I really liked the direction. You're right, though, when you say complex. I had no clue... it did provide me an epiphany moment about how the web could work. I came into nostr with a slightly better understanding because of it. I still get email updates on occasion. They have put together some really good educational videos.
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They have a $100 million company behind it. They have a good marketing team. But few users.
To understand everything in solid is really 10,000 pages of reading. And misunderstanding the smallest thing can lead to implementation problems.
It's a very good idea though, that the web is not finished, and that we can finish off the project. The current spec has become a bit too complex.
A well picked combination of nostr and solid would indeed complete the web project, IMHO.
The web project started with personal servers, then drifted from them to its peril. The web project will be complete when personal servers are as ubiquitous as carbon molecules.
Why serve?
Sign Things And Relay Them
"relay them" to what, exactly?
An always-on, internet-connected software endpoint.
I'm calling that "a server" and saying every individual should have the affordance to run always on, Internet connnected software for themselves and others, with zero knowledge or maintaince.
Having run personal ones for decades, servers are a means to an end: it's the data that matters. Write things, sign them, and spread them around. People will find them, and as long as they know where they came from, trust them. Servers are rarely secure and should almost never be trusted on their own. And once you stop implicitly trusting servers it's easy to see that most of the time it doesn't matter who owns the server, as long as there are many that are independently run. This is what makes nostr powerful.
When you "spread the data around" when does it land? An always-on, connected device.
Where does a Nostr relay run? An always-on, connected device.
I honestly don't see where we disagree.
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The ideal web isn't having more servers per person. Code will have bugs, hardware will fail, networks will be down. Instead we need better data. When you say something on nostr it doesn't necessarily land on any one server. As long as it lands somewhere, it can propagate to many places and what you said can be reconstructed. Data, not code.
With homoiconicty, there is no distinction between data and code 🤯
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