Reddit will probably force subscriptions on users.
Feels like corporate capture is pushing for the 3rd phase of their plan - make everyone pay.
The final phase will be to make all the nonpaying user platforms an enemy in the eyes of the law. (That’s nostr) “look at us, we kyc our users, those other platforms allow anons - they’re bad”
Or am I being too paranoid?
ur right
I think that’s the thesis where nostr succeeds
Paying users does reduce bots
But with Bitcoin we can having paying users without KYC 💪
You're not being paranoid enough.
KYC for everything online, as a corollary to CBDC implementation.
Big tech typically follows one another's business plan. I think you're right.
Will they make anonymous accounts illegal, or will they simply burry them? I'm not sure.
KYC is totalitarianism.
Think aobut it - what if you went down to your local pub and couldn't have a chat with some bloke at the bar without showing your driver's license?
That's what the internet used to be - a place to go talk to others.
What it is now is unrecognizable...
Perfectly feasible...
Question is, will Nostr and friends (like BTC) survive if governments out-law them for real?
Would you use Nostr if you could be prosecuted and arrested for 10 years just by using it?
Yeah, good question. I don't know. I have kids and I probably wouldn't risk 10 years imprisonment just to talk to people online. As sad as that sounds...
Indeed. The printing press was banned, with increasing penalties as time went by and the use of it still increased. At the end, the use of a printing press was punishable by death! All this to "prevent the spread of dangerous information".
The printing press, obviously, didn't go away, but being a physical object, it's not exactly comparable to protocols and data on a highly surveilled Internet, when there are even technologies to identify people on how they write. Probably nowhere near perfect, but for totalitarian regimes, which soon (if not already) seems to be all regimes, it's more important to state examples than making sure the examples are actually the ones intended.
I think this is the natural consequence of networks that become so successful that they start defending their network lock in, rather than trying to appeal to new users.
They eventually see themselves as an authority. They feel they have to “control the network for the greater good,” and so out come the little tyrants in them with all of these great plans to “fix” all the bad people on their platform.
A competitor that tries to simply give the censored a voice will always be seen as an evil manipulator ruining their chance at utopia.
So no, I don’t think it’s paranoid. I think it’s naive to believe the incentives won’t push it this way. The ONLY thing that I believe prevents it, is competition from those open platforms that is strong enough that nobody gives a shit what their opinion is.
That’s definitely where things are headed.
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I don't think you're being paranoid. You're simply delineating the trend of the fiat economy.
