If there is one thing I learned in life is that humans love to control and manipulate other humans. It can be by force, by faith or by emotional appeal.
It happens in all governments, all markets, all religions, inside companies, between friends, in the internet, among family members, etc. Even libertarians love to tell you how you should live your life, with consequences if you don't.
Life is a constant struggle to be who you and only you want to be.
Nostr's main innovation is the public declaration of trusted keys (follows) in a signed event by each user.
That's what sets it apart from other publib key cryptography schemes, which usually delegate the format of that follow package to other standards that never take off.