You touch grass for a few hours and suddenly grok calls itself MechaHitler and has been shut down

My side of the story is first I tried to send a bolt-11 invoice in a PM but it failed for reasons unknown. Maybe too big?

get in loser, we’re going to a million 🤣

Mom?

bitchat + bolt12 + bitdevs

Now to find friends...

Free #SleepyDesigns sticker design DIY

Complaining about Bitcoin fungibility without mentioning coinjoin or lightning is so 2016...

What is special about white noise?

Does it support or contradict the trend I posted about with my efforts to drag them into our Overton window with no support from anyone else?

I’ll decide where I spend my time based on that.

If I have to do shit alone whilst podcaster bros rake in money from having the same guest as 6 other pods whilst doing literally nothing to address real issues - that’s not for me and I’ll leave them to their grifting

I didn’t. Do I need to?

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They’re not. They’re goldbugs stuck in their ideology instead of acknowledging TPOASIWID

Social networks were meant to unite us. To connect people, ideas, movements. And for a while, they did. But somewhere along the way, something broke. The same platforms that once promised freedom chose a different path: control, manipulation, and data centralization. What started as tools for connection became instruments of control. The platforms we once trusted (social networks, messaging apps, cloud services) turned into chokepoints. Centralized. Fragile. Easy to pressure. Built not for freedom, but for compliance. Every node of control is a point of censorship. Every server, a source of surveillance. When speech depends on permission, it’s no longer speech. It’s submission.

A Way Out.

Encryption is not just technology, it’s a political act. A gesture of resistance. Over the years, new social networks and messaging platforms emerged, promising freedom. Many failed because they relied on intermediaries: corporations, servers, gatekeepers. CEOs and companies are points of control. They can be pressured, censored, compromised. True freedom demands a system where middle-men are minimized, our trust is rooted in mathmatics, and privacy is cryptographically guaranteed, not a policy written by lawyers.

A New Hope.

Open Source projects like Linux and Bitcoin have proven that open, distributed networks of people can build systems the world can count on. Systems based on rules, not rulers. Systems that can resist attack. Nostr builds in this same spirit, creating a network where speech can't be silenced, no matter where you're from or who you are.

Built on Nostr's open network, White Noise emerges from a deeply held belief: you have the right to speak freely. We're building the world's most secure messenger, one that protects your conversations and your communities and leaves no metadata behind in the process. We run no servers, we collect no data, we have no rulers.

White Noise Is:

- Encrypted by default: Strong, modern end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is standard, not hidden in a settings menu. Our team has no access to any keys at all.

- Private by design: Your identity (or identities) are yours. White Noise doesn't need your phone number, email, or any data about you.

- Decentralized: Built on Nostr's global network relays. Data always remains portable and uncaptured; no single entity owns or controls your data or the network.

- Resilient against coercion: Open-source governance ensures no one can unilaterally alter terms of service and zero data retention means we can't be forced to give up private data.

We Believe in Building

1. A world where Privacy is a Right, not a privilege for the technically elite.

2. Tools that prioritize usability, without compromising privacy.

3. Open protocols, over closed platforms.

4. Trust through transparency.

Make some noise. Protect out silence.

(Stay tuned)

Agreed. I think the biggest challenge is breaking through the illusion of financial privacy. Too many people don't care because they think the system works. And making it even more of an uphill battle, it's hard to put an image to financial surveillance. It's not like police brutality where there are pictures that go viral. Sadly, screenshots of "your account has been frozen" letters do not grab the same attention.

Yeah I like that about DiLorenzo

I value order, efficiency, and reliability. I don't value simplicity or chaos quite so much. My effect on the nostr protocol has mainly been proposals to improve the reliability, efficiency, and orderliness of it, and the pushback has come mostly from people that like the freedom that the chaos gives them.

Some examples

* long ago I proposed that relays remember when an event arrived, and clients could query "all events that arrived after I last asked" to get a perfect next batch.

* long ago I proposed gossip/outbox model which specifies where events are expected to be, while many still choose very different and innovative ways to choose and use relays.

* I've been pushing for DHT usage to be more fully distributed and uncensorable, and to allow people to kickstart/bootstrap without knowing any relays or any nostr people. We get 99% functionality without it and so as you could imagine other devs don't really embrace the idea. I'm the guy who is never satisfied with 99%.

* I've wanted a rigorous standard that doesn't change

* I've wanted a binary protocol to juice up efficiency by avoiding JSON parsing

I feel like the black sheep in this regard (hence my avatar) because I gather that most nostr developers (and users) more highly value chaotic liberty.

Chaotic liberty is a great space to innovate in. But it is not a good space to build a solid user experience which requires a firm standard and compliance for interoperability. Hence I see hundreds of only somewhat compatible half-ass nostr applications that generally scare users off (which one? why are so many of them broken? and so different?).

This is all fine. But it means I'm not seeing nostr as the protocol that becomes the social media framework that the Internet eventually adopts. I see it more and more as a playground. Which is critical and innovative and wonderful. I just don't see how it can also be a stable user experience that draws in lots of users and creates substantial network effect value.

Mosaic is where I scratch my itch for order, efficiency, and reliability, and my attempt to create a solid user experience. I will be working on both Mosaic and nostr. Mosaic risks being too idealistic, the "betamax" of social media, but it is a risk I'm taking. Take joy knowing that I won't be bugging nostr devs as much about the chaos.

Should I post this or edit it more? Fuck it. I saw a meme that said to just post it.

Young man in the mens workout group this morning said I'm a "sketchy guy" because I've "got a guy" for "black market" ghee and raw milk and beef and pork.

Look forward to educating that young man on the power of networks.

have you ever updated your kernel? I can't imagine doing that without a versioned bootloader

They graduated during covid