🐝 What's the buzz?

I like the "revealing the map" metaphor. I wonder if the map shouldn't primarily be people, communities or profiles, but conversations. Those are what we eventually come back for.

🐝 What's the buzz?

🪑 Save my seat

Swedenborg, the 18th-century Swedish mystic, had an unusual idea about Judgment Day. People aren't sent to heaven or hell. They gradually drift toward the communities that match what they truly loved. Judgment isn't a sentence. It is a revelation. Online communities work the same way. People don't migrate to platforms. They gravitate toward conversations that match what they truly love. Platforms don't attract communities. Conversations do. 🐝 What's the buzz? #Nostr #OpenSource #SocialMedia #UX #swedenborg

Which would make you more uncomfortable? A government deciding who gets money. A market deciding who gets money. Or nobody deciding?

#PeggedSaga #BetaReaders #Writing #Novel

What's the buzz?

If civilization is an ongoing conversation, should our digital infrastructure be optimized for posts, feeds, algorithms—or for the continuation and discovery of conversation?

A challenge to #Nostr developers. Before building the next social media client, revisit IRC, Usenet, AOL chat rooms and forums. They weren't organized around feeds. They were organized around conversations. Which problems disappeared... and which did we simply stop trying to solve? @fiatjaf @jb55 @Vitor Pamplona @npub13v8w...zw6t @npub13v8w...zw6t @0xtr

Nobody joins a note. Everybody joins a conversation.

A challenge to #Nostr. People don't migrate to platforms. They migrate to conversations. The challenge isn't to convince the world to join Nostr. The challenge is to make Nostr the place where the conversations worth having take place. Everything else follows. Post accordingly.

#Bitcoin taught us to think differently about ownership. Nostr is doing the same for speech. But I wonder whether #ownership is the deepest concept. #Speech isn't simply something we own. It is something we author together, within conversations. The interesting question may not be who owns speech. It may be how #authorship survives when platforms disappear.

What happens when money begins to govern politics rather than politics governing money?

Pegged: The Lifecycle of a Radical Idea

Pegocracy

This new scene continues the story of a radical idea and the people willing to risk everything for it. Feedback and beta readers are warmly welcome...

#peggedsaga #lottery #literature #thriller #suspense #novel #money #writing #stablecoin

Did anyone ever make a rigorous ##nostr user profile study? It would also be useful to know what arguments to stress for different potential user categories. #asknostr

The block size war illustrates the continuity trap: #Bitcoin accepted visible costs because the consequences of changing the protocol were more uncertain than the consequences of leaving it unchanged.