I know. We try to just ignore them and build, but it's demoralizing and we keep losing good devs.
Having product salesmen as protocol owners is like having the fox guard the henhouse, but forking a protocol is also stupid.
They know they have us trapped.
normie users dnot care abt dev's infact toomuch tech drivesthem away to bigtech cage. there has to be trade off - also FOSS dev long term compensation - most companies offering FOSS has PREMIUM PAID service or SAAS model.
A lot of Nostr runs on grants, bounties, and patronage, unfortunately, so it's more important to get everyone's attention early and be first, than to build lasting architecture.
Throw a rickety shack up on new territory, market hard with your huge npub, get paid, laugh at everyone building a nice house.
Repeat.
I also think normie users should care more about the tech here because they're going to end up stuck in a sw oligopoly, where you can have any flavor of client, so long as it's one from a repo collaborator.
Twitter 1, Twitter 2, Twitter 3...
but you can only have Twitter.
I've noticed they think Nostr devs are something really rare and difficult to acquire.
No, they're common, but difficult to motivate because this place is very high time-preference and good architecture and devops takes a while to build.
Besides, saying the alternative is to ignore the repo owners and build despite them is also a tacit acknowledgement that they might be bad actors.
