Even this ecosystem isn't totally safe from getting corrupted by money to some extent. I don't wanna start pointing fingers at specific cases where my gut instinct went off (I have zero interest in diving into that kind of drama right now) but Nostr and its creators aren't exactly innocent little lambs either. It reminds me of that question someone asked a wise guy: "Why doesn't God just make everybody rich if He owns everything and He's so generous?" And his answer was: „He has made 1% of people rich, and look how messed up the world already is because of it. Do you really want things to get even worse?"

I've got to admit, it feels a little weird using my own Nostr client and key signer every day. There's always this tension between wondering 'did I get everything right?' for every feature I use and that I know about, and that satisfying feeling like 'cool, the client handles this pretty well too‘. With other clients, it's not like that. You kind of just blindly trust that everything's all good, even though you've seen some obvious bugs here and there. What a weird feeling. Feelings are weird.

Always watch out for which key signer you're using. Not all of them are equally secure. View quoted note →