I have to be honest… Zaps are incredible, but apart from that I’m struggling to see the point of producing a social app this way. Can someone explain the actual advantage of this besides first-mover advantage? To me, it’s less user friendly, can be censored just as easily because, ultimately, the devs have centralised control of the apps’ usage, and its seems more convoluted to develop/code on. Maybe I’m missing the point like I missed the point of bitcoin for a dozen years… I’d love to be enlightened. If someone provides a something that makes me think, I’ll zap.
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Feels like a shit coin version of social media. Only, they’ve somehow integrated btc into the shitcoin. Most people probably wont even see my reply to myself. Something fundamental has been skipped and people are getting too excited. I truly feel if Musk introduced Lightning into Twitter this app would become irrelevant. And if he didn’t, this app would eventually become the what I rated us about the current Twitter.
What makes this relevant it's not Lightning. It's the open permissionless network and simplicity of the protocol. If twitter goes out or blocks their api, no one can build anything on Twitter. You have to ask permission to use Twitter API. It's a walled garden and it only has one purpose, be a social media app. Nostr is a generic protocol, you can make any kind of app on it.
That’s a good point. Couldn’t implementations like Damus just be shutdown though? Someone has the power to remove their app from the AppStore, or delete their Git, or their webpage. It’s not Nostr but a lot of people use Nostr exclusively through things like Damus.
Yes the apps can be censored and if it's too popular can be a problem although it would be some forms of going around. But it's the same as in bitcoin. Bluewallet can be censored or removed from git, but bitcoin network won't stop and you still can access from other ways even if less convinient. The because it's open network someone builds new clients and they can't block all.
User friendly is more about each client ux/Ui, it's still early apps are still being developed to improve. You can censor an app, but not your data on Nostr. If one app is removed there is a dozen apps that show your content, and anyone can make an app on Nostr and show anyone's content. I can even make a simple app that I have only on my computer where you don't need to install anything, and can take on a pen a run on any other computer and see posts and reply etc. How do you censor that? About development, I am developing an app on Nostr and I've never seen any integration as simple and fast.