Building Censorship-Resistant Social Media (w/ HRF & Will Casarin)

27/10/2025 1h 5min

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Zac Guignard (Financial Freedom Content Associate at HRF) and Will Casarin (founder of Damus) take the stage at PubKey NYC with host Frank Corva to discuss the new generation of Nostr-native platforms allowing users to speak and transact freely without censorship. Are we finally in a new era for the Internet? Plus:Why centralized social platforms strip users of autonomy (and how Nostr’s open protocol restores it by design)How Damus lets users broadcast to 100+ relays simultaneously, making deplatforming nearly impossibleThe surprising real-world use cases emerging on Nostr: raw milk markets, uncensorable Reddit clones, and permanent AdblockHow the Chinese government instantly banned Damus after 25,000 downloads in 48 hoursWhy vibe coding is radically lowering the barrier to entry for building decentralized appsWhat it means for a platform to go viral without an algorithm and how that changes incentives toward real value (and not ragebait!)What the future looks like if apps are created through voice prompts, monetized with Lightning, and deployed (without devs knowing a single line of JavaScript)▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬PubKey meetups are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Good food, bad opinions, great company.🧡 NYC Meetups: https://luma.com/user/pubkey🗽 PubKey NYC🗽 85 Washington Place🗽 New York, NY 10011Follow us on X: ⁠https://x.com/PubKey⁠