I'm curious to hear your opinions... what does it mean to "build it right" for nostr?
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Standards-based, as much as possible, and understanding that it’s a moving target.
Things should be interacting with REQ and EVENT as much as possible and do away with other ways of connecting to databases. In terms of relays at least... As for clients it's a different set. Slow and working is better than fast, broken and irreparable.
I think is a huge one. Less backends. Less databases. Relays + Clients.
Nostr seems like one of those things where the battle is won in the what to build phase much more than it’s won in the how to build phase.
If I could, I would develop a project to publish news using the protocol.
Any suggestions on where to start?
There are already a lot of news rss feed scraper accounts and there is also https://layer3.news
Good, but it doesn't have the resources I would like it to have.
It's for future reference and maybe even a possible partnership with the knowledge they already have.
I should start developing the project in WordPress and then I will study how to convert the project to the Nostr protocol.
Thank you.
Getting the conventions/protocols we build on top of it right. We can always redo a shitty implementation, but the communication between them will stick.
Easier said than done though...
Build it in the spirit of Bitcoin 😜
“Can it go down?”
“Can you shut it down?”
“Can someone else shut it down?”
“Can someone improve or build on it without talking to you?”
Among many many other questions
Build it for you and what you really want to see. Create the standard, a foundation, then allow it to improve from there.
ADAP
(As decentralised as possible)
I would say, not just building something that uses Nostr for the log-in, but the back end is entirely centralized and doesn't use relays or event kinds as its back-bone for communication.
i think if you invert its easier.
how to build it WRONG is probably easier to answer and is actually what gets you further.
starting list:
- login with nsec
- custodial
- kyc
- closed source
Interoperable and modular are the keystones that brought me to Nostr.
Where the incentives are to encourage healthy interactions, including the app with yourself.
Follow what people actually use and do, not what people virtue signal and say they want.
It means starting from scratch and not using the existing nostr protocol at all, instead creating a language-neutral and p2p basis for the network to solve nostr's main problem of insufficient decentralization
It means to just keep building. When something doesn't work as expected, tweak it until it does. Let those creative juices flow!!