Nostr Web Client

Community apps feel like the new nostr gold rush, everyone keeps building new ones that all work completely differently. I agree with their importance (obviously), but it seems like this has the potential to fragment things more than ever, just because communities are a rorschach test. Everyone also has their own libraries and preferred development stack. What if we just all agreed to start from scratch and work together to create something new? It probably wouldn't work because we're all so disagreeable, but one really good community app would be better than 10 incompatible ones.

Globe99 5mo ago 💬 1

I genuinely don't understand this, but are they all operating from the same NIP? Whatever one is for "Reddit-like moderated communities"?

I agree, this is something that should work better. I just see it as an issue of user base. As small as Nostr is, ~15k daily users, that's just for the "Twitter-like" part of Nostr. Take another 1 or 2 percent for the "Reddit-like" part and it gets even smaller.

But I guess that's all the more argument to get the technical architecture right before crowds show up...

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hodlbod 5mo ago

Yeah, communities can be an on-ramp for people. But the apps have to be good first. NIP 72 has the most implementations, but the spec is kind of garbage from a moderation stand point. It's fixable, but also only applicable to reddit-type communities (and has all the same problems with tyrannical moderators).