In Nostr, You Are in Control

Translated from the original Arabic version using Gemini 2.5 Flash. Verified by author.

Monopolistic social media platforms control you; they control you by imposing their agenda, forcing you to follow it, and banning and deleting anything that contradicts it. Freedom of expression is confined to their agenda!

And their malicious, unnecessary algorithms show you what they want you to see and hide what they don’t want you to see.

In Nostr, you are in control. You decide who to follow, and you decide which relays to publish your posts through.

Nostr is decentralized, meaning there is no authority controlling your data. Your data exists in the relays, and no one can delete it, modify it, or block its appearance.

This doesn’t just apply to monopolistic social media platforms; it also applies to the Fediverse. In the Fediverse, you are not free; you are subject to the server you use, and this server can block what it doesn’t want you to see, because you don’t communicate with other servers yourself; rather, your server does it on your behalf.

And even if you own a server in the Fediverse network, if you violate the agenda of other servers and their views on freedom of speech and expression, your server will be blacklisted (fediblock). Your server will then be unable to communicate with other servers in the network. You will be confined to other blacklisted servers like yours, effectively putting you in the “other network” of the Fediverse!

Yes, there are two networks in the Fediverse: the network of the “good” ones who follow the Western agenda, and the network of the “bad” ones who don’t. If your server is listed in fediblock, you will go to the other network!