When I posted on Twitter that I would be winding down my use of the platform to focus on developing content on #Nostr my tweet was met with the most hostility I've ever seen from my followers. Very rarely have I ever been faced with denouncement from the people who I thought supported me the most.

I am perplexed by how quick some people are to defend a centrally controlled platform. Perhaps my post was perceived as an affront to Elon Musk, which isn't the case. It was merely based on my realization that centralization of social media is the problem. No human is immune from bias, and thus content moderation, when placed in the hands of any individual, is always susceptible to bias and corruptibility. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Since centralized social media are controlled by centralized governments, content moderation indirectly falls into the hands of politically motivated governments.

The original goal of my tweet was not to criticize Twitter -- I have gained so much knowledge and valuable real-world life experiences through Twitter and the people I met on there. Rather it was to enlighten my followers about the next step in the evolution of social media: Nostr, a decentralized social media protocol that possesses a unique ability to weather the vicissitudes of ever-changing political winds and to persist as a perpetual non-arbiter of truth.

To whomever on here who reads this, and who likewise understands the limitless potential of building a decentralization basis for social media -- alongside the decentralized monetary basis that Bitcoin is creating -- cheers to you for being the facilitators of innovation and evolution!

We need not worry about the resentment of centralized social media.

History will be on our side.

The COP28 conference going on right now is in Dubai. There’s zero chance that this photo is of Dubai. Googling it, it’s of the Munich airport, which was closed due to a snowstorm. Germany gets winters storms which close airports, has for as long as there has been air travel. The language of ‘global warming’ has been dropped because although the average temperature is going up, it’s really more like disruption of the global climate system causing more extreme weather. That includes sometimes more snow or colder weather than we saw before.

I had a trans friend around y2k (lost touch now). Worked with one at Sun MIcro. I respect Catelyn Jenner and Chelsea Manning. I've had many gay and lesbian friends. I lived in SF and hung out in the "Vibrant" crowd and regularly did Burning Man. I'm atheist and have no religious hang-ups about it. I'm libertarian and think people should have freedom over their own lives.

But gays and lesbians decades ago never tried to physically permanently medically modify children without letting the parents find out. And they didn't physically threaten and mob people for speaking their dissenting opinions. I have mixed opinions on womens sports and the bathroom issue (although I lean towards the TERF side) so I'll stay out of those minefields. To me the big issue is transitioning of kids without the parents involvement- that is so far over the line that I could see myself committing manslaughter in a rage in order to protect a child.

And It seems to me there is a lot of projection from radical trans people and opportunist medical practicioners onto children who are not perfectly gender-normal that he or she wants to transition, and the sooner the better lest puberty hit and the transition be less effective... when in fact many of these people would grow up to be gay or lesbian, and some of them would grow up to be straight, and plenty of them are regretting the social pressure they caved into, ending up with mutilated bodies, dysfunctional sex organs, and too often committing suicide. Anyhow, my point being that there is an extremism of late that might have been supressed a bit if it were pointed out by members of the LGBTQ+ community rather than always defending trans people regardless of how crazy they get.

So if there is a backlash against the whole group, while I cannot condone it, I understand it.

But that's just my opinion, looking from afar.

If you get this phone and you piss off Twitter and they excommunicate you, can you still use this?

This is becoming untenable.

It's already 39K.... Go Baby Go! 🕺🤙 #Bitcoin

It’s fine. Everything’s fine.

#RainOrShineMarket

It’s fine. Everything’s fine.

#RainOrShineMarket

🤔I don’t leave SATS on either that I wouldn’t care if I lost.

WoS may be a bad example due to recent “news”.

Isn’t ecash a shitcoin?

#cashu #enuts #ecash idea:

Encode the token into a generated icon/image similar to robosats avatars or github default avatars based on the ecash token signature. The token itself can be stored in the EXIF data. This way one can visually differentiate one token from another.