If you're ever looking to purple pill a friend, this discussion I hosted with nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s and nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 ain't a bad place to start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi2JbHWd_BM
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Would there be a need for global-scale decentralized social media without massive "democratic" governments?
I can see the value in communities of interest & connecting with people who want to discuss Aristotle or small-mouth bass with me, but it seems to me much of the existing function of social media is to serve as a public square for democratic or pseudo-democratic polities.
Absent massive governments which are (regardless of their formal structure) subject to mass consent or dissent, my communication needs become very local except for specific business concerns or special interests. The notion of a single "global conservation", "social mood" or Zeitgeist seems to me implicitly communist and statist.
In this sense, perhaps nostr should be understood not as "freedom tech" but as "resistance tech".
