I believe that no user is entitled to having their posts hosted or displayed on another person's platform. However I also believe that no platform owner has the right to prevent two consenting users from seeing eachother's posts. I know if I was a platform owner I would absolutely have to censor my users or it just wouldn't be worth it to me, and that would be my right.
However, Nostr would be a fantastic tool for me, because I absolutely don't want to violate the rights of my users while running my site. Nostr represents a convenient way of creating an uncensorable decentralized backend to a censored and centralized frontend platform; it's an ethical solution to a hard problem. The best way I see for Nostr to grow is if hosts and moderators are allowed to create their own communities however they want to, but also if users are allowed to dip below the veil to interact more freely.
The biggest issue I think is that few Nostr users have an actual problem they need to solve. I think most Nostr users have the solution and are working on finding the problem that it solves. And I also believe that most centralized website users don't agree with the right to connect, or don't feel guilty about making it harder and more unpleasant. I think Nostr has a place in the world, but it's anyone's guess if the protocol will become unusuable before fulfilling the prophecy. Maybe Nostr 2 will be better, who knows?
Scoundrel
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2025-05-15 03:55:10
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2025-05-15 03:55:10Event JSON
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