The Purple Pill
What is the purple pill?
It's not a drug that you buy on The Onion Router...I mean the "dark web." The analogy comes from the Matrix. Just in case you’ve never seen it, click on the picture below to watch the clip I'm talking about.
Do you believe in Fate?
No.
Why not?
Because I don't like the idea that I am not in control of my life.
I know exactly what you mean.
Let me tell you why you are here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You felt it your entire life...that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there like a splinter in your mind. Driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you here to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?...
The purple pill is a new Internet Protocol like IP(Internet Protocol) is used to access the internet, https (hypertext transfer protocol secure) is used to access the world wide web, or SMTP(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is used in email. Nostr, (Notes & Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is a new protocol like that.
Nostr Is Not A New App
Nostr is not just another app. It is not a start up. This is not an investment. It does not use "blockchain technology." It is not web3 or a new crapto-currency. It is a new way of signing one’s data, keeping some things private and some things public, You can create more than one identity. You are free to reveal as little or as much as you want. You may build a following or stay under the radar.
It is a communications protocol like IP(Internet Protocol, or http(hypertext transmission protocol)
Why Do We Need This?
Those of us who have taken the blue pill are not free on the Internet. They are slave to algorithms, **immersed in a prison custom tailored for their minds. **
They cannot taste it nor smell it, but they can see it when ads flash in front of their screen. She liked a picture of newborn baby last week. He searched for a pair of shoes, He talked to his wife about buying a new computer. . They scroll past ads for new baby clothes, his favorite shoe brand, and a new computer. Was it coincidence? You already know the answer, don't you?
Everything you say, everything you watch, every credit card number you type is recorded.
You no longer own this data.
This data is being used against you whether you know it or not. You can feel it when you notice another annual subscription fee on your credit card bill you don't recall authorizing. When you stop scrolling on Twitter to look at an attractive woman or when your kids misbehave after YouTube babysits.
You are the chattel real.
Your attention helps make other people rich. and consequently keeps you a little poorer.
This can't possibly be shocking news, right? I am not telling you anything you don't already know. Why else would someone pay 44 billion dollars to buy twitter?
Why is the inventor of twitter on Nostr?
Oh my Google, what have we done?
Every website wants your email, shipping address, and a number to that thing in your pocket. It's not American Express, but you never leave home without it.
We have lost control of the Internet.
What if I told you the platform you are reading this on is not owned by a corporation?
It will not ask for your email or send an emails begging you to come back if you take a break.
There are no targeted ads.
We transfer value all around the globe in fewer than five seconds without any bank.
This blog is not even written on a centralized platform.
You can read it
It is not controlled by the left.
It is not controlled by the right.
It is not controlled by any corporation.
It is not controlled by the CCP.
It is not controlled by the USA.
`The closest analogy is perhaps to compare it to email. People who use Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, and various individual webmail services, can all send emails to each other regardless of which service they use. This is because they are all built on the same underlying set of protocols, and are not closed/siloed systems.
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--Lynn Alden, The Implications of Open Monetary and Information Networks
You can use your public key to:
Sign up for a Voice Over Internet Protocol phone service.
It's possible to use Nostr to program your thermostat, but we can't do that just yet.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what Nostr is.
You have to see it for yourself.
After this there is no turning back.
This is your last chance.
What do you believe?
Inflation is 8% ?
YouTube is a great babysitter?
Bitcoin can only handle 7 transactions per minute?
Facebook does not know you better than your spouse?
The prices you see on your screen are the same for everyone else?
Depending on what the algorithms decide you prefer, the Russians stole the election or the voting machines are rigged.
Vaccine Good/Vaccine Bad(your opinion depends on those algorithms, how much propaganda you were exposed to, and how much information has been withheld from you.)
Did you change your profile picture to show support for the current thing?
With Nostr, no one needs your:
- real first name
- real last name
- phone number
- picture of your face
- a driver's license or passport
- address
- password
- birthday
- gender
- race/ethnicity
- political affiliation
- or religion
You are free to reveal as much or as little information as possible. Choose wisely. Think about it for a while. What do you want to share with the world? What do you want to keep private? What do you want to do with your time?
You click the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever they or they/them want you to believe.
You click the purple pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Remember. All I am offering is the truth, nothing more.
If you have an iPhone, check out BTCSession's video
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