it should improve discoverability and make loading users' profiles much faster

it's value will increase as nostr grows more decentralized 😉

Is there a secure, open source security camera system similar to Ring but where you have sole control over the video footage?

Reflections on Twitter vs Nostr after #MarchOffTwitter

Free Speech — The feeling of not having anyone, with the power to suspend or ban you, looking over your shoulder while you post is liberating. Free speech exists on Nostr. It does not fully exist on Twitter (yet).

Incentives — The incentives to post on Nostr are far greater than those on Twitter. You earn Bitcoin directly for quality content. This is game-changing and hard to overstate.

Algorithm — There is no algo on Nostr. You simply see the posts of those you follow in chronological order. Don’t like what someone’s posting? Unfollow. It’s that simple. No ads or algo suggested posts either. Just pura vida.

Ownership — On Nostr, you truly own your account. You own your posts. And you can contribute to the protocol and apps just like everyone else. No more tagging Elon for every qualm you have with the user experience. This is incredibly refreshing and leads to a feeling of personal responsibility.

Tone — Broadly speaking, the tone of voice on Nostr is authentic, whereas the tone of Twitter is snarky. It’s nice not to be inundated with sarcasm. People sound happy and optimistic on Nostr, whereas on Twitter everyone sounds like they’re complaining.

Technical competence — The typical Nostrich is far more tech savvy than the typical Twitter user. You can get better answers to technical questions on Nostr than anywhere else I’ve tried.

Scammers — You won’t find many scammers on Nostr. And if you do, they won’t have much of a following. The reason is that you cannot delete posts, and you cannot block someone from commenting on your posts. There is nowhere to hide if you try to scam people on Nostr. You’ll be found out immediately. On Twitter, scammers easily hide behind a multitude of blocks and deleted posts.

Building the future — On Nostr, we’ve moved beyond tired olde arguments of “Bitcoin vs fiat” and “Bitcoin vs scamcoin.” Instead, we are actively building towards the future on a Bitcoin / LN / Nostr standard. No need to post the “it’s all so tiresome” meme.

Scale — Today, Twitter still has far more scale than Nostr. Twitter is the primary battleground of ideas. And Twitter has more far-reaching news and information. Therefore, in order to stay tapped in to the broader consciousness collective, and to wake people up to the perils of fiat and the benefits of Bitcoin, it still makes sense to have a presence on Twitter. Over time, however, Nostr will grow to far grander scale than any centralized social media platform due to its free, open source nature.

Connection — Nostr connects freedom minded individuals in China, America, and everywhere else in the world. No firewall can stop people from accessing Nostr. By comparison, every centralized social media app has to abide by authoritarian laws in each respective country. Nostr is connecting the world, and it’s not asking permission in order to do so.

In sum, I’ll to continue to have a presence on Twitter, but will be primarily posting to Nostr, as I believe it is the future of global, permissionless communications.

I'm not a big Brave user but I can say that Mullvad Browser is more private than Brave overall because no data is collected at all by Mullvad, Mozilla, or Tor Project. Brave does collect some data, although it is 'anonymised'. Also, Brave can be used as a wallet, it can sync, and it can connect to Google's Safe Browsing service - These can all be used to track you and a certain degree of tracking is required by those services to function correctly. As usual, it's a trade-off between features and privacy. It's also worth noting that Brave is a Chromium-based browser, so if you want the Chromium experience (a little faster and a little smoother) then it's a better browser than any Firefox forks. But if you want the Tor/Firefox experience (perhaps for more privacy but a little slower and not as pretty) then Mullvad is the second best Firefox-based browser for privacy, in my humble opinion. Unfortunately, Mullvad Browser isn't available for mobile yet though.

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Nostrapan just doesnt have the same ring to it. How about Japanstr ?

Thoughts? Discuss…

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*local laws apply which may limit freedom.

**credit card required to purchase freedom.

***Twitter Inc, your bank, or government may cancel freedom at any time.

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Web of trust > NIP-05

LN Address > NIP-05

So why do we have NIP-05 at all?

Perhaps univoque searchability?

I would hazard a guess that what we see here is not limited to just Twitter. It’s a view into the algorithms on all the popular social sites give or take a few variations