What do they say when you ask?
Discussion
“need it for the engagement”
Can you have a blue check on Twitter and be bullish on Nostr? Asking for me.
tells you everything
Ego is a hell of a drug
Some feel more important there. They may be addicted to the attention/influence, which cannot obtained by converting to a more equal playing field.
What they tell me in dms is just waving hands. Just hating for the sake of hating.
The Nostr derangement syndrome is almost template from the early bitcoin derangement syndrome.
Specialists can’t see why/how it works, because it’s simple and doesn’t work on they way they wanted to work. Fully platonic projection.
How do they imagine/want it to work?
They can’t articulate.
The only valid criticism I’ve heard, which is the least expressed by the checkmarks is the lack of functioning key delegation.
Checks (or similar) could be linked to some sort of expertise voted for by peers in a given location and/or subject. It’s one way of reestablishing micro-communities within a larger global network, reducing inequality and helping to repair the social fabric. Map cities, towns & villages. Create an identity, voting and crowdfunding (payments) system to allow people to serve their communities & the contribute to the issues that matter most. Rest control from the macro back to the micro.
main bitcoiner hate I’ve seen are those heavily invested in Zion and other “competing” web5 projects. Not sure if I’m just reading into it though.
TL;DR:
Zion is just a copy/pasta clone of Sphinx. Those guys are DOA, couldn’t build something even if they wanted. The synonym ppl at least acknowledge Nostr is interesting but are too busy with zeroconf derp. No one defends ActivityPub. The DID folks are lost in corporate-think trappings.
Ultimately ppl are just in denial because Nostr just works, and blindsided them.
The changing tides of network effects are slow moving at first especially. We're still the early bunch that swam against the tide. Sooner or later people won't just want to be on Nostr they'll have no option.
I found this interesting thread from @level39 which attempts to highlight some limitations of Nostr but I do not have yet the knowledge to understand the full extent of it
https://twitter.com/level39/status/1632240495396044800?s=46&t=-z1kOPT7DJq6eNshZWsBWQ