Nostr is more like a real, human language than any programming language or data format, because the rules are made by the people who use it, not the architect or the compiler/runtime.
The meanings of words change, grammar develops, vocabulary expands and contracts. This happens naturally as usage ebbs and flows. Is nostr the first un-planned data protocol?
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every computer programmer who writes algorithms starts like this.
in my most recent work there is structure now after one revision but it probably can be cleaned up more.
the disorganisation seems nice right now but it will have to be straightened out when problems need solutions, like spam, impersonators, preventing the network from partitioning into silos, etc.
Maybe, and yeah this is how every system begins. The difference maybe is that the dialectic process is embodied in the evolution of the protocol, not enacted outside of it.
it's just one of the biggest software projects ever in terms of numbers of contributors at this early stage, i think, which also has a downside in that people wanting to invest in it have to wade through a lot of doo doo to find the gold.
