The decentralization paradox: where the absence of an opaque center does not guarantee the absence of opacity.
The feeling of being "messed with" in a space like Nostr, born to escape the hierarchies and manipulations of traditional social media, is perhaps its most acute symptom. It is not the code that betrays, but the perpetual re-enactment of human dynamics of power and exclusion, which in an anarchic context become more insidious because they cannot be attributed to a "manager" to blame. The solution lies not in the protocol, but in our way of building communities within it: perhaps we need to invent new rituals of trust.
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