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@ Freakoverse
2023-07-10 15:11:52As time continues to progress forward we notice that it's getting harder and harder to get our hands on various items and truly own them, from various objects in "our" homes, financial wealth, personal data, land, etc.
Thankfully Bitcoin came into existence and allowed individuals to take back a lot of their financial wealth into their control, where at the very least they can resist a hostile takeover of it.
Another thing to be thankful for is that now there's an ever-growing movement toward taking control of your personal data and digital possessions, where most free and paid online services have your as the product, mining data from you to know how and what to sell you, sell that data to other entities, know how to manipulate you to have certain thoughts or take certain actions, and potentially use it against you.
What's The New Normal?
In the past, a lot of people had this thought process of "ugh... I have to get this X to get this Y that I want?", where "X" had been an internet router, a PC, a mobile phone, etc, and "Y" was looking stuff up online, use whatever useful software, or make calls and use google maps for example. People would complain about having to get a new thing and familiarize themselves with it, that is until everyone had it in their homes/possessions, then it became normal, even expected.
What's going to be the new normal (or at least hope)? The first thing would be that every individual in every household would have their own mini-server, their own Cloud, where they'd store their data like images, videos, audio, and text, use various non-intrusive/invasive software, and use security to protect all of what's inside it.
Secondly, people would stop using current data-hungry tech like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube, Twitch, etc, and use alternatives that don't even care who you are like a lot of software on Nostr.
Thirdly, once the first two become commonplace, a lot of the convenience we're used to currently from using mainstream products would be here in this new normal as well, and most likely even better.
The new normal is having your own server at home. It's having control over your financial wealth. It's having control of your own data. It's having the ability to resist and having enough power now to push for taking control back of other items that we don't have anymore. The new normal is that you'll own everything that is rightfully yours and be happy.
How You Can Own Your Financial Wealth & Data
For those who are tech-savvy, love to learn, and want to jump into a very long rabbit hole, then go ahead and learn everything you can about Bitcoin and everything surrounding it, then start learning about Nostr. You'll eventually know how to handle things and take the steps to take control of your data back. Depending on where your mindset is, this process can take anywhere between a few months to a few years.For the average Ostrich (Joe, Sheep, whatever you like), start by figuring out how to acquire Bitcoin, and storing it in a non-custodial wallet, from an app on your phone like Trust Wallet for example, or better yet into a cold non-custodial physical wallet device for better security. After that, get yourself a Bitcoin Lightning Wallet app, like Phoenix, and get familiar with how to acquire BTC into it (Bitcoin on the Lightning Network) to conduct near-instant small transactions like buying coffee.
For both types of people, either figure out how to build your own Raspberry Pi machine, then set up and run Umbrel on it, or directly buy a ready-made machine from Umbrel directly. After that, start learning about its apps and how everything works, and voila, now you have your own in-house cloud server.
Lastly, you'd want to start getting into Nostr if you'd like to use social apps like Twitter, but without all of its cons, or for other uses like live-streaming or blogging, etc.
I'll admit, it's not a smooth process to get everything set up and running, and the experience after that from using everything isn't nearly as polished as it could be in comparison to the current mainstream services in a lot of points, but all of these processes is getting smoother by the day, as all things that became normal and standard.
Thanks for reading
As there is now an internet wireless router in every house, there will be a personal cloud server in every house too. I'll be doing my part and helping family and friends get set up and be ready for this new normal that empowers the individual.
Do you agree, or do you think most will "own nothing and be happy"?