ARTISTS REVOLT AGAINST SOCIAL MEDIA
--- Deep Questions podcast 295 with Cal Newport
Iām a fan of Cal Newport and the content he creates. Itās mostly about how to keep your (digital) distractions under control by using different deep-work methods. Itās basicly a way of living by making your day a good day.
Link to view the podcast: https://piped.r4fo.com/watch?v=KcQMt9HabqA The part I would like to highlight is discussed in the first 37 minutes.
"In this episode Cal takes a closer look at a growing trend of artists quitting social media and instead reverting to old fashioned websites. Are these acts of principled sacrifice or a sustainable way to be creative online? Cal argues for the latter, showing how the internet without social media curation algorithms can be a place of rich discovery and audience building. He then takes questions on similar topics and ends by playing a few rounds of ādeep or crazyā during the final segment."
Some videoās which are part of this revolt:
- Deleting social media and making a website: https://piped.r4fo.com/watch?v=tV6BbPTN5PQ
- Why I donāt post anymore: https://piped.r4fo.com/watch?v=W3h9gV_z8OM&t=0
- I deleted all my social media and made a website: https://piped.r4fo.com/watch?v=r0RqucKwIcw
Let me try to summarize some important parts of Cal his analysis.
What are the main reasons why artists are stopping with social media?
1. Social media is controlling and reducing the quality of their art
2. The algorithms are rewarding sameness and not uniqueness
3. Social media is making them unhappy
4. They didnāt get into social media for social validation
Cal dives shortly into the history of the internet and the discoverability challenges / problems with the web (networks of networks of networks). He also is mentioning the value of serendipity discovery mechanisms.
š At 16m45s Cal is discussing and drawing the concept of a distributed trust model, this is where the nostreness kicks in! š
This is a clip from 22m28 till 23m22s of the podcast:
https://shares.sebastix.dev/mYIzuTLC.mp4
Link to the show and all notes: https://www.thedeeplife.com/podcasts/episodes/ep-295-artists-revolt-against-social-media/
#growNostr #OpenWeb #GoodbyeBigTech #communities #enshitification
GM! Cal Newport is ready for nostr, who is going to tell him?
https://shares.sebastix.dev/mYIzuTLC.mp4
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IMHO, #cashu is the most exciting tech to hit the net in decades. In the early days of the web, most presentations had the obligatory āInternetā slide and then presented the āIntranetā as the next big thing. Boy, did they ever get that wrong. āIntranetsā were a distraction while the internet (courtesy tcp/ip) at everything, including telcosā¦ #cashu is going to eat the payment systems as we know them
Deja vu all over againā¦
Weāre at the same point 30 years later. Now the big thing is the āCBDCā (which I call āintranet moneyā), supposedly the innovative successor of Bitcoin. That is dead wrong, like the āIntranetā of 30 years ago. Whatās going to eat everything for payment systems? Itās going to be the #cashu protocol? How do I know? I donāt, actually, but Iāve been building on top of the protocol for almost 2 years now, and my enthusiasm has not waned; it has increased. This is not my first protocol rodeo - I witnessed first hand the takeover of tcp/ip in the industry, while experts where blah-blahing about āIntranetsā
Anyway, I have the honour of being part of SEC-02 of the nostr:npub1s0veng2gvfwr62acrxhnqexq76sj6ldg3a5t935jy8e6w3shr5vsnwrmq5. When my boots are on the ground in #Madeira you will hear more.
Many thanks to nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg for the selfless leadership. An inspiration for all! nostr:note1cvalqczhqnn3r7zgfhrgsg8ztxggk6nzdj57syyhlh725afhql8s2sra00
Congrats man, nostr:npub1s0veng2gvfwr62acrxhnqexq76sj6ldg3a5t935jy8e6w3shr5vsnwrmq5 is awesome
demasiado bueno para ser cierto
For all I know Kagi could be charging me $10 AND selling my data (with way more accuracy than any other search engine) at the same time
I paid with LN and use a VPN. They still are able to link ALL of my queries to that token. How is that more private than using, say, Brave Search which doesn't require any token?
Sure I'm not personally identifiable but neither am I in the case of other search engines
Can't wait to see nostr:npub17304velluajf6lylvjynpj2f3ndg396w063gj2gef5qk0nwtcyjqfj9yky take ecash instead of LN balance on accounts
In the context of my question in his AMA.
Since the service is paid, all queries require a token that is associated to the payment. Obviously I used LN to pay but most people will use credit cards.
He said they have no incentive to sell data and that appears to be sufficient to him. The point is that we just have to trust them on that. All trust, no verification. Having a blinded token scheme or ecash system one could prove funds but without linking it to the actual payment.
I don't think Kagi's founder understands the difference between WON'T RUG and CAN'T RUG
I think Kagi is likely the best Google alternative out there right now. Their founder Vlad is doing an AMA on nostr:npub1jfujw6llhq7wuvu5detycdsq5v5yqf56sgrdq8wlgrryx2a2p09svwm0gx now š
Paid search is the way to go, the problem is now queries are linked to an account
A solution to this is ecash, nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg should cashu-pill this man
nostr:note1n29j6yh2nvdazkegzhys646hc668wr9ctnrrpyhua4zyqxxjchgq30mpgh
massive datacenter nearby? š
Added support for nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49's @snort/worker-relay package in #noStrudel, it runs a SQLite using WASM in a web worker š
Its not quite as fast as using the Indexeddb api but it doesn't make the browse freeze up as much. I have not tested it on mobile so I have no idea how well it will work.
You can find the package here https://git.v0l.io/Kieran/snort/src/branch/main/packages/worker-relay
And if your reading this nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 there are a few improvements id like to see
- a way to delete specific events (base on a REQ filter) from the database
- a method for deleting the database out right
- the ability to stop the web worker and close the database
Right now there is no way to "manage" the database so it just keeps growing in size š
Changes are only on next.nostrudel.ninja for testing
absolutely, this makes sense
WE'RE FIXING THIS BROKEN SHIT
Same. I guess I'm another grumpy old man.
Unpleasant encounter with a fiat doctor, as probably expected
These people are the worst of the old world and have serious insecurity issues
100%
