How Nostr fits into Seasteading
I was just asked through the old bird app how Nostr is useful or even desirable for Seasteaders. I admit the question caught me off guard, as if it didn't need explaining... Oops. One should always be able to explain a subject from first principles if they are to truly understand it. So this post will attempt to offer a full explanation.
Nostr's reason to exist is all about routing around censorship. It has the goal at least, if not delivers on the promise of, making social media & really all online communication fully decentralized & therefore uncensorable.
Seasteading shares this goal in that we wouldn't need to seastead in the first place if governments cultivated free & uncensorable speech. Sure, the 1st amendment in the USA "guarantees" free speech but in practice what we have is a bunch of propaganda news networks and people being murdered by the state every day for questioning authority.
Ed Snowden showed how little privacy & free speech we actually had first, but then Elon Musk's 'Twitter Files' releases showed in detail exactly how the US government, at least, quashes dissent & how often.
Nostr can serve as a full, uncensorable replacement for all social media websites & apps, as is demonstrated by the proliferation of various Nostr client types we see launching these days. Govts can't possibly ban all the relays from the internet, and we can get much better at hiding them if they try.
Some will argue that the problems with censorship really start at the ISP level, with service providers flagging all the 'submersive' content they can detect before it even makes its' way to corporate servers like social media sites. While technically true, we have encryption, TOR, and VPNs now to hide our content from these guys 99.9% of the time.
A seasteader could therefore VPN into a mainland-based server to do their browsing from, and never even be detected as a seasteader by the many websites he or she visits. Taken together with satellite ISPs like Musk's Starlink service, (https://www.starlink.com) Seasteaders need not compromise on any of our internet needs, from speed to privacy. News on the seastead (Such as if we were under attack) would equally find it's way around the world to our families and mainland supporters.
With colony-wide adoption of the Nostr & Bitcoin networks, seasteaders will never suffer from communications nor monetary restrictions, no matter how belligerent governments become towards our presence.