brockm on Nostr: This was always my natural reaction to people screaming about Twitter being ...

This was always my natural reaction to people screaming about Twitter being editorialized. My response was always "of course, it is. It's an ad supported social network, selling a product to advertisers, whose brand images are going to place editorial constraints on the platform". In other words, it's a regular business. But people said "no, no ... it's more than that. It's metaphysically morphed into a universal town square, which puts it on the level of the state, in terms of evaluating the limits on its own power". This is a philosophically bankrupt position.

The very fact Nostr exists is the ultimate repudiation of this position. The capacity of humans to build alternatives and rethink the internet and social media was always there.