There are many reasons to build on Nostr, but to me the main one is the fact that we don't have a central codebase anywhere.
If fiatjaf (nprofile…xuyp) had said "this is nostr and here is my library you all should use", I would have never done anything in Nostr.
Amethyst, Primal, Coracle, NoStrudel, and Damus and many other apps before and after us are all built from scratch.
No vendor lock in. No centralized dependencies. No core choke point to kill it all together.
True decentralization is hard. But it is worth every penny.
Vitor Pamplona
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2025-06-22 18:10:26
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