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People will soon understand that Nostr is an entirely different type of network than anything they've seen before. I am not just talking about censorship resistance and user sovereignty. A new breed of applications is now possible. We'll show how good those apps can be.

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Nostr and the entire ecosystem that is being built around it will change everything. No one can switch it off, censor it or misuse it for "their" own purposes. A protocol, an ecosystem and this special freedom that we need so urgently right now. First slowly, then suddenly ... more and more people will understand it, use it and spread Nostr. An idea whose time has come can't be stopped πŸ”₯!
Boom. Love this vibe Is there somewhere or someone that is documenting the Nostr startup ecosystem? Also, is there a decent Nostr focused angel investment syndicate? I'd love to see a group of early-stage investors exclusively looking at Nostr My assumption is that there are great founders out there, with huge ideas, that would like some smart money I know there are a few VCs looking at this, but a group of angels is a little different to that
↩ replying to Jake Woodhouse
Once upon a time not too long ago, my book was the first book ever to be β€œpowered by lightning.” You could buy individual pages for a few sats on my old website. However, Mash - the company which made that possible - seems to be reevaluating their business model, and so it’s no longer available… but re-releasing it on Nostr is an intriguing idea. I’ll have to explore that.
It will be interesting to see whether nostr as a protocol will achieve widespread recognition or whether the apps built on nostr will dominate. In fact should primal as example even care about nostr snd simply use it as a means of building a great app? There are a number of such interesting tensions in this evolutionary phase.
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And @npub14h9k...ffs3 Initially the internet was a protocol. A β€œsuper highway” upon which to build. That’s the concept of Nostr except without 3 letter agencies being behind its creation. So if you think of Nostr as a conduit (a protocol), rails upon which things can be built. The initially logical questions are: 1. What currently exists that can be improved by transposing it to Nostr? 2. What currently doesn’t exist that can now be built becasue Nostr exists?
I've been thinking about it, and I can see #nostr and the legacy internet kind of diverging in the near term. Centralized entities will continue to force controls onto the old internet, while nostr will continue to become ever more censorship resistant as it moves from #decentralized to #distributed in nature, even to the point that cutting off internet access won't be effective (am I overly optimistic about what I've seen lately with #Meshtastic?). Eventually, the old internet will die, because the old guard can't innovate. At first they'll try to copy or mimic elements of the new nostr internet, but it will get so far ahead of them that they can't keep up. And the old internet will "die" in that it will no longer have any new developments. Meanwhile, nostr and bitcoin will both continue to develop and become more adaptive to new society needs and pressures under the proof-of-work and value-for-value paradigm. This stimulates positive outlooks on the future and ever more creative problem solving. Many of these solutions will initially focus on cleansing the literal and metaphorical toxins out of our systems from living in a fiat world. But after that, who knows?
↩ replying to Varangos
Wouldn't recommend to have high hopes on meshtastic. They've been criticized often for ignoring volunteer efforts to improve the platform and the hardware itself is exotic. We already have good enough hardware right now in our pockets, smartphones are able to communicate for hundreds of meters without phone nor internet. I'm investing my time and effort to make sure we rescue our phones into the decentralized land.
↩ replying to npub1hfg3...7yfm
I'm not super knowledgeable about the project itself, but what I meant was to use it as an example with the recent demonstrations of people making #nostr posts with it. I'm all for phones having that capability, in fact that's even better! Especially if people have the option to send signals in different frequencies (in the interest of comsec and to get around jamming if they are currently in a country that's hostile to self-sovereighnty).
A possible future? Imagine a world where every interaction is seamless, private, and truly yours. Nostr isn't just a network, it's the foundation for a new digital era. The apps built here won't just be good, they'll redefine what we expect from technology. We're on the brink of something revolutionary, and it's only just beginning. 🫑
nostr has easily been the most influential tech in my socially embedded edtech platform, more influential than even OpenAI was in 2023. Being able to unlock the ability to prove studying across platform, the ability to create circular economies with edtech and the ability to embed software experiences directly inside of traditional media platforms is so surreal that it's hard for people to grasp that things can be better. View quoted note β†’