There are only three truly censorship resistant technologies at scale today: tor, bitcoin, and nostr.

All are currently niche…showing most of the world doesn’t actually care about censorship.

Granted, these technologies aren’t yet accessible or easy to use. But…they will be!

Tap add app and paste.

New fucking idea. Start making fucking avatar pics and banners and shit out of those stock corporate images. There's plenty of that collateral around, and those woke-ass models got paid already, I don't feel bad about using their image. Maybe I can catfish my way into your board meeting.

News at 11.

What if DMs were device-based?

We could use a secret from the device to create a new private key to use exclusively DMs. Since the new DM key can stay in the device's secure element, there is no way for any other device to access your DMs, even if you keys leak (they will inevitably do).

Pros:

- avoids leaking DMs when the nostr key leaks.

- DMs that expire when the phone expires

Cons:

- users cannot migrate the DM history to a new phone/client

With private group DMs, we could add all device keys in a single DM message so that current devices of a user can read the DM history.

Let’s just call it Hotstr for we find find the hottest hotstrich

Best evolution for Amethyst Stories?

It's already active. Middle button in the bottom navigation bar.

Folks using Stories, don't forget to activate more relays with the Global setting in green. Amethyst will only download stories from those.

there are definitely valid criticisms to Signal - phone number required, not being able to run your own server, reliance on intel SGX - but it strikes a pretty amazing tradeoff balance, grateful that it exists, most people would be better off if they used it more

unreal how many people tell me "Signal is compromised" then proceed to use imessage for 90% of their chats

Coming up: Forward Zaps of a post to your friends.

Nothing is happening on Bitcoin.

Yeah that's a problem with some of these feed boys. Like zerohedge. Maybe a separate list /grouping to see those feeds if that becomes available might be ok

Three big global risks over the next decade, imo:

1. Insufficient energy security. Politicians pointing the direction for technology rather than technology itself leading the way.

2. Sovereign debt crisis combined with lack of establishment/institution credibility.

3. Widespread disregard for objectivity, combined with AI making it harder to verify what is true. Descent into tribalism.

In history, when existing institutions and power structures become antiquated/corrupted and are replaced, it's a highly vulnerable period for society. The shields are down.

What gets built in their place during that highly flexible period can be far better or worse. The tails of possible outcomes are fatter than usual.

The first two risks (severe energy and currency mismanagement) harm the remaining credibility of existing institutions and power structures and likely lead to their eventual demise.

The third risk affects the probabilities for what the new institutions and power structures will look like, in terms of being better or worse than what came before. It also affects the smoothness or severity of the transition from the current system/order towards the next system/order.