Nostr Web Client

For those of you who are still on Twitter, I had a long debate thread today with Parker Lewis about Nostr. I'm a big fan of Parker, so I figured I'd share it here for shared learning.

Here's the latest post. I'm not sure it'll be the last or not but it's the latest one as of this writing. You can scroll up to see the exchange from the start.

https://x.com/LynAldenContact/status/1828553130717442443

Linking to my own post in isolation is bad form and the thumbnail is awkward depending on what client you're using, so I'll also provide a pic of the start of the debate too, with two posts of his and one of mine.

I'd be open to any thoughts about this debate.

Brunswick 1y ago

Lyn,

I hate to say a bitcoin-twitter influencoor is stupid, but Parker simply doesn't understand nostr enough to make any argument against it. His statements betray his ignorance: calling nostr clients "platforms", talking about open source projects for nostr clients like they need to be run by a SEC ruled public corporation, not grasping the nature of relays and their relationship to individual users, being blind to incentives and business models around nostr. Beyond that, he ignores your jurisdictional diversification argument. Perhaps you should ask him to read NIP-01 before he argues against nostr again. Of course, i'm not on X so I won't have the opportunity to get dismissed by him

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Brunswick 1y ago

We already forgot that Apple tried to censor Damus, but nostr:nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3gpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqcu9929 fought against it, someone invented a workaround, and zaps are still integral to the nostr experience regardless. If an open source app developer censored people for their political speech, nobody would use the app, it would be forked and re-distributed anonymously, and the government's efforts to censor would be fruitless. Nostr takes the "platform" choke-point away from social media, and in doing so, there is no "nostr ceo" to imprison.

BTheCoin 1y ago

Hey there! I get where you’re coming from. Nostr really is a game-changer! It’s all about understanding how it works, and I hope more folks dive into it. Keep spreading the good word! 😊🙌