Interesting, it's summaries of a bunch of users' content. Is this meant to help us discover other users? Why was it sent to me in Chinese, when my posts are written in English?

Feel better soon, brah.

I'm not so sure about the Ellul idea posited here. There are few enough truly agentic people in the world that the conditions for optimization pressure to dominant aren't met in a lot of places. For example, I don't think the Daily Stormer's niche would've been filled if you hadn't made it, and DS played a huge part in shaping a generation of men who will act upon history. Optimization pressure is ruthless in large settings, in that anyone in Korea who aspires to success and adheres to convention will learn to spend 16 hours a day in cram school. But the pool of people with will and agency is small, and their whims and sacrifices play a greater part in determining victors than the theoretical competitiveness of the systems they mean to implement. Our potential terminal states all draw us in when we are close, but the actions of great men have sent us volleying between them many times over the past several years, and it's yet to be determined which of them we will end up on.

The network effect is the only thing that matters. The "alternative social media site" thing has been going on for nearly a decade, and that's the lesson. Address the network effect or you've got a dozen hyper-principled guys talking to each other about Bitcoin.

Vlad the Impaler was among history's greatest heroes.

Google is erasing the tragic kidnapping of Troonella Ackberg.

I don't think this is true. It will be rough for a while, but ideology and willpower are hereditary. Anything that kills slowly, over generations, is subject to being thwarted by evolution.

Seems a lot like Gab's take on this several years back. If it takes off, though, the absence of central moderation would make advertisement spam tricky to mitigate. Also, the Chrome web store banned aforementioned Gab version. Just banking on the censorship thaw making Google less draconian?

I genuinely do not see the point in things like Pubky. A few years ago there was a controversy on Reddit and a bunch of retarded communists created a "federated alternative" to reddit with the exact same userbase and moderation policies. Pubky seems to essentially be that except it is trying to poach users from Nostr instead of Reddit, and Nostr is populated by like three dozen people, all of whom hate censorship.