Control Stifles Every Gesture
It’s been 238 days since I fled traditional platforms to build my own castle here, on Nostr. Censorship is omnipresent, control stifles every gesture, identification of every user becomes the norm, intrusive ads saturate attention, state spying takes hold… the list goes on.
The above quote is from a Note published recently on NOSTR, a relatively new publishing protocol on the internet. NOSTR is an acronym that is short for “Notes and Other Stuff Thru Relays.” The NOSTR account that posted the note is called Flash. He continues:
When I look back, I see everything I’ve let burn and go up in smoke. Those who remain… their freedom will soon be reduced to ashes.
I definitely made the right choice in coming to Nostr. Here, every day, I bring something concrete. Today, 11,000 of us are moving forward together, and over 13,000 notes bear witness to this path.
Behind each number, there are faces, supporters, people who believe that Nostr deserves reliable information and a different kind of energy.
The road is still long, the staircase is not endless, we’ll get there.
With respect @FLASH
I discovered NOSTR through the work of another user who recently authored a book making the philosophical case for Bitcoin as global currency. His name is Neal Flesher.
The great British journalist GK Chesterton is often cited observing, “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” The computer, and then the internet, made me feel alive. Maybe that’s why my soul is so attached to the idea that this technology must secure human dignity and create what is good, true and beautiful.
Over the years I’ve watched the internet fall under the spell of greedy and prideful forces. This is nowhere more obvious than on social networking platforms. And I’ve watched all my real world friends turn into Facebook “friends.” Their minds and souls are occupied by a culture manipulated to kill their souls … to make them into consumers of the latest thing — be it an object or an idea.
Dead people scroll their stream.
Living people go against it.
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