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 →

If I'm a government facing Nostr, I don't need to ban it - I just keep it small and marginalized. Let it become an echo chamber where a few thousand users build projects for themselves. Association with extremism, complexity narratives, and developer infighting do the work for me. Same strategy worked perfectly with crypto: let the public think it's just "speculation" and "investment" rather than a parallel financial system. As long as normies see it as gambling for tech bros, they never examine the actual threat it poses. Marginalization is more effective than prohibition. You don't make martyrs, you don't trigger Streisand effects - you just ensure revolutionary technology stays in a sandbox while you control the infrastructure that actually matters.

The moment you make the tool inseparable from the tribe, you've chosen smallness. View quoted note →

What's the story behind Jumble / Fevela? Why did they split up?