As the only true “public square” protocol for the internet, Nostr exists to safeguard the sovereignty of END USERS online, from coercion by companies and governments who would take advantage of them.
I’m surprised to see that we STILL don’t have a “voluntary standard” for apps to be transparent about their adherence to this protocol.
Openness and transparency (over rules and enforcement) is how this protocol is protected. Why is this not a thing?
We need a NIP for clients to voluntarily disclose their data handling … and a network of users and devs that incentivizes them to use it.
Primal is just the beginning. There will be more … lots more.
Success for Nostr depends on real world businesses integrating with the protocol. WE ALL KNOW that end user sovereignty is good for business (don’t we?) AND YET the dominant paradigm of black box apps will not go away without some hand holding.
We SHOULD be building a protocol and libraries that make it easy for businesses to OFF-LOAD more and more of their data to Nostr … but we SHOULD NOT chastise business for simply having black boxes and trying to make money.
Black boxes are the old business model. Freedom tech is the new… but transitions are complicated.
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