Nostr won't ever be "finished" or feature complete. It's a living and breathing protocol, always advancing forward, paving the way for new freedoms and new use cases.

Sometimes it pains me to think about the amount of time we waste on pointless nonsense. 

I used to commute from orange county to downtown LA. My co-workers did the same from many parts of greater LA. Combined, we wasted hours commuting to the office. You take that and zoom out to the building, to the neighborhood, to the street, to the country, to the globe. But it doesn’t stop there. We sit for hours in offices doing absolutely nothing - pretending to be productive. The job I would commute to did not require me being in the office. I could have done it remotely in a fraction of the time, but here I was like an idiot, waking up early af, getting dressed, making my way to the city in a river of other idiots doing the same thing. Commuting to a city of idiots wasting hours chatting with co-workers, going to lunches, attending pointless meetings to create pointless stuff.

I get that people have bills to pay, but if you just pause and think about the total amount of human life force thrown away at mind-numbing activities … my god.. it’s the matrix. We live in the matrix. How else do you explain the scale of this mass psychosis? How can we justify doing this to ourselves? I know this is not applicable to all, but the vast majority of human kind operate under these conditions. We’re primitive beasts, nothing more.

Sometimes I imagine a society where we are not all brainwashed to waste our entire lives on pointless crap and wonder how long it may take to actually get there.

I took a different interpretation of the word when I made my point. I think we all just have different ideas as to what it means

1) Not allowing the 'bad person' to see your posts (part of Twitter blocking) - this is what I thought was not useful.

2) Not allowing the 'bad person' to participate in your conversation -- this I think is needed and useful.

I took a different interpretation of the word when I made my point. I think we all just have different ideas as to what it means

1) Not allowing the 'bad person' to see your posts (part of Twitter blocking) - this is what I thought was not useful.

2) Not allowing the 'bad person' to participate in your conversation -- this I think is needed and useful.

Testing SWARMSTR for first time!

The hardest note to play is a rest.

Of course they do. My point was about the scope of what blocking means. They want to not see stuff - fine. But that can't include blocking other people from seeing their stuff. Twitter blocks were a lie- just log out and you see it all again. We can't impl blocks either (and neither can bluesky).

Solutions include muting, private spaces, subscribing to censors to get those mutes before you see stuff, etc.

Not here for the socials, excited to see what else Nostr can do

#introductions

Fundamentally posting to a website blog or to bluesky or nostr or twitter is the same kind of thing: End users create content and share it with the world.

The reason social media seems to think it needs "blocking" is because a new generation of young authoritarians want to control other people, whereas when websites were invented, people were not so authoritarian.

At least that is what I believe in a nutshell.

Gm,

Just looked at 90 sat/vB and said "wow it's cheap now"

Weird how anchoring works on the brain

*dog's

We’ve served media to every recognized country in the world in the past week alone! 🐶🐾🫡 nostr:note15z0qcwrj78mdmzlsnkckcnejdsm738xvfy6kye2smvrl3grhjx2qxsll22

I get cigars now 💡

lift

How can Bitcoin halving day not be on 4/20?!