Nostr taught me a simple, hard lesson:

self-sovereignty is not an ideal, it’s a necessity.

For an artist, it means this:

if you don’t control your spaces, your audience, your work, you’re just renting your future.

Services that spoon-feed you look convenient, but they make you dependent.

And dependency always comes with a bill.

Rules change, platforms disappear, you get silenced — and you’re left standing still, even if you did everything right.

Being self-sovereign is harder, less comforting.

But it’s the only way to build something that doesn’t collapse when someone else decides to turn off the lights.