Entirely valid critique, and not one I really have a great answer to. The best we can do for now is to attempt to decentralize things as much as possible at a design/architecture level.

Nostr takes something good from Email in this sense- it is monopolized, but the fundamental openness of the protocol allows for competition to exist (Protonmail, Countermail, etc).

Ultimately I think we need to "re-negotiate" the "social contracts" that make up the way we use the internet. I don't know what that will look like, but I do know that we have decades of mistakes to look back on. I am an optimist at the end of the day, assuming the global order doesn't collapse too soon and cause us to regress early technologically (which I would not really be opposed to, honestly).

Although I agree with you, I'm also not 100% convinced by this system here that could either lead to majority tyranny (especially in commercial marketplaces, it's not just social media here) and thereby enable a quasi-monopolization of individual providers, or eventually introduce a certain trust or reputation system - even eventually must - to cope with growing numbers of participants.

Google started the same way. Completely innocent and fair in the beginning. Then came some villains who could easily deceive several honest participants. Then came the countermeasures and a reputation system and Page Rank, and now we have today's Google. Rewinding repeatedly and still following the same path is also not the solution.

The Internet itself is already the most decentralized system. Nostr is just a small garden within it. We are merely repeating the same behavioral patterns here due to a lack of truly innovative ideas.

First Event Created ✊🏼 Viva la Revolucion

Interesting concept

Jazāk Allāhu Khayran will give this a try

Glad to see Ocean.xyz's hash rate continue to sharply rise. More decentralized mining pools are good for Bitcoin.

This is what I currently use..I’m on Damus..though I’m not sure if I do need this much relays really..any tips?

You may have a different perspective on bitcoin because of your belief. I'm honestly surprised their aren't more Muslim bitcoiners. Maybe there are, they're just communicating in Arabic.

As for those pictures, thats the first I've seen. I saw some of Milei with the WEF too, but generally I have other stuff to pay attention to than politics.

Are they absolutely Zionists or did someone just Photoshop those images?

A new hate crime in USA …

Three young Palestinian youngmen, Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ali and Kenan Abdulhamid, students at Brown and other US universities, were shot last night while they were on their way to a family dinner in Burlington, USA. The young men were wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh and they are suffering from critical injures.

في جريمة كراهية جديدة في الولايات المتحدة: اعتداء مسلح على طلبة فلسطينيين في ولاية فيرمونت.

أصيب ثلاثة طلاب فلسطينيين في ولاية فيرمونت الأمريكية بجروح متفاوتة بين البليغة والمتوسطة إثر إطلاق النار عليهم في جريمة كراهية جديدة في أمريكا.

وأفادت مصادر عائلية بتعرض ثلاثة طلاب فلسطينيين يدرسون في جامعات أمريكية إلى اعتداء مسلح أثناء تواجدهم في مدينة بيرلنجتون في ولاية فيرمونت الأمريكية، وتم إدخالهم إلى وحدة العناية المكثفة في نفس المدينة.

وتفيد التقارير الأولية أن هذا الاعتداء تم تصنيفه بأنه جريمة كراهية أتت على خلفية عنصرية نظراً لارتدائهم كوفيات فلسطينية وتحدثهم باللغة العربية.

والطلاب الثلاث هم: هشام علي عورتاني، تحسين نائل علي، كنان محسن عبد الحميد.

When political elites become also financial elites, that's a sign of corruption. Because these two don't necessarily belong together.

ʿUmar ibn al-Khattāb's (رضي الله عنه) principles when he hired people in public office (mayor, governor etc.) were:

He would do an audit at the moment the person got hired. He asked "What are your assets right now?", "What do you own? You own a house?", "How many outfits do you have, how many clothes do you have, how many shoes?". A full audit.

Then the guy serves 10 years. And after that he's leaving office. And ʿUmar ibn al-Khattāb says "Let's do an audit again."

And when the guy owned 8 pairs of shoes when he came into office and after that he owned 10 pairs of shoes, then he would say "Those 2 pairs belong to the people. Give them back."

You should leave office with the same things you came with. Because you're in public service, which means you can't be in self service. You can't go into public office looking for contracts on the side and then become a consultant afterwards. That's going to be a lobbyist, because you know how lobbying works and then you're going to make millions and millions on top ... that's not how it's supposed to work. You can't build your own assets when you're in public service. It's a sacrifice.

That's when political elites also become financial elites and vice versa. ʿUmar ibn al-Khattāb saw that coming. He was a genius.

- from tafseer lesson Surah Al Muminoon

Yes check this out. Should be relatively easy to do if you already have btcpay

sethforprivacy.com/guides/accepting-monero-via-btcpay-server/

Deontology, obviously. Consequentialism and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

Do you prefer Deontology, Consequentialism, or Virtue Ethics, among the three major philosophical schools of ethics?

If you’re like “what, lol?” that is fine. I’ll have some long form content on this. But I figured I would gather Nostr feedback beforehand to be more useful or specific.