I've definitely used XMR more often than BTC. I'd love to see some kind of broader Monero marketplace for the sorts of things our people are after.

One thing I'd particularly like is some kind of system where our older, better-off faction of guys can put bounties on sorts of IRL activism/action as a risk-free way of doing something in the real world while helping out our younger lads. For example, a standing bounty of $500 a month in XMR to run postering campaigns that make the news, or stage funny pranks that embarrass the powers that be. Imagine the fun of a few monthly competitions for the best use of a deepfake, or the funniest costume left sitting on a Floyd statue for the media to find.

@Andrew Anglin wrote that our two largest demos are "vets and programmers", and that's been right on in my experience. We need some way for our well-to-do codefags and our highly-agentic vets to stop being so isolated from each other, such that each group's resources can be readily passed to the other in pursuit of mutually-desired goals.

Do you have an example of this?

Very good to see someone with a clear head. It seems like Twitter these days is divided between Israel shills and 'blackpill' retards from India.

Ultimately, I think it comes down to usage. XMR is great technology, but it needs to be used for more fun things.

As it is, I can buy a bunch of burner phone numbers with it, but I want to e.g. sponsor a contest for funny IRL activism, or something similar. Things that help us work around censorship and glowie infiltration. I'd like to see something were people pool like $1,000 in Monero, and let people upload videos of themselves putting bananas on Floyd statues, tricking lib organizations into hosting Sam Hyde - style speakers, putting the Will Stancil Show up on a billboard in a populated area, and so on. The sort of thing where /ourguys/ with money and tech jobs can set aside some money every month and use it to make visible impacts on the real world. At present, most of the use is just tech nerds like us sending each other donations for blogging.

Interesting, it's summaries of a bunch of users' content. Is this meant to help us discover other users? Why was it sent to me in Chinese, when my posts are written in English?

Feel better soon, brah.

I'm not so sure about the Ellul idea posited here. There are few enough truly agentic people in the world that the conditions for optimization pressure to dominant aren't met in a lot of places. For example, I don't think the Daily Stormer's niche would've been filled if you hadn't made it, and DS played a huge part in shaping a generation of men who will act upon history.

Optimization pressure is ruthless in large settings, in that anyone in Korea who aspires to success and adheres to convention will learn to spend 16 hours a day in cram school. But the pool of people with will and agency is small, and their whims and sacrifices play a greater part in determining victors than the theoretical competitiveness of the systems they mean to implement. Our potential terminal states all draw us in when we are close, but the actions of great men have sent us volleying between them many times over the past several years, and it's yet to be determined which of them we will end up on.

The network effect is the only thing that matters. The "alternative social media site" thing has been going on for nearly a decade, and that's the lesson. Address the network effect or you've got a dozen hyper-principled guys talking to each other about Bitcoin.

I don't think this is true. It will be rough for a while, but ideology and willpower are hereditary. Anything that kills slowly, over generations, is subject to being thwarted by evolution.

Seems a lot like Gab's take on this several years back. If it takes off, though, the absence of central moderation would make advertisement spam tricky to mitigate.

Also, the Chrome web store banned aforementioned Gab version. Just banking on the censorship thaw making Google less draconian?