I don’t believe anything I said is dismissive of criticism. I’m referring to those who dismiss nostr outright, while spending their days crowing on twitter. Bob, in particular, is notorious for this with regard to any number of technologies he thinks he can predict the future of.
Nostr is great but there do appear to be fundamental architecture issues that will need to be addressed.
I don't think all criticisms should be dismissed as "you must not like freedom..."
I think there are people who care deeply about freedom who are very informed and have valid, grounded perspectives on scaling limitations of the tech.
https://twitter.com/BobMcElrath/status/1652682830550368257?t=ZSSnt_pA4fvUhV415Z3t2A&s=19
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I see. And I agree, I don't know why anyone would dismiss it outright.
I also don't know Bob, but I have worked with large-scale distributed systems enough to moderately follow the input submitted by Adam Back and CSUWildcat (Daniel) and concur about the nature of the problem given the architecture.
That doesn't take anything away from what Nostr is right now. But as an objective, grounded answer to the question that was asked, I don't think there's a better one.
https://twitter.com/csuwildcat/status/1652840602571005953?t=pGaANIg5Tq3F5inhdvp0Dg&s=19
Smart guy who’s worked hard in or adjacent to what nostr seeks to solve for for a long time. And 3 years ago, I was very bullish on DID, even driving our then-product in personal data storage to integrate. Then I saw the reality of how top-down and arguably over-engineered DID is—not unlike AT.
Rough consensus and running code gets my vote every time.
I get it for sure, 80/20 rule is universally applicable.
I didn't know you were in the DID space! Would love to learn more about your perspectives on that.