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Was I wrong?

I always assumed that specialty clients should be able to easily outperform Amethyst on the quality of the features related to their specialty. Users would gradually move away from Amethyst as more and more specialty clients move forward. This culminates with a slow death of Amethyst, but towards a more exciting and decentralized future for Nostr. I have accepted this fate since the early days of the super app project.

This assumption was based on the fact that our development team would simply not have the resources to dedicate the same level of attention and support to every single specialty within Amethyst.

It has been one year and I am sad to report that I have been proven wrong over and over again.

For some reason, developing specialty clients is harder than developing the same features inside of Amethyst.

And that is a loss for decentralization.
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hzrd149 1y ago

Recently I'm trying the opposite with noStrudel. The codebase is pretty messy at this point and in my attempts to clean it up I'm finding it easier to build small focused apps like blossomservers.com instead of adding more to noStrudel

For myself a lot of it comes down the boilerplate. And over the last few months I've seen that get a lot better

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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

Yeah, that's why this is so surprising to me. It is a lot harder to code one app for all the NIPs because each NIP requires a slightly different architectural design, user mindset, etc. Amethyst is also messy at this point.

But yet, we haven't seen specialty apps doing better...