And the use of nostr - the killer apps need to come into focus and into headlines.
We have the early adapters, the motivated, the idealists, the passionate avantgards and the hoard of hippie-developers that just like to tinker and play... this is a good, right base, the primordial soup.
But some of us, those with influence and platform outside need to stop talking about ie being decentralised so much, and devs need to stop naming everything -str and clients most stop recommending follows of just nostr devs and their groupies. Or else it'll remain the nerd corner where there's much snickering and not much game.
We need to start focussing on the next part of the adoption curve - actual usefulness, actual UX, actual useful, intuitive and innovative apps that do stuff that hasn't been done before.
This site is a good example - interesting economic dynamic with a potential to be something cool.. but it's so so so painfully nerdy...
We need to be challenging some of the 'sacred cows' - ie
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DECENTRALISE or die - probably another long post, but can you truly believe a significant uptake unless someone backs a company and invests a chunk of money with intent to profit? Companies are, by their nature, centralised. If they're to compete with one another for customers, they will have to compete on features as well as on service. Moreover, there are TONS of things you simply cannot do in a fully decentralised way, does this mean we give up on that?
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FOSS or fuck off - why do we shun all non-FOSS companies, isn't that why the protocol is FOSS? As per above, how can we expect investment protection if all code is out there for anyone to take?
thoughts?
It's because the devs are building for devs and for themselves, not for real people
PROFITABILITY as a DRIVING FORCE makes people build products for OTHER PEOPLE
There's a reason why most foss shit actually has terrible UX because nobody is paid to actually do something about it
VERY TRUE
ABSOLUTELY! The thing that is holding nostr back is FOSS
Building on nostr needs to be PROFITABLE in order for people to be INCENTIVIZED to work HARD on that shit so they can make MONEY