Would #Nostr be an 'Egregore'?
Discussion
To split hairs, I’d call it more of a “pendulum” in the Vadim Zeland sense of the word.
An egregore is a thought form created out of the energy of many but with its own individual sentience and independent will.
A “pendulum” in the Zeland sense is a *phenomenon* with directionality and perhaps even an underlying intent, but with no individual sentience unto itself.
The most remarkable attribute in pendulums are their anti-fragility: they quite literally absorb oppositional energy directed against them and gather strength from it.
I once went down a bit of a rabbit hole about all this stuff here: