Networks are still valuable and ignoring them is a net loss, imo. I don’t really need to explain #Bitcoin and fiat money to anyone on #Nostr (maybe a few, but the reach isn’t there yet), but about a billion people on Twitter need to hear it.
The broader reach on that network matters, it’s kinda similar to YouTube. I treat them both the same now. I just post in hopes of reaching someone who can value from it, I keep one foot out the door, and I simply expect that I’ll at some point either be banned or the place will become such a mess that it won’t have any signal left at all.
To me, the idea of just cutting it out like Marxism, or a tumor (but I repeat myself) because I think it’s taking a dumb direction feels kinda like smashing my iPhone because I don’t like their new OS policy or something. I’ll drop it when it feels redundant, but it’s still my best source for articles (top articles feature saves me *hours* of wasted time), and it’s still my best way of getting in touch with tons of people.
We will see how long it lasts though, I am far more invested in #nostr on anything other than a short term timeline.
Building things in a way that best serves the people around me is doing what best serves me. They pay me & are happy returning customers when I serve them appropriately. What is in my self interest doesn't come at the expense of anyone else. Anyone who thinks harming others is in their own self interest is not someone who is being honest about how that impacts their own self image.
If you get things by cheating others then everything you have becomes a reminder of your depravity, rather than your accomplishments. It destroys the ability to feel good about much of anything or to feel able to connect with others.
Freedom of association means we don't all have to be in the same room, people can go wherever they want & they generally have no obligation to deal with anyone they don't want to deal with. Which means that the liars & the cheats tend to get ostracized.
People doing horrible things to others generally don't get very far without a mafia like organization &/or religious structure of some sort to protect them & to force others to support them.
Govt is just that, a religion with songs, symbols, statues, monuments, ritual ceremonies, costumed authorities, sacred halls, sacred texts, robed interpreters of said texts, & violent foreign crusades. And it operates on a mafia business model of charging people for protection from what the govt agents will do to you if you don't pay for protection. Govts even purposely create a dependent class that they can manipulate into violence & riots in order to threaten the middle class who are the real target.
In the same way that burning down churches doesn't destroy false beliefs, it's not possible to destroy govt by attacking it directly. Govts are primarily built on propaganda. So decentralizing communication & ending censorship is also critically important, along with the undermining of economic authority & monetary control, as well as spreading tools that make it cheap & easy for people to physically defend themselves if necessary.
#Nostr, #bitcoin, & #3dprinting are all pieces of a proper productive & freedom oriented revolution whether you like it or not.
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