The hilarious part is that we are going to crush it so massively that other competing networks are going to look like toys in comparison. Much sooner than most think.

NOSTR HAS BEEN MY ONLY SOCIAL MEDIA FOR A YEAR NOW AND IT IS FUCKING AWESOME.

WE HAVE MADE INSANE PROGRESS. ONWARD.

This kind of thing won’t stop me from using and building on Nostr but it will drive a lot of people away.

Do you agree ?

#Nostr #freedomofspeech

GM

Olá, Brasil

Gm.

It seems that it will be very hard for Brazil to identify and enforce the fines on VPN usage for Twitter/X. But it’s a powerful scare tactic.

When the United States banned gold ownership in the1930s (which lasted for four decades all the way into the 1970s btw), they didn’t really enforce it at the household level. They just had large prison terms that were rarely ever applied, which effectively dried up liquidity in the gold market.

Some people have pointed out that Nostr relays could be blocked by Brazilian internet providers if Nostr was big enough to matter. However, more relays could spin up, so they’d have to keep adding to the list.

Brazil’s government could then say it’s illegal to use VPNs for any Nostr app around internet censoring. The defense against that is to make Nostr as ubiquitous as possible. The more apps that tie into Nostr in some way, the harder it is to ever ban it in practice. Some people might not even know their favorite app uses Nostr. Imagine if everyone’s favorite short form app, long form app, podcasting app, reviews app, wallet app, recipes app, picture app, music app, and tons of other stuff are tied into Nostr, and how hard that would be to ban.

If Nostr becomes big enough to really matter, it’s because it’ll be tied into so many different things. That’s super powerful. And the devs keep building rapidly.

GM

As someone who doesn't use any corporate social media platforms (aside from an anon X account for crypto related posts) I can truly say, I think I've found a home here 🤗

Thank you all for the warm welcome today. And to everyone who helped me steer my ship. You're gonna see a lot more of me 😁

This platform is built different!

#grownostr #nostr #helloworld

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