People are flock animals, only a small percentage is rational, flock animals tend to prefer being part of the largest flock. Some diverge a bit but lacking knowledge and rationality they fall for some gurus. Only for know enough to remain centered.

That's the main issue... The real obstacle for a modern society.

The first issue is that there are no topics not groups, a Reddit/Lemmy UI, would be much more helpful to attire people.

Second a unified UI, with private chat and VoIP, mail like messages and personal blog as a long form profile page...

All to avoid distributed computing in private homes, sheds etc with photovoltaics and storage etc.

All to be sovereign on others, who must own nothing and pretend to be happy...

Curious, the company is Dutch, the restrictions are off the USA government and apparently they compliant that are not accepted in the rest of the world...

Actually anyone is supposed (and maybe denied) to run their own relay so like in the nearly forgotten Usenet, groups keeps flowing, messages keep flowing, but individuals decide what to host, what to plonk (ban).

This is part of any large agorà, together with personal scoring, because when a gazillion of human write separate what you want is needed, you can't read thousands of messages.

The issue then lay just in IT ignorance where most do not run their own relay, and so Nostr network is divided in some large hub and many marginal relays.

Lightning network have a similar issue: running a personal node is hard so most don't and live on someone else computer.

If you don't self-host you can't be sovereign

Actually politicians are just PRs of banks, banksters are the government

I would be very careful about taking certain stories as gospel; they may or may not be true, but throughout history, most of the horrific crimes recounted by one side against another have almost always turned out to be completely fabricated or at least wildly exaggerated. Someone noticed this and observed, "kill 100 children and the world will be against you, kill 100 million and no one will say a thing because they won't believe it even in the face of evidence". The point is that there are limits to what can be known, and well, I take certain news with a pinch of salt.

In the UK, the ongoing social unrest isn't due to what the genuine participants (meaning those who aren't paid agitators) themselves believe, but simply to the draining of wealth towards the City, which has turned the UK into a third-world country for most people (not that they were rich in the past, it's not Italy, but they were certainly much less worse off at many points in history).

In the UK, British souls have always been at odds with Celtic ones, the Nazi kleptocracy at odds with the entire populace, and so on; in times of prosperity, everything is dormant because most people have full bellies and a roof over their heads, but in times of hardship, everything is amplified.

In particular, today there is a gloves-off fight between the US clerico-fascists and the demon-Nazis based in the City. Just as the BLM protests were likely pushed (not created; the underlying malaise is necessary for them to happen, but amplified and nurtured) by the demon-Nazis, it is likely that the current trends in the UK are being amplified by the clerico-fascists. In the meantime, the UK moves further into economic collapse for the majority while they are busy discussing other things; it generates World War III by plundering the EU with high-treason complicit governments, and the people think about other things, now it's Pakistani gangs, now it's the yacht seen being driven off with warning shots from a Russian naval unit. Anything to avoid talking about the fiscal robbery, the economic collapse, etc., of the masses.

I would focus on this. Stories of extreme youth distress are very common in countries with high inheritance theft, known as tax, like the UK, France, Belgium, and Spain, unlike Scandinavia, Italy, the Czech Republic, and others that either don't steal or steal very little. These are common stories in "collectivist" societies where the value of the family is diluted compared to that of society specifically to better rob the masses.

Meanwhile, I also suggest thinking about what difference there might be between the poor Pakistani criminal and the likes of Epstein, who does the same thing but with style. Which of the two makes more headlines? Which one is making more headlines right now? Why... In essence, they seem very similar to me on a substantive level for the victims. And yet, I didn't see much in the way of "protests" for the Epstein case in the streets...

I agree, but most are anyway mobile-tied. Me personally I'm tied for public car charge when on the go and I fear public sector evolution who might eventually mandate without explicitly telling the mobile for taxes etc pushing a mobile-only "digital identity" for instance.

Banks have already almost done that pushing their crapplications... And these days you can't live without a bank in most of the Western world

Unfortunately too many choose the mobile side ignoring that they are closed platforms who can't be free anyway.

Desktop development is essentially dead, web is the sole "desktop" remaining part (beside Emacs etc for development of course)

We really need open source hardware period, not just for specific usages!

It's something already observed https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/19/1116779/ai-can-do-a-better-job-of-persuading-people-than-we-do/ implying https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/ and finally https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00906-0

That's one of the main reason why GAFAM are still massively financed by States...

Not a name I choose, they decide to name their project out of a kind of sheep from South America...