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On a mission to transform technology into a force for good, advocating for user sovereignty and creative solutions for a more equitable digital world. user-focused | data sovereignty | open-source | digital renaissance | fair access | tech liberation 🕊️ ❤️ Health over wealth - https://wellnessally.me - https://shs101.com - https://megistus.xyz/legacy-locker —————————————————— - https://vibeching.xyz - https://nostrsnake.fun To infinity and beyond - Buzz Lightyear ♾️

nostr:nprofile1qqstu7l4mcrgc8vy9mf55lp8q5r7e9q0t6j3vuw06p32jh5ap9pq6zspzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7n2umvp Amazing meeting today!

It’s great to witness the discussion between project owners and their visions / goals to helping create a better future for health data ownership and tech liberation.

Nostr is like no other community on the internet.

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This is a great solution to add to the nostr ecosystem! Many amazing things about this project - integrating nostr music players, privacy for health analytics and achievements, building community around healthy habits.

Great presentation today during the nostr:nprofile1qqstu7l4mcrgc8vy9mf55lp8q5r7e9q0t6j3vuw06p32jh5ap9pq6zsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7x7zc0r meeting! Very impressive and motiving.

I can see the nostr community eating this up and a good introduction to non-nostr users to onboard and get familiar with tech sovereignty. 🏃🏻

“Intention is all there is. The work is just a reminder.” - Rick Rubin

#NOSTR will have a bright 2025! With new users comes new intent.

Build bridges, not walls.

“Should old acquaintance be forgot

And never brought to mind?

Should old acquaintance be forgot

In the days of auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear

For auld lang syne

We'll drink a cup of kindness yet

For the sake of auld lang syne”

- Auld Lang Syne by. Robert Burns -1788

Replying to Avatar rabble

I was also in the early pre-Bluesky group. It was chaotic and there were a lot of contradictory pressures on the group. Some people wanted Bluesky to be a twitter replacement, tech Twitter itself would eventually use. Others wanted it to be a way of solving the problem of social media platforms becoming stagnant because the platform owners could control and limit innovation by locking down the API. Still others wanted it as a way to get out of an impossible moderation problem where a single entity or person had to decide who could say what how.

nostr:npub1eejna2znm5vjf7lu5zwas6jnm0wlqw3psh89yxusdkeldq9kd7ns2npt3l was a former zcash dev / nostr:npub1jcwuf0dh5vqsq44qavygqwjfecawf53fmx7gadlcdtuexz0548hqy4jyrz activist who’d been building a decentralized social events app / meetup clone called happn. She’d done some SSB (secure scuttlebutt) development but I think happn was on its own protocol she made. It never took off so she had time on her hands to work on the Bluesky research. I remember being very impressed with her work and spent a while trying to talk her in to co-founding the company which made planetary.social and now nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch. The thing is Jay was available and did the work on Bluesky before it was Bluesky the company or they’d created the ATprotocol.

It wasn’t clear that Bluesky would need to make a new protocol. That was the reason for the research paper. Lots of people showed up and participated in those invite only discussions. Most had a project to pitch, lot of them used some shitcoin or another. Jay was pretty agnostic. She did the work of looking at the protocols and wrote up a good summary. She was also paid by Twitter as a contractor to do that writing. Probably that was what let her have the time and focus to become the founder. Lots of us pushed for Bluesky to be a separate legal entity because we felt if it was Twitter inc project eventually someone would kill it.

A bunch of us applied to be the CEO of Bluesky, myself included. While there is a lot Jay has done which is different from how I’d do it and I’ve got some big disagreements with some of her choices, you can’t deny that what she built is working. Does it do everything I’d want, how I’d want? No, not at all. But it has provided Twitter with an open protocol alternative.

I think Bluesky went off a couple ways. One is a lot of IPFS folks got involved and over complicated the protocol. Layers upon layers of tech and abstractions. Secondly is trickier, their user base wanted a more moderated and tightly controlled system than Bluesky was trying to build. They moved away from openness in part because they were listening to their users. But they could have build ATprotocol to work in a permissionless way and made the bsky.app part permissioned as their users demanded. They also could have built the protocol in the open, but instead if you want to contribute to ATprotocol, you need to be an employee. Jay herself signs off on every change to the spec. It’s a very top down way of working, which has worked for them, but isn’t prefigurative in building the world we want with the values we want that future world to have.

Thank you for your insight and openness. 🙏🏻 we learn a lot from sharing your experiences.

Where others might withhold information, I feel NOSTR is really driving a community built around collective growth towards benefiting the user’s and not the board members.

Congratulations on being blessed with the most important responsibility / job ever! I’m also learning everyday about being a father, it’s a privilege. 🍻

Best of luck and Happy Birthday to your family 🎂

In a world that praises loudness, it takes true strength to fight silently.

it’s a difficult challenge to educate masses when they are being subjected to their own self interests via addiction of short term dopamine doses.

The exciting thing is avenues like NOSTR are now opening up allowing for freedom of expression, education and communities to grow.

