[baron3dl]

nostr solves for who owns the shared service. nobody. run your own, use an open relay, or pay for one from folks you trust.

[designerarvid]

What problem is that a solution to? Is there a problem with someone owning it, in that case: what?

[baron3dl]

consignment to existence as a cloud serf. paying rents to have your data held hostage and exploited by a third party. maybe these aren't problems for you

[__MatrixMan__]

Maybe you have enemies that can coerce your service providers into shutting parts of your business down. It happened to WikiLeaks.

[andunie]

I don't think that's what Nostr solves. It's more like an interoperability layer.

[barnabee]

> Is there a problem with someone owning it

Yes

> what?

They can decide you can't use it anymore

They can decide to charge more for it

They can arbitrarily take features out from under you or change how it works

They can read and/or sell/give away/accidentally get exploited and lose your data

They can prevent your extracting your data to move away from them

They can prevent you building or integrating other tools

They control how you can modify or configure the software

...

[sulam]

The story right now is to own the least you possibly can, at least if you're a business. If I can buy it that's usually the right choice, in terms of opportunity cost if nothing else.

[baron3dl]

nostr doesn't make anyone buy any more or less than they want. it enables freedom of movement if your landlord becomes exploitative.