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694 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 9h \ on: Nostr Relays: What Gives? nostr
As you imply, there are two ways to view this:
- it's early and things will improve
- it's early and things won't improve
Tens of millions of dollars and hundreds of developers are working on nostr, so I suspect many of its shortcomings that require money and developers will be improved. Like it is with bitcoin, the biggest risk to nostr is the network not acknowledging its shortcomings and getting complacent.
With early projects, I judge them based on the actors. Specifically, I judge whether they are:
- persistent
- truth seeking, and
- pursuing the right goal
The current status of a project is usually a reflection of these attributes yet the current status of a project is not sufficient to judge its future - circumstances change, the initial conditions might not be the present conditions. IMO judging a project's future requires measuring these attributes among the current actors the best you can.
With all things, the safest thing is to just say "it's early and interesting" and reserve judgement until you need to act on your measurements.
Really well articulated.
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Certainly it is early and interesting, as you said.
As mentioned, I'm posing questions for the philosophically interested. I don't presume my voice counts for that much, but I figure that those with actual clout - investors or developers - reading, it might be worth the effort to step back and reflect on where the protocol is headed with respect to the perceived values and ideologies associated with it. In the name of truth seeking.
I do love Nostr, and I agree with your point about withholding judgement until the rubber hits the road, so to speak. There was, if you can believe it, a more vitriolic version of this post that got heavily pared down to the version you are reading. In truth, I'm in the process of learning to manage my expectations for whats still a wee burgeoning bairn. Hopefully others can relate to this.
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