We keep playing around, discover what is missing, what is weird, and what is broken. Build, refine, and perfect. It’s like being at an early tech startup, but instead of secrecy before launch it’s all happening out in public.
Sometime soon, maybe even 2023, it will be polished enough for everyday users to join and feel at home.
Yeah, that makes sense. It makes me wish I was a developer instead of just rooting from the sidelines.
Also, #[3] envisions niche communities building on Nostr eventually. Whereas right now your cycling club might be stuck using Facebook groups (for example), in the future it might be easy to build a better community space on Nostr.
You’re definitely doing more than rooting from the sidelines. You’re a QA engineer and usability tester, helping to carve and mold this as it grows.
Yeah, that's a good point.
The niche community thing, totally. I can count at least five different apps on my phone, each for a single community (neighborhood, church, kids sports, kids school, family, etc). In the future I might still have the same number of apps, but they would all use the nostr protocol and allow me to use the same account for all (if I want).
Yes, and the apps could be more tailored to the needs of the group. I'm in a few FB groups just because "everybody has FB," not because FB groups is the best structure for the group.
