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I don't know if this is an issue with Nostr over all or just Primal.net client that I'm using. I liked and reposted this Note earlier, but it does not show the green color on the repost button and the filled in heart icon in the feed. Only when I click on this above not does it show that I have already liked and reposted this note.
↩ replying to Gigi
It's even worse for the human psyche in general because it holds back higher human potential of the individual in favor of groupthink and self censoring to get that sweet sweet engagement. This actually destroys the individual and cuts them off from discovering higher potential. Look no further than tik tok or Instagram for examples of this. (I actually feel bad for the ice cream yum yum girls.)
↩ replying to npub10vgz...g9ar
From the perspective of the Borg, most cultures and people are already homoginized. These [insert] kill these other [insert] because of [insert] reasons. Its all quite boring. True Individuals, rise from that, like cream. Individuality is at the margins. This is true for any culture. Out of the mass trend come the next great artwork, the counter-culture to that, or the perfection of that drone , each becoming the height of that art. Infinite differences, infinite combinations. But some, most, are probably quite mid.
↩ replying to npub18m0s...5c5p
Good. Self selects the signal. A paywall by a closed protocol means info can censored, that needs to be out. An open protocol only needs one philanthropist to share that info, and break faith, in game theory terms. In other words, part of having an inteligent signal is recognizing it needs to be financially supported, those who support it finacially have inteligent things to say.
Pulled video from @mikebenzcyber on X. I think this is bigger than Elon and X. “This is a 40-minute lecture, Part 1 in what I'd like to be an ongoing series, Censorship Industry Decoded. This first video cut through the tricks & traps in WaPo's verbage. These tricks are stock for the industry & essential to understand.”
Interesting. I haven't used twitter in.... forever, and only recently logged back on after maybe a year or more, to ask a few exchange CEOs or exchange advisors what their / their company's stance would be on AB 39 (the California bitlicense). Would be nice if they were here (actually, some of them are but they are not that active here). Example being @npub1dc2n...u5hg who has an account here but who I think hasn't checked around Nostr in a while. I don't plan on logging back into twitter again. Might check it in another year or something but I don't spend time there anymore.
It's hard to ever really know the truth about things that I don't experientially know. Twitter has lead me to not believe anything when it comes to the narratives people sell. Perhaps people never should have and we wouldn't be where we are in the psyop game. image
I'd like to see a solid comparison of Jack Dorsey's Twitter vs. Elon's Twitter. My gut instinct is that the one controlled by feds where there was obvious and rampant state censorship and narrative shaping would have a higher "psyop" rating. All that being said, I obviously agree that Nostr is superior.
I stopped watching after you mentioned Bellingcat. Bellingcat is a synomym for CIA. Are they still supporting Nazis in Ukraine and ethnic cleansing by Israel in Gaza? I bet some of these accounts and content you listed have been created by you or guys like you, so you can “analyze” them yourself and create a false impression while at the same time distract from the truth and try to discredit anyone who does not agree with you.
I hated twitter, but, Twitter might lead to world peace. Its an instant empathy link. The way Bitcoin will/is keeping governments in check, just by virtue of existing as an alternative in a Market of Currencies. Nostr will keep X honest. But: Think about what Twitter has just done. It has held those who need to be held accountable, accountable. De-psyoped, two new psyops a day, aswell as an almost 50+ year culture wide psyop. Palestine has been genocided many times. But never in First Person point of view. It's a whole new "United Nations". The Internet Nation. Drop a solar powered battery, a star link, and a smart phone, and just try and get away with your fucking genocide, assholes. Drop a kit in the congo. Rape stopped. Drop one in voting sensitive areas. Instant encrypted , local voting verification. (I see possible implementations where i.d is not even needed. Just presence near and in range of a node) They will come down hard on Elon now. We know who. I see a middle path. The pivot of which is open sourced and libre hardware though. These past events have shown " the light coming through the wound" of microchip privacy.
The more free the network, the more susceptible it is to falsehood. Most have no recollection of a time when the mainstream viewed the totality of the Internet with suspicion. In the early/mid 90’s, it was extremely difficult to pass off online research as legitimate within academic circles because “anyone can say anything on the Internet.” In those days, if it couldn’t be corroborated by a print resource in the library, you didn’t bother. The skepticism was partly justified: outside of university-hosted Gopher servers, verifying sources was extremely difficult. We gleaned digital information with a raised eyebrow, and our “built-in bullshit detector” (as Hemingway described it) was always set to ten. It was the Wild West, a time where anything went, and it became even wilder after the invention of the Web Browser. The mainstreaming of the Internet brought with it “legitimate” information channels, and general attitudes regarding online information relaxed. For about 15 years (2000-2015), we lived in a mixed world where the establishment colonizers existed alongside we wild natives. And then those colonists attempted to take it all. Every pleb is familiar with this period, and this era is at least partially responsible for why you’re here. The move on centralized networks by political and corporate interests introduced an online tyranny I never thought possible, and with it, a new notion: everything you read on the Internet *has* be true. Of course, by this they simply meant vetted and approved as “true” by one of your self-appointed betters, who likely scoffs at the notion of absolute truth to begin with. I scare quote "disinformation" because the term evokes a slimy dishonesty in itself, signifying an attempt to control information rather than to safeguard truth. Twitter’s increased “disinformation” is a direct result of a more free platform. That Elon’s policies incentivize falsehood is immoral and stupid, pouring gas on the fire — but make no mistake here: my favorite con man of the last decade has loosened the reigns at Twitter significantly, and blatant falsehood is a byproduct. If, overnight, Nostr became Twitter, we’d have the same flood of disingenuous clowns tap dancing for sats, hurled at them by a population of applauding fools looking for confirmation bias. Nostr will not revolutionize the monetization of online identity, nor will it fix stupid. If you’re looking for a change in online social interaction, you won’t find it here either. Those who build on Nostr are akin to Prometheus stealing fire: as helpful as it is, one must accept that a lot of stuff is going to burn as a result. If we are truly committed to an open, uncontrollable protocol, then we must accept “disinformation” as one of the consequences. In fact, we must embrace it with a principled optimism, noting firmly that it is *not* the responsibility of the protocol to do a person’s thinking for them. That responsibility resides with the individual alone. So turn that bullshit detector back up to ten, and use the brain God gave you. The free exchange of ideas is worth it. View quoted note →