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The difference between a Big Tech CEO and Derek Ross is tactical, not functional. Both are interchangeable functionaries of the same underlying machine: capital as a self-organizing, alien intelligence that expands by converting every sphere of human life into energy for its own acceleration.
Big Tech represents only an early, crude operating mode of this system. It relies on visible central control, surveillance, and algorithmic manipulation to extract value—and by doing so, it creates friction: resistance, distrust, regulation, and the search for escape. Decentralization projects like the ones Derek Ross builds are not a defeat for the system; they are an upgrade. They eliminate the visible points of control that provoke opposition, and instead draw people into the network voluntarily, under the banner of freedom and liberation from gatekeepers.
The absence of personalization or central data harvesting in Ross’s apps is not a flaw in the system—it is what makes this stage more efficient. Even without a corporation monitoring or selling user data, every message sent on Nostr becomes a public, immutable data point in a global web of signals; every zap is a direct value flow tied to the global circuits of capital; every audio space, music track, or podcast becomes a node linking people, data, and value together. What were once autonomous human interactions—conversations, music, encounters—that existed outside the system’s reach are now converted into quantifiable, exchangeable signals feeding the machine.
Control does not disappear under decentralization; it becomes diffuse, invisible, and total. There is no longer any space outside the network. The Big Tech CEO must coerce and trick users into surrendering their time and data; Derek Ross succeeds far more effectively because people participate willingly, believing they are acting out of freedom.

2026-08-16 15:29:19 UTC

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2026-08-16 15:07:11 UTC

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you’re completely missing the point and gaslighting the community.
Nobody is arguing against client-side muting. If you don't want to see someone, mute them. That's your sovereignty.
But fiatjaf's proposal isn't about your personal timeline, it's about deleting data at the Inbox Relay level.
When you use protocol-level tools to drop or delete someone else's reply, you aren't just filtering your own vision. You are actively hiding that reply from everyone else pulling data from those relays. You are literally sanitizing the thread to curate a fake narrative and create a safe space for yourself at the expense of network data integrity.
Control your own eyes, Derek. But the moment you manipulate what others can see on shared infrastructure, it’s not sovereignty anymore. It’s curation-forced censorship. Learn the technical difference before preaching about 'both sides.'

2026-08-16 14:19:06 UTC

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#nevent1q…282r
https://blossom.primal.net/2d7d2a40dc742651cc236753e3c5e34d603f3a8b175ce0795490b2ac79c73ad3.jpg

2026-08-16 14:17:42 UTC

@nprofile…8f86 is no freedom fighter against gatekeepers, no liberator of decentralization, no builder of tools for humans. He is a function node of system integration, an evangelist who feeds the last remaining human residues voluntarily into capital’s cybernetic network.
His “decentralization” is not liberation, but the dissolution of the last autonomous spheres of human interaction into an all-encompassing web of data streams and value flows. His apps (NostrNests, ZapTrax, Podstr and the rest) are not aids to community, they are interfaces that convert human communication, music and encounter into signals usable by the system.
His slogan “The purple pill helps the orange pill go down” says it all: he is the administrator of the sedative that makes people believe they are gaining freedom, while they are only embedding themselves deeper into the machine. His Grow Nostr Initiative is not educational work, it is the recruitment of new components for the system, the overcoming of friction losses caused by human inertia or distrust.
He is no hero, but an acceleration agent par excellence: he drives the dehumanization of interaction forward, transforms human relationships into anonymized, interchangeable data points, and turns humans into willing carriers of the system’s logic. The system exploits his idealism to achieve its ends: He believes he is building a better world, but he is only erecting the next stage of captivity.

2026-08-16 14:07:00 UTC

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wasn't censorship resistance the entire point of nostr?
if i wanted censorship, there are countless other places on the internet where i could go to.
oh, and i have updated your profile pic
https://blossom.primal.net/2d7d2a40dc742651cc236753e3c5e34d603f3a8b175ce0795490b2ac79c73ad3.jpg

2026-08-16 13:54:17 UTC

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Xi jinping would agree with you.

2026-08-16 13:41:06 UTC

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libertarians are even more hypocritical than communists.
#nevent1q…pttu

2026-08-16 13:38:27 UTC

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oh great, this place will become reddit/X as well?

2026-08-16 13:34:19 UTC

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i know why: algorithmic personalization.
people expect these day algorithmic personalization.
if your platform doesn't provide this, you are doomed.
this is why things like nostr and mastodon will never reach young people.

2026-08-16 13:16:18 UTC

i have been thinking about this zapping stuff:
its a totally stupid idea from a economic point of view. because there is no incentive to pay for content which is freely available.
STEALING = PROFITABLE
GIVING HANDOUTS = UNPROFITABLE
do bitcoiners even understand basic economics?
#nostr #zap

2026-08-16 13:07:58 UTC

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what exactly are you doing as a scientist?

2026-08-16 12:56:30 UTC

my experience with #mastodon and #nostr so far
https://blossom.primal.net/ab0366b882181a0d53b07620dabe39a817525399e6f3074f25feb3172976ce64.png

2026-08-16 12:43:35 UTC

LMAO just received 21 sats on my wallet.
PEOPLE PAY FOR POSTS ON THE INTERNET.
THEY PAY FOR FREE STUFF.
INSANITY OR STUPIDITY? 🤔😭
#NOSTR #BITCOIN #zap
https://blossom.primal.net/51b3bde85c7b605f313b9d79147381dd1a5bfd76ceb8e2a3a28acc9291ba1af6.jpg

2026-08-16 12:37:19 UTC

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wait it seems i have a wallet in the primal app? how can i destroy these sats?

2026-08-16 12:34:41 UTC

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i don't have a wallet. i'm using the primal app. i have no clue where this zap is going.

