Are there any movies about a world we might be heading to with total surveillance and control? I don’t recall what ultraviolet was about … maybe that 🤔

Soon the #Internet will be nothing more than a GIANT paywall…

#X #Twitter #Musk

there will be always an escape pod like nostr

#polltime

(How does this show for you?)

Other social media works just fine for them. It has people and they are happy. They don’t care about the same things we care about.

For nostr to win social, it has to offer a magnitudes better experience or be ok with slow and continuous growth with incremental improvements.

To build better experiences we have to discard bitcoin and zaps from consideration of what makes a good social app. Yes, it’s better with zaps but we have to remember many people simply don’t care about bitcoin, lightning, any of it. What they will use as the measurement criteria is the network effect, and the social experience (how awesome it is, if it’s fun, addicting etc)

People are selfish no matter how you slice it. We do everything in our best interest, to feel good in the moment, long term, avoid pain and discomfort.

We’ve got our work cut out for us for sure 👍 nostr:note1n7u46czxadsux7ch0t5nw9gen9k2h8ax7x5grd8zzjujkaxchvpq4mrcm4

The downfall of 1984

Every engineer or programmer tasked with building the digital architecture of slavery will be confronted with his/her understanding of code and the downstream results of code.

This is why in fiction, the engineers of the Death Star intentionally introduced vulnerabilities.

The reason is simple.

The engineer or programmer can read code and blueprints. They can put together in their mind a map over plausible risks and outcomes from a given set of digital architectures.

A good programmer understands the far downstream implications of a given code.

As a result, we should expect that a certain percentage of engineers and programmers will defect from totalitarian projects, either visibly or cunningly, by introducing vulnerabilities to the totalitarian architecture, once they understand the inevitable outcome of that code.

Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 can be likened to destructive computer viruses or malware.

Investigating their code, a programmer or logically thinking person can reasonably well predict their outcome.

Every programmer understands what a 1984 society leads to:

When you have a highly complex archipelago of code, such as a society, centrally planning that code is an extremely risky strategy.

If you are also prevented from fixing bugs, errors and obvious harms in the code, the code will spiral downward toward greater and greater harm.

Next, add that in a 1984 society all words are redefined to their opposite.

Imagine being a programmer trying to fix a code while every term you use have the opposite meaning in relation to its practical result.

Every programmer will realize that this approach is 100% doomed.

Not to mention all the dependencies in a centrally planned 1984 architecture.

Every harmful piece of code in the governing architecture will propagate to every other part, since they depend on the central authorization.

Corrupt the core and everything gets corrupted.

While an array of programmers will continue to work for the system, many engineers who understand cause and effect enough to read the code sufficiently far downstream will join the liberty side.

One day we will be thankful for the vulnerabilities in the 1984 architecture.

Bitcoin represents the vehicle for replacing the 1984 central planning architecture with decentralization of power, liberty and property rights for all.

When every individual can protect their own person, family and property, power is decentralized and harmful dependencies are deconstructed.

1-4. Sounds like private profiles, which a NIP is being worked on, I remember seeing Viktor from Amethyst mention it.

5. Pretty sure I heard something like that on Nostr, using a modified version of IPFS I think.

6. That can be done, by connecting only to relays that would follow those rules and have that option, though I'm not sure there's a provable way to know they actually deleted it.

7. The Monero community could build a client with that, nothing is stopping them. Though I'm not sure how/if Monero can handle micro-payments like LN. Calle is working on Fedimint Lightning enabled zaps for Nostr, which is a possible more private alternative with obviously some trade offs in federated custody - which is already better imo than fully custodial Lightning like WoS to handle stupid-tiny amounts of Satoshis.

That's the beauty of Nostr, anyone can create whatever they wish however they want to on top of it 🤙💜

they hate when you’re free nostr:note1t3uhcthrqw3fnhhvqyy4xlcwk3xhqh0lujc9ppua59k22ukrsnvqkwkdy9

Yeah. True! I guess due to the factor I mentioned in another comment:

Value gained / effort to do

Seems tough to reach.