If you're blindly building another Nostr app for this echo chamber without recognizing common cause, you're doing exactly what the government wants.
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harmless hobby networks don’t threaten power. Systems only get uncomfortable when they: coordinate at scale onboard normies create economic gravity. Governments don’t need Nostr to fail. They just need it to stay irrelevant.
Given my stuff: #Memely , #Hisa service marketplaces ! real use cases, not just feeds I’m already closer to “common cause” than echo-chamber dev. A memes app, a marketplace, a freelancer tool: doesn’t require users to understand censorship resistance doesn’t scream ideology just quietly uses Nostr as plumbing That’s the dangerous part, the invisible infrastructure.
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Nostr developers can do whatever they want. Building yet another similar app is not government bootlicking.
Government bootlicking is herding other people, telling them what to do or how to behave. The State would be gone if sheeps stopped herding sheeps, there is never enough people in the State to manage the population.
There is little funding available in this space so we build what we want to use ourselves.
I never said it's bootlicking or intentional endorsement of government. I'm pointing out what actually happens in practice, when we fragment into isolated echo chambers instead of recognizing common cause with other freedom tech builders, we inadvertently do the state's work for it. You can dismiss that observation, but the fragmentation is real regardless.
Bitcoin succeeded early on precisely because it was one initiative where a small group of freedom-oriented builders could focus their efforts and make it better together. If that early Bitcoin community had fragmented into 100 competing implementations from the start, each in its own echo chamber, it would never have reached critical mass.