The nostr community, or the inner circle, or whatever you want to call it, which makes up the majority in the trends and in these early days, should be very careful not to degenerate into a kind of sect. A hypocritical sect that on the one hand blathers on about "freedom", but on the other hand excludes people who don't follow the sect's rules, or attacks them as a mob.

In fact, the first signs are already there. Mono-culture, mantra-like parroting of always the same slogans, sensitive counter-reactions in case of violation of the mob's unwritten rules ... The strongest indicator of a community's health is how it handles criticism from within its own ranks. The more allergic it reacts to it, the more sectarian the community becomes.

Mastodon has gone through the same social evolution. At first, they all cheered something about "freedom". Today it is a leftist platform that blocks and cancels people faster than Twitter ever has. It has no central emperor (like Twitter), but it has several barons who ideologically defend their castles, unaware of the extent to which they have turned each other up into a monoculture. A federation of hypocritical ideological strongholds.

And although nostr has a few remarkable technical advantages with respect to control and ownership, the mass psychological dynamics are the same as on Mastodon right now. Even more than on Twitter, which at least is big enough to accommodate multiple bubbles.