It more illustrates that NVK is not trustworthy. It's by design and well-known that Mastodon instances have a level of trust involved, and that's fine as long as your host doesn't violate that trust.
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But isn’t that true for all kinds of trust? All trust is fine if it is not violated. That is precisely the problem with trust in general: That depends on someone.
But isn’t that a pretty shitty protocol then and something that should be superseded?
Sure. There's no perfect protocol right now. All of them have serious tradeoffs/flaws.
The last thing Nostr wants to be is perfect
Perfect is the enemy of fun.
Nostr is perfectly imperfect.
And that is why it's so special. We have so much room for growth that any time the tiniest bit of iteration or improvement happens, it's like waves in a small pool.
Perfection is a weapon used to stifle the growth of grass roots movements. To be imperfect is to be human. To be human is to desire to connect, free from manipulation, warts and all.
Every day I'm amazed how such an under-engineered protocol can work so well in practice and just keeps getting better 🤯
The extensibility and scriptability (you can sign a message with a key? => you can post!) makes it even more exciting!
It's a far more battle tested one, and has at least one if not two orders of magnitude better adoption. Nostr absolutely has advantages over it, but I'm not at all convinced it's the right tech. More importantly, technical superiority has essentially zero to do with success in this space.
There are far, far technically better systems than nostr that have failed to take off for years if not decades. Adoption and network effects are all that matter, and if it wasn't for the bitcoin community adoption nostr would already be DoA.
Luke those are some strong words, it’s not my responsibility to host your data. It was and always been best efforts and no warranties. Calling be names is not cool, GFY.
Accidental loss is one thing. Intentional violation of trust is another.
Dude, my server, I didn’t want to run it anymore. Gave ppl time to move on. Closed it down.
I don’t get it. You must be just trolling me at this point. 🤷♂️
Very strange to bash someone who volunteered resources at their own expense and decided to sunset things WITH notice.
There was no notice
To be fair. There was notice I saw. Both here and twitter by #[14]
Some of those posts were mirrored from BH to twitter. Many not, I didn’t want to spam twitter too much.
It was definitely here. Don’t know about Twitter.
@inversebrah
No, you didn't give us time to move on. There was no notice of the close down.
You did say you might do it in the future, and I was exploring my options to move in case you decided to do so, but since I had zero notice, you deprived me of the ability to do so.