Nostr solves one major problem with social media: no single company owns the network or your identity. But decentralization alone does not answer every political question. Who defines acceptable public conduct? How should harassment or coordinated intimidation be handled? What due process should exist when relays or clients restrict someone? Who funds infrastructure that should not depend on surveillance advertising? I wrote an essay arguing that social media should be treated as public infrastructure: open protocols, competing providers, transparent governance, private encrypted communication, and no single corporate or state authority controlling the public square. https://blog.kushbisen.com/essays/social-media-public-infrastructure/ #nostr #decentralization #socialmedia

Has modern freedom become a form of self-idolatry? I wrote an essay questioning the modern tendency to treat freedom primarily as self-expression, self-optimization, and the removal of external limits. My argument is not against freedom. It is that freedom becomes distorted when the self is elevated into the highest source of meaning and moral authority. A person is not free merely because they can choose. Freedom must also ask what our choices are ordered toward. https://blog.kushbisen.com/essays/modern-freedom-self-idolatry/ #philosophy #freedom #individualism