The barrier to entry on Nostr for a developer is about as low as it can get. If you can write a hello world program, you're halfway there. This will lead to a lot of stuff being built, and hopefully the good stuff gets noticed.
Gm, friends. A few nostr thoughts this morning.
I’m not particularly technical and definitely not a developer, so when I see people very bullish on #nostr I can’t tell if it’s justified or not. I’m certainly excited about it, and there seems to be a lot of development on the protocol, but I have no frame of reference. Were/are bluesky or mastodon or scuttlebutt the same in terms of user enthusiasm, development activity, etc.?
If you were going to find users overly excited about a protocol, wouldn’t you find them on the protocol? And if so, how much stock can you put in that?
An even bigger question that I can’t answer because of my lack of technical knowledge is, can the protocol scale? Are there limitations that I can’t see and just aren’t getting talked about bc everyone around here is pro-nostr?
At this point I’d consider myself enthusiastically hopeful.
But reading this post from nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 about why he’s switched all his future development efforts to Nostr makes me think there is really something valuable here and that Nostr really has tremendous potential.
For a developer to *switch* to Nostr after spending so much time thinking about social media, how to fix it, and building on another protocol, seems to me like pure signal.
From the post:
“Anybody who joins Nostr will quickly see that its early adopter community has a very different set of values and social norms from Scuttlebutt’s. It’s full of bitcoin bros (or as they like to call themselves, “maximalists”). But the thing is, I was never building tools just for solarpunk anarchists. I was building tools where a multitude of communities could each establish their own self-governing commons. By definition those tools will include many communities which are not mine, or where I wouldn’t feel welcome.”
I feel hopeful in the same way I did when I first learned about bitcoin.
Thank you
nostr:nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m nostr:npub10awzknjg5r5lajnr53438ndcyjylgqsrnrtq5grs495v42qc6awsj45ys7 nostr:npub107jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2quqncxg nostr:npub1alpha9l6f7kk08jxfdaxrpqqnd7vwcz6e6cvtattgexjhxr2vrcqk86dsn and many others who I’ve forgotten.
Keep building, friends. 🤙
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Discussion
any npm packages you recommend?
Ndk.fyi
Yep. The NDK is my favorite npm ecosystem library for nostr. I think it’s important that it’s not the only one. Diversity of implementations makes the protocol robust.
NDK is great gear, i also like working with @snort/system lib by nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 which powers snort.social and zap.stream They have lots of similarities, would love to write a comparison post at some point but it'd be outdated in 2 hours 😅
Lol. The biggest fear of Nostr content creator
For the average new user on nostr, choosing to use "open source apps" is as important as choosing to use nostr.
You will see a lot of people on nostr are programmers... and that may not interest you, but one thing to keep in mind is when they say this app or that app is closed source, that's an indicator that even if it looks better than other apps, it's not helping the people at large. I kindly ask the closed source developers to consider opening your source. (LIKE PRIMAL.NET JUST DID!) Nostr will grow much faster if it's open becuase there are vast skillsets out there, and the more apps that are open, in different languages, the more engagement will increase... solving problems at lightning speed.
Use apps that reflect your values... hopefully freedom of speech and open content are such.