Society when everything runs on zaps

Left for a few hours and came back to find #babechain…

Hard to overstate how revolutionary this is: You can literally now monetize your thoughts, in almost real time 1) Have thought 2) Post to nostr 3) Receive zaps, seconds later

One thing I’m excited to see evolve is relay differentiation It’s inevitable different relays will permit different content This will allow for a free market of relay stack customization, and vastly different feed experiences (that are truly chosen and not foisted on you by a black box algo) And because you can see anyone else’s feed with their npub, this means you can see the world through anyone’s eyes See the feed of your most hated political enemy, or a celebrity you idolize, or an estranged sibling. This can help break the wheel of algo-driven polarization. Way easier to reach echo-chamber escape velocity

Current reading reveal

Who would have thought the Surveillance State would be so cringe

#[0] info

@zapper info

I think American patriotism can be revived by radical technological progress and an expansion into free and open digital frontiers

Came for the notes, stayed for the other stuff

disobey.exe

Testing wallets

Zapping, posting, scrolling

One of the beautiful parts of pre-platform internet was the thrill of the hunt, and payoff, of finding deep-buried files, obscure esoteric texts, and just generally weird Easter eggs everywhere Wandering into some super niche forum, and digging into some sub-niche of that, and stumbling into a years-long bitter flame war between two insane brilliant pseudonymous subject matter experts One time when I was like thirteen I downloaded a bootleg remix of a Biggie Smalls track on Kazaa, lost it, and was NEVER able to find it again I miss that internet

Idea: Wikipedia but on nostr/lightning Editors put skin in the game by posting a fee upfront, but are rewarded with zaps

Nostr predicted in The Sovereign Individual?

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