nostr:note1uv7wrvuku8duzy66lz4xelwrrtt9l65fle52mtrhwefszj3q2qpquypdavI mean, if you want central authority for your own life, then go on and be the example. I for sure don't want any central guy messing with me, sorry
I like it. All of this seems achievable. The only thing would be to ensure that curation masters are competing between them, but that sounds feasible with inelastic zaps
But we live in an adversarial world. Isn't that expected? Wouldn't it be worse if they didn't have the freedom to do that?
I've been thinking about the possibilities of value4value recently. I now think this: If the momentum of value4value is concentrated in just a few hands, that could activate something called the law of comparative advantage, sometimes called the ricardian law of association and that would boost the underdogs on the nostr scene.
I think the idea you've proposed can be great because that could trigger a big source of revenue that would trickle down and make a chain of reaction through all Nostr. After all, we could say there are people that provide us more value than others here
I think all of this could succeed (if made organically tho)
Most of my work has been on Twitter and substack the last couple years. Substack because I have readers and emails and Twitter because I have some (modest) reach.
Both are highly flawed. I often want to make short posts, not full length essays, but you can’t email people 10x per day. Email only works if it’s occasional.
Twitter is flawed for 100 reasons. The algo sucks. It’s really dog shit. It’s the dystopian AI future where it’s not personal that you can’t reach the people who chose to follow you, just what the machine decided, and you have no recourse. Fighting it is futile. The algo is a dead end in its basic design.
Plus, you don’t own your work. I am a member of a minority class of people, those with something to say. I don’t simply lurk, I have shit to say, and I say it, for better or worse. In other words, I am of the class of people who create the network effect that gives Twitter its value.
And I am paying $16/month and getting paid zero. I am getting paid zero in part because the algo punishes me for building a following of credulous fantasy sports players (laptop class) and then deciding instead to post about what was happening in the real world. As a result, many prominent, verified accounts that followed me muted me, and the algo does not like that apparently.
So I can’t reach the people who want to read my thoughts on Twitter, and I can’t bombard people with short emails on Substack. Neither one works.
Nostr you can post like Twitter, and anyone who wants to see your post will see it.Plus they can zap you. But content discovery is still shit. You can use any client, but you have no way of reaching an audience besides people happening to see what you posted if they happen to be scrolling around the time you posted it. There are good long form tools like nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x and nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q, but hardly anyone reads essays here. (Same on Twitter, btw, no one reads them. People actually read my substack essays (or so it seems.)
So they are all imperfect, but at least with nostr you don’t feel like you’re getting a raw deal. That is has the potential to work.
One idea I had was a service wherein you hire ~20 people to follow the ~10K non-bot accounts who post the most. Each person has a job of reading every post and re-posting, commenting on the best ones. These people would have to have good taste, like a quality DJ that knows what music to play. They’d be discovering and boosting quality content, no matter how small the following. Users would quickly learn to follow the Master Curator account. As it got zapped and followed, others would emerge, and people could choose which station to tune into (or tune into multiple.)
This could get captured eventually too, but it would be a major service and incentivize those with small followings to post.
Anyway, this is too long already. Made a new year’s resolution to post more here. It’s real social media at least.
I don't see how could that endeavor could be captured. Why?
Not your foam, not your bones
The only cause for division should be labor 😂
GM ☀️ PV 🤙
You get another turn to chase the sun.
https://video.nostr.build/3d5948a856f3625dbc1b7cbcc439e74f70d2c9dd46d00f03f003d70366b93eb6.mp4
Worthy of being accompanied with an instrumental classic song
My situation is somewhat inverse to that. I really get irritated, maybe angry when I hear the word "impossible"
AI's lies are only successful because there are lots of people that only can hear what they want to hear. Nostr is the antithesis of AI's lies (in a gradual way, of course)
Even some bad things in the moment can be good things when unraveled thoroughly. The key is to never lose faith in yourself and in life in general. And to remember that people that were before us and had faith are the root of the tree
Because you haven't dipped a cookie or piece of bread in it, I guess
See, you consume the dipped cookie or bread, you say "mmm, so yummy" and then you sip the coffee (without sugar, you must be sure that the coffee is at just the right point, not too hot, not too cold, its "umami point") and then feel relieved from all that symphony of flavor and emotion.
Try it, it's a worthy experience
It's pretty sad the author isn't on nostr, though. I guess he took the Parker Lewis route?
In that sense, most people search for ways to compare with others, to justistify their own weaknesses
You can read this. It's enlightening. Maybe you can find the answer you need
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"No, Michael Saylor, that’s not what I want. In fact, it’s very far from what I want." - nostr:npub1dnzzyhmewrzkh862z7z2shwmhh5htx0rvkagepj2fkgst9ptwg3qj4x52h
Mike has some pretty screwy ideas but some of the shit in here is downright sinister. Excellent piece by Frank.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/michael-saylor-doesnt-understand-bitcoin
The good thing is that, at the end of the day, Saylor will confuse the "not so smart but evil" that also want to conspire 🤭. A house of cards