live free or fucking die

have any of you ditched mobile phone for laptop only?

investment real estate is a shitcoin

- can be rugged by local governments incredibly easily

- lack of liquidity, hard to buy or sell quickly

- overvalued due to decades of people trying to escape the losing purchasing power of their shitty money

- will trend to zero when priced in bitcoin

owning your own land is the exception - can still be rugged and will also lose value over time but can provide significant benefits for family security and well being

Musk can never implement "free speech" on X, because X is a platform. He can implement "legal speech", that is all.

The funny thing is that in the US, the right of the platforms not to be punished for content they do not create is legally protected by the famous section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.

So all censorship done by Twitter, Facebook, and so on, is indeed politically motivated (even when they argue that advertisers are the ones who demand it).

In fact, it's quite clear looking at what happened this past years, that section 230, or rather the threat of removing it, has become leverage for "special interests" in Government to influence (I don't think many of them need "coercing") content "moderation", to the point that platforms are indeed acting as publishers now. This was Trump's argument, which I 100% agree with and I had personally concluded myself before his attemp to remove s. 230.

On the other extreme, Biden advocated for the removal of s. 230 for the exact opposite reasons: he outright wants to legislate what is legal content and what isn't, beyond what is already there (CP, exposure of adult content to minors, etc).

Publish what we tell you to publish, or we will remove section 230 and your protections will be gone. Then, we'll pass legislation regulating "content". Policing with 100% effectiveness is impossible, so we will go after you and shut you down.

And that's exactly what too many here want to walk into WILLINGLY and without any need whatsoever.

I would love to see mobile phones be a thing of the past.

It really sucks to see people stare at a tiny screen all the time, lost in another world.

I hate having to do it as well, but I’m so addicted now and it feels counterproductive to fight it.

Not sure what the best alternative looks like. Wearable? Nothing? Go back to pre-phone days? What about all the conveniences?

What are your thoughts on this?

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I have hundreds of burner emails used for various services throughout the years in order to not link my identity across them. Have lost access to most. It is a massive pain and mental burden.

Few appreciate how great it is that we use nostr without attaching an email or phone number to our accounts.

Oranged Pilled my Accountant 😎

Now he wants to get paid in #Bitcoin

Some of my easy #Nostr hacks 👨‍💻

- set-up your profile bio, including a profile pic, bitcoin lightning address and a NIP05 identifier

- keep your bio short, clean and informative

- follow +1000 accounts

- use more than one client, enhance your experience

- manage your relays, learn the basics, it's easy

- stop lurking! post into the void, eventually they will find you, you know something others would love to learn about

- make your notes esthetically pleasant, check spelling lol

- use hashtags, don't overuse them

- boost/repost! notes you enjoy, we are the algorithm here

- engage with other users: like, zap, comment, it helps others finding you

- if you can afford it, zap nostr relays and developers of freedom tools

- be nice, chill, pura vida 🤙

Can't wait to read your notes! 🫂

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#grownostr #asknostr

nostr ecosystem has still a long way to go for people to get onbard, tldr ux is bad.

1/ learning about is painful. there’s plenty of doc, but it’s very dev oriented, so boring for the pleb.

2/ “create an account” is stressful, first you need to understand the concepts of pub/priv keys because now to signin on your social all you need is a key, no more email+pw. counter-intuitively this sounds more like some sketchy stuff rather than the security & privacy shield it’s supposed to provide.

3/ find a client, and boy it’s hard. there’s plenty of them out there, if you wanna stick to one it’s tough to find the right client that works for you. after some experimentation i came to the conclusion that primal is the least worse.

4/ relays are really bad from a user perspective. it means having to do your homework on what relays do, how they talks to what clients and when do they sync with each other in order to maximize your chances of getting ALL of the nostr network, in real time. this is for me the biggest hurdle in nostr.

4/ I’ve been on nostr for 24h and I still have a hard time understanding how this all works. you can’t refresh your feed like you would on web2, which doesn’t give this sense of “fresh news delivered” that web2 provides. search is clunky, i can’t like posts on web and i can’t follow people on android so it’s pretty much buggy, and so on.

no way my muggle siblings are doing all that. we’re far from mass adoption, but as long as we keep building on top we’ll eventually be able to offer the comfort of use people or used to, and therefore expecting from a social network.