constant on Nostr: I just saw someone complaining a new offered feature on Nostr somewhere is ...

I just saw someone complaining a new offered feature on Nostr somewhere is surveillance. For all the people who have yet to get a clue, a public service announcement:

You are interacting on a publication protocol, everything here is primarily public in nature; ‘the internet does not forget’ applies to Nostr as well.

The main difference with platforms here, is that its easier for any random party to go scrape, assess, profile, index and ‘surveil’ the living fuck out of you because they don’t need privileged API access since all the data is out in the open instead of inside a walled garden.

Now I can go into all sorts of nuance on the application of encryption, private-relays/relay policy and what not, but that is not the point. The point is that data want to be free, you don’t ‘control’ your data, and that you are an idiot if you think you wont be ‘surveilled’ when you publicize stuff online for everyone to see.

Now this is a nice tie-in into the notion of reputation, but il keep that for another time.

Here is a picture of a baby deer jumping, have a nice day.