What does it mean specifically to have more control over your identity online?

Sounds like a meaningless statement phrased in a way that elicits a "yes".

Of course we all want more control over things, and we care about our identities. So the the vote result isn't surprising, but I don't see what they actually mean practically.

I actually want the reverse, I want more possibilities to be anonymous and without identity.

very very far away to reach a point where people think as so...

I hope the decentralized social media cat is out of the bag and that there's no going back to 2010 Facebook-style centralized social media.

I could be wrong of course, network effects are very strong and Meta can pay an army of devs to create a sleek UX and various enticements for users.

But many people are slowly waking up to the dangers of centralized silos.

Yeah, definitely. Centralized social media isn't going anywhere, but I'm hoping for less dominance.

The great thing about open source and open systems, is that the benefits generally accumulate over time. Good for people with low time preference.

I recently worked for 2 years on a closed social app. It's been released and has users, but management decided to kill it as part of a larger cost-savings plan.

All that work is now basically for naught and soon the service will be gone for good.

With Nostr that's basically impossible. The only thing that can kill it is no-one using it. But there's no "management" that can kill it. And the open source software cannot be pulled or removed. It's there to be used by anyone.

As long as there is a hardcore group of users, it's alive. Perhaps a cockroach would be a better mascot than an ostrich 😆

Good night, fellow plebs 😴

Good night, fellow plebs 😴

Hi, this is my first post. Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭

Make no mistake-- Moving to a higher-signal social media network is a tangible upgrade to what you're feeding your brain.

With that established, I will confidently argue it's not hyperbolic to say that transitioning your social media presence to Nostr, and encouraging your friends to do so as well, is pushing the needle forward on improving mental health globally.

Thoughts?

Hey, welcome to Nostr

You should know that you can set up a Lightning address on your profile to be able to send and receive value.

Let me know if you would like help setting that up 🤙

We need NOSTR more than NOSTR needs us...