Nostr Web Client

There was too much mass-onboarding of normal users in fruitless waves, while we're still figuring out the basic protocol and how to design architecture to maximize its utility. It was like trying to get people to move into a construction site, when you haven't yet installed the toilets and mounted the doors.

A protocol is not an app. It is computer science. We are trying to redesign the Internet. Give us a minute. Geez.

Silberengel 6mo ago

I don't think there is enough appreciation, from fans or critics, that a lot of what you see here -- in productive use and in planning -- is

STUFF THAT HAS NEVER EXISTED BEFORE.

That's why this place is crawling with engineers, mathematicians, scientists, and logicians (🙋‍♀️). That's why the passions run so high and the frenemies stick together. The scent of creative destruction and experimentation hangs in the air. We are not interested in making a knock-off of something that already exists and is widely-used. When the Internet came around, everyone was using Xerox copy machines and sending memos and faxes.

DO YOU WANT TO BE THE INTERNET GUY OR THE BUILD-A-BETTER-COPIER GUY?

We don't want to get rich. We want to win the fucking Turing Medal and then get rich.

Make your choice. Pick your side, Nostr. Are you man enough, for Nostr?

Cuz, I am.

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MAKE SONGS LONGER 6mo ago

👏👏👏

purrs_for_Her 6mo ago

the only people who live on construction sites are the overworked and the homeless. :3

Silberengel 6mo ago

Nah, I've lived on construction sites multiple times, as it's easier to fix things up and get things done, when you're on-site and watching the plaster dry in real time.

Give me an air mattress, pizza delivery, and a porta-potty, and I'm good.

purrs_for_Her 6mo ago

Exodia38 6mo ago

My choice is making others develop a sense of familiarity with Nostr developments. Wundt curve stuff. Sometimes people can get frozen with too much innovation. I suspect that could be negative for the network effects of Nostr.

Doing all of this on a reliable base, of course

Fabiano 6mo ago

"mass-onboarding of normal users in fruitless waves"

I don't know what that means.