It's not about owning your data.
It's about being in control.
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FUCK SOCIETY !
Can you even “own data”?
You can simulate ownership by exclusive knowledge of a secret, which is what private keys are. That's it.
This is the way
I still have to figure out my relay situation
Ownership is defined as control. I think you meant "possession".
We could posit that Nostr allows you to control your own data, despite not holding exclusive possession.
Signing, in other words, grants title.
You "own" your private key, not your notes, nor your images.
You are in control of your keys and what you do with them; you don't have control over what other people do with the content that you signed and published.
You don't have control of the event, to the extent that you can't keep them from copying or deleting it, but you can keep them from altering it. Which is mega.
This is, for instance, one reason we want publications as events, so that the content can't be altered.
It's a new possession/ownership dynamic, I think. Difficult to describe with analogies, as it's novel.
There is non-repudiation too, which is also big.
Yes it's novel, that's why we should strive to be careful with our words and analogies. "Owning data" might give the wrong impression, for example.
The tools to be a sovereign individual are here you just have to want to use them
How great it is to live in this era where we already have the tools. 🫂
Nostr, Bitcoin, and more
Being in control of your fate, in control of how the machinery works, in control of what happens to your online identity. In control of what you may say and do.
Now this I can get behind, control of your online identity
.. in control on how you react.
Just zapped you from my own lightning node that I just finishzd setting up.
In control! 👍
Or, as nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgsprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hszrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqc267ea is pointing it out:
It's about not loosing your free will to the algorithms!
Responsibility, so many people fear responsibility. They want a great ruler, they can trust. That’s so sad….
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Surely, once you have posted a note or "published" a photo, you are no longer in control of it? As to owning it, not sure that's true either.
Data wants to be free.
Tricky little basterds, i tell you.
Part of some of the control concept is to at least have a copy of your data ?
It's not about control, it's about personal power.
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It’s about monitor GOVts