It is really optimistic to see how you tell us your experience and your perspectives regarding Nostr. I fully support what you talk about what the adoption of decentralized platforms can mean for historically discriminated and oppressed minority groups. However, there is an essential point that I think needs to be highlighted regarding the privacy of the protocol. I am referring to the fact that here you do not take your data with you, but there is no possibility of deleting your own content that at some point you might want to delete. That is, people do not remain immovable and can go through events that make them want to forget or cross out certain moments that they may have recorded in the protocol. Therefore, it is a pending issue in terms of having full control of the account. Very good article, by the way. I hope you still read me here on Yakihonne.. — This is a comment on: https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qq25gn3egez8z66l895xzeeefce8ym6ndamxyq3qxavp0pq22948xekdnp8a4m3g4p3a7se4qkcuxwnrq52m0a07660qxpqqqp65wa9vcfa
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tldr; not being able to delete our content means we must think and consider properly how we express ourselves to the world
One of the things that stops me from using Nostr on a daily basis is the fact that I can't really exercise my silence at will. Free speech should also come with free silence as well. YakiHonne is good, though, and I can edit and delete at will. So even if it seems like an oxymoron, Nostr does not work properly for free speech, but YakiHonne does!
It seems that a Blockchain based social network or publishing platform goes also against the principle of free speech/free silence. The only workaround to this immutability that I can think of is: Plan ahead and really curate your content so you publish things on Nostr that would be approved by you as an author and your followers as your audience. Maybe this protocol and the way it works helps teach users how to express themselves properly and also boosts thinking and rethinking what a user is going to share. This also has a good side. It means accountability and responsibility of expression, and it means that users shall return to 'cogito ergo sum', instead of throwing whatever comes to mind first.
I have to say that this is a very very interesting point of view. I very much agree with you.