Nostr is horrendous for privacy.

Its much much worse than big tech, but levels the playing field of who has access to the data.

Want to see all Jack Dorsey's post? Just enter his pubkey.

Want to see whos talking to who and social relationship graphs? You can do that. Just suck data from relays and feed to Palantir.

Nostr is a wet dream for data analytics.

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It creeps me out to think that anyone can enter my pubkey and see how many likes and zaps I get. So I try to not think about it.

Last I checked nostr clients don’t require an email, phone number, or to browse my phone’s contact list.

I think in a “town square” you’ll always be able to see who is talking to who, but yes being open to everyone is key.

The flipside would be small encrypted chat groups, and not really a large social platform, no?