What if it's rephrased to "even though the internet was created to survive nuclear strikes, it was proven to be a good fit for freedom of expression"?

What is wrong there? I didn't read.

this is what happens in the future if the "outbox-is-broken-let's-use-smart-proxy-relays" people win:

- people start relying on "caching services" to fetch their notes. now every client must run their own caching service to remain competitive.

- as the network grows, syncing from all relays becomes more and more prohibitively and databases grow to the infinite.

- less and less caching services exist, but a "local best scenario" would be if we had like 4 different clients/caching-services to read from, but then if one of them banned alex jones that would mean 25% of users lose access to alex jones. there is nothing alex jones can do to change that.

- users could switch from app A to app B that hasn't banned alex jones, but app B had already banned donald trump, so that move is questionable and uncertain. anyway, it's too much friction for a user who doesn't know how to find this caching-service setting buried deep in their settings (because UX specialists said that's the best place to put it).

- eventually it makes no sense to switch anymore and as one of the caching services gains more market share they merge with the others, saving costs and regulatory burden (these caching servers are so big they need to do spam moderation, find and delete pornography and scam bots, comply with government takedowns, defend themselves against lawsuits, it's a huge cost), so it's much better to just have a single caching-service.

- everybody still publishes to their own relay, so nostr becomes exactly like bluesky and the central service can censor anyone. eventually people give up the stupidity of using intermediary relays and just publish directly to that central service.

- that central service now can serve you ads and blue checks, shadowban everybody who doesn't pay, modify your feed with amazing AI techniques to keep you engaged and prevent you from seeing anything they don't want you to see but keep you nourished with memes.

Idk who needs to hear this but in the Information age medium of exchange and unit of account don’t matter.

SOV Is the whole game

If you think for yourself- they lose money

If you’re healthy- they lose money

If you’re children are not educated in their schools- they lose money

If your candidate wins- they lose money

If you grow your own food- they lose money

If you refuse to send your sons to war or your daughters to work- they lose money

If you use bitcoin- they lose money

If you convince others to join you- they lose money

Gee I wonder why they don’t want you doing any of that shit. It’s a mystery.

Why do people stop drinking coffee? I don't get it.

Almost all of finance/investing can be summed up as shorting abundant things and going long scarce things.

And yet, many people spend the vast majority of their effort trying to go long abundant things and short scarce things precisely during the 10% of the time when that works, instead of going to therapy or something.

COFFEE IS A SHITCOIN

Work diligently. Work patiently and persistently.

Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful.

Bound to be successful.

GM, nostr

#patience

money printing is a weapon of mass destruction.