I’m so excited to announce the start of our program to promote diversity of creators and journalists on Nostr.

🚀WELCOME THE FIRST CREATOR & JOURNALISM COHORT!

We’re excited to amplify a mix of existing Nostr creators jouranlists and new to Nostr. Join us in welcoming the first cohort of creators and show them some love by following them, engaging with their content or zapping their posts! Check out their bios below and click through to follow them and support the effort to #grownostr !

PUBLICATIONS

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In-depth reporting on topics ranging from cybersecurity to books to politics. Written by academics who are experts in their field.

JOURNALISTS

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Founder and editor at Scoop.nz focused on climate journalism and the future of news.

🎥 ARTISTS 🎨

Both of these Creators are bypassing the doom scroll model to share content that entices people to engage!

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An active Nostr user focused on film noir and art, you can follow her to check out experimental films and art or participate in bi-monthly challenges.

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Combines AI generated images and AI prompt writing to tell stories of magic and engineering.

⚾️SPORTS ⚽️

Keep up with the latest in sports news with two passionate sports curators and one determined lifeguard committed to teaching people to swim.

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Curating the latest sports news from around the world, this account is perfect for those who want to keep current with your favorite sport from abroad (wherever your abroad may be!)

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Read the latest news on Black swimmers and efforts to increase swimming knowledge amongst the Black community.

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Get the insider take on US based teams and players from someone who spent decades working in the industry.

🎸MUSICIANS 🎤

Music has taken off in Nostr and we’re excited to feature a few favorites and introduce you to some new to Nostr talent.

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Pop/Rock Artist based in Nashville. Follow to hear Ainsley’s latest releases and see behind the scenes into the lives of today’s musicians.

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Americana-roots singer / songwriter based in the Rockies.

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High powered rockers with a blues edge.

🪧ACTIVISTS ✊

This is one group that has felt the pain of ever-changing algorithmic feeds. Nos is excited to welcome them to Nostr and help them build a network they can have forever.

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An organizer based on Puerto Rico helping to co create strategies and experiences for a better future.

When we interviewed users on Nostr or those considering using it, we heard a few key points. Many praised Nostr for being amazing, friendly, and innovative but felt the platform was dominated by discussions about Bitcoin. While people enjoyed features like lightning and zaps—even those who hadn’t thought much about payments or cryptocurrencies—there was a strong desire for more diverse content. They didn’t want less Bitcoin content; they just wanted more variety. After all, Nostr stands for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays.

We also heard from creators and journalists frustrated with centralized social media platforms. They found the algorithms opaque and felt pressured to create content that served advertising models, resulting in a constant chase for viral hits. The money they earned from platform advertising was minimal. Some creators have already found success on Nostr, benefiting from direct payments from their audience or through subscription content.

So, how do we bring more diverse content to Nostr? We search for people, get them on board, promote them on the protocol, and figure out what they need to be successful.

To that end, we’ve launched a program for creators and journalists on Nostr. Over the past two months, we’ve been onboarding new people and publications, setting them up with multiple Nostr apps and a wallet. We’ve spent hours with each of them, learning about their needs and teaching them about Nostr. We’ve also reached out to the Nostr community and app developers to help promote these new members.

Our plan is to continue onboarding new folks, welcoming a new cohort of creators and journalists each week. Instead of relying on algorithms to promote them, we’re using the power of humans—the Nostr community. Twitter originally grew this way with its ‘Follow Friday’ initiative, where people shared curated lists of new accounts to follow. It was entirely grassroots, with people helping each other discover new and interesting content.

Thanks to everybody who put this together! So much work has gone in to finding and onboarding these folks and it’s exciting.

