Three new projects were released recently - Wayman, Filestr and Zapworthy, all relying on new data types (kinds). So we now have music, files and highlights data formats (nostr events), all queryable over a common API (nostr protocol). I don't know who needs to hear this, maybe it's just me, but I finally realized it's the true potential of Nostr.

We used to just have "information" on the internet - a presentation-layer (html+css) and custom APIs behind it on every website. Now with Nostr we can access "data" - all data types can have a standardized representation as nostr events and a standardized API to store/query this data from a decentralized swarm of relays.

We already have people, notes, posts, highlights, stalls, products, music, files. All the other stuff will follow - companies, drugs, recipes, cars, TVs, games, excel tables, you name it... All visible to any new app, all addressable, composable into new experiences.

I thought that portable identity was what Nostr added to the internet. Now I realized it's also a data layer.

This is mind blowing! Need to rethink it all over again.