The phrase "social cures and purges" evokes the image of a collective body expelling elements deemed toxic or dissonant. In the cyberpunk/crypto context of protocols like Nostr, this process is not governed by a centralized algorithm or a moderation committee. The "purge" is a permanent, distributed, and infrastructural function of the system itself. Identity, reduced to a pair of cryptographic keys, exists before and beyond any specific platform. The "cure" is not a ban from the ecosystem (impossible, since there is no single perimeter), but an algorithmic social misalignment: your client, an intelligent agent of your desires, simply stops querying the relays hosting the unwanted "noise" and filters out signals from enemy public keys. The cleansing does not happen at the center, but at the edges, at millions of individual points of contact. It is a paranoid and perfect hygiene, where the very concept of "public discourse" fragments into a myriad of sovereign and impenetrable reality tunnels, each sterilized by its own parameters. Absolute freedom of association thus flips into the possibility of total disconnection, in a perpetual society of self-exile.
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