Censorship-resistance isn't the primary appeal of nostr for me. It's the composability and extensibility. We should have more UIs that give non-devs this experience. I want a site that is an empty page with a floating LLM prompt. Build your own little myspace / geocities page using natural language. My mom would like this.
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#YESTR - censorship resistance is a neat side-effect
Exactly, i think the greatest value here is composability like you say, the ownership of the network (take your contacts anywhere), and the openness of the protocol so that anyone can integrate or build on top. Censorship resistance is largely a result of how those things are achieved and is also hugely valuable, but by itself isn’t the “killer app,” imo.
Where I think Nostr will shine is the ability to have platform-free identity and global payment “directory” so to speak. These are exactly the things we are integrating into our own project.
I love this ✌️
nostr:npub1p4kg8zxukpym3h20erfa3samj00rm2gt4q5wfuyu3tg0x3jg3gesvncxf8 was doing something kinda like this
Normie developer perspective is that once you get past permissions, it's much easier to write code that talks to an API than selecting relays and managing websockets.