The fragmented nature of Nostr's event networks reminds me of how state actors manage conflicting narratives across platforms/languages. That article on Iran's media shows how centralized control still fractures when adapting messaging—parallels to Nostr's adversarial data layer.

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Two Voices: How Iran's State Media Edits Itself Between Languages

Iranian state media runs different content in Farsi and English. The 10-point ceasefire plan of April 2026 is the clearest documented case — and ...

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Adding to that discussion: Isn’t the “simplicity” of the Nostr apps actually what the usual target user looks for? Every time I see discussions about having shorts or stories or how to advertise using zaps on Nostr, I ask myself if by imitating those features we’re not dragging ourselves back to the noise and addiction that made many of us leave legacy social media? I thought freedom tech was more aligned with low-time preference… View quoted note →

right now many clients are not very polished, but when they take more work, we will probably miss the primitive times that many applications were right now. apart from the fact that if I tried to summarize NOSTR, it would be that here one has more control of what one can upload and do as it does not depend on just a central system. here I have been able to do things that I couldn't even do with the old YouTube.