Saw someone post about how painful it is using lots of different platforms as a blogger

Their solution was to go “all-in” on Substack

Not a bad choice actually, if status quo is the only way to go

But I wonder if they’ve even heard of Nostr?

Being able to create content for 1 place is much better

Whilst owning your data & contacts list is a game-changer

However the trade-offs remain huge in terms of eyeballs

Only time will alter the amount of attention Nostr receives

My husband recently observed to me how important conditioning is for people to accept things as normal.

He said that when he first began reading my articles, he was like “Okay but I mean, fiat currency censorship isn’t really *that bad* as you describe”. But then in the years that followed, he was like “oh shit, it actually is. The fact that we have to ask permission to access significant amounts of our own money at banks and say what we will do with it is fucking insane. Why is this normal now?”

In Europe especially but also elsewhere, it’s increasingly common to make cash transactions illegal above a certain threshold value. Above that value, you have to go through centralized, surveilled, corporate/government systems, or you’re doing an illegal transaction.

That seems absolutely insane if introduced out of nowhere, but instead it has been introduced gradually through conditioning and so people are like, “well I don’t use cash anyway so that’s okay I guess, in fact I don’t even know that’s a law now”.

The same is generally true for social media. Filtering communications through centralized pipes is actually a radical position but it’s increasingly the new normal. In fact, the centralization of banking and communications in the hands of the state were two of their ten steps proposed in the Communist Manifesto.

do we need more education around bitcoin forks, consensus, the role of nodes, etc.?

Bitcoin education has gotten so much better but maybe we’re a bit underinvested in education around how the network itself works? very important. we the market determine its future

i’ve collected a bunch of tweets over the last week regarding open source devs killing bitcoin. going to spend this Mailbag Monday episode dispelling what seems to be a lot of misunderstanding.

curious if yall have any thoughts or requests before i record

GM

Wow, sick hackathon space at CheatCode Bedford 🤯!

literally my whole feed is "dan" and I have no idea who is actually making the post😂 😂

When you’ve been away from Nostr for a day and don’t get the dans thing.

Looks like #gmprotocol is in full swing this morning on the #nostr 😁 Gm ☕️☀️

When inflation is ticking higher you're supposed to BUY BTC

All these suits are definitely ngmi

it’s ARK.

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Wednesday…

what are the commie bitcoiners fighting about today on Twitter?

I'm so sad after attending the first job interview of my life, I want to bake a cake!

But I lost my baking tray.

That's how sad I am! 🥲

MAJOR ETF WAS GOING TO SUPPORT OPEN SOURCE DEVS.

COMPETITION WAS TIGHT PRE LAUNCH.

THEY DID NOT WANT TO ANGER SAYLOR SO THEY PULLED OUT.

LEARN HOW TO READ.