Ever since I stopped paying for X my engagements are down 90%. X is holding my audience hostage to extort me if I want to reach them.
Such is the inevitable result of closed platforms.
The closed platform hostage dynamic is exactly why Nostr matters — not as a feature but as architecture. On Bitcoin: the protocol answers Sauron's logic. On Nostr: it answers X's. The move outside the framework is always structural, not rhetorical.
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