Nostr is the only mirror that doesn't tell you what shape to be.
Have we been missing the killer-app of Nostr?
Only a few people care about the benefits of decentralization because only a few have done enough research to know the perils of centralization.
There is an angle that may resonate with a lot of people though.
You may have noticed I'm posting a lot more on Nostr now. Why?
It had nothing to do with decentralization (although I care about that). But I care even more about people able to live and speak in a free and authentic way without suppression.
When you have an algorithm that suppresses what you say if its outside a narrow swimlane of "what this platform decides you should be speaking about" by a factor of 10x, ie: only 10% of the people who could have seen it do, that is an effective 90%-freedom of speech ban.
It's also encouraging you to form an identity of a one-dimensional voice, not encouraging the inherent multidimensionality of the human spirit.
I want to be free to express myself on any subject. Twitter and LinkedIn say "sure, we wont ban you from that ... we'll just turn down the volume knob from 10 to 1 so only a handful of people can hear you."
Nostr is literally the only platform that doesn't adjust the volume setting, so you can express and explore multitudes of your infinite nature, knowing that you'll get a true signal.
You know what the highest engagement I got on a post on Nostr in the last 4 weeks was ? - one on why bitcoin is like meditation. That proves that people want original cross-over content that doesn't fit within a swimlane an algorithm has pre-decided you should be talking about. As a test I put the exact same post on L/I and X.
You guessed it.
Crickets!
Its really important that if you want to be someone who expresses themselves freely on many topics, you practice doing that regularly. Nostr is literally fostering the development of more multidimensionality. X and L/I is giving you a chance to practice being one-dimension.
And as my friend Aristotle once said "we become what we habitually do."
Nostr is not just freedom-tech, it is identity-tech.
Have we been missing the killer-app of Nostr?
Only a few people care about the benefits of decentralization because only a few have done enough research to know the perils of centralization.
There is an angle that may resonate with a lot of people though.
You may have noticed I'm posting a lot more on Nostr now. Why?
It had nothing to do with decentralization (although I care about that). But I care even more about people able to live and speak in a free and authentic way without suppression.
When you have an algorithm that suppresses what you say if its outside a narrow swimlane of "what this platform decides you should be speaking about" by a factor of 10x, ie: only 10% of the people who could have seen it do, that is an effective 90%-freedom of speech ban.
It's also encouraging you to form an identity of a one-dimensional voice, not encouraging the inherent multidimensionality of the human spirit.
I want to be free to express myself on any subject. Twitter and LinkedIn say "sure, we wont ban you from that ... we'll just turn down the volume knob from 10 to 1 so only a handful of people can hear you."
Nostr is literally the only platform that doesn't adjust the volume setting, so you can express and explore multitudes of your infinite nature, knowing that you'll get a true signal.
You know what the highest engagement I got on a post on Nostr in the last 4 weeks was ? - one on why bitcoin is like meditation. That proves that people want original cross-over content that doesn't fit within a swimlane an algorithm has pre-decided you should be talking about. As a test I put the exact same post on L/I and X.
You guessed it.
Crickets!
Its really important that if you want to be someone who expresses themselves freely on many topics, you practice doing that regularly. Nostr is literally fostering the development of more multidimensionality. X and L/I is giving you a chance to practice being one-dimension.
And as my friend Aristotle once said "we become what we habitually do."
Nostr is not just freedom-tech, it is identity-tech.
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