So has nostr renewed your faith that a distributed reimagining of the internet is achievable?
(I very much believe that it is, fwiw!)
Six years ago I took on stay-at-home dad duties with the condition that I would be able to work on a distributed re-imagining of the internet. I learned rust, sat in coffee shops, agonized over cryptography algorithms, wrote code, .... and had two more kids. Now the code gets dusted off only when some new technology again fails to address the critical problems of communication. But now there is Nostr and perhaps, just maybe, I don't have to be the one to write the next thing.
Instead I'll give it a try by posting some of my musings from the past decade or so of thinking about the attendant problems. Here is my first effort. https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzd3c8ymnjwpexgcngdp3qgs82et8gqsfjcx8fl3h8e55879zr2ufdzyas6gjw6nqlp42m0y0j2srqsqqqa28z6sjlu
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No, because I never lost faith. I saw that other people had developed all the pieces but nobody seemed to be putting it together in a coherent way. Those that came closest bluesky, comm, etc. all seemed to make the mistake of making themselves essential to the protocol. Either being the handshake server or doling out IDs. Nostr is the first that is self-aware enough to know that you can't retain any control. For that I give it a good chance of becoming what we need even though it still has many flaws.