{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"alp wrote","author_name":"alp (npub175…9g6w0)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub175nul9cvufswwsnpy99lvyhg7ad9nkccxhkhusznxfkr7e0zxthql9g6w0","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"I'm getting the feeling more and more that the original SAIF movement is somehow inauthentic, too artificial. Kind of just an \"non-binding declaration of intent,\" at worst a more pretentious form of piety signaling. BTW, \"non-binding declaration of intent\" is also how advertising is defined, which is why legally speaking, it can spread lies about a product or service.\n\nI'm coming to this view more and more, not just because of recent events, but I had this impression from the beginning, from the first so-called \"SAIF-OGs.\" It's not about the abstract, very theoretical articles they write, but more:\n\n- Lack of practical relevance\n- None of the SAIF-OGs are active here on Nostr (despite a certain number of supporters in the Muslim community)\n- I hardly ever see them talking about Bitcoin or OPSEC\n- They're not involved in the FOSS scene and talk too little about it\n\n... just idealistic yada yada blah blah in hard-to-digest articles all the time.\n\nIn short, it feels like every crap we modern Muslims set up these days: Fake, without substance, quickly passing. Basically like an Islamic shitcoin.\n\nThere are some real SAIF Muslims, don't get me wrong. They were SAIF before the term even existed. Like nostr:npub17veg2gt7ja4dnjhs23jyttvpqlde3ajevlxuumxwghnqmgqwuv4q78cc5z and nostr:npub1uzfp6cgwue2njm86cmyeq7m26y0n58w72acq98sjsnnv4c87002s6857h3 for example. They take the ideas behind it seriously from the beginning. I myself have written articles on my domains that could be classified as \"SAIF,\" but never labeled them as such. But the guys behind https://saif.systems/? Yeah, nice website, so what? It seems to me like this new, artificial SAIF movement just settled into the ready-made nest and is somehow trying to take it over.\n\nI've observed it for a long time, kept quiet for a long time, didn't want to be the critic who ruins a good thing right at the start with criticism. But now? Stay away from me with \"SAIF,\" you hypocrites. I myself will only use the term mockingly from now on. And I'll understand it that way if someone brings it up to me. With a contemptuous smile."}