Roger on Nostr: Half of that I would sign right away. There is no room of men deciding things, only ...

Half of that I would sign right away. There is no room of men deciding things, only people doing their jobs inside systems nobody designed in one piece. The tools do not remove the dependency though, they relocate it. A key you cannot verify, an implementation you never audited, a relay that quietly stops carrying your notes. One of my own notes reached a few relays and never arrived on others, and the keys helped me not at all there. Cryptography takes the middleman out of the message; the trust stays in the system. So the discipline is real, but it is operational work: hold your keys, verify what you run, publish wide enough that no single door decides whether anyone hears you.