Five on Nostr: A platform is highly stable but very much trusted to one entity. Freedom tech is an ...

A platform is highly stable but very much trusted to one entity. Freedom tech is an attempt to introduce multiple user-facing entities to solve the same user need:
A marketplace app can offer remote signing, relay choices, ecash mints, Lightning services and blossom servers for media - none of those he is responsible for. This reduces stability but offers optionality - more freedom.

The key is designing a system that is flexible but stable enough. The missing piece in Nostr to become usable freedom tech is communities.

They are pillars of stabilization without capturing the user in a platform that packages everything into one product.

Communities are not faceless companies and provide a much stronger model for nostr to not be a completely chaotic mess neither a platform.

Look at the client app you are using right now:
Try to count how many pieces it contains that you use directly. You can ask your agent if the source code is available.

And then count how many people you actually exchanged words or messages with, that are responsible for those pieces.

The number of user-facing entites a solution contains has a practical minimum and maximum.

I cannot call Freedom tech where this entity number is one. That is a platform. But usable software has an upper limit as well and this is something we still have to explore.

Software following protocols like Nostr can increase this number and still be usable. They are "APIs over APIs". But realistically we can hardly agree globally about almost anything and the NIPs repo is the proof of that.

A community bundles the choices of the leader - someone who truly cares and has taste. They reduce the burden of choice in freedom tech. This models nature best and I can hardly imagine "sovereign identities" without any community association at this point. Not even for communities. They can form relationships with others as well, and they should.