In everyday life, people hate to be the exception. They want to fit in.

And yet, legends are told about the exceptions. Legends are born from the extraordinary.

Men who led extraordinary military campaigns. Men who were born poor but built a dynasty. Women who fulfilled a man’s role out of necessity and became an outlier success. Men who created timeless art but were likely gay at a time when it was not allowed.

The woke view tries to pull everything up or down to the average, regardless of merit.

The fascistic view tries to suppress the exceptions and keep them down, while propping up those who haven’t earned it but who support the leader.

The truly based view, however, invites everyone up toward excellence. Especially the exceptions.

Because nobody wants to stifle creativity. We now have a couple dozen kinds of relays that users don't know how to manage or even have visibility into which relays do what. Nostr is becoming a place only devs will be able to use.

The complexity of nostr is growing far faster than we are able to wrangle and make usable for plebs and I'm afraid it is becoming unsustainable.

This is a middle of the night sick stomach ramble. I may not be thinking clearly. Please discuss among yourselves while I get back to sleep.

you’re average android phone is likely 100x worse than apple privacy wise. Apple makes money on hardware, not user data. They wouldn’t put so much effort into secure enclaves, e2e encryption, and private ai clouds otherwise, as all of this makes data collection harder.

Unless you’re using grapheneOS, the anti-apple pro-android privacy crowd is a larp and misinformed. Android is built by google, a company who could care less about your privacy.