Are there Discord alternatives here yet? Struggling with some issues but apparently the answers are all in a Discord chat, not on Nostr! I don't have a Discord account... I'm on Nostr.

Any help very welcome! #AskNostr

I have a partially degoogled Pixel and it definitely has a very cleansing feeling to use. Since GPay stopped working and my daily driver is an iPhone, I might as well start over and fully degoogle the pixel.

No thank you.

Free speech is not conditional free speech. There is no freedom in conditional free speech and who decides what is what is violent, nonviolent, appropriate or not (Rhetorical question)

Free speech is free.

people spread violence and hate

(THAT IS NOT FREEDOM OF SPEECH)

FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS A HUGE RESPONSIBILITY

if misused. it can have deadly consequences

Who said that?

Good news of today:

Pavel durov bailout.

Now back to my productivity. It's hard to put nostr aside...

Good questions.

So the root meaning is basically "dominion" which ties back to Genesis.

As for your second question about coercion, that is a bit more complicated.

The simple answer is that there are plenty of just ways a person may attain authority and rule. That someone would attain authority isn't in itself wrong but, again, an inevitability.

I also should say that coercion once someone is IN authority is baked into the pie. It is not a matter of if they will be coercive but how they will be coercive. Or, put another way, to what end.

For example, I am coercive with my children—I will discipline them if they are rebellious to my authority—but my coercion is aimed in the direction of them being self-disciplined, respectful, and responsible individuals who are not mastered by their emotions and impulses and sins but rather learn how to submit themselves in righteousness to God. My authority as a father is to love them enough to teach them to obey all that God has commanded. That involves coercion.

On the flip side, If I were a tyrannical father I would still have authority over them because of my "governing office" as father but my rule would be using coercion for MY OWN gain, not my children's gain.

This, in principle, is true of magisterial rulers. God calls rulers to love their people and place. To use coercion in righteous ways for the benefit and flourishing of the people.

You specifically asked about attaining power through coercive means. On that note, and this is a harder reality to grapple with, God allows, for his purposes, selfish and evil men to do such things. Just as men can come to power through just means, so they can through unjust means. God is infinitely wise and we often do not understand why he allows all that he does. But, as was stated before, sometimes it is to discipline an unruly peoples. To discipline and rebuke in order to call them back into righteous submission to Christ.

Pardon the novel I wrote in response here. Does all that make sense?

Just saw that you're the developer of Nitropage! I'm interested if it can be easy to install and run locally?

I mean easy for moderately techsavvy people, people with contribuor or editor role in Wordpress.

Files can then be uploaded via FTP etc.

lol not terminal. markdown in a text editor.

if one uses the basic default stock hugo templates, then it's gonna be easier than WordPress imho. If they want a custom design, then yeah your solution with Nitro is likely going to be easier for most people. I wish you a lot of success with it.

Why does WordPress suck?

a) Slower for visitors

You're selling less business, people are walking away from your malware that loads slow.

Search engines punish slow speed.

b) Slower to make

I hope you like carpel tunnel. WordPress forces you to go in a browser and manually modify shit with a mouse, which is proven to hurt your hands in the long term. Plus it's slow load speeds to work on something constantly reloading on a remote server, so you're urinating on your own time. On top of network issues with Tor

c) Leeching Big Tech malware.

You're leaking to the government your income, your sales, and reducing your freedom of speech. While it's technically true WordPress is "open source", it has malware Google fonts by default on the front end, jsdeliver to function, and Cloudflare and Google on the backend. Then to do most tasks, you to install 3rd party plugins which are often closed source and have security vulnerabilities. This is because WordPress suffers from mission creep, where they want to do everything.

d) Hypocrite

You say you want decentralization, but your customers think you're a hypocrite. Most uBlock Origin users immediately see the google fonts and JSDeliver and know you're using WordPress. Now you're trying to sell them on your expertise, but you're using amateur tools.

e) WordPress plugins need constant updates for security, but your setup has a unique combination of plugins. Therefore, as time passes by, the probability of a unique failure increases, which costs more money to solve.

Instead, ditch bloat WordPress, and go with Hugo.

Hugo is a static site generator. This means it generates static content locally on your computer, then you upload and serve a finished static thing. On the other hand, malware WordPress has a live database, and then dynamically creates that content on the site while your visitors wait for it to load.

With Hugo, you don't need any coding knowledge to easily and effortlessly format text, add pictures, and change the layout of your articles, on your local offline computer with the keyboard like an alpha male, as opposed to a worthless carpel tunnel bitch clicking a mouse in a remote browser using Big Tech malware.

Consider reaching out to Simplified Privacy's on-staff graphic designer to help you transition your content over to Hugo, to become a master of your domain. (DM me)

Welcome to all new followers! I'm Schmidt, a privacy advocate, Austrian School enthusiast and Monero guy. I know many of you come from the Bitcoin space. I hope some of you have the courage to stick around and explore the ideas I share here. Let's dive deep into the world of privacy, sound money and true financial freedom.

It’s always “ I love Freedom” until it’s something you don’t agree with.

Gm, shadowbanned network enjoyooors.

When did it become acceptable to normies for governments to read everything you write privately?

Who gave them the right?!

What’s the twisted logic to explain that some rando who knows where can spy on your private exchanges?

So weird.

Hope you Have a speedy full recovery post bicycle accident

20 years is wild nostr:note1pqeszsvcvtyu95ar22lzn5qkejaacc6dnaswwjzq3ykc25jfazrs6ksau5