Why can’t I unlike something I accidentally liked?
I think difficulty to censor is a great feature for a communication network that already exists, but I don’t think that feature is enough to drive mass adoption to the protocol in the short term. Most people don’t have an issue of being censored on social media. Maybe over enough time there would be enough censoring to drive more and more people to the protocol…. But it’d be better to have a positive reason to come here as opposed to waiting for enough negative reasons to accumulate.
Thanks for sharing your political opinions at the beginning of the show. It may not matter to Bitcoin, but it’s still nice as a human to hear opinions from bitcoiners that I actually agree with.
Pleasure to be here with you 🤝
For those of you who are still on Twitter, I had a long debate thread today with Parker Lewis about Nostr. I'm a big fan of Parker, so I figured I'd share it here for shared learning.
Here's the latest post. I'm not sure it'll be the last or not but it's the latest one as of this writing. You can scroll up to see the exchange from the start.
https://x.com/LynAldenContact/status/1828553130717442443
Linking to my own post in isolation is bad form and the thumbnail is awkward depending on what client you're using, so I'll also provide a pic of the start of the debate too, with two posts of his and one of mine.
I'd be open to any thoughts about this debate.
His perspective on nostr resonates with how I feel about it. Nostr may have the bones to be a very powerful tool on the internet, but it has yet to find a first product market fit to drive people to use the protocol. I don’t think a replica of current social media will do the trick, it needs a novel use case or a novel form of social media. You have cool ideas with nostr+bitcoin, but that also won’t drive adoption much because very few people are sending bitcoin around.
It’s definitely more pleasant right now to interact with other people here compared to traditional social media, no doubt
If you’re going to make that analogy, then compare it to 2012 Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s use case and success has been proven out over the years, nostr’s has not. I agree it’s exciting and cool tech, but it’s not “resistance communication” until people successfully use it as such. It’s not really much right now… especially without people using it.
That’s just a narrative right now, and one I (and probably others you are referring to in the OP) are skeptical of. Right now, it’s just a replica of basic social media functionality (with cool additions like zaps) that lets me go from one platform to another without having to create a new account each time.
It’s fair to be skeptical of Nostr’s benefits/use case. It’s cool that you have one private key to send messages from, but there’s no killer use case for it yet like there is for Bitcoin as resistance money.
Day #739 of trying to get nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a to notice me
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nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx sooo who was the surprise guest yesterday that you said you knew was coming and would be worth the wait??
After 20 years of forever wars, growing social decline and exacerbating economic demise, it seems that we are still immune to learning that politicians lie.
Most politicians run from responsibility like a fat kid from a diet plan, and electing an overweight billionaire won’t lessen the White House’s appetite for cake.
Voting for Trump may temporarily muffle the echo haunting that empty space between your ears as you convince yourself to at least have done _something_ to fulfill your imaginary patriotic duties, but it can’t change the moral corruption inherent to US politics – and it sure won’t change anything for Bitcoin.
When your morals can be bought, you are not a patriot – you are a sell out.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/orange-man-good-selling-out-on-the-campaign-trail-
Thank you for writing this piece
Definitely seems asymmetrically skewed towards that possibility. All it takes is one or two bad apples to prompt regulators to act, even if most are honest.
nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m & nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a delivered an outstanding fireside chat on the significance of Nostr at the Oslo Freedom Forum stage.
Is there a recording of this that is/will be posted?
