Nostr Web Client

we had terrible onboarding. so bad that we created a manual "suggested users" list, which was effectively king-making. the verified badge followed. all centralized, manual, inherently biased decisions.

search is the only thing that really scaled, and really mattered. more investment in that would have dramatically changed things for the better at Twitter. this is still the case.

the only thing the centralized internet (google, reddit, Facebook, twitter) solved was the discovery problem. solving that for decentralized protocols is a massive win for the free internet.

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jakub 2y ago

And yet the Internet was never supposed to be centralized; this is what began the downfall.

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jack 2y ago

it was never supposed to be anything. we made it so. solving discovery in a decentralized way is extremely hard and lossy.

jakub 2y ago

Laughably, we’re now in the process of “re-decentralizing” the Internet.

jakub 2y ago

In order to decentralize it successfully, the entire stack would need to be reinvented using fully decentralized solutions.

jack 2y ago

I don’t think that’s true at all.

c5628ea6... 2y ago

Ycash is better than Bitcoin and nostr

jakub 2y ago

It’s an inconvenient truth which is why it’s been such a challenge. There’s not enough tweaking that can be done to make it more decentralized. Solutions would need to be designed wholly around the principles of user sovereignty.

nobody 2y ago

Yes we'll said. FOSS and decentralized systems are like this.

jacob 2y ago

Feel like what being working on at sphinx has components of this: decentralized, and good discovery.