Deactivated Facebook. 🤙🏼✨
How to be removed from threads? 😅
We’ll know that we’ve built something amazing when everybody is here. Even the people who annoy us.
I first joined Twitter about 16 years ago or so. It did many good things overall. At its best it connected people in ways that couldn’t have been imagined before it existed. It’s still an amazing concept.
I believe in the power of decentralized protocols as the foundation for communication. I want to spend my energy, attention, and resources making something that frees and empowers people. Maybe that is lofty. We’ll see.
So now it’s time. I have deactivated my Twitter account so I can walk this new path. 🤙🏼✨
Bob Marley - Three little birds (Video Oficial) (HQ) 🎶
I think a bounties/crowdfunding hybrid is interesting. A twist on crowdfunding where group comes together to fund a bounty for open source development.
Actually, it’s anti-weird. It’s basic. You can’t keep it weird if you’re aggressively gatekeeping. Nothing fun or funky will come from that experience.
It’s like they setup a rope line and a cover charge for a nightclub that is empty. Weird.
Historical context…
Nostr is what Silicon Valley wanted Twitter to be. A fundamental protocol for the internet.
Here’s some vintage blogging on this idea.
http://paulgraham.com/twitter.html
Many apps had already started to use it for connectivity, but in the end Twitter failed to open up, even making the decision to shut down its API to competing client apps. Other attempts were made to replicate the Twitter as a protocol idea but did not succeed.
Nostr is everything that was wanted but more, with Bitcoin/LN having solved internet-native payments, a holy grail computer science breakthrough that was not available in 2006 when this stuff was being conceived.
Nostr is not a Twitter clone. It’s a base layer protocol where many types of apps with social behaviour can be built. Telegram, Facebook Groups, MetaMask-like web extensions for authentication and payments, and an ability for a user to be validated through a history of behaviour. And much more not yet conceived.
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It’s still very early and we’re at the enthusiast community phase, which is how it often starts.
The Nostr ecosystem can include niche user communities, consumer social apps, creator-to-consumer commerce, media companies, and enterprise business applications.
We can keep nostr weird while making it ubiquitous and sustainable.