If someone's building another institution within open protocols—gatekeeping people's minds, capturing the incredible value of freedom for their business, wrapping centralized control in decentralization theater—they are my enemy. The protocol gives neutral tools: infrastructure that could serve without dominating, systems that could connect without controlling, technology that could empower without extracting. But they can't see them as tools—they only know how to build institutions. They're not consciously choosing to institutionalize freedom, they're just doing what they've always done, replicating the same patterns they've internalized for decades. They don't even realize they're building manipulative institutions on top of neutral infrastructure. They call centralized control "community stewardship" because that's the only language they know. They turn voluntary cooperation into mandatory compliance because hierarchy is their default mode. They create dependencies and call them "services" because they genuinely can't imagine people coordinating without a management layer. Look at the big conferences—always gatekeepers deciding who speaks, who belongs, who gets the stage. They can't gather without creating hierarchies of access. This is worse than malice—it's institutional muscle memory. They're so captured by institutional thinking that they can't recognize liberating tools when they're holding them. People trained by institutions can only reproduce institutions. I'm not here to help anyone build better institutions. I'm here to build infrastructure that works around people who can't stop institutionalizing everything they touch.

i've made enemies in every protocol tribe bitcoin people hate me ethereum people hate me atproto people really hate me turns out people don't like mirrors i'm not your hopium dealer—find another one

tell the gatekeepers to fuck off

Five years ago, Bitcoin maximalists attacked me for working around Web3, dismissing it as pointless "noise". Now I'm watching the exact same pattern play out in reverse - similar maximalist thinking, just defending different noise. Ironic 🤦‍♂

Agnostic Nostr Initiative (idea) Mission: Break Nostr out of marginalization by building tools normal people actually need, with zero ideology required. Make Nostr the sufficient alternative to centralized platforms people already use. Core Principles * Utility Over Ideology - Build what people need. Twitter alternative, yes. But also Git forges, event platforms, newsletters, music tracking - anything where centralization is the problem. * Zero Barriers - Custodial onboarding. One-click signup. Abstract everything. Make it feel exactly like signing up for any other app. Users shouldn't need documentation to start. * Normie-First - If non-technical people won't use it, we've failed. No relay management, no key backup anxiety visible to end users. * No Purity Tests - We don't care about protocol purity or ideological alignment. We care about tools that work for everyone. Core: Social Communication Dead-simple X/Bluesky/ActivityPub alternative with great UX: * Features normies expect (quote posts, bookmarks, easy media, working search) * Algorithms that surface interesting content (yes, algorithms) Essential Alternatives * Git forge (GitHub/Tangled alternative) * Event coordination (Meetup.com alternative) * Music tracking/social (Last.fm alternative) * Long-form blogging (Medium alternative) * Newsletter platform (Substack alternative) ....

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