Nostr is best used to state the obvious and most culturally controversial topics. Including…
The fact that decentralization doesn’t automatically create better discourse. It just removes the ability to blame centralized gatekeepers for our own intellectual laziness.
That “censorship resistance” means protecting speech you find repugnant, not just speech you happen to agree with this week.
That most people claiming they want freedom of association actually want freedom from consequences of their associations.
That building parallel systems is harder than complaining about existing ones, and most revolutionaries are better at manifestos than maintenance.
That value for value models only work if people actually value the thing enough to pay for it, which is a market signal some creators don’t want to hear.
That your keys, your notes, your responsibility also means your mistakes, your reputation, your problem.
That we’ve simply moved the trust assumptions around, not eliminated them, and pretending otherwise is intellectual dishonesty.
The real test of any protocol isn’t its technical specifications. It’s whether it can survive its own success without replicating the exact power structures it claimed to replace.
Discuss.
