Rabble on Nostr: Cory Doctorow has a great elegy for Vice which goes in to how the big social media ...
Cory Doctorow (npub1yxz…5qvv) has a great elegy for Vice which goes in to how the big social media companies, especially meta, killed the company with rug pull after rug pull.
Although it doesn’t mention nostr or any emerging solution, this gets at why what we’re doing is important. We’ve got a solution to the payments part of the problem, we know how to talk about that. This essay gives us a roadmap to talk to publishers and journalists about why they should build their business on a permissionless open protocol, eg nostr.
Here’s the essay as a series of posts, tweet stream like:
And here is in an easier to read way, on Cory’s own site: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/
We should be taking up the banner of Nostr as a powerful tool in implementing “POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control:”
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/19/now-we-are-two/#two-much-posse
Although it doesn’t mention nostr or any emerging solution, this gets at why what we’re doing is important. We’ve got a solution to the payments part of the problem, we know how to talk about that. This essay gives us a roadmap to talk to publishers and journalists about why they should build their business on a permissionless open protocol, eg nostr.
Here’s the essay as a series of posts, tweet stream like:
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Inside: Vice surrenders; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/
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And here is in an easier to read way, on Cory’s own site: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/
We should be taking up the banner of Nostr as a powerful tool in implementing “POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control:”
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/19/now-we-are-two/#two-much-posse