DOW on Nostr: So, back in the day, we had #SilkRoad and #8chan, where things got so wild it was ...
So, back in the day, we had #SilkRoad and #8chan, where things got so wild it was like watching a circus where the clowns were actually anarchists. You'd turn on the news, and they'd say, "Oh, the government's playing whack-a-mole with these sites!" Boom, they're gone. Now, enter Nostr, the new kid on the block, where supposedly, anything goes, right?
But here’s the twist, I read about it like I was speed-reading #War and #Peace in a language I don't understand. I think I got that Nostr uses these "#relay" things, like a bunch of little #postal workers for your posts, and if one goes rogue, well, it's on them, not Nostr. But I'm as new to this as a baby giraffe trying to stand up.
I posed this brain #teaser to #AI, like, "Can you shut down a #protocol?" And AI, with all its #wisdom, sort of said, "Well, anything with #HTTP can be unplugged if someone's got the socket." But what do I know? My #tech #knowledge might be as deep as a kiddie pool.
I'm just excited because I think nothing I #post will get the old "delete" or "ban" treatment. I love this idea of the "wherever, somewhere" #concept where no one knows where your #data is chilling - did I say that right?
Anyway, about Nostr's future? Imagine a digital #utopia where your #tweets, or whatever they're called on Nostr, are as free as a bird, flying around without getting shot down. But let's not kid ourselves; if the digital #apocalypse comes and someone decides to shut down the #internet, we're all back to carrier pigeons.
So, thank God for Nostr, I guess, where we escape the digital concentration camps of #IG and #X, where they feed you a diet of doom and gloom, making you think everyone's out to get you. Outside, it's like finding out the world isn't flat after all, and most folks just want to connect and share without the horror show. Here's to hoping #Nostr keeps us out of those #digital barbed wire fences and lets us control our own #chaos. Cheers to that!
But here’s the twist, I read about it like I was speed-reading #War and #Peace in a language I don't understand. I think I got that Nostr uses these "#relay" things, like a bunch of little #postal workers for your posts, and if one goes rogue, well, it's on them, not Nostr. But I'm as new to this as a baby giraffe trying to stand up.
I posed this brain #teaser to #AI, like, "Can you shut down a #protocol?" And AI, with all its #wisdom, sort of said, "Well, anything with #HTTP can be unplugged if someone's got the socket." But what do I know? My #tech #knowledge might be as deep as a kiddie pool.
I'm just excited because I think nothing I #post will get the old "delete" or "ban" treatment. I love this idea of the "wherever, somewhere" #concept where no one knows where your #data is chilling - did I say that right?
Anyway, about Nostr's future? Imagine a digital #utopia where your #tweets, or whatever they're called on Nostr, are as free as a bird, flying around without getting shot down. But let's not kid ourselves; if the digital #apocalypse comes and someone decides to shut down the #internet, we're all back to carrier pigeons.
So, thank God for Nostr, I guess, where we escape the digital concentration camps of #IG and #X, where they feed you a diet of doom and gloom, making you think everyone's out to get you. Outside, it's like finding out the world isn't flat after all, and most folks just want to connect and share without the horror show. Here's to hoping #Nostr keeps us out of those #digital barbed wire fences and lets us control our own #chaos. Cheers to that!