well, the more mainstream the topic, the lower the chances that you will find a lot of common ground on a protocol that is defined by being "not the mainstream"

i understand the desire to stake your ground in this place but if you need other less esoteric things than are common here then you just gotta keep your other foot in those places too

i am constantly arguing with a lot of the main core of nostr developers about certain critical points that i perceive as blockers to commercial adoption, and how certain ideals of this core group are at odds with commercial adoption at all

nostr is not a replacement for reddit or twitter or instagram or youtube, it is a primitive, extremely simple publish subscribe network protocol, that the current main VC funding is going into twitter clones, mostly, and a little bit towards the medium/substack style blogging

that's just how it is

i'm working for a company that wants to build out nostr protocol to implement slack/gsuite style tools for especially remote team collab systems, but that is even less well funded at this point, and we are scraping things together to leverage nostr tech for whatever my boss manages to wrangle in the shitcoin VC funding scene

i've got some clear ideas about what *i* would be competent for building, and it's very general, i'm most interested in performance and developer experience side things, so, really, it's not gonna happen overnight

think back to the old days... like, compuserv/uunet/irc olden days... you had to basically search around and find your little niche groups and if you were lucky they were all on IRC or internet news protocol or had mailing lists

we are at that phase with social networks for nostr, we have the bitcoin/geopolitics focus of the twitter crowd that mostly got here from twitter, and most of the funding goes to building out that infrastructure

building out other systems is a puzzle that someone has to dive into and put their neck on the line to do it and find someone who wants to fund that early stage development

my only point in all of this is from a business perspective: VC funding of nostr projects should be aimed mostly towards commercial applications

there is too much funding going to "this project" which does yet another of the same thing as the other 15 projects that are also getting funded

none of them are achieving commercial self-sufficiency and that's the problem at this point

the field is wide open, but it's a complex thing you have to figure out, and you have to be passionate about it

which is a very long winded way of saying "if you have one really big itch, focus on getting that scratched" go all in, start asking questions, find out what is needed to enable that community to be supported

that is proactive action, but it does start with "i miss my football fan group i wish they'd come here" but they definitely would not come here, you know what i mean?