First they came for your smartphone, then they wanted to get their smarts everywhere with IoT.

Fortunately most devices can be used without an account still today, and we have Linux and BSD that allow you to run your own OS in your own hardware. But that might change in the future, given the design of the new security chips in new computers.

And for mobile we have GrapheneOS, a great smartphone OS without any big tech into it. It's basically what Android should be.

In fact, maybe I overestimated these big tech circuses:

I found nostr because of SN.

lol I'd switch off apple if it weren't for being so used to it. I can't really afford the cost of a transition.

One of you fellas is running linux on a macbook iirc. That'd probably be my first stop.

Nicely done. My analysis (inc. territories) is somewhat flawed in that it only looks at posts with over 1k sats. But that’s what is important to me. In these times of unlimited information, for me quality > quantity.

I’m also keen to compare the various metrics on those over time. Your analysis feels well rounded in that respect, in that it’s not looking just at >1k sat posts.

Cost to me is irrelevant when posting, it’s all somewhat negligible. I am keen to know where the valuable conversations are happening and where the best and most thoughtful posts are occurring. And to take inspiration from territories seeing success.

~AMA is somewhat skewed for now. It’s going to be very interesting when AMAs start happening inside territories or multiple territories per post.

~booksandarticles, ~econ and ~lightning seem to be in a league of their own at this time for sats, comments and engagement. ~builders profitable but in the chasing pack for engagement. More on that in a post landing any day now.

I just finished Lyn Alden's "Broken Money". Cannot recommend it highly enough. It's so well written, well researched, well layed out and well argued. She touches on so much relevant to the topic, including the threat of CBDCs and the importance of privacy. What came through on every page was just how at odds the incentives of central bankers with those of the people. We need to end the Fed.

Rob Hamilton from Anchor Watch was on TFTC recently.

He maintains this google doc that's got great links to a ton of miniscript educational materials.

IMO - miniscript is absolutely massive for the collaborative custody & insurance use cases.