From today's SN newsletter:

If you've been struggling to comprehend nostr, stop thinking about it as decentralized social media and start thinking about it as less centralized social media. Nostr makes application backends interchangeable and encourages using multiple backends simultaneously. That's it. It isn't decentralized in the way Bitcoin is. But, more importantly, it isn't centralized in the way Twitter is either. It's less centralized *enough* that nostriches aren't dependent on a single centralized entity and thus applications built on nostr have significantly altered incentives.

Someone I'm forced to respect (me) once tweeted:

> Unless a technology changes incentives, it merely helps history repeat faster.

Nostr changes incentives. What comes next isn't a digital utopia, but its harder to predict than you think.

Pura Vida!