That would suck for those who have worked so hard to build it though… unless they were the ones pushing it 🤔
Discussion
What were you hoping would happen to the open source software? Personally I thought the more people using it would be better for everyone, especially those who have worked so hard to build it.
Agree that we need to expand the protocol ecosystem.
Nostr’s decentralization, interoperability, and user choice are great outcomes. I’d love to see more variation of the type of apps built on nostr, like the long form writing app (habla) just released. More nostr touch points with apps that users find useful or fun is the way.
I don’t think thousands of clones of the same mobile app is very useful. Apple filters for clones being published in the App Store, so they’d probably not be supportive if clones with minor changes were being pushed. Cloning is easy, but maintenance, improvement, and support is hard. It would be much better if we had high quality solid offerings in different categories that users saw as viable alternatives to centralized corporate apps.
I hope that developers building on nostr can create sustainable businesses that incentive them to continue working on projects that provide value.
Habla does look like a good step to make something new and useful - just the sort of thing you mention - explanding the ecosystem