Eat tamales.

Gm ☀️ It’s #coffeechain time with a nice little farmer’s market haul. 🍅🌽🥒

So, really.... how are you? 😊

#smalltalk #grownostr

We live in interesting times.

This is both bad and good news.

it’s very narrow-minded of you to not introspectively appraise the global feed and the little trending tools we have like primal and not acknowledge that a new comer who does have that first impression currently would be quite just in coming to that conclusion.

I’ve see 20-30 posts from new accounts saying something along the lines “is this just twitter for bitcoin”

We don’t build the product for anonymity (although it can provide it), we build it for privacy of ordinary users from the operator and any observers.

Privacy means not just secrecy of my messages, by definition in includes the privacy of my associations.

I don’t need to hide my identity from people I talk to (=anonymity). But I absolutely don’t want my communication service provider observing my connections. Why is it so? Because apparently as this information is not private, and shared publicly, it can be further shared with the third parties - especially in the US.

And a lot of third parties having visibility of this connection graph doesn’t just create risks for freedom in oppressive regimes. It has a direct impact on the prices we pay online - targeted prices, aka price discrimination, becomes the norm for a growing number of online retailers. And if you think that it results in wealthier people paying more you are wrong - usually it works in the opposite direction, known as “poverty premium”.

So privacy doesn’t seem something only a niche market needs - it seems like something absolutely everybody needs, and that Signal, WhatsApp, Session etc. simply cannot provide whether they use phone numbers or not - any form of identification is good enough to reconstruct connection graph via correlation of communication patters with the existing public networks - it won’t be flawless but it will be precise enough for targeted pricing. So it’s just have to stop, and privacy of our associations from communication providers should become a norm, not an exception.

A full day with #[0]​. Solid overall. TestFlight is not recommended. There are some scaling issues today. And not the most intuitive onboarding for everyone. Name still reminds everyone of herpes.

All fixable. It’s fast and doesn’t require a phone number or email and I do believe people will eventually see the value of that.

Finally some competition for Signal, and in a permissionless way. And def a solid path so apps don’t have to build their own DM experiences.