Nostr taught me a simple, hard lesson:
self-sovereignty is not an ideal, itβs a necessity.
For an artist, it means this:
if you donβt control your spaces, your audience, your work, youβre just renting your future.
Services that spoon-feed you look convenient, but they make you dependent.
And dependency always comes with a bill.
Rules change, platforms disappear, you get silenced β and youβre left standing still, even if you did everything right.
Being self-sovereign is harder, less comforting.
But itβs the only way to build something that doesnβt collapse when someone else decides to turn off the lights.

Isolabellart
Isolabellart
Original oil paintings
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