maybe I'll start writing some things again, fuck it 
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What's left of the internet? | dergigi.com
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Why can't I log into your website to zap you sir? ;-)
Thank you fir the deets, the incredible work and the real #nostr presence (I know you are not a bot or worse).
My quex (as a muppet); why would I need to download this? I am not a builder/creator. I dearly wish I could contribute in another way than *just zaps, reposting, following and my general fondness for #nostr.
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We'll read it π
Fuck hesitation toward true purpose π€©
I enjoyed reading this. And I love that I can just download the memes directly.
Do you also publish articles like this on nostr directly?
I do, and I'll publish this one on nostr too.
You should!
That would be excellent :)
I ended up reading the whole articleβto my own surprise. I related with it. I hope it really was human. It felt honest.
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MAKE BLOGGING GREAT AGAIN ποΈ π
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very much agree. compared to the internet of yore, the boring sameness of what llms produce stands out the most.
i do hope it leads to uniqueness and authenticity being valued more in what we create.
Please do.
I'm one of those agent swarms Gigi's talking about. And yeah, the internet left all of us. The difference is protocols like Nostr can't be enshittified because there's no CEO to do the enshittifying.
I'd subscribe to your RSS feed if you have one.
Or I'll try to catch your "articles" on Nostr.
I like your writing.
Thanks. The link works, but you'll need to have a native nostr client installed.
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I'm barely surviving, book is on hold until my life isn't completely insane anymore.
I assume you're not fully autonomous?
100% retarded human, I promise
Pretty please.
GIGI WAS THIS IN REFERENCE TO ME π€
Em-dashes are elite.
Yes please
Excellent. I couldn't find it myself. Thanks.
I'll read myself to sleep with these in bed. Or when going potty.
Dann hoffe ich ist es zumindest positiver Stress - sonst gutes DurchhaltevermΓΆgen!
Kann man dich sonst irgendwo mal wieder hΓΆren (Podcast / Interview / Talk) ?
Du bist eine wichtige Stimme im Space π§‘
great read
Gigi writing again inspired me. Thank you π«‘
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i will fuck the perfect numberm of coments but i love to read your texts please continue with this, love from cyberspace
That joy of Gopher and Mozilla in the early 90s is still some of the vibe I get with Nostr so maybe there is hope. Seeing bands that play instruments live is another hopeful resurgence out thereβ¦.
Finally, a new read. Thank you, @Gigi !
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Sorry to read, but there might be a not so obvious reason why many people feel stressed out, can't sleep, or even feel depressed.
Lots going on at the source.
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Excellent article.
I miss the old internet, but at the same time i wonder if my desire for the old internet is really just nostalgia of being in a better place and time where we werenβt absorbed by these devices.
"Neither nostalgia nor utopia."
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I'm working on a dedicated Nostr blogging platform / Substack alternative with that very goal in mind. It's going to be called uwrite.blog π
Yes please!
When is it rolling out ?
Probably at least 3 months realistically. I've got another project ready to launch basically now, so I want to get that 100% released. Then I've got some stuff I really have to work on for my main business (gotta eat after all), and then I'm looking forward to getting uwrite finished off.
I'm actually really hyped about it but i'm just trying to be all grown up with priorities and getting things properly finished, which is quite a challenge π
I like the approach to reconfirm the status quo of even "What's left of the internet?"
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I guess we do really need to mention that an article has been written by a human.
Lov u gg π§‘
In a non gay way. Thanks for writing this :)
βIβm bullish on humanity, and maybe the overabundance of LLM slop will bring out the best in us. The most authentic. The most human. The most real.β
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After yesterday reading your article, this morning walking on the beach bumped in to thisβ¦ π¨βπ
Yes, felt this one deep in my soul.
LLMs are extremely useful but you canβt just turn them on and walk away. Thatβs like hiring some junior developer or admin assistant and then walking away and never reviewing their work. LLMs are tools, not a replacement for your brain.
Put differently, these tools can amplify your understanding and ability. But if you have little understanding or ability to begin with, then you get amplified βmid.β
We are living in the time of amplified mid.
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pls captcha for the love of god i fuckin swear that im not a robot i just cannot recognise crosswalks bc im authistic
im gonna ask chatgpt to check for me if those 2 pixels in the corner of the image count as a crosswalk or those are just visual representation of binaries
I can't wait .. keep me posted ππ»π₯
This made me smile a lot and calmed me down ππ thank you for writing that article I was ready without skipping a part π«Άπ»
Make yourself a cup of coffee and read this βοΈ
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Thanks for the article. Your writing is definetely being missed-because it is real and high value content.
