Nostr: Introducing Decentralized Social Communication
You’ve spent years building an identity online. You have a username people recognise, a feed full of things you’ve posted, people who follow you, people you follow back, and enough history on the platform that leaving it would feel like leaving a small part of yourself behind. Now imagine waking up one day and it's just gone. Account suspended, no clear reason given, an appeal form that goes nowhere or takes a very long time to get a response. Everything you built, gone, because a company somewhere decided it should be. That's not even hypothetical, it happens to people constantly, sometimes for actually breaking a rule, sometimes for nothing anyone can point to. Either way, you find out the same thing: it was never really yours to lose, because it was never yours to begin with. Then you try another app, or retry getting on the same app with a...
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