Nostr Web Client

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-inactive-account-policies/

Google's goal here is to wipe out inactive accounts and then begin implementing draconian "security" measures and identity requirements on all of their users. The direction is obvious, and the rest of the traditional internet dominated by big tech companies is moving in this direction as well.

The only way you can combat this is by joining platforms like Nostr, making the regulations that they will no doubt try to pass irrelevant.

alp 2y ago

Although I agree with you, I'm also not 100% convinced by this system here that could either lead to majority tyranny (especially in commercial marketplaces, it's not just social media here) and thereby enable a quasi-monopolization of individual providers, or eventually introduce a certain trust or reputation system - even eventually must - to cope with growing numbers of participants.

Google started the same way. Completely innocent and fair in the beginning. Then came some villains who could easily deceive several honest participants. Then came the countermeasures and a reputation system and Page Rank, and now we have today's Google. Rewinding repeatedly and still following the same path is also not the solution.

The Internet itself is already the most decentralized system. Nostr is just a small garden within it. We are merely repeating the same behavioral patterns here due to a lack of truly innovative ideas.

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Proudmuslim 2y ago

Entirely valid critique, and not one I really have a great answer to. The best we can do for now is to attempt to decentralize things as much as possible at a design/architecture level.

Nostr takes something good from Email in this sense- it is monopolized, but the fundamental openness of the protocol allows for competition to exist (Protonmail, Countermail, etc).

Ultimately I think we need to "re-negotiate" the "social contracts" that make up the way we use the internet. I don't know what that will look like, but I do know that we have decades of mistakes to look back on. I am an optimist at the end of the day, assuming the global order doesn't collapse too soon and cause us to regress early technologically (which I would not really be opposed to, honestly).