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It drives me nuts, when people tell me that I'm anti-innovation because I criticize a particular feature or protocol change.

1) This is Nostr. There is nobody here who doesn't like innovation.

2) I'm an innovator and a developer, and I'm not anti-myself.

3) You probably haven't thought it all through, yet. I have. Try to keep up.

4) Not all innovations are net-improvements. Some "features" are bugs or change-spam.

5) Lots of end-users will cheer any change and demand universal implementation, and then hardly use it and whine at the cost to quality.

6) You are worshipping at the feet of King Innovator because you think he's unique. He's not. He was just early.

7) There are other innovators being stymied and having their roadmaps trashed by having to constantly clean up his buggy, useless bullshit, and that's why we can't have nice things and the shit don't work.

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Doog 1y ago

Many people cannot think. They often operate on how a word or concept feels.

Let's take innovation, it has a good feeling and therefore all innovations are good. You can apply this to almost any concept and determine how people will claim to think about it.

Let's do a couple more:

Democracy feels good - all democracy is good

Politics feels bad - politics is bad (yet politics and democracy are the same thing)

Progress feels good - all progress is good.

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Laeserin 1y ago

I think many people also don't realize how badly software innovation scales. They see someone build something new, once, and then twice, and then three times, and they think he'll just go on like that forever.

But the bigger sw innovations tend to come from upstarts because they're building something completely novel, and not just expanding the same system.

That is why innovative environments should be focused on fomenting upstarts, not catering to the established players.

Laeserin 1y ago

Another thing about end users:

There are some power users (like me) who want more obscure tools to accomplish particular tasks, so we have clients like #Nostrudel and #Shipyard that are like a Swiss Army knife.

We tend to have active npubs, so if you only listen to us, you might end up building things most npubs don't actually want.

Laeserin 1y ago

What all npubs want, in a Twitter-clone:

- a Kind 01 feed that scrolls well and whose content can be customized (global, follows, list, filters, mutes, relay management, etc.)

- ability to read replies to notes

- the ability respond to notes, with a comment, reply and/or quote, zap, reaction

- notifications

- search

- comfortable login, including some option that doesn't require typing in your nsec

- ability to edit their npub profile

Laeserin 1y ago

Once you get much beyond that, it just looks like clutter, to 80% of npubs, because they're lurkers and likers.

I actually prefer the stripped-down clients for normal use. I go to the other ones to handle specific tasks.