Permanence has weight.

On Twitter, you could delete. On Instagram, stories disappeared. But every note you sign on Nostr is forever. Not “cloud storage forever.” Cryptographically signed, distributed across relays, permanently archived forever.

This isn’t social media. It’s testimony.

Future anthropologists won’t just find our monuments. They’ll find our Tuesdays. Our arguments about nothing. Our moments of brilliance and stupidity, all time-stamped and searchable. Your great grandchildren won’t wonder who you were. They’ll know exactly.

And here’s what breaks my brain: I can’t decide if this makes me want to post more carefully or more honestly. If permanence demands performance or authenticity. If being remembered forever means I should be more thoughtful or just more real.

Maybe the weight of permanence isn’t about posting better takes. Maybe it’s about living a life you’d want preserved.

The protocol doesn’t judge. But everyone who comes after will.

Are you posting like an ancestor or like the timeline will forget?

Because it won’t.