Captain's Nostr Log

https://jumble.thecaptain.dev/

paranoid crypto anarchist

Public Key

npub1fd0t73r8vn3nqezdg93fyj5x5u79zucf3jaspkc2dy9sjuqx5z8qftjal4

NIP-05 Address

_@thecaptain.dev

NIP-57 Address

thecaptain@minibits.cash

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsykh4lg3nkfcesv3x5zc5jf2r2w0z3wvycewcqmv9xjzcfwqr2prspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq35amnwvaz7tm5dpjkvmmjv4ehgtnwdaehgu339e3k7mg764ces

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relay.damus.io

theforest.nostr1.com

Author Public Key

npub1fd0t73r8vn3nqezdg93fyj5x5u79zucf3jaspkc2dy9sjuqx5z8qftjal4

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2025-08-01 21:35:24

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may it be blessed

2025-08-01 20:17:47

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based!

2025-08-01 12:30:01

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GM 🤙🏼

2025-08-01 12:12:16

GM to those who slept on the floor and rose before the sun
#gm
#riseandgrind

2025-07-31 23:52:51

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you can set up Jumble to hide things from profiles that are not followed by anyone you follow

2025-07-31 23:36:05

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cigarettes have no appeal to me

2025-07-31 12:53:58

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🫡

2025-07-31 12:50:51

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I think the rampant use of energy drinks is the bigger issue

2025-07-31 12:45:59

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replace "coffee" with "tea"

2025-07-31 12:42:30

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2025-07-31 12:41:23

Coffee is Not a Crutch. It’s a Weapon.
You don’t roll out of bed and stumble toward caffeine like a slave begging for chains.
You rise. You stand. You face the morning like it’s a challenge, not a comfort.
The first stimulant is not coffee. It’s the sun.
Bare eyes to sky. Skin to light. You let the signal hit your brain like a drum—wake, sharpen, rise. Cortisol is already spiking. That’s your body’s own fire. Respect it. Let it do its work.
And then—you wait.
Coffee too early is sabotage. It blunts the edge. Dulls the rise.
You’re not here to chase a feeling. You’re here to own your rhythm.
When the sun is high enough, when the cortisol tide has peaked, then you make your brew.
And it’s not some sugar-drenched dessert in a paper cup.
It’s black. It’s bitter. It’s deliberate.
You don’t sip mindlessly. You honor the ritual.
You don’t drink to wake up. You’re already awake.
You drink to strike harder. Think clearer. Move with precision.
Coffee is not your comfort. It’s not your drug.
It’s your blade.
And a blade, in the hands of the undisciplined, cuts the wrong way.
#gm
#disciplinebeforedopamine

2025-07-31 00:10:40

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pura vida

2025-07-31 00:01:11

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there's a lot to ponder there as a developer working on nostr

2025-07-30 12:47:12

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what's the TLDR?

2025-07-30 12:42:29

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GM, did you try zapping him?

2025-07-30 12:41:07

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yeah, this idea was in the original spec for the contact list, but I don't know of any clients that implement it

2025-07-30 12:39:21

Rise before the cowards.
The weak roll over. The strong rise up.
No breakfast. No dopamine banquet.
You start the day hungry—because you're not here to be fed. You're here to hunt.
Eyes open. Air cold. Mind sharp.
You don't scroll to numb. You post to signal.
One "gm" to the tribe. One shitpost to the feed. Then silence.
The rest of the world hits snooze.
You’ve already moved.
You’ve already declared war.
#gm
#nofood
#noslaves
#signalnotnoise
#logonspitblood

2025-07-30 01:09:31

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based

2025-07-30 01:01:24

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314 days, according to my client

2025-07-30 01:00:20

Warriors Reject Chairs: Rise Up, Stand Strong, Live Free
Chairs are the enemy of the warrior’s body and spirit. They are traps of comfort that weaken your frame, dull your posture, and chain you to softness. Every minute spent sitting is a minute stolen from strength, readiness, and savage vitality. We are not made to sit. We are made to stand, to move, to dominate.
Chairs breed weakness. They invite slouching spines, lazy muscles, and a mind dulled by inactivity. Sitting is surrender. It teaches the body to decay, the mind to drift, and the warrior’s edge to blunt. Warriors do not park themselves on cushions. We plant our feet firmly, build iron posture, and sharpen our presence.
Standing is the warrior’s stance. It is the position of power, alertness, and action. From standing, you strike. You move fast. You seize the moment. Chairs tie you down to passivity and delay. Reject the chair and reclaim your throne: the unyielding ground beneath your feet.
This is a call to savage action:
Stand tall, even when others sit. Your body is a temple of war, not a soft lounge.
Ditch the chair. Use the floor, lean against walls, squat, kneel—whatever keeps you ready.
Train your muscles to resist weakness. Strength is forged in resistance, not rest.
Live on your feet. Make movement, not comfort, your default state.
Warriors, rise from your seats. Break the chains of sitting. The chair is the enemy of power.

