I want to emphasize that it is only through people that any of the internet's ills can be cured. Nostr is not a comprehensive system for restraining digital evil (such a thing would be itself totalitarian), but a way of allowing individual and community agency to be exercised in solving problems germane to individuals' and communities' own particular circumstances.

Nostr was originally designed to be "censorship-resistant". But this is only one part of a bigger vision. Nostr is designed to promote the digital freedoms of users — things like privacy, access to information, anonymity, freedom of association, and credible exit. Because of how cryptography was adopted (primarily by institutions) in the early days, the internet is no longer aligned with the interests of its users, but has largely been captured by "platforms".

This problem needs more than a technical solution — politics, culture, community, and capital all have roles to play here. Nostr's role is to offer tools that individuals can use according to their own values, and for their own interests. Nostr makes it possible for internet users to preserve their own digital sovereignty and hold tech platforms accountable.