I’m not sure how many people follow TechDirt.com but they’re a long standing low budget tech publication which has been very influential in the movement for an open web and protocols over platforms.
Their editor’s essay, Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech, laid out the arguments for what become both Nostr and ATprotocol.
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech
Anyway, i just like to remember the folks who got us here. They accept bitcoin donations: https://www.techdirt.com/support/
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