So protocol monopoly is a good thing, in this case
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A protocol is inherently a monopoly.
But our protocol consists primarily of unilateral changes in apps. So, if one app has a large enough userbase, they can just change the protocol on their own, by changing their code and breaking everyone's main feed.
Sees undocumented kind 1010
And useless gobbledygook, that keeps images from loading or leads to ugly strings all over the notes.
If you have a big enough market position, other projects will eventually have to treat your bugs like features.
Welcome to software development hell. 😂
this is not a monopoly. This would be called a fork.
The longest chain wins. Regardless of how many years you have at which ever company, no offense, but you clearly haven't learned from experience with Bitcoin. When a wallet implemented a BIP....
Yes its slightly different with this application, however the doom and gloom seems like attention seeking lol.
My feed doesn't look broken....
Good point. In #Bitcoin, the protocol is practically frozen because any incompatible change (hard fork) splits the network, which destroys value. The culture is rabidly hostile to protocol changes.
In #Nostr, the culture is much more trigger-happy with innovations, maybe too much so. You could argue that the stakes are much lower, the network is still small, and partial breakage of notes has much less impact than incompatibility on a monetary base layer.
However, as it stands, Nostr is effectively not a protocol.
NIP 01 is the core protocol and it has been treated very carefully, for that reason.
Until now.