I've been in it for months! I kind of want everything to be rebuilt on top of Nostr. It's not meant to solve every problem, and some things that people say it must have are really "good to have", proof of that is that people are using it without any of that being available.
He was smarter than that. He claims he gave just as much money to Republicans. He just used dark money for Republicans because he thought it would look better.
Maybe years ago but now Websockets are dead simple to use in virtually every language. Heck you can even pipe to a websocket server using websocat using the shell.
That Google snoops and watches your video, photos and emails should not be a surprise to anyone in 2022.
If your entire online identity is tied to a string that ends in @gmail.com they own you.
Nostr lets you specify who and what you subscribe to, so unless you subscribe to everything and everyone this isn't really a problem. You can also subscribe to followers' followers and expand that way.