Nostr is a distributed system. That takes some serious sysadmin'ing to keep popular services up that go against the distributed nature of nostr (like indexing or search). The service was too popular, everyone used it, then it died because (I assume) it doesn't have the time or money to keep it alive. These are the things that slow down growth because we become dependent on things that are inherently unstable and have no mechanism to account for time or funding being spent. When you recommend a service or utilize a service in your apps, keep this in mind. Don't use or become a central point of failure.

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I guess it depends on your definition of popular. I bet they're probably using a VPS and it can't handle that many users at once.

Make users pay 21 sats or lower to register and use the service, that would fix the issue. Most won't do it tho, they want to keep everything free for everyone including bots

yeah, they won't. they're stuck in the world of spend a ton of money and then monetize when they have capture.

this ain't the distributed system i signed up for.

they were born into the fiat world so that's the only way they understand how to get growth on a website

it will take time but Bitcoin is already slowly changing that.

Also makes me realize nostr is heavily missing sysadmin experience.

you mean vercel isn't good enough? 😂

Maybe we just need many points of failure that users can choose from. There are options to njump (i think hosted by fiatjaf). The very idea of sites like njump is to centralize so you can choose your client. Maybe that will be solved with a href=nostr:npub link once (if) the protocol gets more popular.

thats why you stop using dns names servers and shit and really start sovereign paradigm n sheit #NDM #NamedDataNetworking . be the network . be the data, equal amongst equals