What’s your best 2 sentence max explanation of zaps to a total newbie?

I rarely lose my temper, but whenever I do a couple times per year, my writing gets 10x as much reach and likes and shares, and gets basically immortalized. But I'm rarely happy about it when it does.

I still think about this a lot in terms of how I choose to use social media- with reach comes responsibility.

It's both a bad thing and a good thing. On one hand, it's not great that posts based on a combination of emotion and reason get *way* better reach than ones based on more pure reason alone. For "clicks" the best thing I could do for a given post is lose my temper and go all-out on something.

On the other hand, the rare cases where I lose my temper are based on serious built-up frustrations over months. I'm frustrated about something, keep holding it back, and then something becomes intolerable. My socially-compliant self-censorship all unravels at once, not perfectly, but with a clear aspect of *deep* honesty. And people see that honesty because it reflects their own. So it spreads.

So, most of the time, I write carefully, and I know my audience comes from multiple different backgrounds, literally from Indonesian farmers to Wall Street institutional billionaires, and I try to politely move the Overton window from within the Overton window. But a couple times per year, I lose my temper and post my emotional thoughts, which in some ways are more honest, but are also not exactly my ideal self-actualized self.

I end up being grateful for both my constant attempt at control and my rare tempers, because somewhere in the middle is my truth. That blend between controlled reason and built-up emotion is really hard to manage in an era of digital media and semi-immortalized content.

Anyway, I'll post this random stuff on Nostr, not Twitter. You guys and girls get the real thoughts because you're here.

Twitter mi sembra come quei partiti politici italiani, che cambiano nome e logo per rimanere tali e quali a prima.

Se non addirittura peggio.

Bye bye uccellino blu 😢

Pare avesse previsto tutto... Mossa kamikaze.

L'ultimo che diceva sempre la verità l'hanno crocifisso.

There are no virgins left.

Forget the moral rhetoric for a moment and consider this logically. 🖖

There is a real cost to the moderated platform model, especially when the moderation is also coming from the centralized entity responsible for the platform's growth.

The devs are busy building moderation tools to suppress [hateful] speech. Consequentially there is no time for building QoL (quality of life) UX improvements nor innovation.

In a moderated platform model, the world that the community lives in is built within defined borders that shrink over time. Unsustainable policing and anger await.

In a FOSS decentralized protocol model, the moderation is delegated to each individual user. Consequentially the Devs' time are not occupied by building tools to suppress speech. Nor are they beholden to any central entity's corporate goals. They have the freedom to build however and whatever they chose. Users are thus availed the freedom of choice.

Coupled with the freedom to simply and instantly migrate their profile to any client they wish, users have a very influential voice as to what gets created and the projects the devs choose to pursue.

In a decentralized protocol, the world the community lives in stretches as far as the eye can see. Seemingly limitless possibility and optimism await.

When those in a community are constantly suppressed, the population collapses or revolts.

When those in a community are constantly supported, the population rallies and flourishes.

I’ve been binging on so many history documentaries.

It’s honestly kind of a mistake to listen to so much at once because it’s all kind of depressing when grouped together so tightly. The harshness of life for a random person for thousands of years in every culture.

Between all the cool invention and discovery there is just an endless variety of war, raids, famine, slavery, serfdom, and torture. =/

I'll probably do it on 40x40 and create the missing parts on the sides, so I give it even more depth

How do you deal with an obviously idiotic person?

1 - ignore

2 - let it stew

3 - move on

4 - take a breath of resignation

Or do you all and four?

That's good for Nostr.

Twitter now requiring a blue-checkmark to message blue checks makes it unusable.

RIP Twitter 😂

Ho rifatto i biscotti di mandorle e mele, ma stavolta non vi ho reso partecipi... e così mi sono dimenticato di mettere la cannella.

Sorry 🫂

Capisco la tua preoccupazione, sarà il tempo a decidere quale sarà la soluzione migliore per "monetizzare" (...che termine di merda, dobbiamo inventarne un altro) i contenuti.

Inizialmente ho provato a mettere le immagini dei miei dipinti dietro un "paywall", ma non piaceva l'idea che anche altri non potessero goderne la visione.

Preferisco guadagnare meno che farne un esclusiva per pochi.

Poi è arrivato un primo mercatino fatto su Nostr dove ho cominciato a mostrarli tutti con relativo valore in sats (deciso sulla base di altri dipinti venduti prima) e il fatto che tutti potessero vederli ha creato il desiderio in alcuni di volerne qualcuno.

Quindi è stata solo una scelta personale, non dettata da regole di mercato, ma solo sulla soddisfazione di entrambi, pittore e amante d'arte.

Oggi inoltre dovrebbe arrivare un nuovo Nostr market, probabilmente migliore, che sarà inizialmente un servizio esterno e successivamente inserito nei vari client.

Vedremo se darà i suoi frutti nel vero spirito di Nostr, ossia libero ed inclusivo.