Gm, friends. A few nostr thoughts this morning.
I’m not particularly technical and definitely not a developer, so when I see people very bullish on #nostr I can’t tell if it’s justified or not. I’m certainly excited about it, and there seems to be a lot of development on the protocol, but I have no frame of reference. Were/are bluesky or mastodon or scuttlebutt the same in terms of user enthusiasm, development activity, etc.?
If you were going to find users overly excited about a protocol, wouldn’t you find them on the protocol? And if so, how much stock can you put in that?
An even bigger question that I can’t answer because of my lack of technical knowledge is, can the protocol scale? Are there limitations that I can’t see and just aren’t getting talked about bc everyone around here is pro-nostr?
At this point I’d consider myself enthusiastically hopeful.
But reading this post from nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 about why he’s switched all his future development efforts to Nostr makes me think there is really something valuable here and that Nostr really has tremendous potential.
For a developer to *switch* to Nostr after spending so much time thinking about social media, how to fix it, and building on another protocol, seems to me like pure signal.
From the post:
“Anybody who joins Nostr will quickly see that its early adopter community has a very different set of values and social norms from Scuttlebutt’s. It’s full of bitcoin bros (or as they like to call themselves, “maximalists”). But the thing is, I was never building tools just for solarpunk anarchists. I was building tools where a multitude of communities could each establish their own self-governing commons. By definition those tools will include many communities which are not mine, or where I wouldn’t feel welcome.”
I feel hopeful in the same way I did when I first learned about bitcoin.
Thank you
nostr:nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m nostr:npub10awzknjg5r5lajnr53438ndcyjylgqsrnrtq5grs495v42qc6awsj45ys7 nostr:npub107jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2quqncxg nostr:npub1alpha9l6f7kk08jxfdaxrpqqnd7vwcz6e6cvtattgexjhxr2vrcqk86dsn and many others who I’ve forgotten.
Keep building, friends. 🤙
#plebchain #grownostr #coffeechain
https://www.nos.social/blog/pivoting-from-ssb-to-nostr
