Oooh master, please enlighten me. I'm so new to Nostr and I'm so young and inexperienced. Please enlighten me with your wisdom.
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Nostr is going where it is going and that is fine.
No whining screeching or crying will change this.
Give it time.
Rome hasn't been built in a day.
Bitcoin is still in it's infancy after 16 years.
People will eventually come for the revolution.
In the meantime keep on building🫡
Always the same old crap.
This is what they said on repeat at SSB., which at the time had 30k daily actives spread over multiple clients and felt like it was the future (somehow, kinda).
-SSB is a protocol, it can never go away...
-As long as we the founding community are here...
-Give it time...
-Rome isn't built in a day...
The immortal protocol fallacy.
And where is SSB now? It's in a vegetative state, for all intents and purposes.
The easy swat-away is to say "oh well SSB was crap and Nostr isn't". But SSB is one of many such examples from many protocol areas. Most protocols don't make it, that's just how it is. ATProto, Nostr, Farcaster, Holepunch, Pubky, they all claim to be the future (Farcaster people talk *exactly* like Nostr people sometimes, almost verbatim) but they all won't be here in 5 years, or at least here in a non-vegetative state. Laws of nature.
Nostr needs users—a lot of users—and revenue, and soon. Just keep building will be the end of Nostr if we're not building the right things, or building too many things, or building at the expense of fixing.
So nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj76twvfhhstnp0faxzmt09ehx2ap0qy28wumn8ghj76n9d3k8jenfwd5zumrpdejqqg84yl8ewr8zvrn5ycfpf0mp968htfvakxp4a4lyq5ejdslktc3jacw7kzg6 I for one applaud your quote-unquote screeching; I sense it's from the heart and a dose of what Nostr needs to get to better health.
I'd like to zap that, but unfortunately:
Yikes, what happened there? Time to spin up your own radioisotope-thermoelectric-generator-powered node in the shed.
I never understood why people post all their content on 3 rd party platforms, decentralised or otherwise. Unless you control your server or relay it's out of your hands, you are the product.
In 2009 I followed the approach of wiser heads than me.
publish original content on your own self hosted platforms, and share snippets of that content around the internet to encourage social media followers to check the original content.
I'm not adherĂng so close to that strategy with Nostr, yet. But I'm sure the end Game is to have a Nostr relay and mothball my self hosted wordpress home so all core content is easily sent out in different formats within the Nostr internet.
We shall see.
Yes exactly, and worse, the amount of data a Nostr relay can pull from you and those in your circle is pretty worrying. There could easily be an issue with "honeypot relays", relays that are set up to be fast and convenient, with owners that appear altruistic and on message, and terms of service that say all the right things (and more), but in truth exist to create data profiles of specific people and their followers.
The honeypot relay problem is one not talked about much. The solution is as you say, everyone runs their own relay. But that's basically a PDS.
I think something similar has also been brought up by nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z
Ah right, thanks for that. He clearly gets it.
Honestly if I was an at-risk person the last network I'd promote my base to use would be Nostr. I wouldn't trust my base to be able to steer clear of honeypot relays and expose all sorts of things.
As for privacy policy and terms, to a degree that's helpful—but any honeypot relay would also have honeypot terms.
That too. And in this regard, it's also easier to hold one CEO of a central platform accountable than many, often anonymous relay operators.