I watched your interview with LynAlden (npub1a2c…w83a) at Oslo Freedom Forum this weekend. Really enjoyed it and it got me thinking...
Given what you said about your early vision for Twitter being similar to that of the Nostr protocol, do you think it would be possible for Elon to shift X's social graph to the Nostr protocol?
It would probably be a significant engineering challenge and possibly not all that desirable for him financially. But if he really cares as deeply about free speech as he appears to claim maybe he would consider it worth while. It could even help Elon as the social graph would no longer be under his control and so he becomes less of a target of government etc. He could still run it like a business but instead focus on building the best possible client experience with the possibility that users would be willing to pay for that.
Wondering what people think to this idea? Could this give Nostr the network effect we want or the opposite? How technically feasible is it?
From my perspective I would love to see all the content from the people I follow on X on Nostr. I also think this could be great from a Bitcoin adoption perspective with the possibility of opening up the entire X social graph to lightning/bitcoin wallets.
Curious what fiatjaf (npub180c…h6w6) & Alex Gleason (npub108p…yev6) might think?
jamescallender / James Callender
npub1ra…llmcd
2024-09-02 10:53:17
in reply to nevent1q…0uq6
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