Hi fellow Nostr friend, if you are new on here like me, I want to follow you!

Let’s build this thing together ! #introductions #bitcoin

Hello, I'm a developer from Finland and joined few days ago. I'm quite impressed about nostr and impact it could have on how we approach social media, privacy and censorship. I'm getting similar vibes when Bitcoin first clicked for me.

#introductions

Still want to see a good pinterest, instagram and tiktok competitor on nostr. There's so much value in visual content and we haven't even bothered scratching that surface.

Imagine the interoperability of a curation platform with a shopping platform, both contributing to the creator's sovereign identity vs fighting against one another.

Massive potential.

I love seeing new CPRs (Centralized Platform Refugees) come over to Nostr.

I love the initial enthusiasm as the realization hits that this protocol is radically different from everything they are used to.

I love the nonstop note-posting when they first join.

But…

Sadly, many do not last.

They can’t get the same dopamine fix on Nostr that the centralized platforms deliver so effectively…

They are free, and yet they yearn to return to their cage.

But that’s okay. Everyone is free to do what they want, and Nostr will be here (and better than ever) when they eventually return. And they WILL return.

So, cheers to those of you that continue showing up on Nostr every single day, posting your thoughts, sharing your lives, sharing your art, sharing your music, sharing your podcasts, sharing your memes, sharing your feet, hosting meatspace conferences, and engaging in meaningful conversations with this small but powerful network.

You know who you are 🫂

And of course, cheers to the people who make all of this possible: the developers who write the code that allows all of us to have this incredible experience

Nostr is just getting started.

I’ve been off Twitter and all social media except for Nostr for a month now, and the results are hard to argue with.

I’ve started reading real books again (4 this month) and have noticed both my patience and attention increase noticeably. I also feel less angry and anxiety daily, along with being committed to my workout routine.

I found that Nostr has met my social media needs, most importantly, my own ability to self-limit with it. Nostr is a bit ‘boring’ compared to traditional social media because ITS NOT TRYING TO KILL YOU!!!

Controlling your own data isn’t nearly as important in terms of ownership, as it is about allowing that information to be used against you. All of your most intimate thoughts and feelings are data mining by massive corporations specifically to find emotional triggers for you, so they can sell you shit, or force thoughts on to you.

Fuck these people that run these companies that farm our emotions to sell us shit, and to work with corrupt government to censor our speech, sell out dissidents, and destroy our internet.

We are much, much, much more powerful than they will ever be because we don’t need force, corrosion, or permission to run these systems of social connections that they cannot destroy.

My month of social media detox has really lifted the veil from the hate industry complex that are all social media companies today. Stop prostitution your content, thoughts and powers to these shitty companies that enrich the scum of the earth, and empower illegal, unconstitutional and immoral government agencies from their dragnet surveillance.

I’ll make one last tweet explaining this and then nuking my account in the next few weeks. Then I’ll be Nostr only.

#Bitcoin is my money.

Dollars are just a payment network that I use to interact with the US economy.

lmao, apparently the bluechecks on Elon hub can be funny too!

lmao, apparently the bluechecks on Elon hub can be funny too!

Those Crazy Bastards did it.

They really did it.

Higher For Longer: ✅

This is like a Who’s Who of govt bullshit propaganda to control people.

They literally go down the entire gaslighting checklist

Drugs ✅

Child Porn ✅

Terrorism ✅

Trafficking ✅

Then add the horrible crimes of “providing cryptology for…” in a list of terrible crimes that he was complicit in, because without his “cryptology” such things obviously would be impossible. nostr:note1mlrsp2etdh0k90ekq38gw3vuklphwz294zq5zg8ur54vtzthx02q0hcdar

OPEN PROTOCOLS SEEM TO GROW SLOWER THAN CENTRALIZED COUNTERPARTS IN THE BEGINNING BUT THEN GROW FASTER AS NETWORK EFFECTS COMPOUND ACROSS DIFFERENT APPS AND USE CASES.

A lot of people don’t know my story about how I got into bitcoin so here it is…

I was a smart kid from sort of a rough background.

Always academically gifted, but never really applied myself.

I had a keen interest in mathematics and really excelled in school but had a hard time staying out of trouble.

I was in and out of juvie during my early adolescence. Nothing serious. Petty stuff underage drinking. Fighting. Resisting arrest etc…

Even though I had a rough home life I always had a close friend group that I could count on.

One of them got me a job as a janitor at a local college.

I was a lowly janitor but I still had my love for mathematics, so I used to sneak around and finish high level equations that people had left on the chalkboard.

One day a professor confronted me as I was writing an equation down. I told him to fuck off and ran away.

Then I got like mandated to do therapy with this old guy who was all wise and shit anyway I forget how the rest of the movie goes…

Then I got into bitcoin!

And that’s my story.

Opinions on @UNCLE ROCKSTAR business cards?

We're so back. 🍷

WE PUSH FORWARD BECAUSE WE MUST.

LIVE FREE. 🫡