10 sats \ 4 replies \ @brugeman 20 Dec 2022 \ parent \ on: A Vision for a Value-Enabled Web bitcoin
There was a time when I built an android app that would connect to you Gmail acc and reply to strangers with a lightning invoice, and only move the email to inbox if they pay. Nobody cared though :(
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @nikicat 20 Dec 2022
That's sad =(. It also looks like what Vida.page do for Twitter DMs. Btw, did you thought about make it as a SaaS that connect's to your GMail it manages email without need to install the app?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @brugeman 20 Dec 2022
No, I somewhat lost interest in that at that point. Now I guess nostr will replace email and will have lightning built-in :)
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikicat 20 Dec 2022
I think nothing will ever replace email after more than 50 years of success :) nostr is a good idea, but there was jabber, then xmpp, then matrix, mastodon and gazillion other decentralized networks and protocols. Only few of them succeeded, actually those that provide service that nobody else provide (like tor and bitcoin). And at the same time centralized messengers like WhatsApp and then Telegram had a huge success, mainly because of rapid development and great UX/UI.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brugeman 20 Dec 2022
You're right of course. Decentralized or not, a platform needs to solve a problem, without that it's just a toy.
Here is what I'm thinking about - reactions/comments on the Web, discussions about the long-form content. Current options are on-site (too easy to fake/censor), or external centralized (Twitter, Disqus etc). Both aren't perfect - on-site is fake, and external are all closed. I've been waiting for 5 days for a new Twitter API key, and they haven't approved my request yet.
With nostr we could have an open platform for comments/reactions. Upvote/downvote content by posting to nostr, post comments on nostr, kinda like on Twitter, but it's open. Now suddenly a search engine can take into account both signals, just like it uses web links now. Any website can show global unbiased comments on their site. Any app can now use that data to build some great experiences.
Add LN tips/payments into the mix, and this looks much more like a real web3.0.
Exciting :)
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