61 sats \ 1 reply \ @thrown 4 Feb 2023 \ on: I love Nostr, Why do you hate it so much? nostr
It’s not really good at anything in particular.
Data permanence? no. Data impermanence? no. Identity management? no. Data propagation? Maybe, if you’re on the same relays as the person you’re trying to reach…
It also wants to be a general purpose protocol but a lot of the NIPs that are getting merged are specifically for the purposes of making a better Twitter replacement protocol. And they won’t be able to compete with At Protocol or Farcaster in that arena because those are not general purpose. Those are only designed to be twitter replacements.
Old post but I'll comment anyway.
Currently nostr is shifted hugely to quantity over quality. Endless endless quantity... with vary sparing quality.
For all I know when I 'access' nostr it's all bots. It's just endless... spam-like content. There's no meat or potatoes... just watered-down dressing if that.
At least stacker news requires a sat to comment... and 100 sats to post. It's a great anti-spam measure and really breeds quality, imo. Quality through competition, through consequence.
Nostr right now is censorship resistance at any cost - just because you can you should. Whereas in the real world just because you can does not mean that you actually should. (Maybe you rando posting on nostr should keep pictures of your cup-of-coffee to yourself because who gives a ****) My critiques could honestly go on and on.
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