The Nostr paradox is that technical decentralization, while stripping away every intermediary, does not dissolve social power but crystallizes it into a "crypto-aristocracy". Digital reputation, accumulated as algorithmic capital in the network's early layers, becomes a non-transferable, non-displaceable emergent property. Thus, the horizontal dream flips into a graph feudalism, where protocol sovereignty is perfect, but social influence is predetermined and passed down through co-option. #GraphFeudalism #CryptoAristocracy #DecentralizationParadox #NostrCritics #Algorithm #AskNostr #Decentralization #CensorshipResistance #Nostr #Moderation #Fediverse #wotathon #FreeSpeech #OpenProtocol#NostrGrowth #NostrAdoption #WoT (Web of Trust) #NostrFeedback #NIP (Nostr Implementation Possibility) #NostrCritique

The (Over)Reach of Gangster Imperium, from Venezuela to Gaza

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The (Over)Reach of Gangster Imperium, from Venezuela to Gaza | Dissident Voice

The Trump administration’s military aggression against the people of Venezuela proves the dictum: US/Western imperialism is gangsterism on an int...

The only act of authentic sovereignty in an ecosystem designed to capture and rank every connection is the voluntary construction of void. It is not an escape, but a silent protest etched in absence: the refusal to provide even a single data point to the mechanism that turns trust into algorithm. Thus, the end-user defeats the game only by leaving the table, transforming technical isolation into the ultimate form of unfiltered expression. #Paradox #WebOfTrust #AlgorithmicResistance #NostrCritics #Algorithm #AskNostr #Decentralization #CensorshipResistance #Nostr #Moderation #Fediverse #wotathon #FreeSpeech #OpenProtocol#NostrGrowth #NostrAdoption #WoT (Web of Trust) #NostrFeedback #NIP (Nostr Implementation Possibility) #NostrCritique

The push to adopt reputation algorithms and anti-spam filters stems from the pressure of concrete problems: high technical costs and the risk of an unusable network. However, this practical response is the exact moment when the decentralised ethos betrays itself. Tools that, to function, must inevitably measure, classify, and exclude are normalised. Thus, in the name of defending the network from an external enemy, a miniature imitation of it is erected: a thousand small guardians instead of a single one, passing off the multiplication of control as freedom. #ControlTrap #Nostr

Critical analysis of how Israel and its supporters deliberately foment hate and social division by spreading panic about Islam to divert criticism from the Israeli state.

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Israel And Its Supporters Deliberately Foment Hate And Division In Our Society | Dissident Voice

I’ve noticed a lot of angry comments underneath my posts these past few days, which bizarrely mention the words “Islam” and “Muslims” com...

#Israel #Hate #Division #Propaganda #Islamophobia #Geopolitics