Nostr Web Client

At some point though we have to acknowledge that nostr doesn't scale for the intended use case. It's cool, but it doesn't scale. So the only fair comparison is between Nostr and other architectures that are also innovative but also can't theoretically scale. If SSB were still around it'd be a fair comparison. I'm sure there are some others.

Pubky, Keet and such are a class that *can* theoretically scale. The chance that they will isn't all that high in light of the history of the internet in general, but there are no fundamental technical barriers preventing scale (whereas with Nostr there are).

That said not being able to scale is not a bad thing. Nostr architecture could form the basis of many little worlds that don't connect to form a big world but still makes Nostr a useful contribution to the web.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 5mo ago

see, you get it wrong from the start

we don't want it to scale. we don't want to have a global. we want to have our communities and a transitory blur between them that lets people if they sit too far on the edge and might want to be in another, move to it.

you can't do that if you assume from the outset that it has to be a global consensus.

anyway. my text just now, here, is far less like an AI written text than yours. but a lot of people have adopted writing patterns that resemble the AI. i'm just pointing out that your thought processes are constrained.

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Garbage nsec 5mo ago

Goodness me, have we entered the era of sloppy writing to prove you're not an LLM? I do not write with AI. Ever. I've been fussy about grammar since I learned what it was, and it bothers me if I accidentally write its as it's, but that doesn't make me an AI. nostr:npub13ndpm2hm9hud4azsq5euhf5mv3d05r90wymwxsd7rdn29609hhvqp60svh is right about one thing, it can be hard on Nostr to get people to focus on your points and not your persona.

The plan was always for Nostr to scale, of course. In fact the plan was for it to scale without a global state.

Big Bad John 5mo ago

Anyway, his idea of multidimensional/overlapping networks also works a lot better in Pubky thanks to the semantic graph approach. :)

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 5mo ago

it's hard to focus on points and not persona

WHEN YOU'RE A NARCISSIST

ad hominems are a sign you don't have an argument to present.

that's not an ad hominem, you literally did it, so it's a point of argument.

also, just sayin' but writing that looks like a million other woke drones' style is not "good writing" by standards that existed more than 20 years ago.

if it is somehow required that text under a thousand words has to be all fancy and shit i think you might be focusing on form over meaning

short message forums in the twitter style are not meant to be final drafts, and it's a lot more interesting when the ideas develop because of the discourse.

Garbage nsec 5mo ago

>it's hard to focus on points and not persona

It's really not.