I write this not because bellingcat is in the news. But because ProtonMail just sent me something about some fundraiser where they are donating proceeds to a bunch of groups including bellingcat and I thought "WTF? Do I need a new email provider?" I guess I do.

IMHO every service out there that is marketing "privacy" or "security" should be seen as highly sketchy right from the get-go. I no longer trust ProtonMail (well, I never trusted them with anything other than my boring emails anyways).

Free speech matters. Here is an example.

On YouTube, all of the first 40 hits when you search for Bellingcat are positive on Bellingcat (or report whatever they reported).

On Rumble, about 15 of the first 20 hits are negative on Bellingcat (I say "about" because one was a foreign language, and another was not clear by the title and I didn't bother listening).

If we didn't have a free speech alternative platform, nobody would know about the claims and evidence that Bellingcat is sketchy. Could they all be Russian disinformation about Bellingcat? Sure. But we get to be the judge of that.

I tend to judge them as a probable CIA asset because they never find the West guilty of anything, only Russia. And they amazingly have access to information that is impossible for any normal person to access... and they did so long before they had their own funded satellites. Also a UK report found "Bellingcat was somewhat discredited, both by spreading disinformation itself, and by being willing to produce reports for anyone willing to pay."

netscape

New Nostr logo just dropped:

A: Yonle, Can i ask about your #nostr bouncer?

Me: Feel free to ask.

A: Can i post p-

Me: Go ahead.

A: uhh....

A: Can i post lo-

Me: Go ahead.

A: Can i post anything that i want to in your bouncer?

Me: Go ahead. It's not stored in my server anyway.

[Freespeech allowed]

Do I need to uninstall/install Amethyst to fix the photo upload failure that has been playing me for 2 months?!

A little help #Nostr ?

Poll on which languages everyone on Nostr knows?

Free Palestine. End the worst genocide of the 21st century.

I just realized that the world-wide web doesn't have central moderation.

How is it that we are still breathing?

I have never encounted a community of people with a more positive attitude than the nostr community (at least the subset that I follow). Almost everybody is upbeat, positive, can-do, bright-eyed and bushy tailed, "let's build it", "let's fix it". I appreciate that a lot.

Clowns 😂 nostr:note1yk0a5ylxssf32swgcnd5wtvfw2kx8l2psy7rhzc27y38hcvxdr7qz9dm3t

So today I learned from hacker news:

Normies think bitcoin is a scam.

Normies expect other people to curate their feed.

Normies want a central operator to complain to.

I'm glad normies don't join nostr. I think we should not be catering to normies. Normies can go get stuffed.

Русский вымирает на войне вместе с русскими. В плане китайский.

The entire thread is “nsecs are bad” and “associated with bitcoiners so it’s bad”. Ok sure but let’s ignore everything else… 🙄