This post made me think. I still think the meta, post-in-one-place app is the way. Maybe there will be internal-to-your-account post types where certain posts go out to everyone, and certain only to Twitter’s client or whatever, knowing some people only read you on Twitter.
You don’t have to check “post-to-all” everytime you post, but you can if you want.
I think you’re understating the importance of a peer to peer social app without a middleman. I don’t know if it’s as important as peer to peer money, but it’s a layer of peer to peer money since you can send sats and your entire social graph is there for the sending. Without easy ways to accept payments, we might be waiting a lot longer for society at large to adopt sats as a medium of exchange. Nostr is potentially a massive shortcut.
Your question of “is this best for the customer” vs best for some ideal surrounding nostr is a good one. Kind of reminds me of bitcoin vs blockchain. Using blockchains for everything is inefficient and foolish, but it’s essential for bitcoin. Maybe nostr-compatible tools for every business/customer experience is foolish, but that’s not a knock against the essentiality of nostr.
I’m not a tech guy, so I don’t know how essential the relay-derived-protocol is or whether someone will build something as decententralized and better. But Twitter’s algo is bad even now and everyone depends on it for reach. And that’s not even discussing permissioned access and censorship.
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2025-03-17 09:14:58
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