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I’m gonna be on stage at the conference sort of representing nostr users. I have my own thoughts, but as an average nostr user what’s important to you about nostr? What do you get out of being here? What keeps you coming back?

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I think the best things I get out of using at this point relatively buggy, slow, user-hostile ecosystem like Nostr are: 1) Feeling of freedom. Not walking on eggshells and being afraid of shadow-bans or deplatforming. 2) Feeling I am on fertile ground which is already producing a lot of growth, not just platform owned by one team and dependent on right and wrong decisions of aforementioned team (like Facebook, X and other old school corporate social platforms). When I use Nostr, I feel like I'm following the wisdom of «skating to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been».
Not feeling like a closed-source algorithm is attempting to influence my thoughts is definitely nice. I enjoy the ability to transition between clients while maintaining my follow and follower list, regardless of the type of user experience I prefer (e.g., Amethyst). The ability to send real money to anyone who has a lightning address, without knowing who they are, their location, or asking anyone for permission, is amazing. Nostr is amazing, and I can't wait to see what its future brings.
Nostr brings out the best in people. I’ve noticed a considerable change in your tone and toxicity. Could be fatherhood, but it’s a trend I’ve noticed with most users here. Anytime I check Reddit or Twitter, I am reminded that doom scrolling is not helpful to society.
The near complete lack of algorithm forces you to add and remove people from your social sphere actively. Putting full responsibility of managing the info you consume in your own hands. If I see shit on nostr that I would prefer not to, well that is on me, gotta make better choices of which voices I listen to in future.
Contingency and redundancy of a % of my online Bitcoin connections if/when they tighten the vise-grip on Twitter and other social media sites… The knowledge/hive mind network of Bitcoin users online is a huge positive for the Bitcoin network… I want to stay tapped into and engaged with that
The community. It's a pandora's box, but if you dig a little, there's so much open and welcoming plebs all helping each other. The tech. It's the first of its kind in this age. Permisionless, uncensorable social media. Zaps. Cmon, how cool is that.
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I enjoy the users. Nostr reminds me of the early days of Bitcoin. People building freedom things without permission. Also I got very tired of other social medias and covid censorship/election censorship was the final straw. Remaining addiction is twitter and I hope Nostr is a healthier version of that. The tools around nostr keys need to improve because the insecure apps and attacks are coming when this gets bigger. The potential of Nostr is huge and way beyond the scope of social media which is exciting. Enjoy the conference. Be sure to wear a suit if you want to fit in!
I'm only here for the Zaps and the ownership of your identity - no email, no password. That's pretty much it. Nothing groundbreaking when it comes to Privacy with Nostr, really. I mean, still gotta use Tor or some VPN. Similar to 'mega instances' in the Fediverse, 3-4 Mega Relays control the network - at least that's how it stands at the moment. >Relays have all your data in raw text. They know your IP, your name, your location (guessed from IP), your pub key, all your contacts, and other relays, and can read every action you do (post, like, boost, quote, report, etc) with the exception of Private Zaps and Private DMs Source:
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GitHub - AnthonyRonning/onyx: A censorship resistant Nostr client for Android
A censorship resistant Nostr client for Android. Contribute to AnthonyRonning/onyx development by creating an account on GitHub.
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