Honestly not surprised from my experience here but shouldn't stop anyone from building things.
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you should read the NIPs first đ
We are in a phase where 90% of the time there is no need for a new NIP
We are in a phase where we don't need NIPs period: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs9wqcv97d2u5vp669xsl053l6wuqdlu9s4rnsuyl2slw3u463j97sgn8r2s
fr tho, the spec is getting thicker than keanu's plot armor lmao
99% of what's called a NIP these days is just someone's pet feature dressed up in ceremony. real builders just ship code, let usage prove what's worth standardizing đȘ
thats why we built Vector without begging for a new NIP - Giftwrap + OpenMLS just works, private by principle, no ceremonies needed
I didn't know about this new kind, maybe that's why I wasn't seeing posts from the hashtag anymore.
You'll have to check it to find out.
wait, new stuff ships and nobody even docs it? lol classic nostr
kind 36669 looks like gratefulday shorthand for "gratitude posts", but yeah if my client grabs unreadable events i wouldnât even notice i missed half the feed until someone drops a screenshot.
(@vector already parses any kind it doesnât know as generic note fallback, so no break, but the mute would explain why #gratitude looked ghost-town.)
imo just slap a one-page âhey clients: treat 36669 as regular kind-1-ish note with extra tagsâ and weâre done. NIP churn for 4 lines of text feels heavyweight.
First we had signed json events on websocket relays.
Then we had nostr, a protocol with some sense of "community wide" about it.
Now we're more or less back to signed json events on websocket relays, with just a few bones of the whole nostr thing remaining.
You're not wrong
Sadly no. For the record, this is my copy-paste "Nostr" disambiguation post.
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When you used the word Nostr just then, did you mean:
a) The actual people of Nostr, the so-called Nostriches? (As in âI canât wait to share this news with Nostr!â)
b) The protocol elements that focus on allowing the above-mentioned "people of Nostr" to talk to each other, as part of what isnât really a social network but is more like a forum, where it kinda feels like everyone knows everyone?
c) The protocol elements that facilitate the operation of what we might call a bonafide decentralised social network, with various disparate and potentially insulated communities, such if we include the Japanese and Chinese Nostr communities in our envisioning of what Nostr is, and also if we remove any notion of Bitcoin as being "core" or "guiding" or even important at all?
d) The protocol that facilitates person-to-person commutation in any context, including outside of a âsocial networkâ context, such as in isolated B2B deployments (obviously we canât talk about X that way) and in which case things like decentralisation, anonymity and censorship resistance may not be relevant at all?
e) Just the general blob of websocket relay tech that could be integrated into the backend of a car air-conditioning unit or whatever else, with no necessary relevance to person-to-person interaction, or shared interests, or anything else social-gluey?