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Replying to Avatar Erik Cason

I’ve been off Twitter and all social media except for Nostr for a month now, and the results are hard to argue with.

I’ve started reading real books again (4 this month) and have noticed both my patience and attention increase noticeably. I also feel less angry and anxiety daily, along with being committed to my workout routine.

I found that Nostr has met my social media needs, most importantly, my own ability to self-limit with it. Nostr is a bit ‘boring’ compared to traditional social media because ITS NOT TRYING TO KILL YOU!!!

Controlling your own data isn’t nearly as important in terms of ownership, as it is about allowing that information to be used against you. All of your most intimate thoughts and feelings are data mining by massive corporations specifically to find emotional triggers for you, so they can sell you shit, or force thoughts on to you.

Fuck these people that run these companies that farm our emotions to sell us shit, and to work with corrupt government to censor our speech, sell out dissidents, and destroy our internet.

We are much, much, much more powerful than they will ever be because we don’t need force, corrosion, or permission to run these systems of social connections that they cannot destroy.

My month of social media detox has really lifted the veil from the hate industry complex that are all social media companies today. Stop prostitution your content, thoughts and powers to these shitty companies that enrich the scum of the earth, and empower illegal, unconstitutional and immoral government agencies from their dragnet surveillance.

I’ll make one last tweet explaining this and then nuking my account in the next few weeks. Then I’ll be Nostr only.

keep going

Have you tried no data connection on mobile?

Sky is the limit if you use simple router with openwrt + webcams. Massive control that way.

Actually can KNOW the truth here thru research, chip x-ray, and security audits. Takes time.

In the meantime, GrapheneOS + >= Pixel 6 is solid path with constant security updates.

agree nostr:note1le3wcpdycl7nlxjxj6rrk4j2psq3khj6s8dkjekhsgza4wlfl4zsuvj08r

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https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-public-ipfs-gateways-and-supporting-interplanetary-shipyard

And it looks like they have stopped developing IPFS and stuff so now the orphan IPFS developers have migrated to a new organization and Cloudflare is making a blog post that fakes as supportive but is actually stating that it will stop hosting the biggest IPFS gateway in operation and will just redirect traffic to some other gateways?

It's not very clear what is going on, but I guess finally the big corp(s) has decided to stop spending money on a sunking broken technology but is not honest enough to admit it so they will let the thing die very slowly over the next years instead of just killing it outright -- I guess the developers and other companies and some users are still way too involved and their cognitive dissonance wouldn't allow that to happen anyway.

agree

Seems this relay architecture requires lots of polling and is not really solved by clients yet...eventually, as its an optimization.