Overtime youth will adopt and understand the education of decentralization and its importance because roads of tech liberation are being laid more and more because of contributors and users like ourselves.

Show me your friends and I will show you your future.. it’s not what happens but how we react to it..

🕊️ 🌍 🔌

The future of NOSTR is very bright because of the innovators contributing. It’s growing everyday! Interoperability for the win ♻️

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“ That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing. “ - ⚛️ Emerald Tablet of Hermes; Translation of Sir Issac Newton ⚡️

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Our SALUD decentralized health app challenge kicks off one week from today!

Fill out the nostr:nprofile1qqsqw0xcx664020ac2nzcfehxfea5rz4dfcqsa3l0u8zklegaf65l4spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq3samnwvaz7tmhv4kxxmmdv5hxummnw3ezuamfdejs32xlmh if you want to join: https://formstr.app/#/fill/eab930e5ccadd3360ee07dc338b01812779e8f3ac9a16a82671b67c33633911

10 million satoshis total prize pool! 👀 ⚡

Let's bootstrap an open source ecosystem of health apps built on #nostr, #bitcoin and the #saludprotocol. The first challenge call is 1/16 at 4pm UTC.

Whether you're a doctor, alternative practicioner, software developer, designer or someone who wants to take ownership of your health data, we'd love to see you there!

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♥️ Big believer in Health over Wealth. Owning our health data, seeing who accesses it and how we can grow our lineage network into the future of better understanding to help support a community of other patients like yourself will only help the time chain of our futures future. Excited to see how this goes!

Replying to Avatar calvadev⚡️

With the new year having begun, I just wanted to reflect on my 2024...

I started the year in the fiat mines over-employed and working on nostr:nprofile1qqs2xugc5jyguqkj36rk0syv4tmnkjdtmtperttl7x9rqjy3ustdcvcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qg6waehxw309aek2mnyd96zumn0wdnxcctjv5hxxmmd9uxa0uz8 on the weekends. Participating in nostr:nprofile1qqswen6sdv8chdl605h78vqvp48jxhx84hlkx8nt9luyczcv744u5ncppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6at5d9h8jampd3kx2apwvdhk6tc479dal's Top Builder competition really sparked the biggest shift in my drive and belief in my abilities to actually make a contribution to the use of freedeom tech around the world. After making it to the final pitch round, I got the itch that I needed to fully dedicate my time to the site and decided to quit my Big Tech jobs. I'm incredibly grateful and lucky that my quitting lined up with the start of nostr:nprofile1qqsg8kve59yxyhpa9wupntesvnq0dgfd0k5g769jc6fzrua8gct36xgpzpmhxue69uhkumewwd68ytnrwghszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsq53ra5's SEC-02, and that just weeks after planning for at least a few years with no income, I was approved for an nostr:nprofile1qqs8suecw4luyht9ekff89x4uacneapk8r5dyk0gmn6uwwurf6u9ruspzpmhxue69uhkumewwd68ytnrwghszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs2juazd grant. The year only picked up with speaking and booth engagements at nostr:nprofile1qqsd0f68dvf98gvs9am9dp0lu0f4r7xzu2k89rm9tt448axf5tu6wlgpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj70uppmq, Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, nostr:nprofile1qqsfc93uwdgl3qetpz6kewewp9vkp5w9qcxadv8yv85p8u8sw3v3r8spr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8xetdd9ek7mpwv3jhvtcprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ezummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mz7qgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3exjcmp9e3k7mf0zeg2qy in Riga, nostr:nprofile1qqswen6sdv8chdl605h78vqvp48jxhx84hlkx8nt9luyczcv744u5ncppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6at5d9h8jampd3kx2apwvdhk6tc479dal's Startup Day in Mexico City, nostr:nprofile1qqsxhwmaw842y4zzzk580cfke4l5jr6xyh44v3v6pk59dnyzjm2a7vqcd5flv in Berlin, SEC-03 in Madeira, nostr:nprofile1qqst9tfm3y59vs54ednmqsehtj3ql2phnamk379f8vutnd9e98gujmspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejq5w77gp, and nostr:nprofile1qqswkhs47p9unc7lsmqsqv9kvh07sf2pq9gurcan4r8r7s524ap0jfclt62u8 in El Salvador. I wrapped up the year spending time with family and fixing bugs, taking a little break from the constant grind and feeling super optimistic about the coming year.

I couldn't be more appreciative for those of you crazy enough to actually use nostr:nprofile1qqs2xugc5jyguqkj36rk0syv4tmnkjdtmtperttl7x9rqjy3ustdcvcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qg6waehxw309aek2mnyd96zumn0wdnxcctjv5hxxmmd9uxa0uz8 and work with me when any issues come up; the project wouldn't be anywhere near where it's at today without the #Nostr community. The goal is to use #Bitcoin as free market money on a free market protocol, and you're all a part of it.

To another year of freedom go up! 🫡

you are helping lay the groundwork for the future! much appreciated 🙏🏻