The revolution won’t be centralized.
It won’t be hosted on Facebook,
It won’t be tweeted by Elon,
And it won’t be filtered through Instagram’s rosy lens.
The revolution won’t ask for your email,
It won’t require you to accept cookies,
It won’t target you with ads for sneakers
You thought about once three weeks ago.
The revolution won’t care about your likes,
Your follower count,
Or whether you subscribe to the premium plan.
The revolution won’t crash when AWS goes down,
It won’t shadowban dissenting voices,
And it won’t rewrite your posts to please the algorithm.
The revolution won’t happen on a walled garden,
Or behind a paywall.
You won’t be locked out of your account
For posting the truth too early or too often.
The revolution won’t beg for venture capital
Or IPO on Wall Street.
It won’t pivot to profits,
Because it isn’t owned.
The revolution will be peer-to-peer,
It will be cryptographically signed,
Relayed by independent nodes
That don’t care who you are,
Only what you have to say.
The revolution will zap you on Lightning,
It will live on NOSTR,
It will be open-source, decentralized,
Immutable, unstoppable, and yours.
Because the revolution won’t be centralized.
Stay humble. Stack sats.
Oyl Miller comes from an advertising background where he has worked for legacy brands like Nike and PlayStation, digital giants like Google and Airbnb, as well as crypto and web3 startups. He is experimenting with moving to a Bitcoin standard, and is looking to create value with his writing skills in a variety of ways.