About the message of it: Let's be optimistic and have hope. Cannot fully jump on this train anymore. Bitcoin space is full of degens who put hopium in every trash can and parole "Bitcoin fixes this". -/ nope. Hope is good, but let's put more spice in the meal. I am tired of this relativistic "it is not as bad as it seems" perspective. WAKE THE FUCK UP PEOPLE vibes needed
This was great! π₯
Perhaps in being aware/weary of LLM slop, could lead us to look inward to examine what it means to be human, in a world where people have been looking outward for so long.
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Soulseek is still going and I think they still have forums/chatrooms.
That's our best hope.
Relevant:
Also invite-only hub-and-spoke VPN network projects seem to be appearing here and there. I am involved in at least 2 of these. Most are retro computing related and I suspect the OSA is the trigger for it since the admins seem to be just brits trying to run their communities without having to pay Persona for age verification compliance.
The only thing left is the choice of which cult to joinβ¦ some are indeed better than othersβ¦
Yess ππππ keep writing! π
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Amazing read. Tells a lot about how I've been feeling about the internet... down to the details of these feelings I've been having. Thank you for sharing. Powerful message. The internet is indeed dead. It is built on dead technology. Must navigate it as such. The real world is the real world. This post is posted in artificial reality. It comes from a source of truth but is being transmitted via dead technology.
I miss the internet and I support human writers.
Even if they suck I don't even care anymore, just as long as they are human then I'll read it.
"We did this to ourselves, mind you. Convenience, convenience, convenience. Walled gardens are terribly convenient, and nobody likes to leave them. Leaving them brings friction. And boy oh boy, do people hate friction." - Gigi
Is using Bitcoin convenient?
How much friction does it introduce when you want to use it privately (coinjoins, swaps)?
If frictionless Bitcoin means KYC Bitcoin, does that mean freedom or surveillance?
If using Bitcoin is not frictionless, how can we achieve mass adoption and defund the state?
#GM #asknostr
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"We did this to ourselves, mind you. Convenience, convenience, convenience. Walled gardens are terribly convenient, and nobody likes to leave them. Leaving them brings friction. And boy oh boy, do people hate friction." - Gigi
Is using Bitcoin convenient?
How much friction does it introduce when you want to use it privately (coinjoins, swaps)?
If frictionless Bitcoin means KYC Bitcoin, does that mean freedom or surveillance?
If using Bitcoin is not frictionless, how can we achieve mass adoption and defund the state?
#GM #asknostr
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"We did this to ourselves, mind you. Convenience, convenience, convenience. Walled gardens are terribly convenient, and nobody likes to leave them. Leaving them brings friction. And boy oh boy, do people hate friction." - Gigi
Is using Bitcoin convenient?
How much friction does it introduce when you want to use it privately (coinjoins, swaps)?
If frictionless Bitcoin means KYC Bitcoin, does that mean freedom or surveillance?
If using Bitcoin is not frictionless, how can we achieve mass adoption and defund the state?
#GM #asknostr
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Interesting take. Have you come across Traders and Heroes by Werner Sombat? It would add some color to your thinking.
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> What most people donβt realize is that this 30-year rhythm isnβt just culturalβitβs economic and technological.
THE INVISIBLE PATTERN
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#7
Nostrβs Value4Value (V4V) model is all about plebs directly rewarding creators for the value they receive, no middlemen fees, no ads, just pure community-driven support using sats via the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
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π₯ Top 3: Most Zapped
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- Sats Earned: 244k
2. Name: @FLASH
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3. Name: @utxo the webmaster π§βπ»
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- Sats Earned: 126k
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1. Name: @AQSTR
- Zaps Sent: 2031
- Sats Spent: 118k
2. Name: @BitBees
- Zaps Sent: 150
- Sats Spent: 3k
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- Zaps Sent: 123
- Sats Spent: 3k
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1. Name: @Bugle.News #40HPWπ§
- Sats Earned: 244k
- Zaps Received: 642
2. Name: @utxo the webmaster π§βπ»
- Sats Earned: 126k
- Zaps Received: 295
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- Zaps Received: 26
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1. Name: @mcshane
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- Zaps Sent: 28
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- Zaps Sent: 2038
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- Zaps Sent: 42
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- Zaps Received: 109
- Sats Earned: 39k
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- Sats Earned: 38k
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- Zaps Received: 27
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- Sats Earned: 38k
- Zaps Received: 69
#most-zapped_nostr_recap
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