yeah, the patent manipulative, fallacious arguments being presented makes me sick.
a lack of diversity in a peer to peer network is a recipe for the apocalypse. i literally saw will just say "bitcoin is bitcoin core" like, bro. stop building damus and notedeck then. we only need primal 🤡
Bitcoin Core fell out of sync with itself. It's damn hard to get consensus right and I hope all miners at least will stick to core and its forks. Devs love to build stuff from scratch and it's great to learn all the details of the stack but Bitcoin consensus is just too fragile to run alternative implementations reliably. Accidental hard forks are just damn scary.
ridiculous
the protocol isn't specified properly if there is only one implementation.
you probably know about how bad NDK is, applesauce is much better and simpler. NDK is buggy, it's a black box. the specification people are the same people building it. it's not a coincidence that the specification is so vague as to be ridiculous in places, they don't care about other people building clients or client libraries or relays. strfry is enough. primal is enough. whatever.
we aren't living in a communist dictatorship. diversity is part of how you have a robust ecosystem. bitcoin core now runs less than 80% of the p2p network and likely that's going to decline even further from this point because people have realised that bitcoin core is a single point of failure and that is fatal to a p2p network. attacks that work on 80% of the network are cheaper to execute than trying to cover 5 different clients that have different vulnerabilities.
