I tried to use Reddit 3 times today and got censored every. single. time.

1. Submitted my buttcoin.me site to /r/Bitcoin and it told me my submission was removed by moderators with no specific reason given.

2. Tried to comment on the /r/buttcoin thread about my project but I was banned there a decade ago. Created a new account and commented but it got shadowbanned.

3. Tried to converse with an /r/buttcoin moderator who was posting typical buttcoiner trash on /r/ethereum only to find out entire thread got removed.

Reddit is such a waste of time.

I've watched it and it's obvious that you intended to be provocative and I think you managed, without going over the top. Content-wise, the Marxist analysis is completely wrong, as it's been proven time and time again through history, that much is true. That said, I would never censor your talk for being provocative and wrong.

Let me add though that I would also be OK with a talk titled "Satoshi was a true Aryan National-socialist warrior" that tried to sell to the audience how Bitcoin is about bringing down the Global Jew, or some other such complete nonsense.

Yeah, that's where my bar is as far as free speech is concerned. Well, my point is that I don't think I have one, I'm a free speech absolutist.

Going back to your specific case, it's likely that being in a Baltic country, the organizers have a much lower tolerance threshold towards (perceived?) pro-communist speech.

Again, if I put myself in their Baltic victim of communism shoes, I would still not censor your talk, but I would probably have had a counter-talk immediately after, even if I had to improvise it, or I would have asked you to not give the talk and invited you to a debate instead.

Silly and wrong views should not be suppressed but exposed and countered in public with arguments.

nostr needs to stop shoving bitcoin down everyones throats and just make it another subtle and useful tool in the nostr toolbox. People should feel comfortable coming to a nostr conference without being a bitcoin maxi. nostr:note1u3w3dwy57p88ecgrkgr0ujacag0jnmctltunxw0p96heu2veh8jqh9m3vw

speed is the most important feature.

being able to send a note/post via text, have it fully render, and instantly load when someone clicks on it, is one of the biggest things that will help build network effect.

communities, such as ditto, and giving people the option to make them private and encrypted, is a net new feature not found on any other platform that will draw people to the nostr social app protocol, and be the best onboarding and discovery tool out there. people care a lot more about privacy than censorship-resistance.

getting as much content and information on here, welcoming of the bots and agentic AI, will allow this protocol to be the only one that can definitively state: "see everything." especially since no individual/corporation/government can delete your content or account.

this is what i would prioritize. the past two years of nostr has been about exploring the breadth of the protocol. great! it's now time to go deep and focus on quality and differentiated experiences. not copies of copies.

What's goin on with this ? 🤔 I love telegram. Someone educate me.

speed is the most important feature.

being able to send a note/post via text, have it fully render, and instantly load when someone clicks on it, is one of the biggest things that will help build network effect.

communities, such as ditto, and giving people the option to make them private and encrypted, is a net new feature not found on any other platform that will draw people to the nostr social app protocol, and be the best onboarding and discovery tool out there. people care a lot more about privacy than censorship-resistance.

getting as much content and information on here, welcoming of the bots and agentic AI, will allow this protocol to be the only one that can definitively state: "see everything." especially since no individual/corporation/government can delete your content or account.

this is what i would prioritize. the past two years of nostr has been about exploring the breadth of the protocol. great! it's now time to go deep and focus on quality and differentiated experiences. not copies of copies.

escape from the #eulag has begun

Mental illness

The people of the EU must produce and stack guns to be ready to go to war against their government. Fuck France. Fuck the EU. nostr:note1lyr5h8vvtep08cnx2nc9866gzehgc6egx8gmguxf5stp64mhwgnq58nd6t

-Treat the arrest of the Telegram CEO as an emergency.

-Advocate for his freedom and for all freedom tech providers.

-Support and build things that function without a CEO, like some aspects of Nostr. When authoritarian Europe or the US arrests you, be able to say, “I literally can’t control it, it’s already out there, and we are legion.”

-Tell me and others, as capital providers, how to accelerate this.

Nostr should be tested by spreading some real crimes here. Curious to see what would happen. Like selling hitman services, fentanyl, plastic homemade guns in Germany, coordinating mass unrests in some sensitive asian places or UK, etc. To really piss some governments of.