Nostr Web Client

I've spoken to this with multiple people already and I agree with most of what you say. It seems the uncensorable and distributed nature of the protocol is mostly applicable to people living under controlling regimes, which is really import for them, but is not a necessity for the majority of the population. Though I see 2 unique value propositions that most likely will resonate with most of the population:

- The choice of clients equaling a choice of algorithms and adds. (revenuemodels)

- The current nostr climate being super friendly and human (this might dilute with rapid adoption)

As to your last paragraph, do you have any applications in mind the are not 'replicas of mainstream apps'?

At first thought I'd say product/service inventions only made possible by the nostr protocol. I feel like the functions of the protocol invite it to be build into a system for political voting which needs to be uncensorable and distrubuted to counter corruption. It will need appropriate user validation. But as I'm not a programmer I can't say or understand for sure.

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Sync 2y ago

We kinda all live under controlling regimes, just to what degree they affect our daily lives might make us look for alternatives. Also could mean that although the regime doesn’t exude pressure now it could in the future (🇫🇷 👀 Macron ).

You are definitely nailing 2 great value props, the human network is definitely something that will be more under threat from AI / Spam. But since #Nostr grows from a community of people that can validate the others are also human we might maybe be able to keep some kind of trusted users list in a somewhat clean state.

Currently mostly mainstream app duplication, but in time hopefully new apps that take a Nostr (semi-first) approach since there is so much info to build from and less user friction when you ID with your key.

And regarding the nature of political voting we’ve explored allot of voting issue’s in a previous blockchain hackathon from:

- you need to be able to vote without anyone exuding pressure on your vote.

- you should only be able to see your own vote in private

- payed for a vote :( somebody could ask you to vote for something and demand proof )

Pretty difficult to tackle but still an interesting use case to run parallel in the meatspace with the existing voting mechanism. I’m also still not 💯 sold on the uncensorale part of the network. (It’s kinda true but also not really)

Distributed: Yes …. Uncensorable: I’ll say a kinda… No

Yofti M 2y ago

A better way to phrase that statement would be that replicas cannot win unless, at the very least, they offer a significantly better user experience than their mainstream counterparts.