Gm, friends. A few nostr thoughts this morning.
I’m not particularly technical and definitely not a developer, so when I see people very bullish on #nostr I can’t tell if it’s justified or not. I’m certainly excited about it, and there seems to be a lot of development on the protocol, but I have no frame of reference. Were/are bluesky or mastodon or scuttlebutt the same in terms of user enthusiasm, development activity, etc.?
If you were going to find users overly excited about a protocol, wouldn’t you find them on the protocol? And if so, how much stock can you put in that?
An even bigger question that I can’t answer because of my lack of technical knowledge is, can the protocol scale? Are there limitations that I can’t see and just aren’t getting talked about bc everyone around here is pro-nostr?
At this point I’d consider myself enthusiastically hopeful.
But reading this post from Rabble (npub1wmr…g240) about why he’s switched all his future development efforts to Nostr makes me think there is really something valuable here and that Nostr really has tremendous potential.
For a developer to *switch* to Nostr after spending so much time thinking about social media, how to fix it, and building on another protocol, seems to me like pure signal.
From the post:
“Anybody who joins Nostr will quickly see that its early adopter community has a very different set of values and social norms from Scuttlebutt’s. It’s full of bitcoin bros (or as they like to call themselves, “maximalists”). But the thing is, I was never building tools just for solarpunk anarchists. I was building tools where a multitude of communities could each establish their own self-governing commons. By definition those tools will include many communities which are not mine, or where I wouldn’t feel welcome.”
I feel hopeful in the same way I did when I first learned about bitcoin.
Thank you
nostr:PABLOF7z (npub1l2v…ajft) jack (npub1sg6…f63m) Tony (npub10aw…5ys7) verbiricha (npub107j…ncxg) jingles (npub1alp…6dsn) and many others who I’ve forgotten.
Keep building, friends. 🤙
#plebchain #grownostr #coffeechain
https://www.nos.social/blog/pivoting-from-ssb-to-nostr
z_cress / Zach
npub1n6…3watk
2023-07-13 07:42:30
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