I watched yesterday Adam Curtis' documentary All Watched Over by Machines of Love and Grace.

It talks about how in the 1960s people tried to create communes of leaderless, decentralized, communes and how these all miserably failed.

One of the reason it fails is because strong personalities actively bullied others and there was built in rules that prevented political type factions from organizing and pushing back.

Nostr sometimes feels like these failed communes of digital utopia. It's not quite the same, but there is lots in common.

But then there certain individuals that make it very interesting.

I think we have this saying wrong though. "Protocol > platform."

I think it's "people > protocol."