Nostr

Brazil has 200,000,000 people, it's a country where ppl are heavily on facebook (preciously on Orkut and ICQ), Brazilian society functions via WhatsApp. Even lawyers do stuff with you via WA.

Assuming this is real numbers, not removing bots and such, it's a tiny number for Brazil.

There is no point in looking at blue sky as somehow some example of someone doing something write.

I have never met a real life person who's active on that platform, I don't know anyone in Brazil who even heard about blue sky.

They are being smart about doing a fuck ton of PR about it to get North American users by having folks talk about them on Nostr 😂

Focus on Nostr, blue sky is irrelevant to the main platforms AND to our big picture.

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Paloma 1y ago

... I’ve been living in Brazil for 2 years i haven’t met a single person that mention/uses BlueSky

Replying to

Pam 🇸🇻

It’s starting in Nostr. 😡

Paloma 1y ago

If scammers have made it to Nostr that means we are winning 🏆

Replying to

Ivan

Good Morning ☀️

https://v.nostr.build/8bofUCuJ3Gu1bO0n.mp4

Paloma 1y ago

Me parece a La isla del encanto 🇵🇷

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calle

Paloma 1y ago

👏 How can I find out my joining date 👀 ?

Replying to

Gigi

Instead of digging through personal diaries, future historians will dig through hours and hours and hours of personal video and voice recordings.

Imagine Anne Frank vlogging.

Paloma 1y ago

Wild

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H E N

Help! Guys... I've not really used nostr since I set it up months ago but I've decided to give it a go now that the censorship industrial complex is in full swing.

Today I have been figuring it out and having a look around and it has me worried.

You are literally only two clicks away from seeing child porn on this protocol from the #bitcoin

I have never been so shocked and horrified to have stumbled upon content on the internet like that..

I have reported the accounts in question but the fact there was 100s of followers on these accounts and has been active for 3 months has me concerned.

How do make sure that if I'm using nostr I don't happen upon these sort of images? and is there anything that can be done to remove or block those sort of images?

I would post the usernames of the user's in question but I don't want to draw any traffic to these sick fucks.

#plebchain #grownostr

Paloma 1y ago

That’s insane and sad that you experienced this. I’m just a simple user and don’t know too much about how Nostr works, but I’ve been active here for quite a while. I’ve actually never encountered that kind of content on my feed, but I also never go to the global feed at all. Maybe a quick tip I can offer is to check out my relays and follow them, as I’ve never seen content like that. Good luck, and I hope your Nostr experience improves 🌹

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TheDecentralizedVeteran

nostr:npub1gscnk7wlcvcruw7scjhwpjrja94gfu369fzkyje6kcc0yn6rqyhscqtpjp I would almost say to name the bank so we all know who not to do business with

Paloma 1y ago

Wise 🤡

Replying to

Brad Costanzo

Which bank?

Paloma 1y ago

Wise

Replying to

Alekandar Svetski

This is probably an unpopular opinion…but let’s see..

Elon’s smartest move right now would actually be to ally with Zuck…

Hear me out…

An overwhelmingly large percentage of the Brazilian population literally LIVE on WhatsApp and IG. I’m not just talking their friends, and scrolling. I mean this is how almost EVERY business runs. They don’t have websites down here. They build their entire digital presences on those two apps.

If Zuckerberg’s transformation is real (dunno if I’m convinced, but who knows - crazier things have happened) and he allows for the kind of content X allowed to spread in Brazil, this Alexandre monkey would be STUCK.

There’s no WAY he could shut access to that down, without the entire country stopping. Literally nothing would work.

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This is a GREAT moment for Nostr, but we’ve still got a loooooong way to go before the network and the apps on it are robust.

In fact, similar to Wikileaks in the early days, we probably don’t want to draw too much attention right now to Nostr apps bc while the protocol itself is hard to censor, as was just seen, it’s very easy to censor an app.

Granted, it’s a bit like playing wackamole with Nostr, but once again, we’re not there yet. There probably needs to be 10x more *really good* apps, before we could even hope to sustain a forced shutdown in any country for that matter.

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Before anyone says “yeah but they’re only stopping themselves from getting on Nostr”

Duh…obviously. But these maniacs are also fucking over the very people who live in these countries and require some form of connectivity.

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So anyway. Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I think this would be a very interesting strategic play.

And if you play out the scenario, there’s a good chance that idiot de Moraes here in Brazil ends up trapped between:

1. Having to allow X to operate again, or

2. trying to apply the same pressure to WhatsApp / IG

3. allowing IG/Whatsapp to spread uncensored info, and thus losing his ability to censor anyway

All three scenarios, he loses.

Curious to hear what a few people think on this.

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Paloma 1y ago

Is time for war 🎶

Replying to

Carol Souza

Officially deplatformed from X.

"Posts are not loading."

Sad for Brazil and freedom speech.

Paloma 1y ago

Oi Carol! Bem-vinda ao Nostr🌹

Paloma 1y ago

So I just got DEBANKED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE 🥲

They asked me to re-KYC my account, after using it for 3yrs.

Then 2hrs later, they send me THIS email.

"Sorry we can't give you banking services, and we can't tell you why."

Husband sent money there to pay our rent, and now they're telling me they can't send the money to my Brazilian account (even though I've been doing that for months).

So no account AND they're holding the money hostage 🤡

Thank GOD my savings are in Bitcoin.

It's times like this you realise how crazy this world is.