2025-07-30 00:54:18

Why Warriors Reject Breakfast: A Call to Savage Action
Breakfast is a lie—a weak excuse spun by a society that breeds complacency, softness, and weakness. We are warriors, born for aggressive action, not for polite routines that coddle the body with empty rituals. The morning meal is a shackle that chains us to sluggishness and hesitation. It is time to break those chains and reclaim the savage spirit that demands strength, sharpness, and readiness for battle from the moment we rise.
Breakfast dulls the warrior’s edge. Eating early floods the body with insulin and diverts energy toward digestion instead of alertness and power. The warrior’s body is a weapon, forged through hunger, discipline, and fierce focus. When you eat breakfast, you surrender that weapon to the sluggish pull of digestion, the fog of satiety, the lull of softness.
Breakfast trains weakness, not strength. The warrior moves first, strikes hard, and never waits for a meal to “fuel” action. Hunger is the primal signal to fight, not to eat. It sharpens senses, hones will, and ignites the fire of survival. To eat breakfast is to dull that fire, to delay the battle, to succumb to routine rather than seize the day with brutal intent.
Breakfast is a ritual of conformity. Society tells you to eat “breakfast like a king” as if you were a subject to the clock, to schedules, to mass conditioning. Warriors reject the herd mentality. We forge our own path. We fast, we test ourselves, we sharpen hunger into a weapon. We are not cogs in the machine of convenience.
The warrior’s body is a temple of resilience. Fasting through the morning is training. It toughens the flesh, purifies the mind, and heightens readiness. The absence of breakfast is a declaration: I am stronger than my cravings. I master my body; it does not master me.
In conclusion: To eat breakfast is to admit weakness. To reject it is to claim power. Warriors rise with hunger in their bellies and fire in their eyes. They move fast, strike hard, and never pause for the comfort of the morning meal.
Warriors do not eat breakfast. They conquer hunger. They conquer themselves.

2025-07-30 00:52:54

The Local-First Manifesto: Reject All Social Media and Reclaim Reality
Enough. We say no to the endless scroll. No to the digital puppeteers. No to any social media—centralized or decentralized—that steals our time, steals our minds, and steals our souls. This is a call to arms for a Local-First Movement: a rebellion against the digital empire that colonizes our lives and destroys what makes us human.
Social media is a poison. Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or the slick new decentralized playgrounds like Nostr and Pubky, the result is the same: fragmentation, distraction, hollow connection. These networks profit by enslaving your attention, trading your privacy like currency, and reducing your life to data points on a screen.
We refuse to be slaves to feeds, likes, reposts, and zaps. The algorithms do not serve you. They serve themselves — and the unseen masters behind the screens. Every notification is a chain. Every swipe deepens the prison. The “decentralized” label is a lie if it still drags you into digital noise and chaos.
We stand for locality. For the face-to-face conversation, the neighbor’s wave, the shared work of a community bound by place, not pixels. The Local-First Movement is about choosing real human presence over virtual simulation. We reject the manufactured connections of social media and reclaim our time, our focus, our space.
We fight for our minds and spirits. Social media is a machine designed to numb your will and cloud your thoughts. It breeds comparison, envy, and vanity — cultural poisons that erode our roots and cloud our vision. We take back the power to think deeply, to pray silently, to live authentically.
We defend our privacy and sovereignty. No network, no matter how decentralized, should have access to the details of your life. Your data is not a commodity. Your identity is not a product. We reject the permanent digital trails and invisible surveillance embedded in every platform.
This is a movement of resistance, of choice, of freedom. We declare our homes, neighborhoods, and local communities as our true networks. We build our worlds outside the screens. We choose flesh over pixels, presence over distraction, reality over simulation.

