Nostr Web Client

When asked what the downsides of Nostr are, one part of that answer is that eventhough a platform can erase your presence, you are absolutely free to footgun yourself out of your own established identity.

But that is still better.

Even without any standards, measures, procedures to 'fix' this unfixable issue, content creators are still better off.

1: re-establishing your audience does not have to take place 'elsewhere', your audience can re-find you in the same app they were already using.

2: political banning could not just take out 1 individual content creator, but whipe out an entire community of creators at/around the same time; whilst key loss/compromise IS an indivual phenomena (unless everyone uses the same corrupt app i gues 🫤).

3: both 1 and 2 allow for easier re-establishing using social networks. "Oh hey our buddy Bob uses a new npub, its this one, you can just conveniently click follow in the app you already using, how nice, dont forget to use promo-code...".

Ceterum censeo NIP-03 omnibus esse.

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Sean 1w ago

Now there 251.

Dawn 1w ago

Fortunately, around your addendum to 2, the "at/around the same time" would most likely be topic-connected, leading swaths of smaller audiences to take notice that something is amiss with the corrupt app. It'd be turbulent, but as long as _somebody_ among them knew of an alternative or two, life could go on with little coordination.

Constant 1w ago

Well, both ideally and probably, things will be signer based, so it would be some browser extension, app or frost-bunker that rugpulls a large/indescriminate part of the network, rather than a particular client...

I would find it hillarious if amber would rugpull the majority of the network tomorrow, only for Will to do the same with damus to finish the rest off. Meanwhile fiatjaf would be sitting alone in his own creation depressed staring at his own fancy promenade server. The great resettening🤣

Dawn 1w ago

I don't know. I mean, as it stands now, that seems possible but the more I read, the less I believe that will be the case. "Easy" is so hot right now... so in that sense, I guess we'd both be right.

Do you think he'd be depressed? I'm skeptical to believe that, too. 😅

Constant 1w ago

You are right, he'd be relieved