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I only know about you because of Nostr. From what I gather, your topics are BTC and "being true to yourself" (which includes limiting your time with toxic opposition). So, this is what AU is afraid of? Promoting standing up for one's self, and their future is harmful to children? Or are they opposed to women with a voice? If so, it seems like someone from semi-popular media could have a field day with this story.
Words cannot express how mad this makes me. The sooner daily/weekly/monthly users quit using centralized systems, the sooner they will starve. It only takes a few quarters of non-growth for their stock to plummet.
Efrat Fenigson's avatar Efrat Fenigson
Substack has locked me out of my blog due to 🇦🇺 Australia's “Online Safety Act”. Tune in for the full story! 
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Not surprising, yet disheartening to see it become hard reality. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼 Being loud about it is one way. Bringing people to Nostr another. Building/using BTC circular economy also. Living in a more free jurisdiction yet another (though you never know how long it'll last and the input costs are high). Sharing doable ways out, painting an understandable scenario of a possible future helps. I know that's what you're doing and I'm glad we're already here on Nostr. Anyway just wanted to share that describing tangible ways forward is key 🙏🏼🧡
From someone's perspective who's nostr only, it's unreal to watch 99.9% of the population willingly sticking to centralized platforms. The network effect and the herd mentality are probably to be blamed but I believe we will have to opt-out of their centralized gulags in order to be individually free.
I am wondering if we can create a substack alternative based on Nostr. Long form notes for the posts. Encrypted using MLS to restric access to paying users. Some sort of automation to add pub keys to the group when an account is zapped (Here smart contracts, which both #bitcoin and #Monero lack, can come in handy). When a post is shared ia regular messages is shared, mentioning the encrypted long format note and link to "subscribe" to the channel. Comments are regular messages on the unencrypted message so that the post gets amplified with engagement. @JeffG what do you say? Is this possible?
The Australian government I think was one of the worst during Covid, as in loose your job if you are not vaxxed, lockdowns and an app to show where you go ( like tag on and off) to „inform you when you have been near someone infected“ and to stop the spread. It is all about control so now this new law is another one of these control mechanisms. People know it, people see it, people demonstrate against it but the politicians do it anyway. I really love Australia but our government is shit.
The interesting part is why she is surprised that this is happening. Are we not learning? She uses someone else computer to publish here work. It implies zero control/centralizaton risk.
Efrat Fenigson's avatar Efrat Fenigson
Substack has locked me out of my blog due to 🇦🇺 Australia's “Online Safety Act”. Tune in for the full story! 
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One of the lamest things I've seen all day. Can't believe they are still imposing a lock on your account even after you left the country as a visitor. If you want to impose that on your citizens, that's another story (still not respectable, still not about the children, but save that for another day). Feel like they are breaching some ToS and overstepping. Hopefully they see and respond to your posts and hopefully you've sent an email to support, better than nothing while you patiently wait to get your account restored. Feel for your being locked out of part of your network and job. Godspeed🙏
A decentralized web will be essential in the future, and it’s probably not even all that far away with laws like these already in existence. I had heard about these laws recently on the Security Now podcast. Many people use VPNs to hide from their ISP, but maybe part of the solution is to use a VPN to your home so you always appear to be coming from there and not trigger stupid things like this. Of course, this cat and mouse game will only work so long. Thanks for letting us know.
Really recommend moving away from Substack. Running your own Ghost blog with subscribers and automatic email list of posts built in is one way. And you get to keep all the subscription money minus very very small VPS cost to run Ghost on.