Dear Journalist,

Yet here we are. Your investigation into municipal corruption, months in the making, gets buried under a tsunami of viral content. The algorithm decided it wasn't "engaging" enough. Too long. Too complex. Not enough emotional triggers to keep people scrolling.

We met some of you at the Oslo Freedom Forum. War correspondents. Investigative reporters. People who've had guns pointed at their heads for doing their job. And after surviving all that, you're being slowly strangled by something far more insidious: the attention economy.

The math is brutal. That article you spent three months on? It pays $500 if you're lucky. The gas to get to the story cost more than that. Your editor killed two stories last month because they wouldn't "perform well." You're not just fighting corruption and cartels anymore—you're fighting an algorithm that's been trained to value outrage over truth.

There's another way.

It's called Nostr. Think of it as email for social media—no company owns it, no algorithm controls it, no board of directors can shut it down.

When you publish on Nostr, your readers see what you write. Not what an algorithm thinks will keep them scrolling. Not what will maximize ad revenue. Just your words, reaching the people who chose to hear them.

"What bitcoin is to money, Nostr is to communications. It's a censorship-resistant protocol for speech."

Here's what this means practically:

• No more gatekeepers. That story about drone warfare in Mexico's last pristine ecosystems? Publish it directly. No editor can kill it. No algorithm can bury it. No government can delete it.
• Direct support from readers. When someone values your work, they can send you money instantly. Not through a platform that takes 30%. Not through a subscription service that pays you pennies. Direct payment, from reader to writer.
• You own your audience. When Twitter bans you or Facebook changes its algorithm, you don't lose your readers. Your identity on Nostr is yours. Your followers are yours. Your content is yours.

But I'm not technical...

Neither were most of us. If you can use email, you can use Nostr. If you can write in WordPress, you can publish on Nostr. The tools have gotten remarkably simple.

Start in 15 minutes:

1. Get a wallet that handles both your identity and payments
2. Choose a writing platform where you own everything
3. Write your first piece. Your existing readers can follow you from any Nostr app.

Yes, it's small compared to Twitter. Yes, it's new. But that's exactly the point. You're not competing with everyone for everyone's attention. You're building a direct relationship with readers who actually want journalism.

The real question

We've watched journalism get squeezed from every direction. Authoritarian governments. Tech monopolies. Venture capitalists. AI slop. The question isn't whether the current system is broken—we all know it is.

The question is: are you ready to try something different?

Not a new platform that will eventually sell out. Not another VC-funded solution that will inevitably enshittify. But a protocol. A foundation that no one can own, control, or shut down.

Some of your colleagues are already there. Journalists from conflict zones who need uncensorable communications. Reporters covering protests who need resilient networks. Writers who are tired of begging algorithms for visibility.