Do people feel like that's true?
I certainly don't feel like that. I feel like I can author whatever data I want, but once I publish it I don't have any control over it anymore. My data gets published to many relays in control of many different people with different ideas of how the ecosystem works. I generally have no way to delete or modify the data. I have access to my data whenever I want, but so does everyone else. And that data can be used for seemingly whatever purpose anyone that receives it would like. I'm not sure what would stop a company from using that data to, say, target ads at me.
It's not even really clear where the authority to do any of this comes from. There's no user agreement or anything. If I do own the data, it's certainly not treated that way.
I don't believe any of this makes the system *bad* per se. It just feels like something we haven't figured out yet.
quotingyou own your data (contact list, posts, profile, etc). This is pretty unique, in every other online app the company owns your data and they are just letting you access it until they say you can’t.
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your data is portable, it can be stored on your devices and copied to many relays. This effectively makes your online presence unbannable and undeplatformable
you are not just cattle for big tech to sell ads to.
It’s borderless. the protocol integrates the native money of the internet (sats via nostr #zaps) so you can freely transfer value to anyone in the world if you like their post.
Its bridged to other protocols like activitypub so its not isolated to just nostr weirdos
There are 10+ quality clients to choose from if you don’t like the one you first tried. No other social media protocol has this level of client development.