That's not right, where I usually am, I don't pay any taxes, except VAT but that is unavoidable because stores are forced to collect them. So I always choose the least coercion possible, but never accepting it. When I opt in is because I don't want to go to jail, which is coercion, otherwise I send a big "fuck off" to the gov.

I'm not accepting a degree, I'm coerced. There is a difference.

Gov is absolutely evil, there is no degree.

The truth is, one cannot believe in authority and be free, because accepting the myth of government is accepting one's own obligation to obey a master, which means accepting one's own enslavement.

Sadly, many people believe that begging the master, via political action, is all they can do. So they forever engage in rituals which only legitimize the slave-master relationship, instead of simply disobeying the tyrants.

The idea of disobeying authority, breaking the law and being criminals is more disturbing to them than the idea of being a slave.

Why are you still an active #nostr user?

I'm not sure I should write down these thoughts right now while I'm not sure about them, but if you are reading this apparently I did.

I think nostr may already be doomed for two reasons. And as a result of that, if I conclude as such, it would make sense to start working on a successor protocol. I've been taking some notes about what we should change if we started over, but that's the extent of it, I'm not working on a successor protocol. I'm only working on nostr. So don't misinterpret this note, which just represents some thoughts I've been having.

Reason one is the misaligned incentives of note copying. The incentives are to copy your notes to every relay you can, blast them out everywhere, to get more reach. That incentive doesn't go away until and unless all the clients do the outbox model. But they don't have an incentive to change, and there are people who don't give a fuck about fixing this and argue against fixing it and argue for note copying, and there is no way in a free society to make them care. So we can never fix this, and nostr will always be centralized in practice and never what it could have been. That means nostr is doomed and unfixable and we should make sure to start differently next time so this doesn't happen again.

Reason two is that the seed culture of nostr was far too monolithic: bitcoiners. What a culture develops into probably depends on how diverse its seed was. It's quite hard to get people onto nostr unless they are at least very bitcoin tolerant. Most people (yes, I think most) are put off by so much bitcoin promotion and related posts. Certainly people can follow anybody they want, and make their own independent cultures, perhaps even on a disjoint set of relays. But this isn't likely to happen due to the law of large numbers - there are far more ways for them to encounter and interact with the nest of bitcoiners then to not encounter and interact with them.

These are thoughts I'm entirely unsure about. Maybe I'm wrong in both cases. These are my worries.

Totally - people want to hang out in a virtual social setting that provides value to them, through learning, laughing and relating to others. We are putting the social back in social media.

As someone who has hired the services of developers in the past, one of the most important aspects to me was seeing if the person is 1. reliable 2. does good work and most importantly 3. gets shit done. 1 and 2 won't matter if 3 doesn't happen.

I would personally work on ways to demonstrate all 3. Then share your work here and anywhere else you network.

Nost is a great place to network. If you put in the work, people will notice. It's easier to hire someone when they are familiar with your work.

💯 id even say a periodic purge is good. Normalize it. nostr:note1d5knv5u0x2jgrnnmvprn84v09yf7fm3ec05xc7qm4xjn5k70n88shmjgqg

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Let's look back 🔭

Some weeks and months before we sat off on this journey - this new stage of our lives - we had a lot of preparation to do.

Besides selling and giving away all our belongings, we built our own bikes 🚲🚲 Special thanks to Mathias - mavis-bikes - for the beautiful frames 🫶

Marc welded in our one-room flat gorgeous racks and bottlecages. Fiona prototyped and sewed bags, sleeping bag inlays, buffs, and other useful stuff...

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