I THINK WE CAN WIN WITHOUT RESORTING TO ADDICTIVE DARK PATTERNS.

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It's useful and interesting information though.

I only installed the app; I don’t even have an account 😂😂

wtf 🫠

Yeah those defaults are annoying as fuck, and they are usually terrible picks too

What I find useful to see:

- who replied to my notes

- who followed me

- who liked my notes

- DMs (when they are good)

And being able to turn these off gradually.

algo/picked for you notis are baaaaad!!

but useful-valuable push notis are gooooood (ex: DMs, replies, notis for specific npub notes)

It’s not a dark pattern. It’s just a good UX (something Nostr devs hate, I know)

Why do you think we hate good UX?

The Nostr ethos is “the customer is always wrong”. Its top-down design pushed on plebs from on high.

The ethos is very deeply embedded. It began with concepts like “no deletes”.

Trivially, this a provably wrong take.

One dev making a decision not to add delete requests is not the same as all of nostr not adding delete requests.

See table of nostr projects that have added or plan to add delete: https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability/issues/68

The whole point of nostr is competition, and devs making independent decisions. The opposite of bluescam, x sole decision maker approach etc.

Yeah and I fought for that tooth and nail and will continue to fight for it. We need to force devs to understand

It is amazing to me that fiatjaf only just realized this issue with not storing delete requests. If fiatjaf didn’t realize this right away from the spec then i suspect many devs implementing deletes will also have issues with this.

There’s a reason damus has delayed this feature. I have been trying to set up a design in nostrdb that tracks deletes reliably.

Cache invalidation literally being the first one of “only two hard things in computer science” 😅😅😅

We have delete requests, what are you taking about?

You were there, I know you remember what it was like.

Bitcoin in particular loves to glom onto a mantra and repeat it like a hive mind. The devs were all in lockstep that “there’s no deletes on the internet”. And they almost got away with it if it wasn’t for some vocal users pointing out how retarded they were. The community eventually changed their tune.

It’s an example of how it always is. It’s a myth that the ecosystem supports independent dev competition. There are thought leaders and everyone falls in line until the thought leaders are publicly embarrassed and need to quietly change their tune (without admitting they were wrong of course)

I still wanna see when people reply to me though!

I don't think it's necessarily a dark pattern, I'd like the option to choose which things I get a PN for

We've already won. We're just early.