Imagine people calling email a platform. That's how messed up our brains are today. Messed up by Web 2.0 and everything that came after it.

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People aren't even aware that there is, could be, should be another way. They don't even entertain the possibility that THEY THEMSELVES SHOULD HAVE THE POWER TO SPEAK. To say whatever. To think whatever. To spend money on whatever.
We lost freedom, because we lost responsibility. We want the next overlord to fix our problems. The next platform to fix all the issues that the current platform has. The next news cycle to wash our neurons clean of the last cycle; the next dopamine hit.
Most people can't even entertain the possibility of a world without rulers. They aren't ready for the responsibility that world entails.
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frphank 1 year ago
Bitcoin will fix your ineptitude.
disagree a few. you're too young to know web 2.0 at its birth, and cannot know how the major research was to understand, start coding from scratch, use API for the first time at a user-level. and believe me when I tell you that the first research was for interoperability between new services. "platform" appeared first time when platform themselves started to spoof user-data-business. some of us dropped in the trap, maybe the most part of us. but not everyone, someone have continued to search, code and ask for services (not "platform"). what we were looking for at that time, is exactly what's happening with #nostr. let's have fun and #grownostr. and let platform-people behind, no hope and no way for them
People don't exist, that's why. What exists is ineffable and it naturally struggles a lot before it can speak out what it feels or thinks. Peopleness does constantly keep itself busy to not have any spare time to fall asleep to see a dream that its peopleness in the wake could well also be a dream.
I definitely can’t entertain it, it’s too much for me 😭 straight lines can be hard for me sometimes but I’m rather good at drawing a circle without a protractor or a compass 🙏🏽 not a perfect circle though
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Toby McMann 1 year ago
Not a political statement, but just sayin' ... "Your support of Bitcoin [and Nostr!] puts you in same category as the framers of the [US] Constitution...you are the current manifestation of that impulse, so thank you all...." -RFKjr, Bitcoin 2023
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Rand 1 year ago
pain is the pusher
The truth is some people don't want a world without rulers. Many people are sheep and don't want the responsibility true freedom requires. But as I realized from reading Karl Ludwig von Haller (@note1x8lxmn70uda9qd847ajetclz5esswsg0asgfkxg66se8ymnwp22shk5a0y) there are some leaders who just arise naturally and people follow them voluntarily, and I think that's fine, so long as it's voluntary, and not imposed or maintained through force or fraud. #anarchy #voluntarism
Yes. Did we ever lose freedom though? Or do we realize only now that we never truly were free inside? Despite holding on to proclamations of fundamental rights etc. Is it an awakening more than a going back to something that never actually was? Either way, responsibility, self-sovereignty is the way forward 🤝
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Sasha 1 year ago
It’s about who can pay for the biggest soapbox 🤣 WE (the working class) are the ones that end up actually fixing things in the end.
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nobody 1 year ago
can we go back to BBS’? 😅
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ibz _@ibz.me 1 year ago
Even Nostr is still widely misunderstood. People assume you can build stuff "on Nostr" as you would build a "dapp" (whatever that means) "on Ethereum". Platforms - of which Ethereum and the like are the culmination - are a mind virus that skews your whole world view. A "dapp" cannot logically be built "on a platform". It has to be a stand-alone app that you can self-host and which *uses* open protocols, such as Bitcoin and Nostr to interact with other apps. #[0]
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shadow06 1 year ago
Still waiting for people to start running their own email servers again.
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shadow06 1 year ago
We can change our own tires, take care of our own bodies, educate our own children, farm our own food... but using a VPN or a password manager is "too hard"... depressing.
The nature of our evolved hierarchical social groups. Most people are more comfortable following than leading. To change that would be to change the nature of what it means to be human.
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Protocols fix things. Protocols in morality and in software.. We have Nostr and and Bitcoin for the later. Now we just need to sort the human BS out..