My experience with Nostr is similar to my experience with Bitcoin in Brazil: an inner circle using the excuse of bootstrapping and scaling a technology essential for humanity, while in reality, they just run in circles kissing each other’s butts.

I just found out that Elias Antonio Lopes, a slave trader, was one of the wealthiest people in Brazil, even wealthier than the imperial family. He donated the Quinta da Boa Vista estate to the Portuguese royal family when they fled the Napoleonic Wars to Brazil. When money speaks, no one checks the grammar—especially when it comes to trading human labor.

They need good developers for THEIR Bitcoin and these dudes don't care if the devs they're hiring are literally raping Brazilian women who try to approach their technical environments. This has never been about bringing more Bitcoin adoption and social development to Brazil.

Can someone explain what type of sorcery this is? 222222222

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No one is talking about Google Takeout enough.

Pacifica—CA. That place has an aura all its own.

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The ups and downs of Bitcoin make me feel much more connected to the global economy than the fictitious fiat value in my bank account.

Brazil's Minister of Human Rights is out, accused of sexual harassment. While the accused claims innocence, this scandal highlights the pervasive culture of misogyny and rape culture in Brazilian politics and decision-making.

I want to know who has my private keys and what are you doing with it.

Fixing the problems of the world with my projects.

Also, I would love to be guided toward very didactic documentation on which type of control a keyholder (client) has. Everything feels sketchy, shady, and weird, like those Bitcoinheiros communities in Brazil that make fun of women and don't let us ever know the truth.

Client manipulation on Nostr is infantile. It pushes us to follow the same (great) voices repeatedly, but that is a major point of failure and a loss of privacy and peace for the posters. Privacy also includes the right not to be importuned. Or do these people gain greatly from it financially? I don't think so at all. I thoroughly believe in the best intentions of everyone here.

Speech censorship is terrible, and it will worsen over time. But what is happening in Brazil is nuanced. We have a thousand other ways to connect with the outside world, and one of them does not pass through the algorithmic king who manipulates humanity's willpower and attention at his whim—nurturing hate groups and driving humanity to a complete divide. Let that sink in.