Who has Nostr loyalty? Anyone who’s tired of renting their digital existence. Anyone who believes exit should always be an option. Anyone who knows that protocol > platform.
Besides Bitcoin… we’re not maximalists. We’re protocol minimalists…minimum trust, minimum intermediaries, maximum freedom.
The protocol doesn’t need loyalty. It needs adoption. We need loyalty to the future we want to inhabit. Your keys, your notes, your network.
I’d love to see someone make a client that runs #relatr, let people sign up (perhaps for a small fee), calculate personalized trust metrics including “rank” and “followers” (meaning: verified followers) and publish them using nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z's Trusted Assertions. This would greatly facilitate integration of relatr scores into clients for nostr:npub1healthsx3swcgtknff7zwpg8aj2q7h49zecul5rz490f6z2zp59qnfvp8p ‘s upcoming WoT hackathon!
#wotathon
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https://straycat.brainstorm.social/about-trusted-assertions.html
This is def an intriguing experiment. If one trust calculation service becomes dominant, you’ve effectively recreated Twitter’s recommendation algorithm problem, just with extra steps though.
Is this where we want to go? I understand we want to solve real problems….spam, impersonation, and signal-to-noise ratio issues that plague open protocols but…? 🤔
Enough of the hollow noise we call influence. Our culture is rotting beneath the weight of its own vanity. We follow faces instead of principles. We chase attention instead of meaning. Influence has been stripped of its purpose and sold to the highest bidder.
But the tide can turn. It begins with those who refuse to be part of the decay. Influence was never meant to entertain. It was meant to awaken. It was meant to lead, to lift, to light fires in the dark.
We do not need more influencers. We need architects of a new culture. People who stand for truth even when silence is safer. People who use their voice to build, not to beg for validation. People who understand that integrity is a weapon and clarity is revolution.
To influence now must mean to serve something greater. It must mean discipline over impulse, vision over vanity, purpose over profit. It must mean living as an example of the world we want to build.
Let the old system collapse under its own emptiness. We are not here to imitate it. We are here to replace it.
Influence is no longer a game. It is a battlefield for the collective mind. Those who still believe in truth, beauty, and courage are the new resistance.
The future belongs to those who use their influence to awaken, not to manipulate. To build, not to consume. To serve, not to sell.
If you believe in Nostr, stop worshipping freedom as an ideology.
Start building sovereignty as a system.
The revolution won’t come from the loudest voices.
It will come from the first network that makes truth uncensorable economically, technically, and socially.
Maybe Nostr’s forcing function is brutal enough to fix this. When you can’t hide behind institutional credibility or SEO optimized word count, and your npub reputation is all you have, the empty calories get filtered out fast. Either say something worth reading or get muted into irrelevance.
LLMs are what you get when journalism became an industrial process optimized for scale and uniformity. Maybe the real question is whether uncensorable, pseudonymous networks let us fork back to a pre institutional model, where “journalist” just meant someone who wrote down what they saw and their npub was their only credential.
The digital migration isn’t complete until it’s complete. And I’m here for everyone who’s drawing that line, who’s saying “this is where I build, this is where I stay.”
Protocol loyalty. I’m here for it. Been here for it and will stay here for those that have digitally migrated.
A snippet of “Own The Signal”
Verse 2
Convenience turned to rust and rot
Every choice already bought
Fake salvation, dopamine
Buried deep inside the machine
I hear the hum beneath your sound
A pulse of truth that you shut down
No gods, no screens, no deal to sign
This time the voice is mine
Chorus
I’m cutting the wires, I’m breaking the chains
No more silence, no more pain
You can’t erase what you can’t control
I’m taking back the signal you stole
I own my voice, I own my skin
You’ll never cage me again
https://wavlake.com/track/89c8ac64-0259-4d44-bb39-4478695a2b4d
Gm Nostr 🫵🏻☕️
And welcome back to the greatest social protocol on the planet, the PurpleVerse
Please inform me on the second commandment violation. And I’m a very aware of sphere sovereignty. What would you like to help me exactly?
Gm Derek!
True freedom means you can always exit and still participate. Pura vida!
⚡️🫂
Anyone read this?
You can measure a nation by the hands that build it….and the silence that follows when they stop. Where we’re going?
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Production identity > Consumption Identity
thank you Dustin and nostr:npub14hq5lgadtyy9dhvtszq46dnl0s0xwdddqr7e32rdqqhma8a4xhsspxjjzu we will get it checked up definitely nostr:npub19qcnj6qzrhv92pf8tuhd74wcl6c8r2y2mmrp5pknfy3m2lsrd7xs6y7xw2 nostr:npub16vjln603hfsfhremp627jle4ycm6p23grjjqrm04rrdwupldyfnsjx88a2
Right on 🤙
Spending ≠ Selling. One is using money. The other is admitting you still think dollars are money. NGMI
Haha. That’s a good one arkinox. Big deep breath, ready?
This analogy completely collapses because Bitcoin’s “truth” is derivative. It points beyond itself to mathematical and cryptographic principles that exist whether Bitcoin exists or not. But Christ doesn’t point beyond Himself. He is the Logos, the eternal Word by which all things were made and by which all things hold together. He’s not a pointer to truth. He is truth itself, ontologically.
The altcoin comparison would only work if Protestant denominations claimed to be different saviors or alternative gospels. They don’t. Every legitimate Protestant denomination confesses the same Apostles’ Creed, the same Nicene Creed, the same Christ as fully God and fully man, crucified and resurrected. The disagreements are about church government, sacramental theology, and applications of Biblical teaching, not about who Christ is.
It’s worth every minute you invest your time into this. Just like Bitcoin. Only I’d say, it’s more important.
Will I be shadow banned by every single relay though?
That’s like saying if you shutdown one node runner, we’re doomed. That’s not how it works.
