the name alone puts me off, personally... but if it's basically just rebranded keet then sorry #notsorry it's not going anywhere
it also reminds me once again about how important auth and paid relays are for privacy on nostr, and getting messaging working will be a huge boon for adoption
alby opening up signup is a big booster for nostr as well, because being able to streamline the key management and lightning in one little tool is critical for enabling payng for relays, which is critical for actual privacy... tooling to streamline deploying private relays like what cloudfodder does with relay.tools is also a big part of how we win
quoting#Pubky is Slashtags rebranded. Rebranding is never a good sign. Its the same group as the Keet guys. Fundamentally they are struggling with traction, their protocol is obtuse and difficult to build on.
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I get that having a bittorrent style DHT might be useful but the latency and discoverability issue is not gonna compete with nostr websockets. And there is a solid reason why SimpleX is using websockets and unidirectional pipelines for their chat servers. It just *Works* better. Not perfect p2p networks but for the purpose of social connectivity you gotta cut some edges off.
Love the idea, but also felt like I wasted enough time looking at Keet/Kademila/Hypercore rebranded twice to Pear. Great marketing but underlying adoption will not happen at Nostr Speed.
Nostr has its problems but its strength is that weekend warriors can contribute and for a scrappy distributed protocol this is what you want. Not $10 million dollar per VC app companies that refuse to hire american citizens and don't really welcome opensource part time contributors.
You are gonna need all the hands you can get to build something anti-big tech and by removing as many complexity barriers as possible you can achieve it with max leverage, less labor and less time to generate the network effect for survival.
#Nostr Will Survive. There are enough builders who don't need a PHD to make it work. That's the #1 key factor here.