vinney on Nostr: after a brief glimpse at the bright light of peer to peer content sharing and ...

after a brief glimpse at the bright light of peer to peer content sharing and discovery with user-owned nodes in early web 1.0, publishing and information sharing has slid further and further away - physically, geographically, network-topology-wise - from the author and into centralized, remote, rented, transient silos like social media servers, substack accounts, and yes, even non-self-hosted nostr relays.

our societies are layered hypermedia-networked communities. whether you're talking about a chronically-online meme cult or a local parent-teacher association.

these hypermedia-networked communities will remain broken (and get consistently brokener) until the problem of the first paragraph is resolved and reversed.
and I know the solution cannot be "learn Linux and privacy tech, grandma"

GM