2025-07-30 00:51:00

Smash the Gym. Own Your Body.
Forget the machines. Forget the mirrors. Forget the gym’s fluorescent prison.
You don’t need cages, cables, or clanging metal to be strong. Your body is the original weapon. Raw, brutal, unmediated power lives inside you—waiting to be unleashed.
Gyms train slaves. They chain you to routines, memberships, and artificial challenges. Machines force you into robotic movements, killing real strength and making you weak. You trade freedom for numbers on a screen and the approval of strangers.
True strength comes from the ground up. Lifting logs, dragging rocks, climbing walls, sprinting wild. Using your whole body, in real spaces, on your own terms. This is how warriors are made.
Break your chains. Tear down the gym walls in your mind. Own your body, master your movement, and build power that no machine can fake.
No more memberships. No more waiting in line. No more fake strength.
Rise up. Move raw. Be free.

2025-07-30 00:48:33

Mattresses Are Bullshit. Sleep on the Floor.
Wake up. Your mattress is a trap. A soft, sinking coffin that wrecks your back and twists your spine into knots. Every night you lie there, you’re letting your body break down.
The floor doesn’t lie. It doesn’t bend or sag. It forces your body into alignment or breaks you trying. It’s brutal, but it’s honest. It’s the only surface that respects your spine and clears your head.
Stop coddling weakness. Stop feeding the mattress industry’s lies. Stop pretending that comfort equals health.
Drop the mattress. Drop the excuses. Sleep on the floor and rebuild your body from the ground up.
No fluff. No bullshit. Just hard, raw rest.

2025-07-30 00:42:30

A Manifesto Against Cell Service
We refuse to be leashed.
We reject the silent chain of cell towers and contracts, the expectation that we must be reachable at all hours, tracked by invisible networks, and billed for our own captivity.
Cell service is not a convenience. It is a bargain struck with our attention, privacy, and freedom. Every ping, buzz, and ring is a demand to surrender the moment you are in. Every tower handshake logs your location. Every byte of metadata is fed to corporations that treat your life as a product.
The world survived centuries without a signal. So will you. Emergencies can be handled with foresight: Wi-Fi calls, messaging apps, landlines, meeting times and places agreed upon in advance. The rare life-or-death moment is not worth the cost of being owned by a carrier every hour of every day.
To cut the cord is to reclaim your time. To decide when you are reachable, instead of being hunted by notifications. To break the illusion that you must be always on, always responding, always traceable.
We do not owe the world constant access to us. We do not owe corporations our data, our patterns, our movements. And we do not owe the price of our own surveillance, dressed up as a phone bill.
Turn off the towers. Cancel the plan. Find out what life feels like when the signal goes dead — and you can finally hear yourself think.

2025-07-30 00:15:51

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thanks!

2025-07-29 23:42:44

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you know what, I'll just ask for a sandwich

2025-07-29 12:37:01

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nostrudel has them

2025-07-29 12:20:20

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pura vida 🤙🏼

2025-07-29 11:03:23

GM to those who muted me

2025-07-29 01:05:44

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reposts in nostr were a mistake

2025-07-28 23:57:01

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yeah but sometimes I mute just because I'm tired of seeing too much ___fill in the blank___

2025-07-28 23:53:44

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it was a good stress test for the system, it's obvious now we need clients to use petnames

2025-07-28 23:40:13

I unmuted someone yesterday because I thought they were noshole, now I have to find out who it really was and mute them again

2025-07-28 23:38:41

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if you have a PC where can leave the browser tab open, it should work for you. it's not mobile friendly

2025-07-28 23:37:18

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I was hoping the genie wouldn't know that

2025-07-28 02:57:48

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based!

2025-07-28 02:48:39

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🙏🏼

2025-07-28 02:48:15

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you can just mute me

2025-07-28 02:35:53

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that might be the best flat bread, but flat bread is not the best bread. can you build an actual oven?

2025-07-28 02:33:30

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I was hoping to trick the genie by crashing the gold market and pumping my bags of bitcoins

2025-07-28 02:32:41

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trying to bro

2025-07-28 02:29:41

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harsh.

2025-07-28 02:29:15

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bro do you just live outside??

2025-07-28 02:28:38

make churches great again

2025-07-28 02:27:56

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lol I guess I know how to mine sats for my @npub1zzm…w5wy bar of soap

2025-07-28 02:26:56

you can just delete your Google account

2025-07-28 02:26:05

nostr + ai + git is not peak performance. we can do better

2025-07-28 02:24:44

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sounds amazing to have in the human body

2025-07-28 02:20:11

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was your wish granted?

2025-07-28 01:53:12

anyone want to hear about my nostr algorithm on the corny?

