k00b

Could you define HOI for me?  Not familiar w/ the term, and googling has not helped. :)

elvismercury

nostr

Portable experiences

Great analysis! You've summarized the contest for the middle between UX and a higher order intangible really well.

Solutions must either minimize this contest, making them less anti-parallel by providing HOIs with little UX sacrifice, or introduce another contestant.

When I think of architectures that manage to do this, two things come to mind: the internet, bitcoin, and (potentially) lightning.

1. the internet is relatively stateless, so the middle isn't much contested. UX and HOIs line up extraordinarily well.
2. bitcoin and lightning financially conflict network participants introducing money as a third contestant

I don't know how much you're interested in the details of nostr but it's probably cleaner to keep this abstract. Within the protocol, nostr should be doing as much of (1) as possible and as much of (2) as required to keep the network decentralized.