#grownostr #memes

that's the thing, because nostr can partition we can ultimately isolate ourselves from that bullshit

but it takes a lot of extra tools, like paid relays and spam filters and all the necessary support in clients and relays to allow us to build these walls

they can have their own spammy free relays, we will move to our paid relays where spam is not tolerated and expensive to do

Perhaps you may not have noticed that the progression between real spaces & virtual ones are similar, you have the wild west days when it's pretty good, then the "civilised people" invade & everything starts going downhill...

Think you may be projecting some issue I'm not talking about. lol.

the protocol is designed to be leaky, consistency is loose so that people can do whatever they like

nobody is obliged to fulfill some empty vapid ideal of free speech by carrying your message at their cost

Who is John Galt?

When I was younger I thought the world could be changed.

I understood that privacy was key to gaining and maintaining freedom.

I spent many years trying to teach people privacy techniques.

Then I met Bitcoin and understood that to get freedom and keep it Bitcoin was also necessary.

I wasted a few years trying to teach people privacy techniques and Bitcoin.

Over time I've realized that it's useless, people don't want freedom, the world has become so fucking grotesque that I just watch it and try to laugh at everything that happens.

If I have to give you a piece of advice, accumulate as much Bitcoin as you can and laugh.

I got tired of beating this drum. The relays and the relay runners will centralize operational authority.

Let's see if the plebs care. Til then I watch. But am losing hope

Then they should mention it, I doubt it's state level actors just yet.

not really, if nostr infrastructure providers are already being spammed with serious volumes of garbage then we are on someone's radar, which means nostr is threatening whoever it is and their interests

the actual relay operators probably are not gonna talk about it much either, unless they see no way to remediate it with their available resources

Getting ahead of yourself a bit there aren't you? There isn't enough content as yet...

the only way that #nostr doesn't come under a massive and sustained attack on its infrastructure is if it doesn't have any value and doesn't matter

bUt mAtH bE rAcIst. lol.

People do realise we actually could always decentralise right? Remember forums & irc?

While technically a protocol that can decentralise we seem to be centralising... weird.

this is why i've been an avid subscriber of paid relays... i now also rent one off you and i get confirmations off all three of them almost every time

though the other day i had amethyst totally eat two notes i wrote on my phone, so idk, there could be some factor of clients in this problem

Not from 8 trillion megatons of nuclear bombs, no. I think even the best bush-man might struggle to eek out a living there😕😂.

Not from 8 trillion megatons of nuclear bombs, no. I think even the best bush-man might struggle to eek out a living there😕😂.

Get Out, Get Out, Get Out.

How many times must it be said....