Nostr Web Client

On interoperability—this is what made the web so big. It didn’t just invent HTML; it embraced email, PDFs, FTP, IRC—systems it didn’t control. Anything useful it could connect to was added to its growth path. Today, you can link to a PDF and it just works—even though the web didn’t create PDF viewers.

When I spoke with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, and mentioned Nostr, his first question was, “What’s Nostr?” After I explained, his response was: “Let’s make my web OS interoperable with it.” That’s already been merged.

In contrast, when I once suggested to fiatjaf that the wider web might want to use Nostr, he replied: “I hope they never use it.”

Interoperability isn’t just about protocols talking to themselves—it’s about acknowledging that other systems exist, and figuring out how to work with them. That’s how the web won.

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matevz 9mo ago

IMO web won because of google and shitload of capitla. In 2000ish the war was between MS IE (majority) and Mozilla (minority). The OS was Windows-only, phones were dumb. The Google came with its Chrome and Android. And suddenly apps became os-independent with common denominator - standardized web api.

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sister_sam 9mo ago

Web won before Goggle even began. Microsoft didn't even enter web browser space until it was obviously winning. We had OSes long before Windows. Chrome was a late comer to the browser party. Apple was first with smart phone. Apps server side have been independent for decades before this.