Oddbean

This sounds like it’s framing nostr (like many have with Twitter before) as largely a platform for political discourse. Much talk on this platform has nothing to do with spouting beliefs or political agendas. Many here talk about their computer setups, running nodes and relays, the lightning network, 3D printing, and other hobbies/endevours. Some do so in places where it’s not legal/acceptable. Others, like myself, simply do not owe the world the right for our personal tech infrastructure to be doxed. We’re also not talking about a centralized platform, but an open protocol, that if scales and succeeds, the features and freedoms of one’s npub/nsec traversing the internet, now forever tied with a “real ID” in your argument, is a double-edged sword with potentially frightening consequences.

Yes, I used to have an anon handle on Twitter to ask technical questions too. I didn’t use it as a substitute for my political opinions (though I did occasionally slip into posting some there for a minute.) There are times and places for it (as I stated clearly in the post). And yes, I’m talking about social media as the public square. In that case I think most people should speak up about things under their own names and be counted. Ironically the entire reason why there’s some risk in having your views out there with your name attached is that fewer people are willing to do it. I’d like to see this risk reversed by everyone posting as though it was their right. Because it is.