Twitter: Full integration of LN could initiate gigantic boost
21 sats \ 6 comments \ @TomK 23 Nov 2022 bitcoin
I love Twitter as a medium, as an emancipation tool of a free civilization, as a research tool, and as a conflicting medium for wrestling over different opinions.
But Twitter could create a dimensional leap: What a gigantic boost the global integration of the Lightning network, reaching beyond the tipping function, would be for this platform! It would have the potential to merge information and payment flows with the functions of an infinite number of particular markets. Twitter could become the global super-player of a new economy and, by the way, give TradFi a hit as it would be able to take over banking functions, too - if only it weren't for Musk's childishness with Dogecoin...
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @Bitzm 23 Nov 2022
The lightning network could fix twitter, but should the lightning network fix twitter?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 23 Nov 2022
I can't be neutral here. I am too big a fanboy of the platform.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @cryptocoin 23 Nov 2022
Twitter is broken, and I doubt Elon will try to fix it.
For instance, I just searched Twitter for a youtube video. There is a Tweet with the URL, but Twitter search won't return that Tweet in the results. Whether that is because of a "shadow ban", or deboost, or whatever they call it. ... that's the vestiges of Twitter censorship that remains.
I'll give Musk a temporary pass for now as he just took over and in the month or so since, literally well more than half of the company's staff is no longer there.
But the fact that they have systems that do that crap, for nonsense reasons, tells me that Twitter is just utterly broken. I still have to use it as I wait for its replacement by something better (maybe nostr?). Mastodon is not the solution either, although I do still use that too yet -- but it is flawed as well. For instance, the Mastodon instance hosting some core developers and the Bitcoin Optech bot as well has been included on a "blocklist" and is no longer accessible by a good chunk of the Fediverse.
Crap like that is why rather than trying to inject liberty into closed systems, effort should be spent building free (as in free speech) systems and let the closed systems figure out that they must adopt or die.
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 23 Nov 2022
You are right. Musk and his team of developers have a hell of a job to do. I am not a developer so I just can hope they will get along with these cracks. The platform plays a too important role in the fight for free expression to give it up like that.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 23 Nov 2022
It would also enable secure log ins and solve the bot issues
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 23 Nov 2022
Yes, for sure. The thing is that we can't imagine the potential of the Lightning network in it's full swing phase. The future is unwritten.
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