Colby on Nostr: Without standardization, universal interoperability is difficult to achieve. The more ...

Without standardization, universal interoperability is difficult to achieve. The more polished the protocol, the more cross-compatible apps can be built on it.

A protocol that solves the edge cases for people (missing notes, chunked media, paid storage coupled to bandwidth costs from storage & syncing, automated content moderation, etc) makes it a breeze for developers to build new apps that thrive without still relying on centralized infrastructure as a crutch for these unsolved problems (primal’s cache, nostr.build for media, mostly free relays, blind syncing between relays leading to giant nodes, no content moderation leading to porn everywhere, etc).

Being proud about staying in a state of technological limbo isn’t going to get us closer to a scalable protocol that covers all the bases. Without facing these hard realities, we’re just telling ourselves a story that isn’t true.