I downloaded Olas the other day to test out. I thought the goal there was more of a photo sharing / IG like feature client ?
Yes, the previous solution were based on a standard that was obvious wasn’t going to work and a few of us said so at the time; we’ve been working on a different solution, NIP-29, that has A TON of momentum behind and that I’m fairly positive will work.
To be clear, what nostr:npub1kjehzhkadcmt9wxu34ftf65gpplwh2rsl8p6fa03266evjrtpm9qg24x4r is saying here is EXACTLY the use case I have in mind for both Olas and specially Highlighter; my wife and many people in my close circles are described by what Mike is mentioning here; in fairly confident that what we’re building now completely enables that use case completely supercharged compared to existing siloed solutions.
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Yeah, but it'll have communities too. Imagine a "fitness community" or a "creator xyz community"
Where each community is an interoperable microcosmos of nostr, from chat, to forum, to commerce, to live streaming; etc etc. Instead of fighting the platform, if you want to sell something to your audience you can bring commerce, a merch store, whatever, right within your community.
Olas/IG-type use case can be the main medium through which a community forms around but then each community can leverage any other use case without needing to try to drive traffic away from any platform.
In theory would this only work on olas or it’s something you think all other clients would eventually integrate?
Appreciate your thoughts on these topics - this fascinates me
any client that wants can integrate.
I honestly wouldn't be working in any of this if I didn't think economical reality will make other clients *want* to integrate.
(I gave a talk that touches on some of this topics a few months ago with nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyv8wumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7qgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejqz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsqzp4sl80zm866yqrha4esknfwp0j4lxfrt29pkrh5nnnj2rgx6dm622d3ttr about clients *wanting* to lean into openness instead of trying to build their own walled-gardens for selfish reasons; not sure if there's a recording of that from the Nostriga conference)
there are multiple NIP-29 clients (the standard this works with) being built right now, so I think client supply will blossom in the upcoming months -- they are all still super super early, to the point of not even being alpha.
I think there will be a fury of both supply and demand for all of this, as it solves a quintessential problem of the internet that creators have had to work their way around in the past few decades.
this stuff utterly fascinates me too
I think I found it - will check it out. For anyone else reading: