Today many bitcoiners are all still using on Twitter. We pay Elon for reach. Our posts are not even signed with our own keys. This is complete trust in a third party. I don't think Nostr is the solution for a Global Town Square. If you disagree say why. But does anyone care?

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I think a single source of truth (like bitcoin for example) is needed for a global Town Square - rather than where each relay has its own data and policies. We get this situation where a client needs to connect to many relays with the outbox model and still misses stuff and things still load slowly. Or do I miss something?

Thanks for taking the effort to reply again! I’m unconvinced about the outbox model. But I’m happy to be wrong :-)

Yeah those are great qualities. But for a Global Town Square specifically, I think having hundreds of relays with different policies and stores of content doesn’t work well enough (happy to be proven wrong)

I asked first 😀

Why should we forget social? isn't the point that we own the keys to our speech?

I guess this is proof :-) anyway, I think Nostr is great. I just don't think it will compete specifically as a Global Town Square. That was the point of my post.

I don’t think so. And they can’t because all of the posts on Twitter are unsigned

It works, kind of :-)

That would be cool, yeah! maybe full recording with ghosts of other player runs that you can compete against too 🤔