since the Telegram debacle), but it's not sustainable growth.
nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a has been doing really good work with her framing, and I think her 80% bloom / 20% doom approach is a good one.
nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm has some good framing too with the “city” analogy
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Thinking out aloud, maybe we just need more angles. I guess the Bitcoin people are still going to be attracted by "government gonna get you" - and we're FAR from saturation in that dimension. So maybe the right approach is the have that conversation with THEM...but a very different conversation with others.
Ultimately, I hope to see more go-to-market initiatives that are user-oriented, and get people excited about Nostr. We saw that at the Nostr booth nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r that nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 kicked off, and that nostr:npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa is now working on.
We've got some plans for later this year at a few conferences as we unveil nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3
I know nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 and @fiatjaf are doing some podcast stuff, which is excellent. Also nostr:npub1693220pmp0a4c04a0p7hkz874vsxkyfrvtk2yk4zjyj3e4c0ugjs3r4j0c is doing a Nostr book.
I'm starting to repeat some of what I said last week, so I'll stop here.
Ultimately the point is this:
Nostr is not struggling "technically" speaking.
But it's not yet found a compelling enough SPACE in people's minds, outside of the Bitcoin community. And it's not found a narrative yet that's compelling, beyond the "government gonna get you / big tech gonna ban you".
When we find that, I expect things to really begin taking off.
Thankyou for coming to my TED Talk 🤣🤣🤣
I want to add one more thing.
I tried nostr before like a year ago but there were not so many accounts which I follow on Twitter was here, the community was not here at the time. That was keeping me away not because I want to because I had to. I use twitter to follow news(not main media news obviously), ideas and sometimes share mine.
I couldn't do that on Nostr back then. I even had to reactivate my twitter account(I deleted it because they banned me because I said fuck, not to somebody btw). I even lost the key of my first nostr account so created a new one.
Community is here now, just couple of accounts remaining which I follow for local economic views, news etc. They are resistant to come nostr didn't even reacted my invites but we'll get there.
What makes it work is not the UI or how easy to use it or how decentralized it is, they are important too but none of it as important as the community itself.
Mostly Bitcoiners will be here now because they are tip of the spear. But couple of bans and arrests later everybody will flow in. Nothing motivates people more than an example.
I just wonder what twitter will be like without us😄