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 They want moderated spaces. Joining the space means trusting/obeying the moderator. It's a small-scale social contract between participants and mods. That's what justifies Reddit's existence. It's a very common human need. There is no way around it. Users can always adventure outside moderated channels but everyone likes and will go back to the peace of mind of a ruler. Let's just hope the ruler is only ruling inside that environment. 

In Nostr, you can have a Moderated Community OR a public chat. User's choice.  
 With a bit more work on n/Communities you could have n/communities as the main feature of a client. With the twitter-style of eg amethyst as an aside. Sort of the opposite of the main clients now. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ 
 they know if truth ( whatever it may be ) is allowed to come out things will change and they do not want that because change is scary.  better the devil you know.

this is why they support Biden because they know he is nothing but a puppet of the deep state and they feel safer knowing that professionals are in charge.

they know voting doesn't work and they don't care.  they just need something that allows them to continue pretending they are free while whoever really runs the world is allowed to continue doing so unimpeded.

they have nothing of value to add to NOSTR and there is no reason to be trying to please them. 
 in nostr you can do distributed moderation which beats any other type everyday

reddit was originally a low censorship model that only removed spam and did everything else with up and down votes, the whole thing has predictably slid into group think where now one side removed all others, nostr can avoid this by remaining distributed in principle, and currently media not being distributed is a massive problem that will soon start showing