Autonomy is about generating your own address and name.
Easy to do with #nostr - generate your own npub and publish a kind 0 event. Done.
The simple npub solved some key governance problems of the internet.
Problems:
Public internet addresses are managed centrally. Good luck changing that.
The Domain Name System is delegated at best. Use a friendly registrar - until the rug you.
What the Npub did:
The npub collapsed into a single point of control (nsec): the ability to create an address, sign data, and encrypt messages. Until #nostr came along you had to rely on whimsical authority.
For sure, we still need the internet, but thanks to #nostr we pushed it down the stack of critical importance.
That’s a big deal.
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