2025-07-28 01:43:19

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thanks bro

2025-07-28 01:39:08

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welcome to the future 🤙🏼

2025-07-28 01:36:19

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show us your hair (with a shoe on top) and we'll let you know if she's right

2025-07-28 01:34:58

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now I can't tell who the real noshole is. will the real noshole please stand up? please stand up.

2025-07-28 01:26:55

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tldw?

2025-07-28 01:25:57

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I wanted to join another cult

2025-07-28 01:23:17

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based on Jesus Christ

2025-07-28 01:17:46

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or we could just go to pubky and self organize based on semantic tagging

2025-07-28 01:11:15

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truth.

2025-07-28 01:10:19

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is it in progres or PostgreS?

2025-07-28 00:41:50

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purr-a vida

2025-07-28 00:40:14

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okay, I like mine to be more soupy

2025-07-28 00:39:16

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does it have an RSS feed?

2025-07-28 00:37:21

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then I wish for $1 trillion in gold to be discovered in Africa

2025-07-28 00:36:34

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if you are getting replies and zaps, what does it matter if anyone follows you?

2025-07-28 00:07:39

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why is it so dry?

2025-07-28 00:06:47

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also true: we see the image of God in every human, tarnished though it may be

2025-07-28 00:05:10

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he is a tool

2025-07-27 23:17:59

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what did they do?

2025-07-27 23:12:36

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what's the best soap for someone who doesn't use soap? I heard the goatmilk is pretty good

2025-07-27 22:40:07

peak software development in the era of AI and nostr
#nevent1q…uxc4

2025-07-27 22:39:31

git is fundamentally broken
oh, but let's add nostr to it

2025-07-27 22:39:17

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git is fundamentally broken

2025-07-27 22:38:41

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the twist is, it's the same man, talking to himself

2025-07-27 22:33:09

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pubky

2025-07-27 22:29:03

I've felt all these benefits, without being carnivore. I think it's the inevitable result of going down the bitcoin rabbit hole
#nevent1q…z80e

2025-07-27 21:35:01

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okay, now that I understand the parameters, I can think about what I would ask
is it easier for the genie to do things that would help other people, if it doesn't directly influence my life?

2025-07-27 21:17:58

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this is awesome!

2025-07-27 20:47:27

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if it's keychat desktop, then I think my algo will run

2025-07-27 20:15:23

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it's running client side, only suited for running on a PC

2025-07-27 20:12:47

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much of what you hear about pubky on nostr is part of a misinformation campaign to smear the project, without even a clear motivation behind it. it's not like anyone is holding bags of nostr coins.

2025-07-27 20:09:26

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it's already happening with pubky

2025-07-27 20:09:02

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and you can hide as a nym if they come here

2025-07-27 20:00:35

https://image.nostr.build/a1e9de218bebfc88afdcf3ad25f041cf95e505dbd24cd2a7df4bfaeab3716e7d.jpg

2025-07-27 19:37:09

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the feed I'm developing on https://jumble.thecaptain.dev can fix that. the user will need to be bootstrapped with a follow pack or initial follow list to make the WoT work

2025-07-27 18:09:56

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pura vida

2025-07-27 17:58:02

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I just think it's better to use nostr without ever seeing follower counts. there is no cananonical way to get an accurate global count anyway

2025-07-27 17:51:12

some of the cool features available only on https://jumble.thecaptain.dev
https://image.nostr.build/43885f2f53d20fcf5f6c05642f68f3933c4340f982e9abc16c645b7ae009a128.jpg

2025-07-27 16:56:39

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never mind, I just had to refresh a few times

2025-07-27 16:56:11

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I think it's on master but not deployed yet on the official app

2025-07-27 16:54:27

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you can post polls with https://jumble.thecaptain.dev

2025-07-27 16:51:56

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will you abide by the results of this poll?

2025-07-27 16:36:00

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based

2025-07-27 16:30:02

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Ooh, we gotta hold on, ready or not
You live for the fight when that's all that you've got

2025-07-27 16:28:43

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already halfway there

2025-07-27 16:28:07

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I will collect enough zaps to order a bar of zap on nostr

2025-07-27 16:26:35

likes are one hell of a drug
#onlyzaps

2025-07-27 16:26:02

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we have plenty of nostr addicts here 😂
a dead feed is a skill issue, not a feature of the protocol

2025-07-27 16:24:00

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for most people, it's easier to get more engagement on nostr than X. X is set up to favor influencer accounts, starving out engagement for regular plebs