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Immunity from corporate and state overlords to control narratives, speech, and destroy my privacy with KYC requirements.

that some technical illiterate dude like you can upload a 4.1 mb animated gif as a profile pic. pure awesomeness!

The zaps: I fucking love the zaps. Literally get to shitpost memes I find funny and people fling sats at me. It would be like if I was telling jokes on the corner and people would toss me quarters. It is the digital version of that

You can't ban me.

I feel free. There is nobody that can censor my speech or my monetary transactions. Nostr is a fresh breath in an otherwise orwellian world of social media. Also, as a developer, nostr makes it easy to help build tools to fight tyranny.

Ops can’t delete tweets and gaslight their Ls

Came for the censorship resistance, stayed for the people who came for the censorship resistance.

You have to organize your own Nostr. Most underrated feature and the fact that you own everything for all time.

Nostr is incredibly revealing. People who claim they want transparency and free speech yet cling to closed centralized platforms, WE SEE YOU.

I really enjoy the vibe here, and I don't feel like I'm being manipulated by a corporate algorithm. But the main thing is that I want to be contributing to a system that I believe in. Decentralized networking FTW 💜

I'm a COMPLETE newbie -- just managed to get signed up today. So I don't fully know yet. But what brought me here was the value of something platform/app-independent, and of owning my own content.

Being connected with some grounded and rational people. Corporate networks foster hysterical and irrational people.

#nostr feels like ye olde internet.

Mainly looking for my tribe, but also the level of independent commentary is really great 👍

People are more genuine when not algomanipulated

To change the whole Internet experience for the better again. Start a google search zu find any AI Software... It got so bad. You end up finding a million subscriptions for shit Software. but the one amazing free Software ist hidden.

@Noshole keeps me coming back along with my fights with my frens about crocs, which are still horrible btw. I also like to sh*t disturb 😇

Zaps man. The possibility of your input being actually valued by other humans is amazing. Similarly showing that appreciation back is wonderful ⚡️

Gigi, Lyn and Hodl

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».

After joining Nostr, I just followed a bunch of accounts like nobody's business. Cause I felt like it. No twitter jail, no "re-verify your account", no captcha hell.

Nostr's all about radical free speech, decentralization, and owning your data—no Big Brother watching. That's why we keep coming back.

the smell of freedom

Pure value for value potential with no bullshit in between

The Likes obviously!

The best part of #Nostr is that unlike #Clubhouse and #X Spaces, I don't get "You Dumb B*tch" yelled every 5 seconds and people screaming incomplete sentences at each other constantly. I don't know how people are able to tolerate mainstream social media anymore. View quoted note → cc: @HODL you know what I mean ;)

No algo is important to me. I think algos distort reality

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.

People I follow can't get banned I can't get banned No posts can be censored There is no algorithm that tries to outrage me so I stay longer on the app

permission less digital reach

Feels human vs that satanic ai nuclear testing site

Lack of algos, ownership, and a great BTC echo chamber.

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.

You! ❤️

#nostr feels fresh because it’s a baby. How long will it last? I post distilled thoughts that I matured on TwitteX, as if TwitteX was the database and the incubator of my thoughts.

No algorithms and censorship free.

nostr is the cure for nihilism

The irreverance

The vibe is just different feels like you can be yourself more. Doesn’t feel like a popularity contest

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.

Pure, CHOSEN, Signal… no noise, no ads… just genuine interest and connections

Any live broadcasting?

zaps, freedom,npubs cross platform, chronological, no data theft, no ownership of other's content by proprietary terms, open source, decentralized, fun, no better solution...

If Hodl is gonna be representing nostr we're fucked

I like that I can say whatever I want and I can’t get booted. Btc is “fuck you money” nostr is “fuck you vommunication”. Not for the snowflakes tho. Also it’s nice you have your own key and can’t get hacked easily

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

Being able to say NIGGER

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transferable identity; can log in and read only view for any npub, so you can view their "algorithm". no banning, no blocking.

I like being able to talk about our Zionist Occupied Government without worrying about being killed and censored by Jews.

It’s hard to explain how happy I am on this app compared to any other social media or classic media consumption.

Content not tied to a domain/service and uncensorable. Being unruggable, like with bitcoin in cold storage.

Bitcoin lets you to own your wealth, Nostr lets you to own your mind. Bitcoin+ Nostr =freedom

No ads (cannot be overstated), censorship resistant, FOSS, unstoppable protocols and the awesome developers

MAINLY PENIS

Having the freedom to call @jack a nigger faggot and knowing he’s completely powerless to censor me.

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.

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!

developers developers developers <chant>

the reason I'm coming back is because I know I can never be banned and because I want to see this ecosystem grow

I like zapping and getting zapped and #Apple should let Damus turn it back on again! Now using a workaround of zapplepay.com No censorship Memes & Signal

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:

GitHub

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.

For me it’s mostly for staying up to date on the development of nostr and all the freedom tech. It’s moving so fast and it gives me hope for the future! 🌅

whenever someone complains about Twitter on Twitter I come here, "waah they removed the Bitcoin hashtag, waah"