Forgot to mention: SIP. Can use with a cryptomesh like Cjdns to fully decentralize with encryption on any device.

For Twitter (or any centralized platform) over Nostr, another problem is the plethora of perfectly good federated/decentralized existing protocols. From SMTP (with a decent client like Deltachat) to Matrix to AP (not encrypted) to XMPP (no common message store) SSB to Retroshare to Nostr to ... the problem is guessing which will end up with the most market share.

I currently use (and self host) XMPP, Matrix,SSB,Retroshare,SMTP (with alpine client) and use (with 3rd party hosting) Nostr, AP (qoto.org and llamarific.social).

But they are all fragmented as to contacts. People glaze over when I try to explain why SMS is only for emergencies in a weak signal area.

What is useful is a replace/delete where clients show the update for a post, but a click shows you the history. I think Matrix did this right.

Centralized platforms have no delete either - regardless of the their docs say.

I guess your router is toast?

It is still our backbone. A number of older protocols are fully decentralized and secure in conjunction with Cjdns.

https://fedoramagazine.org/decentralize-common-fedora-apps-cjdns/

Centralized vs decentralized capitalism. As G. K. Chesterton put it, "The problem with capitalism is that there are too few capitalists."

Capital is naturally centralized with new tech, like steam looms, computers, or space flight. But as tech matures, I can buy an automatic loom for my workshop for a few hundred $$, I have a powerful computer on my lap and another in my pocket, and in a few decades if civilization doesn't collapse again families will be able to buy a used spaceship and go on a tour of the solar system.

Capitalism stays unnaturally centralized when globalists convince people that it is too inconvenient to own anything (and thus be responisble for it).

Sometimes, small vendors make the price of an item such that it comes out to an even dollar amount with tax. That is nice.

I paid off our small house - and a piece of government paper says we own it. But we still have to pay $600/mo rent to the govt and rising. Housing costs increase every year due to rent increases and increasing cost of maintenance.

At least with a landlord you have a chance of seeing their face. There is something creepy about our faceless govt landlord.

Worse, half of the govt rent goes to genital mutilation of children (and the usual share for murdering babies).

American culture prior to the current rampant socialism was to provide jobs. You see it countless stories from 19th and first half of 20th century. Cousin Bob has lost his job. No problem, uncle Tim has a warehouse that needs some hands. Corporate types frown on this as "nepotism" - but when it is your *own* business at risk (not a publicly traded company) and you actually know the weaknesses of cousin Bob, it is a beautiful thing, just like East African culture. A famous example is the classic American movie "It's a Wonderful Life".

In this case it wasn't clear. She was born with female parts, "clearly" a girl at birth, raised as a girl, and only DNA testing revealed that he was genetically a guy with developmental issues. Unlike the transgender people, this guy/gal was not trying to deceive anyone (afaik - who knows). It was probably shocking to discover as an adult that he is not a girl after all.

That doesn't solve the problem at the Olympics. The Algerian boxer was born with female parts and raised as a woman. But he/she has XY chromosomes. (Probably those estrogenic chemicals in the environment Alex Jones goes on about.) So if you define "woman" as XX chromosomes, then the parents in Algeria legit did not "know what a woman is". If you define "woman" as "female parts", then he/she is a woman.

By low tech standards, she is a woman. It requires some high tech DNS analysis to see that he is genetically a male - but is dealing with developmental problems.

He was born with female parts, but has XY chromosomes. It's more like he has estrogen issues - especially in the womb. It's not just the frogs with all these estrogenic chemicals.

Looks too acute. Women are 120°

That's probably why the "AI" art has a dream like quality.

"intelligence" is a misnomer. The technologies called "AI" are modelled after the human subconscious - adding up weights via pattern matching from a huge database. There is nothing "intelligent" ("choosing between") about it.

My dad would say, "What in Sam hill?"

Male and femaie *are* body types. If you find a fossilized pelvic bone, 90° is a male, and 120° is a female - regardless of size or long composted muscles. There are a million more fundamental differences. So yes, wrassling is separated by weight class, but also by male/female.

- those who struggle with freedom of expressions in their countries and

- those who struggle with freedom of expression on centralised systems.

There are no provisions for anonymity in Nostr, are there? The deterrent freedom of expression in countries like the US is the police knock down your door and drag you off to prison or gulag. I suppose if you use Tor to hide your IP, Nostr is ok for that. (Use pen name.)

Nostr can help those canceled on centralized systems by showing them that centralized social media is stupid. There have been many decentralized/federated social systems since before DNS (why would anyone use farcebook, etc?) But Nostr may be the first to provide a way to monetize content (the legit reason to use youtube/rumble).