Nostriches keep saying that "nostr is hope", "nostr is freedom tech" ...

Nahh, they're just suffering social media brainwash.

It's the plain old internet with its basic protocols we have since 1993 that offered and still offers real freedom. We've had web servers and HTML editor integrated in the first browsers from the beginning (Mosaic, Netscape Navigator), we always had (S)FTP or SSH for file transfers, WE HAD BLOGS (with Trackbacks, Pingbacks and commenting), we had blog aggregators and trend services to discover good places, nntp and email was around since the first days.

You were all just too comfortable to let yourselves be incarcerated in gated fiat communities. And now that nostr's UIs just look like these timeline-based fiat networks, you are so used to (but are substantially different in terms of ownership and control, I know), you start dreaming of "internet freedom"?

Pathetic.