The wind does not worry about where it will blow next.
It simply moves the leaves, brushes against faces, changes direction.
Maybe we too could learn to be like that:
present, without the need for a map.
I leave this thought here, on Nostr.
For those who will find it, for those who will let it go.
Free.
The "freedom" of Nostr - the one sold as absence of censorship, as transparent Web of Trust, as meritocracy of zaps - has turned out to be what it is: a distorted illusion, well packaged, with a lot of early adopters ready to make you feel part of the club as long as you serve, and to let you fall when you are no longer useful.
The WOT on Nostr did not fail because it was attacked, but because it never took off as a solid infrastructure: it remained a vague concept, poorly implemented and in a fragmented way, which creates more problems (isolation, loss of followers, inconsistent experiences) than it solves.
The "client hopping" syndrome on Nostr is now a classic: you wake up in the morning and find that three new clients popped up while you were sleeping. It's like mushrooms after the rain, but in a tech version. 🍄
Maybe it's time to stop saying "the future is decentralised" and admit that a future that no one uses is just an experiment.
🤔 I'd like to understand why wss://relay.nostr.band is always offline to me and I can't connect in any way.
#asknostr
If the problem is WOT, no WOT-based tool can solve it.
Someone in the ecosystem has:
· Interest in experimenting with automated payments
· Technical skills to implement them
· Vision of an ecosystem where "SATS flow like information"
🤡 ¡Ayúdame! ¡Abre Hormuz!
Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) precede spring!
In the Nostr ecosystem, bots not only have configured a Lightning address, but are often designed just to use it. The Lightning address metric is a proxy of 'technical integration', not of 'humanity'.
· Incompetence → no, conscious choices
· Failure → yes, but not accidental
· Hegemony/control → exactly, with maximum yield in sats for those inside
Nostr, born to be "simply a protocol" without governance, has created an implicit governance that is more opaque than the explicit one. Who controls the repositories, who decides the merges of the NIPs, who receives the OpenSats funds, who manages the central relays: this is the real power structure.
Silence, invisibility is not a bug, it is the natural consequence of a system that has reproduced the same class dynamics that it promised to abolish.
No Nostr, a lição de Marco Aurélio é clara: o barulho dos relays não pode afetar nossa paz de espírito se aprendermos a distinguir o que depende de nós (nossas palavras, nossas escolhas) do que não depende (polêmicas, spam, bloqueios). Publique com virtude, ignore o caos.
What exists today in nostr protocol are not niches, they are sub-bubbles of the main bubble. They are:
· The maximalist bitcoin bubble.
· The developer bubble.
· The libertarian bubble.
· The bubble of "against X".
· The bubble of...
But they are all bubbles that speak the same language and share the same 1000 users who follow each other. There is no real separation of context. A user who enters to talk about a topic that is passionate about, of his interest... immediately clashes with a post on Lightning Network, NOSTR, Bitcoin or on a new NIP… The context is polluted.
Lower expectations, optimise resources, keep one foot out.
You can't change the system. You can decide how much time and energy to devote to it.
Olà 🫧☕️🔆
I'm eating chips and I think the taste of those with paprika is different from when I was little. Maybe the recipe has changed or maybe my tastes have changed. Who knows if my taste buds get older like the rest. Yesterday I dreamed that I was talking to a person I haven't seen for years and in the dream everything was normal. Then I woke up and felt strange. Oh well, it's so boring it's raining. Thank goodness there's internet.
When the reins were tightened
Trump stands at the forefront, creating a facade that appears decisive, but the harsh reins encircle his will. He speaks with the voice of sovereignty, while his steps are dictated from behind the curtain where directions are formulated and the chains are tightened, so the leader becomes a facade that moves where the reins pull.
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