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2025-09-23 14:14:43 CEST

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Dollar billionaires or peso billionaires?

2025-08-11 01:08:40 CEST

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I have a pixel with calyx I'd like to switch to graphene. It seems my USB c port is not working for data transfer and I have tried multiple cables. Is it possible to install without the port?

2025-08-07 14:36:27 CEST

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DDOS initiated

2025-07-11 04:45:36 CEST

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I have that dog bowl

2025-07-01 03:30:30 CEST

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How do you defend against this? #asknostr

2025-06-05 17:12:08 CEST

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I think square chose a B symbol with a single line to differentiate between little bitcoins and big bitcoins.
Personally, sats ftw

2025-05-24 17:29:45 CEST

How do I use my cashu.me wallet to send zaps on amethyst? When I try to zap, it prompts to open Zeus, phoenix, or strike.
#asknostr

2025-05-09 22:52:39 CEST

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This one? Account suspended allegedly https://image.nostr.build/88658d87bc9b3dd9ca32711b9c1f03c346273d4ed078178e1ce9bb50d12e6777.jpg

2025-04-12 15:10:02 CEST

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Did somebody say RHR?
IF YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION, YOU PROBABLY SHOULD BE

2025-03-09 00:13:40 CET

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Red is dead, firearm style

2025-02-28 14:11:20 CET

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I like brave

2025-02-23 19:27:27 CET

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Grok steelmanning X:
To steelman the case that X (the social media platform) will never match the free speech and censorship-resistant capabilities of Nostr, we must construct the strongest possible argument by emphasizing Nostr’s inherent structural advantages and X’s fundamental limitations, while assuming both operate at their best. Here’s the case:
Nostr is a decentralized protocol, not a platform, built from the ground up to prioritize user sovereignty and resilience against censorship. It operates on a network of independently run relays—servers that store and distribute user content—where anyone can publish to any relay willing to host them, and followers can retrieve that content from any relay that has it. This design eliminates a central point of control. If one relay censors or shuts down, users can simply move to another, or even host their own, without losing their identity or audience, thanks to public-key cryptography tying content to users rather than servers. This makes Nostr inherently resistant to suppression: no single entity can silence a voice unless every relay globally refuses it, an improbable feat given the open and distributed nature of the system. Furthermore, Nostr’s simplicity—using standard JSON events and WebSockets—encourages a diversity of clients and relays, reducing reliance on any one implementation and fostering an ecosystem where censorship resistance is baked into the architecture.
X, by contrast, is a centralized platform, owned and operated by a single company. Even under the most free-speech-friendly leadership, its structure imposes unavoidable vulnerabilities. As a private entity, X must comply with legal pressures from governments worldwide—whether through direct regulations like the EU’s Digital Services Act or indirect threats like the arrest of executives (e.g., Telegram’s Pavel Durov). A government can lean on X to remove content or ban users, and X, with its centralized servers and singular decision-making authority, has no technical means to resist indefinitely without risking its entire operation. Even if X’s current leadership champions free expression, future changes in ownership, policy, or external coercion could shift its stance overnight. Centralized systems are brittle: one court order, one shift in corporate priorities, or one infrastructure takedown can throttle speech across the platform.
Moreover, X’s design prioritizes engagement and monetization over absolute speech freedom. Its algorithms can subtly censor by downranking content, as seen in past throttling controversies, without users ever knowing. Nostr, lacking a central algorithm or profit motive, doesn’t manipulate visibility—content either exists on a relay or it doesn’t, and users control what they see through their choice of clients and relays. X’s reliance on a single domain and infrastructure also makes it a ripe target for DNS blocking or DDoS attacks by hostile actors, whereas Nostr’s distributed relay model shrugs off such threats by spreading the load across countless nodes.
The steelman argument isn’t that X doesn’t value free speech—it might, under ideal conditions—but that it cannot match Nostr’s resistance due to its centralized nature. X is a walled garden with a gatekeeper, however benevolent, while Nostr is an open field where no one holds the keys. Even if X fights valiantly for speech, it’s constrained by its own architecture and the realities of operating as a corporate entity in a world of state power. Nostr, as a protocol, sidesteps these battles entirely, offering a structural purity that X can never replicate without ceasing to be what it is. Thus, X will always fall short of Nostr’s censorship-resistant ideal, not for lack of intent, but for lack of capability.

