Ryan on Nostr: I think it's hard to judge where Nostr *should* be. What do you compare it to? X a 20 ...
I think it's hard to judge where Nostr *should* be. What do you compare it to? X a 20 year old multinational Corp worth billions? BlueSky, a 6 year old project with over $700M in funding?
Nostr is a donation funded 3 year old project. It has no central leader, development happens at the edges, by devs who don't necessarily agree on how to move forward. This will be slower, but promises more chance for innovation.
I think a better comparison is Linux. At the 3 year mark it had just reached 1.0. the first Linux distros had just been started, Slackware, and a bit later Debian. It was something only nerds used, but because it had a group of dedicated and committed devs and users, it grew to take over the world.
The path for Nostr success, if there is one, will be similar I think. This isn't a new Twitter. It's a new way to use the Internet, and getting it right will take time. Right now is not ready to handle a flood of users IMHO, and I hope it *does* grow slowly.
A note I left to another user earlier today:
This exactly. There always something new & constant improvement. Nostr is in its infancy still. Think the WWW in 1993 for an apt comparison. I'm sure we haven't seen a fraction of what it is capable of. We're exploring an undiscovered country.
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