As present, the Administrative State depends on the stupidity of people using Big Tech social media. And the answer is the same as the answer to "Doctor, Doctor! It hurts when I do this!" Stop. Doing. It.

But fast forward to when only authorized social media platforms are legally permissible. This has already happened, e.g. with DVD players where unauthorized software is illegal, and authors of unauthorized FOSS players have to flee the country (isolated to libdvdcss for DVDs). (There are authorized players of Asian make that ignore the restrictions. This feature is not advertised, of course, but hang on to it if you have one.)

In this dystopian future, software implementing Nostr protocol may be illegal. Following the lead of libdvdcss, the libnostr type efforts should make sure to host a repo in a country not likely to follow suit. And also on Nostr itself using something inspired by git-ssb.

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