My fellow Monero enthusiasts,

In the pursuit of our cause, let us be unequivocal: we will not support any reduction in privacy or anonymity. These are the pillars upon which Monero stands, the very essence of our mission. The moment we allow these principles to falter, we risk losing the sanctuary we have built. It is then that we must seek refuge elsewhere.

The likes of Russell Brand and Glenn Beck may not grasp the profound necessity of the privacy and anonymity that Monero offers, but we do. We understand that our goal is not to appease the existing system, but to transcend it. We have borne witness to enough theft, war, and hegemony to last a hundred lifetimes. The time has come to cast aside any semblance of compromise in our messaging. Privacy and anonymity are non-negotiable.

Are we not the central bank killers that Satoshi envisioned? Are we not the vanguard of a new era, where financial sovereignty is reclaimed by the individual? Now is not the time to waver. We must weather every storm that comes our way, for there will be many. But united in our unwavering commitment to privacy and anonymity, we shall prevail.

Let us march forward, resolute and unyielding, in our shared mission. Together, we will ensure that Monero remains a beacon of freedom in an increasingly surveilled world.

Privacy and anonymity, now and forever!

Can we make a Matrix or Session group to track this instead? Here's what a comparison of Session to SimpleX said: "To summarize – SimpleX is a broken and messy thing, but it is very cool." I don't use a smartphone very much and desktop apps that work well are few and far between. It seems like everyone is trying to drag me to their favorite messenger without providing any additional benefits in anonymity and security. I wouldn't mind if SimpleX had binary installers for more distro's, but that territory rarely gets covered adequately in early adoption.

I search on Haveno in matrix and nothing came up, is it access controlled or invitation only?

I liked the concept behind Kodachi, but there's a very, very small community supporting it. It's a good thumb-drive OS like Tails, but does a much better job than Tails. I haven't tried it in quite a while, but FreeBSD may be worth a shot. When testing open source versions of Unix, I found them ahead of OpenBSD on the modern GUI stuff, but it's anyone's guess where they are at now. Might be worth spinning up a Virtual Machine. BSD Unix has been around longer than Linux, so you can be confident there's well tested and vetted code base.

I just restarted my node, got this message in startup over there:

2024-03-09 04:04:20.475 W Unable to send transaction(s), no available connections

Then it went on to give this message:

2024-03-09 04:04:22.880 I You are now synchronized with the network. You may now start monero-wallet-cli.

Interested in Nostr, but it appears Gossip client for Linux is not ready for prime time. I will not allow clipboard paste of Npub with Ctrl-V. Looks like I may have to wait for another version when these bugs are worked out.

After some additional education on the broad topic of decentralized communications tools, I've learned of Matrix/Element and Session Messenger, which seem to accomplish alot of the privacy and anonymity goals without the use of blockchain, yet it is decentralized, so they also will survive a widespread DNS blocking, also referred to as the Internet Kill Switch.

Have your Mom try Session Messenger, it does not ask for an email or a phone number, and is a little less complicated than Matrix.

So glad to have another podcast for Monero that I can listen to. Thanks for switching to English, Alex.

After examination, it still appears that Bastyon does a better job of providing a Twitter like interface while remaining private and anonymous as you choose to. However, my assumption that using the block-chain being the only way to do that may have been in error. I've also learned a bit about Session and done a little reading on Nostr, but although Session seems to be a WhatsApp OR Signal - killer, it doesn't appear to have the same ability to share news and create followers like Twitter or Telegram. I am very enthusiastic about all the new activity in the decentralized communication space.

Why not have a social network on a block-chain? Most people in the Monero community don't want censorship, and block-chain based systems remove the ability to censor speech, where centralized servers will always retain that ability. Take the CEO of the company that can be bought or bribed out of the equation, and it's uncorruptable.

I'd be happy to give it a shot. If you all concur, contact me via DM and at monerotalk.prancing389@aleeas.com to discuss requirements/expectations.