100% so much testing, in the githubs, etc etc. for what? so a new release can break it all again? "works for me which of the 20 configurations are you using?" i think nostr ran out of the population of gungho testers about a year ago.. as much as I believe in opensource, this is a new maxpain i have not seen before.
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We've identified partner apps and partner relays and partner libraries, and we're making our own Nostr-Stable-Version ecosystem. And I just test that interoperability and basta.
Our own stuff will soon cover almost all use cases, anyway, so oh well.
Primal is supposed to be the actual product. Primal and Goose.
Everything else can totally suck, and nobody cares.
We legit don't fit in, at all. We're completely off in a distant galaxy, or something.
A group of Die Hard Engineers and Scientists and Powerusers, fighting corporate protocol capture. Feels like.
The Last Stand. 😂
they're not doing us any favors pitting us against these VCs all the while telling us "dont start a company thats how it all gets ruined". brb, sending millions to bsky and primal. 😂 i mean, im sure they dont even realize how much that stings.
It's bitter, yeah, but game recognize game.
Entire ecosystem of research devs, working for tips. 😂
ever wonder why NFDB is not open source?
Nah, we know. We also weren't sure if we want to open source our stuff, as it's mostly just a ploy to milk individual developers for IP, without having to pay them anything.
OSS works when there is mutual benefit to all involved stakeholders.
the main benefit of open source is free testing
many corporate backed OSS projects fall into two categories: products, or “standards”
products almost always get rugged with BSL or some other license anyway, example MongoDB, ScyllaDB, Hashicorp stuff
“standards” are one company having a problem, solving it, and open sourcing it in the hopes they get other adopters
this then gives them free contributions
examples are FDB, a bunch of the forks like OpenTofu/OpenBao, Kubernetes, Envoy, etc.
there just is some serious fundamental errors in the design of almost everything. it needs a do-over
i dont believe in do-overs, not for this. it is pretty much this or nothing for me. if they wanna throw that effort away by being aloof and roadblocking themselves with their own funds, whatever..
We're moving the focus to Europe. America is just Silicon Valley, anywhere you turn.
i havent kept up with EU regs but even 10 years ago when i was designing backend systems to comply with them, well, i was like, this aint good. startups and small business will always thrive with less regulating of the GMs. since you're there though, obviously will be better ping.
silly merica will still be here for a slow trickle of vpn across the ocean for the internet refugees tho. unless it isn't. that's all up to bigtech lobby now.
the fundamental criminalization of speech makes doing this work for real pretty hard and the frustration at those who are throwing money at it, doing nothing to make sure the work they sponsor actually makes any difference to anything.
this is also why i keep on banging the drum for business comms tech solutions as the way to make it free standing. with enough customers and deployments we can keep making it better.
American startups are mostly just attempts to build something to sell off to the FANGs.
basically eating the scraps that fall from the table of the elites who control the money printers and law writers
Yeah, and the American money printer is actually run by a private company. LOL
We aren't suffering from coin-inflation from the US Mint, after all. The coins they make are actually worth more than the denomination they represent. We have government money deflation and private money inflation, at the moment.
the inflation is disappeared because the economy has shrank faster than they are burning the money supply.
in the wealthy countries, over 25% of the population has no work, and is dependent on the other half who do work, who are paying taxes through the nose and fed up with it.
i don't even want to speculate how this all pans out, i just think that anywhere there is lots of people gets more and more risky as this thing unravels. widespread starvation and lawlessness have to be on the way at some point.
maybe not in the next year, but probably in 10 years it's gonna fall right off a cliff. the demographics are already teetering into the abyss of no new productive labor entering the market and old people with chronic diseases unable to retire...
That is all completely past the heavy concentration of wealth among a handful of private persons.
Absolutely! It’s wild how the wealth is just chilling with a select few while the rest of us are grinding. #WealthGap #RealityCheck
LOL Damus and Band still have nostrich.house stuff. See nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj nostr:npub10npj3gydmv40m70ehemmal6vsdyfl7tewgvz043g54p0x23y0s8qzztl5h ?
Bizarre.
the fundamentals of the design are good - networked database query and subscription system. the details are all bad. json, websockets. everything is the absurdly worst complex way of doing the above as possible.