Five on Nostr: ### Nostr is Signal We live in a world where noise dominates most people's lives ...
### Nostr is Signal
We live in a world where noise dominates most people's lives through social media and Big-Tech services. So they divide us and conquer. They sell our data and attention to the highest bidder. Interestingly, bidders aren't better off for this deal. Quite the opposite.
Bringing products and services to the right audience is hard.
Companies struggle to find their customers and so they succumb to the attention-harvesting Big-Tech. They play the ad game. They also add to the noise level exacerbating the situation.
"It's for survival, it's do or die" - they say.
Really, it's just short-term hopium that tightens their bond to their master.
The vicious cycle continues.
Subvertising.
Nostr solves this. I firmly believe that.
It destroys greedy middle-men and HELPS FIND SIGNAL. Your reputation on nostr cannot be stopped or destroyed. It lives on as long as those signed nostr notes can be broadcasted from anywhere in the world and your web of trust is listening.
They just fetch your relay list and the magic happens. It's so simple.
Back to history:
Discovery went from word of mouth to newspapers and billboards, then TV and now it is captured by Big-Tech search and social media platforms. It is the same path fiat took:
1. Word of mouth was the golden era
2. Paper was introduced, enhancing reach, but lessening the need for the personal touch, diluting our connections
3. We started living in small apartments in big cities, isolated, staring at the TV all day, watching commercials, filling our brain with clutter. This can be compared to the Telegraph era of money, in the early 20th century. The slope steepens.
4. The advent of the internet and smart phones cut the last ties of real connections people had: You take the noise with you even when you venture outside your tiny pod. It's the 1971-style fiat rug. It was inevitable. The slope was there and we stepped on it and slid.
We needed to go down the painful path I believe. It's the meaning crisis. It's the ideological zombie hordes. It's the unbearable noise of all this, with now AI on top. Perfect storm. If Nostr had a blockchain(lol) it should inscribe something like this in the genesis block:
"ELON MUSK INTRODUCING NEW AI ON X, FORMERLY TWITTER"
But we know what happens when it's darkest. That's when heroes arise.
We can't go back to just physical word of mouth anymore, just like we can't go back on a Gold Standard. Even if we tried it's unfeasible, and we come to understand that all these deformed, perverted ways like fiat and Big-Tech platforms solved real problems initially. Those problems don't go away just because we go back to stone age. However, we can learn from mistakes made in the past. We can come clean. We can start over. It's never too late.
It's time to embrace nostr. It's hard at first encounter. You don't know wtf you are doing. What are relays? What do you mean by "signed notes"? And most importantly, why doesn't this shit work like a decent app? If you read so far I can tell you a story: My name is Five because as a software engineer I was fking clueless about how to even use clients back when I started. The name comes from an accidental profile setting in whatever broken client. Don't let your path to truth and signal be a flash in the pan. By endurance we conquer(a tagline of Sovereign Engineering).
I believe through nostr we can go back to the idea of word-of-mouth in the digital era. Some call it the localized internet. We can create experiences that come as close as we can get to physical interactions. Nostr is the language of freedom. The identity that serves you instead of exploiting you.
And it's cool as fuck.
Keep going.
Cheers
We live in a world where noise dominates most people's lives through social media and Big-Tech services. So they divide us and conquer. They sell our data and attention to the highest bidder. Interestingly, bidders aren't better off for this deal. Quite the opposite.
Bringing products and services to the right audience is hard.
Companies struggle to find their customers and so they succumb to the attention-harvesting Big-Tech. They play the ad game. They also add to the noise level exacerbating the situation.
"It's for survival, it's do or die" - they say.
Really, it's just short-term hopium that tightens their bond to their master.
The vicious cycle continues.
Subvertising.
Nostr solves this. I firmly believe that.
It destroys greedy middle-men and HELPS FIND SIGNAL. Your reputation on nostr cannot be stopped or destroyed. It lives on as long as those signed nostr notes can be broadcasted from anywhere in the world and your web of trust is listening.
They just fetch your relay list and the magic happens. It's so simple.
Back to history:
Discovery went from word of mouth to newspapers and billboards, then TV and now it is captured by Big-Tech search and social media platforms. It is the same path fiat took:
1. Word of mouth was the golden era
2. Paper was introduced, enhancing reach, but lessening the need for the personal touch, diluting our connections
3. We started living in small apartments in big cities, isolated, staring at the TV all day, watching commercials, filling our brain with clutter. This can be compared to the Telegraph era of money, in the early 20th century. The slope steepens.
4. The advent of the internet and smart phones cut the last ties of real connections people had: You take the noise with you even when you venture outside your tiny pod. It's the 1971-style fiat rug. It was inevitable. The slope was there and we stepped on it and slid.
We needed to go down the painful path I believe. It's the meaning crisis. It's the ideological zombie hordes. It's the unbearable noise of all this, with now AI on top. Perfect storm. If Nostr had a blockchain(lol) it should inscribe something like this in the genesis block:
"ELON MUSK INTRODUCING NEW AI ON X, FORMERLY TWITTER"
But we know what happens when it's darkest. That's when heroes arise.
We can't go back to just physical word of mouth anymore, just like we can't go back on a Gold Standard. Even if we tried it's unfeasible, and we come to understand that all these deformed, perverted ways like fiat and Big-Tech platforms solved real problems initially. Those problems don't go away just because we go back to stone age. However, we can learn from mistakes made in the past. We can come clean. We can start over. It's never too late.
It's time to embrace nostr. It's hard at first encounter. You don't know wtf you are doing. What are relays? What do you mean by "signed notes"? And most importantly, why doesn't this shit work like a decent app? If you read so far I can tell you a story: My name is Five because as a software engineer I was fking clueless about how to even use clients back when I started. The name comes from an accidental profile setting in whatever broken client. Don't let your path to truth and signal be a flash in the pan. By endurance we conquer(a tagline of Sovereign Engineering).
I believe through nostr we can go back to the idea of word-of-mouth in the digital era. Some call it the localized internet. We can create experiences that come as close as we can get to physical interactions. Nostr is the language of freedom. The identity that serves you instead of exploiting you.
And it's cool as fuck.
Keep going.
Cheers