jesterhodl on Nostr: GM! Crazy idea here. Taleb, who is a douche, wrote books with good ideas. One of ...
GM! Crazy idea here.
Taleb, who is a douche, wrote books with good ideas. One of those ideas is putting expiry date on systems. You know how a hospital starts with good care, but after 100 years it's the last place you'd want to be in? Fiat dynamics aside, such hospital should be taken down and started from scratch by new people.
Crazy idea? Expiry on npubs.
Instead of taking the Platform Media vibe of forever sculpting a "digital identity" or a profile, why not pull a complete 180 in it?
Temporary profiles. You use them and can't post after certain conditions are met, time being one. You start with another one. Another stab at your online presence. Let the system forget a bit.
Maybe this would take away some of the grandiousity people achieve and are in business of nurturing?
It's not a super thought through idea, mind you, just a seedling, maybe a bad one...
Tell me what you think.
Taleb, who is a douche, wrote books with good ideas. One of those ideas is putting expiry date on systems. You know how a hospital starts with good care, but after 100 years it's the last place you'd want to be in? Fiat dynamics aside, such hospital should be taken down and started from scratch by new people.
Crazy idea? Expiry on npubs.
Instead of taking the Platform Media vibe of forever sculpting a "digital identity" or a profile, why not pull a complete 180 in it?
Temporary profiles. You use them and can't post after certain conditions are met, time being one. You start with another one. Another stab at your online presence. Let the system forget a bit.
Maybe this would take away some of the grandiousity people achieve and are in business of nurturing?
It's not a super thought through idea, mind you, just a seedling, maybe a bad one...
Tell me what you think.
quoting note194l…6vxmPeople obsess over losing keys, Jesus... My first data loss was in late 80s (cassette tape) and since then I lost many things. Yes, I hoard some types of media or files, but I lost the attachment to data, really.
With SM (social media), we suspend the reality that it's just bits. SM
is not holding my identity at all. To me, it's UIs and notifications that you can feel nice about because the corners are rounded and gradients are there.
If I lose a key, I make a new one and look after it better and continue from zero. Experienced creatives know this: you often create a better work, after you lose your copy
of the first stab that looked/sounded perfect.
If I lose all bitcoin, I start stacking from zero. If someone takes over my profile, well, maybe we need a facility to revoke keys (with another key😅) and specify a date after which another key takes over.
Life after loss isn't a loss of life.
It's a new life thanks to a wonderful feature humans have and computer systems often lack: forgetting.
Forgetting is a feature.
#ForgettingIsAFeature