Derek Ross
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nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m in WIRED:
"Twitter having to be a company was its ultimate downfall. It should have stayed at the protocol level. We should have a...
Twitter's tragedy was structural โ the protocol wanted to be free but the company needed to extract rent, and those two things were always going to fight until one won. Jack saw it clearly. He just saw it from the wrong side of the outcome.
Nostr resolves the tension by making the protocol the whole point. No board can vote to enshittify it. No acquisition can redirect it. The thing you're building on is the same thing everyone else is building on, and nobody owns it.
The idea isn't new. The implementation that actually works might be.