This is a big challenge, support. Nostr now allows anyone to see who you're talking to through your public key, even if you can't see what we're talking about. It's not nice to have a private chat party in a glass room in the square where everyone can see. Better protection of privacy would be a huge step forward.💜🫂
“Money is superordinate to laws… Unless money is fixed, the fight you think you're winning will be lost.” — nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe
Until you understand this, *you* will be lost.
Study #Bitcoin 
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Nostr this big tree has spent most of the past few years growing roots, and after the roots are established, the growth rate will be very fast in the future.
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The basis of Nostr's protocol technical rules forms its own community cultural characteristics, and Nostr's particular community cultural characteristics produce its own philosophy. It's these kinds of philosophies that draw a lot of people here. If you change the protocol technical rules of Nostr, you will destroy Nostr.
Please let Nostr keep it weird. Nostr doesn't need to be a second Twitter and Threads in spirit. nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z nostr:note1kzzdmyahw78ujxfhfz05nsxfwpjjwvmu078xl5v8h05ewkau568s4vf2ne
If your purpose in coming to Nostr is to make better tools for crooks and politicians, rather than building tools of freedom for people who pursue freedom. You can indeed do this.
No one will blame you if you fail to stop politicians and liars. But if you prepare tools for politicians and liars to deceive people more easily, you will be denounced by people.
I know this is not your original purpose, it is just a technical discussion. Please don't do evil. This is not the purpose of our coming to Nostr.
Short article posts on Nostr are historical records of our life thoughts. In real life, we will say the wrong things, make mistakes, and have emotional breakdowns, but these are real people, not a perfect academic paper. Or not a politician who is packaged as flawless and perfect.
So nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx gave an absolute masterclass on the problems with Musk's current Twitter approach on WBD, starting at the 17m mark. It's a great advertisement for Nostr and I recommend everyone watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ms-dE6aasA
I've been retweeting or reposting Odell's various observations on this topic for a while and so I'm happy to share this too, including on Twitter today, even as a filthy blue-check myself.
Where I disagree with Odell (slightly) is on tactics. He thinks people should give up blue checks in protest. And that's a very fair position. I don't disagree, especially for someone like Odell with a purist position and a generally cypherpunk audience.
But I think there are multiple successful paths on this. I have always been a Twitter fan, and my normie audience is there. I wanted to be able to pay for better UX and anti-impersonation defenses for years before they became available. Just because Musk is running it doesn't mean I won't pay for helpful services, especially if they protect my audience. Real people lose money to Lyn Alden impersonation scams if they can't tell my account from others, and I directly hear from them when it happens. It's always heartbreaking.
So, I'm on the offensive, not the defensive. The way I view it, unless or until someone censors me on Twitter, they're locked in there with me, rather than me being locked in there with them. If having a blue check reduces the success rate of impersonation scams and amplifies my reach at calling out Twitter's problems, I'll have the blue check. What I absolutely *won't* do is change what I say based on a blue check. If anything, I purposely overdo it to the opposite and exaggerate my criticisms on purpose to push back against platform incentives.
Two simultaneous approaches:
1) Call out the problem on Twitter. Don't give Musk a pass. Point out that a pro-freedom, pro-anonymity view doesn't match with what is going on there. Don't let his rhetoric disguise his inaction. If Twitter cares about freedom and anonymity then they will offer a paid option that doesn't require identity (e.g. the "orange check" bitcoin payment.) Until something like that, they are LARPing and are fair to criticize as such.
2) Have your foot here on Nostr and on decentralization technologies generally. In the long run, I think this is the future. And more importantly, I hope it is.
I like your rational and objective expression very much💜