lol yeah, anyone who gets on YouTube and just rakes in cash for doing extremely mundane things are the luckiest mfers in the world

Watched this guy on Youtube eat like a thousand packets of poprocks and it seems obligatory that this is not advised

That's pretty wild too lol I went over to Iris and logged in with your public key and I felt like I was seeing the world through someone else's eyes

lol no I haven't

Yeah, I've been hosting my own for a while in order to make myself immune to tyrannical admins, but it looks like I might have found another way to post and not be silenced

One of my biggest fears on Mastodon is saying the wrong thing, or having a bad day, and ending up with a large majority of the actual active instances silencing or blocking me, to the point where I really AM talking to no one, and that could happen to anyone on the fediverse. Like, even if you don't have anything that you want to share with the world, that's a real shitty thing to even consider as a possibility of happening

that's freakin wild, I can change how my username is displayed on Damus and it's immediately reflected on Strudel

and man, am I tired of asking permission

I actually have that exact experience. I was on a Mastodon server for years, at least 4, and I had just one grievance where I went a little out of control and told someone to go fuck themselves, and because the admin and his mod team were having a bad day, or didn't like me ... I lost everything. It made/inspired me to launch my own Mastodon server, but after exploring Nostr for a little bit now, I'm starting to wonder if paying for a Mastodon server is really the best option

I just read someone talking about Mastodon in a light I hadn't really considered. The whole platform and protocol is built on this idea of decentralization, but it's built as if there are thousands of small Twitter connected to each other.

So ... actually, Mastodon is many centralized servers talking to each other

DANG that looks good as F#CK

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Hey, welcome! I came into Nostr with pretty much the same assumptions and decided to also check it out for myself. Over the years I've learned that sometimes people's opinions are correct, but other times, it's best to actually look into things yourself, and in this instance, I'm glad I did.

I'm also not too huge into bitcoin, but I've been all over crypto for years, ETH, BTC, even made a ton of NFTs before Opensea killed royalties lol

haha jesus

I know I've had some serious arachnophobia most of my life, been trying to get over it by not killing all spiders immediately and trying to actually learn about them

Followed!

That’s what I was thinking, someone offline thought it was a recluse but I think the necrosis spiders are bigger

Identify this spider for me Nostr lol

With a million id probably invest most of it and pay off some debts with the rest, and then keep a spending cash cushion on my bank account

Hard for me to link right now but I might have some stuff on wavlake you’d like, depends on how you feel about electro/retro/darksynth

Alright cool, I guess by adding things to my NIP you mean I can just add it to my config on GitHub?

I think it acts as both an incentive and a way for people to show some support for things they like to see, an interesting concept at least. Imagine if hitting the like button on Twitter gave people 10 cents