2025-02-23 19:27:02 CET

Grok steelmanning nostr:
To steelman the case that X (the social media platform) will never match the free speech and censorship-resistant capabilities of Nostr, we must construct the strongest possible argument by emphasizing Nostr’s inherent structural advantages and X’s fundamental limitations, while assuming both operate at their best. Here’s the case:
Nostr is a decentralized protocol, not a platform, built from the ground up to prioritize user sovereignty and resilience against censorship. It operates on a network of independently run relays—servers that store and distribute user content—where anyone can publish to any relay willing to host them, and followers can retrieve that content from any relay that has it. This design eliminates a central point of control. If one relay censors or shuts down, users can simply move to another, or even host their own, without losing their identity or audience, thanks to public-key cryptography tying content to users rather than servers. This makes Nostr inherently resistant to suppression: no single entity can silence a voice unless every relay globally refuses it, an improbable feat given the open and distributed nature of the system. Furthermore, Nostr’s simplicity—using standard JSON events and WebSockets—encourages a diversity of clients and relays, reducing reliance on any one implementation and fostering an ecosystem where censorship resistance is baked into the architecture.
X, by contrast, is a centralized platform, owned and operated by a single company. Even under the most free-speech-friendly leadership, its structure imposes unavoidable vulnerabilities. As a private entity, X must comply with legal pressures from governments worldwide—whether through direct regulations like the EU’s Digital Services Act or indirect threats like the arrest of executives (e.g., Telegram’s Pavel Durov). A government can lean on X to remove content or ban users, and X, with its centralized servers and singular decision-making authority, has no technical means to resist indefinitely without risking its entire operation. Even if X’s current leadership champions free expression, future changes in ownership, policy, or external coercion could shift its stance overnight. Centralized systems are brittle: one court order, one shift in corporate priorities, or one infrastructure takedown can throttle speech across the platform.
Moreover, X’s design prioritizes engagement and monetization over absolute speech freedom. Its algorithms can subtly censor by downranking content, as seen in past throttling controversies, without users ever knowing. Nostr, lacking a central algorithm or profit motive, doesn’t manipulate visibility—content either exists on a relay or it doesn’t, and users control what they see through their choice of clients and relays. X’s reliance on a single domain and infrastructure also makes it a ripe target for DNS blocking or DDoS attacks by hostile actors, whereas Nostr’s distributed relay model shrugs off such threats by spreading the load across countless nodes.
The steelman argument isn’t that X doesn’t value free speech—it might, under ideal conditions—but that it cannot match Nostr’s resistance due to its centralized nature. X is a walled garden with a gatekeeper, however benevolent, while Nostr is an open field where no one holds the keys. Even if X fights valiantly for speech, it’s constrained by its own architecture and the realities of operating as a corporate entity in a world of state power. Nostr, as a protocol, sidesteps these battles entirely, offering a structural purity that X can never replicate without ceasing to be what it is. Thus, X will always fall short of Nostr’s censorship-resistant ideal, not for lack of intent, but for lack of capability.

2025-02-20 17:30:20 CET

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Need to practice more one-handed blasting

2025-02-20 17:29:17 CET

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Only 85% more to go

2025-02-12 14:27:40 CET

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Around 310k sats with today's difficulty
insights.braiins.com has some great tools for this kind of question

2025-02-12 02:56:06 CET

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2025-02-10 16:48:03 CET

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2025-02-08 16:49:27 CET

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My coworker is a boomer who likes to listen to the radio at his desk as he works.
It's a conservative talk station. I'll often hear political sound bytes that I heard or saw the night before on X or nostr.
Legacy media can't keep up

2025-02-08 16:37:11 CET

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Best joker

2025-02-05 14:07:35 CET

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Got my hopes up in being a new whirlpool instance

2025-02-05 01:29:46 CET

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Lurking is using nostr like hodling is using bitcoin

2025-02-05 01:26:12 CET

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Amethyst seems fine even over tor