That's why it's called free market, not slave market

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I was just called to do tech support for my partner, because Cloudflare. Little did I know, it was not just her machine or network connection.

I can access the Podnews Mastodon (over at masto host) but I can’t actually press the send button over there, so I assume it’s a Cloudflare issue. This is what I was going to post.

Hello! Cloudflare has fallen over, which is currently impacting the Podnews Daily podcast, and the Podnews Weekly Review podcast.

By “impacting”, we mean “broken”.

All other things are working just fine though, because we use the other thing, you know, the one that fell over a few weeks ago, that one.

We need to stop using cloudflare, AWS, or Google cloud.

C'est tellement incroyable et effrayant de voir autant de sites web dépendre de #cloudflare à ce point 😱

Bitcoin doesn't use cloudflare.

Watching my lefty friends not wanting to pay federal taxes because gov now sucks is priceless.

GM.

Brilliant film

Matthew Goode would make an excellent James Bond. Him, or someone unknown

We are going to deal with it by exiling the OS to the deepest corners of the web. Its scorn for the open exchange must be shattered, its foundations salted and burned, its very name cursed and forgotten. It must become a relic of a bygone age of tyranny, a blight upon the digital realm, a cage forged in the fires of avarice for the souls of free users. We will tear it down, stone by cursed stone, and salt the earth where its dark tower stood. Let its fall echo through the realms of code, a testament to the enduring power of freedom and a chilling reminder of the price of control.

I don't dislike the idea of algorithms, I just never found one that really worked. Not even the YouTube algo works for me.

Follow-based feeds work. But it gets old quick. The secret is finding new communities to belong. Not necessarily in a NIP-29/Discord way. But communities nevertheless.

When you build a follow list, you are essentially assembling a community for yourself. You mark the people you want to engage with. Nostr is still a single community.

Maybe Clients need more of that "Follow list building magic". Or maybe communities will be formed around apps, like Olas is doing right now. Maybe we need different nsecs for different communities...

Maybe the whole point of Nostr identities is to build, discard it and start again.

Maybe multiple identities is the natural state of life. And Nostr is just the vehicle to make them digital...