Twitter, basically a central service, that lets people post short texts and some multimedia, threatening to sue another service, that does the same, is one of the most ironic and funny news today.
nostr:note1q59uejvrnmk73z4mfsccf6pc6g6l72sfvhhhncq2qqc2ctnzxkmqafet6q
"iNtElLeCtUaL pRoPeRtY rIgHtS" 😂
Fiat social media be like
The nostr community, or the inner circle, or whatever you want to call it, which makes up the majority in the trends and in these early days, should be very careful not to degenerate into a kind of sect. A hypocritical sect that on the one hand blathers on about "freedom", but on the other hand excludes people who don't follow the sect's rules, or attacks them as a mob.
In fact, the first signs are already there. Mono-culture, mantra-like parroting of always the same slogans, sensitive counter-reactions in case of violation of the mob's unwritten rules ... The strongest indicator of a community's health is how it handles criticism from within its own ranks. The more allergic it reacts to it, the more sectarian the community becomes.
Mastodon has gone through the same social evolution. At first, they all cheered something about "freedom". Today it is a leftist platform that blocks and cancels people faster than Twitter ever has. It has no central emperor (like Twitter), but it has several barons who ideologically defend their castles, unaware of the extent to which they have turned each other up into a monoculture. A federation of hypocritical ideological strongholds.
And although nostr has a few remarkable technical advantages with respect to control and ownership, the mass psychological dynamics are the same as on Mastodon right now. Even more than on Twitter, which at least is big enough to accommodate multiple bubbles.
Touched a nerve, huh
Nostriches keep saying that "nostr is hope", "nostr is freedom tech" ...
Nahh, they're just suffering social media brainwash.
It's the plain old internet with its basic protocols we have since 1993 that offered and still offers real freedom. We've had web servers and HTML editor integrated in the first browsers from the beginning (Mosaic, Netscape Navigator), we always had (S)FTP or SSH for file transfers, WE HAD BLOGS (with Trackbacks, Pingbacks and commenting), we had blog aggregators and trend services to discover good places, nntp and email was around since the first days.
You were all just too comfortable to let yourselves be incarcerated in gated fiat communities. And now that nostr's UIs just look like these timeline-based fiat networks, you are so used to (but are substantially different in terms of ownership and control, I know), you start dreaming of "internet freedom"?
Pathetic.
Toothbrush & Toothpaste => Fiat dental hygiene
According to the Hodl Model, after the 3rd halving Bitcoin is getting more scarce (Minute 37:39)
Theoretically true, but how can a people replace a system with a better one if the ethical basis for this is not given.
$1,000,000 in 51 days! https://usd.rip 😃
Bitcoin maxi here.
We call things by their name. If somebody acts as if it's something great or ok to buy/sell (in public space), then don't be suprized when someone objects.
German wokies now calling overweight people "multi-weight people", bc that doesn't sound so judgemental. 🤡
Soft-orange-pilled an outlet store which I found by chance. They were selling all kinds of streetwear stuff of known brands. Asked them if they accepted Lightning payments.
Their reaction: "Lightning? What is that?"
Explained it shortly but they couldn't even understand the crypto/Bitcoin part. I left without buying anything. I was ready to drop some serious Sats though, if they accepted it.
Felt like asking for an email address in 1995.
Right, that too. It's more inclusive.
People are still linking to 20-minute YT videos of content, I could have read in 1-3 minutes. Ain't nobody got time for this. Videos are not always the right medium.
Internet is still text-based. Text. Only do podcasts or videos for content where a text is insufficient.