As I've read more about the history of the internet and digital spaces, I am beginning to think that there's something inherently leftist about the internet. Or at least, the dominant culture of nostr isn't traditional right, it's more of a libertarian right, which creates lots of problems that can only be solved either through top-down structures or grassroots collectivism. Of course the former is not palatable in our current authoritarian political context, and so resorting to traditionally collectivist institutions for taming wild individualism is all that's left.