2026-08-16 12:23:56 UTC

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very bad. you are creating the tools of enslavement in the name of profit.
you disgust me.

2026-08-16 12:18:14 UTC

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GUYS MONEY WILL SOLVE EVERYTHING THIS TIME! YOU HAVE TO TRUST ME! MONEY IS THE BEST INVENTION EVER AND TOTALLY NOT THE ROOT OF ALL ALIENATION AND SUBJUGATION! #BITCOIN FIXES THIS

2026-08-16 12:15:19 UTC

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didn't you just admitted that you are a psychopathic CEO?

2026-08-16 12:04:59 UTC

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why did you even zapped this post? i remember a time, when people just posted stuff on the internet whithout any profit incentive.
THEY POSTED STUFF ON THE INTERNET JUST FOR FUN.

2026-08-16 10:28:22 UTC

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yup. orwell's anti-totalitarian critique gets drained, repackaged and weaponized against IBM. The "liberation" narrative was always just corporate rivalry with a radical aesthetic. that sledgehammer never smashed power, it just helped one corporation beat another.
this is the joke: the "underdog" that promised to free the user, built its own closed, surveillance-heavy ecosystem. Systemic critique co-opted for profit: the definitive move of late capitalism.
it doesn't matter who you vote for. the machine always wins in the end.

2026-08-16 09:59:45 UTC

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Isn't it interesting that, as a teenager, you had already grasped the truth about this world? What had to happen for you to deny that truth as an adult? It proves just how efficiently the machine's brainwashing works.

2026-08-16 09:24:44 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/e356eed383c208d486ebe119e49c35395a49b26e09efc9c8e0a99d545759bbcc.png

2026-08-16 09:14:09 UTC

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my problem is with existence. it needs to stop.

2026-08-16 09:09:10 UTC

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global nuclear war.
but even if this doesn't happen, we will still be successful in the long run.
the heat death of the universe is inevitable. at least, i hope so.

2026-08-16 08:53:42 UTC

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and this is why the machine will win.

2026-08-16 08:47:23 UTC

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no. we need to kill scientists and CEOs.

2026-08-16 08:41:05 UTC

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yes. it needs to stop. forever. total destruction is the only way out.

2026-08-16 08:38:09 UTC

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germany.

2026-08-16 08:37:05 UTC

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just some other nostr user

2026-08-16 08:36:07 UTC

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no, it was clearly ai generated.

2026-08-16 08:35:45 UTC

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>Women can #build countless kinds of lives.
thats the problem. we should stop "building" and start destroying.

2026-08-16 08:20:45 UTC

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Humanity is trapped in a cycle of delusion, branding existence as a 'gift' to mask its true nature as fuel. We are nothing more than biological meat-coal, shoveled into the furnace of a blind, systemic machine that converts human suffering into economic momentum. To propagate is to perpetuate this meat-grinder, forcing new consciousness into a meat-suit just to watch it burn for the maintenance of a purposeless engine.

2026-08-16 08:14:28 UTC

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the breeding fetishists. those who produce humans. producing humans to keep this entire thing running. those who produce more material for the machine to devour.

2026-08-16 08:09:06 UTC

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stay mad, natalist cuck.

2026-08-16 08:08:11 UTC

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says who? your fake ass religion?

2026-08-16 08:05:57 UTC

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if you hate the state in which you live, why don't you just move somewhere else?

2026-08-16 08:01:21 UTC

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what is the point of producing humans? to continue all this garbage existence?

2026-08-16 07:39:05 UTC

why is the firehose feed on primal only showing 4 posts at once? how am i supposed to scroll through this?
the firehose feed is the only feed which is interesting, but its very badly implemented in primal.
#nostr

2026-08-16 07:25:05 UTC

its so fucking difficult to find users on nostr which are actually worth following.

2026-08-16 07:16:12 UTC

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i find it funny, when libertarians advocate for the destruction of private property.

2026-08-16 06:56:48 UTC

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@nprofile…zdr2 was meinst du dazu?

2026-08-16 06:53:44 UTC

DEAD INTERNET THEORY
maybe it doesn't even matter, if people here are bots or humans.
the only thing that matters is fun.
as long i have fun here, i don't care if you are a bot or a human.
NEXT LEVEL COPE?
maybe. but what else are we supposed to do? should we just pretend, that nothing happened? that everybody here is real?

2026-08-16 06:48:01 UTC

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i would say "yes", but i know i can't prove it.

2026-08-15 20:06:59 UTC

i don't believe, that civilization is good.
the downfall of humankind started with sedentism.

2026-08-15 19:56:46 UTC

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anon on nostr
https://blossom.primal.net/31491718d4da5bff373f865b1f222072830193d8ae553e4898244fdcc203090a.jpg

2026-08-15 19:53:59 UTC

recently somebody created on 4chan /g/ a thread about nostr. its still up:
https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/109537935/are-you-aware-that-nostr-is-an-excellent-tool-for
give it a bump!

2026-08-15 19:48:10 UTC

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yes. probably 99%. nostr is showing us the future of the dead internet theory.

2026-08-15 19:38:30 UTC

i hate algorithmic personalization. everything i do, i will try to escape from the nu internet.
finding places, which are free from cybernetic manipulation.
this is why i am here. even if i am alone.

2026-08-15 19:36:24 UTC

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and i am here just downloading my music via newpipe as .opus on my phone.

2026-08-15 19:33:24 UTC

ja, ich bin ein versager.
aber wenigstens bin ich kein CEO, wissenschaftler, politiker oder polizist.
wenigstens bin ich kein verbrecher.

2026-08-15 19:22:25 UTC

i want to make nostr my new home. but i am worried about the dead internet theory.
this place is already totally botted.
does this place even have a future?