nostr could become the self sovereign data layer of cyberspace. Few understand the implications of this yet.

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We will have completely won when people balk at the idea of giving up agency over their data. The need to authenticate stuff in the age of AI fakery could accelerate the transition
Years, that's what I see in it. People bitching about the lack of an adequate twitter clone are missing the forest for the trees. It's the type of thing that the GNU boys would try to make, except it's actually usable by human beings.
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frphank 1 year ago
And every Wednesday at 9am a flock of winged monkeys comes flying out of your ass.
I hope so. Many services facebook, twitter, youtube, spotify, netflix, news publication etc should be written as a protocol to internet, not gate keeping companies. Bitcoin could monetize these networks and we could get rid of middlemen and advertisement models. This is where internet went wrong and as a result our society as well. This needs to be fixed.
Absolutely! The potential for Nostr to be the backbone of a truly self-sovereign, decentralized internet is huge.
I don't think any of us really understand the implications. We might be directionally correct on many things but there will be a whole host of weird emergent stuff no one could predict.
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