> Don't be sleeping on Ditto and the implications. Small groups of people interacting locally (forming nodes) inside of the larger nostr protocol (network). To be fair that's really similar to the #Fediverse, right? The main benefits I see of #Nostr are account portability and increased censorship resistance.

After 4.5 decades of civil disobedience activism, libertarian networking, and then the Wild World of Bitcoin which took me on a 4 year total off grid (zero bank access) adventure around the US, I promise you that your network of trust (Yes, I said "trust") will be what enables you to thrive and in some cases survive.

Account portability is the main thing. At least for me it is. There are aspects of Fedi that are the same but its the freedom of portability that's the biggest feature. The tie-ins between Fedi and nostr are happening and it's going to create something that's impossible to describe but I suspect it replaces almost 80% of the web within 10 years.

Trust will always be a thing between people. Trust minimization is the goal of money (what money should strive for).

That's pretty close to the right terms. Small community groups could be a local node or a LAN. The rest of nostr is your WAN (wide area network). or something.

The most popular voice for Normies in 2014 was Andreas: Bitcoin is trustless. This from a socialist who when given a huge stash of bitcoin asked, "How am I supposed to pay the taxes on this?". Trustless is not the same as permissionless. Evangelists should focus on that as almost nobody understands trust minimization as a component of economic game theory.

Check out the original Parallel Polis concept. A network of local nodes in diverse aspects of life and civic society routing around the state/censorship/regulations. I've been looking for a while for a good contemporary overview, and finally found a pretty solid one here:

Ep. 49 Flagg Taylor, Ph.D The Parallel Polis

Listen now (104 mins) | In this episode I speak with Flagg Taylor about the life and writing of Vaclav Benda, and his idea of the parallel polis, d...

Maybe just add to it little more explicit localism focus. It's kinda just implicit in the original concept.