Sure, it’s definitely a complicated thing to keep balanced and not used for manipulation.

Perhaps it’s moreso *what* is done with the data that’s important? If we follow this thought experiment, what do centralized social networks do with the data they collect on their platforms that ends up being detrimental?

My first thought is that they use it to tweak algorithms of the feed, which can be avoided by pushing nostr clients to not go that route, and leave it to users to determine how they want to filter their feeds.