For me, the conceptual advance of #nostr is the signed event relay model. It is more open and powerful than the #rest api model thatwe’ve been building on for over two decades.
#Rest api eventually leads to capture by a platform, while the #nostr event model is more resistant.
Do you know what REST is?
Yes
Then you know REST scales to billions of people and trillions of devices. How can nostr signed event relay model, be more powerful, when it scales to a OOMs fewer?
It’s not actually #REST, it’s the API that’s part of the problem. With an API model you have to depend on an endpoint with stuff happening behind the API that you can’t access. With the event model, it’s all out on relays.
OK, but REST APIs can also give you events, then you're not centrally tied to the domain.
I guess for #nostr it’s an signed-event-first model. That’s the innovation IMHO
Yes, that's the part that scales.
Thanks. It’s these types of exchanges that really clarify my thinking. I am really trying to zero in on WTF should I care about #nostr in the face of all those ‘yeah, but the old way is fine.’