I want to call out thanks to npub1j60x528w2g2vkq5kae5uhh8y7sezjyj20zcsg0v9muc72cmdpu0s0md7ua who spearheaded this project, npub1uaajg6r8hfgh9c3vpzm2m5w8mcgynh5e0tf0um4q5dfpx8u6p6dqmj87z6 who did the design, npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 , npub1yl8jc6znttslcpj3p6p8vuq98awu6w0xh4lqtu0lkjr772kpx4ysfqvz34 , npub138he9w0tumwpun4rnrmywlez06259938kz3nmjymvs8px7e9d0js8lrdr2 , and npub1k2dmnr47ejn6uw5x5q4tdnexpwhv7zvde4zja789l8z5nh7qurhsvwv5hn who did development, and npub1lur3ft9rk43fmjd2skwefz0jxlhfj0nyz3zjfkxwe3y8xlf5r6nquat0xg who make sure the lights stayed on.

This project wasn’t just something from Nos, we also are doing it in partnership with Damus, Primal, Highlighter, YakiHonne, and Nostr.build.

Thanks to npub137c5pd8gmhhe0njtsgwjgunc5xjr2vmzvglkgqs5sjeh972gqqxqjak37w , npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr , npub1h50pnxqw9jg7dhr906fvy4mze2yzawf895jhnc3p7qmljdugm6gsrurqev , npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s , npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft , and npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q .

A special thanks as well to npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m who saw the promise that Nostr has to offer and helped fund it in a way that let’s us develop Nostr as a community with a diversity of projects and open bottom up participation of users, developers, and designers.

We’re building this open ecosystem together.

I thought google domains was shut down.

It's working

💡 bitcoin ecash instead of ads as a business model for the whole internet

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The EU is no different. In a a sense in fact you could well label tge EU communist since it's lead by unelected, self appointed in the commission deciding over economic policies of member states through their Broad Economic Policies. The link between communism and fascism is their authoritarian nature. Don't forget fascism was born out of socialism, driven by socialists like Musolini and Hitler. Hitler was also an environmentalist I'm told, not surprising when you hear the greenies nowadays who'd be more than happy to lock us up and prevent free movement. By hardship I mean, tough times, chaos or paradigm shifts like a currency reset which happen every 80 or so years. We also have in mind the fourth turning here. By all accounts it does appear like we are in one, especially with wars resurfacing. Regarding tghe master/slave paradigm, that's my understanding, authoritarian regimes ensure power ends up in a few select hands.

types of governments tgat emerge from harships. For exemple a collapsing currency resulting from too much debt relative to GDP could well bring about an authoritarian regime, only power able to keep the populace into check. To be fair, I personnally believe we are already experiencing forms of soft totalitarianism with restrictions to freedom of speach, censorship etc...

The Dynastic Cycle and the Fourth Turning are all basically the same thing. It's built into civilization, regardless of era or culture.

There are debt/money growth cycles, law/bureaucracy growth cycles, and periods of reset for both of them.

During the growth phase, debt accumulates, and laws build upon laws as bureaucrats become bloated and detached. Even well-meaning people in power can't fix it; every attempt to fix things just adds another layer of debt and legal complexity.

And then after a long enough time, it blows up. It could be slow or it could be fast, but it gets fucking rekt. It could be a lost war, a major internal revolution, or a slow massive decline and then a major populist democratically-elected landslide pivot.

The new government emerges, as order out of chaos, with elements of authoritarianism. The ideal scenario is that this newfound unity is enough to create change in the right direction, and then decentralize itself to re-establish rule of law and individual rights. The more common scenario, however, is that this newfound unity is not let go by those who claimed it, and it leads to authorianism/communism/fascism and decades of problems. In other words, the revolution against the decaying chaos is easy, but sticking the landing toward the re-emergence of freedom and productivity is the hard part.

That's why nothing stops this train. We're in the debt cycle rotation/reset, and eventually the bureaucratic rotation/reset as well. It takes billions of dollars to build a thousand feet of high-speed rail in the USA. Europe flails around on energy optics. Politicians become satire. Japan is stuck in yield curve control. This can last a long time, but the tailspin is nearly irrecoverable.

Incrementalism doesn't work at this phase. The event horizon is passed. Rather, the focus becomes on what order will emerge from the chaos. Is it rational order, or is it even worse than what came before?

The answer to that question, is what people have a big part in shaping.