I believe one of the main cause for unhappiness is thinking the "magic pill" actually exists. Imagining life simply as "If this ONE thing happens, then all my problems will go away." But there is no magic pill, and that ONE thing eventually happening will either fix one of your problem for a very long time, or make all your problems go away for a very short time ; not both. Just as piling enough small bricks together creates a big house, taking enough small decisions leading to 0.1% improvements eventually makes you ending up where you want to be.

“I won’t use #Bitcoin because the government will ban it.” “I won’t use #nostr because the government will ban the clients.”

There must have been cavemen whom were afraid of fire and argued with other cavemen that fire was unnatural and should not be used to cook food or warm oneself become it was dangerous and could kill them. Thankfully, smarted cavemen prevailed as we made it until today, and I hope our smarter cavemen species will still prevail about using oil and nuclear to keep improving humanity.

Bleeding the sheep, one drop at a time.

DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞

Be the content you want to see

[nostr note by Mysth]

The recurring theme in the replies is “The content is here, you just have to put in the work and actually dig for it.” I mean, if you ask users what issues they have with nostr, and the answer to these issues is “try harder”, that’s totally fine, but it’ll very hard to reach any kind of mass adoption this way. (And still, outside of Bitcoin and a couple of hashtags, even if you dig the content is still very shallow compared to what we can find elsewhere.) It’s not a blame on anybody, just my 2 sats after using nostr for about 1.5 year. That is also what’s part of the magic of nostr : a tight knit community where interactions are still mostly warm and friendly… just like most of the medium/places that just got created and haven’t taken off, yet. You can keep nostr hardcore, and try to hold onto this cozy feeling for as long as possible… and that’s fine, but then don’t try to improve it too much … Because if nostr starts to get too good, it might get mass adopted, and nostr will start resembling any other cesspool that the big social networks have become. (All about engagement farming through manipulating people emotions, mostly through bad feelings) Personally, I’d love to have all the content I can read on twitter and elsewhere on nostr, and be able to find it easily… Ideally, being able to read and interact with other network from my favorite nostr clients would be ideal.

Written in 1997.

I’ve spent two weeks with my family in El Salvador 🇸🇻 and wrote a long article about it. I wish a could have written it directly on nostr but I it’s still too much hassle to embed pictures and write proper posts compared to Twitter, so I’ll just lazily post the link. https://x.com/mysthls/status/1828831912565100872 Nonetheless I’ll be happy to discuss it here with anybody that would like to know more about going to El Salvador. 🇸🇻

Is there any easy way to publish blog posts articles on nostr and easily insert pictures in between paragraphs without making several posts ? #asknostr #nostr