he used to really get mad at me for calling him out a long time ago but he's smoothed out a lot. idk what his calling is exactly but it seems like he's homing in on it.
to contrast, semisol is mostly right about his cynical view of the nostr ecosystem. it's just appallingly depressingly terminally judgemental.
He just rejected a superior technical system -- out of hand and without further inquiry and investigation -- because he thinks the developer isn't pleasant enough.
This is why we don't have nice things.
yeah, i don't want to work with him, is all. i can't stand the pesimism, i have enough questions about myself to have to deal with his questions about everyone, and you know already i'm already suspicious of a lot of people. but... quite a number have shown me another side that i can sympathise with.
some people just can't get along and with semisol i just get to a certain point and then i'm like "no, you are too unpleasant" so - hey, best to not try to cooperate. an intermediary maybe can bridge this but in his case i feel like he misses the decentralization point in a big way, and that is foundational to his darkness.
I'm fine with that. I admire you both and I've decided to be 🇨🇭.
sure but i judge that his approach is centralizing, and i feel that is because of his cynicism about nostr. which is fair, but my answer to it is "do we have to actually stick to these stupid, inflexible websocket APIs" and my answer is no and his answer is "we have to stick to it on the client facing side" you actually can do both. i'm going to prove that by building a bridging server that talks websocket to clients and http to relays.
i figured out that was the best compromise that would let my work be used but also open up new clients that speak only http. because that's what the rest of the world is doing, so i'm doing switzerland for nostr itself, not just my nonexistent relay service business.
