It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

𝕀 𝕒𝕞 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖, 𝕪𝕖𝕥 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖.

𝕀 𝕒𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕒𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖,

𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕖𝕕.

𝕋𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤; 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕗𝕣𝕖𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤, 𝕪𝕖𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕚𝕞𝕡𝕖𝕔𝕔𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕪.

why is she like this 😭

Be the good you want to see in the world.

When was the last time you handwrote something in cursive?

Bruh, baby names are hard.

no, im a left curve moron.

my guess is simply optics. but the whole debate seems like optics to me from all sides. "the other side are wrong and stupid and my side is right and smart"

99% of rational argument is and has been gone for a while.

now im going to say the no-no thing:

it really doesn't matter what people run lol.

I hope UK can get their freedom of speech back. While you’re at it, maybe do something about that insane surveillance system you have in place.

I remember back in the day when we could just talk random shit. Anyone still here?

That’s gonna a “no” from me dawg 🤣

yeah, I thought same things. I wanted ask you "fishing game?".

geohash…georelay…geocache?

Which one is better? ☺️🥰

Photo credit for Matti Keski-Kohtamäki (x/ig: @mkphotons) 🧡🚀

#vegan

lol, like Americans know what a kilo is

Hi Nostr, I'm Andrew. Came here after watching nostr:nprofile1qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvqzqak8r2hr5jglrk0wc37t59lz98x6gyf6pwaku6hpwakhvslznjh6z5205k interview nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyehwumn8ghj7mnhvvh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7ctewe4xcetfd3khsvrpdsmk5vnsw96rydr3v4jrz73hvyu8xqpqsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q8dzj6n. Super exciting technology.

Whip your hare back and forth.

Just whip it.

Group chat is woefully underdeveloped, please have a little patience until we ship some improvements there.

Fountain 1.2.8 is live on iOS and Android 🚀

The update includes:

- Player design refresh

- Video playback

- AirPlay and Chromecast support

- Auto-queue on play

- Other bug fixes and improvements

Read more below 👇

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