Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The great irony of the net's platformization is that platforms are intermediaries, ...
The great irony of the net's platformization is that platforms are intermediaries, and the promise of the internet that got so many of us excited was *disintermediation* - getting rid of the middlemen that act as gatekeepers between community members, creators and audiences, buyers and sellers, etc.
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