That's unfair. Most of the stuff was really good (for the time and money spent) and was working just fine. He pushed hard. When you try to change things at that scale there is no way to not make mistakes. Remember, this was before Tor became usable. And Tor is basically the protocol for sharing your own internet, just without the web of trust component.
Klaus Wuestefeld is most famous for Prevayler (2003), the earliest implementation of event sourcing that I came across.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WKKlcErWtng
His ideas around p2p sovereign computing where intellectually dishonest though. Everyone wants sovereign computing, that's a no-brainer, but scalable decentralization is a hard problem that nostr too hasn't solved yet (the scalable part).
It's like coming up with "world peace" as a great idea. No shit. We all want world peace. But it's the how that's kind of hard. I'm doer, the self-proclaimed visionaries out there can take their "great ideas" and stick them somewhere.
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