If you're blindly building another Nostr app for this echo chamber without recognizing common cause, you're doing exactly what the government wants.

Bitcoin maximalists made this error with web3 - accepting the government's narrative that everything is a scam (they just exclude Bitcoin for themselves). Now they're repeating it with Nostr, choosing purity and isolation over recognizing common cause. Every time we adopt the framing that only our specific tool matters while dismissing others as corrupted, we do the state's containment work for free. We fragment resistance into competing tribes while institutional power stays unified. View quoted note →