About 25 years ago, the Internet was really, really cool. It was a cradle of ideas. Any kid could play around, remix, and create things... and it might turn out to be a big success.
But then gradually, some boxes started to appear. Friendster and Orkut had a whole universe of information just for those who had an account. Years later, Facebook did the same thing.
Now, there's no grassroots innovation. Good luck to a little kid trying to create something new. No one will see it. Everyone spends all their time on Big Tech apps. To have a chance on the internet today, you need venture capital and spend years burning millions in the red. A bizarre economic model from the fiat world.
Look at the average person. They spend a lot of time online doing what? WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Zoom, TikTok. They really BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE INTERNET!!!
And then they go to sleep to repeat the same thing the next day.
The average user doesn't realize that these are CLOSED apps. You can't do anything creative/interesting in them except follow the exact commands that the overlords have set by architecture for THEIR interests.
(Go on, click like! React to this rage bait, fight among yourselves, stay as long as possible in the app to swallow as many ads as possible)
Nostr makes the internet fun again. Anyone can take the protocol and invent whatever they want.
Think it's silly that certain influencers are "recommended" by the client? You don't have to use that client. There's another Nostr client that doesn't keep pushing suggestions of who to follow.
Annoyed that your feed has a lot of memes? Make a fork and set a rule that you don't want to see Notes that are purely a URL (which indicates someone sharing an image).
THE WORLD IS YOURS
Thank you
fiatjaf (npub180c…h6w6) - who gave us this gift
jb55 (npub1xts…kk5s) - who is brave and ethical fighting Apple App Store crazy demands and resisting shitcoinery offers on daily basis
noStrudel (npub1wyu…87ez) - I love your client
jack (npub1sg6…f63m) - who did a valuable POWER-UP that made the whole difference
Alby (npub1get…0nfm) - such powerful tool and at the same time encouraging all users to go through the learning curve and fly by themselves eventually with their own wings/server (just loved reading your interaction with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) and how you encourage us to plug our nodes at a given point but keep using the extension)
and all community members who are here participating in this glorious moment after two decades of proprietary Internet darkness. You guys are awesome! This is a love letter to the difference you all make ❤️